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A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

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Season 1

8.0/102,245 votes
Breakdown
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/1955
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.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Francis M. Cockrell
7.8/101,119 votes
The Creeper
Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 6/17/1956
A serial killer known as "the strangler" terrorizes a New York neighborhood.
Director: Herschel Daugherty
Writer: Unknown
7.7/101,402 votes
The Long Shot
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/27/1955
Heavily indebted Charlie Raymond is hired to accompany a British visitor on a trip across the USA, and looks for a way to take advantage of his employer.
Director: Robert Stevenson
Writer: Unknown
7.7/101,355 votes
You Got to Have Luck
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/15/1956
During a massive manhunt for escaped convict Sam Cobbett, Cobbett invades a house where young housewife Mary Schaffner is home alone.
Director: Robert Stevens
Writer: Francis M. Cockrell
7.7/101,028 votes
Help Wanted
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 4/1/1956
Mr. Crabtree is grateful to find a new job, until his new employer gives him a most unexpected assignment.
Director: James Neilson
Writer: Robert C. Dennis, Stanley Ellin
7.6/101,327 votes
Back for Christmas
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/4/1956
Herbert Carpenter plans to murder his wife Hermione, bury her body in the basement, and then leave on a long business trip.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: John Collier, Francis M. Cockrell
7.4/101,983 votes
Premonition
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/9/1955
A famous pianist returning to his home town finds his father has died, and suspects his friends and family are covering up the true details of that death.
Director: Robert Stevens
Writer: Unknown
7.4/101,434 votes
Our Cook's a Treasure
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/20/1955
A man fears that the new cook he's hired is actually a murderess.
Director: Robert Stevens
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
7.4/101,631 votes
The Case of Mr. Pelham
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/4/1955
A series of troubling incidents lead Mr. Pelham to believe that he has a double who is deliberately impersonating him.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Francis M. Cockrell
7.4/101,319 votes
Guilty Witness
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/11/1955
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.
Director: Robert Stevens
Writer: Unknown
7.3/102,729 votes
Revenge
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/2/1955
When Carl Spann's wife Elsa is left traumatized after being assaulted by an unknown attacker, he becomes determined to track down the perpetrator and take revenge.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Francis M. Cockrell
7.2/101,668 votes
Don't Come Back Alive
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/23/1955
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.
Director: Robert Stevenson
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
7.2/101,013 votes
The Perfect Murder
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/11/1956
Unscrupulous brothers Paul and Henri Tallendier plan to murder their Aunt Rosalie so that they can get their uncle's inheritance.
Director: Robert Stevens
Writer: Unknown
7.2/101,027 votes
There Was an Old Woman
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/18/1956
Dishonest Frank and Lorna Bramwell visit the home of wealthy, eccentric Monica Laughton, with the intention of robbing her.
Director: Robert Stevenson
Writer: Marian B. Cockrell, Francis M. Cockrell
7.2/10955 votes
The Orderly World of Mr. Appleby
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 4/15/1956
Antiques dealer Laurence Appleby thinks he has solved his financial problems by killing his wife Lena, but new complications arise in his second marriage.
Director: James Neilson
Writer: Unknown
7.2/10982 votes
Never Again
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 4/22/1956
Karen Stewart has once again broken her promise not to drink anymore, and now she is in a strange bed, injured, with no memory of what happened the night before.
Director: Robert Stevens
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
7.2/10833 votes
Momentum
Season 1 Episode 39 - Aired 6/24/1956
A man ends up running to the Mexican border after trying to collect money his employer owes him.
Director: Robert Stevens
Writer: Francis M. Cockrell
7.1/101,480 votes
Salvage
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/6/1955
Gangster Dan Varrell, just released from prison, goes looking for the woman he holds responsible for his brother's death.
Director: Jus Addiss
Writer: Fred Freiberger
7.1/101,201 votes
The Big Switch
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/8/1956
Gangster Sam Dunleavy sets up an elaborate alibi so that he can kill his ex-girlfriend Goldie, who left him for another man.
Director: Don Weis
Writer: Unknown
7.0/101,510 votes
The Cheney Vase
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/25/1955
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.
Director: Robert Stevens
Writer: Robert Blees
7.0/101,212 votes
A Bullet for Baldwin
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/1/1956
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.
Director: Jus Addiss
Writer: Francis M. Cockrell
7.0/10948 votes
Whodunit
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 3/25/1956
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.
Director: Francis M. Cockrell
Writer: Marian B. Cockrell, Francis M. Cockrell
7.0/101,011 votes
Portrait of Jocelyn
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 4/8/1956
When Mark Halliday and his new wife unexpectedly see a portrait of Halliday's first wife, it is only the first in a series of disturbing developments.
Director: Robert Stevens
Writer: Unknown
6.9/101,205 votes
And So Died Riabouchinska
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/12/1956
While investigating a murder in a theater, Detective Krovitch uncovers a strange web of tensions revolving around ventriloquist John Fabian and his female dummy.
Director: Robert Stevenson
Writer: Ray Bradbury
6.8/101,753 votes
Triggers in Leash
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/16/1955
A cook tries everything she can think of to end a dispute between two gunmen who have sworn to kill each other.
Director: Don Medford
Writer: Unknown
6.8/101,658 votes
Into Thin Air
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/30/1955
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.
Director: Don Medford
Writer: Marian B. Cockrell
6.8/101,017 votes
The Derelicts
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/5/1956
Inventor Ralph Cowell murders his silent partner Alfred, only to be blackmailed by vagrant Peter Goodfellow, who witnessed the crime.
Director: Robert Stevenson
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
6.8/10813 votes
Decoy
Season 1 Episode 37 - Aired 6/10/1956
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.
Director: Arnold Laven
Writer: Bernard C. Schoenfeld
6.7/101,231 votes
Santa Claus and the 10th Avenue Kid
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/18/1955
While working as a department store 'Santa Claus', a paroled convict tries to help a troubled boy.
Director: Don Weis
Writer: Marian B. Cockrell
6.7/101,091 votes
Safe Conduct
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/19/1956
An American journalist meets a soccer star while traveling behind the Iron Curtain, but then is arrested as a suspected smuggler.
Director: Jus Addiss
Writer: Unknown
6.7/10946 votes
The Gentleman from America
Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 4/29/1956
Rich American Howard Lattimer visits London, and bets 1000 pounds that he can spend the night in a room that is said to be haunted.
Director: Robert Stevens
Writer: Francis M. Cockrell
6.7/10915 votes
The Baby Sitter
Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 5/6/1956
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.
Director: Robert Stevens
Writer: Unknown
6.6/10857 votes
Mink
Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 6/3/1956
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.
Director: Robert Stevenson
Writer: Unknown
6.5/101,136 votes
The Older Sister
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/22/1956
A reporter discovers the truth about the infamous Lizzie Borden murder case.
Director: Robert Stevens
Writer: Unknown
6.4/10951 votes
The Belfry
Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 5/13/1956
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.
Director: Herschel Daugherty
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
6.4/10875 votes
The Legacy
Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 5/27/1956
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.
Director: James Neilson
Writer: Unknown
6.3/101,163 votes
Shopping for Death
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/29/1956
Two retired insurance salesmen confront an aggressive, hostile woman in hopes of saving her from a disaster.
Director: Robert Stevens
Writer: Ray Bradbury
6.3/10971 votes
Place of Shadows
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/26/1956
A young man tries to insinuate his way into a monastery, in order to gain revenge on a thief whom he blames for ruining his life.
Director: Robert Stevens
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
6.0/10875 votes
The Hidden Thing
Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 5/20/1956
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.
Director: Robert Stevens
Writer: Unknown