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Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season One

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season One

Universal Studios (Oct 02, 1955)
TV Series | Adventure | History | Mystery
USA | English | Black & White | 16:43
Collector's Edition
DVD
NR (Not Rated)
025192227028
| 6 discs
Region 1
Custom Case

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 View details

1 Revenge 26 min | Oct 02, 1955

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.

2 Premonition 30 min | Oct 09, 1955

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.

3 Triggers in Leash 30 min | Oct 16, 1955

A cook tries everything she can think of to end a dispute between two gunmen who have sworn to kill each other.

4 Don't Come Back Alive 30 min | Oct 23, 1955

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.

5 Into Thin Air 30 min | Oct 30, 1955

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.

6 Salvage 30 min | Nov 06, 1955

Gangster Dan Varrell, just released from prison, goes looking for the woman he holds responsible for his brother's death.

7 Breakdown 26 min | Nov 13, 1955

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.

8 Our Cook's a Treasure 30 min | Nov 20, 1955

A serial-murderess maid is on the loose in the city. Ralph becomes suspicious of his wife Ethel's housemaid Mrs. Sutton.

9 The Long Shot 30 min | Nov 27, 1955

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.

10 The Case of Mr. Pelham 30 min | Dec 04, 1955

A series of troubling incidents lead Mr. Pelham to believe that he has a double who is deliberately impersonating him.

11 Guilty Witness 30 min | Dec 11, 1955

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.

12 Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid 30 min | Dec 18, 1955

While working as a department store 'Santa Claus', a paroled convict tries to help a troubled boy.

13 The Cheney Vase 25 min | Dec 25, 1955

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.

14 A Bullet for Baldwin 30 min | Jan 01, 1956

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.

15 The Big Switch 30 min | Jan 08, 1956

Gangster Sam Dunleavy sets up an elaborate alibi so that he can kill his ex-girlfriend Goldie, who left him for another man.

16 You Got to Have Luck 30 min | Jan 15, 1956

During a massive manhunt for escaped convict Sam Cobbett, Cobbett invades a house where young housewife Mary Schaffner is home alone.

17 The Older Sister 30 min | Jan 22, 1956

One year after Mr. and Mrs. Borden were brutally murdered, reporter Nell Cutts tries to interview Lizzie Andrew Borden and her sister Emma about the killings.

18 Shopping for Death 30 min | Jan 29, 1956

Two retired insurance salesmen confront an aggressive, hostile woman in hopes of saving her from a disaster.

19 The Derelicts 30 min | Feb 05, 1956

Inventor Ralph Cowell murders his silent partner Alfred, only to be blackmailed by vagrant Peter Goodfellow, who witnessed the crime.

20 And So Died Riabouchinska 30 min | Feb 12, 1956

Detective Krovitch investigates a murder at a run-down vaudeville theater and gets a hot lead from the ventriloquist's dummy.

21 Safe Conduct 30 min | Feb 19, 1956

An American journalist meets a soccer star while traveling behind the Iron Curtain, but then is arrested as a suspected smuggler.

22 Place of Shadows 30 min | Feb 26, 1956

A young man tries to insinuate his way into a monastery, in order to gain revenge on a thief whom he blames for ruining his life.

23 Back for Christmas 30 min | Mar 04, 1956

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 tipping him off that the murder will undoubtedly be exposed.

24 The Perfect Murder 30 min | Mar 11, 1956

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.

25 There Was an Old Woman 30 min | Mar 18, 1956

Dishonest Frank and Lorna Bramwell visit the home of wealthy, eccentric Monica Laughton, with the intention of robbing her.

26 Whodunit 30 min | Mar 25, 1956

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.

27 Help Wanted 25 min | Apr 01, 1956

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.

28 Portrait of Jocelyn 30 min | Apr 08, 1956

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.

29 The Orderly World of Mr. Appleby 30 min | Apr 15, 1956

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 the shop owner the second time around...or will they?

30 Never Again 30 min | Apr 22, 1956

After arguing with her boyfriend, Karen wakes up in a jail cell with no recollection of what transpired and is told that she committed murder.

31 The Gentleman from America 25 min | Apr 29, 1956

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.

32 The Baby Sitter 30 min | May 06, 1956

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.

33 The Belfry 30 min | May 13, 1956

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.

34 The Hidden Thing 30 min | May 20, 1956

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.

35 The Legacy 30 min | May 27, 1956

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.

36 Mink 30 min | Jun 03, 1956

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.

37 Decoy 30 min | Jun 10, 1956

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.

38 The Creeper 30 min | Jun 17, 1956

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.

39 Momentum 30 min | Jun 24, 1956

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.