The Worst Episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents

An American criminal living in Rome gets more than he bargained for when supplying narcotics to a group of juveniles.

Director: Robert Florey

Writer: N/A

A 17-year-old causes havoc at a bar and alarms everyone around him when he talks hysterically about how he'll be "born again" when someone else dies at eleven o'clock.

Director: Robert Stevens

Writer: Evan Hunter

A midlife crisis for a man with a teenage past boasting athletic prowess and vigor puts a dangerous strain on his marriage, and his own physical state. How much more can a wife take living under starter's orders?

Director: Norman Lloyd

Writer: N/A

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

A middle aged plumber is suspected of bludgeoning to death the father of his 19-year-old love interest, but the Sheriff can't figure out how the man could have done the crime and been caring for his baby grandson at the same time.

Director: Stuart Rosenberg

Writer: Charles Beaumont

A ruthlessly ambitious Hollywood publicist capitalizes on the drowning death of an actress, but his hopes for success sink like a stone when he learns that she's still alive.

Director: John Brahm

Writer: N/A

Her elderly father becomes alarmed when a jilted woman purchases a handgun.

Director: Herschel Daugherty

Writer: N/A

Silence may be golden, but it also proves lethal when a young boy witnesses an escaped mental patient and can't tell anyone about it.

Director: Robert Stevens

Writer: N/A

When a writer agrees to sponsor a fledgling author's first book, he receives a lesson in patience.

Director: Bernard Girard

Writer: Nicholas Monsarrat

A desperately broke beatnik couple, Mitch and Judy, plan to use a well-off man, who has shown an interest in Judy, to finance their lifestyle. But who's using who?

Director: N/A

Writer: Robert Bloch

A group of young thieves hit on the idea of robbing a wealthy man by one of them volunteering to babysit. However, when robbing the premises, the man returns home, leading to murder and revenge.

Director: Boris Sagal

Writer: N/A

Two retired insurance salesmen confront an aggressive, hostile woman in hopes of saving her from a disaster.

Director: Robert Stevens

Writer: Ray Bradbury

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

After his daughter kills a man, Mr. Princey devises a plan to save his family name.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Writer: N/A

An elderly woman is terrified that her disagreeable male neighbor will kill her beloved—but habitually roving—tabby cat.

Director: Jus Addiss

Writer: Marian B. Cockrell

Initially delighted with divorce, a man soon regrets the agreement when his ex-wife's alimony payments are wiping him out. Desperate to claw back the money, a scheme involving a stranger may be the key to his happiness ... or cause further debt.

Director: Don Weis

Writer: Henry Slesar

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

Hoping to profit from insurance fraud, a man torches his house. But the plan could backfire unless he enters the burning home to retrieve his ring.

Director: Herschel Daugherty

Writer: N/A

A henpecked husband escapes into a fantasy world populated by a girl from the South Seas and a dream of murder.

Director: Jules Munshin

Writer: N/A

The shifty son of a shop owner plots to extract money from his long-suffering father.

Director: Herschel Daugherty

Writer: N/A

A gunsmith sets his sight on two gangsters who will kill him if he testifies to what they've purchased in court.

Director: Norman Lloyd

Writer: N/A

A funeral parlor owner is put in an awkward position when a deceased client comes back to life and demands a much smaller affair than what was planned for his funeral.

Director: Norman Lloyd

Writer: N/A

A teacher's interest in the one student who seems to care about her lessons turns tragic when she and a kindly neighbor follow the girl to a man's apartment.

Director: Herschel Daugherty

Writer: Stirling Silliphant

A beautiful Greenwich Village nightclub singer unwittingly risks her life - and that of her pianist - when she makes the mistake of brushing off "Little Dandy", a dangerous mobster.

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

When a prosperous racketeer with a fear of death gambles with life, those closest to him turn their backs on him in his hour of need. Can a dead man walking really show gratitude?

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A