Overview of 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents' Season 1

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A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

Writing:

Alfred Hitchcock
James P. Cavanagh

Stars:

Release Date: 1955-10-02
Seasons: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

7.7/10

Country: US
Language: English
Runtime: 25

Season 1 Episode List

Episode 1 - Revenge
Release Date: 1955-10-02
When Carl Spann's wife Elsa is assaulted by an unknown attacker, he drives his still-incoherent wife around town, hoping she can point him out, so he can kill him.
Episode 2 - Premonition
Release Date: 1955-10-09
A famous pianist returns to his home town to find the man who murdered his father.
Episode 3 - Triggers in Leash
Release Date: 1955-10-16
A cook tries everything she can think of to end a dispute between two gunmen who have sworn to kill each other.
Episode 4 - Don't Come Back Alive
Release Date: 1955-10-23
Frank Partridge and his wife plot to cheat their life insurance company by having her hide out for 7 years and declared legally dead, but an investigator believes Mr. Partridge has murdered her.
Episode 5 - Into Thin Air
Release Date: 1955-10-30
When a young woman leaves her ill mother in a Paris hotel room and comes back later, she finds her mother is missing, and all the hotel's employees deny she and her mother were ever there.
Episode 6 - Salvage
Release Date: 1955-11-06
Gangster Dan Varrell, just released from prison, goes looking for the woman he holds responsible for his brother's death.
Episode 7 - Breakdown
Release Date: 1955-11-13
William Callew is involved in a bad traffic accident on a rural road, that leaves him so paralyzed he appears lifeless, and when help arrives they think he's really dead.
Episode 8 - Our Cook's a Treasure
Release Date: 1955-11-20
A man fears that the new cook he's hired is actually a murderess.
Episode 9 - The Long Shot
Release Date: 1955-11-27
Heavily indebted Charlie Raymond is hired to accompany a British visitor on a trip across the USA, and looks for a way to take advantage of his employer.
Episode 10 - The Case of Mr. Pelham
Release Date: 1955-12-04
A series of troubling incidents lead Mr. Pelham to believe that he has a double who is deliberately impersonating him.
Episode 11 - Guilty Witness
Release Date: 1955-12-11
When Mr. and Mrs. Crane hear the Verbers having a violent argument in the apartment just above them, and then Mr. Verber disappears the next day, they can't help suspecting the worst.
Episode 12 - Santa Claus and the 10th Avenue Kid
Release Date: 1955-12-18
While working as a department store 'Santa Claus', a paroled convict tries to help a troubled boy.
Episode 13 - The Cheney Vase
Release Date: 1955-12-25
When Lyle Endicott is fired from his job at an art museum, he comes up with a plan to take advantage of a trusting invalid whom he befriended at the museum.
Episode 14 - A Bullet for Baldwin
Release Date: 1956-01-01
When an office worker is fired from his job, he shoots his boss to death, but when he returns to the office his boss is alive, and has no recollection of the incident.
Episode 15 - The Big Switch
Release Date: 1956-01-08
Gangster Sam Dunleavy sets up an elaborate alibi so that he can kill his ex-girlfriend Goldie, who left him for another man.
Episode 16 - You Got to Have Luck
Release Date: 1956-01-15
During a massive manhunt for escaped convict Sam Cobbett, Cobbett invades a house where young housewife Mary Schaffner is home alone.
Episode 17 - The Older Sister
Release Date: 1956-01-22
A reporter discovers the truth about the infamous Lizzie Borden murder case.
Episode 18 - Shopping for Death
Release Date: 1956-01-29
Two retired insurance salesmen confront an aggressive, hostile woman in hopes of saving her from a disaster.
Episode 19 - The Derelicts
Release Date: 1956-02-05
Inventor Ralph Cowell murders his silent partner Alfred, only to be blackmailed by vagrant Peter Goodfellow, who witnessed the crime.
Episode 20 - And So Died Riabouchinska
Release Date: 1956-02-12
While investigating a murder in a theater, Detective Krovitch uncovers a strange web of tensions revolving around ventriloquist John Fabian and his female dummy.
Episode 21 - Safe Conduct
Release Date: 1956-02-19
An American journalist meets a soccer star while traveling behind the Iron Curtain, but then is arrested as a suspected smuggler.
Episode 22 - Place of Shadows
Release Date: 1956-02-26
A young man tries to insinuate his way into a monastery, in order to gain revenge on a thief whom he blames for ruining his life.
Episode 23 - Back for Christmas
Release Date: 1956-03-04
Herbert Carpenter plans to murder his wife Hermione, bury her body in the basement, and then leave on a long business trip.
Episode 24 - The Perfect Murder
Release Date: 1956-03-11
Unscrupulous brothers Paul and Henri Tallendier plan to murder their Aunt Rosalie so that they can get their uncle's inheritance.
Episode 25 - There Was an Old Woman
Release Date: 1956-03-18
Dishonest Frank and Lorna Bramwell visit the home of wealthy, eccentric Monica Laughton, with the intention of robbing her.
Episode 26 - Whodunit
Release Date: 1956-03-25
Recently deceased mystery writer Alexander Penn Arlington gets permission from the recording angel to relive his last day on earth, so that he can find out who murdered him.
Episode 27 - Help Wanted
Release Date: 1956-04-01
Mr. Crabtree is grateful to find a new job, until his new employer gives him a most unexpected assignment.
Episode 28 - Portrait of Jocelyn
Release Date: 1956-04-08
When Mark Halliday and his new wife unexpectedly see a portrait of Halliday's first wife, it is only the first in a series of disturbing developments.
Episode 29 - The Orderly World of Mr. Appleby
Release Date: 1956-04-15
Antiques dealer Laurence Appleby thinks he has solved his financial problems by killing his wife Lena, but new complications arise in his second marriage.
Episode 30 - Never Again
Release Date: 1956-04-22
Karen Stewart has once again broken her promise not to drink anymore, and now she is in a strange bed, injured, with no memory of what happened the night before.
Episode 31 - The Gentleman from America
Release Date: 1956-04-29
Rich American Howard Lattimer visits London, and bets 1000 pounds that he can spend the night in a room that is said to be haunted.
Episode 32 - The Baby Sitter
Release Date: 1956-05-06
When Clara Nash is murdered, her baby-sitter Lottie Slocum is excited to be the center of attention, and she also hopes to become closer to Clara's husband.
Episode 33 - The Belfry
Release Date: 1956-05-13
When Clint Ringle learns that Ellie Marsh, the schoolteacher whom he loves, is engaged to Walt Norton, Clint kills Walt and then hides in the schoolhouse's bell tower, waiting for his chance to exact further revenge.
Episode 34 - The Hidden Thing
Release Date: 1956-05-20
After Dana Edwards' fiancée Laura is killed by a hit-and-run driver, he is visited by John Hurley, who claims to be able to use memory recall techniques that will help him to remember the car's license plate number.
Episode 35 - The Legacy
Release Date: 1956-05-27
When a prince who is well known as a playboy takes a sudden romantic interest in a shy, plain housewife, everyone is baffled and fascinated.
Episode 36 - Mink
Release Date: 1956-06-03
Paula Hudson has a stolen mink coat she tells police she purchased on a recommendation, and when they retrace her steps to find out how she obtained it, everyone denies they ever talked to her about it.
Episode 37 - Decoy
Release Date: 1956-06-10
Gil Larkin is suspected of murder when Mona Cameron's allegedly abusive husband is shot dead in front of him and he gets knocked out by an unknown assailant.
Episode 38 - The Creeper
Release Date: 1956-06-17
A serial killer known as "the strangler" terrorizes a New York neighborhood.
Episode 39 - Momentum
Release Date: 1956-06-24
A man ends up running to the Mexican border after trying to collect money his employer owes him.