The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Seasons

1962

USA

8.5

TV-PG

A continuation of the dramatic anthology series Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) hosted by the master of suspense and mystery, Alfred Hitchcock.

Episode List

S1 • E1

A Piece of the Action

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.

S1 • E2

Don't Look Behind You

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

S1 • E3

Night of the Owl

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

S1 • E4

I Saw the Whole Thing

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?

S1 • E5

Captive Audience

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?

S1 • E6

Final Vow

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.

S1 • E7

Annabel

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.

S1 • E8

House Guest

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

S1 • E9

The Black Curtain

A mugging causes a man to lose the last three years of his memories which he must recover if he is to survive.

S1 • E10

Day of Reckoning

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

S1 • E11

Ride the Nightmare

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.

S1 • E12

Hangover

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.

S1 • E13

Bonfire

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.

S1 • E14

The Tender Poisoner

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

S1 • E15

The Thirty-First of February

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

S1 • E16

What Really Happened

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.

S1 • E17

Forecast: Low Clouds and Coastal Fog

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

S1 • E18

A Tangled Web

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.

S1 • E19

To Catch a Butterfly

At first, a childless young couple are thrilled to relocate for the husband's new executive job, and especially happy with their new house. But the boy belonging to the family next door turns out to be a real pest.

S1 • E20

The Paragon

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

S1 • E21

I'll Be Judge - I'll Be Jury

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

S1 • E22

Diagnosis: Danger

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.

S1 • E23

The Lonely Hours

A mother of three notices that her baby son oddly fascinates the tenant renting a room in her house.

S1 • E24

The Star Juror

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

S1 • E25

The Long Silence

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

S1 • E26

An Out for Oscar

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.