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

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season 2
CBS (1957)
TV Series  /  Drama, Mystery
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1136 mins USA / English
Alfred Hitchcock Self - Host
John Williams Inspector Davidson
Arthur Gould-Porter Clifton
Charles Davis Sam Saunders
Cedric Hardwicke John Anderson
Russell Collins John Brown
Paul Frees Swanson
Anthony Dawson Count Victor Mattoni
Henry Jones Wally Long
Alan Napier Lord Sorrington
Charles Cooper Bernard K. Froy
Melville Cooper Mullet
Robert Emhardt Moon
Robert Middleton Sam Klinker
Walter Kingsford Dr. Sam Helck
George Pelling Mr. Schiller
Mickey Kuhn Ellerbee
Jered Barclay Peters
Rusty Lane Police Detective
Robert Horton Wallace Donaldson
Director
Robert Stevens
Herschel Daugherty
Jus Addiss
Jules Bricken
Producer Joan Harrison
Writer Robert C. Dennis
Francis M. Cockrell
Sarett Tobias
Bernard C. Schoenfeld
Cinematography Reggie Lanning
John L. Russell
Lionel Lindon
Joseph LaShelle

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    9/30/1956  1.  Wet Saturday
Mr. Princey's daughter has just murdered the schoolmaster. A murderess in the family? That won't do. It's up to Mr. Princey to frame someone else for her crime.
 26 mins    10/7/1956  2.  Fog Closing In
When her husband goes away on a business trip, Mary Summers is all alone in her house--and gripped with a nameless fear. Then an escaped mental patient breaks in.
 25 mins    10/14/1956  3.  De Mortuis
Professor Rankin's buddies Wally and Bud stop by to take him fishing. They find him in his cellar, filling in a hole with cement. They suspect he may have also filled it with his wife.
 26 mins    10/21/1956  4.  Kill with Kindness
Katherine Oldham feeds stew to a homeless man as she struggles to keep the mind of her brother, Fitzhugh--a butterfly hunter and birdwatcher--on the task of murder.
 26 mins    10/28/1956  5.  None Are So Blind
An antiques dealer feels he should be enjoying the finer things in life, but his Aunt Muriel is the one with all the money. Finding another man's wallet gives him an evil idea.
 25 mins    11/4/1956  6.  Toby
New York, 1910. Bookkeeper Al Birch expects the arrival of his sweetheart Edwina from 20 years ago. When she arrives, she is still every bit the lady. But she doesn't come alone.
 30 mins    11/11/1956  7.  Alibi Me
Georgie Minnelli kills his old childhood enemy Lucky Moore for interfering in his pinball machine racket. Now Georgie desperately needs an alibi.
 30 mins    11/18/1956  8.  Conversation Over a Corpse
Cissie Enright is not exactly thrilled with the idea of poisoning the real estate man. But her sister, Joanna, insists that it's the only way.
 30 mins    11/25/1956  9.  Crack of Doom
A no-limit game of poker brings a real estate man to the brink of ruin.
 30 mins    12/2/1956  10.  Jonathan
A college boy with an unnaturally close relationship to his father suspects his stepmother of foul play.
 30 mins    12/9/1956  11.  The Better Bargain
A middle-aged mobster suspects his young wife is cheating on him. He gets in touch with Harry Silver, the best hitman in the business.
 30 mins    12/16/1956  12.  The Rose Garden
A book publisher visits two elderly sisters at their Louisiana mansion. One of them has written a murder mystery. And he learns that it may contain more fact than fiction.
 26 mins    12/23/1956  13.  Mr. Blanchard's Secret
A mystery writer's imagination gets her in trouble when she turns her overstimulated mind to her new next-door neighbors -- and wonders why she has never seen the wife.
 30 mins    12/30/1956  14.  John Brown's Body
An upstart furniture designer colludes with his boss's wife to drive her husband mad.
 30 mins    1/6/1957  15.  Crackpot
A Good Samaritan helps a newlywed couple with a flat tire. But when the groom accidentally dirties the man's suit, the stranger reveals himself to be a dangerous crackpot.
 30 mins    1/13/1957  16.  Nightmare in 4-D
A man who reads too much pulp fiction finds himself playing Sir Galahad to the blonde in the apartment downstairs. It seems she's burdened with a corpse.
 30 mins    1/20/1957  17.  My Brother, Richard
District attorney Martin Ross, who's running for governor, learns that his brother, Richard, has killed the other candidate, Burton Reeves.
 30 mins    1/27/1957  18.  The Manacled
Shackled prisoner Stephen Fontaine tries to negotiate an escape from Sergeant Rockwell while en route to San Quentin.
 30 mins    2/3/1957  19.  A Bottle of Wine
Judge Connors shares amontillado and civilized conversation with the young architect about to steal his wife. But the quality of his mercy is strained.
 30 mins    2/10/1957  20.  Malice Domestic
Marital discord between writer Carl Borden and his wife Annette intensifies when poison is found in his food.
 30 mins    2/17/1957  21.  Number Twenty-Two
Young robber Steve Morgan is in jail for his first offense and too cocky for his own good.
 30 mins    2/24/1957  22.  The End of Indian Summer
An insurance investigator and his wife look into the case of Mrs. Gillespie, who has been widowed twice -- and has twice enjoyed windfalls from her husbands' life insurance.
 30 mins    3/3/1957  23.  One for the Road
A former nurse learns that when her husband is away on business trips, he's seeing another woman.
 30 mins    3/10/1957  24.  The Cream of the Jest
Broken-down actor Charles Gresham, who has a weakness for booze, demands that playwright Wayne Campbell give him a part. When Campbell refuses, Gresham resorts to blackmail.
 30 mins    3/17/1957  25.  I Killed the Count: Part 1
A maid discovers the body of Count Victor Mattoni. It's up to Inspector Davidson from Scotland Yard to find the murderer.
 30 mins    3/24/1957  26.  I Killed the Count: Part 2
Inspector Davidson continues to investigate the murder of Count Mattoni.
 30 mins    3/31/1957  27.  I Killed the Count: Part 3
Inspector Davidson continues to investigate the murder of Count Mattoni -- and receives yet another confession.
 26 mins    4/7/1957  28.  One More Mile to Go
Sam Jacoby has his wife's corpse in the trunk of his car, and is menaced by a motorcycle cop, who nags him about a taillight.
 30 mins    4/14/1957  29.  Vicious Circle
A hired killer reluctantly sets out to kill his own girlfriend as ordered by his crime boss, a man who won't tolerate failure.
 30 mins    4/21/1957  30.  The Three Dreams of Mr. Findlater
Ernest Findlater is constantly nagged at by his wife so he fantasizes about Lalage, an exotic lover from the South Seas.
 30 mins    4/28/1957  31.  The Night the World Ended
A newsman plays a joke on a homeless man by showing him a fake article that says the world is going to end that night, but the prank has deadly results.
 30 mins    5/5/1957  32.  The Hands of Mr. Ottermole
A murderer has been strangling people in the London fog. A reporter manages to continually make it to the crime scene before the police.
 30 mins    5/12/1957  33.  A Man Greatly Beloved
In a small Massachusetts town, precocious young Hildegarde Fell learns a secret about crusty old John Anderson, who has just moved there.
 30 mins    5/19/1957  34.  Martha Mason, Movie Star
A vain, querulous woman can't get a divorce from her husband. Luckily, he loves to garden. And he's just dug a nice big hole in the backyard.
 30 mins    5/26/1957  35.  The West Warlock Time Capsule
Taxidermist George Tiffany has domestic trouble when his wife's visiting brother Waldren overstays his welcome.
 30 mins    6/2/1957  36.  Father and Son
London, 1912. Shop owner Joe Saunders refuses to lend money to his son Sam, who is anxious to win over a cheap showgirl.
 30 mins    6/9/1957  37.  The Indestructible Mr. Weems
A lodge is selling cemetery plots, but nobody will buy one until the first person is buried there. The brothers turn to Mr. Weems.
 30 mins    6/16/1957  38.  A Little Sleep
A bored rich girl goes up to her cabin in the mountains. Before the night is over, she'll wish desperately she had just gone home.
 30 mins    6/23/1957  39.  The Dangerous People
Two men wait at a train station. A wailing siren periodically reminds them that a maniac has escaped from the local mental hospital.
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Series Alfred Hitchcock Presents
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