Box set: Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Complete Collection
Release Date 1955

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season 1
CBS (1956)
TV Series  /  Drama, Mystery
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1147 mins USA / English
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
Director
Robert Stevens
Robert Stevenson
Alfred Hitchcock
Jus Addiss
Producer Joan Harrison
Alfred Hitchcock
Writer Francis M. Cockrell
Robert C. Dennis
Marian B. Cockrell
Harold Swanton
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.
Episodes
 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.
 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.
 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.
 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.
 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.
 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.
 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.
 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.
 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.
 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.
 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.
 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.
 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.
 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.
 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.
 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.
 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
 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.
 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.
 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.
 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.
 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.
 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?
 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.
 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.
 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.
 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.
 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.
 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?
 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.
 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.
 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.
 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.
 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.
 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.
 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.
 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.
 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.
 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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Series Alfred Hitchcock Presents
No. of Discs/Tapes 1
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