Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Season 1

Aired 2 October 1955 • 27 min

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.

Aired 9 October 1955 • 27 min

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.

Aired 16 October 1955 • 27 min

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

Aired 23 October 1955 • 27 min

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.

Aired 30 October 1955 • 26 min

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.

Aired 6 November 1955 • 26 min

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

Aired 13 November 1955 • 26 min

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.

Aired 20 November 1955 • 26 min

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

Aired 27 November 1955 • 26 min

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.

Aired 4 December 1955 • 26 min

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

Aired 11 December 1955 • 26 min

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.

Aired 18 December 1955 • 26 min

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

Aired 25 December 1955 • 26 min

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.

Aired 1 January 1956 • 26 min

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.

Aired 8 January 1956 • 26 min

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

Aired 15 January 1956 • 26 min

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

Aired 22 January 1956 • 26 min

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

Aired 29 January 1956 • 26 min

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

Aired 5 February 1956 • 26 min

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

Aired 12 February 1956 • 26 min

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

Aired 19 February 1956 • 26 min

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

Aired 26 February 1956 • 26 min

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.

Aired 4 March 1956 • 26 min

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

Aired 11 March 1956 • 26 min

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

Aired 18 March 1956 • 27 min

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

Aired 25 March 1956 • 26 min

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.

Aired 1 April 1956 • 26 min

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

Aired 8 April 1956 • 26 min

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.

Aired 15 April 1956 • 27 min

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

Aired 22 April 1956 • 26 min

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.

Aired 29 April 1956 • 26 min

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.

Aired 6 May 1956 • 25 min

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.

Aired 13 May 1956 • 26 min

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.

Aired 20 May 1956 • 26 min

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.

Aired 27 May 1956 • 27 min

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.

Aired 3 June 1956 • 26 min

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.

Aired 10 June 1956 • 26 min

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.

Aired 17 June 1956 • 26 min

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

Aired 24 June 1956 • 26 min

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