Release Date | 1962 |
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Alfred Hitchcock | Self - Host | |
George DeNormand | Man at Exchange | |
Hinton Pope | The 2nd Guard | |
Vince Williams | The Hotel Clerk | |
Robert Reiner | Pedro / the Bartender | |
Adam Roarke | Al | |
R.G. Armstrong | John Cooley | |
Ben Wright | Doctor Norton | |
George Furth | Jack Terola | |
Ted De Corsia | Herlie | |
Gail Bonney | Mrs. Harris | |
George Lindsey | Sam Kirby | |
Lew Brown | The 1st Policeman | |
Ann Morgan Guilbert | Pet Shop Proprietress | |
Ruth McDevitt | Mrs. Fister | |
William Boyett | The Young Policeman | |
Dee Carroll | The Woman | |
Norman Leavitt | The Gas Company Man | |
Barney Phillips | Hanley | |
Arthur Tovey | Man at Hotel Desk |
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Producer | Gordon Hessler
Norman Lloyd Joan Harrison Robert Douglas |
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Writer | Henry Slesar
James Bridges Arthur A. Ross Robert Bloch |
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Cinematography |
John F. Warren
William Margulies Richard L. Rawlings Bud Thackery |
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Musician |
Bernard Herrmann
Lyn Murray Leonard Rosenman |
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour was a mystery and suspense anthology hosted by the master of supsense Alfred Hitchcock. Each 60 minute episode included opening and closing vingettes 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. The series premiered on CBS on Thursday, September 20, 1962 in the 10:00-11:00 PM timeslot opposite ABC's Alcoa Premiere and NBC's The Andy Williams Show. In its third season the show moved to NBC and was shown on Monday 10:00 to 11:00 PM. On NBC it was broadcast opposite ABC's Ben Casey and CBS's Slattery's People. The Alfred Hitchcock Hour featured both original works produced directly for television and adaptations of existing source material. Some authors whose work was adapted for the series include: Cornell Woolrich, Ellery Queen, H.G. Wells, Henry Slesar, John Wyndham, William Link, Ray Bradbury, and Robert Bloch. The show also featured work b |
51 mins 9/27/1963 1. A Home Away from Home | |
A patient at a mental hospital kills the head doctor and takes over, replacing the staff with fellow patients. Things get complicated when the niece of the real doctor makes an unexpected visit.
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60 mins 10/4/1963 2. A Nice Touch | |
A successful Hollywood actor convinces his lover to kill her abusive husband, then makes a phone call.
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60 mins 10/11/1963 3. Terror at Northfield | |
A small town is rocked by a series of murders which begins with the killing of a local farmer's son.
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60 mins 10/18/1963 4. You'll Be the Death of Me | |
A woman becomes the target of her murderous spouse after she finds a button from one of his victims.
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48 mins 10/25/1963 5. Blood Bargain | |
A high-priced hit man has second thoughts about fulfilling his latest contract after meeting his target's lovely handicapped wife.
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60 mins 11/8/1963 6. Nothing Ever Happens in Linvale | |
A sheriff investigates the disappearance of the wife of a man who has been acting suspiciously.
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48 mins 11/15/1963 7. Starring the Defense | |
Miles Crawford, a former movie star, is now a successful attorney. When his young son Tod is charged with first-degree murder, he hires the best criminal lawyer, but then convinces Tod that he should represent him at trial. His closing argument is an impassioned performance, bringing applause from spectators. Then the judge calls the attorneys into his chambers. The prosecutor has discovered some startling new evidence that may affect the case.
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60 mins 11/29/1963 8. The Cadaver | |
A college aide borrows a dead female body from the lab and plants it in his roommate's dorm to try and scare him sober, but the joke becomes disastrous.
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60 mins 12/6/1963 9. The Dividing Wall | |
Three ex-cons plan to heist a fortune in jewels, but inadvertently steal a container of radioactive cobalt.
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60 mins 12/13/1963 10. Good-Bye, George | |
The husband of a successful actress, thought for years to be dead, suddenly returns and demands he once again become a part of her life, now that she's a success. Things get complicated when she accidentally kills him after he attacks her.
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48 mins 12/20/1963 11. How to Get Rid of Your Wife | |
Gerald Swinney is a henpecked husband suffering under the constant verbal abuse of his overbearing wife. Gerald devises a plan to rid himself of her and begin his life over again, but the results have unexpected consequences.
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48 mins 1/3/1964 12. Three Wives Too Many | |
One of a bigamist's four wives takes it upon herself to track down and kill the other three women.
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60 mins 1/10/1964 13. The Magic Shop | |
After a little boy vanishes in a magic shop, he comes back later with supernatural powers and evil intentions.
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60 mins 1/24/1964 14. Beyond the Sea of Death | |
An heiress finally finds a young man who loves her for herself instead of her money. After he dies in a Bolivian mine explosion, she tries to regain contact with him through an Indian mystic.
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48 mins 1/31/1964 15. Night Caller | |
Marcia Fowler is sunbathing in her backyard when she spots a new neighbor, Roy Bullock, eyeing her. Frightened, she calls the police, who take her to the Bullock house and warn Roy not to be a peeping Tom. Marcia also asks her husband Jack to admonish Roy, but Jack finds Roy to be friendly. Roy befriends 12-year-old Stevey Fowler. Marcia begins getting obscene telephone calls, and blames them on Roy. When Jack and Stevey take a flight to San Francisco, Roy visits Marcia to leave a gift for Stevey, and to chide Marcia for her infidelity. Panicked, she overreacts, and soon regrets her rashness.
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48 mins 2/7/1964 16. The Evil of Adelaide Winters | |
A woman runs a psychic scam with hidden speakers to make people believe she can contact their dead love ones, and one man believes she has contacted his dead son, so he becomes dangerously obsessed with her sessions.
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48 mins 2/14/1964 17. The Jar | |
Charlie Hill is mesmerized by a strange jar at a carnival sideshow. He buys it from the owner, but his wife Thedy Sue is frightened and wants it thrown out. The townspeople come from miles to see it and Charlie becomes a local celebrity.
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60 mins 2/21/1964 18. Final Escape | |
A convict at a state prison work camp plans a clever escape with the help of the aging, alcoholic fellow prisoner who's in charge of making coffins and burying the camp's deceased.
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60 mins 3/6/1964 19. Murder Case | |
A struggling actor auditioning in London learns that his actress-girlfriend who dumped him is married to the play's backer, a rich diamond merchant. They soon rekindle their romance and plan to get her out of her marriage.
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48 mins 3/13/1964 20. Anyone for Murder? | |
James Parkerson is a professor and dean of psychology. He places a classified ad in the newspaper offering to help husbands and wives who want to be relieved of their spouses, ostensibly to conduct research. The editor calls him into the newspaper office for a meeting with a police detective, who suspects him of offering murder for hire. The ad is discontinued, but he receives 20 responses. The first responder is Bingham, a real hit man, who wants all of Parkerson's referrals. The second responder is Robert Johnson, with whom Doris Parkerson is having an adulterous affair. Bingham plans to kill Mrs. Parkerson, but Johnson gets in the way.
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60 mins 3/20/1964 21. Beast in View | |
An attorney helps a client threatened by an unstable woman who blames her for a broken wedding engagement.
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48 mins 3/27/1964 22. Behind the Locked Door | |
Dave Snowden elopes with wealthy Bonnie Daniels, and Mr. Spencer sees them break into the abandoned old estate where Bonnie lived until age six. Mr. Spencer informs Bonnie's mother, Mrs. Daniels, who finds Snowden struggling to open a mysterious locked door on the upper floor. Mrs. Daniels annuls the marriage, because Bonnie's true age is only 17, not 19, as Dave was told. Three weeks later, when Bonnie reaches majority, she rejoins Dave, and they consummate nuptials, but Mrs. Daniels will not release Bonnie's trust fund until she is 25.
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60 mins 4/3/1964 23. A Matter of Murder | |
A notorious but ethical auto thief and his gang steal a Rolls-Royce, unaware that the trunk contains the body of a woman who was murdered by her husband.
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48 mins 4/10/1964 24. The Gentleman Caller | |
Gerald Musgrove shoots and kills a night watchman while stealing $100,000 from a bank. On the street nearby, while eluding police, he meets elderly Emmy Rice, and befriends her. Since he is on parole, he must launder the loot, so he stows it in some of Emmy's old magazines. Gerald then prods impoverished Emmy into writing a will, awarding all money found in her apartment to himself. He tries to murder Emmy three times, but she survives, and arranges for the arrest of Milly Musgrove for attempting to gas her to death. Gerald is apprehended too, when he realizes that Emmy gave all her magazines to a junk collector, and blurts admissions of guilt. Emmy, however, kept one magazine in cold storage, containing all of the purloined bills.
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48 mins 4/17/1964 25. The Ordeal of Mrs. Snow | |
An elderly woman is locked in an air tight safe with one of her cats by her niece's fiancé when she discovers he is a forger.
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48 mins 5/1/1964 26. Ten Minutes from Now | |
The Commissioner of Recreation & Parks receives three life-threatening letters in one week, complaining about the method by which art is selected for museum display. When James Bellington enters City Hall with a breadbox-sized package and runs from a lobby policeman, he is apprehended, but the parcel only contains an alarm clock. Bellington is sent to Dr. Glover, a psychiatrist, who labels him a paranoid with homicidal or suicidal tendencies. Bellington delivers two shoeboxes to the art museum, but shows the bomb squad that they only contain art supplies. In a bistro, he tells an undercover policewoman that he plans to bring a dangerous device to the museum. When he arrives with his finger on a button atop a box possibly filled with explosive, police clear the museum. Then Bellington rendezvous with his confederates, art thieves, who have already replaced five paintings with his forgeries.
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48 mins 5/8/1964 27. The Sign of Satan | |
Studio executives want Karl Jorla for their next horror film, but he reveals his "audition film" was actually surveillance footage of an actual black mass with devil worshipers.
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48 mins 5/15/1964 28. Who Needs an Enemy? | |
Eddie Turtin discovers that his friend and business partner, Charlie Osgood, has fraudulently defalcated at least $60,000 from their company, and warns him that if he does not repay the money promptly, criminal charges will be pressed that should result in a 35-year prison sentence. Charlie concocts a plan with his girlfriend Danielle to fake his death, placing a dummy in public view on a pier. The dummy appears to jump suicidally, then a violent explosion destroys the body. Charlie and Danielle plan to abscond with $89,000 stowed in a company filing cabinet. But the best laid plans often don't go as planned.
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48 mins 5/22/1964 29. Bed of Roses | |
A married man finds his beautiful mistress murdered and flees without reporting it, only to become the victim of blackmail.
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48 mins 5/29/1964 30. The Second Verdict | |
An ethical lawyer becomes very disturbed about what to do when the client he just got acquitted of murder brags that he committed the crime.
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60 mins 6/5/1964 31. Isabel | |
After serving a prison sentence, a man romances the woman whose false testimony got him convicted.
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48 mins 7/3/1964 32. Body in the Barn | |
A domineering wife is suspected of murdering her husband when the body of an unrecognizable man is found buried in her barn.
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