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
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.
A successful Hollywood actor convinces his lover to kill her abusive husband, then makes a phone call.
A small town is rocked by a series of murders which begins with the killing of a local farmer's son.
A woman becomes the target of her murderous spouse after she finds a button from one of his victims.
A high-priced hit man has second thoughts about fulfilling his latest contract after meeting his target's lovely handicapped wife.
A small town sheriff investigates the disappearance of the wife of a man who has been acting suspiciously according to his nosy neighbors.
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.
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.
Three ex-cons plan to heist a fortune in jewels, but inadvertently steal a container of radioactive cobalt.
The husband of a successful actress suddenly returns after being thought dead for years. He demands again to become a part of her life, now that she's a success. Things get complicated when she accidentally kills him after he attacks her.
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.
One of a bigamist's four wives takes it upon herself to track down and kill the other three women.
After a little boy vanishes in a magic shop, he comes back later with supernatural powers and evil intentions.
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.
Marcia Fowler is sunbathing on her patio when she spots a new neighbor named Roy ogling her. She calls the police and asks them to warn Roy to stay away from her. Things get complicated when Marcia's husband returns from a business trip.
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.
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.
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.
A struggling actor auditioning in London learns that the actress-girlfriend who dumped him is now married to the play's backer, a rich diamond merchant. They soon rekindle their romance and conceive a plot to get her out of her marriage.
Professor and dean of psychology James Parkerson places a classified ad offering to help husbands and wives get rid of their spouses, ostensibly for research purposes. The police suspect him of offering murder for hire. Trouble ensues.
An attorney helps a client threatened by an unstable woman who blames her for a broken wedding engagement.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A married man finds his beautiful mistress murdered and flees without reporting it, only to become the victim of blackmail.
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.
After serving a prison sentence, a man romances the woman whose false testimony got him convicted.
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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Alfred Hitchcock | Self - Host |
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George DeNormand | Man at Exchange |
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Vince Williams | The Hotel Clerk |
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Hinton Pope | The 2nd Guard |
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Robert Reiner | Pedro / the Bartender |
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Adam Roarke | Al |
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R.G. Armstrong | John Cooley |
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Ben Wright | Doctor Norton |
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George Furth | Jack Terola |
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Ted De Corsia | Herlie |
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Gail Bonney | Mrs. Harris |
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George Lindsey | Sam Kirby |
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Ann Morgan Guilbert | Pet Shop Proprietress |
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Lew Brown | The 1st Policeman |
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Ruth McDevitt | Mrs. Fister |
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William Boyett | The Young Policeman |
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Dee Carroll | The Woman |
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Barney Phillips | Hanley |
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Norman Leavitt | The Gas Company Man |
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Carl Benton Reid | Gramps Medknowe |
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Arthur Tovey | Man at Hotel Desk |
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Bartlett Robinson | Mr. Thompson |
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Holly Bane | Bartender |
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Cal Bartlett | Harv |
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Brendan Dillon | Inspector Roberts |
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