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Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
39 Episodes 1956 - 1957
Episode 1
Wet Saturday
Sun, Sep 30, 195626 mins
Mr. Princey's batty daughter, Millicent, has just killed the schoolmaster, with whom she was in love, when she found out he had gotten engaged to another woman. A murderess in the family? That won't do. Mr. Princey has a shallow dimwit for a son and a wife who, whatever her other qualities, is no good when it comes to covering up a murder. Mr. Princey takes it upon himself to keep Millicent out of prison or the madhouse. Good luck is on his side when Captain Smollet stops by for a visit. Captain Smollet, it seems, has just as much a motive for murder as Millicent.
Episode 2
Fog Closing In
Sun, Oct 7, 195626 mins
Mary 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.
Episode 3
De Mortuis
Sun, Oct 14, 195625 mins
Professor Rankin's two buddies want to take the prof out fishing. But he doesn't seem to be home. They see that coffee is percolating, figure he's about to come back any minute, and wait for him. Meanwhile, they gossip about his wife. Much younger than the prof. A dish, they call her. She's also--though they don't use the word--a slut. Bud tells the story of the time she let a truck driver pick her up. Wally tells the story of the time she hit on him. They're just about to leave when they hear him down in the cellar. He's filling in a hole. The two men begin to suspect there's more in that hole than just cement.
Episode 4
Kill with Kindness
Sun, Oct 21, 195626 mins
Katherine Oldham feeds stew to a homeless man as she struggles to keep the mind of her brother, Fitzhugh--a butterfly hunter and birdwatcher--on the task of murder.
Episode 5
None Are So Blind
Sun, Oct 28, 195626 mins
Vain, pretentious Seymour Johnston didn't see himself that way. Nor does he see himself the way his late father did - as one who couldn't be trusted with a large inheritance,That's why Seymour's father left all his money to his sister, Seymour's Aunt Muriel. Once she's dead, the money will all go to him. But Muriel doesn't seem destined to die any time soon. In the meantime, how will Seymour keep his antique shop going, and be able to enjoy any of the finer things in life? When Seymour, reduced to eating in a diner, finds a wallet someone had dropped, the answer comes to him.
Episode 6
Toby
Sun, Nov 4, 195625 mins
New York, 1910. In a poor neighborhood, a heat wave is making everyone weary and truculent. Meanwhile, Mr. Birch is renting a basement flat for his fiancée, Edwina. She was his sweetheart twenty years ago; now, thanks to a newspaper advertisement she placed, the two have found each other again. He wants everything to be perfect for her arrival, which means, among other things, a dozen roses. She loved roses. It strikes him as a bad sign when the vase the roses were to go in breaks. The first real sign of trouble is seeing Edwina herself. She's still a beautiful woman and every bit the lady she always was. But she doesn't come alone. She arrives with a bundle in a baby blanket. This first shock gives way to more unpleasant surprises and mysterious behavior from the woman he hopes, at long last, to marry.
Episode 7
Alibi Me
Sun, Nov 11, 195630 mins
Georgie Minnelli confronts Lucky Moore, his old childhood enemy, for interfering in his pinball machine racket. Georgie waves a gun in Lucky's face, but Lucky isn't intimidated. A cop named Larkin has just been made lieutenant, and Larkin vowed long ago that if either of these hated rivals turns up dead, the other had better have a good alibi. Georgie couldn't possibly get away with it. But Lucky has pushed Georgie too far and his old enemy shoots him dead anyway. Now the young gangster is desperate for an alibi. But getting one won't be easy.
Episode 8
Conversation Over a Corpse
Sun, Nov 18, 195630 mins
Cissie 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.
Episode 9
Crack of Doom
Sun, Nov 25, 195630 mins
In the club car of a New York-Chicago streamliner, Mason Bridges adamantly refuses his friends' request to join him in the next car for a game of penny-ante. One of the friends presses him about this refusal, and Mason tells him a story of the time he had unwittingly become a thief. Years before, he was an office manager for a real-estate firm. An unpleasant business associate named Sam Klinker gives him $10,000 to put in the company safe--and then invites him to a no-limit game of poker. Circumstances conspire to bring Mason Bridges to the brink of ruin. And a single card will make all the difference.
Episode 10
Jonathan
Sun, Dec 2, 195630 mins
Gil Dalliford has an unnaturally close relationship to his father, whom he calls by his first name, Jonathan. "Every important moment of my life is a moment I had with Jonathan," he says. But after eighteen years of being a widower, Jonathan finds he's ready to settle down with a new wife. Before Gil even meets her, he declares his everlasting hatred for her. And that hatred only intensifies after his father dies. Of a heart attack, the doctor said. But Gil suspects foul play.
Episode 11
The Better Bargain
Sun, Dec 9, 195630 mins
Louis 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.
Episode 12
The Rose Garden
Sun, Dec 16, 195630 mins
The cab driver taking Mr. Vinton to his destination is surprised to see he has business with Miss Julia Pickering and not her sister, Miss Cordelia. Miss Cordelia, aka Mrs. Welles, has her sister under her thumb. He's even more surprised to find that Miss Julia has written a book that Mr. Vinton wants to publish. When Mr. Vinton arrives at the elderly sisters' magnolia-scented Louisiana mansion, he's the one surprised, finding that the house perfectly matches the one Miss Julia had described in her story. As a guest in the house, he finds old furniture carved with lion's heads, brass cherubs, a stone bench in a rose garden -- all things from the book. Mr. Vinton's mind becomes troubled as he wonders how much the rest of Miss Julia's murder mystery might be true.
Episode 13
Mr. Blanchard's Secret
Sun, Dec 23, 195626 mins
The kooky Babs Fenton's imagination is a great asset when writing murder mysteries. But it does not foster peace and harmony in the home, especially not when she has an unimaginative corporate lawyer for a husband. Her overstimulated mind begins working on her new next-door neighbors, the Blanchards, when she realizes she's never seen Mrs. Blanchard. And Mr. Blanchard seems less than eager for her to pay a call. Has Mr. Blanchard, a high school teacher and former university professor, murdered his wife?
Episode 14
John Brown's Body
Sun, Dec 30, 195630 mins
John Brown and Company makes furniture and has been a solid business for years. But young Harold Skinner wants to shake things up and make modern furniture. John Brown will have none of it. Soon Harold meets John Brown's wife, an attractive woman in her 30s, who married for money -- though she denies it. Unlike her husband, she's excited about Skinner's modern ideas and wants to help him. Especially after the two of them become lovers. Harold comes up with a "wonderful horrible idea" to get John Brown out of the way: convince him he's losing his mind.
Episode 15
Crackpot
Sun, Jan 6, 195730 mins
Mr. and Mrs. Loomis are two newlyweds who have recently endured a family tragedy and are now having bad luck on their honeymoon. Their car has a flat tire -- and so does the spare. A stranger named Mr. Moon passes by and fixes the tire. But this Good Samaritan proves to be a crackpot. Mr. Loomis trips and falls onto Moon, dirtying his white suit. The man becomes enraged and threatens to kill him, before driving off. Later, the couple arrive at their hotel. And they realize their bad luck has gotten worse when the crackpot is in the suite right next to theirs.
Episode 16
Nightmare in 4-D
Sun, Jan 13, 195730 mins
Harry Parker in apartment 4-D reads a lot of pulp fiction and watches a lot of late-night TV. That lends an air of inauthenticity to the story he tells his wife in the morning about what happened at two A.M. It seems the blonde in 3-D needed him to play Sir Galahad. At two A.M., she has a man in her apartment. And he's dead. "Miss Elliot, I can't get involved in a murder," says Harry. "I'm a married man." But it isn't long before he finds himself helping her take the corpse down to the basement. Was the whole thing a dream?
Episode 17
My Brother, Richard
Sun, Jan 20, 195730 mins
Martin Ross is a district attorney with a fighting chance at his party's nomination for governor. But Martin's brother, Richard, wants him to have more than a fighting chance. So, as the other candidate takes a shower at his country club, Richard walks in with a pistol and walks out with one less bullet. The sheriff calls Martin and tells him the news of the murder. Later, he has a suspect: the victim's teenage caddie. But Martin already knows his brother is the real murderer. Richard then takes Martin's wife hostage to ensure that no one else finds out.
Episode 18
The Manacled
Sun, Jan 27, 195730 mins
Sgt. Rockwell is an honest cop, but $50,000 is enough to tempt even someone like him. He's transporting a prisoner on a passenger train. The man is Stephen Fontaine, a thief with the silver tongue of a devil. As the sergeant leafs through a magazine about sports cars, Fontaine tells Rockwell that a pickpocket on the train has put an envelope in Rockwell's jacket pocket. Rockwell checks, and sure enough it's there. Inside the envelope is a key. Fontaine tells the sergeant what it opens, where to get in and what's inside. $50,000. All the sergeant has to do is let his prisoner escape.
Episode 19
A Bottle of Wine
Sun, Feb 3, 195730 mins
The 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.
Episode 20
Malice Domestic
Sun, Feb 10, 195730 mins
When 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.
Episode 21
Number Twenty-Two
Sun, Feb 17, 195730 mins
Young Steve Morgan seems almost happy that he's been arrested and taken to jail. Now, maybe the guys at the pool hall will take him seriously. He just hopes that when his stick-up hits the papers, it doesn't come out that he used a toy gun. His cell-mate, much older and much more experienced, warns him against being too cocky. Jail is serious. And the next day's line-up will prove it. The kid doesn't pay attention. But it won't be long before Steve Morgan's flippant remarks begin to catch in his throat.
Episode 22
The End of Indian Summer
Sun, Feb 24, 195730 mins
Joe 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.
Episode 23
One for the Road
Sun, Mar 3, 195730 mins
Charles Hendricks is happy. At home, he has a doting wife. On business trips, he has a doting mistress. Things only become difficult for him when his wife finds his mistress's cigarette lighter. She's not a jealous woman and makes little of it. But that first clue to his infidelity leads to another. And finally she knows. Unknown to him, his wife takes a trip to meet the other woman. She pretends to be collecting old clothes. But her real goal is far more sinister.
Episode 24
The Cream of the Jest
Sun, Mar 10, 195730 mins
Charles Hanover Gresham is a broken-down old actor whose bar tab is so steep the bartender won't even serve him another drink. Gresham learns that the playwright, Wayne Campbell, is auditioning actors for a new play. He begs Campbell for a part, but his old colleague has no use for this unreliable has-been. Gresham resorts to blackmail. Since Campbell won't give him a part, he demands an "annuity" or he'll reveal Campbell's secret past. Campbell has another idea.
Episode 25
I Killed the Count: Part 1
Sun, Mar 17, 195730 mins
Inspector Davidson from Scotland Yard is a little too sure of himself. As he investigates the murder of Count Victor Mattoni, nothing goes according to his expectations, beginning with the maid whom he tries to console before realizing she's quite calm about the whole thing. That morning, she discovered the count sitting in a chair quite still. She assumed he had passed out from too much drink, but upon closer examination, it seemed he had a bullet hole through his temple. The count didn't put the bullet there himself, which means it's up to the inspector and the eager young officer Raines to find out who did. Several suspects pass by, and with each discovery, the whole business gets more mysterious. Parts two and three of the story follow this episode.
Episode 26
I Killed the Count: Part 2
Sun, Mar 24, 195730 mins
Inspector Davidson's murder investigation is not going as smoothly as he would have hoped. He now has two confessions: one from Lord Sorrington and another from the American, Bernard K. Froy. (Davidson is rather hoping the American did it). Both confessions are equally plausible. But only one person could have killed the count. Davidson is undaunted by this mystery -- even when a new revelation makes the case more vexatious than ever. Part two of a three-part story.
Episode 27
I Killed the Count: Part 3
Sun, Mar 31, 195730 mins
Inspector Davidson continues to investigate the murder of Count Mattoni. The dark clouds of mystery finally begin to part, but not before he receives a fourth confession to the count's murder. Final part of a three-part story.
Episode 28
One More Mile to Go
Sun, Apr 7, 195726 mins
In 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.
Episode 29
Vicious Circle
Sun, Apr 14, 195730 mins
Manny 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.
Episode 30
The Three Dreams of Mr. Findlater
Sun, Apr 21, 195730 mins
Ernest 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.
Episode 31
The Night the World Ended
Sun, Apr 28, 195730 mins
A newsman plays a joke on a homeless man by showing him a fake article that says the world is going to end that night, but the prank has deadly results.
Episode 32
The Hands of Mr. Ottermole
Sun, May 5, 195730 mins
A murderer has been strangling people in the London fog. A reporter manages to continually make it to the crime scene before the police.
Episode 33
A Man Greatly Beloved
Sun, May 12, 195730 mins
Hildegard Fell is a precocious young girl, who is good at chess and good at telling stories. She has one to tell us, as a matter of fact. It's about a crusty old man named John Anderson, who just moved into the small Massachusetts town where she lives. Her father, the minister; her pretty mother; her friend, Mrs. Whiteford, a would-be medium; and Clarence, Mrs. Whiteford's nephew, all have a part in the story, too. It seems Mr. Anderson is a recluse and rather hard-hearted. He won't allow the church to hold their annual charity bazaar in his garden. Hildegard manages to win him over. And she learns a very interesting secret.
Episode 34
Martha Mason, Movie Star
Sun, May 19, 195730 mins
Plain, dull, middle-aged Mabel McKay deludes herself into believing that she bears a striking resemblance to glamorous movie star Martha Mason. The indolent Mabel suddenly conks her solid, devoted husband with a hammer, and buries him in their garden which he tended with care. Mabel covers up the murder, but will people believe the note she fakes that her equally dull husband felt he was totally unworthy of her magnificence, so he impulsively ran off with a lesser woman ?
Episode 35
The West Warlock Time Capsule
Sun, May 26, 195730 mins
George 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.
Episode 36
Father and Son
Sun, Jun 2, 195730 mins
London, 1912. A man who runs a small shop may get drunk too much. And he may not have been the best father in the world. In fact, his 35-year-old son has proved to be worthless. Can't keep a job. Always borrowing money from his father and not paying it back. But Joe Saunders is going to do right by his son just this once: he's not going to lend him any more money. The boy will have to get it on his own. The trouble is, Sam Saunders needs the money to persuade a cheap showgirl to run off with him. And he'll do anything to get it. Meanwhile, an old friend pays Joe a late-night visit.
Episode 37
The Indestructible Mr. Weems
Sun, Jun 9, 195730 mins
Mr. 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.
Episode 38
A Little Sleep
Sun, Jun 16, 195730 mins
Barbie Hallem is a bored rich girl, who drinks too much, parties too much and flirts outrageously with any man she meets. And there's no reason to think she stops at flirting, even though she has a boyfriend. But her boyfriend is a drip. He won't punch out a guy when he sees her kissing him. The dullard even tries to take her home when she gets drunk at a party. What she wants to do is go up to the mountains and stay at the cabin her uncle left to her. The boyfriend tries to tag along, but she manages to abandon him at the side of the road. Before the night is over, she'll wish desperately she had just gone home.
Episode 39
The Dangerous People
Sun, Jun 23, 195730 mins
Two men wait at a train station. One is an accountant. The other is a lawyer. A siren wails periodically. It seems a maniac has escaped from the local mental hospital. The police haven't caught him yet. So, who knows if the maniac will come charging into the waiting room? In fact, who can be certain that he isn't already there?
