"The Monkey's Paw...A Retelling" is a bad episode of "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour". Most of the problem is the writing, though Stuart Margolin's acting wasn't very good either....though he fortunately wasn't a major character.
The story begins at a weird party where there is a Spanish speaking medium who is trying to tell fortunes, though some of the guests are behaving obnoxiously. In fact, they are so weird and obnoxious that the whole scene seems fake...very fake. At the end of this scene, the medium is angry and gives the folks a monkey's paw charm....one that brings wishes but with a curse. Well, Paul White (Leif Erickson) is having severe financial worries...so he takes the monkey's paw and plans on using it. Of course, bad things are gonna happen.
The initial scene at the party was poorly done as I already mentioned. But again and again, people in the show behave strangely...almost randomly. They just don't make a lot of sense and the episode is pretty much a dud as a result. Even the twist ending isn't great because it's so obvious. The pacing was poor, as the show was heavily padded and I did not understand why so much of the show was in Spanish but there was no interpretation of most of it. I fortunately could understand most of this....but what if you don't understand Spanish? Overall, one of the poorer episodes of the series...and season three, unfortunately, had a few too many of these.