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Alfred Hitchcock Presents on IMDB
First Aired: October 2nd, 1955
Status: Ended
Network: NBC
Summary: A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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# of Episodes: 268
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Season 5
Episode 1: Arthur
Air Date: September 27th, 1959
Summary: 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.
Episode 2: The Crystal Trench
Air Date: October 4th, 1959
Summary: 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.
Episode 3: Appointment at Eleven
Air Date: October 11st, 1959
Summary: 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.
Episode 4: Coyote Moon
Air Date: October 18th, 1959
Summary: 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.
Episode 5: No Pain
Air Date: October 25th, 1959
Summary: 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.
Episode 6: Anniversary Gift
Air Date: November 1st, 1959
Summary: 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.
Episode 7: Dry Run
Air Date: November 8th, 1959
Summary: 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.
Episode 8: The Blessington Method
Air Date: November 15th, 1959
Summary: 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.
Episode 9: Dead Weight
Air Date: November 22nd, 1959
Summary: 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.
Episode 10: Special Delivery
Air Date: November 29th, 1959
Summary: 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.
Episode 11: Road Hog
Air Date: December 6th, 1959
Summary: 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.
Episode 12: Specialty of the House
Air Date: December 13rd, 1959
Summary: A successful businessman finally gets his greatest wish to see inside the kitchen of his favorite dining club, but has he just ordered his final meal as well?
Episode 13: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Air Date: December 20th, 1959
Summary: 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.
Episode 14: Graduating Class
Air Date: December 27th, 1959
Summary: 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.
Episode 15: Man from the South
Air Date: January 3rd, 1960
Summary: A down-on-his-luck gambler bets his hand (literally) for a convertible, but the game is stopped by a person with an even larger interest in the outcome.
Episode 16: The Ikon of Elijah
Air Date: January 10th, 1960
Summary: 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.
Episode 17: The Cure
Air Date: January 24th, 1960
Summary: 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.
Episode 18: Backward, Turn Backward
Air Date: January 31st, 1960
Summary: 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.
Episode 19: Not the Running Type
Air Date: February 7th, 1960
Summary: 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.
Episode 20: The Day of the Bullet
Air Date: February 14th, 1960
Summary: 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.
Episode 21: Hitch Hike
Air Date: February 21st, 1960
Summary: 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.
Episode 22: Across the Threshold
Air Date: February 28th, 1960
Summary: 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.
Episode 23: Craig's Will
Air Date: March 6th, 1960
Summary: 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.
Episode 24: Madame Mystery
Air Date: March 27th, 1960
Summary: 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.
Episode 25: The Little Man Who Was There
Air Date: April 3rd, 1960
Summary: 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.
Episode 26: Mother, May I Go out to Swim?
Air Date: April 10th, 1960
Summary: 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.
Episode 27: The Cuckoo Clock
Air Date: April 17th, 1960
Summary: 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.
Episode 28: Forty Detectives Later
Air Date: April 24th, 1960
Summary: 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.
Episode 29: The Hero
Air Date: May 1st, 1960
Summary: 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?
Episode 30: Insomnia
Air Date: May 8th, 1960
Summary: 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.
Episode 31: I Can Take Care of Myself
Air Date: May 15th, 1960
Summary: 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.
Episode 32: One Grave Too Many
Air Date: May 22nd, 1960
Summary: 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.
Episode 33: Party Line
Air Date: May 29th, 1960
Summary: 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.
Episode 34: Cell 227
Air Date: June 5th, 1960
Summary: 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".
Episode 35: The Schartz-Metterklume Method
Air Date: June 12nd, 1960
Summary: An unconventional governess disrupts a conservative household with her radical ideas about interior design, wines, art and - especially - children and their education.
Episode 36: Letter of Credit
Air Date: June 19th, 1960
Summary: 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?
Episode 37: Escape to Sonoita
Air Date: June 26th, 1960
Summary: 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.
Episode 38: Hooked
Air Date: September 25th, 1960
Summary: 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.
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