Release Date | 1955 |
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Alfred Hitchcock | Self - Host | |
Andy Romano | The Young Workman | |
John Zaremba | Market Manager | |
Gail Bonney | The Woman | |
Karl Lukas | The Mailman | |
Robert Reiner | 1st Cop | |
George Kane | Mr. Weeks | |
Kreg Martin | Benny | |
Bess Flowers | Bookstore Customer | |
R.G. Armstrong | Fred Riordan | |
Marjorie Bennett | Maid | |
Robert Webber | Harrison Fell | |
Bert Remsen | Jimmy - Bartender | |
Ted De Corsia | Lt. Christensen | |
Bill Mumy | Jackie Chester | |
William H. O'Brien | Guest at Demonstration | |
Olan Soule | Darlene's Daddy | |
Eduardo Ciannelli | The Priest | |
Arline Bletcher | Worker | |
Dick York | Herbert Wiggam |
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Producer | Joan Harrison
Norman Lloyd Alfred Hitchcock |
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Writer | Henry Slesar
Robert Bloch Bryce Walton Richard Levinson |
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Cinematography | Dale Deverman
John L. Russell Neal Beckner John F. Warren |
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. |
30 mins 10/10/1961 1. The Hatbox | |
A college student tries to make the police believe that a professor has murdered his missing wife.
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30 mins 10/17/1961 2. Bang! You're Dead | |
A 5-year-old boy finds his uncle's revolver, partially loads it with bullets, and plays with it in public, unaware of its deadly power.
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30 mins 10/24/1961 3. Maria | |
Carol Thorby is furious when she discovers her husband has bought what they think is a chimp that can draw. Soon, though, they're both bewildered when they find the chimp is not a chimp at all.
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30 mins 10/31/1961 4. Cop for a Day | |
When a young woman witnesses two men rob and kill a bank messenger, one of the men devises a plan to silence her.
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30 mins 11/7/1961 5. Keep Me Company | |
A husband who works late continuously neglects his pretty wife's need for companionship, inadvertently bringing about an unwanted police presence.
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30 mins 11/14/1961 6. Beta Delta Gamma | |
A college fraternity drugs and makes up one of their members to look as if he is dead, then lead another unsuspecting member into believing he killed him.
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30 mins 11/21/1961 7. You Can't Be a Little Girl All Your Life | |
A woman beaten by an unknown attacker comes under great pressure by her husband and the police to identify a suspect.
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30 mins 11/28/1961 8. The Old Pro | |
A retired hit man being blackmailed finds out in his profession, he has to keep on killing to protect his wife and to survive.
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30 mins 12/5/1961 9. I Spy | |
A London private detective trying to find evidence that a sweet, gentle, older woman is cheating on her separated husband, falls in love with her.
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30 mins 12/12/1961 10. Services Rendered | |
A man can't remember who he is, but has a $1000 bill and an address of a doctor.
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30 mins 12/19/1961 11. The Right Kind of Medicine | |
A wounded killer of a policeman rushes to get his prescription of painkiller filled, and a big mistake is made.
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30 mins 12/26/1961 12. A Jury of Her Peers | |
An old woman is suspected of murdering her mentally cruel husband, as her childhood girlfriend tries to cover up evidence against her.
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30 mins 1/2/1962 13. The Silk Petticoat | |
In 1817 London, a silk petticoat belonging to the first wife of a newly remarried husband reveals him to be a very evil man.
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30 mins 1/9/1962 14. Bad Actor | |
An alcoholic actor strangles his friend who won his part in a play, and then tries an unusual way to try to dispose of his body.
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30 mins 1/16/1962 15. The Door Without a Key | |
A man goes to a police station claiming memory loss, followed by a boy who says he was accidentally left behind by his father, but the desk sergeant is suspicious of both their stories.
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30 mins 1/23/1962 16. The Case of M.J.H. | |
A psychiatrist's secretary falls for a shady man who pressures her to steal files from her office.
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30 mins 1/30/1962 17. The Faith of Aaron Menefee | |
Aaron is a garage mechanic who becomes a devotee of a faith healer after he is apparently cured of an ulcer. The healer persuades Aaron to become his chauffeur and he becomes part of the tour. But a questionable man seeks a major healing.
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30 mins 2/6/1962 18. The Woman Who Wanted to Live | |
When a woman is forced by a murderer to drive him to safety, she deliberately passes up chances to escape.
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30 mins 2/13/1962 19. Strange Miracle | |
After he's injured in an accident at work, a man dares to fake a miracle after pretending to be paralyzed in order to collect insurance money.
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30 mins 2/20/1962 20. The Test | |
A lawyer defending a 17-year-old in his stabbing murder trial, wants to use a controversial chemical test that would show if the weapon ever had blood on it.
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30 mins 2/27/1962 21. Burglar Proof | |
A paroled safe cracker is hired by a safe company to try and break open one of their safes publicly, and get the 50,000-dollar reward inside.
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30 mins 3/6/1962 22. The Big Score | |
A babysitter and her gang kill and rob her employer of $32,000, unaware that the money belongs to a deadly criminal syndicate.
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30 mins 3/13/1962 23. Profit-Sharing Plan | |
A retiring office worker plots with his wife to steal money from the company vault, but apparently unknown to her, he's planning to flee with his mistress after taking the cash.
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30 mins 3/20/1962 24. Apex | |
A man's attractive mistress tells him she will handle the killing of his wife, but he wants to hire someone to do it, and a miscommunication results.
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30 mins 3/27/1962 25. The Last Remains | |
Amos Duff's mortuary is struggling to sell anything but economy funerals. However, when Duff finds something unusual about a wound on a corpse brought in by the deceased's business partner, he feels certain he can sell a "Class A" funeral.
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30 mins 4/3/1962 26. Ten O'Clock Tiger | |
A boxing manager risks his fighter's health by increasing the dosage of a secret energy formula he has been injecting him with.
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30 mins 4/10/1962 27. Act of Faith | |
Ralston Temple is a successful novelist who receives a letter from struggling writer Alan Chatterton asking him for comments on the first three chapters of his book. Temple invites him to his apartment and Chatterton asks him for a loan of $40 per week for six months to allow him to finish his novel. Over time, the loans grow larger and Temple has yet to see anything of the novel. At a restaurant one evening, Temple sees Chatterton entertaining a group of friends and learns that he is a regular patron. Thinking he has been swindled, Temple throws him out. Only later does he realize that he may have been hasty.
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30 mins 4/17/1962 28. The Kerry Blue | |
A man is devoted to his old, unwell Kerry Blue terrier. Sadly the dog dies while he's out of town. Convinced his wife buried his beloved Annie alive (out of jealousy), he sets out to make her pay - but has his blind rage made him careless?
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30 mins 4/24/1962 29. The Matched Pearl | |
Laurent Dubois is a jeweler who manages to sell a magnificent black pearl for $4000. Turns out the buyer's wife doesn't know what to do with only one pearl and insists that they find another. Dubois returns to the pearl's original owner, Captain McCabe, to see if he can find another. McCabe feels that he was cheated on the first deal and he refuses Dubois' offer to double the original price if he can find a second pearl. Dubois eventually gets the pearl and a bit of a surprise as well.
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30 mins 5/1/1962 30. What Frightened You, Fred? | |
Fred Riordan is an ex-con who is re-arrested less than 48 hours after his release on parole. He served four years for robbery and on his release, seems like a mild-mannered man who is intent on making a go of it. He recounts to the warden and prison psychiatrist the events during his two days of freedom as they try to determine what may have caused him to get drunk and break up a bar in his old neighborhood. The psychiatrist is convinced that something in the outside world frightened him and probes to determine exactly what that was. Little do they know that there is something altogether different taking place.
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30 mins 5/8/1962 31. Most Likely to Succeed | |
A seemingly poor man who was supreme in his college class, gets a servant's job from a rich former classmate, where he finds he makes unlawful tax deals, and should be stopped.
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30 mins 5/15/1962 32. Victim Four | |
A man searches for his brain-injured wife who has to walk home from work nightly, in the midst of a serial killer.
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30 mins 5/22/1962 33. The Opportunity | |
Paul Devore is an unhappily married department store manager whose wealthy wife loathes him and refuses to divorce him, unwilling to give him half of her assets as community property. He blackmails a thirty-something shoplifter into coming to his house the following Sunday evening. Assuming he was going to force her to have sex, she is surprised to find the master bedroom ransacked and all of the valuables missing. She realizes Devore has staged a robbery and all he wants the shoplifter to do is tie him to the bed to make it look like a robbery. But what will Mrs. Devore say when she gets home and finds her husband in this state?
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30 mins 5/29/1962 34. The Twelve Hour Caper | |
A loyal employee learns he won't get his anticipated promotion and decides to get something even better-a half million dollars in negotiable bonds stolen from his employer.
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30 mins 6/5/1962 35. The Children of Alda Nuova | |
Frankie Fane is an American who has been in Rome for about six weeks and is starting to get bored. He hasn't picked up much of the language, and has visited most of the tourist sites in Rome itself. A fellow American suggests that he rent a car and visit some old ruins just a short drive from the city. When he gets there he finds the villagers unfriendly, and a large group of teenagers that constantly follow him around. He quickly realizes that he may be in trouble, but it may also be the case that he gets what he deserves.
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30 mins 6/12/1962 36. First Class Honeymoon | |
Edward Gibson is newly divorced and a very happy man. He's less happy when he learns that his ex-wife Gloria commissioned a portrait of herself for $2500. He refuses to pay and asks his friend Carl, who's now seeing his ex-wife, to buy the painting. Carl has something else in mind: he offers to marry Gloria, for a price.
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30 mins 6/19/1962 37. The Big Kick | |
Ken is a square university professor who likes hanging around with a group of beatniks. At a party he meets Judy who is down and out and can't buy food, let alone pay the rent. Urged on by her boyfriend Mitch, Judy agrees to go out on a date with Ken in the hopes of getting some money out of him.
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30 mins 6/26/1962 38. Where Beauty Lies | |
Caroline has an uncanny infatuation with her actor brother and grows jealous whenever he spends time in the company of other women.
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30 mins 1962 39. The Sorcerer's Apprentice | |
A magician takes a simple-minded runaway under his wing. But the magician's wife has a sinister idea for the easily manipulated young man.
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