The Best Episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1

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

A serial killer known as "the strangler" terrorizes a New York neighborhood.

Director: Herschel Daugherty

Writer: N/A

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

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

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: Francis M. Cockrell, John Collier

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

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

Director: Robert Stevens

Writer: N/A

A man fears that the new cook he's hired is actually a murderess.

Director: Robert Stevens

Writer: Robert C. Dennis

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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