List of Alfred Hitchcock Presents episodes
The following is a list of episodes from the television show Alfred Hitchcock Presents (both the original 1955–62 series and the 1985–88 revival).
Original series (1955–1962)
Season 1 (1955–56)
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Stars | Original air date |
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1 | "Revenge" | Alfred Hitchcock | Francis Cockrell (teleplay), Samuel Blas (story) | Ralph Meeker, Vera Miles | October 2, 1955 |
While Carl (Meeker) is at work, his wife Elsa (Miles) is apparently attacked and left traumatized. While driving in town, Elsa points out a man as her attacker, so an enraged Carl kills him, but moments later Elsa, still mentally disturbed, identifies another man as her attacker. Supporting cast: Frances Bavier, Ray Montgomery, John Gallaudet, Ray Teal, Norman Willis, John Day, Lillian O'Malley, Herbert Lytton | |||||
2 | "Premonition" | Robert Stevens | Harold Swanton (teleplay) | John Forsythe, Warren Stevens, Cloris Leachman, George Macready | October 9, 1955 |
Kim (Forsythe) returns home to the US from four years in Paris, hoping to reunite with his estranged his father. He learns that his father died four years ago, a fact that his brother and sister-in-law didn't tell him. Kim suspects foul play involved, but eventually learns that he is the one who killed his father, and he has been in a mental hospital for four years; his memories of Paris are just a delusion. Supporting cast: George MacReady, Percy Helton, Harry Tyler, Paul Brinegar | |||||
3 | "Triggers in Leash" | Don Medford | Dick Carr (teleplay), Allen Vaughn Elston (story) | Gene Barry, Darren McGavin, Ellen Corby | October 16, 1955 |
Cowboys Red (McGavin) and Dell (Barry) meet in old Maggie (Corby)'s roadhouse and threaten a shoot-out. Maggie does her best to negotiate a peace, eventually convincing them to only shoot each other when the clock strikes. When the clock mysteriously stops, the men take it a sign from God and leave peacefully. Supporting cast: Casey MacGregor | |||||
4 | "Don't Come Back Alive" | Robert Stevenson | Robert Dennis (teleplay) | Sidney Blackmer | October 23, 1955 |
Financially-strapped couple Frank (Blackmer) and Mildred (Gregg), scheme to have Mildred "disappear" for seven years and declared legally dead in order to collect Frank's insurance pay-off. Insurance investigator Mr. Kettle (Emhardt) suspects that Frank killed Mildred, and his constant hounding of Frank means that the couple cannot be in contact with each other. The night before the seven years is up, Frank is visited by Mildred, who has moved on with life, and she declares that she wants a divorce and end the scheme. In a rage, Frank kills her and buries her in his garden. The next day Kettle apologizes to Frank for his assumption, and offers to help with his garden. Supporting cast: Virginia Gregg, Robert Emhardt, Irene Tedrow, Edna Holland | |||||
5 | "Into Thin Air" | Don Medford | Marian Cockrell (teleplay) | Pat Hitchcock | October 30, 1955 |
Paris, 1899. British Mrs. Winthrop (Forbes) and her daughter Diana (Hitchcock) are on their way home via France, and check into a Paris hotel. Mrs. Winthrop is suddenly ill, and the hotel doctor (Mylong) sends Diana to his home for medicine. When Diana returns, the front-desk clerk (Marsac) and other hotel employees claim to have no recollection of her, nor is there any record that the Winthrops were ever there. Diana goes to the embassy, where her story is only believed by Basil Farnham (Toone). Diana and Basil demand to see the room, which is very different from Diana's description, but Diana rips the wallpaper, proving that there is a conspiracy at hand. The cover-up is revealed to have been set in place by the French government, because Mrs. Withrop, who is now dead, had the bubonic plague. Supporting cast: Geoffrey Toone, Alan Napier, Maurice Marsac, Mary Forbes, Ann Codee, Gerry Gaylor, John Mylong, Albert d'Arno, Peter Camlin, Jack Chefe, Michael Hadlow | |||||
6 | "Salvage" | Justus Addiss | Fred Freiberger & Dick Carr (teleplay), Fred Freiberger (story) | Gene Barry, Nancy Gates | November 6, 1955 |
Lois (Gates) expects ex-con Dan (Barry) to kill her as revenge for her causing his brother's death. Dan is surprised when Lois refuses to put up a fight, and seemingly has a change of heart. He offers her a business deal, and Lois sets up a boutique, which after months of hard work is launched successfully. Dan also convinces Lois's ex-boyfriend, Tim, to reconcile with her. Lois, now happy and full of life, expresses her gratitude, but Dan reveals he did all of it so that Lois would not want to die, and he can kill her with satisfaction. Supporting cast: Maxine Cooper, Peter Adams, Elisha Cook, Jr., Paul Bryar, Edit Angold, Virginia Christine, Ralph Montgomery, Billy Wayne | |||||
7 | "Breakdown" | Alfred Hitchcock | Francis Cockrell & Louis Pollock (teleplay), Louis Pollock (story) | Joseph Cotten | November 13, 1955 |
Movie producer Mr. Callew (Cotten) fires a long-time employee on the phone and scoffs at his crying. Callew later gets into a car accident and is completely paralyzed. He is assumed to be dead and is ignored by everyone, and only gets the mortician's attentions with his tears. Supporting cast: Raymond Bailey, Forrest Stanley, Harry Shannon, Lane Chandler, James Edwards, Marvin Press, Murray Alper, Mike Ragan, Jim Weldon, Richard Newton, Aaron Spelling, Harry Landers, Elzie Emanuel, Ralph Peters | |||||
8 | "Our Cook's a Treasure" | Robert Stevens | Robert C. Dennis (teleplay) Dorothy L. Sayers (story) | Everett Sloane, Beulah Bondi | November 20, 1955 |
With a serial-murderer maid on the loose in the city, Ralph (Sloane) becomes suspicious of his and his wife Ethel (Ward)'s housemaid Mrs. Sutton (Bondi). When Ralph gets violent cramps at work, he has his home cocoa analyzed, and it turns out to contain arsenic. Ralph initially blames Mrs. Sutton, until he learns that the serial murderer has been caught. However, Mrs. Sutton confesses to him her unhappiness at having had to lie for Ethel, who is having an affair. Ethel, unaware of what Ralph has learned, offers him a cup of cocoa that she made for him. Supporting cast: Janet Ward, Elliott Reid, Gavin Gordon, Doris Singleton, Walter Woolf King, Olan Soulé | |||||
9 | "The Long Shot" | Robert Stevenson | Harold Swanton (teleplay) | Peter Lawford, John Williams | November 20, 1955 |
Heavily indebted Charlie Raymond answers a paper ad placed by Walker Hendricks, who wants a companion for his road trip to San Francisco. During their journey, Charlie learns that Walker is on his way to claim an inheritance from a family he has never met. Charlie kills Walker and takes his identity to present himself at the lawyer's officer. There he is met by a policeman, who informs him that the real Walker Hendricks was killed much earlier, and the man he'd killed was English Jim, another a con man who'd also been after the inheritance. Supporting cast: Gertrude Hoffman, Robert Warwick, Frank Gerstle, Charles Cantor, Tim Graham, Virginia Christine | |||||
10 | "The Case of Mr. Pelham" | Alfred Hitchcock | Francis Cockrell (teleplay), Anthony Armstrong (story) | Tom Ewell | December 4, 1955 |
Albert Pelham (Ewell) has a paranoid suspicion that he has a double who is slowly taking over his life, and is better at it. Pelham varies his schedule and buys a one-of-a-kind tie in the hopes of catching his double off-guard. When Pelham returns home, his double is already there, and they are seen together by Pelham's manservant Peterson (Watson). The double points out that Pelham is wearing an unusual tie, and when Peterson accepts that this means Pelham is the imposter, Pelham has a breakdown. Supporting cast: Raymond Bailey, Justice Watson, Kirby Smith, Kay Stewart, John Compton, Jan Arvan, Norman Willis, Tim Graham, Richard Collier, Diane Brewster | |||||
11 | "Guilty Witness" | Robert Stevens | Robert C. Dennis (teleplay), Morris Hershman (story) | Judith Evelyn, Kathleen Maguire, Joseph Mantell | December 4, 1955 |
Stanley (Mantell) and Dorothy (Maguire) Crane live in the apartment below volatile couple Amelia (Evelyn) and Ben (Kemmer) Verber, and often hear them fighting. After a particularly loud fight, Ben mysteriously vanishes, and Dorothy pushes Stanley to find out more. Despite his skepticism, Stanley helps Sgt. Halloran (Simon)'s investigation. They eventually discover that Amelia killed and hid Ben's body in the basement, and the reason the fight got so out of hand was because Ben was about to leave Amelia — for Dorothy. Supporting cast: Robert Simon, Ed Kemmer, Grazia Narciso, Laiola Wendorff | |||||
12 | "Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid" | Don Weis | Marian Cockrell (teleplay), Margaret Cousins (story) | Barry Fitzgerald | December 18, 1955 |
Disgruntled ex-con Harold Sears gets a job as a department store Santa thanks to his parole Officer, Clementine Webster (Gregg). Sears loathes the job but his attention is caught by a cynical, poor boy who wants an expensive toy but doesn't believe Santa can give it to him. Sears steals the toy to give it to the boy for Christmas. When Sears is caught by the police, Webster understands what Sears was trying to do, has the charges dropped. Supporting cast: Virginia Gregg, Bobby Clark, Arthur Space, Justice Watson, Norman Willis, Betty Harford, Alan Reynolds, Mimi Gibson, Gary Hunley, Wendy Winkleman, Anthony Blankley, Butch Bernard, Noel Green, Tyler McVey, Harrison Lewis | |||||
13 | "The Cheney Vase" | Robert Stevens | Robert Blees | Patricia Collinge, Darren McGavin | December 25, 1955 |
Lyle Endicott worms his way into the good graces of Martha Cheney (Collinge), a rich, invalid woman with a penchant for sculpture. Lyle hopes to obtain her Cheney Vase, which will fetch a high price on the market. Lyle methodically cuts Martha off from the world in the hopes that she will die. When Lyle's girlfriend warns the authorities about his plan, Lyle rushes to Martha's gallery to take the vase, but discovers that Martha has been working on dozens of copies of the vase, and he is unable to identify the correct one. Supporting cast: Carolyn Jones, George Macready, Kathryn Card, Ruta Lee | |||||
14 | "A Bullet for Baldwin" | Justus Addiss | Eustace and Francis Cockrell (teleplay) Joseph Ruscoll (story) | John Qualen | January 1, 1956 |
When middle-aged Mr. Stepp (Qualen) is suddenly fired, he shoots his boss Baldwin (Cabot). Stepp is surprised when Baldwin is at work the next day as though nothing happened. Baldwin's partner, King (Reed) convinces Stepp that he hallucinated the shooting, but King has actually hired a look-alike actor named Davidson to take Baldwin's place in order to close an important deal. King and Davidson agree to stage Baldwin's "death" later, and in order to close all possible leaks, King forces Stepp to retire. In retaliation, Stepp shoots and kills King. Supporting cast: Sebastian Cabot, Philip Reed, Ruth Lee, Cheryll Clarke, James Adamson, Don McArt, Kate Drain Lawson, Bob Patten, David Dwight, Arthur Gilmour | |||||
15 | "The Big Switch" | Don Weis | Richard Carr (teleplay) Cornell Woolrich (story) | George Mathews, Beverly Michaels | January 8, 1956 |
Gangster Sam Dunleavy (Matthews) wants to murder his ex-girlfriend, Goldie (Michaels), so he has his friend Barney (Stone) arrange for him the perfect alibi. Barney has it staged as though he and Sam are playing a game of poker in Barney's back room. Sam sneaks out successfully but is unable to kill Goldie when she claims she's pregnant. When Sam returns to Barney's backroom, Barney has accidentally shot himself, and Sam is arrested for murder. Supporting cast: George E. Stone, Joseph Downing, James Edwards, Mark Dana, Napoleon Whiting | |||||
16 | "You Got to Have Luck" | Robert Stevens | Eustace & Francis Cockrell (teleplay) S. R. Ross (story) | John Cassavetes, Marisa Pavan | January 15, 1956 |
Sam Cobbett (Cassavetes) has just broken out of prison and enters the house of Mary Schaffner (Pavan) while her husband is away. Cobbett makes Mary cook for him, dismiss her neighbors when they come by, and pretend that everything is okay over the phone when her mother calls. Cobbett believes he can take his time, but the police suddenly arrive to arrest him, as they were tipped off by Mary's mother — Mary is deaf and should not have answered the phone. Supporting cast: Lamont Johnson, Ray Teal, Vivi Janiss, Hal K. Dawson, Bob Patten, Steve Clark, Bill Pullen, Wendy Winkleman | |||||
17 | "The Older Sister" | Robert Stevens | Robert C. Dennis (teleplay) Lillian de la Torre (story) | Joan Lorring, Carmen Mathews, Polly Rowles | January 22, 1956 |
Based on the Lizzie Borden murders, and set a year after Lizzie was acquitted for the murder of her parents. Ambitious reporter Nell Cutts barges into the home of the Borden sisters Lizzie and Emma in the hopes of an exclusive interview. Cutter's aggressive questioning causes Emma distress, but it turns out that Emma killed their parents, and Lizzie was merely trying to protect her. Supporting cast: Pat Hitchcock, Wendy Winkleman, Kay Stewart | |||||
18 | "Shopping for Death" | Robert Stevens | Ray Bradbury | Jo Van Fleet | January 29, 1956 |
Clarence (Harris) and Elmer (Qualen) are retired insurance agents, and hope to use their years of experience to save people they believe will die soon. Clarence has his sights of Mrs. Shrike (Fleet), a boorish alcoholic who he believes has a deathwish. They try to advise her to change her life and fix her house, but this just causes her to lash out. As the pair leave, they see Mrs. Shrike's husband return home, and she is killed soon after. Supporting cast: Robert Harris, John Qualen, Mike Ross, Michael Ansara, Alfred Linder, Charlotte Knight, Lee Erickson, Jack Tesler, Laiola Wendorff, Ralph Montgomery, Bob Morgan | |||||
19 | "The Derelicts" | Robert Stevens | Robert C. Dennis (teleplay) Terence Maples (story) | Robert Newton | February 5, 1956 |
Businessman Ralph Cowell (Reed) kills his silent partner, Alfred Sloane (Delevanti), in order to avoid paying what he owes. The murder is witnessed by Peter J. Goodfellow (Newton), who picks up Sloane's cigarette case with the IOU inside, and uses it to blackmail Cowell. Goodfellow and his friend Fenton Shanks (Silver) move into Cowell's home, much to Cowell's wife, Herta's disgust. After months of Goodfellow and Fenton living with them and pawning almost everything in the Cowell home, Cowell is able to find the IOU and burn it. Goodfellow and Fenton leave, but soon afterward a policeman arrives with a pawn ticket signed by Cowell for Sloane's cigarette case, tying Cowell to the Sloane murder. Supporting cast: Philip Reed, Peggy Knudsen, Johnny Silver, Robert Foulk, Cyril Delevanti | |||||
20 | "And So Died Riabouchinska" | Robert Stevenson | Mel Dinelli (teleplay) Ray Bradbury (story) | Claude Rains | February 5, 1956 |
Detective Krovitch (Bronson) investigates the murder of juggler Luke Ockham in a theatre. His suspicions fall on John Fabian (Rains), a ventriloquist with a fixation on his female dummy, Riabouchinska (voice of Gregg). Riabouchinska, seemingly acting independent of Fabian's control, insists on telling Krovitch the truth that Fabian killed Ockham, because Ockham threatened to expose Fabian and Riabouchinska's love affair to the world. Riabouchinska declares she can no longer love Fabian and stops moving, while Fabian is arrested by Krovitch. Supporting cast: Charles Bronson, Claire Carleton, Lowell Gilmore, Charles Cantor, Harry Tyler, Iris Adrian, Bill Haade, Virginia Gregg | |||||
21 | "Safe Conduct" | Justus Addiss | Andrew Solt (teleplay) | Claire Trevor, Jacques Bergerac | February 19, 1956 |
American journalist Mary Prescott (Trevor) is traveling on a train out of the Iron Curtain when she is befriended by local celebrity Jan Gubak (Bergerac). Mary agrees to carry a luxury watch for Gubak, but during the customs inspection Gubak turns her in to officers for smuggling luxury items. Mary is arrested, but released soon after when the watch is discovered to be fake. Mary learns that Gubak is part of the underground resistance, and the charade was to enable Gubak to smuggle sensitive microfilm out of the country. Gubak gives Mary the microfilm and urges her to write the truth about his country. Supporting cast: Werner Klemperer, Peter Van Eyck, John Banner, Konstantin Shayne, Ralph Manza | |||||
22 | "Place of Shadows" | Robert Stevens | Robert C. Dennis (teleplay) | Everett Sloane | February 26, 1956 |
Ray Clements (Damon) travels to a monastery to get revenge on a crook who is taking sanctuary there. Father Vincente (Sloane) advises him to choose forgiveness, and Clements is forced to leave. Clements later kills the crook's partner in self-defense and takes sanctuary at the same monastery. He tells Father Vincente he no longer wants revenge, but the crook has already died. Supporting cast: Sean McClory, Mark Damon, Claude Akins, Joseph Downing, Everett Glass, Harry Tyler, Steve Mitchell | |||||
23 | "Back for Christmas" | Alfred Hitchcock | Francis Cockrell (teleplay) John Collier (story) | John Williams | March 4, 1956 |
Herbert Carpenter (Williams) and his wife Hermione (Elsom) are planning a long holiday in California. On the day of their departure, Herbert kills his wife and buries her in the wine cellar, and then goes to California by himself. While there, Herbert receives a letter that Hermione had arranged for contractors to excavate the wine cellar as a present for Herbert. Supporting cast: Isabel Elsom, A. E. Gould-Porter, Lily Kemble-Cooper, Gavin Muir, Katherine Warren, Gerald Hamer, Irene Tedrow, Ross Ford, Theresa Harris, Mollie Glessing | |||||
24 | "The Perfect Murder" | Robert Stevens | Victor Wolfson (teleplay) Stacey Aumonier (story) | Hurd Hatfield, Mildred Natwick | March 11, 1956 |
Brothers Paul (Hatfield) and Henri (Coolidge) plot to kill their Aunt Rosalie (Natwick) to inherit her fortune. Paul has Henry grind glass into fine powder, and Paul adds it to the egg mixture that is supposed to make a soufflé for Rosalie's dinner. However, that night Rosalie insists on eating something else, and the next morning Paul dies when he eats an omelette made out of the lethal egg mixture. Supporting cast: Philip Coolidge, Gladys Hurlbut, Walter Kingsford, Percy Helton, Hope Summers, Jack Chefe | |||||
25 | "There Was an Old Woman" | Robert Stevenson | Marian Cockrell (teleplay) Jerry Hackady & Harold Hackady (story) | Estelle Winwood | March 18, 1956 |
Couple Frank (Bronson) and Lorna (Crane) Branwell go to the mansion of eccentric Monica Laughton (Winwood) to rob her. The plan goes awry because Laughton is crazy and wholly unresponsive to their threats. The Bramwells become tired and frustrated, because they cannot find any money and there seems to be no food in the house. In desperation, they eat a batch of freshly-made muffins, not knowing that they’re filled with rat poison. Laughton's fortune turns out to be inside a handbag she carries everywhere with her. Supporting cast: Charles Bronson, Norma Crane, Dabbs Greer, Emerson Treacy | |||||
26 | "Whodunit" | Francis Cockrell | Francis Cockrell & Marian Cockrell (teleplay) C. B. Gilford (story) | John Williams | March 25, 1956 |
Dead mystery writer Alexander Penn Arlington (Williams) arrives in Heaven and is distraught that he doesn't know who killed him. His angel, Wilfred (Naper), sends Alexander back to repeat his last day on Earth to figure it out. Alexander's assistant, nephew, wife and her lover all have motives. He gathers all of them in his study and tells them that one of them is planning to kill him. His wife's lover turns off the light and Alexander is killed in the dark without seeing who did it. Returning to Heaven, Wilfred points out that the killer must have trusted the man who turned off the light, so it must be Alexander's wife. Supporting cast: Amanda Blake, Jerry Paris, Philip Coolidge, Alan Napier, Bill Slack, Ruta Lee, and Filipino Hollywood actor Rudy Robles. | |||||
27 | "Help Wanted" | James Neilson | Robert C. Dennis (teleplay) Based upon the Mary Orr and Reginald Denham adaptation of a story by Stanley Ellin | John Qualen, Lorne Green | April 1, 1956 |
Elderly Mr. Crabtree (Qualen) is ordered by his boss, Mr. X (Greene), to kill a man who will enter his office on a certain day. Crabtree decides not do the task, but when a man enters his office at the expected time, Crabtree is so upset at the thought of losing his job that he ends up killing him anyway. Shortly afterward another man, the correct target, arrives at Crabtree's office, but Crabtree has already received his payment for the murder and walks out. Supporting cast: Madge Kennedy, Ruth Swanson, John Harmon, Malcolm Atterbury, Parley Baer, Paul Brinegar | |||||
28 | "Portrait of Jocelyn" | Robert Stevens | Harold Swanton (teleplay) Edgar Marvin (story) | Philip Abbott, Nancy Gates, John Baragrey | April 8, 1956 |
Married couple Mark (Abott) and Debbie (Gates)'s first anniversary is ruined when a portrait they commissioned is revealed to be of Mark's first wife, Jocelyn, who has been missing for five years. Debbie believes Mark stills loves Jocelyn and urges him to find the truth. With the help of Mark's friend Jeff (Bailey), Mark tracks down the painter, Athur Clymer (Baragrey), who claims have been married to Jocelyn and killed her in a jealous rage. Mark attacks Clymer, because he described how Mark killed Jocelyn five years ago. Clymer is actually a police officer, and worked together with Jeff to get a confession out of Mark. Supporting cast: Raymond Bailey, Olan Soule, Harry Tyler | |||||
29 | "The Orderly World of Mr. Appleby" | James Neilson | Victor Wolfson & Robert C. Dennis (teleplay) Stanley Ellin (story) | Robert H. Harris, Meg Mundy | April 15, 1956 |
Antiques dealer Laurence Appleby (Harris) kills his wife in order to get her inheritance. Since he still has debts, he woos and marries wealthy heiress Martha Sturgis (Mundy). When Martha refuses to give him money, he tries to kill her, but she is prepared for him. Martha and her lawyer have evidence that Appleby killed his first wife, and if anything happens to Martha, her lawyer will go to the police. Appleby is about to comply with Martha's demands, but she accidentally falls and dies. Supporting cast: Gage Clark, Louise Larabee, Michael Ansara, Helen Spring, Edna Holland, Mollie Glessing | |||||
30 | "Never Again" | Robert Stevens | Gwen Bagni, Irwin Gielgud, Stirling Silliphant (teleplay) Adela Rogers St. Johns (story) | Phyllis Thaxter, Louise Albritton, Warren Stevens | April 22, 1956 |
Karen (Thaxter), a recovering alcoholic, wakes up hungover and with no memory of the night before. She slowly recalls attending a party with her lover, Jeff (Stevens). Karen started drinking when she was told that her friend Renee (Albritton) was trying to seduce Jeff. Her last memory is of breaking a glass in her hand, and Jeff trying to help her. Karen then learns that she is in jail for killing a man with a broken glass. Supporting cast: Jack Mullaney, Joan Banks, Mason Curry, Karine Nordman, Marion Gray, Jack Mulhall, Carol Veazie, Jack Ramstead | |||||
31 | "The Gentleman from America" | Robert Stevens | Francis Cockrell (teleplay) Michael Arlen (story) | Biff McGuire | April 29, 1956 |
Sir Stephen Hurstwood (Clanton) offers a bet of $1000 if Howard Latimer (McGuire) can stay the entire night in a supposedly haunted room of the Hurstwood mansion. Latimer is given a gun, one candle, one match, and a book that describes the mysterious beheading of Julia Hurstwood in the room. That night Latimer sees a ghostly headless figure and collapses in fright. The ghost is a trick set up by Hurstwood for money, but Latimer goes crazy from the experience. Supporting cast: Ralph Clanton, John Irving, Eric Snowdon, Geoffrey Steele, John Alderson, John Dodsworth, Sonia Torgeson, Jan Chaney | |||||
32 | "The Baby Sitter" | Robert Stevens | Sarett Rudley (teleplay) Emily Neff (story) | Thelma Ritter | May 6, 1956 |
Lottie Slocum (Ritter) is the last person to have seen Clara Nash before she was strangled to death. Lottie, who used to be their babysitter, believes that Clara had it coming because she treated her husband Mr. Nash badly. Lottie has feelings for Mr. Nash, and hopes to please him by keeping his secret from the police — that he was at home the night that Clara died — but he kills her instead. Supporting cast: Mary Wickes, Carol Mathews, Theodore Newton, Reba Tassel, Michael Ansara, Ray Teal | |||||
33 | "The Belfry" | Herschel Daugherty | Robert C. Dennis (teleplay) Allan Vaughan Elston (story) | Jack Mullaney, Pat Hitchcock | May 13, 1956 |
Clint Ringle (Mullaney) wants to marry schoolteacher Ellie Marsh (Hitchcock), but when she refuses him, he kills her fiancé. Clint is hunted by the townsfolk and hides in the belfry of Ellie's school, planning to kill her when he gets the chance. Clint stays in the belfry for a few days and is smug when everyone assumes he's long gone. When Ellie's fiancé is buried, a man rings the bell for the funeral, causing Clint to shout in surprise and reveal his whereabouts. Supporting cast: Dabbs Greer, Horst Ehrhardt, Jim Hayward, Ralph Moody, John Compton, Norman Leavitt, David Saber, Rudy Lee, Kathleen Hartnagel | |||||
34 | "The Hidden Thing" | Robert Stevens | James Cavanagh (teleplay) A. J. Russell (story) | Biff McGuire, Robert H. Harris | May 20, 1956 |
Dana Edwards (McGuire)'s fiancée is killed in a hit-and-run, and he is unable to remember any details of the car involved. Dana is approached John Hurley (Harris) who claims to know how to encourage memory recall. After many sessions Dana is successfully able to remember the license plate of the car and tells the police. He is then surprised to learn that John Hurley is crazy and not a memory expert at all. Supporting cast: Judith Ames, Theodore Newton, Katherine Warren, Richard Collier | |||||
35 | "The Legacy" | James Neilson | Gina Kaus & Andrew Solt (teleplay) Gina Kaus (story) | Leora Dana, Jacques Bergerac | May 27, 1956 |
Wealthy but plain-looking housewife Irene Cole (Dana) is pursued by playboy Prince Burhan (Bergerac), but refuses to leave her neglectful husband for him. When Burhan dies, Irene and her husband assume that he killed himself over his love for Irene. Some time later Irene's friend Randall (Clanton) learns that Burnhan's death was an accident, and he pursued Irene for her money. Randall decides not to tell Irene, because her marriage has much improved. Supporting cast: Enid Markey, Alan Hewitt, Walter Kingsford, Ralph Clanton, Roxanne Arlen, Rudolph Anders, Joan Dixon | |||||
36 | "Mink" | Robert Stevenson | Irwin Gielgud & Gwen Bagni (teleplay) | Ruth Hussey | June 3, 1956 |
Mild-mannered Paula Hudson (Hussey) is apprehended by the police for owning a stolen mink coat. Paula attempts to prove that she bought it, but to her distress the people she bought it from deny ever doing so. Paula is eventually approached by the man who stole the coat, and he steals it back in order to end the investigation but ends up being arrested. Supporting cast: Vinton Hayworth, Vivi Janiss, Sheila Bromley, Anthony Eustrel, Paul Burns, Eugenia Paul, Veda Ann Borg, James McCallion, Mary Jackson | |||||
37 | "Decoy" | Arnold Laven | Bernard C. Schoenfeld (teleplay) Richard George Pedicini (story) | Robert Horton, Cara Williams | June 10, 1956 |
Gil Larkin (Horton) is upset when he learns that the woman he loves, Mona Cameron (Williams) is being abused by her husband Ben (McDearmon). Gil confronts Ben in his office, but someone knocks Gil unconscious and shoots Ben. Gil is briefly apprehended, but after he's released he goes to Mona and realizes that she set him up so she could be with her lover, Richie (Lewis). Mona and Ritchie are arrested. Supporting cast: Jack Mullaney, Philip Coolidge, David Orrick, Harry Lewis, Frank Gorshin, Eileen Harley, Mary Jean Yamaji, Edo Mita, Harry Tyler | |||||
38 | "The Creeper" | Herschel Daugherty | James Cavanagh (teleplay) Joseph Ruscoll (story) | Constance Ford, Steve Brodie, Harry Townes | June 17, 1956 |
A murderer has killed two blonde women while they're alone at night. Ellen (Ford) is terrified but her husband Steve (Brodie) is dismissive of her. While Brodie is at work, Ellen is scared and suspicious of various people she meets. She's only relieved when the locksmith arrives to fix a lock and chain on her door, but the locksmith turns out to be the murderer. Supporting cast: Reta Shaw, Percy Helton, Alfred Linder | |||||
39 | "Momentum" | Robert Stevens | Francis Cockrell (teleplay) Cornell Woolrich (story) | Skip Homeier, Joanne Woodward | June 24, 1956 |
Richard (Homeier) and his wife Beth (Woodward) are about to be kicked out of their home. Richard steals the money his boss, Burroughs (Christy) owes him, and in the process accidentally kills him. Richard becomes paranoid, and he overreacts and is shot when a financier comes to collect his debt. While injured and possibly dying, Richard discovers that Beth met Burroughs the night before and got the money that was owed them. Supporting cast: Ken Christy, Henry Hunter, Mike Ragan, Billy Newell, Frank Krieg, Harry Tyler, Jack Tesler, Dorothy Crehan, Don Dillaway, Patricia Knox, John Lehmann, Joseph Gilbert, Myron Cook |
Season 2 (1956–57)
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Stars | Original air date |
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1 | "Wet Saturday" | Alfred Hitchcock | Marian Cockrell, John Collier (story) | Sir Cedric Hardwicke, John Williams | September 30, 1956 |
After his daughter Millie kills a man, Mr. Princey (Hardwicke) devises a plan to save his family name. Working together with his wife, son and daughter, Princey methodically sets up the body and crime scene so that family friend Captain Smollett (Williams) will take the blame for the murder. | |||||
2 | "Fog Closing In" | Herschel Daugherty | James Cavanagh, Martin Brooke (story) | Phyllis Thaxter, Paul Langton | October 7, 1956 |
Mary (Thaxter) begs her husband Arthur (Langton) not to go away on a business trip but he refuses. Mary is alone in the house when Ted Lambert (Grizzard), an escapee from a mental institution, breaks in. The two develop a rapport, and Mary confesses that she's always been afraid except for when she lived with her parents, only her husband no longer wants to live with them. After Ted leaves, Arthur returns home and Mary shoots him. Mary then tells her father on the phone that she can return home now. In 1957 this episode won an Emmy Award for Best Teleplay Writing.[1] | |||||
3 | "De Mortuis" | Robert Stevens | Francis Cockrell, John Collier (story) | Robert Emhardt, Cara Williams | October 14, 1956 |
Aware that their friend Rankin (Emhardt)'s wife Irene (Williams) is cheating on him, Wally and Bud draw the same conclusion when they find Irene missing and Rankin sealing up a hole in his basement. Wally and Bud confront Rankin, asking which of Irene's lovers he caught her with, but their assumptions were wrong. When Irene returns home, Rankin kills her for real. | |||||
4 | "Kill with Kindness" | Herschel Daugherty | A. J. Russell | Hume Cronyn, Carmen Mathews | October 21, 1956 |
Hoping to profit from life insurance fraud, siblings Katherine (Matthews) and Fitzhugh (Cronyn) plan to torch their house and have a homeless man, Jorgy, die in Fitzhugh's place. The plan backfires when, once they've lit the fire, they're unable to put Fitzhugh's identifying ring on Jorgy. The siblings have no choice but to save themselves and Jorgy, and watch the house burn. | |||||
5 | "None Are So Blind" | Robert Stevens | James Cavanagh, John Collier (story) | Hurd Hatfield, Mildred Dunnock | October 28, 1956 |
Egotistical Seymour Johnston (Hatfield) murders his rich Aunt Muriel (Dunnock) and pins the blame on "Antonio Battani", a fake persona he's created using make-up and a wig. Seymour's plan fails because his willful blindness of his own faults means that he no longer "sees" his distinctive facial mole, which gives his disguise away. | |||||
6 | "Toby" | Robert Stevens | Victor Wolfson, Joseph Bates Smith (story) | Jessica Tandy, Robert H. Harris | November 4, 1956 |
Albert Birch (Harris) is excited to be reunited with his sweetheart, Edwina (Tandy) after twenty years. Although the reunion is joyful, Edwina has mood swings and refuses to let anyone see her baby nephew, Toby, whom she has brought with her. Eventually it is revealed that Edwina escaped from a mental asylum, and Toby is a cat. | |||||
7 | "Alibi Me" | Jules Bricken | Therd Jefre (story), Walter Newman (story), Bernard C. Schoenfeld | Lee Philips, Chick Chandler | November 11, 1956 |
Gangster Georgie Minnelli (Philips) kills his known rival, Lucky Moore (Chandler) and sets up an alibi that he was in his apartment the whole day. When the police question Georgie, a delivery boy arrives with a package, revealing that he'd tried to send the package five times that day because Georgie wasn't in. | |||||
8 | "Conversation Over a Corpse" | Jules Bricken | Marian Cockrell, Norman Daniels | Dorothy Stickney, Carmen Mathews | November 18, 1956 |
Mr. Brenner threatens to take sisters Cissie (Stickney) and Joanna (Matthews) to court unless they sell him their home. The domineering Joanna orders Cissie to poison Brenner, but Cissie allows him to live just long enough so that he can kill Joanna before succumbing to the poison, thus leaving Cissie alone with the house. | |||||
9 | "Crack of Doom" | James Neilson | Robert C. Dennis, Don Marquis (story) | Robert Horton, Robert Middleton | November 25, 1956 |
Company man Mason Bridges (Horton) keeps returning to a high-stakes poker game because he's determined to beat his rich client, Sam Klinker (Middleton). When Mason discovers that his wife has lost all their savings, he steals a portion of Klinker's money from the office to keep playing, intending to return it later. During a crucial hand, Mason thinks he has four Queens and bets aggressively, to Klinker's surprise. At the last moment Mason realizes that he read his cards wrong, but Klinker folds and Mason wins the pot. | |||||
10 | "Jonathan" | John Meredyth Lucas | Fred Levan (story), Bernard C. Schoenfeld, Stirling Silliphant | Georgann Johnson, Corey Allen | December 2, 1956 |
Gil (Allen), who had an unnaturally close relationship with his late father, Jonathan, accuses his stepmother, Rosine (Johnson) of killing him. Gil's investigation uncovers a bottle of poisoned brandy he'd given to Rosine to kill her, except Rosine guessed that it was poison and gave it to Jonathan, killing him. | |||||
11 | "The Better Bargain" | Herschel Daugherty | Richard Deming (short story), Bernard C. Schoenfeld | Robert Middleton, Henry Silva | December 9, 1956 |
Mobster Louis Koster (Middleton) learns from a private investigator that his wife, Marion, is cheating on him. Koster hires hit man Harry Silver (Silva) to kill her, but Koster is killed instead, because Silver is the man that Marion is having an affair with. | |||||
12 | "The Rose Garden" | Francis Cockrell | Marian B. Cockrell, Vincent Fotre (story) | John Williams, Patricia Collinge | December 16, 1956 |
Publisher Alexander Vinton (Williams) suspects that the novel Julia Pickering (Collinge) has written is based on a true story of how Julia's sister, Cordelia, had killed her husband. Vinton encourages Julia to stand up to her dominating sister, eventually drawing out a confession of the murder. | |||||
13 | "Mr. Blanchard's Secret" | Alfred Hitchcock | Emily Neff (story), Sarett Rudley | Mary Scott, Robert Horton, Meg Mundy | December 23, 1956 |
Mystery writer Babs Fenton (Scott) has an overactive imagination and suspects the worst when their new neighbor Charles Blanchard (Lummis) acts strangely around his wife Ellen (Mundy). Every time Babs thinks she's figured out the truth, she is proven wrong. | |||||
14 | "John Brown's Body" | Robert Stevens | Thomas Burke (story), Robert C. Dennis | Hugh Marlowe, Russell Collins, Leora Dana | December 30, 1956 |
Harold Skinner (Marlow) and Vera Brown (Dana), who are having an affair, oust Vera's husband, John (Collins), from his company by getting him declared mentally unfit and sent to a home. When the company tanks, Vera and Harold need help, but are unable to get John discharged. | |||||
15 | "Crackpot" | John Meredyth Lucas | Martin Berkeley, Harold Gast (story) | Biff McGuire, Robert Emhardt, Mary Scott | January 6, 1957 |
Newlyweds Ray (McGuire) and Meg (Scott)'s honeymoon is slightly marred by the recent death of their aunt. At their hotel they are harassed by Mr. Moon (Emhardt), whom Ray believes is trying to kill them. Ray orders Meg to leave when he hears what sounds like a bomb, but rushes back for his bag that contains the jewels that were stolen from his aunt. Moon is a police officer, and set up the ruse to trap Ray. | |||||
16 | "Nightmare in 4-D" | Justus Addiss | Robert C. Dennis, Stuart Jerome (story) | Henry Jones, Barbara Baxley, Virginia Gregg | January 13, 1957 |
Harry Parker (Jones) agrees to help his pretty neighbor, Miss Elliot (Baxley), hide her murdered boyfriend's body. When the police arrive, the investigation uncovers that Harry's wife (Gregg) was having an affair with the dead man, but Harry killed him over envy of Miss Elliot. | |||||
17 | "My Brother, Richard" | Herschel Daugherty | Jay Bennett (story), Sarett Rudley | Royal Dano, Inger Stevens, Harry Townes | January 20, 1957 |
District attorney Martin Ross (Dano) faces a crisis in his campaign for governor when his brother Richard (Townes) kills the competition, Burton Reeves, and threatens to kill Martin's wife, Laura. Martin makes a deal with Tommy, Burton's caddie, to temporarily confess to the murder to save Laura's life. Tommy's mother, mistaking Richard for Martin, begs him to release Tommy, and when Richard refuses, she kills him. | |||||
18 | "The Manacled" | Robert Stevens | Stirling Silliphant, A. Sanford Wolfe (story) | Gary Merrill, William Redfield | January 27, 1957 |
White-collar criminal Stephen Fontaine (Redfield) is being transported via train and tries to bribe his escorting police sergeant Rockwell (Merrill) for his freedom with $50,000. When they reach their final stop and Rockwell still hasn't accepted, Fontaine grabs for Rockwell's gun and kills him. Fontaine then discovers that the bullet damaged the key in Rockwell's pocket, and he can't open his manacles. | |||||
19 | "A Bottle of Wine" | Herschel Daugherty | Borden Deal (story), Stirling Silliphant | Herbert Marshall, Robert Horton, Jarma Lewis | February 3, 1957 |
Wealthy, elderly Judge Connors (Marshall)'s wife, Grace (Lewis) is leaving him for a younger man, Wallace Donaldson (Horton). Connors invites Wallace into his home, pretends to poison him and locks him in a room in an attempt to show Grace what kind of man Wallace is. Wallace shoots the door in order to get out, and accidentally kills Connors. | |||||
20 | "Malice Domestic" | John Meredyth Lucas | Philip MacDonald (story), Victor Wolfson | Ralph Meeker, Phyllis Thaxter | February 10, 1957 |
When Carl Borden (Meeker) gets severe indigestion twice due to the home cooking prepared by his wife Annette (Thaxter), their friend Ralph has the food tested and finds a large dose of arsenic in it. Carl is angered at Ralph for insinuating that Annette poisoned him, but Annette later dies from arsenic-laced coffee. Carl's friends deduce that Annette gave Carl the wrong cup of coffee, and help keep the circumstances of her death quiet. The entire scheme was a ruse by Carl to kill Annette, so he could be with his lover. | |||||
21 | "Number Twenty-Two" | Robert Stevens | Evan Hunter (story), Joel Murcott | Russell Collins, Rip Torn | February 17, 1957 |
Steve Morgan (Torn), a young ruffian, is picked up by the police for his first offense after a failed stick-up at a candy store. At first he is cocky about being arrested, but he slowly cracks under the interrogation and learns that the man he robbed has died. | |||||
22 | "The End of Indian Summer" | Robert Stevens | Maurice Baudin Jr. (story), James Cavanagh | Steve Forrest, Gladys Cooper | February 24, 1957 |
Insurance investigator Joe Rogers (Forrest) is ordered to re-examine old claims made by Mrs. Gillespie (Cooper), whose previous two husbands died under mysterious circumstances, and is now engaged to a third. Just after Gillespie and her new fiancée, Fieldstone, leave for their wedding, Joe discovers that Fieldstone is also being investigated by an insurance company, because he'd made claims following the deaths of his four previous wives. | |||||
23 | "One for the Road" | Robert Stevens | Robert C. Dennis, Emily Neff (story) | John Baragrey, Georgann Johnson, Louise Platt | March 3, 1957 |
When Marsha Hendricks (Platt) learns that her husband Charles (Bagarey) is cheating on her, she tracks down the home of the other woman, Beryl (Johnson), and puts poison in her sugar. Beryl discovers that her sugar is poisoned, and gives it to Charles when he refuses to leave Marsha for her. | |||||
24 | "The Cream of the Jest" | Herschel Daugherty | Fredric Brown (story), Sarett Rudley | Claude Rains, James Gregory | March 10, 1957 |
Alcoholic has-been actor Charles Gresham (Rains) tries to blackmail producer Wayne Campbell (Gregory) into casting him in a new play. Campbell gives Gresham the script for a role as a gangster, and advises him to perform it for one of the play's financial backers, Nick Roper. Gresham goes to Roper and performs the monologue, but it turns out to contain details of one of Roper's real crimes, and Gresham shoots him. | |||||
25 | "I Killed The Count, Part I" | Robert Stevens | Francis M. Cockrell, Alec Coppel (story) | John Williams | March 17, 1957 |
Inspector Davidson (Williams) and his assistant Detective Raines investigate the murder of Count Victor Mattoni in his London flat. They find a great deal of evidence in the flat, and the investigation uncovers Mattoni's links to Lord Sorrington and American businessman Bernard K. Froy. However, both men separately confess to the murder, confusing Davidson. | |||||
26 | "I Killed The Count, Part II" | Robert Stevens | Francis M. Cockrell, Alec Coppel (story) | John Williams | March 24, 1957 |
Continuing from the previous episode, Inspector Davidson is alarmed when the flat's elevator operator, Mullet, becomes the third person to confess to the murder of Mattoni. All three men are linked to the crime scene by physical evidence, have seemingly sound reasons for killing Mattoni, and are able to describe the murder convincingly. | |||||
27 | "I Killed The Count, Part III" | Robert Stevens | Francis M. Cockrell, Alec Coppel (story) | John Williams, Rosemary Harris | March 31, 1957 |
Concluding the three-episode story, Inspector Davidson arranges so that Sorrington, Froy and Mullet meet each other, and they are joined by Helen (Harris), Mattoni's widow and Sorrington's daughter, who also confesses to the murder. Sorrington, Froy and Mullet are secretly friends and conspired to kill Mattoni together and set up the evidence accordingly; however, Helen killed Mattoni before the others got the chance. Davidson and Raines realize that they will never be able to pinpoint the murderer, so all four will likely get away with it. | |||||
28 | "One More Mile to Go" | Alfred Hitchcock | F. J. Smith (story), James P. Cavanagh | David Wayne | April 7, 1957 |
After murdering his spouse, Sam Jacoby (Wayne) has trouble disposing of the body. He is stopped by a motorcycle cop because of his faulty tail light, and the cop helpfully detours Jacoby to the nearby police headquarters so their mechanic can open the trunk and fix it. | |||||
29 | "Vicious Circle" | Paul Henreid | Evan Hunter (story), Bernard C. Schoenfeld | Dick York, Kathleen Maguire | April 14, 1957 |
Young gangster Manny Coe (York) kills a man by order of his boss, Vince Williams. Williams promises to take Manny as his protege if he kills his girlfriend Betty (Maguire); Manny is unable to do it, but Betty dies in an accident and Manny claims it as a hit. Some time later, Manny has become rich and successful, but he botches a robbery and is killed by Williams' next young protege. | |||||
30 | "The Three Dreams of Mr. Findlater" | Jules Bricken | A. A. Milne (story), Sarett Rudley | John Williams, Barbara Baxley | April 21, 1957 |
Ernest Findlater (Williams), who is constantly being nagged at by his wife, fantasizes about Lalage, an exotic lover from the South Seas (Baxley). With Lalage's encouragement, Ernest starts plotting the murder of his wife, and spends weeks setting the setpieces to get away with it. When Ernest finally arrives home to commit the deed, he finds that his wife has died of natural causes. | |||||
31 | "The Night the World Ended" | Jus Addiss | Fredric Brown (story), Bernard C. Schoenfeld | Russell Collins, Harold J. Stone | April 28, 1957 |
Practical joker Halloran (Stone) convinces homeless man Johnny (Collins) that the world will end at 11.45 that night. With nothing to lose, Johnny steals liquor, breaks into a toy store to give presents to homeless children, and kills the policeman who tries to apprehend him. When Johnny realizes what Halloran did, he takes a gun and shoots him. | |||||
32 | "The Hands of Mr. Ottermole" | Robert Stevens | Thomas Burke (story), Francis M. Cockrell | Theodore Bikel, Rhys Williams, Torin Thatcher | May 5, 1957 |
In 1919 London, a serial killer is stalking the streets, killing by strangulation a husband and wife, an elderly flower seller, and a policeman. The city is filled with fear, and the police, lead by Sgt. Ottermole (Bikel), are stumped. Journalist Summers (Williams) suspects that the killer has to be someone that people take for granted, and helps trap the true killer: Sgt. Ottermole, who claims that his hands are out of his control. | |||||
33 | "A Man Greatly Beloved" | James Neilson | A. A. Milne (story), Sarett Rudley | Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Evelyn Rudie, Hugh Marlowe | May 12, 1957 |
Precocious little girl Hildegard Fell (Rudie) attaches herself to the grumpy, reclusive newcomer in town, John Anderson (Hardwicke). Hildegard's friend Clarence uncovers John Anderson's identity as a retired judge who put many criminals away. Thanks to Hildegard's friendship, John opens up to the townspeople and is loved by all due his kindness and generosity. After Anderson's death, Clarence discovers that "John Anderson" was a fake name, and that man was one of the murderers that the real John Anderson sentenced to prison. | |||||
34 | "Martha Mason, Movie Star" | Jus Addiss | Robert C. Dennis, Raymond Mason (story) | Judith Evelyn, Robert Emhardt | May 19, 1957 |
Mabel McKay (Evelyn) believes her husband Henry (Emhardt) is in the way of her dreams of glamour, so she kills and buries him in their garden. She sets up a story that Henry left her for another woman; the police investigation reveals that there was indeed another woman, but she has no idea where Henry is. This prompts the police to check Mabel's house, and they discover Henry's body. | |||||
35 | "The West Warlock Time Capsule" | Jus Addiss | J. P. Cahn (story), Marian B. Cockrell | Henry Jones, Mildred Dunnock | May 26, 1957 |
Taxidermist George Tiffany (Jones) is distressed when his wife Mildred (Dunnock) invites her good-for-nothing brother Waldren into their home. Waldren pretends to be sick, refuses to work, and has Mildred waiting on him hand and foot. When Mildred succumbs to exhaustion, George kills Waldren and stuffs him inside a horse that is being prepared for the town memorial. | |||||
36 | "Father and Son" | Herschel Daugherty | Thomas Burke (story), James P. Cavanagh | Edmund Gwenn | June 2, 1957 |
London 1912. Shop owner Joe Saunders (Gwenn) refuses to give any more money to his spendthrift son, Sam. Sam spies Joe hiding his friend and wanted fugitive, Gus, in the shop cellar; hoping to collect a reward, Sam calls it in to the police. Gus manages to escape after Sam's lady friend, Mae, calls Joe to warn him. Joe is hurt when he learns what Sam did, but Sam still takes the reward money from the police. | |||||
37 | "The Indestructible Mr. Weems" | Jus Addiss | George F. Slavin | Robert Middleton, Joe Mantell, Russell Collins | June 9, 1957 |
Brothers of a Lodge have trouble getting people to buy plots in their cemetery project, which worries their leader, Brother Cato Stone (Middlestone). Brother Harry (Mantell) suggests they ask former member Clarence Weems (Collins), who is elderly and sick, to be their first customer. Weems accepts, but then gets better, having taken the contract as a challenge to rejuvenate his life. After months of Weems not dying, the brothers decide to confront him over the contract, but in the excitement Brother Cato dies of a heart attack. He becomes the first to be buried in their cemetery instead. | |||||
38 | "A Little Sleep" | Paul Henreid | Robert C. Dennis, Joe Grenzeback (short story) | Barbara Cook, Vic Morrow | June 16, 1957 |
Barbie Hallem (Cook) uses her beauty to play with men's hearts. One night she goes up into the mountains to visit her cabin, where Benny Mungo (Morrow) is hiding out, seemingly unaware that he's being hunted by townsfolk for the murder of the woman he loves. Although Barbie believes that Benny has been framed by his brother, Benny declares that the woman he murdered was just like Barbie, and he strangles her. | |||||
39 | "The Dangerous People" | Robert Stevens | Fredric Brown (story), Francis M. Cockrell | Albert Salmi, Robert H. Harris | June 23, 1957 |
Lawyer Bellefontaine (Harris) and accountant Jones (Salmi) are waiting for their train in the station's isolated waiting room. When they learn that an inmate has escaped from a nearby criminal asylum, both men suspect the other of being said inmate. They are about to attack each other when the real inmate enters the waiting room. They work together to subdue the inmate, just long enough that the orderlies arrive to take him into custody. |
Season 3 (1957–58)
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Stars | Original air date |
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1 | "The Glass Eye" | Robert Stevens | Stirling Silliphant (teleplay) John Keir Cross (story) | Jessica Tandy, Tom Conway, William Shatner | October 6, 1957 |
Jim Whitely (Shatner) tells his wife a story about how his late sister Julia (Tandy) fell in love with ventriloquist Max Collodi (Conway). Julia was so devoted that she traveled all over the country to watch Collodi's act with his child-sized dummy. After writing many letters, Julia was finally able to meet Collodi in person, but she discovered that "Collodi" was the dummy, and the puppet was the real man, wearing a mask. Julia took with her "Collodi"'s glass eye as a keepsake of her love. | |||||
2 | "Mail Order Prophet" | James Neilson | Robert C. Dennis (teleplay) Antony Ferry (story) | E. G. Marshall, Jack Klugman | October 13, 1957 |
Ordinary clerk Grimes (Marshall) starts receiving letters from a mysterious Christiani that seemingly predict the future. His friend George (Klugman) advises caution, but Grimes starts investing money to great success. For Christiani's last tip, Grimes steals office funds to invest in the stock market, and earns enough to retire comfortably even after returning the office money and paying Christiani's share. Afterward, George investigates Christiani and discovers that he's a con man, and the letters were sent out to thousands of people using different predictions; Grimes just happened to receive a correct series of predictions. | |||||
3 | "The Perfect Crime" | Alfred Hitchcock | Stirling Silliphant (teleplay) Ben Ray Redman (story) | Vincent Price, James Gregory | October 20, 1957 |
Lawyer John Gregory (Gregory) meets with famous detective Charles Courtney (Price) who prides himself on never being wrong. Gregory has evidence that Courtney convicted the wrong man in a recent case and threatens to expose him. Courtney kills Gregory and uses his body to create a ceramic trophy in tribute of what he considers "the perfect crime". | |||||
4 | "Heart of Gold" | Robert Stevens | James P. Cavanagh (teleplay) Henry Slesar (story) | Mildred Dunnock, Darryl Hickman, Nehemiah Persoff | October 27, 1957 |
When convicted robber Jackie Blake (Hickman) is released from prison, he is warmly accepted into the home of Martha Collins (Dunnock), mother of Jackie's former cell mate. Jackie has hopes of making a new honest life, but Martha and her other son, Ralph (Persoff), only took Jackie in because they believe he has the loot from a previous robbery hidden somewhere. Ralph tries to force Jackie to reveal its whereabouts, and Jackie kills him. | |||||
5 | "Silent Witness" | Paul Henreid | Robert C. Dennis (teleplay) Jeanne Barry (story) | Don Taylor, Dolores Hart, Pat Hitchcock | November 3, 1957 |
Professor Donald Mason (Taylor) kills his student, Claudia (Hart), when she refuses to end their affair. The only witness is Linda, the baby that Claudia was babysitting at the time. Afterward, every time Linda sees Donald she starts crying, which makes Donald fear that she will identify him once she starts talking. Donald ends up confessing to the police, but it turns out Linda cries whenever she sees any man. | |||||
6 | "Reward to Finder" | James Neilson | Frank Gabrielson (teleplay) F.J. Smith (story) | Jo Van Fleet, Oskar Homolka | November 10, 1957 |
After finding a cash-laden wallet, John Gaminski (Homolka) and his wife Anna (Fleet) constantly fight over Anna's lavish spending of the money. The conflict climaxes when John bludgeons Anna to death before drinking the cup of poisoned coffee Anna prepared for him. | |||||
7 | "Enough Rope for Two" | Paul Henreid | Joel Murcott (teleplay) Clark Howard (story) | Jean Hagen, Steven Hill, Steve Brodie | November 17, 1957 |
Ex-con Joe (Hill) and his former partners Madge (Hagen) and Maxie (Brodie) drive to an abandoned mine in the middle of desert in order to collect hidden robbery loot. Once there, the three turn on each other: Joe shoots and kills Maxie, and Madge traps Joe down in the mine once she has obtained the money. This leaves Madge with the loot, but the keys to the car are in the mine with Joe. | |||||
8 | "Last Request" | Paul Henreid | Joel Murcott (teleplay) Helen Fislar Brooks (story) | Harry Guardino, Cara Williams, Hugh Marlowe | November 24, 1957 |
While awaiting his execution, inmate Gerry Daniels (Guardino) types a final letter to the newspaper protesting the incompetence of district attorney Bernard Butler (Marlowe). Gerry confesses that he'd murdered three other people, but Butler never suspected him for those incidents; instead Gerry was prosecuted for a murder he didn't commit. The execution is canceled when Butler gets new evidence exonerating Gerry from the incorrect charge, but Gerry's letter has already been posted. | |||||
9 | "The Young One" | Robert Altman | Sarett Rudley (teleplay) Phillip Goodman, Sandy Sax (story) | Carol Lynley, Vince Edwards | December 1, 1957 |
Teenager Jan (Lynley) befriends Tex (Edward), a drifter through town, to frame him for the murder of her guardian, Aunt Mae. However, Jan's boyfriend, Stan, found Aunt Mae's body and knows that Jan committed the murder. | |||||
10 | "The Diplomatic Corpse" | Paul Henreid | Robert C. Dennis (teleplay) Alec Coppel (story) | Peter Lorre, George Peppard, Mary Scott | December 8, 1957 |
Married couple Evan (Peppard) and Janet (Scott) are touring Mexico with their aunt Mrs. Tait, who dies of a heart attack. While Evan and Janet are searching for a doctor, their car is stolen with Mrs. Tait's corpse in it. They hire detective Thomas Salgado (Lorre) to find the car, and later the body. When Evan and Janet finally return home, they find Salgado has given them the wrong body. | |||||
11 | "The Deadly" | Don Taylor | Robert C. Dennis (teleplay) Lawrence Treat (story) | Phyllis Thaxter, Lee Phillips, Craig Stevens | December 15, 1957 |
Plumber Jack Staley (Phillips), who has been blackmailing housewives for fabricated dalliances throughout a suburban neighborhood, sets his sights on new target Margot Brenner (Thaxter). In retaliation, Margot gathers all the wives of the neighborhood to confront Jack together. United, the women blackmail Jack into performing housework for them in the value of the money he's extorted from them and more. | |||||
12 | "Miss Paisley's Cat" | Justus Addiss | Marian B. Cockrell (teleplay), Roy Vickers (story) | Dorothy Stickney | December 22, 1957 |
Emma Paisley (Stickney) is distressed when her neighbor, Rinditch, kills her pet cat. Emma blacks out and wakes up four hours later, to find that Rinditch has been murdered. Emma confesses to the police that she did it, but they don't believe her, since she cannot explain how she did it. | |||||
13 | "Night of the Execution" | Justus Addiss | Bernard C. Schoenfeld (teleplay), Henry Slesar (story) | Pat Hingle, Georgann Johnson | December 29, 1957 |
Warren Selvy (Hingle), a prosecuting attorney with a long history of acquittals, finally delivers a guilty verdict in a crucial murder case. Afterward Warren is confronted by a homeless man, Ed, who claims to be the actual murderer. Warren tries to scare him off, but when that fails, Warren kills him. Warren then learns that Ed has a history of confessing to crimes he didn't commit. | |||||
14 | "The Percentage" | James Neilson | Bernard C. Schoenfeld (teleplay), David Alexander (story) | Alex Nicol, Nita Talbot | January 5, 1958 |
Successful businessman Eddie Slovak (Nicol) has a good life with his wife, Faye, but is haunted by his past. He once acted cowardly in the Korean War, and seeks out his old Army buddy Pete Williams (Keefer), who knows his secret. Pete repeatedly rebuffs Eddie's attempts to pay him, to Eddie's frustration. Eddie begins an affair with Pete's wife, Louise (Talbot), and one night Eddie, triggered by a picture of Pete in his Army uniform, loses his mind and strangles her. Eddie is arrested for murder, and this leaves Pete and Faye, who are lovers, to be together. | |||||
15 | "Together" | Robert Altman | Robert C. Dennis (teleplay), Alec Coppel (story) | Joseph Cotten | January 12, 1958 |
Tony Gould (Cotten) meets with his mistress, Shelley, in her office after hours. When Shelley threatens to expose their relationship to Tony's wife, he kills her, but is unable to leave because the office is locked. The next day the police are called, and they discover the body. | |||||
16 | "Sylvia" | Herschel Daugherty | James P. Cavanagh (teleplay), Ira Levin (story) | Ann Todd, John McIntire | January 19, 1958 |
John Leeds (McIntire) is concerned when his daughter, Sylvia (Todd) purchases a handgun. Sylvia's unscrupulous ex-husband, Peter, once left her because of money, and has returned to town at Sylvia's request. John fears that Sylvia wants to kill Peter, so he pays Peter off so that he leaves. Sylvia then shoots John for thwarting her attempt to reunite with Peter. | |||||
17 | "The Motive" | Robert Stevens | Rose Simon Kohn | Skip Homeier William Redfield | January 26, 1958 |
Crime-obsessed best friends Tommy (Homeier) and Richard (Redfield) discuss Tommy's theory that motive-less murders cannot be solved. In order to prove this theory, Tommy decides to murder a random person that Richard picks out from a phone book. After the murder is done, Tommy discovers that the victim is the man that Tommy's ex-wife left him for; Richard picked him on purpose for revenge, as Tommy once stole the same woman from Richard. | |||||
18 | "Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty" | Robert Stevens | Marian B. Cockrell (teleplay), Stacy Aumonier (story) | Mildred Natwick | February 2, 1958 |
Traveling in France, elderly Englishwoman Millicent Bracegirdle (Natwick) accidentally locks herself in the wrong hotel room with a corpse. She eventually manages to escape, and learns that the dead man is an accused murderer who died of a heart attack. | |||||
19 | "The Equalizer" | James Neilson | Robert C. Dennis (teleplay), C. B. Gilford (story) | Leif Erickson, Martin Balsam, Norma Crane | February 9, 1958 |
Wayne Phillips (Erickson) has an affair with Louise Marsh (Crane) to spite her husband Eldon Marsh (Balsam). When Eldon publicly confronts Wayne over this, Eldon loses his wife and his job. With nothing to lose, Eldon challenges the much-stronger Wayne to a gun duel. Wayne agrees, but shoots Eldon without warning. When the police investigate, they find that Eldon wasn't carrying a gun at all. | |||||
20 | "On the Nose" | James Neilson | Irving Elman (teleplay), Henry Slesar (story) | Jan Sterling | February 16, 1958 |
Gambling-addicted housewife Fran Holland (Sterling) rushes to raise $25 to pay a bookie before her husband comes come. Fran uses various tactics that nearly get her in trouble with the police, but just manages to pay off the debt in time. She promises to never gamble again, but soon after succumbs to temptation and places a new bet. | |||||
21 | "Guest for Breakfast" | Paul Henreid | Robert C. Dennis (teleplay), C.B. Gilford (story) | Joan Tetzel, Scott McKay, Richard Shepard | February 23, 1958 |
Eve (Tetzel) and Jordan (McKay) Ross's marriage is on the rocks, and their morning argument is interrupted when gun-wielding Chester Lacey (Shepard) breaks into their home. Lacey is on the run for murder and needs a hostage; Eve and Jordan try to convince Lacey to kill the other. When Lacey is about to kill Eve, Jordan intervenes and Eve helps her husband. After Lacey is arrested, the couple is open to reconciliation. | |||||
22 | "The Return of the Hero" | Herschel Daugherty | Stirling Silliphant (teleplay), Andrew Solt (story & teleplay) | Jacques Bergerac, Susan Kohner | March 2, 1958 |
Sgt. Andre Doniere (Bergerac) is a veteran traveling home with his friend Corp. Marcel Marchand, who saved his life. Doniere makes a phone call to his aristocratic family, asking if they'll accommodate his friend, who lost his leg. Doniere's mother, stepfather and fiancée are uninterested in welcoming a cripple, so Doniere decides to never return home, because he is the one who lost his leg. | |||||
23 | "The Right Kind of House" | Don Taylor | Robert C. Dennis (teleplay), Henry Slesar (story) | Robert Emhardt, Jeanette Nolan | March 9, 1958 |
Waterbury (Emhardt) wants to buy the house owned by elderly Sadie Grimes (Nolan), despite her demanding a price five times the house's worth. Grimes tells Waterbury how her son was killed by an unseen figure in that house over stolen loot, and the loot was never found. Grimes put the house on the market to trap the killer, because only they would agree to the exortbitant price for the sake of the loot. Waterbury confirms her suspicion, but he dies because Grimes has poisoned his drink. | |||||
24 | "The Foghorn" | Robert Stevens | Frank Gabrielson (teleplay), Gertrude Atherton (story) | Barbara Bel Geddes, Michael Rennie | March 16, 1958 |
Lucia Clay (Geddes) is haunted by the sound of a foghorn, but can't remember why. She pieces together memories of her falling in love with Allen Bliss (Rennie), a married man. Allen was killed in a boat trip, when a liner crashed into them in the fog. To Lucia this happened only a few days ago, but fifty years have passed in reality. | |||||
25 | "Flight to the East" | Arthur Hiller | Joel Murcott (teleplay), Bevil Charles (story) | Gary Merrill, Patricia Cutts | March 23, 1958 |
While traveling on a plane, war correspondent Ted Franklin (Merrill) strikes up a conversation with fellow passenger Barbara Denim (Cutts). Franklin is under arrest, and is traveling with a police inspector on the way home to be tried for a murder. Once he's told her his story, Franklin learns that Denim is a witness who is going to testify against him. | |||||
26 | "Bull in a China Shop" | James Neilson | Sarett Rudley (teleplay), C.B. Gilford (story) | Dennis Morgan, Estelle Winwood | March 30, 1958 |
Homicide detective Dennis O'Finn (Morgan) lives next door to a group of elderly women who are smitten with him. Miss Hildy-Lou (Winwood) murders two of the other ladies solely so that O'Finn will visit them for the murder investigation. O'Finn, horrified to learn of their motive, transfers to the arson department, only for the remaining ladies to set their house on fire. | |||||
27 | "Disappearing Trick" | Arthur Hiller | Kathleen Hite (teleplay), Victor Canning (story) | Robert Horton, Betsy von Furstenberg | April 6, 1958 |
Bookie Walter Richmond (Horton) develops a relationship with Laura Gild (von Furstenberg), the widow of former client Herbert Gild. Walter discovers that Herbert faked his death to get away from Laura, and blackmails him for money. When Herbert confronts the pair with a gun, Walter is shot non-fatally, and Laura absconds from both men with the money. | |||||
28 | "Lamb to the Slaughter" | Alfred Hitchcock | Roald Dahl | Barbara Bel Geddes | April 13, 1958 |
Pregnant housewife Mary Maloney (Geddes) bludgeons her husband to death with a frozen leg of lamb when he says he's going leave her for another woman. Mary sets the scene to look like a struggle and puts the leg in the oven to cook. When the police arrive to investigate, they're unable to find the murder weapon, and Mary gives them the cooked leg of lamb to eat for supper. | |||||
29 | "Fatal Figures" | Don Taylor | Robert C. Dennis (teleplay), Rick Edelstein (story) | John McGiver, Vivian Nathan | April 20, 1958 |
Statistics-obsessed Harold Goames (McGiver) feels unimportant in the world and starts committing crimes in order to become "significant". After committing auto-theft and robbery, he murders his sister Margaret (Nathan) and confesses to the disbelieving police officer his reasons. For his last statistically-significant act, Harold commits suicide. | |||||
30 | "Death Sentence" | Paul Henreid | Joel Murcott (teleplay), Miriam Allen deFord (story) | James Best, Katherine Bard, Steve Brodie | April 27, 1958 |
Norman Frayne (Best) grew up in an orphanage and feels undeserving of his wife Paula (Bard). Al (Brodie), a man from Norman's past, arrives and blackmails Norman over a crime they committed twelve years earlier. Norman believes that Al is having an affair with Paula and plans to blow them up with dynamite. When Paula insists it isn't true, Norman lets himself be blown up so Paula will be free from Al's threats and Norman's past. | |||||
31 | "The Festive Season" | Arthur Hiller | James P. Cavanaugh (teleplay), Stanley Ellin (story) | Carmen Mathews, Edmon Ryan, Richard Waring | May 4, 1958 |
On Christmas Eve, Attorney John (Ryan) visits the home of estranged siblings Celia (Mathews) and Charlie (Waring). Charlie wants to kill Celia, whom he believes murdered his wife, but Celia protests her innocence and is determined to care for Charlie regardless of his feelings. John leaves after making them promise not to hurt each other. John has been doing this every Christmas Eve since Charlie's wife's death twenty years ago. | |||||
32 | "Listen, Listen...!" | Don Taylor | Bernard C. Schoenfeld (teleplay), R.E. Kendall (story) | Edgar Stehli | May 11, 1958 |
Herbert Johnson (Stehli) tries to convince the authorities that the final murder of the Stockings Murders was committed by a copycat, but no one takes him seriously. A priest, Father Rafferty, finally listens to Herbert's story about how the victim, Helen Jameson, left her controlling, religious parents for a life of "sin", and her death was a "punishment". Herbert is Helen's father, and his wife is the copycat who killed Helen, but Herbert is unable to accuse his wife openly. | |||||
33 | "Post Mortem" | Arthur Hiller | Robert C. Dennis (teleplay), Cornell Woolrich (story) | Steve Forrest, Joanna Moore, James Gregory | May 18, 1958 |
Judy (Moore) exhumes her first husband Harry's body because a winning sweepstakes ticket was buried with him. Insurance investigator Wescott (Gregory) takes advantage of this to perform an autopsy on Harry, proving that he was poisoned. Judy's second husband, Steve (Forrest) murdered Harry before marrying Judy so they could live on Harry's insurance money. Wescott helps Judy catch Steve in a failed act of trying to murder her, and Steve is arrested. | |||||
34 | "The Crocodile Case" | Don Taylor | Robert C. Dennis (teleplay), Roy Vickers (story) | Denholm Elliott, Hazel Court | May 25, 1958 |
Jack Lyons (Elliot) and Phyllis Chaundry (Court) are married after Jack kills Phyllis' first husband, but Phyllis is unhappy because Jack lost the crocodile dressing case her late husband was returning to her the night of his murder. When the police finally find the case, Jack identifies it based on the initials, but that gives away his guilt, because the initials were only placed on the case just before the murder. | |||||
35 | "Dip in the Pool" | Alfred Hitchcock | Roald Dahl | Keenan Wynn, Fay Wray | June 1, 1958 |
While traveling on a cruise ship, William Botibol (Wynn) bets heavily in a betting pool on how many miles the ship travels every day. When the ship goes faster than William expected, he decides to jump off the ship to force it to stop. He makes sure that a young woman, Emily, is there to see him jump, assuming that she'll call for help. However, Emily is intellectually disabled, and doesn't react after he goes over. | |||||
36 | "The Safe Place" | James Neilson | Michael Hogan (teleplay), Jay Wilson (story) | Robert H. Harris, Joanne Linville | June 8, 1958 |
Bank teller George Piper (Harris) murders one of the bank's dubious clients, Victor Mannett, to steal his money, which Piper then hides in plain sight inside his teller drawer. The next day, Piper is dressed down by his boss for keeping the Mannett account, as the murder will ruin the bank's reputation. Piper is fired the spot and ordered to give up his teller drawer keys immediately. | |||||
37 | "The Canary Sedan" | Robert Stevens | Stirling Silliphant (teleplay), Ann Bridge (story) | Jessica Tandy, Murray Matheson | June 15, 1958 |
Laura Bowlby (Tandy) arrives in Hong Kong to join her husband, James (Matheson), who has been living there for a while. Laura has psychic abilities; when she's inside her second-hand sedan she can hear the disembodied voice of a French woman talking to her lover. Laura, envious of the woman's passionate affair, investigates her story and discovers that she was having an affair with Laura's husband, James. | |||||
38 | "The Impromptu Murder" | Paul Henreid | Francis Cockrell (teleplay), Roy Vickers (story) | Hume Cronyn, Robert Douglas | June 22, 1958 |
England, 1916. Solicitor Henry Daw (Cronyn) kills a client, Miss Wilkinson, and buries her under a slab of stone next to the river. A body is found floating in the river a few days later, but Daw refuses to identify it properly, igniting Inspector Charles Tarrant (Douglas)'s suspicions. Placed under pressure, Daw confesses to the murder, but it turns out the body turns belongs to someone else. | |||||
39 | "Little White Frock" | Herschel Daugherty | Stirling Silliphant (teleplay), Stacey Aumonier (story) | Herbert Marshall, Julie Adams, Tom Helmore | June 29, 1958 |
Elderly out-of-work actor Colin Bragner (Marshall) invites playwright Adam Longsworth (Helmore) and his wife Carol (Adams) for dinner. He tells them a story about the love of his life, Lila Gordon, who turned him down and died tragically. Adam and Carol are deeply touched by the story, but it turns out to be complete fiction — Colin was showing off his acting skills in the hope of getting work. Adam is impressed and offers him a job. |
Season 4 (1958–59)
First Aired | # | Title | Stars | Writer | Director |
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5-Oct-58 | 01 | "Poison" | Wendell Corey | James B. Allardice (lead in) Roald Dahl (story) |
Alfred Hitchcock |
12-Oct-58 | 02 | "Don't Interrupt" | Cloris Leachman Chill Wills Scatman Crothers |
Sidney Carroll | Robert Stevens |
19-Oct-58 | 03 | "The Jokester" | Albert Salmi Roscoe Ates James Coburn |
Bernard C. Schoenfeld Robert Arthur |
Arthur Hiller |
26-Oct-58 | 04 | "The Crooked Road" | Richard Kiley Walter Matthau |
William Fay Alex Gaby |
Paul Henreid |
2-Nov-58 | 05 | "The $2,000,000 Defense" | Barry Sullivan Leslie Nielsen Herbert Anderson |
William Fay (Teleplay) Harold Q. Masur (Story) |
Norman Lloyd |
9-Nov-58 | 06 | "Design for Loving" | Barbara Baxley Norman Lloyd |
Ray Bradbury (Story, 'Marionettes, Inc') | Robert Stevens |
16-Nov-58 | 07 | "Man with a Problem" | Elizabeth Montgomery Gary Merrill |
Joel Murcott Donald Martin |
Robert Stevens |
23-Nov-58 | 08 | "Safety for the Witness" | Art Carney | William Fay John De Meyer |
Norman Lloyd |
7-Dec-58 | 09 | "Murder Me Twice" | Phyllis Thaxter Tom Helmore |
Irving Elman Lawrence Treat |
David Swift |
14-Dec-58 | 10 | "Tea Time" | Margaret Leighton Marsha Hunt |
Kathleen Hite Margaret Manners |
Robert Stevens |
21-Dec-58 | 11 | "And the Desert Shall Blossom" | William Demarest Roscoe Ates Ben Johnson |
Bernard C. Schoenfeld Loren D. Good |
Arthur Hiller |
28-Dec-58 | 12 | "Mrs. Herman and Mrs. Fenimore" | Mary Astor Doro Merande |
Robert C. Dennis Donald Honig |
Arthur Hiller |
4-Jan-59 | 13 | "Six People, No Music" | John McGiver Peggy Cass Joby Baker |
Richard Berg Garson Kanin |
Norman Lloyd |
11-Jan-59 | 14 | "The Morning After" | Dorothy Provine Robert Alda Fay Wray |
Rose Simon Kohn Henry Slesar |
Herschel Daugherty |
18-Jan-59 | 15 | "A Personal Matter" | Wayne Morris Joe Maross |
Joel Murcott Brett Halliday |
Paul Henreid |
25-Jan-59 | 16 | "Out There – Darkness" | Bette Davis | Bernard C. Schoenfeld William O'Farrell |
Paul Henreid |
1-Feb-59 | 17 | "Total Loss" | Nancy Olson Ralph Meeker |
J.E. Selby | Don Taylor |
8-Feb-59 | 18 | "The Last Dark Step" | Robert Horton Fay Spain |
William Fay Margaret Manners |
Herschel Daugherty |
15-Feb-59 | 19 | "The Morning of the Bride" | Barbara Bel Geddes Don Dubbins |
Kathleen Hite Neil S. Broadman |
Arthur Hiller |
22-Feb-59 | 20 | "The Diamond Necklace" | Claude Rains Betsy von Furstenberg |
Sarett Rudley | Herschel Daugherty |
1-Mar-59 | 21 | "Relative Value" | Denholm Elliott Torin Thatcher |
Frances Cockrell Milward Kennedy |
Paul Almond |
8-Mar-59 | 22 | "The Right Price" | Eddie Foy Jr. Allyn Joslyn |
Bernard C. Schoenfeld (Teleplay) Henry Slesar (Story) |
Arthur Hiller |
15-Mar-59 | 23 | "I'll Take Care of You" | Ralph Meeker Elisabeth Fraser |
George Johnson | Robert Stevens |
22-Mar-59 | 24 | "The Avon Emeralds" | Hazel Court Alan Napier Roger Moore |
Joe Pidcock | Bretaigne Windust |
29-Mar-59 | 25 | "The Kind Waitress" | Olive Deering Celia Lovsky Rick Jason |
Henry Slesar | Paul Henreid |
5-Apr-59 | 26 | "Cheap Is Cheap" | Dennis Day Alice Backes |
Albert E. Lewis Burt Styler |
Bretaigne Windust |
12-Apr-59 | 27 | "The Waxwork" | Barry Nelson Everett Sloane |
A.M. Burrage | Robert Stevens |
19-Apr-59 | 28 | "The Impossible Dream" | Franchot Tone Mary Astor |
John Lindsey | Robert Stevens |
3-May-59 | 29 | "Banquo's Chair" | John Williams Kenneth Haigh Reginald Gardiner |
Francis Cockrell (Teleplay) Rupert Croft-Cooke (Story) |
Alfred Hitchcock |
10-May-59 | 30 | "A Night with the Boys" | John Smith Joyce Meadows |
Henry Slesar Jay Fob |
John Brahm |
17-May-59 | 31 | "Your Witness" | Brian Keith William Hansen |
Helen Nielsen | Norman Lloyd |
24-May-59 | 32 | "Human Interest Story" | Steve McQueen Arthur Hill |
Fredric Brown | Norman Lloyd |
31-May-59 | 33 | "The Dusty Drawer" | Dick York | Harry Muheim | Herschel Daugherty |
7-Jun-59 | 34 | "A True Account (Curtains for Me)" | Jocelyn Brando Jane Greer |
Rupert Croft-Cooke | Leonard Horn |
14-Jun-59 | 35 | "Touché" | Paul Douglas Robert Morse |
Bryce Walton | John Brahm |
21-Jun-59 | 36 | "Invitation to an Accident" | Joanna Moore Alan Hewitt |
Wade Miller | Don Taylor |
Season 5 (1959–60)
First Aired | # | Title | Stars | Writer | Director |
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27-Sep-59 | 01 | "Arthur" | Laurence Harvey Hazel Court Patrick Macnee |
James Allardice | Alfred Hitchcock |
4-Oct-59 | 02 | "The Crystal Trench" | Patricia Owens Patrick Macnee |
James Allardice | Alfred Hitchcock |
11-Oct-59 | 03 | "Appointment at Eleven" | Clint Kimbrough Amy Douglass Clu Gulager Sean McClory |
Evan Hunter | Robert Stevens |
18-Oct-59 | 04 | "Coyote Moon" | Macdonald Carey Collin Wilcox Edgar Buchanan |
Herschel Daugherty | |
25-Oct-59 | 05 | "No Pain" | Joanna Moore Brian Keith |
Norman Lloyd | |
1-Nov-59 | 06 | "Anniversary Gift" | Harry Morgan Barbara Baxley |
Norman Lloyd | |
8-Nov-59 | 07 | "Dry Run" | Robert Vaughn Walter Matthau |
Bill S. Ballinger (Teleplay) Norman Struber (Story) |
John Brahm |
15-Nov-59 | 08 | "The Blessington Method" | Dick York Henry Jones |
Stanley Ellin (story) |
Herschel Daugherty |
22-Nov-59 | 09 | "Dead Weight" | Joseph Cotten Julie Adams Don Gordon |
Jerry Sohl (Teleplay) Herb Golden (Story) |
Stuart Rosenberg |
29-Nov-59 | 10 | "Special Delivery" | Steve Dunne Beatrice Straight |
Ray Bradbury | Norman Lloyd |
6-Dec-59 | 11 | "Road Hog" | Richard Chamberlain Raymond Massey Robert Emhardt |
Stuart Rosenberg | |
13-Dec-59 | 12 | "Specialty of the House" | Robert Morley Kenneth Haigh |
Stanley Ellin (story) |
Robert Stevens |
20-Dec-59 | 13 | "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" | Ronald Howard Juano Hernandez James Coburn |
Ambrose Bierce (story) |
Robert Stevenson |
27-Dec-59 | 14 | "Graduating Class" | Wendy Hiller Robert H. Harris |
Herschel Daugherty | |
3-Jan-60 | 15 | "Man From the South" | Steve McQueen Peter Lorre Neile Adams |
Roald Dahl | Norman Lloyd |
10-Jan-60 | 16 | "The Ikon of Elijah" | Oskar Homolka Sam Jaffe |
Avram Davidson (story) Norah Perez Victor Wolfson |
Paul Almond |
24-Jan-60 | 17 | "The Cure" | Nehemiah Persoff Cara Williams |
Herschel Daugherty | |
31-Jan-60 | 18 | "Backward, Turn Backward" | Tom Tully Alan Baxter |
Stuart Rosenberg | |
7-Feb-60 | 19 | "Not the Running Type" | Paul Hartman Robert Bray |
Arthur Hiller | |
14-Feb-60 | 20 | "The Day of the Bullet" | John Graven Barry Gordon |
Norman Lloyd | |
21-Feb-60 | 21 | "Hitch Hike" | John McIntire Robert Morse Suzanne Pleshette |
Paul Henreid | |
28-Feb-60 | 22 | "Across the Threshold" | Barbara Baxley George Grizzard Patricia Collinge |
Arthur Hiller | |
6-Mar-60 | 23 | "Craig's Will" | Dick Van Dyke Stella Stevens |
Gene Reynolds | |
27-Mar-60 | 24 | "Madame Mystery" | Audrey Totter Joby Baker |
John Brahm | |
3-Apr-60 | 25 | "The Little Man Who Was There" | Norman Lloyd Arch Johnson Read Morgan |
George Stevens, Jr. | |
10-Apr-60 | 26 | "Mother, May I Go Out to Swim?" | Gia Scala William Shatner Jessie Royce Landis |
Herschel Daugherty | |
17-Apr-60 | 27 | "The Cuckoo Clock" | Beatrice Straight Fay Spain Pat Hitchcock |
John Brahm | |
24-Apr-60 | 28 | "Forty Detectives Later" | James Franciscus Jack Weston George Mitchell |
Arthur Hiller | |
1-May-60 | 29 | "The Hero" | Oskar Homolka Eric Portman Irene Tedrow |
John Brahm | |
8-May-60 | 30 | "Insomnia" | Dennis Weaver Al Hodge |
John Brahm | |
15-May-60 | 31 | "I Can Take Care of Myself" | Myron McCormick Frankie Darro Linda Lawson |
Alan Crosland, Jr. | |
22-May-60 | 32 | "One Grave Too Many" | Jeremy Slate Neile Adams Biff Elliot Howard McNear |
Arthur Hiller | |
29-May-60 | 33 | "Party Line" | Judy Canova Royal Dano Arch Johnson |
Hilton A. Green | |
5-Jun-60 | 34 | "Cell 227" | Brian Keith James Best James Westerfield |
Paul Henreid | |
12-Jun-60 | 35 | "The Schartz-Metterklume Method" | Hermione Gingold Elspeth March Pat Hitchcock |
Marian Cockrell Saki (story) |
Richard Dunlap |
19-Jun-60 | 36 | "Letter of Credit" | Bob Sweeney Robert Bray Cyril Delevanti |
Paul Henreid | |
26-Jun-60 | 37 | "Escape to Sonoita" | Burt Reynolds Murray Hamilton Harry Dean Stanton |
Stuart Rosenberg | |
25-Sep-60 | 38 | "Hooked" | Anne Francis Robert Horton |
Norman Lloyd |
Season 6 (1960–61)
First Aired | # | Title | Stars | Writer | Director |
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27-Sep-60 | 01 | "Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat" | Audrey Meadows Les Tremayne |
Roald Dahl James Allardice |
Alfred Hitchcock |
4-Oct-60 | 02 | "The Doubtful Doctor" | Dick York Gena Rowlands |
Arthur Hiller | |
11-Oct-60 | 03 | "Very Moral Theft" | Betty Field Walter Matthau |
Allan Gordon (Teleplay) Jack Dillon (Story) |
Norman Lloyd |
18-Oct-60 | 04 | "The Contest for Aaron Gold" | Barry Gordon Sydney Pollack |
Norman Lloyd | |
25-Oct-60 | 05 | "The Five-Forty-Eight" | Phyllis Thaxter Zachary Scott |
Charlotte Armstrong (Teleplay) John Cheever (Story) |
John Brahm |
1-Nov-60 | 06 | "Pen Pal" | Katherine Squire Clu Gulager |
Hilary Murray (Teleplay) Henry Slesar (Story) Jay Folb (Story) |
John Brahm |
15-Nov-60 | 07 | "Outlaw in Town" | Ricardo Montalban Constance Ford |
Herschel Daugherty | |
22-Nov-60 | 08 | "O Youth and Beauty!" | Gary Merrill Patricia Breslin |
Halsted Welles (Teleplay) John Cheever (Story) |
Norman Lloyd |
29-Nov-60 | 09 | "The Money" | Robert Loggia Doris Dowling |
Alan Crosland, Jr. | |
6-Dec-60 | 10 | "Sybilla" | Barbara Bel Geddes | Ida Lupino | |
13-Dec-60 | 11 | "The Man with Two Faces" | Spring Byington Steve Dunne |
Stuart Rosenberg | |
20-Dec-60 | 12 | "The Baby-Blue Expression" | Sarah Marshall | Arthur Hiller | |
27-Dec-60 | 13 | "The Man Who Found the Money" | Arthur Hill Rod Cameron |
Alan Crosland, Jr. | |
3-Jan-61 | 14 | "The Changing Heart" | Abraham Sofaer Anne Helm |
Robert Florey | |
10-Jan-61 | 15 | "Summer Shade" | Julie Adams Veronica Cartwright James Franciscus Susan Gordon Charity Grace John Hoyt |
Nora H. Caplan (story) Harold Swanton (teleplay) |
Herschel Daugherty |
24-Jan-61 | 16 | "A Crime for Mothers" | Claire Trevor Biff Elliot |
Ida Lupino | |
31-Jan-61 | 17 | "The Last Escape" | Keenan Wynn John Craven |
Paul Henreid | |
14-Feb-61 | 18 | "The Greatest Monster of Them All" | Robert H. Harris Richard Hale |
Robert Stevens | |
21-Feb-61 | 19 | "The Landlady" | Dean Stockwell | Robert Bloch (Teleplay) Roald Dahl (Story) |
Paul Henreid |
28-Feb-61 | 20 | "The Throwback" | Murray Matheson Joyce Meadows |
Henry Slesar (Story & Teleplay) | John Brahm |
7-Mar-61 | 21 | "The Kiss-Off" | Rip Torn Bert Freed |
Alan Crosland, Jr. | |
14-Mar-61 | 22 | "The Horseplayer" | Claude Rains | James Allardice | Alfred Hitchcock |
21-Mar-61 | 23 | "Incident in a Small Jail" | John Fiedler Richard Jaeckel |
Norman Lloyd | |
28-Mar-61 | 24 | "A Woman's Help" | Geraldine Fitzgerald Scott McKay Antoinette Bower |
Arthur Hiller | |
4-Apr-61 | 25 | "Museum Piece" | Myron McCormick Larry Gates |
Paul Henreid | |
11-Apr-61 | 26 | "Coming, Mama" | Eileen Heckart Don DeFore |
George Stevens, Jr. | |
18-Apr-61 | 27 | "Deathmate" | Gia Scala Lee Philips |
Alan Crosland, Jr. | |
25-Apr-61 | 28 | "Gratitude" | Peter Falk Paul Hartman |
Alan Crosland, Jr. | |
2-May-61 | 29 | "The Pearl Necklace" | Jack Cassidy Ernest Truex |
Don Weis | |
9-May-61 | 30 | "You Can't Trust a Man" | Polly Bergen | Paul Henreid | |
16-May-61 | 31 | "The Gloating Place" | Susan Harrison Hank Brandt |
Alan Crosland, Jr. | |
23-May-61 | 32 | "Self Defense" | George Nader Audrey Totter |
Paul Henreid | |
31-May-61 | 33 | "A Secret Life" | Ronald Howard Patricia Donahue |
Don Weis | |
6-Jun-61 | 34 | "Servant Problem" | Jo Van Fleet John Emery |
Alan Crosland, Jr. | |
13-Jun-61 | 35 | "Coming Home" | Crahan Denton Jeanette Nolan |
Alf Kjellin | |
20-Jun-61 | 36 | "Final Arrangements" | Martin Balsam Slim Pickens |
Gordon Hessler | |
27-Jun-61 | 37 | "Make My Death Bed" | Diana Van der Vlis Biff Elliot |
Arthur Hiller | |
4-Jul-61 | 38 | "Ambition" | Leslie Nielsen Harold J. Stone |
Paul Henreid |
Season 7 (1961–62)
First Aired | # | Title | Stars | Writer | Director |
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10-Oct-61 | 01 | "The Hatbox" | Paul Ford Billy Gray |
Alan Crosland, Jr. | |
17-Oct-61 | 02 | "Bang! You're Dead!" | Bill Mumy | James Allardice | Alfred Hitchcock |
24-Oct-61 | 03 | "Maria" | Nita Talbot Norman Lloyd |
John Wyndham (story Jizzle) | Boris Sagal |
31-Oct-61 | 04 | "Cop for a Day" | Walter Matthau | Paul Henreid | |
7-Nov-61 | 05 | "Keep Me Company" | Anne Francis | Alan Crosland, Jr. | |
14-Nov-61 | 06 | "Beta Delta Gamma" | Burt Brinckerhoff Barbara Steele |
Alan Crosland, Jr. | |
21-Nov-61 | 07 | "You Can't Be a Little Girl All Your Life" | Dick York | Norman Lloyd | |
28-Nov-61 | 08 | "The Old Pro" | Richard Conte | Paul Henreid | |
5-Dec-61 | 09 | "I Spy" | Kay Walsh William Kendall |
Norman Lloyd | |
12-Dec-61 | 10 | "Services Rendered" | Hugh Marlowe | Paul Henreid | |
19-Dec-61 | 11 | "The Right Kind of Medicine" | Robert Redford Joby Baker |
Alan Crosland, Jr. | |
26-Dec-61 | 12 | "A Jury of Her Peers" | Ann Harding | Robert Florey | |
2-Jan-62 | 13 | "The Silk Petticoat" | Michael Rennie Antoinette Bower |
John Newland | |
9-Jan-62 | 14 | "Bad Actor" | Robert Duvall William Schallert |
John Newland | |
16-Jan-62 | 15 | "The Door Without a Key" | Claude Rains Bill Mumy |
Herschel Daugherty | |
23-Jan-62 | 16 | "The Case of M.J.H." | Barbara Baxley Robert Loggia |
Alan Crosland, Jr. | |
30-Jan-62 | 17 | "The Faith of Aaron Menefee" | Andrew Prine Olan Soule |
Norman Lloyd | |
6-Feb-62 | 18 | "The Woman Who Wanted to Live" | Lola Albright Charles Bronson |
Alan Crosland, Jr. | |
13-Feb-62 | 19 | "Strange Miracle" | Eduardo Ciannelli Miriam Colon |
Norman Lloyd | |
20-Feb-62 | 20 | "The Test" | Brian Keith Eduardo Ciannelli |
Boris Sagal | |
27-Feb-62 | 21 | "Burglar Proof" | Robert Webber Whit Bissell |
John Newland | |
6-Mar-62 | 22 | "The Big Score" | Evans Evans | Boris Sagal | |
13-Mar-62 | 23 | "Profit-Sharing Plan" | Henry Jones | Bernard Girard | |
20-Mar-62 | 24 | "Apex" | Patricia Breslin Mark Miller |
Alan Crosland, Jr. | |
27-Mar-62 | 25 | "The Last Remains" | Ed Gardner John Fiedler |
Leonard Horn | |
3-Apr-62 | 26 | "Ten O'Clock Tiger" | Frankie Darro Robert Keith |
Bernard Girard | |
10-Apr-62 | 27 | "Act of Faith" | George Grizzard Dennis King |
Eric Ambler | Bernard Girard |
17-Apr-62 | 28 | "The Kerry Blue" | Carmen Mathews Gene Evans |
Paul Henreid | |
24-Apr-62 | 29 | "The Matched Pearl" | John Ireland Ernest Truex |
Bernard Girard | |
1-May-62 | 30 | "What Frightened You, Fred?" | Edward Asner R.G. Armstrong |
Jack Ritchie (short story) | Paul Henreid |
8-May-62 | 31 | "Most Likely to Succeed" | Joanna Moore Howard Morris |
Richard Whorf | |
15-May-62 | 32 | "Victim Four" | Peggy Ann Garner John Lupton |
Paul Henreid | |
22-May-62 | 33 | "The Opportunity" | Richard Long | Robert Florey | |
29-May-62 | 34 | "The Twelve Hour Caper" | Dick York | John Newland | |
5-Jun-62 | 35 | "The Children of Alda Nuova" | Jack Carson Christopher Dark |
Robert Florey | |
12-Jun-62 | 36 | "First Class Honeymoon" | Robert Webber Jeremy Slate |
Don Weis | |
19-Jun-62 | 37 | "The Big Kick" | Anne Helm Wayne Rogers |
Alan Crosland, Jr. | |
26-Jun-62 | 38 | "Where Beauty Lies" | Cloris Leachman George Nader |
Robert Florey | |
Syndication only |
39 | The Sorcerer's Apprentice | Brandon deWilde Diana Dors |
Joseph Lejtes |
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985)
Pilot film (1985)
A 100-minute made-for-TV film was presented as the pilot for the series; it consisted of four episodes, all remakes of ones from the original series. This first aired on May 5, 1985 on NBC.
Title | Stars | Writer | Director |
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"Incident in a Small Jail" | Ned Beatty | Joel Oliansky Henry Slesar |
Joel Oliansky |
"Man from the South" | Steven Bauer John Huston Melanie Griffith Kim Novak Tippi Hedren |
William Fay Steve De Jarnatt Roald Dahl (story) |
Steve De Jarnatt |
"Bang! You're Dead!" | Bianca Rose Gail Youngs |
Christopher Crowe Harold Swanton |
Randa Haines |
"An Unlocked Window" | Annette O'Toole Bruce Davison |
Fred Walton James Bridges |
Fred Walton |
Season 1
First Aired | # | Title | Stars | Writer | Director |
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29-Sep-85 | 1x02 | "Revenge" | David Clennon Linda Purl |
David Stenn | R. E. Young |
In a remake of the pilot of the original series' pilot, a man seeks revenge on his wife's attacker. | |||||
6-Oct-85 | 1x03 | "Night Fever" | Robert Carradine Lisa Pelikan |
Clark Howard Jeff Kanew Stephen Kronish |
Jeff Kanew |
A wounded cop-killer tries to manipulate a nurse into helping him escape. | |||||
20-Oct-85 | 1x04 | "Wake Me When I'm Dead" | Barbara Hershey | Irving Elman (teleplay) Buck Henry Lawrence Treat (story) |
Frank Pierson |
A prosecutor resorts to hypnosis to prove a case. | |||||
27-Oct-85 | 1x05 | "Final Escape" | Season Hubley George DiCenzo Patrice Donnelly Jerry Hardin Davis Roberts (as Doc) |
Tom Cannan (story) Randall Hood (story) Charles Grant Craig (teleplay) |
Thomas Carter |
An incarcerated killer seeks the help of a gravedigger. | |||||
3-Nov-85 | 1x06 | "The Night Caller" | Sandra Bernhard Michael O'Keefe Linda Fiorentino |
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10-Nov-85 | 1x07 | "Method Actor" | Martin Sheen Marilu Henner Robby Benson Parker Stevenson |
Burt Reynolds | |
17-Nov-85 | 1x08 | "The Human Interest Story" | John Shea James T. Callahan |
Karen Harris (teleplay) | Larry Gross |
1-Dec-85 | 1x09 | "Breakdown" | Andy García José Luis Cuevas Sebastián Ligarde |
Richard Pearce | |
8-Dec-85 | 1x10 | "Prisoners" | Cristina Raines Yaphet Kotto |
John Byrum (teleplay) | Christopher Crowe |
An escaped convict breaks into a woman's house and makes himself at home; the two bond and become friends. | |||||
15-Dec-85 | 1x11 | "Arthur, or the Gigolo" | Brad Davis Sandy Dennis |
Arthur Williams (story) Steve De Jarnatt (teleplay) |
Thomas Carter |
A small-time crook marries a wealthy spinster for her diamond collection; he soon angers his new bride's "children", her dozens of cats. | |||||
5-Jan-86 | 1x12 | "The Gloating Place" | Nicholas Hormann Kristy Swanson (minor role) |
Jim Beaver (uncredited) Robert Bloch (story) David Stenn (teleplay) |
Christopher Leitch |
12-Jan-86 | 1x13 | "The Right Kind of Medicine" | Jack Thibeau Robert Prosky |
Jerrold Freedman | Henry Slesar (story) Michael Braverman (teleplay) |
19-Jan-86 | 1x14 | "Beast in View" | |||
16-Feb-86 | 1x15 | "A Very Happy Ending" | Joaquin Phoenix | Tom Rickman | Tom RIckman |
2-Mar-86 | 1x16 | "The Canary Sedan" | Ian Abercrombie Kathleen Quinlan |
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9-Mar-86 | 1x17 | "Enough Rope for Two" | Jeff Fahey Timothy Daly Darlanne Fluegel |
Clark Howard (story) David Chase (teleplay) |
David Chase |
16-Mar-86 | 1x18 | "The Creeper" | Karen Allen Timothy Carhart Lori Butler |
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23-Mar-86 | 1x19 | "Happy Birthday" | Lane Smith Noel Conlon Nana Visitor |
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6-Apr-86 | 1x20 | "The Jar" | Stephen Shellen Griffin Dunne Fiona Lewis |
Ray Bradbury (story) Michael McDowell (teleplay) |
Tim Burton |
13-Apr-86 | 1x21 | "Deadly Honeymoon" | Victoria Tennant David Dukes Nicolas Coster Alan Fudge |
Don Medford | |
4-May-86 | 1x22 | "Four O'Clock" | Richard Cox Nicholas Pryor Ellen Tobie |
Steve Bello (teleplay) Cornell Woolrich (story) |
Andrew Mirisch |
11-May-86 | 1x23 | "Road Hog" | Burt Young Ronny Cox Doug Savant Lee Bryant |
Season 2
First Aired | # | Title | Stars | Writer | Director |
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24-Jan-87 | 2x01 | "The Initiation" | Marion Ross | Rob Hedden Jim Beaver |
Robert Iscove |
31-Jan-87 | 2x02 | "Conversation Over a Corpse" | |||
7-Feb-87 | 2x03 | "Man on the Edge" | Mark Hamill Michael Ironside |
Jim Beaver | Robert Iscove |
14-Feb-87 | 2x04 | "If the Shoe Fits" | |||
21-Feb-87 | 2x05 | "The Mole" | |||
28-Feb-87 | 2x06 | "The Anniversary Gift" | Pamela Sue Martin | ||
7-Mar-87 | 2x07 | "The Impatient Patient" | |||
14-Mar-87 | 2x08 | "When This Man Dies" | |||
21-Mar-87 | 2x09 | "The Specialty of the House" | John Saxon Jennifer Dale Neil Munro |
Stanley Ellin (story) |
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28-Mar-87 | 2x10 | "The Final Twist" | Martin Landau | Jim Beaver | Atom Egoyan |
4-Apr-87 | 2x11 | "Tragedy Tonight" | |||
11-Apr-87 | 2x12 | "World's Oldest Motive" | |||
18-Apr-87 | 2x13 | "Deathmate" | Samantha Eggar |
Season 3
First Aired | # | Title | Stars | Writer | Director |
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6-Feb-88 | 3x01 | "VCR – Very Careful Rape" | Melissa Sue Anderson Laura Donovan |
Michael Sloan | Zale Dalen |
13-Feb-88 | 3x02 | "Animal Lovers" | Susan Anton Ron White |
Robert DeLaurentis | Sturla Gunnarsson |
20-Feb-88 | 3x03 | "Prism" | Lindsay Wagner Michael Sarrazin |
Michael Sloan | Allan King |
27-Feb-88 | 3x04 | "A Stolen Heart" | William Katt | Robert DeLaurentis | Rene Bonniere |
5-Mar-88 | 3x05 | "Houdini on Channel 4" | Nick Lewin | Michael Sloan | Timothy Bond |
12-Mar-88 | 3x06 | "Killer Takes All" | Van Johnson Art Bellasco |
Michael Sloan Robert DeLaurentis |
Allan King |
19-Mar-88 | 3x07 | "Hippocritic Oath" | Shaun Cassidy Dale Thurston |
Michael Colleary Ray DeLaurentis |
Vic Sarin |
26-Mar-88 | 3x08 | "Prosecuter" | Parker Stevenson Clark Taylor |
Glenn Davis William Laurin |
David Gelfand |
23-Apr-88 | 3x09 | "If Looks Could Kill" | Michelle Phillips | ||
30-Apr-88 | 3x10 | "You'll Die Laughing" | Anthony Newley | ||
7-May-88 | 3x11 | "Murder Party" | Leigh Taylor-Young David McCallum Colin Fox |
Robert De Laurentis | Allan King |
14-May-88 | 3x12 | "Twist" | Stella Stevens | Manny Coto | |
21-May-88 | 3x13 | "User Deadly" | |||
28-May-88 | 3x14 | "Career Move" | David Cassidy | ||
18-June-88 | 3x15 | "Full Disclosure" | |||
25-June-88 | 3x16 | "Kandinsky's Vault" | Eli Wallach | ||
2-July-88 | 3x17 | "There Was a Little Girl..." | |||
9-July-88 | 3x18 | "Twisted Sisters" | Mia Sara | ||
16-July-88 | 3x19 | "The 13th Floor" | |||
30-July-88 | 3x20 | "The Hunted: Part 1" | Edward Woodward | ||
6-Aug-88 | 3x21 | "The Hunted: Part 2" |
Season 4
First Aired | # | Title | Stars | Writer | Director |
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8-Oct-88 | 4x01 | "Fogbound" | Kathleen Quinlan | ||
15-Oct-88 | 4x02 | "Pen Pal" | Jean Simmons | Rene Bonniere | |
12-Nov-88 | 4x03 | "Ancient Voices" | |||
19-Nov-88 | 4x04 | "Survival of the Fittest" | |||
7-Jan-89 | 4x05 | "The Big Spin" | Erik Estrada | ||
14-Jan-89 | 4x06 | "Don't Sell Yourself Short" | |||
21-Jan-89 | 4x07 | "For Art's Sake" | |||
28-Jan-89 | 4x08 | "Murder in Mind" | Melissa Sue Anderson | ||
4-Feb-89 | 4x09 | "Mirror Mirror" | |||
11-Feb-89 | 4x10 | "Skeleton in the Closet" | |||
18-Feb-89 | 4x11 | "In the Driver's Seat" | |||
25-Feb-89 | 4x12 | "Driving Under the Influence" | |||
11-Mar-89 | 4x13 | "In the Name of Science" | |||
25-Mar-89 | 4x14 | "Romance Machine" | |||
15-Apr-89 | 4x15 | "Diamonds Aren't Forever" | |||
22-Apr-89 | 4x16 | "My Dear Watson" | |||
29-Apr-89 | 4x17 | "Night Creatures" | |||
8-July-89 | 4x18 | "The Man Who Knew Too Little" | |||
15-July-89 | 4x19 | "Reunion" | |||
22-July-89 | 4x20 | "South by Southeast" |
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