Release Date | 1955 |
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Alfred Hitchcock | Self - Host | |
Harry Tyler | Train Ticket Agent | |
Holly Bane | Escaped Convict | |
John Qualen | Mr. Stepp | |
Michael Ansara | Butcher | |
Ray Teal | Police Lieutenant | |
Raymond Bailey | Ed Johnson | |
Virginia Gregg | Riabouchinska | |
Percy Helton | Gerald Eaton | |
Herschel Graham | Party Guest | |
John Williams | Herbert Carpenter | |
Patricia Hitchcock | Diana Winthrop | |
Philip Coolidge | Lieutenant Brandt | |
Jack Mullaney | Dave Packard | |
Robert H. Harris | Clarence Fox | |
Norman Willis | Cop | |
Wendy Winkelman | Girl | |
Charles Bronson | Det. Krovitch | |
Dabbs Greer | The Sheriff | |
Jack Chefe | Detective |
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Producer | Joan Harrison
Alfred Hitchcock |
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Writer | Francis M. Cockrell
Robert C. Dennis Marian B. Cockrell Harold Swanton |
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Cinematography | Reggie Lanning
John L. Russell Lester Shorr |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955-1962) was a mystery and suspense anthology hosted by the master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock. Each 30 minute episode included opening and closing vignettes featuring Hitchcock who would often explain some aspect of the day's show and would often offer subtle (or not so subtle) jabs at the shows sponsors. |
26 mins 10/2/1955 1. Revenge | |
When Carl Spann's wife Elsa is assaulted by an unknown attacker, he drives his still-incoherent wife around town, hoping she can point him out, so he can kill him.
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24 mins 10/9/1955 2. Premonition | |
A man returning to his home town finds his father has died, and suspects his friends are covering up the true details of that death.
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30 mins 10/16/1955 3. Triggers in Leash | |
A cook tries everything she can think of to end a dispute between two gunmen who have sworn to kill each other.
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30 mins 10/23/1955 4. Don't Come Back Alive | |
Frank Partridge and his wife plot to cheat their life insurance company by having her hide out for 7 years and declared legally dead, but an investigator believes Mr. Partridge has murdered her.
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30 mins 10/30/1955 5. Into Thin Air | |
When a young woman leaves her ill mother in a Paris hotel room and comes back later, she finds her mother is missing, and all the hotel's employees deny she and her mother were ever there.
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30 mins 11/6/1955 6. Salvage | |
Gangster Dan Varrell, just released from prison, goes looking for the woman he holds responsible for his brother's death.
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26 mins 11/13/1955 7. Breakdown | |
William Callew is involved in a bad traffic accident on a rural road, that leaves him so paralyzed he appears lifeless, and when help arrives they think he's really dead.
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30 mins 11/20/1955 8. Our Cook's a Treasure | |
A serial-murderess maid is on the loose in the city. Ralph becomes suspicious of his wife Ethel's housemaid Mrs. Sutton.
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30 mins 11/27/1955 9. The Long Shot | |
Heavily indebted Charlie Raymond is hired to accompany a British visitor on a trip across the USA, and looks for a way to take advantage of his employer.
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30 mins 12/4/1955 10. The Case of Mr. Pelham | |
A series of troubling incidents lead Mr. Pelham to believe that he has a double who is deliberately impersonating him.
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30 mins 12/11/1955 11. Guilty Witness | |
When Mr. and Mrs. Crane hear the Verbers having a violent argument in the apartment just above them, and then Mr. Verber disappears the next day, they can't help suspecting the worst.
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30 mins 12/18/1955 12. Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid | |
While working as a department store 'Santa Claus', a paroled convict tries to help a troubled boy.
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25 mins 12/25/1955 13. The Cheney Vase | |
When Lyle Endicott is fired from his job at an art museum, he comes up with a plan to take advantage of a trusting invalid whom he befriended at the museum.
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30 mins 1/1/1956 14. A Bullet for Baldwin | |
When an office worker is fired from his job, he shoots his boss to death, but when he returns to the office his boss is alive, and has no recollection of the incident.
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30 mins 1/8/1956 15. The Big Switch | |
Gangster Sam Dunleavy sets up an elaborate alibi so that he can kill his ex-girlfriend Goldie, who left him for another man.
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30 mins 1/15/1956 16. You Got to Have Luck | |
During a massive manhunt for escaped convict Sam Cobbett, Cobbett invades a house where young housewife Mary Schaffner is home alone.
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30 mins 1/22/1956 17. The Older Sister | |
One year after Lizzie Borden's parents were brutally murdered, reporter Nell Cutts tries to interview Lizzie and her younger sister Emma about the killings
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30 mins 1/29/1956 18. Shopping for Death | |
Two retired insurance salesmen confront an aggressive, hostile woman in hopes of saving her from a disaster.
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30 mins 2/5/1956 19. The Derelicts | |
Inventor Ralph Cowell murders his silent partner, Alfred Sloane, only to be blackmailed by vagrant Peter Goodfellow who witnessed the crime.
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30 mins 2/12/1956 20. And So Died Riabouchinska | |
Detective Krovitch investigates a murder at a run-down vaudeville theater and gets a hot lead from the ventriloquist's dummy.
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30 mins 2/19/1956 21. Safe Conduct | |
An American journalist meets a soccer star while traveling behind the Iron Curtain, but then is arrested as a suspected smuggler.
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30 mins 2/26/1956 22. Place of Shadows | |
A young man tries to insinuate his way into a monastery in order to gain revenge on a thief he blames for ruining his life.
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30 mins 3/4/1956 23. Back for Christmas | |
Before leaving on a trip to America, a man kills his wife and buries her in the basement. Once in the United States, he receives correspondence. Has he gotten away with his crime?
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30 mins 3/11/1956 24. The Perfect Murder | |
Worried that their Aunt Rosalie doesn't really like them, brothers Paul and Henri set out to get their hands on her fortune any way they can.
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30 mins 3/18/1956 25. There Was an Old Woman | |
Dishonest Frank and Lorna Bramwell visit the home of wealthy, eccentric Monica Laughton, with the intention of robbing her.
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30 mins 3/25/1956 26. Whodunit | |
Recently deceased mystery writer Alexander Penn Arlington gets permission from the recording angel to relive his last day on earth, so that he can find out who murdered him.
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30 mins 4/1/1956 27. Help Wanted | |
To pay for his wife's operation, Mr. Crabtree takes a job working for the mysterious Mr. X, who asks him to manage a job involving a blackmailer.
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30 mins 4/8/1956 28. Portrait of Jocelyn | |
At an art gallery, Mark is surprised when the art dealer hands over a portrait of Mark's first wife instead of the painting he'd originally purchased.
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30 mins 4/15/1956 29. The Orderly World of Mr. Appleby | |
An antique dealer comes up with a clever way to raise money to pay off a loan. But things won't be as easy for him the second time around...or will they?
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30 mins 4/22/1956 30. Never Again | |
After arguing with her boyfriend, Karen wakes up in a jail cell with no recollection of what transpired and is told some horrifying news.
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30 mins 4/29/1956 31. The Gentleman from America | |
Rich American Howard Latimer visits London, and bets 1,000 pounds that he can spend the night in a room that is said to be haunted.
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30 mins 5/6/1956 32. The Baby Sitter | |
When Clara Nash is murdered, her baby-sitter Lottie Slocum is excited to be the center of attention, and she also hopes to become closer to Clara's husband.
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30 mins 5/13/1956 33. The Belfry | |
When Clint Ringle learns that Ellie Marsh, the schoolteacher whom he loves, is engaged to Walt Norton, Clint kills Walt and then hides in the schoolhouse's bell tower, waiting for his chance to exact further revenge.
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30 mins 5/20/1956 34. The Hidden Thing | |
After Dana Edwards' fiancée Laura is killed by a hit-and-run driver, he is visited by John Hurley, who claims to be able to use memory recall techniques that will help him to remember the car's license plate number.
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30 mins 5/27/1956 35. The Legacy | |
When a prince who is well known as a playboy takes a sudden romantic interest in a shy, plain housewife, everyone is baffled and fascinated.
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30 mins 6/3/1956 36. Mink | |
Paula Hudson has a stolen mink coat she tells police she purchased on a recommendation, and when they retrace her steps to find out how she obtained it, everyone denies they ever talked to her about it.
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30 mins 6/10/1956 37. Decoy | |
Gil Larkin is suspected of murder when Mona Cameron's allegedly abusive husband is shot dead in front of him and he gets knocked out by an unknown assailant.
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30 mins 6/17/1956 38. The Creeper | |
A frightened housewife is alone in her apartment when she begins to suspect just about anyone could be the unknown killer who has been strangling women.
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30 mins 6/24/1956 39. Momentum | |
Richard Paine decides to steal money from his boss that he has owed him for months, and it turns into an unnecessary and ironic murder.
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