Release Date | 1955 |
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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 |
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Producer | Joan Harrison
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Writer | Robert C. Dennis
Francis M. Cockrell Sarett Tobias Bernard C. Schoenfeld |
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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. |
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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30 mins 12/2/1956 10. Jonathan | |
A college boy with an unnaturally close relationship to his father suspects his stepmother of foul play.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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30 mins 3/24/1957 26. I Killed the Count: Part 2 | |
Inspector Davidson continues to investigate the murder of Count Mattoni.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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