Season 4

Season • Oct 5, 1958–Jun 21, 1959

A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, horror and mystery.
  1. S4E1 - Poison

    Poison

    27 min • Oct 5, 1958 (68 years ago)

    Two partners discover their real feelings for one another when one is bitten by a poisonous snake and it's up to the other to save his life.

  2. S4E2 - Don't Interrupt

    Don't Interrupt

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

    Silence may be golden, but it also proves lethal when a young boy witnesses an escaped mental patient and can't tell anyone about it.

  3. S4E3 - The Jokester

    The Jokester

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

    A morgue attendant gets the last laugh when he finally has enough of a man who has been provoking him.

  4. S4E4 - The Crooked Road

    The Crooked Road

    27 min • Oct 26, 1958 (67 years ago)

    A joyride in a new convertible is seriously called to a halt as the corrupt public officials in a small town attempt to take advantage of the defenseless drivers.

  5. S4E5 - The $2,000,000 Defense

    The $2,000,000 Defense

    27 min • Nov 2, 1958 (67 years ago)

    A lawyer gets creative when the man he is defending offers him half of his net worth if he will find a way out of the case.

  6. S4E6 - Design for Loving

    Design for Loving

    26 min • Nov 9, 1958 (67 years ago)

    A man's marriage seriously malfunctions when he buys a robot to take over his relationship with his demanding wife so he can escape to Rio.

  7. S4E7 - Man with a Problem

    Man with a Problem

    27 min • Nov 16, 1958 (67 years ago)

    A man relates the series of events that led him to contemplate suicide to a police officer.

  8. S4E8 - Safety for the Witness

    Safety for the Witness

    26 min • Nov 23, 1958 (67 years ago)

    A gunsmith sets his sight on two gangsters who will kill him if he testifies to what they've purchased in court.

  9. S4E9 - Murder Me Twice

    Murder Me Twice

    25 min • Dec 7, 1958 (67 years ago)

    When a hypnotist puts a young woman into a trance during a seance, things go wildly out of control and she stabs her husband. But is she really to blame for her actions?

  10. S4E10 - Tea Time

    Tea Time

    26 min • Dec 14, 1958 (67 years ago)

    It's hard to tell who's the bigger cheater when a wife and her husband's jealous mistress sit down for some lethal negotiating.

  11. S4E11 - And the Desert Shall Blossom

    And the Desert Shall Blossom

    26 min • Dec 21, 1958 (67 years ago)

    When two old men need a miracle in order to keep their home, the answer arrives in the unlikely form of a killer on the run from the law.

  12. S4E12 - Mrs. Herman and Mrs. Fenimore

    Mrs. Herman and Mrs. Fenimore

    27 min • Dec 28, 1958 (67 years ago)

    Two women plot to do away with an irascible old man and seize his money, but their plan is foiled when one of them decides she deserves more of the fortune.

  13. S4E13 - Six People, No Music

    Six People, No Music

    26 min • Jan 4, 1959 (67 years ago)

    A funeral parlor owner is put in an awkward position when a deceased client comes back to life and demands a much smaller affair than what was planned for his funeral.

  14. S4E14 - The Morning After

    The Morning After

    27 min • Jan 11, 1959 (67 years ago)

    Motherly love knows no bounds when a woman decides to get revenge on the married man who has been dating her daughter.

  15. S4E15 - A Personal Matter

    A Personal Matter

    27 min • Jan 18, 1959 (67 years ago)

    Two construction engineers are between more than just a rock and a hard place when one of them discovers the other's violent past during an explosive tunnel blast.

  16. S4E16 - Out There - Darkness

    Out There - Darkness

    27 min • Jan 25, 1959 (67 years ago)

    When a wealthy woman mistakenly accuses her elevator boy of robbing her, his resulting imprisonment will take her to levels of guilt she never expected.

  17. S4E17 - Total Loss

    Total Loss

    27 min • Feb 1, 1959 (67 years ago)

    A desperate department store owner foolishly agrees to a scheme to have her store burned down so she can collect the insurance, but the fiery transaction doesn't go down as planned.

  18. S4E18 - The Last Dark Step

    The Last Dark Step

    27 min • Feb 8, 1959 (67 years ago)

    It's murder most foul when a man decides to drown the longtime girlfriend who's been supporting him, but his crime doesn't go unnoticed for very long.

  19. S4E19 - The Morning of the Bride

    The Morning of the Bride

    27 min • Feb 15, 1959 (67 years ago)

    A young woman with her eye on marriage wonders why she still hasn't met her boyfriend's mother.

  20. S4E20 - The Diamond Necklace

    The Diamond Necklace

    27 min • Feb 22, 1959 (67 years ago)

    During his last week of work before retirement, the longtime employee of a jewelry store serves an unusual client.

  21. S4E21 - Relative Value

    Relative Value

    27 min • Mar 1, 1959 (67 years ago)

    When John learns that he has been made the beneficiary in his cousin's will, he decides he can't wait for nature to take its course and begins plotting murder.

  22. S4E22 - The Right Price

    The Right Price

    26 min • Mar 8, 1959 (67 years ago)

    A middle-aged couple, recently wed and constantly bickering, learn how married life can be murder.

  23. S4E23 - I'll Take Care of You

    I'll Take Care of You

    27 min • Mar 15, 1959 (67 years ago)

    A used car salesman with a spendthrift wife concocts a killer deal with his father and two college boys.

  24. S4E24 - The Avon Emeralds

    The Avon Emeralds

    26 min • Mar 22, 1959 (67 years ago)

    Nothing is as it seems when a young Scotland Yard inspector follows a widow suspected of smuggling jewelry.

  25. S4E25 - The Kind Waitress

    The Kind Waitress

    27 min • Mar 29, 1959 (67 years ago)

    Thelma Tomkins and her deadbeat boyfriend begin poisoning an old and wealthy woman in order to get an inheritance ... but the results are not what they expected.

  26. S4E26 - Cheap Is Cheap

    Cheap Is Cheap

    27 min • Apr 5, 1959 (67 years ago)

    When a miser discovers how expensive a divorce will cost, he comes up with another way to rid himself of his wife.

  27. S4E27 - The Waxwork

    The Waxwork

    27 min • Apr 12, 1959 (67 years ago)

    A reporter with a gambling problem will do anything for a lucrative story - including spending the night in the Murderers' Den of a wax museum.

  28. S4E28 - The Impossible Dream

    The Impossible Dream

    27 min • Apr 19, 1959 (67 years ago)

    Pining for her boss - a former movie star now forced to take supporting roles - a middle-aged secretary shows how she will do anything to make her romantic fantasy a reality.

  29. S4E29 - Banquo's Chair

    Banquo's Chair

    25 min • May 3, 1959 (67 years ago)

    A retired Scotland Yard inspector goes to extreme lengths to prove the guilt of a suspect in an old murder case.

  30. S4E30 - A Night with the Boys

    A Night with the Boys

    27 min • May 10, 1959 (67 years ago)

    When he loses all his money in a poker game, a man tells his pregnant wife an involved lie to explain the missing cash.

  31. S4E31 - Your Witness

    Your Witness

    25 min • May 17, 1959 (67 years ago)

    A prominent lawyer appears able to manipulate any situation successfully - except, perhaps, for his marriage.

  32. S4E32 - Human Interest Story

    Human Interest Story

    27 min • May 24, 1959 (67 years ago)

    A newspaper reporter gets a tip about an out of this world story: a man who claims to be a Martian.

  33. S4E33 - The Dusty Drawer

    The Dusty Drawer

    27 min • May 31, 1959 (67 years ago)

    When a local bank clerk cheats him out of $200, a man takes extreme measures to get back his money.

  34. S4E34 - A True Account

    A True Account

    27 min • Jun 7, 1959 (67 years ago)

    Paul Brett is a top-notch criminal attorney who is consulted by Mrs. Cannon-Hughes. She was a nurse by profession who tended to the bedridden wife of Gilbert Hughes until her death. In the time since then, she married Mr. Hughes only to come to the conclusion that he murdered his first wife. Brett advises her that little that can be done without evidence, but he takes a liking to her and they eventually become lovers and marry when Gilbert takes his own life. Little does he realize the consequences of the choices he has made.

  35. S4E35 - Touché

    Touché

    26 min • Jun 14, 1959 (67 years ago)

    A millionaire takes a hunting trip during which he hatches a plan to make his wife's lover his prey.

  36. S4E36 - Invitation to an Accident

    Invitation to an Accident

    27 min • Jun 21, 1959 (67 years ago)

    When a woman's blatant indiscretions with her ex-husband continue even after a confrontation with her current spouse, the consequences are dire.