Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Seasons

1955

USA

8.5

TV-14

Stories of terror, horror and suspense presented by Alfred Hitchcock.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Revenge

When Carl Spann's wife Elsa is assaulted by an unknown attacker, he drives his still-incoherent wife around town, hoping she can point him out, so he can kill him.

S1 • E2

Premonition

A man returning to his home town finds his father has died, and suspects his friends are covering up the true details of that death.

S1 • E3

Triggers in Leash

A cook tries everything she can think of to end a dispute between two gunmen who have sworn to kill each other.

S1 • E4

Don't Come Back Alive

Frank Partridge and his wife plot to cheat their life insurance company by having her hide out for 7 years and declared legally dead, but an investigator believes Mr. Partridge has murdered her.

S1 • E5

Into Thin Air

When a young woman leaves her ill mother in a Paris hotel room and comes back later, she finds her mother is missing, and all the hotel's employees deny she and her mother were ever there.

S1 • E6

Salvage

Gangster Dan Varrell, just released from prison, goes looking for the woman he holds responsible for his brother's death.

S1 • E7

Breakdown

William Callew is involved in a bad traffic accident on a rural road, that leaves him so paralyzed he appears lifeless, and when help arrives they think he's really dead.

S1 • E8

Our Cook's a Treasure

A serial-murderess maid is on the loose in the city. Ralph becomes suspicious of his wife Ethel's housemaid Mrs. Sutton.

S1 • E9

The Long Shot

When heavily indebted Charlie Raymond is hired to accompany a British visitor on a trip across the USA, he looks for a way to take advantage of his employer.

S1 • E10

The Case of Mr. Pelham

A series of troubling incidents lead Mr. Pelham to believe that he has a double who is deliberately impersonating him.

S1 • E11

Guilty Witness

When Mr. and Mrs. Crane hear the Verbers having a violent argument in the apartment just above them, and then Mr. Verber disappears the next day, they can't help suspecting the worst.

S1 • E12

Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid

While working as a department store 'Santa Claus', a paroled convict tries to help a troubled boy.

S1 • E13

The Cheney Vase

When Lyle Endicott is fired from his job at an art museum, he comes up with a plan to take advantage of a trusting invalid whom he befriended at the museum.

S1 • E14

A Bullet for Baldwin

When an office worker is fired from his job, he shoots his boss to death, but when he returns to the office his boss is alive, and has no recollection of the incident.

S1 • E15

The Big Switch

Gangster Sam Dunleavy sets up an elaborate alibi so that he can kill his ex-girlfriend Goldie, who left him for another man.

S1 • E16

You Got to Have Luck

During a massive manhunt for escaped convict Sam Cobbett, Cobbett invades a house where young housewife Mary Schaffner is home alone.

S1 • E17

The Older Sister

One year after Lizzie Borden's parents were brutally murdered, reporter Nell Cutts tries to interview Lizzie and her younger sister Emma about the killings

S1 • E18

Shopping for Death

Two retired insurance salesmen confront a hostile, aggressive woman in hopes of saving her from a premature death.

S1 • E19

The Derelicts

Inventor Ralph Cowell murders his silent partner, Alfred Sloane, only to be blackmailed by vagrant Peter Goodfellow who witnessed the crime.

S1 • E20

And So Died Riabouchinska

Detective Krovitch investigates a murder at a run-down vaudeville theater and gets a hot lead from the ventriloquist's dummy.

S1 • E21

Safe Conduct

A female American journalist meets a soccer star while traveling behind the Iron Curtain, but is then arrested as a suspected smuggler.

S1 • E22

Place of Shadows

A young man tries to insinuate his way into a monastery in order to gain revenge on a thief he blames for ruining his life.

S1 • E23

Back for Christmas

Before leaving on a trip to America, a British man kills his wife and buries her in the basement. Soon after arriving in the United States, he receives a letter from home that will reveal whether or not he has gotten away with the crime.

S1 • E24

The Perfect Murder

Worried that their dowager Aunt Rosalie doesn't really care for either of them, brothers Paul and Henri Tallendier devise a plan to get their hands on her fortune any way they can rather than holding out for their inheritance.

S1 • E25

There Was an Old Woman

Dishonest Frank and Lorna Bramwell visit the home of wealthy, eccentric Monica Laughton, with the intention of robbing her.

S1 • E26

Whodunit

Recently deceased mystery writer Alexander Penn Arlington gets permission from the recording angel to relive his last day on earth, so that he can find out who murdered him.

S1 • E27

Help Wanted

To pay for his wife's operation, Mr. Crabtree takes a job working for the mysterious Mr. X, who asks him to manage a job involving a blackmailer.

S1 • E28

Portrait of Jocelyn

At an art gallery, Mark is surprised when the art dealer hands over a portrait of Mark's first wife instead of the painting he'd originally purchased.

S1 • E29

The Orderly World of Mr. Appleby

An antique dealer comes up with a clever way to raise money to pay off a loan. But things won't be as easy for him the second time around...or will they?

S1 • E30

Never Again

After arguing with her boyfriend, Karen wakes up in a jail cell with no recollection of what transpired and is told some horrifying news.

S1 • E31

The Gentleman from America

Rich American Howard Latimer visits London, and bets 1,000 pounds that he can spend the night in a room that is said to be haunted.

S1 • E32

The Baby Sitter

When Clara Nash is murdered, her baby-sitter Lottie Slocum is excited to be the center of attention, and she also hopes to become closer to Clara's husband.

S1 • E33

The Belfry

When Clint Ringle learns that Ellie Marsh, the schoolteacher whom he loves, is engaged to Walt Norton, Clint kills Walt and then hides in the schoolhouse's bell tower, waiting for his chance to exact further revenge.

S1 • E34

The Hidden Thing

After Dana Edwards' fiancée Laura is killed by a hit-and-run driver, he is visited by John Hurley, who claims to be able to use memory recall techniques that will help him to remember the car's license plate number.

S1 • E35

The Legacy

When a prince who is well known as a playboy takes a sudden romantic interest in a shy, plain housewife, everyone is baffled and fascinated.

S1 • E36

Mink

Paula Hudson has a stolen mink coat she tells police she purchased on a recommendation, and when they retrace her steps to find out how she obtained it, everyone denies they ever talked to her about it.

S1 • E37

Decoy

Gil Larkin is suspected of murder when Mona Cameron's allegedly abusive husband is shot dead in front of him and he gets knocked out by an unknown assailant.

S1 • E38

The Creeper

A frightened housewife is alone in her apartment when she begins to suspect just about anyone could be the unknown killer who has been strangling women.