The Best Episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 6

An arresting tale of crime and misdemeanor in a small town sees a traveling salesman embroiled in deceit and murder. In a twisted variation on the prince and the pauper, the swapping of clothes reveals the true identity of a murderous fiend.

Director: Norman Lloyd

Writer: Henry Slesar

How to marry a millionaire becomes a pathway to a loveless union for a beautiful young woman already in a relationship with a grasping and handsome man. Thinking she has married a man with a year to live and a fortune to inherit, her future plans soon go awry when her husband does the unexpected - he continues to live!

Director: Don Weis

Writer: N/A

On a wing and a prayer, a gambler with a mission thinks he has a hotline to God in praying for a string of successful winners. Convincing a naive minister to play the odds with the parish funds, could this be the race which beats the horse player?

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Writer: Henry Slesar

When a robbery goes wrong and one fatal bullet becomes four, can self defense really be the motive behind a frightened man's gun-toting pursuit of the culprits? The police think not ... and they may have a point.

Director: Paul Henreid

Writer: N/A

When an armed robber is released from prison, beaten down by the system and wanting to retreat to his long-lost family life, his homecoming makes for a shocking revelation.

Director: Alf Kjellin

Writer: Henry Slesar

A touch of mink for Mr and Mrs Bixby is only part of a story of love grown cold and a hidden passion beneath the surface.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Writer: N/A

In a small provincial town, an English lady takes in lodgers. For Billy Weaver, the town of Bramley offers accommodation at a reasonable rate, and a vacation to die for.

Director: Paul Henreid

Writer: Robert Bloch

Browbeaten husband seeks nothing but the best for his late-lamented wife. The most expensive casket from the best in the business, every detail attended to in the making of final arrangements. Just one item left of the to-do list: kill the wife.

Director: Gordon Hessler

Writer: N/A

On the passing of his wife, a man reflects on a marriage filled with bitterness and suspicion through the pages of her diary, and comes to realize he never really knew her at all.

Director: Ida Lupino

Writer: N/A

When a mother returns to seek out her long-lost abandoned daughter, money rather than love seems to be her driving motive. Refusing to pay, the girl's pseudo-adoptive parents call the woman's bluff and demand a court settlement to the matter.

Director: Ida Lupino

Writer: Henry Slesar

When you're handsome and attractive, the ladies will always pay you the sort of attention you want. For Arnold Bourdon, there's only one problem: how to get rid of his shrewish but wealthy wife. Perhaps her new companion and nurse hold the key.

Director: Arthur Hiller

Writer: Henry Slesar

A pensive, withdrawn child attending a summer camp fashions a one-armed warrior knight in clay, to the consternation of his counselors. Is there a reason behind this particular display?

Director: Norman Lloyd

Writer: N/A

Love letters from a pen pal bring an escaped convict to a country cottage in search of the woman he plans to make his bride. With the police closing in, is more than his heart trapped?

Director: John Brahm

Writer: N/A

The theft of a woman's purse is the start of a tale of profit and loss which strikes close to home when the identity of the culprit is sought through a series of conflicting photographs.

Director: Stuart Rosenberg

Writer: Henry Slesar

Lucy Baldwin wishes to marry her boy friend Arthur. Unfortunately, her domineering mother believe that Arthur is only out for money opposes the marriage. When Lucy's mother falls ill, Lucy sees her chance. She slips her a fatal dose of sleeping tonc and she dies. Lucy and Arthur are married and Arthur takes Lucy to visit his mother. Unfortunately, Arthur's mother is just as domineering as Lucy's. Since Arthur's mother is ill, Lucy suggests a dose of sleeping tonic to take care of the problem.

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

James Howgill wants a divorce from his wife. When she refuses to give him one, he hires a private eye to follow her in hopes of finding evidence of adultery.

Director: Don Weis

Writer: Jerry Sohl

Lumbered with more than an enormous debt, a businessman needs money - and fast. His doting fiance-in-waiting provides an instant solution, but in so doing, her act of desperate kindness leads to fatal consequences.

Director: Norman Lloyd

Writer: N/A

Philip Weaver concocts a scheme to murder his employer.

Director: Arthur Hiller

Writer: N/A

The time for love is any time, but for Dane Ross and his beloved Lisa, the clock is almost certainly ticking.

Director: Robert Florey

Writer: Robert Bloch

When a man is released from prison for a crime he didn't commit, he sets about balancing the ledger of life by pulling off an audacious robbery which he believes the police can never prove he was responsible for. Will his hotel key prove his undoing?

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

The boy who cried wolf got his comeuppance in the end. What of a spurned girl seeking the attention of all and sundry? When one lie replaces another and the stakes are raised to murder, what of the girl at the gloating place?

Director: N/A

Writer: Robert Bloch

When a down-on-his-luck man finds a small fortune on the streets of Las Vegas, a simple act of charity pays more dividends than he ever expected.

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

The witches of Salem are getting younger by the year, and for nine-year-old Kate Kendall this isn't a problem as she has a new playmate for the summer. Parents Phyllis and Ben are altogether more concerned, and consult the local Reverend on the subject of exorcism.

Director: Herschel Daugherty

Writer: N/A

Dark secrets lie at the heart of a private Indian museum, with one particular exhibit telling a sinister story of seduction, betrayal and murder.

Director: Paul Henreid

Writer: N/A

When a nightclub beauty is visited upon by the misfortune of a former husband whom she has carelessly neglected to divorce amidst her rapid rise to stardom and subsequent bigamy, murder seems the only answer. Surely, reasons beautiful Crystal Coe, you can't trust a man to be of any worth her now?

Director: Paul Henreid

Writer: N/A