# Trying to remember a TV show **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 10, 2016, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-remember-a-tv-show/742657 "2016-01-10T01:05:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![billectric](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ec9cab/32.png) [@billectric](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billectric)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2016, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-remember-a-tv-show/742657/1 "2016-01-10T01:05:32Z")
I’ve been trying to find this TV show for years. I think this was an episode on a TV show with a different story every week, like Alfred Hitchcock, Thriller, or one of the many others like Kraft Television Theatre, etc. It takes place in contemporary times (1950s or early 1960s). An older man with an automatic pistol (probably a .45) is holding a woman captive in a what I believe is a castle. A younger man is trying to rescue her. First the young man tries dropping a cannon ball on the older man’s head, rolling it in a gutter or something so it will drop through a hole, but he misses. Next, he fills an atomizer (like for spraying perfume) with pepper, or maybe pepper and water. When the old man comes to the door, he sprays the pepper in his face and rescues the girl. I remember my dad saying “the old man is holding the gun wrong!” because his thumb is wrapped around the curved part in the back of the slide, which would have bolted backwards when he fired pistol and injured his thumb. My dad always picked out these little errors. Can someone please help me remember the name of this show? I saw it on TV in the early 1960s but it may have been made earlier. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2016, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-remember-a-tv-show/742657/2 "2016-01-10T01:09:02Z")
**Moderator Action** Welcome to the SDMB, **billectric**. We have a forum here called Cafe Society, which is for posts involving all artistic disciplines, including movies and television shows. Since your post involves a television show, I will move it there for you. Moving thread from General Questions to Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2016, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-remember-a-tv-show/742657/3 "2016-01-10T03:27:19Z")
Cannonball on head? Atomizer full of black pepper? And not the Three Stooges or Bugs Bunny? (No, I’m pretty sure it’s neither.) You got me. ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2016, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-remember-a-tv-show/742657/4 "2016-01-12T07:52:22Z")
Could it have been one of the Matt Helm movies? > **[Matt Helm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Helm)** > > Matt Helm is a fictional character created by American author Donald Hamilton (1916-2006). Helm is a U.S. government counter-agent, a man whose primary job is to kill or nullify enemy agents—not a spy or secret agent in the ordinary sense of the term as used in most spy thrillers. > Helm appeared in 27 adventure/suspense novels by Hamilton, first published in 1960, and the character was later adapted into film, television and other media. > Published between 1960 and 1993, the 27 books in the serie...