Season 1

Alfred Hitchcock PresentsSeason 1

1955
39 Episodes

Episodes

Revenge
S01E01
7.2

Revenge

When Carl Spann's wife Elsa is left traumatized after being assaulted by an unknown attacker, he becomes determined to track down the perpetrator and take revenge.

02 Oct 195527m
Premonition
S01E02
7.9

Premonition

A famous pianist returning to his home town finds his father has died, and suspects his friends and family are covering up the true details of that death.

09 Oct 195527m
Triggers in Leash
S01E03
7.5

Triggers in Leash

A cook tries everything she can think of to end a dispute between two gunmen who have sworn to kill each other.

16 Oct 195527m
Don't Come Back Alive
S01E04
7.2

Don't Come Back Alive

Frank Partridge and his wife plot to cheat their life insurance company by having her hide out for 7 years and declared legally dead, but an investigator believes Mr. Partridge has murdered her.

23 Oct 195527m
Into Thin Air
S01E05
7.8

Into Thin Air

When a young woman leaves her ill mother in a Paris hotel room and comes back later, she finds her mother is missing, and all the hotel's employees deny she and her mother were ever there.

30 Oct 195526m
Salvage
S01E06
7.0

Salvage

Gangster Dan Varrell, just released from prison, goes looking for the woman he holds responsible for his brother's death.

06 Nov 195526m
Breakdown
S01E07
7.2

Breakdown

William Callew is involved in a bad traffic accident on a rural road, that leaves him so paralyzed he appears lifeless, and when help arrives they think he's really dead.

13 Nov 195526m
Our Cook's a Treasure
S01E08
7.8

Our Cook's a Treasure

A man fears that the new cook he's hired is actually a murderess.

20 Nov 195526m
The Long Shot
S01E09
8.0

The Long Shot

Heavily indebted Charlie Raymond is hired to accompany a British visitor on a trip across the USA, and looks for a way to take advantage of his employer.

27 Nov 195526m
The Case of Mr. Pelham
S01E10
8.3

The Case of Mr. Pelham

A series of troubling incidents lead Mr. Pelham to believe that he has a double who is deliberately impersonating him.

04 Dec 195526m
Guilty Witness
S01E11
7.4

Guilty Witness

When Mr. and Mrs. Crane hear the Verbers having a violent argument in the apartment just above them, and then Mr. Verber disappears the next day, they can't help suspecting the worst.

11 Dec 195526m
Santa Claus and the 10th Avenue Kid
S01E12
7.2

Santa Claus and the 10th Avenue Kid

While working as a department store 'Santa Claus', a paroled convict tries to help a troubled boy.

18 Dec 195526m
The Cheney Vase
S01E13
6.6

The Cheney Vase

When Lyle Endicott is fired from his job at an art museum, he comes up with a plan to take advantage of a trusting invalid whom he befriended at the museum.

25 Dec 195526m
A Bullet for Baldwin
S01E14
8.0

A Bullet for Baldwin

When an office worker is fired from his job, he shoots his boss to death, but when he returns to the office his boss is alive, and has no recollection of the incident.

01 Jan 195626m
The Big Switch
S01E15
7.4

The Big Switch

Gangster Sam Dunleavy sets up an elaborate alibi so that he can kill his ex-girlfriend Goldie, who left him for another man.

08 Jan 195626m
You Got to Have Luck
S01E16
8.2

You Got to Have Luck

During a massive manhunt for escaped convict Sam Cobbett, Cobbett invades a house where young housewife Mary Schaffner is home alone.

15 Jan 195626m
The Older Sister
S01E17
7.2

The Older Sister

A reporter discovers the truth about the infamous Lizzie Borden murder case.

22 Jan 195626m
Shopping for Death
S01E18
6.3

Shopping for Death

Two retired insurance salesmen confront an aggressive, hostile woman in hopes of saving her from a disaster.

29 Jan 195626m
The Derelicts
S01E19
8.0

The Derelicts

Inventor Ralph Cowell murders his silent partner Alfred, only to be blackmailed by vagrant Peter Goodfellow, who witnessed the crime.

05 Feb 195626m
And So Died Riabouchinska
S01E20
6.7

And So Died Riabouchinska

While investigating a murder in a theater, Detective Krovitch uncovers a strange web of tensions revolving around ventriloquist John Fabian and his female dummy.

12 Feb 195626m
Safe Conduct
S01E21
7.0

Safe Conduct

An American journalist meets a soccer star while traveling behind the Iron Curtain, but then is arrested as a suspected smuggler.

19 Feb 195626m
Place of Shadows
S01E22
6.5

Place of Shadows

A young man tries to insinuate his way into a monastery, in order to gain revenge on a thief whom he blames for ruining his life.

26 Feb 195626m
Back for Christmas
S01E23
7.0

Back for Christmas

Herbert Carpenter plans to murder his wife Hermione, bury her body in the basement, and then leave on a long business trip.

04 Mar 195626m
The Perfect Murder
S01E24
6.5

The Perfect Murder

Unscrupulous brothers Paul and Henri Tallendier plan to murder their Aunt Rosalie so that they can get their uncle's inheritance.

11 Mar 195626m
There Was an Old Woman
S01E25
7.5

There Was an Old Woman

Dishonest Frank and Lorna Bramwell visit the home of wealthy, eccentric Monica Laughton, with the intention of robbing her.

18 Mar 195627m
Whodunit
S01E26
7.0

Whodunit

Recently deceased mystery writer Alexander Penn Arlington gets permission from the recording angel to relive his last day on earth, so that he can find out who murdered him.

25 Mar 195626m
Help Wanted
S01E27
7.5

Help Wanted

Mr. Crabtree is grateful to find a new job, until his new employer gives him a most unexpected assignment.

01 Apr 195626m
Portrait of Jocelyn
S01E28
8.0

Portrait of Jocelyn

When Mark Halliday and his new wife unexpectedly see a portrait of Halliday's first wife, it is only the first in a series of disturbing developments.

08 Apr 195626m
The Orderly World of Mr. Appleby
S01E29
7.0

The Orderly World of Mr. Appleby

Antiques dealer Laurence Appleby thinks he has solved his financial problems by killing his wife Lena, but new complications arise in his second marriage.

15 Apr 195627m
Never Again
S01E30
6.7

Never Again

Karen Stewart has once again broken her promise not to drink anymore, and now she is in a strange bed, injured, with no memory of what happened the night before.

22 Apr 195626m
The Gentleman from America
S01E31
6.0

The Gentleman from America

Rich American Howard Lattimer visits London, and bets 1000 pounds that he can spend the night in a room that is said to be haunted.

29 Apr 195626m
The Baby Sitter
S01E32

The Baby Sitter

When Clara Nash is murdered, her baby-sitter Lottie Slocum is excited to be the center of attention, and she also hopes to become closer to Clara's husband.

06 May 195625m
The Belfry
S01E33
7.0

The Belfry

When Clint Ringle learns that Ellie Marsh, the schoolteacher whom he loves, is engaged to Walt Norton, Clint kills Walt and then hides in the schoolhouse's bell tower, waiting for his chance to exact further revenge.

13 May 195626m
The Hidden Thing
S01E34
5.0

The Hidden Thing

After Dana Edwards' fiancée Laura is killed by a hit-and-run driver, he is visited by John Hurley, who claims to be able to use memory recall techniques that will help him to remember the car's license plate number.

20 May 195626m
The Legacy
S01E35
5.0

The Legacy

When a prince who is well known as a playboy takes a sudden romantic interest in a shy, plain housewife, everyone is baffled and fascinated.

27 May 195627m
Mink
S01E36
8.0

Mink

Paula Hudson has a stolen mink coat she tells police she purchased on a recommendation, and when they retrace her steps to find out how she obtained it, everyone denies they ever talked to her about it.

03 Jun 195626m
Decoy
S01E37
7.0

Decoy

Gil Larkin is suspected of murder when Mona Cameron's allegedly abusive husband is shot dead in front of him and he gets knocked out by an unknown assailant.

10 Jun 195626m
The Creeper
S01E38
8.0

The Creeper

A serial killer known as "the strangler" terrorizes a New York neighborhood.

17 Jun 195626m
Momentum
S01E39
7.0

Momentum

A man ends up running to the Mexican border after trying to collect money his employer owes him.

24 Jun 195626m