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Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)edit
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
editSeason 1 (1955–1956)
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| 1 | 1 | "Revenge" | Ralph Meeker, Vera Miles, Frances Bavier | Alfred Hitchcock | Francis M. Cockrell (teleplay), Samuel Blas (story) | October 2, 1955 | |
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Newlyweds Carl (Meeker) and Elsa (Miles) have recently moved into a trailer park on a California beach to help Elsa recover from a "small breakdown." While Carl is at work, Elsa is apparently attacked. Seeking revenge, Carl and Elsa search for the grey-suited man Elsa has described as her attacker. | |||||||
| 2 | 2 | "Premonition" | John Forsythe, Warren Stevens, Cloris Leachman | Robert Stevens | Harold Swanton (teleplay) | October 9, 1955 | |
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Beckoned by "a sudden impulse, a hunch, a restless feeling," Kim (Forsythe) returns home to the US from four years in Paris. He particularly wants to see his father, who has not responded to his letters for four years. Soon he learns that his father died but finds that there seems to be a cover-up about how he died. He fights to get to the bottom of it. | |||||||
| 3 | 3 | "Triggers in Leash" | Gene Barry, Darren McGavin, Ellen Corby | Don Medford | Dick Carr (teleplay), Allen Vaughn Elston (story) | October 16, 1955 | |
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Two cowboys meet in old Maggie's roadhouse. Red (McGavin) is mad at Dell (Barry) for leaving the poker game the night before and not giving him a chance to win back his money. With guns drawn, the two men vent their splines against each other while Maggie (Corby), literally standing between them, does her best to negotiate a peace. | |||||||
| 4 | 4 | "Don't Come Back Alive" | Sidney Blackmer, Virginia Gregg, Robert Emhardt | Robert Stevenson | Robert Dennis (teleplay) | October 23, 1955 | |
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Financially strapped older couple, Frank (Blackmer) and Mildred (Gregg), scheme to have the wife disappear for seven years and declared legally dead in order to collect big insurance pay-off. But insurance investigator Mr. Kettle (Emhardt) smells a rat. | |||||||
| 5 | 5 | "Into Thin Air" | Patricia Hitchcock, Geoffrey Toone, Alan Napier, Mary Forbes, John Mylong | Don Medford | Marian Cockrell (teleplay) | October 30, 1955 | |
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Paris, 1899. Mrs. Winthrop (Forbes) and her daughter (Hitchcock) check into a hotel. Mrs. Winthrop is feeling ill. Upon examining her, the hotel doctor (Mylong) sends the daughter out for medicine. When she returns, the hotel clerk (Marsac) and the other employees have no recollection of or record that the Winthrops were ever there. What's worse: ailing Mrs. Winthrop has disappeared. Hints of foul play abound but nothing that the increasingly distraught daughter can prove. | |||||||
| 6 | 6 | "Salvage" | Gene Barry, Nancy Gates, Maxine Cooper, Elisha Cook, Jr. | Justus Addiss | Dick Carr (teleplay), Fred Freiberger (teleplay & story) | November 6, 1955 | |
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Lois (Williams) is a desperate ex-criminal. Dan (Barry), the man she was responsible for putting in prison for five years, is out on parole and likely seeking revenge. She wants to make amends before Dan reaches her but nobody in her former circuit will help her. When Dan finds her, his revenge takes an odd turn when he finds out she wants him to kill her. | |||||||
| 7 | 7 | "Breakdown" | Joseph Cotten, Raymond Bailey, Murray Alper, Aaron Spelling | Alfred Hitchcock | Francis Cockrell (teleplay), Louis Pollock (teleplay & story) | November 13, 1955 | |
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Movie producer Mr. Callew (Cotton) fires a long-time employee on the phone and skoffs at his crying. Callew then gets into a car accident near a group of laboring prisoners. He appears to be dead, and he and the car are looted by the convicts. But he's not dead; he's totally paralyzed. Brought to the morgue, Callew struggles to communicate to someone that he is still alive. | |||||||
| 8 | 8 | "Our Cook's a Treasure" | Everett Sloane, Beulah Bondi, Olan Soule | Robert Stevens | Robert C. Dennis (teleplay), Dorothy L. Sayers (story) | November 20, 1955 | |
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With a serial-murderer maid on the loose in the city, Ralph (Sloane) becomes suspicious of his and his wife's (Montgomery) maid (Bondi). When he gets violent cramps at work one day, he decides to have a lab analyze the cocoa his maid had served him that day. When it turns out to contain arsenic, Ralph's suspicions appear to be corroborated, and he takes immediate action. | |||||||
| 9 | 9 | "The Long Shot" | Peter Lawford, John Williams | Robert Stevenson | Harold Swanton (teleplay) | November 27, 1955 | |
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Heavily indebted Charlie Raymond meets an English man coming to claim the inheritance from a family he has never met. Charlie plans to follow the man long enough so he can murder him, and claim the inheritance for himself. | |||||||
| 10 | 10 | "The Case of Mr. Pelham" | Tom Ewell, Raymond Bailey, Diane Brewster | Alfred Hitchcock | Francis Cockrell (teleplay), Anthony Armstrong (story) | December 4, 1955 | |
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At dinner with a friend, Mr. Pelham reveals a horrible secret. He feels like his life is slowly and completely being taken over by an imposter. | |||||||
| 11 | 11 | "Guilty Witness" | Judith Evelyn, Kathleen Maguire, Joseph Mantell, Ed Kemmer | Robert Stevens | Robert C. Dennis (teleplay), Morris Hershman (story) | December 11, 1955 | |
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During the heat of summer Mr. and Mrs. Crane dinners are interrupted by increasingly violent fighting from the married couple upstairs. When the husband mysteriously vanishes, Mrs. Crane implores her husband to find out more. | |||||||
| 12 | 12 | "Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid" | Barry Fitzgerald, Virginia Gregg | Don Weis | Marian Cockrell, Margaret Cousins (story) | December 18, 1955 | |
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A disgruntled ex-con gets once last chance to turn his life around by his kindly Parole Officer, a gig as a department store Santa. | |||||||
| 13 | 13 | "The Cheney Vase" | Patricia Collinge, Darren McGavin, Carolyn Jones, George Macready, Kathryn Card, Ruta Lee | Robert Stevens | Robert Blees | December 25, 1955 | |
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When Lyle Endicott loses his job at an art museum, he worms his way into the inner circle of a rich woman, in hopes of obtaining procession of a priceless vase. | |||||||
| 14 | 14 | "A Bullet for Baldwin" | John Qualen, Sebastian Cabot, Philip Reed | Justus Addiss | Eustace Cockrell (teleplay), Francis Cockrell (teleplay), Joseph Ruscoll (story) | January 1, 1956 | |
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Set in 1896. When a middle aged employee is suddenly fired he shoots his boss to death. The next day to he returns to the office to find that nothing has changed and his boss is still alive! | |||||||
| 15 | 15 | "The Big Switch" | George Mathews, Beverly Michaels, George E. Stone | Don Weis | Richard Carr (teleplay), Cornell Woolrich (story) | January 8, 1956 | |
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Gangster Sam Dunleavy plans to murder his ex-girlfriend. But first he contacts a friend who specializes in developing the perfect alibi. | |||||||
| 16 | 16 | "You Got to Have Luck" | John Cassavetes, Marisa Pavan | Robert Stevens | Eustace Cockrell, Francis Cockrell, S. R. Ross (story) | January 15, 1956 | |
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| 17 | 17 | "The Older Sister" | Joan Lorring, Carmen Mathews | Robert Stevens | Robert C. Dennis, Lillian de La Torre (story) | January 22, 1956 | |
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Based on the Lizzie Borden (add link) murders. Ambitious reporter Nell Cutts interviews acquitted murderer Lizzie Borden and her shy sister Emma in hopes of discovering the missing murder weapon, and the truth. | |||||||
| 18 | 18 | "Shopping for Death" | Jo Van Fleet, Robert Harris, Michael Ansara | Robert Stevens | Ray Bradbury | January 29, 1956 | |
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| 19 | 19 | "The Derelicts" | Robert Newton, Philip Reed | Robert Stevenson | Robert C. Dennis, Terence Maples (story) | February 5, 1956 | |
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Hoping to use their years of life insurance experience for good, two retired agents locate a woman who, based on their experiences, doesn’t have long to live. | |||||||
| 20 | 20 | "And So Died Riabouchinska" | Claude Rains, Charles Bronson | Robert Stevenson | Mel Dinelli, Ray Bradbury (story) | February 12, 1956 | |
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| 21 | 21 | "Safe Conduct" | Claire Trevor, Jacques Bergerac, Werner Klemperer, John Banner | Justus Addiss | Andrew Solt | February 19, 1956 | |
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A traveling journalist traveling by train behind the iron curtain is asked to carry jewelry by a Soviet defector, only to have him immediately turn her in to the Soviet Authorities. | |||||||
| 22 | 22 | "Place of Shadows" | Everett Sloane, Sean McClory | Robert Stevens | Robert C. Dennis | February 26, 1956 | |
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A young man finds his way to a monastery to seek revenge on a man who wronged him years ago, only to find himself in a dispute on the nature of vengeance. | |||||||
| 23 | 23 | "Back for Christmas" | John Williams, Isabel Elsom | Alfred Hitchcock | Francis Cockrell, John Collier (story) | March 4, 1956 | |
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| 24 | 24 | "The Perfect Murder" | Hurd Hatfield, Mildred Natwick | Robert Stevens | Victor Wolfson, Stacey Aumonier (story) | March 11, 1956 | |
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| 25 | 25 | "There Was an Old Woman" | Estelle Winwood, Charles Bronson | Robert Stevenson | Marian Cockrell, Jerry Hackady (story), Harold Hackady (story) | March 18, 1956 | |
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| 26 | 26 | "Whodunit?" | John Williams, Amanda Blake | Francis Cockrell | Francis Cockrell, Marian Cockrell, C. B. Gilford (story) | March 15, 1956 | |
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When mystery writer Alexander Penn Arlington appears in heaven after being murdered, he is sad even as an author of mystery stories, he has no clue about who killed him. A sympathetic angel gives him the chance to relive his last few hours to discover his own murderer. | |||||||