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Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 1987 - 1987
Episode 1
The Initiation
Sat, Jan 24, 1987
When Andrew applies to join the Delta Chi Omega fraternity, the members see their chance to have a little fun. In fact, they're all great jokesters, pulling pranks on their house mother, Margaret Sturdevant, at every occasion. Given that Andrew is bookish and a music student, they see the perfect opportunity to involve him in a complex practical joke involving Mrs. Sturdevant and a gun that is supposed to be loaded with blanks. Just who is playing a joke on whom?
Episode 2
Conversation Over a Corpse
Sat, Jan 31, 198724 mins
Two sisters, Cissie and Johanna Enright are desperate to keep their home from a property developer, Mr. Brenner, who wants to tear it down in favor of new development. They invite him for tea and Johanna, the dominant of the two sisters, decides that they have to poison him. Unfortunately, their plans go awry, or at least one of the sisters' plans does.
Episode 3
Man on the Edge
Sat, Feb 7, 1987
Danny Carlisle checks into a hotel and promptly steps out onto the ledge, apparently intending to kill himself. Danny recalls the events that have led him to this decision. His beautiful wife Sally had an affair with a married man called Rick and eventually decides to leave her husband. Danny warns her that men like that will never leave their wives for a mistress but she dismisses this only to find that her husband had it right all along. In despair, she commits suicide. Police Lt. Muldoon goes out on the ledge to talk Danny into stepping back into the room. Little does he know that this is exactly what Danny had in mind.
Episode 4
If the Shoe Fits
Sat, Feb 14, 1987
Jason Cook is a ne'er do well and less than successful actor who decides to kill his twin brother Garret and assume his life. Garret has everything that Jason wants: a successful career, lots of money and a beautiful wife. What more could a man wish for? What he learns however is brother Jason's life was not as ideal as he thought and numerous complications arise, including the affair with a secretary and the delivery of a major ad campaign to a valuable client. One other thing he doesn't know is just how ambitious his late brother was.
Episode 5
The Mole
Sat, Feb 21, 198730 mins
When a dangerous patient is released from the State mental hospital, a nurse contacts his one-time psychiatrist, Dr. Maxwell Stoddard and urges him to call the police. The released patient, a man named Litton, had been in the hospital for over 15 years and was known as the Mole for his penchant to kill his victims in the dark. Working with Detective Sergeant Jim Willis, Dr. Stoddard tracks the patient to a construction site where they have a fateful encounter.
Episode 6
Anniversary Gift
Sat, Feb 28, 198730 mins
Allen Farber has quite a collection of exotic animals including an iguana, a tarantula, an owl and many others. His wife of one year, Melinda, can't stand them but she didn't marry Allen for love in any event. It's all part of a plot she and her lover have concocted to get their hands on Allen's money. Finally, after a year of marriage, she can't take it any longer and insists that her lover tell her his grand plan which she decides to put into action now. There is a price to pay however.
Episode 7
The Impatient Patient
Sat, Mar 7, 1987
Charlie Pitt is severely ill and a long-term hospital patient who simply wants to be left alone to die in peace. Most of the staff accommodates him until the somewhat ebullient and overly cheery Mrs. Greysome arrives. Charlie's only interest is in feeding a small mouse, Jocko, that crawls out of the woodwork from time to time. When Mrs. Greysome kills the mouse, Charlie has only one purpose left in life and that is to eliminate her. After several attempts to arrange for her to have an accident, Charlie comes up with the perfect way to exact his revenge.
Episode 8
When This Man Dies
Sat, Mar 14, 1987
Edgar Kraft is a good auto mechanic but a bad gambler who's gotten himself into serious debt with loan shark James Stuyvesant. Out of the blue one day, he and wife receive an anonymous letter saying that when a certain man dies, they will receive $1000. Sure enough, they read of the man's death in the news and they soon receive the money in cash. The same happens again a few days later but this time, they are promised and receive $5000. Still in debt, Edgar finally sees a way out when the next letter says he will receive $10,000. Will the man die in time for Edgar to avoid the inevitable result of not paying off his loan shark?
Episode 9
The Specialty of the House
Sat, Mar 21, 1987
Garth December is a well-known and highly influential food critic. He has an exquisite palate and can usually list off all of the ingredients in a dish simply by tasting it. He is stumped however when presented with a special dish at Betty Jo Bennington's restaurant. He loves the dish but admits he has never tasted anything like. He offers to buy her recipe but she declines, saying that it's a very old family recipe. He increasingly puts pressure on her to reveal her secret by first writing her a bad review and then hiring someone to claim he suffering from food poisoning after eating there. Faced with having to close her restaurant, Betty Jo invites December to her restaurant late one evening to show him exactly what her secret dish is made of.
Episode 10
The Final Twist
Sat, Mar 28, 1987
Wallace Garrison is a self-centered and demanding employer. The head of a small film office, he thinks nothing of asking his editor to do a two-day job in 24 hours, even though he knows the man's 8-year old is coming from out of town for a visit. He forces his accountant to do his personal income tax on short notice and warns him that any late penalties will come out of his salary. He also makes advances against his attractive special effects expert. The last straw however is when the three learn that he has filed a patent on a new 3D special effects process that they developed. Fed up, they decide to put their new invention to good use.
Episode 11
Tragedy Tonight!
Sat, Apr 4, 1987
Rachel Jenkins is a successful architect who has been given the opportunity to design a new office complex. On returning home one day she finds her sister being attacked and in her efforts to stop the man, her building model is destroyed. To make matters worse, it turns out that her sister, an aspiring actress, was simply completing a class exercise with a friend and wasn't being attacked at all. As Rachel tries to re-do her project, her sister is continually completing varying acting exercises - elation, sorrow etc - so when a masked man forces his way into the apartment, she knows exactly what is going on. Or does she?
Episode 12
World's Oldest Motive
Sat, Apr 11, 1987
David Powell is unhappily married to a shrewish and demanding wife. He's a bit of a milquetoast however and much to his girlfriend's dismay, refused to ask her for a divorce. When the girlfriend tells him its over, he still isn't sure what to do until a man in the bar offers to get rid of his wife for him. He agrees but after returning home, changes his mind and frantically tries to stop it.
Episode 13
Deathmate
Sat, Apr 18, 1987
Lisa Talbot is unhappily married to a rich older man, Carter Talbot. She is also having an affair with a much younger man, Mark Taylor. What she doesn't know is that Taylor's interest in her extends more to getting his hands on her money, something of a profession for him. When Taylor learns that she does not have control over her own money - her husband has to co-sign - he decides to take action. He realizes too late however exactly what is going on.
