Alfred Hitchcock Presents
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
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.
Some unknown person is brutally attacking women in a small college town and a host of weird staff members are suspects.
A blackmailer threatens to reveal some horrific information to an adopted teen girl about her real parents, unless her adoptive father pays him off.
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?
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?
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.
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.
A young boy named Tony Mitchell is saved from drowning by an unwelcome guest.
A mugging restores the memory of a man with amnesia.
After a couple's drunken argument in the middle of a yacht party takes a tragic turn, collective motives yield unexpected results.
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.
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.
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.
An executive plans to end an associate's love affair and save the man's career and marriage.
The death of a man's wife is ruled an accident, but strange incidents at the widower's place of work raise new questions.
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.
A frightened young woman would like company in her husband's absence, but is anyone really trustworthy?
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.
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.
A man tries to stop his insensitive wife from alienating their family and friends.
Relatives of a murdered newlywed decide to bring the killer to justice themselves.
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.
A mother of three notices that her baby son fascinates the lady renting a room in her home.
After killing a woman, a man is chosen to be a juror for the trial of the man accused of her murder.
A paralyzed woman is terrified her husband will learn she is recovering.
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.
The secretary of a wine baron murders when her dream of marrying him is shattered.
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.
After an adopted son drowns, a strange woman arrives claiming to be the boy's birth mother and proceeds to blackmail the adoptive mother.
A neighbor's letter about an unfaithful wife disturbs an advice columnist.
A young doctor continues to date a beautiful showgirl in spite of warnings that her three previous marriages ended badly for her past husbands.
A remorseful detective vows to find the men who killed his son, who was also a cop.
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Alfred Hitchcock | Self - Host |
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Paul Bradley | Mr. Pradanos |
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Andy Romano | The P.A.L. Officer |
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John Zaremba | The Coroner |
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Lillian O'Malley | Club Patron |
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Hinton Pope | The Police Officer |
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Robert Redford | Chuck Marsden |
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R.G. Armstrong | William Downey |
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Gena Rowlands | Louise Henderson |
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Joyce Van Patten | Grace |
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Richard Jaeckel | Boxer |
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Murray Pollack | Party Guest |
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Willis Bouchey | Judge Neilson |
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Richard Bull | The Butler |
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John Marley | Det. Ed Singer |
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Gail Bonney | The Elderly Woman |
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Paul Cristo | Party Guest |
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Ed Nelson | Tom Keller |
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Lew Brown | David Carson |
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Herschel Graham | Club Patron |
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Robert Carson | The Coroner |
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David White | Lance Hawthorn |
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Jesslyn Fax | Miss McGuiness |
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George Mitchell | The Druggist |
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Isobel Elsom | Sister Marie Therese |
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