Alfred Hitchcock Presents

A college student tries to make the police believe that a professor has murdered his missing wife.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Paul Ford, Billy Gray
Director(s): Alan Crosland Jr.
Writer(s): Henry Slesar

A 5-year-old boy finds his uncle's revolver, partially loads it with bullets, and plays with it in public, unaware of its deadly power.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Stephen Dunne, Biff Elliot
Director(s): Alfred Hitchcock
Writer(s): Harold Swanton, Margery Vosper

Carol Thorby is furious when she discovers her husband has bought what they think is a chimp that can draw. Soon, though, they're both bewildered when they find the chimp is not a chimp at all.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Norman Lloyd, Nita Talbot
Director(s): Boris Sagal
Writer(s): John Collier, John Wyndham

When a young woman witnesses two men rob and kill a bank messenger, one of the men devises a plan to silence her.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Walter Matthau, Glenn Cannon
Director(s): Paul Henreid
Writer(s): Henry Slesar

A husband who works late continuously neglects his pretty wife's need for companionship, inadvertently bringing about an unwanted police presence.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Anne Francis, Jack Ging
Director(s): Alan Crosland Jr.
Writer(s): Henry Slesar

A college fraternity drugs and makes up one of their members to look as if he is dead, then lead another unsuspecting member into believing he killed him.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Burt Brinckerhoff, Duke Howard
Director(s): Alan Crosland Jr.
Writer(s): Calvin Clements Sr.

A woman beaten by an unknown attacker comes under great pressure by her husband and the police to identify a suspect.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Dick York, Carolyn Kearney
Director(s): Norman Lloyd
Writer(s): Stanley Ellin, Helen Nielsen

A retired hit man being blackmailed finds out in his profession, he has to keep on killing to protect his wife and to survive.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Richard Conte, Sara Shane
Director(s): Paul Henreid
Writer(s): Calvin Clements Sr., H.A. De Rosso

A London private detective trying to find evidence that a sweet, gentle, older woman is cheating on her separated husband, falls in love with her.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Kay Walsh, Eric Barker
Director(s): Norman Lloyd
Writer(s): John Collier, John Mortimer

A man can't remember who he is, but has a $1000 bill and an address of a doctor.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Stephen Dunne, Hugh Marlowe
Director(s): Paul Henreid
Writer(s): William Link, Richard Levinson

A wounded killer of a policeman rushes to get his prescription of painkiller filled, and a big mistake is made.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Redford, Russell Collins
Director(s): Alan Crosland Jr.
Writer(s): Henry Slesar

An old woman is suspected of murdering her mentally cruel husband, as her childhood girlfriend tries to cover up evidence against her.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Ann Harding, Philip Bourneuf
Director(s): Robert Florey
Writer(s): James P. Cavanagh, Susan Glaspell

In 1817 London, a silk petticoat belonging to the first wife of a newly remarried husband reveals him to be a very evil man.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Michael Rennie, Antoinette Bower
Director(s): John Newland
Writer(s): Norman Ginsbury, Joseph Shearing, Halsted Welles

An alcoholic actor strangles his friend who won his part in a play, and then tries an unusual way to try to dispose of his body.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Duvall, Carole Eastman
Director(s): John Newland
Writer(s): Robert Bloch, Richard Deming

A man goes to a police station claiming memory loss, followed by a boy who says he was accidentally left behind by his father, but the desk sergeant is suspicious of both their stories.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Claude Rains, John Larch
Director(s): Herschel Daugherty
Writer(s): Norman Daniels, Irving Elman

A psychiatrist's secretary falls for a shady man who pressures her to steal files from her office.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Loggia, Barbara Baxley
Director(s): Alan Crosland Jr.
Writer(s): Henry Slesar

Aaron is a garage mechanic who becomes a devotee of a faith healer after he is apparently cured of an ulcer. The healer persuades Aaron to become his chauffeur and he becomes part of the tour. But a questionable man seeks a major healing.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Sidney Blackmer, Andrew Prine
Director(s): Norman Lloyd
Writer(s): Ray Bradbury, Stanley Ellin

When a woman is forced by a murderer to drive him to safety, she deliberately passes up chances to escape.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Charles Bronson, Lola Albright
Director(s): Alan Crosland Jr.
Writer(s): Bryce Walton

After he's injured in an accident at work, a man dares to fake a miracle after pretending to be paralyzed in order to collect insurance money.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, David Opatoshu, Miriam Colon
Director(s): Norman Lloyd
Writer(s): George Langelaan, Halsted Welles

A lawyer defending a 17-year-old in his stabbing murder trial, wants to use a controversial chemical test that would show if the weapon ever had blood on it.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Brian Keith, Eduardo Ciannelli
Director(s): Boris Sagal
Writer(s): Henry Slesar

A paroled safe cracker is hired by a safe company to try and break open one of their safes publicly, and get the 50,000-dollar reward inside.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Paul Hartman, Robert Webber
Director(s): John Newland
Writer(s): Henry Slesar

A babysitter and her gang kill and rob her employer of $32,000, unaware that the money belongs to a deadly criminal syndicate.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Rafael Campos, Evans Evans
Director(s): Boris Sagal
Writer(s): Sam Merwin Jr., Bryce Walton

A retiring office worker plots with his wife to steal money from the company vault, but apparently unknown to her, he's planning to flee with his mistress after taking the cash.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Henry Jones, Ruth Storey
Director(s): Bernard Girard
Writer(s): William Link, Richard Levinson

A man's attractive mistress tells him she will handle the killing of his wife, but he wants to hire someone to do it, and a miscommunication results.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Patricia Breslin, Vivienne Segal
Director(s): Alan Crosland Jr.
Writer(s): John T. Kelley, James Workman

Amos Duff's mortuary is struggling to sell anything but economy funerals. However, when Duff finds something unusual about a wound on a corpse brought in by the deceased's business partner, he feels certain he can sell a "Class A" funeral.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Ed Gardner, John Fiedler
Director(s): Leonard J. Horn
Writer(s): Henry Slesar

A boxing manager risks his fighter's health by increasing the dosage of a secret energy formula he has been injecting him with.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Keith, Frankie Darro
Director(s): Bernard Girard
Writer(s): William Jerome Fay

Ralston Temple is a successful novelist who receives a letter from struggling writer Alan Chatterton asking him for comments on the first three chapters of his book. Temple invites him to his apartment and Chatterton asks him for a loan of $40 per week for six months to allow him to finish his novel. Over time, the loans grow larger and Temple has yet to see anything of the novel. At a restaurant one evening, Temple sees Chatterton entertaining a group of friends and learns that he is a regular patron. Thinking he has been swindled, Temple throws him out. Only later does he realize that he may have been hasty.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, George Grizzard, Dennis King
Director(s): Bernard Girard
Writer(s): Eric Ambler, Nicholas Monsarrat

A man is devoted to his old, unwell Kerry Blue terrier. Sadly the dog dies while he's out of town. Convinced his wife buried his beloved Annie alive (out of jealousy), he sets out to make her pay - but has his blind rage made him careless?

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Gene Evans, Carmen Mathews
Director(s): Paul Henreid
Writer(s): Henry Slesar

Laurent Dubois is a jeweler who manages to sell a magnificent black pearl for $4000. Turns out the buyer's wife doesn't know what to do with only one pearl and insists that they find another. Dubois returns to the pearl's original owner, Captain McCabe, to see if he can find another. McCabe feels that he was cheated on the first deal and he refuses Dubois' offer to double the original price if he can find a second pearl. Dubois eventually gets the pearl and a bit of a surprise as well.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, John Ireland, Ernest Truex
Director(s): Bernard Girard
Writer(s): Henry Slesar

Fred Riordan is an ex-con who is re-arrested less than 48 hours after his release on parole. He served four years for robbery and on his release, seems like a mild-mannered man who is intent on making a go of it. He recounts to the warden and prison psychiatrist the events during his two days of freedom as they try to determine what may have caused him to get drunk and break up a bar in his old neighborhood. The psychiatrist is convinced that something in the outside world frightened him and probes to determine exactly what that was. Little do they know that there is something altogether different taking place.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, R.G. Armstrong, Edward Asner
Director(s): Paul Henreid
Writer(s): Joel Murcott, Jack Ritchie

A seemingly poor man who was supreme in his college class, gets a servant's job from a rich former classmate, where he finds he makes unlawful tax deals, and should be stopped.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Jack Carter, Joanna Moore
Director(s): Richard Whorf
Writer(s): Henry Slesar

A man searches for his brain-injured wife who has to walk home from work nightly, in the midst of a serial killer.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Peggy Ann Garner, John Lupton
Director(s): Paul Henreid
Writer(s): Talmage Powell

Paul Devore is an unhappily married department store manager whose wealthy wife loathes him and refuses to divorce him, unwilling to give him half of her assets as community property. He blackmails a thirty-something shoplifter into coming to his house the following Sunday evening. Assuming he was going to force her to have sex, she is surprised to find the master bedroom ransacked and all of the valuables missing. She realizes Devore has staged a robbery and all he wants the shoplifter to do is tie him to the bed to make it look like a robbery. But what will Mrs. Devore say when she gets home and finds her husband in this state?

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Richard Long, Coleen Gray
Director(s): Robert Florey
Writer(s): Bryce Walton, Henry Slesar, J.W. Aaron

A loyal employee learns he won't get his anticipated promotion and decides to get something even better-a half million dollars in negotiable bonds stolen from his employer.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Dick York, Sarah Marshall
Director(s): John Newland
Writer(s): Mike Marmer, Harold Swanton

Frankie Fane is an American who has been in Rome for about six weeks and is starting to get bored. He hasn't picked up much of the language, and has visited most of the tourist sites in Rome itself. A fellow American suggests that he rent a car and visit some old ruins just a short drive from the city. When he gets there he finds the villagers unfriendly, and a large group of teenagers that constantly follow him around. He quickly realizes that he may be in trouble, but it may also be the case that he gets what he deserves.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Jack Carson, Stefan Schnabel
Director(s): Robert Florey
Writer(s): Robert Wallsten

Edward Gibson is newly divorced and a very happy man. He's less happy when he learns that his ex-wife Gloria commissioned a portrait of herself for $2500. He refuses to pay and asks his friend Carl, who's now seeing his ex-wife, to buy the painting. Carl has something else in mind: he offers to marry Gloria, for a price.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Webber, Jeremy Slate
Director(s): Don Weis
Writer(s): Henry Slesar

Ken is a square university professor who likes hanging around with a group of beatniks. At a party he meets Judy who is down and out and can't buy food, let alone pay the rent. Urged on by her boyfriend Mitch, Judy agrees to go out on a date with Ken in the hopes of getting some money out of him.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Wayne Rogers, Anne Helm
Director(s): Alan Crosland Jr.
Writer(s): Robert Bloch

Caroline has an uncanny infatuation with her actor brother and grows jealous whenever he spends time in the company of other women.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, George Nader, Cloris Leachman
Director(s): Robert Florey
Writer(s): James P. Cavanagh, Henry Farrell

A magician takes a simple-minded runaway under his wing. But the magician's wife has a sinister idea for the easily manipulated young man.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Diana Dors, Brandon De Wilde
Director(s): Joseph Lejtes
Writer(s): Robert Bloch