39 episodes • October 2, 1955 - June 24, 1956

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

39 episodes

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   #1

   Revenge

   27 min • Oct 2, 1955 (71 years ago)

   When Carl Spann's wife Elsa is left traumatized after being assaulted by an unknown attacker, he becomes determined to track down the perpetrator and take revenge.

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   #2

   Premonition

   27 min • Oct 9, 1955 (71 years ago)

   A famous pianist returning to his home town finds his father has died, and suspects his friends and family are covering up the true details of that death.

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   #3

   Triggers in Leash

   27 min • Oct 16, 1955 (71 years ago)

   A 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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   Don't Come Back Alive

   27 min • Oct 23, 1955 (71 years ago)

   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.

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   Into Thin Air

   26 min • Oct 30, 1955 (71 years ago)

   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.

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   Salvage

   26 min • Nov 6, 1955 (71 years ago)

   Gangster Dan Varrell, just released from prison, goes looking for the woman he holds responsible for his brother's death.

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   #7

   Breakdown

   26 min • Nov 13, 1955 (70 years ago)

   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.

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   Our Cook's a Treasure

   26 min • Nov 20, 1955 (70 years ago)

   A man fears that the new cook he's hired is actually a murderess.

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   The Long Shot

   26 min • Nov 27, 1955 (70 years ago)

   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.

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    The Case of Mr. Pelham

    26 min • Dec 4, 1955 (70 years ago)

    A series of troubling incidents lead Mr. Pelham to believe that he has a double who is deliberately impersonating him.

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    #11

    Guilty Witness

    26 min • Dec 11, 1955 (70 years ago)

    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.

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    Santa Claus and the 10th Avenue Kid

    26 min • Dec 18, 1955 (70 years ago)

    While working as a department store 'Santa Claus', a paroled convict tries to help a troubled boy.

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    #13

    The Cheney Vase

    26 min • Dec 25, 1955 (70 years ago)

    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.

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    #14

    A Bullet for Baldwin

    26 min • Jan 1, 1956 (70 years ago)

    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.

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    #15

    The Big Switch

    26 min • Jan 8, 1956 (70 years ago)

    Gangster 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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    You Got to Have Luck

    26 min • Jan 15, 1956 (70 years ago)

    During a massive manhunt for escaped convict Sam Cobbett, Cobbett invades a house where young housewife Mary Schaffner is home alone.

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    The Older Sister

    26 min • Jan 22, 1956 (70 years ago)

    A reporter discovers the truth about the infamous Lizzie Borden murder case.

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    Shopping for Death

    26 min • Jan 29, 1956 (70 years ago)

    Two retired insurance salesmen confront an aggressive, hostile woman in hopes of saving her from a disaster.

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    #19

    The Derelicts

    26 min • Feb 5, 1956 (70 years ago)

    Inventor Ralph Cowell murders his silent partner Alfred, only to be blackmailed by vagrant Peter Goodfellow, who witnessed the crime.

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    #20

    And So Died Riabouchinska

    26 min • Feb 12, 1956 (70 years ago)

    While 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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    #21

    Safe Conduct

    26 min • Feb 19, 1956 (70 years ago)

    An American journalist meets a soccer star while traveling behind the Iron Curtain, but then is arrested as a suspected smuggler.

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    #22

    Place of Shadows

    26 min • Feb 26, 1956 (70 years ago)

    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.

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    #23

    Back for Christmas

    26 min • Mar 4, 1956 (70 years ago)

    Herbert 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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    #24

    The Perfect Murder

    26 min • Mar 11, 1956 (70 years ago)

    Unscrupulous brothers Paul and Henri Tallendier plan to murder their Aunt Rosalie so that they can get their uncle's inheritance.

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    There Was an Old Woman

    27 min • Mar 18, 1956 (70 years ago)

    Dishonest Frank and Lorna Bramwell visit the home of wealthy, eccentric Monica Laughton, with the intention of robbing her.

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    Whodunit

    26 min • Mar 25, 1956 (70 years ago)

    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.

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    #27

    Help Wanted

    26 min • Apr 1, 1956 (70 years ago)

    Mr. Crabtree is grateful to find a new job, until his new employer gives him a most unexpected assignment.

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    #28

    Portrait of Jocelyn

    26 min • Apr 8, 1956 (70 years ago)

    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.

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    #29

    The Orderly World of Mr. Appleby

    27 min • Apr 15, 1956 (70 years ago)

    Antiques 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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    #30

    Never Again

    26 min • Apr 22, 1956 (70 years ago)

    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.

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    #31

    The Gentleman from America

    26 min • Apr 29, 1956 (70 years ago)

    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.

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    #32

    The Baby Sitter

    25 min • May 6, 1956 (70 years ago)

    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.

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    #33

    The Belfry

    26 min • May 13, 1956 (70 years ago)

    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.

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    The Hidden Thing

    26 min • May 20, 1956 (70 years ago)

    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.

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    The Legacy

    27 min • May 27, 1956 (70 years ago)

    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.

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    Mink

    26 min • Jun 3, 1956 (70 years ago)

    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.

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    Decoy

    26 min • Jun 10, 1956 (70 years ago)

    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.

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    #38

    The Creeper

    26 min • Jun 17, 1956 (70 years ago)

    A serial killer known as "the strangler" terrorizes a New York neighborhood.

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    #39

    Momentum

    26 min • Jun 24, 1956 (70 years ago)

    A man ends up running to the Mexican border after trying to collect money his employer owes him.