Season 5

Season • Sep 27, 1959–Sep 25, 1960

A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, horror and mystery.
  1. S5E1 - Arthur

    Arthur

    27 min • Sep 27, 1959 (67 years ago)

    When his former fiancee turns up missing, chicken farmer Arthur obligingly lets the police search his ranch, despite the fact that they seem to suspect him of her murder.

  2. S5E2 - The Crystal Trench

    The Crystal Trench

    27 min • Oct 4, 1959 (67 years ago)

    Dangerous secrets are revealed when a devoted widow travels to the glacier in Switzerland where her husband's body has been preserved since his deadly fall forty years earlier.

  3. S5E3 - Appointment at Eleven

    Appointment at Eleven

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

    A 17-year-old causes havoc at a bar and alarms everyone around him when he talks hysterically about how he'll be "born again" when someone else dies at eleven o'clock.

  4. S5E4 - Coyote Moon

    Coyote Moon

    26 min • Oct 18, 1959 (67 years ago)

    John Piltkin picks up three hitchhikers who rob him. After he spots them in a diner, he exacts his revenge. He steals a car and picks the hitchhikers up. Concealing his face in shadows, he then pretends the car has stalled and walks off to get help. The hitchhickers are then arrested in the stolen car.

  5. S5E5 - No Pain

    No Pain

    27 min • Oct 25, 1959 (66 years ago)

    Nothing is as it seems when a polio victim in an iron lung suspects his wife of becoming attracted to a new neighbor and wonders if she's planning to get rid of him for good.

  6. S5E6 - Anniversary Gift

    Anniversary Gift

    26 min • Nov 1, 1959 (66 years ago)

    Sick of his wife's menagerie of strange and high-maintenance animals, a frazzled husband decides to get her the perfect present - a highly poisonous coral snake.

  7. S5E7 - Dry Run

    Dry Run

    27 min • Nov 8, 1959 (66 years ago)

    An aspiring hitman takes on a risky assignment to kill a rival gangster but then finds himself easily conned by his target in a treacherous game of cat and mouse.

  8. S5E8 - The Blessington Method

    The Blessington Method

    26 min • Nov 15, 1959 (66 years ago)

    Troubled by the responsibility of his aging mother in law, a man takes advantage of a society that specializes in "taking care of" elderly relatives and then soon finds out that he may be in for a similar fate.

  9. S5E9 - Dead Weight

    Dead Weight

    27 min • Nov 22, 1959 (66 years ago)

    Lovers' Lane becomes a dark and deadly destination when an ad executive and his former girlfriend are attacked by a young thug, and his efforts to protect them quickly go from heroic to something much more criminal.

  10. S5E10 - Special Delivery

    Special Delivery

    27 min • Nov 29, 1959 (66 years ago)

    After his neighbor warns him about suspicious disappearances around them, a man wonders if the vanishings have anything to do with a delivery to his young son.

  11. S5E11 - Road Hog

    Road Hog

    27 min • Dec 6, 1959 (66 years ago)

    When a traffic delay prevents a dying boy from reaching the hospital in time, his bereaved father and brothers swear revenge on the salesman who hogged the road when a life was on the line.

  12. S5E12 - Specialty of the House

    Specialty of the House

    26 min • Dec 13, 1959 (66 years ago)

    Mr. Laffler introduces his colleague Mr. Costain to Spirro's, an exclusive gentleman's club, but to their disappointment, the house specialty, a lamb dish, is not being served that day.

  13. S5E13 - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

    An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

    26 min • Dec 20, 1959 (66 years ago)

    Moments before he's set to swing from the end of a Union rope, a Southern supporter reflects on the sabotage attempt that brought him there and sees a possibility for freedom.

  14. S5E14 - Graduating Class

    Graduating Class

    26 min • Dec 27, 1959 (66 years ago)

    A teacher's interest in the one student who seems to care about her lessons turns tragic when she and a kindly neighbor follow the girl to a man's apartment.

  15. S5E15 - Man from the South

    Man from the South

    27 min • Jan 3, 1960 (66 years ago)

    In a Las Vegas casino, an unpleasant little man hopes to use a young man's wish to impress the young woman he has just met to pressure the young fellow into accepting a macabre bet.

  16. S5E16 - The Ikon of Elijah

    The Ikon of Elijah

    26 min • Jan 10, 1960 (66 years ago)

    An antiques dealer takes refuge in a tucked away monastery with the goal of seizing a priceless manuscript, but his greed will extend his stay at the holy place for much longer than he ever imagined.

  17. S5E17 - The Cure

    The Cure

    27 min • Jan 24, 1960 (66 years ago)

    Some important things get lost in translation when a South American oil explorer agrees to have his loyal native assistant take his murderous wife to a head shrinker for her health.

  18. S5E18 - Backward, Turn Backward

    Backward, Turn Backward

    26 min • Jan 31, 1960 (66 years ago)

    A middle aged plumber is suspected of bludgeoning to death the father of his 19-year-old love interest, but the Sheriff can't figure out how the man could have done the crime and been caring for his baby grandson at the same time.

  19. S5E19 - Not the Running Type

    Not the Running Type

    26 min • Feb 7, 1960 (66 years ago)

    After twelve years in prison for stealing $200,000 from his investment firm employers, Milton Potter calmly returns all the money he embezzled and pursues some very unique post-prison retirement plans.

  20. S5E20 - The Day of the Bullet

    The Day of the Bullet

    26 min • Feb 14, 1960 (66 years ago)

    When Clete Vine, a successful businessman, reads about a gangster's violent death, he recalls how he and a childhood friend were profoundly affected by an event that began with their innocent admiration of an elegant car.

  21. S5E21 - Hitch Hike

    Hitch Hike

    26 min • Feb 21, 1960 (66 years ago)

    A righteous and hypocritical civic leader on a road trip accepts mechanical help from a young man who then asks for a lift, soon afterwards he reveals he's recently been released from reform school.

  22. S5E22 - Across the Threshold

    Across the Threshold

    27 min • Feb 28, 1960 (66 years ago)

    When his over-bearing mother mentions missing her dead husband, a selfish bachelor is happy to arrange the reunion and enlists his actress girlfriend to help by posing as a clairvoyant.

  23. S5E23 - Craig's Will

    Craig's Will

    27 min • Mar 6, 1960 (66 years ago)

    It's one lucky dog who is named the beneficiary of his deceased master's estate, but he then becomes the target of murderous plots concocted by the humans in his life.

  24. S5E24 - Madame Mystery

    Madame Mystery

    27 min • Mar 27, 1960 (66 years ago)

    A ruthlessly ambitious Hollywood publicist capitalizes on the drowning death of an actress, but his hopes for success sink like a stone when he learns that she's still alive.

  25. S5E25 - The Little Man Who Was There

    The Little Man Who Was There

    26 min • Apr 3, 1960 (66 years ago)

    The patrons in a copper town saloon initially scoff at the mysterious, small man who barges in, but soon find themselves handing over their valuables when he takes on two strapping brothers.

  26. S5E26 - Mother, May I Go Out to Swim?

    Mother, May I Go Out to Swim?

    27 min • Apr 10, 1960 (66 years ago)

    What begins as a mother-son vacation soon becomes a trip to agony when he falls in love with a girl who is determined to share his affections ... and will do anything to get rid of her nemesis.

  27. S5E27 - The Cuckoo Clock

    The Cuckoo Clock

    26 min • Apr 17, 1960 (66 years ago)

    A sensible widow beginning her stay in a remote summer cottage refuses to be alarmed by news of an escaped mental patient, but her resolve weakens as she visits with an off-beat local.

  28. S5E28 - Forty Detectives Later

    Forty Detectives Later

    25 min • Apr 24, 1960 (66 years ago)

    The forty-first private eye hired by a man to find his wife's killer follows the clues to a suspect, and then realizes that the case is more complex than he had realized.

  29. S5E29 - The Hero

    The Hero

    26 min • May 1, 1960 (66 years ago)

    A wealthy entrepreneur is sure that the man he meets on a cruise ship is the same person he robbed and left for dead many years ago ... or is he?

  30. S5E30 - Insomnia

    Insomnia

    26 min • May 8, 1960 (66 years ago)

    Lack of sleep is ruining a widower's life, but the real nightmare begins when he finally meets his brother-in-law, a menacing veteran still holding a grudge for his sister's death.

  31. S5E31 - I Can Take Care of Myself

    I Can Take Care of Myself

    27 min • May 15, 1960 (66 years ago)

    A beautiful Greenwich Village nightclub singer unwittingly risks her life - and that of her pianist - when she makes the mistake of brushing off "Little Dandy", a dangerous mobster.

  32. S5E32 - One Grave Too Many

    One Grave Too Many

    27 min • May 22, 1960 (66 years ago)

    Chronic unemployment makes a poor husband desperate enough to steal from a man he believes is dead, but he soon regrets the decision when he sees that the lifted wallet contains more than just cash.

  33. S5E33 - Party Line

    Party Line

    26 min • May 29, 1960 (66 years ago)

    A busybody fears for her life when she learns that the man who blames her for his wife's death has escaped from prison and may be planning a visit with his former neighbor.

  34. S5E34 - Cell 227

    Cell 227

    26 min • Jun 5, 1960 (66 years ago)

    A falsely convicted prisoner is determined to make his walk to the gas chamber on of dignity, but his plan suddenly changes when he hurls himself at the jovial guard known as "Pops".

  35. S5E35 - The Schartz-Metterklume Method

    The Schartz-Metterklume Method

    26 min • Jun 12, 1960 (66 years ago)

    An unconventional governess disrupts a conservative household with her radical ideas about interior design, wines, art and - especially - children and their education.

  36. S5E36 - Letter of Credit

    Letter of Credit

    26 min • Jun 19, 1960 (66 years ago)

    When he goes to a bank to transfer money, a man writing a book on the subject of unsolved crimes has no idea that he will find information about the $500,000 robbery he is chronicling ... or does he?

  37. S5E37 - Escape to Sonoita

    Escape to Sonoita

    27 min • Jun 26, 1960 (66 years ago)

    A pair of truck drivers stranded in the Arizona desert find themselves at the mercy of two kidnappers who are heading to the border ... and determined to take the last of the drinking water with them.

  38. S5E38 - Hooked

    Hooked

    27 min • Sep 25, 1960 (66 years ago)

    Believing that financial reasons prevent him from leaving his wife, an unhappily married man and the woman he really loves hatch a scheme that they believe will solve all their problems.