Season 3

Season • Oct 6, 1957–Jun 29, 1958

A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, horror and mystery.
  1. S3E1 - The Glass Eye

    The Glass Eye

    26 min • Oct 6, 1957 (69 years ago)

    Captivated by his physical beauty, an aging spinster develops an obsession for a ventriloquist, travelling all over the country to watch his act with his child-sized dummy.

  2. S3E2 - Mail Order Prophet

    Mail Order Prophet

    26 min • Oct 13, 1957 (69 years ago)

    When an ordinary clerk starts receiving letters which accurately predict the outcome of future events, he takes a dangerous gamble with his life.

  3. S3E3 - The Perfect Crime

    The Perfect Crime

    25 min • Oct 20, 1957 (68 years ago)

    A lawyer, with blackmail in mind, meets with a famous detective who prides himself on never having committed a single mistake in his long and distinguished career, to prove that he convicted an innocent man.

  4. S3E4 - Heart of Gold

    Heart of Gold

    27 min • Oct 27, 1957 (68 years ago)

    A convicted robber is released to the family of one of his cell mates, against the better judgment of his parole officer.

  5. S3E5 - Silent Witness

    Silent Witness

    26 min • Nov 3, 1957 (68 years ago)

    Intending to break up with an infatuated student, professor Donald Mason tracks her down at a babysitting job, where the conversation ends in murder.

  6. S3E6 - Reward to Finder

    Reward to Finder

    26 min • Nov 10, 1957 (68 years ago)

    After finding a cash-laden wallet John Gaminski promises his wife that he'll return it. But when he reneges, she demands that he share the money.

  7. S3E7 - Enough Rope for Two

    Enough Rope for Two

    26 min • Nov 17, 1957 (68 years ago)

    An ex-con heads to a mine to retrieve a cache of stolen loot. When his two former partners show up, three's a crowd with $100,000 at stake.

  8. S3E8 - Last Request

    Last Request

    26 min • Nov 24, 1957 (68 years ago)

    A death-row inmate awaiting the electric chair uses his final hours to prove his innocence in a killing.

  9. S3E9 - The Young One

    The Young One

    27 min • Dec 1, 1957 (68 years ago)

    A pretty underage girl, bored with adolescence and eager to experience all that adulthood allows, acts out in ways that could ultimately prove deadly.

  10. S3E10 - The Diplomatic Corpse

    The Diplomatic Corpse

    27 min • Dec 8, 1957 (68 years ago)

    Touring Mexico, Janet's rich aunt dies, and the car holding her corpse is stolen. Without a body, Janet can't claim the inheritance.

  11. S3E11 - The Deadly

    The Deadly

    26 min • Dec 15, 1957 (68 years ago)

    A conniving handyman tries to blackmail an innocent housewife for a fabricated dalliance.

  12. S3E12 - Miss Paisley's Cat

    Miss Paisley's Cat

    26 min • Dec 22, 1957 (68 years ago)

    An elderly woman is terrified that her disagreeable male neighbor will kill her beloved—but habitually roving—tabby cat.

  13. S3E13 - Night of the Execution

    Night of the Execution

    26 min • Dec 29, 1957 (68 years ago)

    Warren, a prosecuting attorney with a long history of acquittals, must deliver a guilty verdict in a murder case to ensure his political future.

  14. S3E14 - The Percentage

    The Percentage

    26 min • Jan 5, 1958 (68 years ago)

    A successful businessman who once acted cowardly in the war—but got undeserved credit for heroism—attempts to buy off an old Army buddy who knows the truth.

  15. S3E15 - Together

    Together

    26 min • Jan 12, 1958 (68 years ago)

    When a businessman's mistress threatens to expose their secret relationship to his wife, he realizes he must do anything to stop her.

  16. S3E16 - Sylvia

    Sylvia

    26 min • Jan 19, 1958 (68 years ago)

    Her elderly father becomes alarmed when a jilted woman purchases a handgun.

  17. S3E17 - The Motive

    The Motive

    26 min • Jan 26, 1958 (68 years ago)

    Two crime-obsessed buddies plot the perfect murder—one with absolutely no motive.

  18. S3E18 - Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty

    Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty

    26 min • Feb 2, 1958 (68 years ago)

    Traveling in Paris, an Englishwoman finds herself accidentally locked in a hotel room with a corpse.

  19. S3E19 - The Equalizer

    The Equalizer

    27 min • Feb 9, 1958 (68 years ago)

    Filled with jealous rage, a man plots revenge on a coworker he is convinced has had an affair with his wife.

  20. S3E20 - On the Nose

    On the Nose

    27 min • Feb 16, 1958 (68 years ago)

    A gambling-addicted housewife owes money to a bookie, and resorts to desperate measures in order to raise the money.

  21. S3E21 - Guest for Breakfast

    Guest for Breakfast

    26 min • Feb 23, 1958 (68 years ago)

    In this violent home-invasion tale, a gun-wielding convict terrorizes a married couple whose relationship is already on the ropes.

  22. S3E22 - The Return of the Hero

    The Return of the Hero

    26 min • Mar 2, 1958 (68 years ago)

    Things are not what they seem when two soldiers discharged from the Algerian war spend some time together in Marseilles.

  23. S3E23 - The Right Kind of House

    The Right Kind of House

    27 min • Mar 9, 1958 (68 years ago)

    After the death of her troubled son, a mother decides to sell her house, but a potential buyer discovers she may be hiding something.

  24. S3E24 - The Foghorn

    The Foghorn

    26 min • Mar 16, 1958 (68 years ago)

    A woman alone in a quiet house finds herself haunted by the noise of a foghorn. As the story progresses, she tries to recall how the sound became so horrifying to her, but the answer may be deeper than she thinks.

  25. S3E25 - Flight to the East

    Flight to the East

    25 min • Mar 23, 1958 (68 years ago)

    The plight of an American war correspondent suddenly becomes front-page news when a former British Army nurse recalls a strange incident from the past.

  26. S3E26 - Bull in a China Shop

    Bull in a China Shop

    27 min • Mar 30, 1958 (68 years ago)

    A handsome homicide detective is befriended by four old ladies who invite him for tea and proceed to play out a variation of Arsenic and Old Lace for his benefit.

  27. S3E27 - Disappearing Trick

    Disappearing Trick

    27 min • Apr 6, 1958 (68 years ago)

    A debonair tennis player looks into his attractive partner's past and her presumed dead husband.

  28. S3E28 - Lamb to the Slaughter

    Lamb to the Slaughter

    27 min • Apr 13, 1958 (68 years ago)

    Domestic bliss comes to a rapid halt when a housewife discovers that her police chief husband has been having an affair while she's been pregnant.

  29. S3E29 - Fatal Figures

    Fatal Figures

    27 min • Apr 20, 1958 (68 years ago)

    It's all in the numbers when a bookkeeper becomes obsessed with his mundane life and crime statistics.

  30. S3E30 - Death Sentence

    Death Sentence

    27 min • Apr 27, 1958 (68 years ago)

    Love is in the eye of the beholder when a happily married woman sees a bomb attached to the family car as a sign of her husband's affection.

  31. S3E31 - The Festive Season

    The Festive Season

    27 min • May 4, 1958 (68 years ago)

    'Tis the season to resurrect old family grudges when a brother accuses his sister of murdering his wife on a less than jolly Christmas Eve.

  32. S3E32 - Listen, Listen. . . !

    Listen, Listen. . . !

    27 min • May 11, 1958 (68 years ago)

    When three beautiful blonde women are strangled with a silk stocking, Mr. Morgan becomes convinced he knows how it happened, even though no one will hear him out.

  33. S3E33 - Post Mortem

    Post Mortem

    27 min • May 18, 1958 (68 years ago)

    When a newly married couple realizes that a lottery ticket is in her recently deceased ex-husband's burial suit, they put their love on the line to exhume the winnings.

  34. S3E34 - The Crocodile Case

    The Crocodile Case

    27 min • May 25, 1958 (68 years ago)

    A man learns never to separate a woman from her accessories when his "perfect" murder plot is spoiled by a missing piece of luggage.

  35. S3E35 - Dip in the Pool

    Dip in the Pool

    27 min • Jun 1, 1958 (68 years ago)

    A desperate man takes the ultimate plunge when he gambles a fortune without his wife's knowledge.

  36. S3E36 - The Safe Place

    The Safe Place

    26 min • Jun 8, 1958 (68 years ago)

    A senior bank teller is tempted by the prospect of sudden wealth when a known gangster makes a large withdrawal from his account.

  37. S3E37 - The Canary Sedan

    The Canary Sedan

    27 min • Jun 15, 1958 (68 years ago)

    A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing when a woman discovers she has extraordinary powers to see the past of objects.

  38. S3E38 - The Impromptu Murder

    The Impromptu Murder

    26 min • Jun 22, 1958 (68 years ago)

    Still waters run deep when a lawyer with mayoral ambitions murders a woman who claimed he tried to embezzle money from her in the past.

  39. S3E39 - Little White Frock

    Little White Frock

    26 min • Jun 29, 1958 (68 years ago)

    An elderly actor invites a playwright and his wife to dinner to tell a touching story of a long-lost love.