Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Season 2
TV-PG
89%
Alfred Hitchcock, the Master of Suspense hosts his own television show. Hitchcock introduced the show, which was then followed by a short half an hour episode which contained suspense, horror, and humor. After the story, Hitchcock would come back and end the show.
39 Episodes
- Fog Closing In
E2Fog Closing InMary Summers lives in a constant state of fear--fear that threatens to become panic when her husband goes away on a business trip for a week. She's all alone in a large house when she hears a crash near the back door. Soon she's face to face with the man who has just broken in--a man she soon realizes is an escaped mental patient. - Conversation Over a Corpse
E8Conversation Over a CorpseCissie Enright is not exactly thrilled with the idea of poisoning Mr. Brenner, the real estate man. But her sister, Joanna, insists that it's the only way. Otherwise, he is going to take the house from them. Cissie reluctantly poisons the tea. Mr. Brenner arrives with no idea what is in store for him. But things don't go as Joanna or Cissie had planned either. - The Better Bargain
E11The Better BargainLouis Koster is a middle-aged mobster, now running a more-or-less legitimate business and enjoying a beautiful young wife. That is, until he suspects his wife of having an affair. A mousy little private eye confirms it. Now the only thing Louis "The King" Koster has left to do is hire Harry Silver. Silver is the best hitman in the business, but his price may come too high. - A Bottle of Wine
E19A Bottle of WineThe Judge and Wallace Donaldson sit in the former's drawing room, drink amontillado and have a painfully civilized conversation. What makes it painful, on both sides, is that young Mr. Donaldson is about to take away the old judge's young, beautiful wife. The tense meeting is not made more relaxing by the Judge's quotations from Aristotle and Plato. It's even less relaxing when the Judge takes out his pistol. - Malice Domestic
E20Malice DomesticWhen a friend moves to San Francisco, Carl and Annette Borden agree to take her Great Dane, Cassandra. Carl gets along wonderfully with the dog, but the beast doesn't seem to take well to Annette. Carl is a writer, Annette an artist who works with clay. She's also an artist in the kitchen, where some serious domestic trouble is about to begin. Meanwhile, Cassandra lives up to her name. - The End of Indian Summer
E22The End of Indian SummerJoe Rogers takes his wife to a small town called Oxport. They are there on business, though not the business they're pretending to be on. Rogers is an insurance investigator, and he wants to check up on one Mrs. Gillespie. She has had two husbands so far, and each died on the wedding trip. And each was insured with Rogers's company for $50,000. - One More Mile to Go
E28One More Mile to GoIn the midst of a heated quarrel, a man lifts up the fireplace poker in his hand and brings it down on his wife, who drops to the floor. She's dead. The man puts her body in the trunk of his car and drives off, hoping to find somewhere to dispose of it. If he thought his wife was a nag, she'll seem like sweetness and light compared to a motorcycle cop, who stops him and insists he fix his broken taillight. - Vicious Circle
E29Vicious CircleManny Coe is a hit-man for Mr. Williams. He kills a man named Gallagher for messing up a jewel robbery. When she finds out about the murder, Manny's girlfriend Betty threatens to go to the police. Mr. Williams orders her killed. Manny tries to do this, but she is later accidentally killed. Manny is rewarded by Mr. Williams. He becomes his right hand man, until he is killed by Georgie, another hit-man sent to Mr. Williams. - The Three Dreams of Mr. Findlater
E30The Three Dreams of Mr. FindlaterErnest Findlater dreams about a South Sea island and a girl he meets there named Lalage. Lalage develops a scheme to help Findlater kill his real-life wife. On the night of the planned murder, Findlater discovers that his wife is already dead. She died of natural causes. - The West Warlock Time Capsule
E35The West Warlock Time CapsuleGeorge Tiffany is not just a taxidermist -- he's an artist. And his work is good enough that the city is accepting his unique donation. He's stuffing Napoleon, a horse that was the city park's chief attraction for many years. Napoleon will be stuffed with a time capsule to be opened one-hundred years hence -- in 2057. If only George's private life were going as well as his professional life. - The Indestructible Mr. Weems
E37The Indestructible Mr. WeemsMr. Weems is supposedly near death. Some of his lodge brothers have invested in a cemetery and are in needs of customers. They make a bargain with Weems. They will pay Weems fifty dollars a week for the rest of his, presumably, short life if he agrees to buy the first plot. They hope that others following Mr. Weems's lead will also buy plots. Unfortunately, the men discover that Weems is a bit more resilient than any of them thought.
