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The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Season 1

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: The Complete Collection

1962

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Season 1

CBS (1963)
TV Series | Crime | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
USA | English | Black & White | 29:58

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


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1 A Piece of the Action 60 min | Sep 20, 1962

Duke Marsden is an inveterate gambler who's about to lose his wife because of his habit. She gives him an ultimatum to either give up poker or else she's gone. He agrees, but there's one last thing he has to do first.

2 Don't Look Behind You 60 min | Sep 27, 1962

Some unknown person is brutally attacking women in a small college town and a host of weird staff members are suspects.

3 Night of the Owl 60 min | Oct 04, 1962

A blackmailer threatens to reveal some horrific information to an adopted teen girl about her real parents, unless her adoptive father pays him off.

4 I Saw the Whole Thing 60 min | Oct 11, 1962

There are five witnesses for a hit-and-run accident at an intersection who all say the car did not stop at the stop sign, but are they all wrong?

5 Captive Audience 60 min | Oct 18, 1962

A seasoned writer who has suffered trauma sends audiotapes to his publisher. They introduce the writer himself as a murderer emerging from a love triangle. Are the tapes a confession or just a new way of delivering a summary?

6 Final Vow 49 min | Oct 25, 1962

A valuable statuette thrusts an elderly nun, a veteran criminal, a wavering novice, an ignorant thug, and a greedy pawn shop owner into a maelstrom of dangerous vice and inexorable virtue.

7 Annabel 60 min | Nov 01, 1962

A disturbed man's other identity snares others in a perilous web. David is a successful, quiet young scientist - but on weekends he has an impeccable country cottage where as the confident William, he fantasizes as if actually entertaining ex-girlfriend Annabel, now happily married nearby. When his co-workers, one of whom has a crush on David, follow him up the coast, David's dream world by the sea for Annabel, morphs into a nightmare for all.

8 House Guest 48 min | Nov 08, 1962

A young boy named Tony Mitchell is saved from drowning by an unwelcome guest.

9 The Black Curtain 48 min | Nov 15, 1962

A mugging restores the memory of a man with amnesia.

10 Day of Reckoning 49 min | Nov 22, 1962

After a couple's drunken argument in the middle of a yacht party takes a tragic turn, collective motives yield unexpected results.

11 Ride the Nightmare 60 min | Nov 29, 1962

A perfect couple's content suburban world is interrupted by a telephone threat ("I'm going to kill you") against the cocksure husband. His past misdeeds unravel his new life, terrifying his unknowing wife.

12 Hangover 48 min | Dec 06, 1962

Remembering nothing of what happened the day before, a talented, alcoholic ad man painfully reconstructs the events of what proves to have been a very bad day indeed.

13 Bonfire 49 min | Dec 13, 1962

After a lonely woman moves to a small town to live in the home of her recently deceased aunt, she finds one particular neighbor is especially willing to offer assistance.

14 The Tender Poisoner 51 min | Dec 20, 1962

An executive plans to end an associate's love affair and save the man's career and marriage.

15 The Thirty-First of February 49 min | Jan 04, 1963

The death of a man's wife is ruled an accident, but strange incidents at the widower's place of work raise new questions.

16 What Really Happened 60 min | Jan 11, 1963

A woman stands trial for her wealthy husband's murder. Her vengeful mother-in-law is convinced that she did it, but a family servant knows the key to what really happened.

17 Forecast: Low Clouds and Coastal Fog 49 min | Jan 18, 1963

A frightened young woman would like company in her husband's absence, but is anyone really trustworthy?

18 A Tangled Web 60 min | Jan 25, 1963

A charming French maid elopes with a professional burglar (much to his mother's dismay) with hopes of turning him honest. However, the burglar's fence (Karl) has his own plans for his favorite thief.

19 To Catch a Butterfly 60 min | Feb 01, 1963

At first, a childless young couple are thrilled to relocate for the husband's new executive job, and especially happy with their new home. Is the next-door neighbor boy's cruelty to them just a youngster rebelling against his blue-collar, strict father? The husband's empathy for the boy drives a dangerous wedge into their marriage.

20 The Paragon 60 min | Feb 08, 1963

A man tries to stop his insensitive wife from alienating their family and friends.

21 I'll Be Judge - I'll Be Jury 60 min | Feb 15, 1963

Relatives of a murdered newlywed decide to bring the killer to justice themselves.

22 Diagnosis: Danger 60 min | Mar 01, 1963

An apparent hit-and-run turns out to be so much more. It leads to an anthrax scare that spreads through Los Angeles, but the perpetrator is elusive.

23 The Lonely Hours 60 min | Mar 08, 1963

A mother of three notices that her baby son fascinates the lady renting a room in her home.

24 The Star Juror 60 min | Mar 15, 1963

After killing a woman, a man is chosen to be a juror for the trial of the man accused of her murder.

25 The Long Silence 60 min | Mar 22, 1963

A paralyzed woman is terrified her husband will learn she is recovering.

26 An Out for Oscar 60 min | Apr 05, 1963

A dissolute ex-hostess who's recently committed a murder and lost her job enters a marriage of convenience but soon finds herself rather rudely inconvenienced.

27 Death and the Joyful Woman 60 min | Apr 12, 1963

The secretary of a wine baron murders when her dream of marrying him is shattered.

28 Last Seen Wearing Blue Jeans 49 min | Apr 19, 1963

A beautiful 17-year-old British girl is inadvertently driven to Mexico by a dangerous car thief who is unaware she is sleeping in the back seat.

29 The Dark Pool 60 min | May 03, 1963

After an adopted son drowns, a strange woman arrives claiming to be the boy's birth mother and proceeds to blackmail the adoptive mother.

30 Dear Uncle George 60 min | May 10, 1963

A neighbor's letter about an unfaithful wife disturbs an advice columnist.

31 Run for Doom 60 min | May 17, 1963

A young doctor continues to date a beautiful showgirl in spite of warnings that her three previous marriages ended badly for her past husbands.

32 Death of a Cop 49 min | May 24, 1963

A remorseful detective vows to find the men who killed his son, who was also a cop.

Cast View all

Alfred Hitchcock Self - Host
Paul Bradley Mr. Pradanos
Andy Romano The P.A.L. Officer
John Zaremba The Coroner
Lillian O'Malley Club Patron
Hinton Pope The Police Officer
Robert Redford Chuck Marsden
R.G. Armstrong William Downey
Gena Rowlands Louise Henderson
Joyce Van Patten Grace
Richard Jaeckel Boxer
Murray Pollack Party Guest
Willis Bouchey Judge Neilson
Richard Bull The Butler
John Marley Det. Ed Singer
Gail Bonney The Elderly Woman
Paul Cristo Party Guest
Ed Nelson Tom Keller
Lew Brown David Carson
Herschel Graham Club Patron
Robert Carson The Coroner
David White Lance Hawthorn
Jesslyn Fax Miss McGuiness
George Mitchell The Druggist
Isobel Elsom Sister Marie Therese

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