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The Alfred Hitchcock Hour Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
32 Episodes 1962 - 1963
Episode 1
A Piece of the Action
Thu, Sep 20, 196260 mins
Professional gambler Duke Marsden (Gig Young) bitterly treads in his father's footsteps, which led to tragedy. Duke's wife is cold and aristocratic, fed up with his habits. Duke is appalled when his younger brother (Robert Redford), a law student, catches the fever too--does he have Duke's ability or their father's luck?
Episode 2
Don't Look Behind You
Thu, Sep 27, 196260 mins
In the insular world of a small college, someone is attacking women in a nearby woods. A group of faculty aridly mull the situation at their regular cocktail parties. Is one of the men the attacker, is the group's beautiful Daphne being lined up as a victim?
Episode 3
Night of the Owl
Thu, Oct 4, 196260 mins
A former prison chaplain and his accomplice blackmail a happy family. The blackmailers know that the oldest daughter is adopted and comes from a tragic background; her biological father killed her mother and then himself. The adoring couple love raising their daughters in the idyllic environment of the picturesque and peaceful Appalachian mountains. The husband, a forest ranger, wants to shield his daughter from taunts and gossip should the history of her birth parents become public knowledge. The smarmy blackmailer keeps coming back for more, so the husband mulls his options along with the consequences. The plot thickens when one of the blackmailers is found murdered deep in the piney woods.
Episode 4
I Saw the Whole Thing
Thu, Oct 11, 196260 mins
A mystery writer named Michael Barnes is accused of causing a fatal motorcycle accident with his car. The eyewitnesses prove less than reliable, however, when he defends himself in court and shreds their testimony by demonstrating that in each case the witnesses saw only what they wanted to see rather than the actual truth. Finally, George Peabody is called in as a witness. He was the only one who really saw the whole thing. This episode marked Alfred Hitchcock's last directorial effort for television.
Episode 5
Captive Audience
Thu, Oct 18, 196260 mins
A mystery novelist sends a series of weird audiotapes to his publisher. On the first tape, the author boasts that the publisher won't be able to discern if the story he narrates is the history of an imminent murder - or a mere fantasy. The author tells of his brief marriage ending when his wife was killed after he lost control of their car. They were kissing, making up after an argument over his wife's staying out all night with a rich old man, the same evening the author was briefly with the man's alluring, young wife Janet. Janet made a pass at the author, who immediately cut the evening short. The author says he fell into a severe depression, declined a needed brain operation, moved from France to San Francisco where he changed his name, then became a mystery writer. The tapes relate how the author eventually ran into Janet , and though she's still married, dived into an affair. When she and the author begin to plan her husband's murder, the publisher calls in another of his mystery novelists to determine: are these tapes just an unorthodox pitch of a new novel - or the bizarre confession of a deranged killer?
Episode 6
Final Vow
Thu, Oct 25, 196249 mins
On her way back to the nunnery, a beautiful novice loses a priceless 15th-century Donatello statuette donated to the convent by an aging criminal seeking redemption for his illegal endeavors. To track it down, the guilt-ridden young woman leaves the order and dives naively into the sleazy world of the criminal who stole the icon from her at a train station on her return trip.
Episode 7
Annabel
Thu, Nov 1, 196260 mins
A disturbed man's other identity snares others in a perilous web. David is a successful, quiet young scientist - but on weekends he has an impeccable country cottage where as the confident William, he fantasizes as if actually entertaining ex-girlfriend Annabel, now happily married nearby. When his co-workers, one of whom has a crush on David, follow him up the coast, David's dream world by the sea for Annabel, morphs into a nightmare for all.
Episode 8
House Guest
Thu, Nov 8, 196248 mins
An oily hero quickly makes himself unwelcome - even harder to dispose of, until he crashes his hosts' car & mashes a neighbor's wife. The unemployed stranger saved the life of a young boy, whose grateful parents welcomed the recently discharged vet into their seaside home.
Episode 9
The Black Curtain
Thu, Nov 15, 196248 mins
**INCOMPLETE SUMMARY** Getting conked on the head with a thug's slapjack during a mugging causes a man lose consciousness and, when he awakens, to revert to his memory of events 3 years earlier, forgetting he's currently wanted for murder under an assumed identity. It's 1 AM, but Phil Townsend believes he's en route to his wedding to a fiancée named Virginia. His face bursts from the front page of the local newspaper as Dave Webber, a bodyguard linked to the death of a young woman. The compassionate taxi driver who rescued Phil from the mugging drives him to Phil's fiancée's new address, where Virginia answers the door clutching her newborn. Shocked to see him, she fears her jealous husband will assume the worst. When Phil didn't show for the ceremony three years earlier, she hired a PI to find him to no avail. Phil is horrified when Virginia tells him she's now married to the gumshoe. Thus begins a tale with surprising twists and red herrings.
Episode 10
Day of Reckoning
Thu, Nov 22, 196249 mins
An unfaithful wife taunts her husband that she's ditching him for a real man. As the drunken couple argue on the stern of a yacht, the normally timid husband shoves her overboard to drown. The society party-goers on the boat support his tale that the wife accidentally fell overboard that night, and the police believe the husband, too. At first, he's relieved, then gradually guilt takes him over, but friends feel his panicky behavior is grief. The widower blurts the murder to his friends, but his story was so convincing they downplay his confession, not wanting to be involved in an embarrassing murder inquiry. As his internal pressure mounts, the killer desperately seeks a way out.
Episode 11
Ride the Nightmare
Thu, Nov 29, 196260 mins
A perfect couple's content suburban world is interrupted by a telephone threat ("I'm going to kill you") against the cocksure husband. His past misdeeds unravel his new life, terrifying his unknowing wife.
Episode 12
Hangover
Thu, Dec 6, 196248 mins
Advertising man Hadley Purvis is facing divorce if he doesn't knock off his heavy drinking. However, the prospect of his marriage falling apart does little to slow him down as he regularly drinks himself into an alcoholic stupor, jeopardizing his career as well. One morning, he finds himself at home with a girl named Marion that he picked up the night before.
Episode 13
Bonfire
Thu, Dec 13, 196249 mins
A lonely young woman moves into her newly deceased aunt's home in a small town. A way-too-helpful, next-door neighbor becomes her guardian angel, yet with his own agenda in mind. He's a lay preacher, who's determined not to go back to being a coal miner.
Episode 14
The Tender Poisoner
Thu, Dec 20, 196251 mins
An executive plans to end an associate's love affair and save the man's career and marriage.
Episode 15
The Thirty-First of February
Fri, Jan 4, 196349 mins
An inquest rules a wife's death as accidental, but when the widower returns to work, it seems someone is tricking him, including a letter accusing him of murder and one of his wife's letters appearing, revealing she had a lover. Increasingly the widower's own mind tricks him, rejecting logical explanations, instead angrily confronting his co-workers.
Episode 16
What Really Happened
Fri, Jan 11, 196360 mins
A woman stands trial for her wealthy husband's murder. Her vengeful mother-in-law is convinced that she did it, but a family servant knows the key to what really happened.
Episode 17
Forecast: Low Clouds and Coastal Fog
Fri, Jan 18, 196349 mins
A beautiful young newlywed is wary of her much-older husband's business trip leaving her alone in their beach house. A group of beach boys and a neighboring screenwriter provide her some company, unwanted by the husband. When an Hispanic man knocks on her door at night asking for help, she turns him away, leading to tragic consequences.
Episode 18
A Tangled Web
Fri, Jan 25, 196360 mins
David Chesterman is kissing his family's French maid when his mother returns to their mansion. His mother immediately fires Marie, so young David counters he's leaving with her to be married. Snorting that she won't be at the wedding, mother trickles 60 cents from her purse to the floor for a wedding gift. Marie loves hot-tempered David, so she embraces the off-the-cuff proposal - and the immediate problems which come with it. David's friend Karl is charmed by Marie and eager to fill in jobless David's resume gaps for her: David is a professional jewel thief who served a year in prison. Karl, a Beverly Hills wigmaker, omits his role in David's profession: Karl cases his customers, then sics David on them. The older Karl's been divorced four times, so Marie's self-sacrificing love for David turns Karl's bitterness into a consuming jealousy.
Episode 19
To Catch a Butterfly
Fri, Feb 1, 196360 mins
At first, a childless young couple are thrilled to relocate for the husband's new executive job, and especially happy with their new home. Is the next-door neighbor boy's cruelty to them just a youngster rebelling against his blue-collar, strict father? The husband's empathy for the boy drives a dangerous wedge into their marriage.
Episode 20
The Paragon
Fri, Feb 8, 196360 mins
A man tries to stop his insensitive wife from alienating their family and friends.
Episode 21
I'll Be Judge - I'll Be Jury
Fri, Feb 15, 196360 mins
Relatives of a murdered newlywed decide to bring the killer to justice themselves.
Episode 22
Diagnosis: Danger
Fri, Mar 1, 196360 mins
An apparent hit-and-run turns out to be so much more. It leads to an anthrax scare that spreads through Los Angeles, but the perpetrator is elusive.
Episode 23
The Lonely Hours
Fri, Mar 8, 196360 mins
A mother of three notices that her baby son oddly fascinates the tenant renting a room in her house.
Episode 24
The Star Juror
Fri, Mar 15, 196360 mins
After killing a woman, a man is chosen to be a juror for the trial of the man accused of her murder.
Episode 25
The Long Silence
Fri, Mar 22, 196360 mins
"Let's keep it within the family" instructs Mr. Manson, after an audit reveals $200,000 embezzled from the family bank he married into. The money was pilfered from accounts of his stepson Robbie, the bank loan officer, who's missing. Late that night, Robbie returns to the Manson family mansion, just as Manson is fleeing with a packed suitcase. Robbie holds a bag too, filled with documents from out-of-town which prove Manson stole the money. When Robbie refuses to let him get away, Manson clamps his hand over Robbie's mouth, begging him to listen. Robbie suffocates, so Manson doctors the crime scene to look like a suicide by hanging. Manson's typing a fake suicide note awakens Robbie's mother, who accuses her husband of killing Robbie. Manson shoves her down a staircase, bringing everyone else running. She lives, paralyzed, unable to speak. Everyone hopes she'll recover, except Manson, who stays by her side.
Episode 26
An Out for Oscar
Fri, Apr 5, 196360 mins
Mousy bank teller Oscar Blenny, a guest at a desert casino, is enamored of Eva, a seductive casino hostess who's having affairs with two male co-workers. With the sinister Bill, she's conniving to rip off the casino. When her superior discovers she's two-timing him, their confrontation turns violent and she kills him. Realizing that Oscar is just outside the room, she screams so schlemiel Oscar can corroborate her damsel-in-distress excuse of self-defense. The casino owner limits the publicity damage by firing Eva and exiling Bill, who drops Eva cold, to Mexico. The now unemployed Eva cadges a ride to L.A. with Oscar and soon they are wed. When Oscar is nominated for a promotion, slovenly alcoholic Eva is a big liability, especially when Bill resurfaces in L.A. Does Eva kill Bill, will Bill reveal all about Eva, or will Oscar decline the award?
Episode 27
Death and the Joyful Woman
Fri, Apr 12, 196360 mins
The secretary of a wine baron murders when her dream of marrying him is shattered.
Episode 28
Last Seen Wearing Blue Jeans
Fri, Apr 19, 196349 mins
A vacationing British family is touring along the Arizona border with Mexico when their teenage daughter mistakes a criminal's stolen car for her family's rented car and goes to sleep in the backseat. Not realizing she's there, the criminal drives the car to Mexico where the girl witnesses a murder. When the parents realize their daughter is missing, they return to the local diner in an attempt to locate her, but corrupt police authorities on both sides of the border conspire to keep the daughter from her parents. A handful of honest citizens on both sides of the border try to help, but with the daughter knowing the truth about the car theft business, the criminals must keep her from reuniting with her parents.
Episode 29
The Dark Pool
Fri, May 3, 196360 mins
After an adopted son drowns, a strange woman arrives claiming to be the boy's birth mother and proceeds to blackmail the adoptive mother.
Episode 30
Dear Uncle George
Fri, May 10, 196360 mins
A neighbor's letter about an unfaithful wife disturbs an advice columnist.
Episode 31
Run for Doom
Fri, May 17, 196360 mins
Young Dr. Reed, falls hard and fast for lounge singer, Nickie. Her menacing combo leader, Floyd warns the physician it's best for him to back off, telling him of his "boomerang baby" returning after each of three brief marriages, but the jilted pianist is hard to back off.
Episode 32
Death of a Cop
Fri, May 24, 196349 mins
A remorseful detective vows to find the men who killed his son, who was also a cop.