The Best Episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 4

A man relates the series of events that led him to contemplate suicide to a police officer.

Director: Robert Stevens

Writer: N/A

A joyride in a new convertible is seriously called to a halt as the corrupt public officials in a small town attempt to take advantage of the defenseless drivers.

Director: Paul Henreid

Writer: N/A

During his last week of work before retirement, the longtime employee of a jewelry store serves an unusual client.

Director: Herschel Daugherty

Writer: N/A

It's murder most foul when a man decides to drown the longtime girlfriend who's been supporting him, but his crime doesn't go unnoticed for very long.

Director: Herschel Daugherty

Writer: N/A

When a wealthy woman mistakenly accuses her elevator boy of robbing her, his resulting imprisonment will take her to levels of guilt she never expected.

Director: Paul Henreid

Writer: Bernard C. Schoenfeld

When John learns that he has been made the beneficiary in his cousin's will, he decides he can't wait for nature to take its course and begins plotting murder.

Director: Paul Almond

Writer: Francis M. Cockrell

When a local bank clerk cheats him out of $200, a man takes extreme measures to get back his money.

Director: Herschel Daugherty

Writer: N/A

Motherly love knows no bounds when a woman decides to get revenge on the married man who has been dating her daughter.

Director: Herschel Daugherty

Writer: Robert C. Dennis

Thelma Tomkins and her deadbeat boyfriend begin poisoning an old and wealthy woman in order to get an inheritance ... but the results are not what they expected.

Director: Paul Henreid

Writer: N/A

A retired Scotland Yard inspector goes to extreme lengths to prove the guilt of a suspect in an old murder case.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Writer: Francis M. Cockrell

A prominent lawyer appears able to manipulate any situation successfully - except, perhaps, for his marriage.

Director: Norman Lloyd

Writer: N/A

Paul Brett is a top-notch criminal attorney who is consulted by Mrs. Cannon-Hughes. She was a nurse by profession who tended to the bedridden wife of Gilbert Hughes until her death. In the time since then, she married Mr. Hughes only to come to the conclusion that he murdered his first wife. Brett advises her that little that can be done without evidence, but he takes a liking to her and they eventually become lovers and marry when Gilbert takes his own life. Little does he realize the consequences of the choices he has made.

Director: Leonard Horn

Writer: Robert C. Dennis

Two partners discover their real feelings for one another when one is bitten by a poisonous snake and it's up to the other to save his life.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Writer: N/A

A morgue attendant gets the last laugh when he finally has enough of a man who has been provoking him.

Director: Arthur Hiller

Writer: Bernard C. Schoenfeld

When a hypnotist puts a young woman into a trance during a seance, things go wildly out of control and she stabs her husband. But is she really to blame for her actions?

Director: David Swift

Writer: N/A

It's hard to tell who's the bigger cheater when a wife and her husband's jealous mistress sit down for some lethal negotiating.

Director: Robert Stevens

Writer: Kathleen Hite

Two women plot to do away with an irascible old man and seize his money, but their plan is foiled when one of them decides she deserves more of the fortune.

Director: Arthur Hiller

Writer: Robert C. Dennis

A newspaper reporter gets a tip about an out of this world story: a man who claims to be a Martian.

Director: Norman Lloyd

Writer: Fredric Brown

A man's marriage seriously malfunctions when he buys a robot to take over his relationship with his demanding wife so he can escape to Rio.

Director: Robert Stevens

Writer: Ray Bradbury

A young woman with her eye on marriage wonders why she still hasn't met her boyfriend's mother.

Director: Arthur Hiller

Writer: Kathleen Hite

A middle-aged couple, recently wed and constantly bickering, learn how married life can be murder.

Director: Arthur Hiller

Writer: Bernard C. Schoenfeld

When a miser discovers how expensive a divorce will cost, he comes up with another way to rid himself of his wife.

Director: Bretaigne Windust

Writer: Burt Styler

When he loses all his money in a poker game, a man tells his pregnant wife an involved lie to explain the missing cash.

Director: John Brahm

Writer: Bernard C. Schoenfeld

A lawyer gets creative when the man he is defending offers him half of his net worth if he will find a way out of the case.

Director: Norman Lloyd

Writer: N/A

A used car salesman with a spendthrift wife concocts a killer deal with his father and two college boys.

Director: Robert Stevens

Writer: N/A