Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1958)
Series of unrelated short stories covering elements of crime, horror, drama and comedy about people of different species committing murders, suicides, thefts and other sorts of crime caused by certain motivations; perceived or not.
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Episode 1 - Revenge
Release Date: 2 Oct. 1955When 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.
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Episode 2 - Premonition
Release Date: 9 Oct. 1955Musician Kim Stanger returns to his hometown, but is troubled by a vague premonition that something is wrong. Indeed, his friends and family seem quite uncomfortable to see him. He particularly wants to see his father, but he learns that his father is dead. His family tells him that his father died of a heart attack while playing tennis four years ago, but Kim finds a number of discrepancies in the details they give him. He insists on finding out what really happened, even when everyone seems determined to stop him from learning the truth.
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Episode 3 - Triggers in Leash
Release Date: 16 Oct. 1955A cook tries everything she can think of to end a dispute between two gunmen who have sworn to kill each other.
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Episode 4 - Don't Come Back Alive
Release Date: 23 Oct. 1955Frank 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.
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Episode 5 - Into Thin Air
Release Date: 30 Oct. 1955When 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.
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Episode 6 - Salvage
Release Date: 6 Nov. 1955Gangster Dan Varrell, just released from prison, goes looking for the woman he holds responsible for his brother's death.
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Episode 7 - Breakdown
Release Date: 13 Nov. 1955William 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.
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Episode 8 - Our Cook's a Treasure
Release Date: 20 Nov. 1955Shortly after having a quick breakfast with his wife and the new cook whom they have recently hired, Ralph Montgomery suffers a bad attack of indigestion, and continues to have trouble afterward. Later, he reads a newspaper story about a housekeeper who has poisoned several of her employers, and who is still at large. Ralph begins to suspect the worst, and he takes a cup of cocoa from the kitchen to a chemist, in order to have it analyzed.
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Episode 9 - The Long Shot
Release Date: 27 Nov. 1955Heavily 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.
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Episode 10 - The Case of Mr. Pelham
Release Date: 4 Dec. 1955A series of troubling incidents lead Mr. Pelham to believe that he has a double who is deliberately impersonating him.
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Episode 11 - Guilty Witness
Release Date: 11 Dec. 1955When 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.
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Episode 12 - Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid
Release Date: 18 Dec. 1955While working as a department store 'Santa Claus', a paroled convict tries to help a troubled boy.
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Episode 13 - The Cheney Vase
Release Date: 25 Dec. 1955When 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.
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Episode 14 - A Bullet for Baldwin
Release Date: 1 Jan. 1956When 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.
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Episode 15 - The Big Switch
Release Date: 8 Jan. 1956Gangster Sam Dunleavy sets up an elaborate alibi so that he can kill his ex-girlfriend Goldie, who left him for another man.
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Episode 16 - You Got to Have Luck
Release Date: 15 Jan. 1956During a massive manhunt for escaped convict Sam Cobbett, Cobbett invades a house where young housewife Mary Schaffner is home alone.
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Episode 17 - The Older Sister
Release Date: 22 Jan. 1956One year after Mr. and Mrs. Borden were brutally murdered, reporter Nell Cutts tries to interview Lizzie Borden and her sister Emma about the killings.
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Episode 18 - Shopping for Death
Release Date: 29 Jan. 1956Two retired insurance salesmen confront an aggressive, hostile woman in hopes of saving her from a disaster.
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Episode 19 - The Derelicts
Release Date: 5 Feb. 1956Inventor Ralph Cowell murders his silent partner Alfred, only to be blackmailed by vagrant Peter Goodfellow, who witnessed the crime.
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Episode 20 - And So Died Riabouchinska
Release Date: 12 Feb. 1956While investigating a murder in a theater, Detective Krovitch uncovers a strange web of tensions revolving around ventriloquist John Fabian and his female dummy.
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Episode 21 - Safe Conduct
Release Date: 19 Feb. 1956An American journalist meets a soccer star while traveling behind the Iron Curtain, but then is arrested as a suspected smuggler.
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Episode 22 - Place of Shadows
Release Date: 26 Feb. 1956A 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.
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Episode 23 - Back for Christmas
Release Date: 4 Mar. 1956Herbert Carpenter plans to murder his wife Hermione, bury her body in the basement, and then leave on a long business trip.
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Episode 24 - The Perfect Murder
Release Date: 11 Mar. 1956Unscrupulous brothers Paul and Henri Tallendier plan to murder their Aunt Rosalie so that they can get their uncle's inheritance.
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Episode 25 - There Was an Old Woman
Release Date: 18 Mar. 1956Dishonest Frank and Lorna Bramwell visit the home of wealthy, eccentric Monica Laughton, with the intention of robbing her.
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Episode 26 - Whodunit
Release Date: 25 Mar. 1956Recently 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.
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Episode 27 - Help Wanted
Release Date: 1 Apr. 1956Mr. Crabtree is grateful to find a new job, until his new employer gives him a most unexpected assignment.
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Episode 28 - Portrait of Jocelyn
Release Date: 8 Apr. 1956When 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.
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Episode 29 - The Orderly World of Mr. Appleby
Release Date: 15 Apr. 1956Antiques dealer Laurence Appleby thinks he has solved his financial problems by killing his wife Lena, but new complications arise in his second marriage.
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Episode 30 - Never Again
Release Date: 22 Apr. 1956Karen 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.
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Episode 31 - The Gentleman from America
Release Date: 29 Apr. 1956Rich American Howard Lattimer visits London, and bets 1000 pounds that he can spend the night in a room that is said to be haunted.
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Episode 32 - The Baby Sitter
Release Date: 6 May 1956When 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.
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Episode 33 - The Belfry
Release Date: 13 May 1956When 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.
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Episode 34 - The Hidden Thing
Release Date: 20 May 1956After 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.
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Episode 35 - The Legacy
Release Date: 27 May 1956When a prince who is well known as a playboy takes a sudden romantic interest in a shy, plain housewife, everyone is baffled and fascinated.
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Episode 36 - Mink
Release Date: 3 Jun. 1956Paula 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.
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Episode 37 - Decoy
Release Date: 10 Jun. 1956Gil 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.
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Episode 38 - The Creeper
Release Date: 17 Jun. 1956A frightened housewife is alone in her apartment building when she begins to suspect just about anyone could be the unknown killer who has been strangling women.
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Episode 39 - Momentum
Release Date: 24 Jun. 1956Richard Paine decides to steal money from his boss that he owes him anyway, and it turns to a unnecessary and ironic murder.