Alfred Hitchcock Presents

When his pretty ex-fiancee returns from another failed relationship, a chicken farmer, not wanting anything to do with her, decides to eliminate her.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Laurence Harvey, Hazel Court
Director(s): Alfred Hitchcock
Writer(s): James P. Cavanagh, Arthur Williams

An obsessed young woman waits decades for her husband's body to emerge from the ice, after he fell from a mountain.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, James Donald, Patricia Owens
Director(s): Alfred Hitchcock
Writer(s): Stirling Silliphant, A.E.W. Mason

David Logan lives at home with his mother and he's still upset that his father left them many years before. He is haunted by an event when he was twelve years old and he came home to find his father with a blue-eyed blond. He tells his mother he has an appointment at 11:00 so he skips dinner and heads to a bar. There he meets a girl and repeats several times that something big is going to happen at 11:00. He gets into a fight with a sailor in the bar and tells him the same and then again with a patron in an Irish pub, now saying someone is going to die at the prescribed hour. When the 11 o'clock news come on the air, you learn the full story.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Clint Kimbrough, Norma Crane
Director(s): Robert Stevens
Writer(s): Evan Hunter, Robert Turner

A goodhearted man picks up an old man and his adult son and daughter hitchhiking, but they steal from him every chance they get.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Macdonald Carey, Edgar Buchanan
Director(s): Herschel Daugherty
Writer(s): Kenneth Perkins, Harold Swanton

A woman reveals to her rich husband who's confined to an iron lung that she's planning to painlessly murder him, but he may have a surprise for her.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Brian Keith, Joanna Moore
Director(s): Norman Lloyd
Writer(s): William Jerome Fay, Talmage Powell

Myra Jenkins has quite a menagerie in her home: birds, a turtle, a monkey, a chameleon and on and on. She is quite devoted to them, usually at the expense of her husband Hermie. Their neighbor, George Bay, is always telling Hermie how much he misses his late wife and that since since she's died, all he ever does is travel, go fishing and drink beer. All of this sounds pretty good to Hermie who hatches a plan to get his wife a new pet that may not be very cuddly and lovable but may give him the way out that he desires. Little does Hermie realize the predicament he is getting himself into.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Harry Morgan, Barbara Baxley
Director(s): Norman Lloyd
Writer(s): John Collier, Harold Swanton

A crime boss gives a new employee an assignment to kill another man, but the intended victim tempts him with another offer.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Walter Matthau, Robert Vaughn
Director(s): John Brahm
Writer(s): Bill S. Ballinger, Norman Struber

In the future year of 1980, life expectancy has increased dramatically and J.J. Bunce provides an essential service for those in need. He approaches John Treadwell and informs him that the octogenarian mother-in-law who lives with him will live at least another 32 years. Bunce's offer is quite simple; he will dispose of her for a fee. Treadwell initially rejects the offer out of hand, but the old lady is becoming more and more demanding, further eroding Treadwell's tolerance of her constant aggravation. In the end, he accepts Bunce's offer but then ponders what his own children might do when the time comes.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Henry Jones, Dick York
Director(s): Herschel Daugherty
Writer(s): Stanley Ellin, Halsted Welles

A married man captures a gunman who tried to rob him and his mistress, but to avoid a scandal, he contemplates whether to let him go or kill him.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Joseph Cotten, Julie Adams
Director(s): Stuart Rosenberg
Writer(s): Herb Golden, Jerry Sohl

Mental suggestions and odd behavior have some people believing a special delivery of quick-growing mushroom spores may be an invading life form.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Stephen Dunne, Beatrice Straight
Director(s): Norman Lloyd
Writer(s): Ray Bradbury

A rude traveling salesman forces a truck off the road causing a delay in emergency care for an injured young man who then dies.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Raymond Massey, Robert Emhardt
Director(s): Stuart Rosenberg
Writer(s): Bill S. Ballinger, Harold R. Daniels

Mr. Laffler invites Mr. Costain to join him for dinner at a private club that he describes as a very special experience. To his disappointment, Laffler is informed that the house specialty, a lamb dish, is not being served. They continue to visit the club and one evening, the famous dish is served. It also happens that a long-time member has resigned. What, if anything, do the two events have in common?

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Morley, Kenneth Haigh
Director(s): Robert Stevens
Writer(s): Victor Wolfson, Bernard C. Schoenfeld, Stanley Ellin

In the Civil War, Union soldiers hang a Confederate farmer for sabotage. The rope breaks and he falls into a river. He swims to safety and begins walking home. Disoriented, he's glad to see plantation staff who guide his befogged travel.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Ronald Howard, Juano Hernandez
Director(s): Robert Stevenson
Writer(s): Ambrose Bierce, Harold Swanton

While on a date, a new teacher of European literature at an all-girl college observes one of her students leaving a nightclub with a man and follows them. What could go wrong?

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Wendy Hiller, Gigi Perreau
Director(s): Herschel Daugherty
Writer(s): Edouard Sandoz, Stirling Silliphant

In a Las Vegas casino, an unpleasant little man hopes to use a young man's wish to impress the young woman he has just met to pressure the young fellow into accepting a macabre bet.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Steve McQueen, Peter Lorre
Director(s): Norman Lloyd
Writer(s): William Jerome Fay, Roald Dahl

Carpius owns an antique shop in Cyprus and is quite excited to hear that a local monastery may be in possession of a very valuable icon. Knowing that a client would pay a fortune for it, he arranges to visit the monastery to steal the icon. During the robbery, Carpius kills a praying monk but claims it was an accident. The Abbot says he will forgive him, but as he has sinned he must pray for forgiveness. Only then does Carpius understand what the Abbot has in mind.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Oscar Homolka, Sam Jaffe
Director(s): Paul Almond
Writer(s): Victor Wolfson, Norah Perez, Avram Davidson

Living in the remote tropics are two oil explorers, one of whom is married to a very attractive woman. One night, she tries to stab her husband and he is convinced by his partner that she is sick with tropical fever. They agree that she needs to see a head shrinker. En route to the doctor however, she convinces her husband's partner to help her kill the husband. Fortunately, the husband's trusted manservant is also with them and protects his master's interests in a very unusual way.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Nehemiah Persoff, Peter Mark Richman
Director(s): Herschel Daugherty
Writer(s): Robert Bloch, Michael Pertwee

The father of a teenage girl being romanced by a much older man is bludgeoned to death with a pipe wrench and suspicion immediately falls on the older man.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Tom Tully, Phyllis Love
Director(s): Stuart Rosenberg
Writer(s): Charles Beaumont, Dorothy Salisbury Davis

When Capt. Ernest Fisher learns that Milton Potter has been released from prison after serving his 15-year sentence, he tells his subordinates about this very strange case. Potter was a bookkeeper for a bank. He did his work well and was reliable but people knew very little about his private life. When it's determined that he embezzled $200,000 he is eventually sent to jail. No one can quite believe that he was really the type to steal, and he never tells anyone what happened to the money. After his release, Fisher visits him and incredibly, Potter tells him he's not the type to run and returns the stolen money. Only later, aboard a cruise ship does he explain to a fellow passenger that there is "method" to his apparent madness.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Paul Hartman, Robert Bray
Director(s): Arthur Hiller
Writer(s): Henry Slesar, Jerry Sohl

When a young boy reports a mob-beating to the police and his father fails to support him under questioning in the presence of the mobster, he's adversely affected for the rest of his life.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Barry Gordon, Glenn Walken
Director(s): Norman Lloyd
Writer(s): Bill S. Ballinger, Stanley Ellin

A young troublemaker teaches a surprising lesson in morality.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, John McIntire, Robert Morse
Director(s): Paul Henreid
Writer(s): Bernard C. Schoenfeld, Ed Lacy

A woman hoping to contact her late husband takes drastic steps.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Patricia Collinge, George Grizzard
Director(s): Arthur Hiller
Writer(s): Charlotte Armstrong, L.B. Gordon

A greedy man and his scheming girlfriend concoct various plans for a dog's early demise after the man's uncle leaves the bulk of his estate to the dog instead of to the man, who was the deceased's only living relative.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Dick Van Dyke, Stella Stevens
Director(s): Gene Reynolds
Writer(s): Valerie Dyke, Albert E. Lewin, Burt Styler

A soaking wet woman enters a novelist's apartment. She's followed by his PR friend who wants the writer to create a tale exaggerating the actress' recent disappearance right before her latest movie is released. How far will the story go?

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Audrey Totter, Joby Baker
Director(s): John Brahm
Writer(s): Robert Bloch, William Jerome Fay

Jamie and Ben McMahon have brought a civilized attitude to a rough and tumble mining town. Although both strongmen in their own rights, they preach brotherly love and turning the other cheek. One day, in walks the Little Man, a strange little fellow who challenges the McMahons and says that his powers are far greater than theirs. To the shock of everyone present, he proves his point and the local folk think they are dealing with the devil incarnate. There is however, far more to this than meets the eye.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Norman Lloyd, Arch Johnson
Director(s): George Stevens Jr.
Writer(s): Gordon Russell, Larry Ward

A coroner's inquiry takes a man back to a fateful decision.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, William Shatner, Jessie Royce Landis
Director(s): Herschel Daugherty
Writer(s): James P. Cavanagh, Hugh Wheeler

Mrs. Blythe goes to spend a weekend at her cottage. She hasn't been there since her husband died the year before. Stopping at the general store, she's told that a patient has escaped from the local mental institution. Once at her cottage, she meets Madeleine who says she had seen a dangerous looking man nearby. Madeleine is obviously upset and wants to leave, but Mrs. Blythe begs her to stay. She agrees, but with dire consequences.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Beatrice Straight, Fay Spain
Director(s): John Brahm
Writer(s): Robert Bloch, Frank Mace

After 40 detectives in a row have failed to locate the killer of his wife, a man hires his 41st detective to set up a meeting so he can avenge the murder.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, James Franciscus, Jack Weston
Director(s): Arthur Hiller
Writer(s): Henry Slesar

While on a sea cruise, Richard Musgrave meets his former business partner, whom he once robbed and left for dead, traveling under an assumed name. His task is now to convince the man to reveal his true identity.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Eric Portman, Oscar Homolka
Director(s): John Brahm
Writer(s): Bill S. Ballinger, Henry De Vere Stacpoole

Charles Cavender suffers from terrible insomnia. He hasn't had a good night's sleep in months and has lost a number of jobs as a result. He visits a psychiatrist and recounts a recurring dream he has about the death of his wife, who died in a house fire. Cavender's brother-in-law, Jack Fletcher, blames him for his sister's death and it's determined there is a link between that and the insomnia. Cavender feels threatened but decides to pay him a visit to clear the air. However, things don't quite go as planned.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Dennis Weaver, James Millhollin
Director(s): John Brahm
Writer(s): Henry Slesar

Bert Haber is an old-time piano player, and he and Georgia who sings, have proven to be a very popular nightclub act. Problems arise when a gangster, 'Little Dandy' Dorf, takes a liking to Georgia but she wants no part of him and pours a drink over his head. Soon after, Bert is threatened when someone suggests he get an insurance policy. Things come to a head a few weeks later when Bert is approached by a police officer who has information and suggests that he is in need of protection. Bert doesn't quite realize who he needs protection from, however.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Myron McCormick, Linda Lawson
Director(s): Alan Crosland Jr.
Writer(s): Thomas Grant, Fred McMorrow

Joe Helmer is having serious financial problems. He's been out of work for some time and his unemployment insurance has run out. Walking home after unsuccessfully trying to get a loan, he comes across a well-to-do gent, apparently dead on the sidewalk. Joe takes the man's wallet and flees. It's only when he gets home that he finds a revealing note in the man's wallet.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Neile Adams, Jeremy Slate
Director(s): Arthur Hiller
Writer(s): Henry Slesar

Helen Parch shares a party-line telephone with several others. She likes to talk on the phone quite a bit but also listens in on others. She's warned by the police one day that a Mr. Miller, with whom she once shared the party line, has broken out of prison and that her life may be in danger. Years before, Miller needed to contact a doctor when his wife was ill, and Helen refused to get off the line. Miller's wife died and he turned to a life of crime. Now he may be after Helen.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Judy Canova, Royal Dano
Director(s): Hilton A. Green
Writer(s): Henry Slesar

Professor Herbert Morrison is on death row awaiting his sentence to go through. His lawyer is trying to get a last-minute stay of execution but the professor says he doesn't want a reprieve.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Brian Keith, James Best
Director(s): Paul Henreid
Writer(s): Bill S. Ballinger, Bryce Walton

Charlotte Hope arrives into the peaceful lives of the Wellington household to act as a governess of their children. She's a somewhat brash, opinionated and iconoclastic lady who boldly announces she uses the "Schartz-Metterklume method" for teaching.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Hermione Gingold, Elspeth March
Director(s): Richard Dunlap
Writer(s): Marian B. Cockrell, Hector Hugh Munro

Henry Taylor visits the town of Kirkland where, three years before, a bank employee, Arnold Mathias, had been convicted of stealing $200,000 from the bank where he worked. None of the money has been found and Mathias always maintained his innocence. It would appear that Mathias had recently been killed in an attempted prison escape and Taylor visits the bank manager telling him he's an author researching a book on the robbery. It turns out that Taylor is after something altogether different and all is not altogether what it seems.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Bob Sweeney, Robert Bray
Director(s): Paul Henreid
Writer(s): Helen Nielsen

Two kidnappers think they have made their escape when they hijack a tanker truck in the arid desert, leaving the truck drivers and the female kidnap victim behind to die.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Burt Reynolds, Murray Hamilton
Director(s): Stuart Rosenberg
Writer(s): James A. Howard, Bill S. Ballinger

Ray Marchand schemes with a beautiful young woman to get rid of his wealthy wife.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Horton, Anne Francis
Director(s): Norman Lloyd
Writer(s): Thomas Grant, Robert Turner