"I'm tired of moving from one hovel to another, living in filth, sinking lower and lower"--hey, that sounds like my past apartments. Now, I live among the surface dwellers, but I still have some of the mess and the dashed hopes.Anyway: a pawnbroker tries to talk a non-stop chain-smoking, constantly drinking, depressed doctor (who had made a fatal medical error) out of quitting his practice and leaving all his instruments at the shop. That's the wildest science fiction I ever heard! Pawnbrokers want anything good ya got! But the doc finds his cheap new bag is very special.The problem with the premise of the main story line is that the spiteful, avaricious and useless wife Angie would make a much better murder target than a motivator for positive action.Hey--the doc read the patent date on the scalpel wrong. And later, he cited the wrong century. Maybe he WAS drunk.Advertiser Masland, a large rug manufacturer, was promoting planned employee time off from work, and the use of plastic items over and over instead of just once; this IS science fiction.'50s sci-fi by C.M. Kornbluth, with Vicki Cummigs and Joseph Anthony...hey, they didn't finish spelling out his character's name in the credits. I think it was Dr. Fullbright...and the last credit only showed for a split-second. Still fun. I might watch the Rod Serling version of this little play, too.

Night Gallery also did this story (with Burgess Meredith)- but the Night Gallery version had a better ending.

I also chuckled at the doc treating the girl with a cigarette hanging from his mouth! At least he wiped the syringe with alcohol before the injection. I thought it was good they mentioned how the bag's contents constantly replenished and stayed in top condition - this is a detail that many of these stories ignore - answering the very first question that would come to mind. Also he asks "Why didn't you bring her her earlier?" - Good question!Ethics....pretty shoddy around the board, I mean who injects a child with unknow chemicals from a bag that's been sitting around a pawn shop for two years?!?Another story with an absolute shrew of a wife ... wow!!

I think Night Gallery did this too. However, I had to laugh at:Smoking cigarette-ash hanging doctor
Doc. with a demeanor of a drunk (but that did change).
A POOR doctor.It HAD to be science fiction!Great episode anyway. http://www.superhappyfuntimestore.com