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As Mrs Bixby cannot demand the coat back without revealing her own affair, she is hoist with her own petard. It is implied Dr Bixby is having an affair with Miss Pulteney, decided to give her the coat, and purchased a cheap stole for his wife instead. An ex-con (Crahan Denton) becomes frantic when he loses all his money shortly after being released from prison. But as she leaves her husband's office, Dr Bixby's secretary, Miss Pulteney, walks proudly past her, wearing the mink coat. Mrs Bixby initially believes the pawnbroker has cheated her of her coat and intends to confront him. He announces it is real mink and that she should consider it her Christmas present. She is horrified when he proudly holds up a small, mangy stole, and not her coat. Mrs Bixby is excited and rushes to her husband's office after he has collected it. The next day, Dr Bixby goes to the pawn shop to redeem the ticket and claim the item it stands for. He decides it would be best if he redeemed the ticket, in spite of Mrs Bixby's objections. Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Fasten Your Seatbelts The Thrilling Art of Alfred Hitchcock. Alfred Hitchcock Presents The Thrilling Art Of Alfred Hitchcock. She tells her husband she found the pawn ticket in the taxi. Alfred Hitchcock Presents S06E19 The Landlady. The ticket guarantees her right to claim the coat at any time. The pawnbroker gives her a pawn ticket, which she declines to mark with any kind of name or description. On her return to New York she visits a pawnbroker and pawns the coat for $50. However, Mrs Bixby is intent on keeping the coat and devises a plan. Mrs Bixby is in despair as she reads the letter: her aunt is far too poor to be given credit for the gift. The Colonel's letter informs Mrs Bixby they can no longer see each other, and suggests she tell her husband the mink coat is a Christmas present from her aunt. Once a month, Mrs Bixby travels from New York City to Baltimore, supposedly visiting her elderly aunt in fact, she is having an affair with the Colonel.Īs she is preparing to leave after one of these visits to Baltimore, Mrs Bixby receives a package from the Colonel containing a letter and an expensive gift: a dark mink coat. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 19 - The Derelicts - AHP. Mrs Bixby and her dentist husband live in a New York apartment. Alfred Hitchcock Presents and twelve episodes of The Twilight Zone.

She hopes to sneak the coat into her home without arousing her husband's suspicions, but soon discovers her husband has his own plans. 6, 1942April 3, 2015), died less than a year later.

The story is Dahl's variation on a popular anecdote dating back at least to 1939: a married woman receives a glamorous mink coat from a man with whom she had an affair. " Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat" is a short story by Roald Dahl that first appeared in the 1959 issue of Nugget.