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 - Wet Saturday
Release Date: 30 Sep. 1956Mr. Princey's daughter has just murdered the schoolmaster. A murderess in the family? That won't do. It's up to Mr. Princey to frame someone else for her crime.
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Episode 2 - Fog Closing In
Release Date: 7 Oct. 1956When her husband goes away on a business trip, Mary Summers is all alone in her house--and gripped with a nameless fear. Then an escaped mental patient breaks in.
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Episode 3 - De Mortuis
Release Date: 14 Oct. 1956Professor Rankin's buddies Wally and Bud stop by to take him fishing. They find him in his cellar, filling in a hole with cement. They suspect he may have also filled it with his wife.
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Episode 4 - Kill with Kindness
Release Date: 21 Oct. 1956Katherine Oldham feeds stew to a homeless man as she struggles to keep the mind of her brother, Fitzhugh--a butterfly hunter and birdwatcher--on the task of murder.
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Episode 5 - None Are So Blind
Release Date: 28 Oct. 1956An antiques dealer feels he should be enjoying the finer things in life, but his Aunt Muriel is the one with all the money. Finding another man's wallet gives him an evil idea.
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Episode 6 - Toby
Release Date: 4 Nov. 1956New York, 1910. Bookkeeper Al Birch expects the arrival of his sweetheart Edwina from 20 years ago. When she arrives, she is still every bit the lady. But she doesn't come alone.
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Episode 7 - Alibi Me
Release Date: 11 Nov. 1956Georgie Minnelli kills his old childhood enemy Lucky Moore for interfering in his pinball machine racket. Now Georgie desperately needs an alibi.
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Episode 8 - Conversation Over a Corpse
Release Date: 18 Nov. 1956Cissie Enright is not exactly thrilled with the idea of poisoning the real estate man. But her sister, Joanna, insists that it's the only way.
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Episode 9 - Crack of Doom
Release Date: 25 Nov. 1956A no-limit game of poker brings a real estate man to the brink of ruin.
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Episode 10 - Jonathan
Release Date: 2 Dec. 1956A college boy with an unnaturally close relationship to his father suspects his stepmother of foul play.
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Episode 11 - The Better Bargain
Release Date: 9 Dec. 1956A middle-aged mobster suspects his young wife is cheating on him. He gets in touch with Harry Silver, the best hitman in the business.
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Episode 12 - The Rose Garden
Release Date: 16 Dec. 1956A book publisher visits two elderly sisters at their Louisiana mansion. One of them has written a murder mystery. And he learns that it may contain more fact than fiction.
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Episode 13 - Mr. Blanchard's Secret
Release Date: 23 Dec. 1956A mystery writer's imagination gets her in trouble when she turns her overstimulated mind to her new next-door neighbors -- and wonders why she has never seen the wife.
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Episode 14 - John Brown's Body
Release Date: 30 Dec. 1956An upstart furniture designer colludes with his boss's wife to drive her husband mad.
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Episode 15 - Crackpot
Release Date: 6 Jan. 1957A Good Samaritan helps a newlywed couple with a flat tire. But when the groom accidentally dirties the man's suit, the stranger reveals himself to be a dangerous crackpot.
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Episode 16 - Nightmare in 4-D
Release Date: 13 Jan. 1957A man who reads too much pulp fiction finds himself playing Sir Galahad to the blonde in the apartment downstairs. It seems she's burdened with a corpse.
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Episode 17 - My Brother, Richard
Release Date: 20 Jan. 1957District attorney Martin Ross is running for governor and learns that his brother Richard has killed the other candidate Burton Reeves.
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Episode 18 - The Manacled
Release Date: 27 Jan. 1957Shackled prisoner Stephen Fontaine tries to tries to negotiate an escape from Sergeant Rockwell while en route to San Quentin.
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Episode 19 - A Bottle of Wine
Release Date: 3 Feb. 1957Judge Connors shares amontillado and civilized conversation with the young architect about to steal his wife. But the quality of his mercy is strained.
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Episode 20 - Malice Domestic
Release Date: 10 Feb. 1957Marital discord between writer Carl Borden and his wife Annette intensifies when poison is found in his food.
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Episode 21 - Number Twenty-Two
Release Date: 17 Feb. 1957Young robber Steve Morgan is in jail for his first offense and too cocky for his own good.
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Episode 22 - The End of Indian Summer
Release Date: 24 Feb. 1957An insurance investigator and his wife look into the case of Mrs. Gillespie, who has been widowed twice -- and has twice enjoyed windfalls from her husbands' life insurance.
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Episode 23 - One for the Road
Release Date: 3 Mar. 1957A former nurse learns that when her husband is away on business trips, he's seeing another woman.
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Episode 24 - The Cream of the Jest
Release Date: 10 Mar. 1957Broken-down actor Charles Gresham,with a weakness for booze, demands that playwright Wayne Campbell give him a part. When Campbell refuses, Gresham resorts to blackmail.
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Episode 25 - I Killed the Count: Part 1
Release Date: 17 Mar. 1957A maid discovers the body of Count Victor Mattoni. It's up to Inspector Davidson from Scotland Yard to find the murderer, in part one of a three-part episode.
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Episode 26 - I Killed the Count: Part 2
Release Date: 24 Mar. 1957Inspector Davidson continues to investigate the murder of Count Mattoni, in part two of this three-part story.
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Episode 27 - I Killed the Count: Part 3
Release Date: 31 Mar. 1957Inspector Davidson continues to investigate the murder of Count Mattoni -- and receives yet another confession. Final part of a three-part story.
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Episode 28 - One More Mile to Go
Release Date: 7 Apr. 1957Sam Jacoby has his wife's corpse in the trunk of his car, and is menaced by a motorcycle cop, who nags him about a taillight.
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Episode 29 - Vicious Circle
Release Date: 14 Apr. 1957Manny Coe is a hit-man for Mr. Williams. He kills a man named Gallagher for messing up a jewel robbery. When she finds out about the murder, Manny's girlfriend Betty threatens to go to the police. Mr. Williams orders her killed. Manny tries to do this, but she is later accidentally killed. Manny is rewarded by Mr. Williams. He becomes his right hand man, until he is killed by Georgie, another hit-man sent to Mr. Williams.
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Episode 30 - The Three Dreams of Mr. Findlater
Release Date: 21 Apr. 1957Ernest Findlater dreams about a South Sea island and a girl he meets there named Lalage. Lalage develops a scheme to help Findlater kill his real life wife. On the night of the planned murder, Findlater discovers that his wife is already dead. She died of natural causes.
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Episode 31 - The Night the World Ended
Release Date: 28 Apr. 1957A news man plays a joke on a homeless man by showing him a fake article that says the world is going end that night, it has deadly results.
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Episode 32 - The Hands of Mr. Ottermole
Release Date: 5 May 1957A murderer has been strangling people in the London fog. A reporter manages to continually make it to the crime scene before the police.
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Episode 33 - A Man Greatly Beloved
Release Date: 12 May 1957In a small Massachusetts town, precocious young Hildegarde Fell learns a secret about crusty old John Anderson, who has just moved there.
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Episode 34 - Martha Mason, Movie Star
Release Date: 19 May 1957A vain, querulous woman can't get a divorce from her husband. Luckily, he loves to garden. And he's just dug a nice big hole in the backyard.
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Episode 35 - The West Warlock Time Capsule
Release Date: 26 May 1957Taxidermist George Tiffany has domestic trouble when his wife's visiting brother Waldren overstays his welcome.
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Episode 36 - Father and Son
Release Date: 2 Jun. 1957London, 1912. Shop owner Joe Saunders refuses to lend money to his son Sam, who is anxious to win over a cheap showgirl.
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Episode 37 - The Indestructible Mr. Weems
Release Date: 9 Jun. 1957A lodge is selling cemetery plots, but nobody will buy one until the first person is buried there. The brothers turn to Mr. Weems.
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Episode 38 - A Little Sleep
Release Date: 16 Jun. 1957A bored rich girl goes up to her cabin in the mountains. Before the night is over, she'll wish desperately she had just gone home.
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Episode 39 - The Dangerous People
Release Date: 23 Jun. 1957Two men wait at a train station. A wailing siren periodically reminds them that a maniac has escaped from the local mental hospital.