Alfred Hitchcock Presents

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A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Season 1

  • Revenge
    7.3/102,577 votes

    Revenge

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/2/1955

    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.

    Director: Alfred Hitchcock

    Writer: Francis M. Cockrell

  • Premonition
    7.4/101,881 votes

    Premonition

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/9/1955

    A famous pianist returns to his home town to find the man who murdered his father.

    Director: Robert Stevens

    Writer: N/A

  • Triggers in Leash
    6.8/101,671 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: N/A

  • Don't Come Back Alive
    7.2/101,585 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

  • Into Thin Air
    6.8/101,567 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

  • Salvage
    7.1/101,411 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

  • Breakdown
    8.0/102,131 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

  • Our Cook's a Treasure
    7.4/101,360 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

  • The Long Shot
    7.7/101,328 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: N/A

  • The Case of Mr. Pelham
    7.4/101,542 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

  • Guilty Witness
    7.4/101,250 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: N/A

  • Santa Claus and the 10th Avenue Kid
    6.7/101,162 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

  • The Cheney Vase
    7.0/101,437 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: N/A

  • A Bullet for Baldwin
    7.0/101,146 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

  • The Big Switch
    7.1/101,139 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: N/A

  • You Got to Have Luck
    7.7/101,278 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

  • The Older Sister
    6.5/101,082 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: N/A

  • Shopping for Death
    6.3/101,106 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

  • The Derelicts
    6.8/10968 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

  • And So Died Riabouchinska
    6.9/101,140 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

  • Safe Conduct
    6.7/101,039 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: N/A

  • Place of Shadows
    6.3/10919 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

  • Back for Christmas
    7.6/101,258 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

  • The Perfect Murder
    7.2/10967 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: N/A

  • There Was an Old Woman
    7.2/10979 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

  • Whodunit
    7.0/10903 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: N/A

    Writer: Marian B. Cockrell, Francis M. Cockrell

  • Help Wanted
    7.6/10970 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: N/A

    Writer: Robert C. Dennis, Stanley Ellin

  • Portrait of Jocelyn
    7.0/10966 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: N/A

  • The Orderly World of Mr. Appleby
    7.2/10907 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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Never Again
    7.2/10940 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

  • The Gentleman from America
    6.7/10907 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

  • The Baby Sitter
    6.7/10875 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: N/A

  • The Belfry
    6.4/10918 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

  • The Hidden Thing
    6.0/10834 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: N/A

  • The Legacy
    6.4/10839 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: N/A

  • Mink
    6.6/10817 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: N/A

  • Decoy
    6.8/10780 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: N/A

    Writer: Bernard C. Schoenfeld

  • The Creeper
    7.8/101,068 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: N/A

  • Momentum
    7.2/10796 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