Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955 - 1959)

NR Seasons 1 - 4 Classic, Classic TV Shows, Classics

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Master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock brings his droll sensibility to the small screen in this legendary and iconic anthology series.

Directed by
Alfred Hitchcock

Starring
Alfred Hitchcock

Seasons:

1 2 3 4

Summary

Master of the macabre Alfred Hitchcock plays host to mystery, murder and mayhem on the premiere season of his iconic television series.

Episode 1

Revenge (1955)
26 min
A husband decides to get revenge on the man who attacked his wife. After defending her honor, he faces an even greater threat from her troubled past.
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Episode 2

Premonition (1955)
26 min
A pianist returns to his hometown and learns that his dad died. But the strange behavior of friends and family only fuels the musician's suspicions.
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Episode 3

Triggers in Leash (1955)
26 min
Maggie gets caught up in a feud and tries to stop two men who argued during a poker game, drew their guns and prepared for an old-fashioned duel.
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Episode 4

Don't Come Back Alive (1955)
26 min
Faking his wife's death comes back to haunt a husband when the wife returns with a brand-new attitude after spending seven long years in hiding.
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Episode 5

Into Thin Air (1955)
25 min
When Diane's ailing mother disappears from a Paris hotel room, Diane's frantic search is hindered by strange events and the bizarre hotel staff.
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Episode 6

Salvage (1955)
25 min
The woman who snitched on a gangster's now-dead brother is chased down by the criminal, who faces a soul-searching dilemma once he catches her.
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Episode 7

Breakdown (1955)
25 min
An emotionless man finds himself in a terrifying situation where expressing fear and sadness could mean the difference between life and death.
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Episode 8

Our Cook's Treasure (1955)
25 min
Fearing his new cook is a wanted murderer, Ralph uncovers evidence that points directly to the cook and takes matters into his own inept hands.
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Episode 9

The Long Shot (1955)
26 min
Charlie finds work driving a man cross-country. En route, Charlie discovers that his passenger will inherit a fortune and devises a plan to steal it.
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Episode 10

The Case of Mr. Pelham (1955)
25 min
Albert Pelham discovers that a look-alike is impersonating him. Pelham eventually catches his crafty doppelganger but loses a grip on his own sanity.
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Episode 11

Guilty Witness (1955)
25 min
When the husband of the Cranes' neighbor Mrs. Verber mysteriously disappears, the Cranes unearth a body. But that's just the first shocking discovery.
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Episode 12

Santa Claus and the 10th Avenue Kid (1955)
25 min
An ex-con takes a job as a department store Santa in hopes of robbing it, but his attitude changes when he witnesses a youth committing crimes.
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Episode 13

The Cheney Vase (1955)
25 min
After getting fired from his art museum job, Lyle Endicott gets close to an old woman whose sole mission is protecting her family's antique vase.
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Episode 14

A Bullet for Baldwin (1955)
25 min
After he's fired, Benjamin Stepp goes after his boss. The next day at work, the boss he's certain he killed is waiting to give him a promotion.
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Episode 15

The Big Switch (1955)
25 min
After his girlfriend dumps him, Sam Dunleavy plots to kill her. But matters get complicated when Sam's childhood friend -- now a cop -- shows up.
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Episode 16

You Got to Have Luck (1955)
25 min
Criminal Sam Cobbett invades a farmhouse and holds a woman at knifepoint. But Sam fails to recognize the reason his hostage is acting so strangely.
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Episode 17

The Older Sister (1955)
25 min
A reporter looking for an interview goes to the home of Lizzie Borden, where her questions cause Lizzie's sister Emma to have a nervous breakdown.
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Episode 18

Shopping for Death (1955)
25 min
Two retired insurance salesmen decide to trail a hot-tempered woman on a sizzling day to see whether the oppressive heat causes her to explode.
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Episode 19

The Derelicts (1955)
25 min
Ralph Cowell kills his creditor but can't find the note that he wrote a year earlier. A vagrant witnesses the murder and begins blackmailing Cowell.
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Episode 20

And So Died Riabouchinska (1955)
25 min
Detective Krovitch investigates a murder at a run-down vaudeville theater and gets a hot lead from the ventriloquist's dummy.
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Episode 21

Safe Conduct (1955)
25 min
After visiting a communist country, Mary befriends soccer player Jan on the train. Jan asks Mary to hold a watch for him until they cross the border.
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Episode 22

Place of Shadows (1955)
25 min
When a stranger shows up at a monastery, Father Vincente realizes he's lying about his identity and is really out to get revenge on a man named Rocco.
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Episode 23

Back for Christmas (1955)
25 min
A man plans to kill his wife and bury her in their basement, unaware that she's been planning to convert their basement into a wine cellar.
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Episode 24

The Perfect Murder (1955)
25 min
Worried that their Aunt Rosalie doesn't really like them, brothers Paul and Henri set out to get their hands on her fortune any way they can.
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Episode 25

There Was an Old Woman (1955)
26 min
Con artists Frank and Lorna set out to rob an old woman by pretending to be relatives. Lorna's worried, but Frank is convinced she's an easy target.
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Episode 26

Whodunit (1955)
25 min
An angel allows a writer to relive his last day so he can find out who killed him, but the list of potential killers grows longer with each hour.
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Episode 27

Help Wanted (1955)
25 min
To pay for his wife's operation, Mr. Crabtree takes a job working for the mysterious Mr. X, who asks him to manage a job involving a blackmailer.
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Episode 28

Portrait of Jocelyn (1955)
25 min
At an art gallery, Mark is surprised when the art dealer hands over a portrait of Mark's first wife instead of the painting he'd originally purchased.
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Episode 29

The Orderly World of Appleby (1955)
26 min
An antiques dealer comes up with a clever way to raise money to pay off a loan. But things won't be as easy for the shop owner the second time around.
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Episode 30

Never Again (1955)
25 min
After arguing with her boyfriend, Karen wakes up in a jail cell with no recollection of what transpired and is told that she committed murder.
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Episode 31

The Gentleman from America (1955)
25 min
A gambler makes a bet with an American: Spend the night in a bedroom that's haunted by the ghost of a murderer who escaped from a mental institution.
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Episode 32

The Baby Sitter (1955)
24 min
Police question nanny Lottie Slocum about the murder of her employer, Mrs. Nash. Later, Lottie admits she likes the now-widowed Mr. Nash.
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Episode 33

The Belfry (1955)
25 min
When his schoolteacher crush reveals she's engaged to another man, Clint goes on a murderous rampage and hides out in the school's bell tower.
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Episode 34

The Hidden Thing (1955)
25 min
After his fiancée is killed by a car, Dana Edwards is overcome with grief. Then, a stranger whose son was killed in the same way offers to help.
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Episode 35

The Legacy (1955)
26 min
Howard's wife is wooed by Prince Burhan, who threatens suicide unless Irene runs away with him. But an old friend discovers all is not as it seems.
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Episode 36

Mink (1955)
25 min
Paula discovers that the fur coat her hairstylist sold her was stolen. When a man calls Paula to discuss the mink, she eagerly agrees to meet him.
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Episode 37

Decoy (1955)
25 min
When Gil Larkin confronts his lover's abusive husband, Gil somehow loses consciousness. When he wakes up, Gil learns he's a murder suspect.
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Episode 38

The Creeper (1955)
25 min
With a strangler on the loose, Ellen's husband Steve has all the locks changed. When the locksmith arrives, Steve calls from work with startling news.
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Episode 39

Momentum (1955)
25 min
Dick's wife badgers him into demanding back pay from his boss, who tells him there's simply no money left. But Dick takes matters into his own hands.
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Summary

Mystery and intrigue abound in this collection of spine-tingling episodes from Season 2 of the Emmy-winning television series.

Episode 1

Wet Saturday (1956)
26 min
The premiere episode of Season 2 follows powerful Mr. Princey, who, after his daughter kills a man, devises a plan to save his family's name.
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Episode 2

Fog Closing In (1956)
26 min
Mary begs her husband not to go away on a business trip. But Arthur refuses, deserting her just as an escaped lunatic finds their neighborhood.
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Episode 3

De Mortius (1956)
25 min
Aware that their friend's wife is cheating, Wally and Bud draw the same conclusion when they find him digging up his basement and his wife's missing.
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Episode 4

Kill with Kindness (1956)
25 min
Hoping to profit from insurance fraud, Fritz torches his house. But the plan could backfire unless Fritz enters the burning home to retrieve his ring.
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Episode 5

None Are So Blind (1956)
26 min
Seymour kills his rich aunt. Confident in his plan, Seymour cooperates with the police, only to discover a fatal flaw in his so-called perfect crime.
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Episode 6

Toby (1956)
25 min
Things are looking up for Albert when his sweetheart marries him -- until her sickly infant nephew lives with them and he's to stay away from the boy.
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Episode 7

Alibi Me (1956)
25 min
When a gangster is killed, his rival Georgie realizes the cops will come after him. Georgie's alibi unravels with the arrival of a mysterious package.
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Episode 8

Conversation Over a Corpse (1956)
24 min
Mr. Brenner threatens to take sisters Cissie and Joanna to court unless they sell him their home. But the sisters will stop at nothing to stay put.
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Episode 9

Crack of Doom (1956)
25 min
The stakes are high for company man Mason Bridges, who is forced into playing a big-stakes poker game against rich client Sam Klinker.
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Episode 10

Jonathan (1956)
25 min
When his father dies from poisoning, a teenager points the finger at his stepmother, whom he's resented since the day she married his father.
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Episode 11

The Better Bargain (1956)
25 min
Furious at his cheating wife, mobster Louis Koster hires a hit man to kill her. But the plan turns complicated when Louis overlooks some loose ends.
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Episode 12

The Rose Garden (1956)
25 min
Alexander thinks that a manuscript's murder mystery is more fact than fiction, so he visits the author's home to see what lies buried in the garden.
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Episode 13

Mr. Blanchard's Secret (1956)
25 min
Borrowing heavily from Hitchcock's Rear Window, nosey housewife Babs Fenton sets out to prove that new neighbor Mr. Blanchard has murdered his wife.
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Episode 14

John Brown's Body (1956)
24 min
John's wife devises a greedy scheme to take over his failing business. But persuading John to come back isn't as easy as getting rid of him.
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Episode 15

Crackpot (1956)
25 min
When their car breaks down, a newly married couple is helped by Mr. Moon, who turns nasty when his suit gets dirty. Can they escape Mr. Moon's wrath?
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Episode 16

Nightmare in 4-D (1956)
26 min
Harry agrees to help his pretty neighbor, an actress named Lainie, hide her murdered husband. But his good deed backfires when he becomes a suspect.
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Episode 17

My Brother Richard (1956)
25 min
District Attorney Martin Ross faces a crisis in his campaign for governor when his mentally unstable brother tries to eliminate the competition.
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Episode 18

Manacled (1956)
25 min
Aboard a transport train, a convict attempts escape. But he's clamped down tight by a complex boot cuff and manacled to a levelheaded police sergeant.
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Episode 19

Bottle of Wine (1956)
25 min
Determined to prove that his wife's current lover is a loser, Harry devises a plan to expose his rival as a coward, but the plan goes horribly awry.
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Episode 20

Malice Domestic (1956)
25 min
When he tests positive for arsenic, Carl suspects it's his wife who's trying to poison him. But she falls victim to a deadly cup of coffee herself.
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Episode 21

Number Twenty-Two (1956)
25 min
After robbing a candy store with a fake gun, Steve Morgan is captured by police. Steve is excited and honored by all the attention his crime draws.
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Episode 22

The End of Indian Summer (1956)
25 min
Detective Joe Rogers investigates Marguerite, whose first two husbands died under suspicious circumstances. She now wants a third marriage.
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Episode 23

One for the Road (1956)
25 min
Marcia Hendrix tries to kill her husband's lover by sprinkling poison into the woman's sugar bowl, only to be caught in her own tangled web.
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Episode 24

The Cream of the Jest (1956)
26 min
Aging actor Charles Gresham blackmails a producer, who casts Gresham in his next play. But Gresham must audition in front of a very important backer.
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Episode 25

I Killed the Count: Part 1 (1956)
25 min
Inspector Davidson is assigned to a high-profile case. It seems that someone has murdered Count Mattoni, a ruthless man with a long list of enemies.
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Episode 26

I Killed the Count: Part 2 (1956)
26 min
Inspector Davidson thinks he's caught his killer when a suspect confesses. But the evidence isn't adding up, and a second suspect confesses.
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Episode 27

I Killed the Count: Part 3 (1956)
27 min
Inspector Davidson goes over the clues in Count Mattoni's murder with a fine-toothed comb. But a technicality may allow the killer to walk free.
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Episode 28

One More Mile to Go (1956)
25 min
Sam kills his annoying wife and drives to the lake with the body in his trunk. But a broken tail light results in a most inopportune side trip.
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Episode 29

Vicious Circle (1956)
25 min
After Manny's girlfriend, Betty, threatens to turn him in to the police for murder, he faces a daunting order: Kill Betty or suffer the consequences.
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Episode 30

The Three Dreams of Mr. Findlater (1956)
25 min
Mr. Findlater escapes a dull marriage through his dreams of the South Seas. When he meets an island girl, the line between fantasy and reality blurs.
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Episode 31

The Night the World Ended (1956)
25 min
Practical joker Mr. Halloran goes too far when he prints a fake newspaper with an article proclaiming that the end of the world is just hours away.
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Episode 32

The Hands of Mr. Ottermole (1956)
25 min
A strangler prowls the streets of London, and each time he strikes, the same reporter arrives followed by Sgt. Ottermole. Is it a coincidence?
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Episode 33

A Man Greatly Beloved (1956)
25 min
Hildegard Fell tries to befriend a retired judge, whose sudden death rocks the town. But his passing pales in comparison to the secrets it reveals.
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Episode 34

Martha Mason, Movie Star (1956)
25 min
Convinced that she resembles her favorite actress, housewife Mabel McKay succumbs to delusion and devises a foolproof plan to attract publicity.
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Episode 35

The West Warlock Time Capsule (1956)
25 min
Taxidermist George is asked to stuff a horse to be included in a time capsule. When a relative pushes him too far, he finds a solution in the capsule.
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Episode 36

Father and Son (1956)
25 min
Joe Saunders hides a friend from the authorities. But Joe soon learns that his scheming son plans to turn his own dad in and collect the reward money.
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Episode 37

The Indestructible Mr. Weems (1956)
25 min
Terminally ill Clarence Weems agrees to help his partners attract customers to a new cemetery. The problem is, Weems is more valuable dead than alive.
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Episode 38

A Little Sleep (1956)
25 min
Barbie Hallem sets out for her uncle's cabin and learns that a murderer is loose. But Barbie is unaware that the killer is hiding in her cabin.
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Episode 39

The Dangerous People (1956)
25 min
When a psycho escapes from the local asylum, two men on the same train succumb to their paranoia and finger each other as the wanted killer.
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