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29 Episodes 1964 - 1965
Episode 1
Mon, Oct 5, 196448 mins
Corrupt political boss murders the rebel father of 2 young men. The older brother faces difficult choices: swallow his pride to keep up the hardscrabble Appalachian farm & care for his developmentally disabled brother, or risk a quick death seeking retribution. When the older brother quietly leaves town to attend school, the arrogant boss is confident he's in the clear - no school offers a major in revenge, right?.
Episode 2
Mon, Oct 12, 196448 mins
Keith Hollands finds a beach house for lease, but Elsa, his wife, hates it because she's never liked the beach. Nevertheless, Keith rents the place and tries to convince the owner of the property to sell. Elsa spies a beautiful young lady named Rachel strolling in the surf, unaware that Rachel is the object of her husband's desire. Keith digs a trench in the cellar, ostensibly to eliminate dampness. Soon after, three policemen arrive.
Episode 3
Mon, Oct 19, 196448 mins
Rusty Connors is a prison cellmate with Mike Krause, who tells Rusty all about his girlfriend Helen. Mike becomes ill with pneumonia, and reveals to Rusty on his deathbed that a stash of $56,000 is with his dead accomplice, Pete Taylor. When he is released, Rusty goes to Hanesville and courts Helen, while attempting with her help to find the loot. They finally go to a boat house on a lake, populated by rats. Rusty finds Pete's skeleton, and the money, in a crawl space above the ceiling. Rusty tries to grab a rock to do Helen in, but Helen beats him to the punch, knocking him out with a prying iron and tying him up. Before Helen leaves, Rusty manages to kick her, and she falls, impaled fatally on a pole. Rusty futilely tries to untie his restraints as the rats pile on his body.
Episode 4
Mon, Oct 26, 196448 mins
Young Juan Diaz gives cemetery caretaker Alejandro 40 pesos to rent a burial plot. He soon falls fatally ill, and warns his wife, Maria, to not let Alejandro cheat her out of the two-year lease for which he paid. One year later, Alejandro asks Maria for more money, or he will disinter Juan's mummy and place it in the catacomb. Maria and her son Jorge sneak into the catacomb, and frighten Alejandro as they walk Juan's mummy out of the cemetery. Alejandro asks Ricardo, the Chief of Police and Maria's brother-in-law, to confiscate Juan's mummy from the Diaz home, but Ricardo refuses. Maria puts Juan's mummy on display as a tourist attraction.
Episode 5
Mon, Nov 9, 196448 mins
During a brief train stop, George takes the opportunity to telephone another man's wife and arrange a two-day rendezvous. When he returns to his compartment, there's now a stranger there who provokes him into conversation. George reveals the location of his caravan in the country, but the stranger claims to reside at the same location. After George arrives, the stranger shows up and begins to dig a grave.
Episode 6
Mon, Nov 16, 196448 mins
Stella is serving her peach farmer husband Emery a big breakfast when a squirrel appears on the front window screen. She fondles the rodent and gives it food and water, then spots a tramp walking down the public dirt road near their home. Emery says that he has plenty of peaches to pick, and the going wage in the valley is $6 per day, but he might get this tramp to work for $5/day. Emery invites the tramp inside, and offers him three dollars a day plus board and a place in the back yard. The tramp, who says his name is Jesse with no middle or last name, hires on. Jesse gobbles down his breakfast, using a big knife to slice a tomato and some bread. Stella asks him to put the knife away. Jesse asks Stella whether the fat squirrel outside is a pet. She says that it is. He replies that he could kill it so she could make stew for supper. A few minutes later, she hears Jesse's laughter in the yard, rushes outside to find her pet squirrel lying dead, and screams. Jesse claims the squirrel attacked him, and Emery buries it. The men fill their picking baskets with peaches, and Stella transfers the peaches to crates which are stacked on the truck. After a long day and supper, Emery tells Stella that he will take the peaches to the cannery first thing next morning. She says that she wants to go along, and stay at the hotel in town until Jesse leaves, because she is afraid of him. Emery convinces Stella to stay, but the next morning, while Stella provides a breakfast of flapjacks to Jesse, he says that many people are afraid of him, and he likes it that way, especially women, who never invite him and always tell him to get away. In the orchard, Stella overhears Jesse telling Emery that he killed the squirrel because he hates animals, and Emery sympathizes. That evening, after picking three truckloads of peaches, Jesse is tired, as is Stella, who, according to Emery, has cooked her first bad meal in twelve years of marriage. Stella goes to bed before washing the dishes, and Jesse leaves for his bed after supping. In the front room, Emery puts a country music station on the radio to get the weather report, but falls asleep. Stella packs her suitcase and sneaks out the back window. Jesse is waiting for her, grabs her, and threatens her with his knife. Stella screams, but Emery continues to sleep, as the weather report warns of a cold front with thunderclouds, hail, and lightning. Jesse yells that Emery is a slave-driver and tightwad, yet so afraid that he is completely under Jesse's command. Stella manages to grab the knife, and Jesse absconds, taking the truck loaded with peaches. Stella enters the house and wakens Emery. She tells him that Jesse left with the truck, so they should call the police, but he mutters that it is no use, because the thunderstorm will wipe out the crop. Stella realizes then that Emery was awake while Jesse attacked her.
Episode 7
Mon, Nov 23, 196448 mins
In Georgian Scotland, a simple and unhappily-married man (Andrew Duggan) is employed to deliver "supplies" to anatomy professor Dr. Robert Knox of the Edinburgh Medical College, but, is unaware of the true contents of the boxes furnished by his associates, Messrs. Burke and Hare.
Episode 8
Mon, Dec 7, 196460 mins
A wife awaiting the arrival of her lover is visited by a bizarre meter reader who jams on the gas in her basement and then cons her into letting him shower by faking a malaria attack. What's behind his strange behavior: blackmail, insanity, lust or something else?
Episode 9
Mon, Dec 14, 196448 mins
Two new missionaries, the Spragues, arrive at the Fitzgibbons' medical mission in the Indian jungle. John Sprague is a physician and Lucy a nurse. Mary Fitzgibbons suspects that they were sent to check up on them, and that they want the mission for themselves. Thomas Fitzgibbons is not medically competent, and Mary must perform difficult procedures for him. When John leaves to attend to a cholera outbreak, Thomas takes Lucy for an evening canoe ride on the river. They discuss philosophy and her beauty. Mary sees them together, and becomes jealous. Early in the morning, she grabs a scalpel and enters Lucy's bedroom. A piercing scream resounds. A messenger is sent to inform John of his wife's sudden death from cholera. He rushes back, but the Fitzgibbons have gone down-river for several days. He asks the Indian employees to help find the grave of his wife, which was hidden to prevent the spread of cholera, because he suspects that she was not a cholera victim. When he opens the coffin, he is startled at the sight.
Episode 10
Mon, Dec 21, 196448 mins
Wannabee writer Jay Shaw arrives in NYC. He decides if he's going to write fiction about juvenile delinquent gangs, he'd best learn what they're really like. Using the alias Phil Beldone, he moves into a flat in a rough section of Brooklyn and seeks to join the Barons, a violent gang led by Tiger. During his gang initiation, he gains Tiger's trust and respect and begins a relationship with one of the gang's "debs". He also makes an enemy of the gang's second-in-command and risks exposure of his true identity.
Episode 11
Mon, Dec 28, 196448 mins
Dr. Jane Waterleigh wakes to find herself in an obese body, having just given birth to her fourth baby, and is called "Mother Orchis" and "Mother 417" by an all-female medical staff. The other Mothers, all of whom are corpulent and much larger than their helpers, the Servitors, tell Jane that there are no men, their only responsibility is to give birth, and Mothers neither read nor write. Jane, however, remembers her past life as a physician and wife, so two policewomen try to arrest her for "reactionism." The Doctors refuse to surrender her, and send her to sick bay, then to Laura, the historian. Laura explains that all of the men died decades ago, when a Dr. Perrigan developed a virus to control the rat population, but the strain mutated, killing all male humans, but sparing females, who were immune. Now only women survive, and they are sorted at birth into four classes--Doctors, Mothers, Servitors, and Workers--and raised in learning centers. When Laura tells Jane that she will now receive an hypnotic treatment, a drug-induced amnesia to remove all of her memory, she becomes hysterical, and returns to her earlier world. She is in the office of Dr. Hellyer, her boss and the Chief of Staff at her hospital, who reminds her that she volunteered to test a new narcotic, Sonadrin, which apparently took her to the fantastic matriarchal world from which she just escaped. She discovers that Dr. Perrigan is a real biologist, who is working on a myxomatosis strain to exterminate brown rats. She meets Perrigan and tries to convince him to discontinue his project, but he refuses, so she shoots him, lights a fire using all of Perrigan's research notes, and burns down his laboratory. She is tried for murder, but refuses to plead insanity, and insists that her sacrifice is worthwhile, since she is saving humanity from a terrible future. Then her attorney, Max Wilding, tells her that Perrigan has a son, another Dr. Perrigan, who promises to complete his father's work.
Episode 12
Mon, Jan 4, 196548 mins
Engineer Ernie Mullett, a plant manager, is having an affair with his secretary, Babs, financed through embezzlement. His boss, Mr. Baldwin, tells him that he will be replaced by his brother, Farnum, although Ernie brought Farnum into the company, and Farnum is staying at Ernie's house. When he gets home, Ernie is so angry he has a fight with Farnum, but his wife of six years tells him that she is in love with Farnum, and leaving with him. The next day at work, Babs tells Ernie how much she loves Farnum, who is exciting, while Ernie is just pleasant to look at. Ernie is demoted to cost estimator, sharing his secretary Madeleine with five other cost estimators. Ernie returns to his old office to retrieve items from the vault. Farnum tells him that he has defalcated $2,724.00, but that he will take care of the problem, if they can be amicable. Farnum says that the lock combination is changed, but offers to get an insurance policy from the safe, which Ernie wants to change to remove Judith as benefactor. Ernie then asks Farnum to retrieve an isometric drawing from the strong room, in order to further espy the new combination. The next day he arrives at work with a Gallica maxima rose boutonniere. He enters his brother's office, and comments that the flaming star of Farnum's boutonniere doesn't live very long. He also tells Farnum that the new combination is J-U-D-Y, his wife's name. Ernie then dispatches his brother with a lead pipe, slides him into the vault, and tells Babs that Farnum left via the back door. Ernie goes on a date with the new secretary, Maddy, at a Mexican restaurant, where he swigs Margueritas. Afterward, he returns to the plant manager's office, and sets the scene to appear as a robbery-murder.
Episode 13
Mon, Jan 11, 196548 mins
After Eva Snyder becomes an orphan, she comes to live with the elderly Mississippi riverboat Captain King Snyder and his old-maid daughter Nell. While the Captain is piloting his boat, Nell finds it difficult to govern Eva, who constantly talks to imaginary friends whom Eva believes are real, including Mingo and her father Mr. Peppercorn. When the Captain returns, he presents Eva with a gift--a black doll named Numa. Nell hears Eva chatting and playing with Numa, but suspects that it is a child from the neighborhood. Eva warns that if Nell takes Numa away, Eva will trade places with Numa and go to the idyllic place "Where the Woodbine Twineth." When Nell puts Numa on top of the player piano, Eva steals Numa away, and the piano mysteriously plays by itself. Nell finds Eva in the backyard with a black-girl playmate, and Nell chases the girl away, warning her to never return. Then Eva disappears. When Nell finds a doll in Numa's box that looks exactly like Eva, she tearfully realizes what has happened.
Episode 14
Mon, Jan 18, 196548 mins
Cliff's driving when a young woman flags him down and asks for a ride. He soon has trouble - both legal and automotive, when they're stopped by the police and she lies, and says he forced her. What's more, his car won't start, and it's towed to a repair shop. While he waits for the car, Cliff gets a room at the hotel, run by Rudolph Bitzner - a former vaudevillian, with a specialty act with his only employee, Rosie. She pleads with Cliff to help her escape from Rudolph, who plans to marry her as soon as she becomes 18. There's a lot about Rudolph, and the relationship between the two, which Cliff isn't aware of, but he should, because it'll soon be one of their last performances.
Episode 15
Mon, Feb 1, 196548 mins
Suicidal Robert Manners is saved by a firefighting brigade when he jumps from a tall building. While recuperating, he is visited by Mr. J. Smith, who invites him to a recreational resort for those who wish to die, the Thanatos Palace Hotel. Borchter, the proprietor, tells Mr. Manners that he can stay for as long as it takes to become comfortably ready for death. He meets a beautiful guest, Ariane Shaw, who has resided at the hotel for six months, providing services for her room and board. Her service is the "romancing" of male guests in preparation for their death. With Manners, for the first time, she finds a reason to live, as does he.
Episode 16
Mon, Feb 8, 196560 mins
A man and his wife hire his childhood nanny to care for their baby son. After they hear of the arsenic murder of another baby, the mother becomes suspicious, but the father thinks she's overreacting.
Episode 17
Mon, Feb 15, 196549 mins
The third in a series of murders over the previous two weeks is reported on television and local police reveal there's a psychotic madman who preys only on live-in nurses on the loose. One dark and stormy night, Nurse Stella Crosson (Dana Wynter) and Nurse Betty Ames (T.C. Jones) are tending to their client, a man with a heart condition who resides in a creepy old mansion just outside of town and needs constant attention. A phone call from the murderer informs the women that he knows they're alone and intends to pay them a visit before the night is over. Checking to make sure all the doors and windows are locked, Stella suddenly realizes that she overlooked a basement window - a mistake that might prove all too costly.
Episode 18
Mon, Feb 22, 196560 mins
A toy manufacturer's new assistant has an affair with the obnoxious, overbearing businessman's beautiful younger wife. After enduring a rather humiliating interview, the bright college grad, condescendingly nicknamed "Princeton", proves valuable to the manufacturer through his hard work. But the assistant is impatient for, among other things, advancement.
Episode 19
Mon, Mar 1, 196548 mins
When a man purchases a wig and a beard, he winds up getting a whole new personality, which also leads to a new girlfriend along with a lot of serious problems that have the very real potential to drive him to madness unless he does something soon.
Episode 20
Mon, Mar 8, 196560 mins
Auto mechanic Leo Manfred fixes a limousine owned by Gavin Revere, a famed, retired and wheelchair-bound Hollywood director. Gavin's beautiful daughter Nicky catches Leo's eye, so he offers to drive her home where he meets Gavin. Gavin, distrusting, warns Leo to stay away from Nicky. Leo is persistent and eventually Nicky falls in love with him. But when Gavin learns about their marriage plans, he fears Leo only wants her for their money. To convince the director of his true intentions, Leo takes out a life insurance policy for fifty thousand dollars with the payoff going to Nicky. Gavin agrees, and the marriage plans continue. Shortly before the wedding, however, Leo makes the fatal mistake of insulting one of Gavin's movies entitled "Death Scene," and the old man changes his mind about the wedding. Not willing to give up Nicky over a quarrel, Leo wheels Gavin to an empty swimming pool to stage an "accidental" death, but his plan goes awry.
Episode 21
Mon, Mar 15, 196560 mins
Two professional killers with the same employer find out that each has the other as his next target.
Episode 22
Mon, Mar 22, 196548 mins
A man is greatly concerned for his fiancée's safety after she has taken a walk alone in the London fog while an elusive strangler is on the loose, potentially putting her life at risk if she encounters the relentless killer who targets lone women on the street.
Episode 23
Mon, Mar 29, 196548 mins
Joe Brisson tries to make a political payoff to Baines in a parking lot, but spots an observer, private detective Foyle. Foyle says he was hired by Joe's wife Lisa. Joe visits his girlfriend Anna, and discovers a bug in her telephone, and that their love letters were seized. Lisa wants a divorce, but also wants a disproportionate settlement, including 75% of the Brisson Land Development Company. Lisa's young boyfriend, racetrack gambler Bobby Davenport, will lose his inherited property if Joe calls in Bobby's debt. Joe couldn't hire Foyle to murder his wife, but he convinces Bobby to do it while Joe is on a sea cruise to London. Joe calls Lisa from the ship, and listens as Bobby plugs her. Then Joe has a guest. It is Foyle, whom Lisa paid to murder Joe.
Episode 24
Mon, Apr 5, 196548 mins
Wilford James, who met Sarah Norton on a plane from Jamaica, promises to love and marry her, connives her into investing $10,000, says that it was a total loss, and disappears. Next, calling himself James Jarvis in the first class compartment of another plane, where he meets elderly Mary Caulfield and her spinster companion, Agatha, on their way home from Salzburg. At the airport terminal, Mary tells him that they live at the Golden Angel Hotel, and he claims coincidentally that he will be staying there. He sends a dozen roses to Mary and Agatha each. He charms Mary while tepidly romancing the initially distrustful and reluctant Agatha, and tells them that he has "the deal of five lifetimes", an opportunity to buy stock at $30 and sell it for $50. Before investing, at Agatha's suggestion, Mary sets up a lunch appointment for the following day so that Jarvis can meet her learned attorney, Barton. That night, Jarvis is seen sneaking into the aged Barton's home wearing black leather gloves; the next morning Agatha tells him that Jarvis died of a stroke or suffocation. Becoming Mary's new financial adviser, Jarvis gets her to sign a power of attorney, to which the smitten Agatha gives her approval. He allegedly converts Mary's entire estate into shares in the Arlo Trust Company and tells her that her wealth has increased by 21%. A day later, Jarvis laments that Arlo, into which he invested every penny, has gone bankrupt. Initially believing him, Agatha offers him $1000 of her own money to help him get back on his feet. She leaves to do the marketing. While Agatha is out, Mary calls her great-niece, Eileen, to inform her she will not be able to help pay for the young woman's planned trip to Germany. Mary then plays a gramophone on her Victrola, writes a brief suicide note ("Forgive me"), ignores the ringing telephone (Eileen calling), and shoots herself with a pistol. Agatha returns and discovers Mary's corpse, piecing together what happened. She takes the gun and wipes it clean and burns the suicide note. Jarvis comes back to his room, makes a first class flight reservation as Jarvis Smith, then calls Agatha, who tells him that the morning mail brought great news of a windfall inheritance for Mary, from a (fictional) dead brother in Texas, and persuades him to come over, telling him Mary harbors no ill will and that the fictional windfall is far larger than what was lost in the Arlo Trust Company. He rushes over, and Agatha shows him Mary's revolver, which she claims she just found in a living room drawer. She tells him she is afraid of guns and begs him to take it away. After he pockets the firearm, fatefully covering it with his own fingerprints, Agatha invites him to visit with Mary, who had been "resting". She locks him in Mary's room and immediately calls the front desk to summon the police. As the panicky Jarvis, who has found Mary's body, tries shooting his way out of the room, the hotel security and police arrive, and the pistol-wielding Jarvis is gunned down. While being interviewed, Agatha tells the police that she heard Jarvis and Mary arguing over investments and something called the Arlo Trust Company.
Episode 25
Mon, Apr 12, 196560 mins
A philandering husband decides to improve his situation by having his overweight and frumpy wife killed. When he tells his girlfriend about the plan, she is outraged, and he desperately tries to stop the murder.
Episode 26
Mon, Apr 19, 196560 mins
A businessman desperate for a change in his fortunes tests the power of a gypsy woman's monkey-paw charm which is said to grant its holder three wishes. His son suffers the consequences.
Episode 27
Mon, Apr 26, 196560 mins
A mail-order bride begins to believe her husband killed his first wife and wants to kill her as well.
Episode 28
Mon, May 3, 196560 mins
A handsome young thief, wounded by police in a robbery that left a young rookie cop dead, is hospitalized under tight security. After middle-aged spinster Nurse Ellen Hatch takes charge of his care, he tries to sweet-talk her into believing that he is innocent of the crime and contends the vindictive police are victimizing him and that he won't make it to trial alive if they have their way. As the police relent somewhat under the influence of her strict, no-nonsense attitude, the young thief develops a personal relationship with her. As she reluctantly succumbs to his romantic advances, the convalescing prisoner tries to cajole her into helping him escape.
Episode 29
Mon, May 10, 196560 mins
After shamelessly killing an unarmed wino, Johnny Kendall is discharged from the police force due to an excessive display of anger and an itchy trigger finger. He decides to leave town in search of another job with girlfriend Sandy in tow. In his new locale, Johnny is assigned as a deputy watching over vacant summer vacation homes. Johnny soon meets up with Milt Woodman, the former deputy, who was reportedly fired for fooling around with a girl in one of the vacant homes. Milt expresses a dislike for Johnny and begins showing an interest in Sandy. Directed by William Friedkin ("The Exorcist"). The last episode of "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" TV series.