Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1955 - 1962 TV-PG 25m 8.5

Series of unrelated short stories covering elements of crime, horror, drama, and comedy about people of different backgrounds committing murders, suicides, thefts, and other sorts of crime caused by certain motivations, perceived or not.

Sir Alfred Hitchcock, the Master of Suspense hosts his own television show. Hitchcock introduced the show, which was then followed by a short half an hour episode which contained suspense, horror, and humor. After the story, Hitchcock would come back and end the show.

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Episodes:

Episode 1 Revenge

1. Revenge

Aired: Oct 2, 1955

When Carl Spann's wife Elsa is assaulted by an unknown attacker, he drives hi...

Episode 2 Premonition

2. Premonition

Aired: Oct 9, 1955

A man returning to his home town finds his father has died, and suspects his ...

Episode 3 Triggers in Leash

3. Triggers in Leash

Aired: Oct 16, 1955

A cook tries everything she can think of to end a dispute between two gunmen ...

Episode 4 Don't Come Back Alive

4. Don't Come Back Alive

Aired: Oct 23, 1955

Frank Partridge and his wife plot to cheat their life insurance company by ha...

Episode 5 Into Thin Air

5. Into Thin Air

Aired: Oct 30, 1955

When a young woman leaves her ill mother in a Paris hotel room and comes back...

Episode 6 Salvage

6. Salvage

Aired: Nov 6, 1955

Gangster Dan Varrell, just released from prison, goes looking for the woman h...

Episode 7 Breakdown

7. Breakdown

Aired: Nov 13, 1955

William Callew is involved in a bad traffic accident on a rural road, that le...

Episode 8 Our Cook's a Treasure

8. Our Cook's a Treasure

Aired: Nov 20, 1955

A serial-murderess maid is on the loose in the city. Ralph becomes suspicious...

Episode 9 The Long Shot

9. The Long Shot

Aired: Nov 27, 1955

Heavily indebted Charlie Raymond is hired to accompany a British visitor on a...

Episode 11 Guilty Witness

11. Guilty Witness

Aired: Dec 11, 1955

When Mr. and Mrs. Crane hear the Verbers having a violent argument in the apa...

Episode 13 The Cheney Vase

13. The Cheney Vase

Aired: Dec 25, 1955

When Lyle Endicott is fired from his job at an art museum, he comes up with a...

Episode 14 A Bullet for Baldwin

14. A Bullet for Baldwin

Aired: Jan 1, 1956

When an office worker is fired from his job, he shoots his boss to death, but...

Episode 15 The Big Switch

15. The Big Switch

Aired: Jan 8, 1956

Gangster Sam Dunleavy sets up an elaborate alibi so that he can kill his ex-g...

Episode 16 You Got to Have Luck

16. You Got to Have Luck

Aired: Jan 15, 1956

During a massive manhunt for escaped convict Sam Cobbett, Cobbett invades a h...

Episode 17 The Older Sister

17. The Older Sister

Aired: Jan 22, 1956

One year after Lizzie Borden's parents were brutally murdered, reporter Nell ...

Episode 18 Shopping for Death

18. Shopping for Death

Aired: Jan 29, 1956

Two retired insurance salesmen confront an aggressive, hostile woman in hopes...

Episode 19 The Derelicts

19. The Derelicts

Aired: Feb 5, 1956

Inventor Ralph Cowell murders his silent partner Alfred, only to be blackmail...

Episode 21 Safe Conduct

21. Safe Conduct

Aired: Feb 19, 1956

An American journalist meets a soccer star while traveling behind the Iron Cu...

Episode 22 Place of Shadows

22. Place of Shadows

Aired: Feb 26, 1956

A young man tries to insinuate his way into a monastery, in order to gain rev...

Episode 23 Back for Christmas

23. Back for Christmas

Aired: Mar 4, 1956

Before leaving on a trip to America, a man kills his wife and buries her in t...

Episode 24 The Perfect Murder

24. The Perfect Murder

Aired: Mar 11, 1956

Worried that their Aunt Rosalie doesn't really like them, brothers Paul and H...

Episode 26 Whodunit

26. Whodunit

Aired: Mar 25, 1956

Recently deceased mystery writer Alexander Penn Arlington gets permission fro...

Episode 27 Help Wanted

27. Help Wanted

Aired: Apr 1, 1956

To pay for his wife's operation, Mr. Crabtree takes a job working for the mys...

Episode 28 Portrait of Jocelyn

28. Portrait of Jocelyn

Aired: Apr 8, 1956

At an art gallery, Mark is surprised when the art dealer hands over a portrai...

Episode 30 Never Again

30. Never Again

Aired: Apr 22, 1956

After arguing with her boyfriend, Karen wakes up in a jail cell with no recol...

Episode 32 The Baby Sitter

32. The Baby Sitter

Aired: May 6, 1956

When Clara Nash is murdered, her baby-sitter Lottie Slocum is excited to be t...

Episode 33 The Belfry

33. The Belfry

Aired: May 13, 1956

When Clint Ringle learns that Ellie Marsh, the schoolteacher whom he loves, i...

Episode 34 The Hidden Thing

34. The Hidden Thing

Aired: May 20, 1956

After Dana Edwards' fiancée Laura is killed by a hit-and-run driver, he is vi...

Episode 35 The Legacy

35. The Legacy

Aired: May 27, 1956

When a prince who is well known as a playboy takes a sudden romantic interest...

Episode 36 Mink

36. Mink

Aired: Jun 3, 1956

Paula Hudson has a stolen mink coat she tells police she purchased on a recom...

Episode 37 Decoy

37. Decoy

Aired: Jun 10, 1956

Gil Larkin is suspected of murder when Mona Cameron's allegedly abusive husba...

Episode 38 The Creeper

38. The Creeper

Aired: Jun 17, 1956

A frightened housewife is alone in her apartment when she begins to suspect j...

Episode 39 Momentum

39. Momentum

Aired: Jun 24, 1956

Richard Paine decides to steal money from his boss that he has owed him for m...

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Current Status: Ended

Network: NBC

Genres: Drama, Mystery