The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Season 1
A continuation of the dramatic anthology series hosted by the Master of Suspense
and Mystery. When the series Alfred Hitchcock Presents was revived in 1962, the
name was changed, but the format stayed fairly true to the original. In each
episode, viewers would be strung along with the story, never knowing which way
the final twist would turn
Episode 1 - A piece of the action
Description: Professional gambler Duke Marsden bitterly treads in his father's footsteps, which led to tragedy. Duke's wife is cold and aristocratic, fed up with his habits, she gives him an ultimatum to either give up poker or else she's gone. Duke is appalled when his younger brother Chuck, a law student, catches the fever too - does he have Duke's ability or their father's luck?..
Episode 2 - Don't look behind you
Description: In the insular world of a small college, someone is attacking women in a nearby woods. A group of faculty aridly mull the situation at their regular cocktail parties. Is one of the men the attacker, is the group's beautiful Daphne being lined up as a victim?
Episode 3 - Night of the owl
Description: A former prison chaplain and his accomplice blackmail a happy family. The blackmailers know that the oldest daughter is adopted and comes from a tragic background; her biological father killed her mother and then himself. The adoring couple love raising their daughters in the idyllic environment of the picturesque and peaceful Appalachian mountains. The husband, a forest ranger, wants to shield his daughter from taunts and gossip should the history of her birth parents become public knowledge. The smarmy blackmailer keeps coming back for more, so the husband mulls his options along with the consequences. The plot thickens when one of the blackmailers is found murdered deep in the piney woods.
Episode 4 - I saw the whole thing
Description: A mystery writer named Michael Barnes is accused of causing a fatal motorcycle accident with his car. The eyewitnesses prove less than reliable, however, when he defends himself in court and shreds their testimony by demonstrating that in each case the witnesses saw only what they wanted to see rather than the actual truth. Finally, George Peabody is called in as a witness. He was the only one who really saw the whole thing.
Episode 5 - Captive audience
Description: A mystery novelist sends a series of weird audiotapes to his publisher. On the first tape, the author boasts that the publisher won't be able to discern if the story he narrates is the history of an imminent murder - or a mere fantasy. The author tells of his brief marriage ending when his wife was killed after he lost control of their car. They were kissing, making up after an argument over his wife's staying out all night with a rich old man, the same evening the author was briefly with the man's alluring, young wife Janet. Janet made a pass at the author, who immediately cut the evening short. The author says he fell into a severe depression, declined a needed brain operation, moved from France to San Francisco where he changed his name, then became a mystery writer. The tapes relate how the author eventually ran into Janet , and though she's still married, dived into an affair. When she and the author begin to plan her husband's murder, the publisher calls in another of his mystery novelists to determine: are these tapes just an unorthodox pitch of a new novel - or the bizarre confession of a deranged killer?
Episode 6 - Final vow
Description: On her way back to the nunnery, a beautiful novice loses a priceless 15th-century Donatello statuette donated to the convent by an aging criminal seeking redemption for his illegal endeavors. To track it down, the guilt-ridden young woman leaves the order and dives naively into the sleazy world of the criminal who stole the icon from her at a train station on her return trip.
Episode 7 - Annabel
Description: A disturbed man's other identity snares others in a perilous web. David is a successful, quiet young scientist - but on weekends he has an impeccable country cottage where as the confident William, he fantasizes as if actually entertaining ex-girlfriend Annabel, now happily married nearby. When his co-workers, one of whom has a crush on David, follow him up the coast, David's dream world by the sea for Annabel, morphs into a nightmare for all.
Episode 8 - House guest
Description: An oily hero quickly makes himself unwelcome - even harder to dispose of, until he crashes his hosts' car & mashes a neighbor's wife. The unemployed stranger saved the life of a young boy, whose grateful parents welcomed the recently discharged vet into their seaside home.
Episode 9 - The black curtain
Description: Getting conked on the head with a thug's slapjack during a mugging causes a man lose consciousness and, when he awakens, to revert to his memory of events 3 years earlier, but he conveniently forgets that he's currently wanted for murder under an assumed identity.
Episode 10 - Day of reckoning
Description: An unfaithful wife taunts her husband that she's ditching him for a real man. As the drunken couple argue on the stern of a yacht, the normally timid husband shoves her overboard to drown. The society party-goers on the boat support his tale that the wife accidentally fell overboard that night, and the police believe the husband, too. At first, he's relieved, then gradually guilt takes him over, but friends feel his panicky behavior is grief. The widower blurts the murder to his friends, but his story was so convincing they downplay his confession, not wanting to be involved in an embarrassing murder inquiry. As his internal pressure mounts, the killer desperately seeks a way out.
Episode 11 - Ride the nightmare
Description: A perfect couple's content suburban world is interrupted by a telephone threat ("I'm going to kill you") against the cocksure husband. His past misdeeds unravel his new life, terrifying his unknowing wife.
Episode 12 - Hangover
Description: Hadley Purvis, an advertising man, finds himself facing a divorce if he doesn't knock off his heavy drinking. This does little to slow him down as he continues to drink himself into an alcoholic stupor, and one morning, finds himself at home with a girl named Marion that he picked up the night before.
Episode 13 - Bonfire
Description: A lonely young woman moves into her newly deceased aunt's home in a small town. A way-too-helpful, next-door neighbor becomes her guardian angel, yet with his own agenda in mind. He's a lay preacher, who's determined not to go back to being a coal miner.
Episode 14 - The tender poisoner
Description: An executive plans to end an associate's love affair and save the man's career and marriage.
Episode 15 - The thirty-first of February
Description: An inquest rules a wife's death as accidental, but when the widower returns to work, it seems someone is tricking him, including a letter accusing him of murder and one of his wife's letters appearing, revealing she had a lover. Increasingly the widower's own mind tricks him, rejecting logical explanations, instead angrily confronting his co-workers.
Episode 16 - What really happened
Description: A woman stands trial for her wealthy husband's murder. Her vengeful mother-in-law is convinced that she did it, but a family servant knows the key to what really happened.
Episode 17 - Forecast: low clouds and coastal fog
Description: A beautiful young newlywed is wary of her much-older husband's business trip leaving her alone in their beach house. A group of beach boys and a neighboring screenwriter provide her some company, unwanted by the husband. When an Hispanic man knocks on her door at night asking for help, she turns him away, leading to tragic consequences.
Episode 18 - A tangled web
Description: A very sweet French maid runs away with, and marries a professional burglar with hopes of making him honest. However, the burglar's "fence" (Karl) has his own hopes in mind.
Episode 19 - To catch a butterfly
Description: At first, a childless young couple are thrilled to relocate for the husband's new executive job, and especially happy with their new home. Is the next-door neighbor boy's cruelty to them just a youngster rebelling against his blue-collar, strict father? The husband's empathy for the boy drives a dangerous wedge into their marriage.
Episode 20 - The paragon
Description: A man tries to stop his insensitive wife from alienating their family and friends.
Episode 21 - I'll be judge - I'll be jury
Description: Relatives of a murdered newlywed decide to bring the killer to justice themselves.
Episode 22 - Diagnosis: Danger
Description: An apparent hit-and-run turns out to be so much more. It leads to an anthrax scare that spreads through Los Angeles, but the perpetrator is elusive.
Episode 23 - The lonely hours
Description: A mother of three notices that her baby son fascinates the lady renting a room in her home.
Episode 24 - The star juror
Description: After killing a woman, a man is chosen to be a juror for the trial of the man accused of her murder.
Episode 25 - The long silence
Description: "Let's keep it within the family" instructs Mr. Manson, after an audit reveals $200,000 embezzled from the family bank he married into. The money was pilfered from accounts of his stepson Robbie, the bank loan officer, who's missing. Late that night, Robbie returns to the Manson family mansion, just as Manson is fleeing with a packed suitcase. Robbie holds a bag too, filled with documents from out-of-town which prove Manson stole the money. When Robbie refuses to let him get away, Manson clamps his hand over Robbie's mouth, begging him to listen. Robbie suffocates, so Manson doctors the crime scene to look like a suicide by hanging. Manson's typing a fake suicide note awakens Robbie's mother, who accuses her husband of killing Robbie. Manson shoves her down a staircase. She lives, paralyzed, unable to speak. Everyone hopes she'll recover, except Manson, who stays by her side.
Episode 26 - An out for Oscar
Description: Mousy bank teller Oscar Blenny, a guest at a desert casino, is enamored with Eva, a seductive casino hostess, who is having affairs with two male co-workers. With the sinister Bill, she's conniving to rip off the casino. When her superior discovers she's two-timing him, their confrontation turns violent and she kills him. Realizing that Oscar is just outside the room, she screams, so schlemiel Oscar can corroborate her damsel-in-distress excuse of self-defense. The casino owner limits the publicity damage, by firing Eva and exiling Bill, who drops Eva cold, to Mexico. The now unemployed Eva cadges a ride to L.A. with Oscar and soon they are wed. When Oscar is nominated for a promotion, slovenly alcoholic Eva is a big liability, especially when Bill resurfaces in L.A. Does Eva kill Bill, will Bill reveal all about Eva, or will Oscar decline the award?
Episode 27 - Death and the joyful woman
Description: Luis Aguilar is a rich wine merchant who disowns his son when he refuses to marry beautiful vineyard owner Kitty Norris. At a party, however, Luis agrees to give his son $5000 if boy can drink him under the table. Drinking his own wine called "Joyful Woman" Luis humiliates his son by outdrinking him. After the contest, Luis hits on Kitty who resists and pushes him down the stairs. When Luis's secretary Ruth witnesses the event she jealously kills Luis in the hope that Kitty will be blamed. Ruth wanted Luis all for herself. Unfortunately for Ruth, a waiter discovers the body and figures out that Luis did not die in a fall...
Episode 28 - Last seen wearing blue jeans
Description: A vacationing British family is on the Arizona border with Mexico when their teenage daughter mistakes a criminal's stolen car for her family's and goes to sleep in the backseat. Not realizing she is there, the criminal drives the car to Mexico, where the girl witnesses a murder. When the parents realize their daughter is missing, they return to the diner in an attempt to locate her, but corrupt police forces on both sides of the border conspire to keep the daughter from her parents. A handful of honest citizens on both sides of the border try to help, but with the daughter knowing the truth about the car theft business, the criminals must keep her from reuniting with her parents.
Episode 29 - The dark pool
Description: After an adopted son drowns, a strange woman arrives claiming to be the boy's birth mother and proceeds to blackmail the adoptive mother.
Episode 30 - Dear uncle George
Description: A neighbor's letter about an unfaithful wife disturbs an advice columnist.
Episode 31 - Run for doom
Description: A young doctor continues to date a beautiful showgirl in spite of warnings that her three previous marriages ended badly for her past husbands.
Episode 32 - Death of a cop
Description: A remorseful detective vows to find the men who killed his son, who was also a cop.
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