This one pushed the envelope.
A lady gives birth. She immediately dislikes the baby. Her husband thinks this is a phase. The doctor agrees.
After complaining about the baby for awhile, (three weeks?) she explains to the doctor why she can't possibly keep this baby around. She explains that she remembers her own birth, and that it was horrible. As a result, she grew up hating her mother. She can tell that her own baby is the same way. But that this baby is too powerful, and too smart. It's planning to kill her.
She goes back home from that appointment, and takes a nap. When the doctor comes by the house to check up, he finds the husband dead at the foot of the stairs. There's blood coming from his ear. The doctor goes upstairs, and finds that the mother is dead. It looks like the bed frame was wired to electrocute her.
The doctor looks around the house until he finds the baby. When he does, the ending shot has him pulling out a scalpel.
Violence involving children is always kind of difficult for movies, and is even more difficult with TV shows. While we don't see anything too specific, hinting that the doctor is willing to kill the baby is a difficult thing.
Reading the summary I've written, it's hard to express how seriously taken the story is. It's not a funny episode at all. It's dark, and the son being evil is treated as a reasonable fear. It reminds me of Richard Matheson's stories.
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