Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1955–1962 · Crime, Drama, Mystery · 7 seasons · ★ 7.8

Ended

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Synopsis of Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an anthology of short, strange stories that aired in the United States on CBS and NBC between 1955 and 1965. Each episode is a standalone tale, with different characters, and its ending usually arrives by a route the viewer doesn't expect. Before each story begins, Hitchcock's silhouette appears on screen to the tune of Charles Gounod's Funeral March of a Marionette, and with a dark sense of humor he greets the audience with a stern "Good evening." When the story ends, he returns to spell out the moral lesson the case leaves behind. The dramas, thrillers and mysteries in the series are built on unsettling situations that trap ordinary people, and each episode presents a self-contained problem that is resolved in an unexpected way.

7seasons

268episodes

25 minper episode

7.8audience scoreTMDB · 270 votes

8.5IMDb rating20,825 votes

Seasons of Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Season 11955 · 39 ep. · ★ 7.3

Season 21956 · 39 ep. · ★ 7.2

Season 31957 · 39 ep. · ★ 9.1

Season 41958 · 36 ep. · ★ 7.3

Season 51959 · 38 ep. · ★ 7.4

Season 61960 · 38 ep. · ★ 7.5

Season 71961 · 39 ep. · ★ 7.8

Cast by Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Alfred HitchcockSelf - Host268 episodes

Harry TylerDan Silver11 episodes

John WilliamsWalker Hendricks10 episodes

Raymond BaileyDoctor Jason10 episodes

Patricia HitchcockRose10 episodes

Russell CollinsMr. Fletcher9 episodes

Robert H. HarrisClarence Fox9 episodes

Ray TealJim Hale8 episodes

Bartlett RobinsonDr. Maxwell8 episodes

Arthur Gould-PorterHerbert Whybrow8 episodes

Lillian O'MalleyJuror (uncredited)8 episodes

John ZarembaLt. Morgan7 episodes

Robert HortonRay Marchand7 episodes

Rusty LaneFather Rafferty7 episodes

Percy HeltonCyrus Rutherford7 episodes

Molly GlessingMaid7 episodes

Phyllis ThaxterAnnette Borden6 episodes

Alan NapierSir Everett6 episodes

Dick YorkJ.J. Bunce6 episodes

Barbara BaxleyAnne Smith6 episodes

Tyler McVeyReferee6 episodes

George PellingClifton6 episodes

Carmen MathewsCelia Boerum6 episodes

Robert EmhardtEd Fratus6 episodes

Dorothea LordMaid6 episodes

Philip CoolidgeTalbot6 episodes

Mike RaganPete6 episodes

Charles DavisDetective Raines6 episodes

Ralph ClantonMr. Saunders6 episodes

Theodore NewtonDr. Cooper6 episodes

Robert CarsonPolice Chief Wallace6 episodes

David CarlileFirst Bank Teller6 episodes

David FrescoThe Cripple6 episodes

Gary MerrillCash Bentley5 episodes

Norman LloydNarrator (voice) (uncredited)5 episodes

Madge KennedyMrs. Barnes5 episodes

Walter KingsfordDr. Mack5 episodes

Robert KarnesPolice Sgt. Henderson5 episodes

Hugh MarloweDistrict Attorney Bernard Butler5 episodes

Claude RainsCharles Gresham5 episodes

Technical Details

Created by: Alfred Hitchcock
Address: Robert Stevens, Paul Henreid, Herschel Daugherty, Norman Lloyd, Alfred Hitchcock
Production companies: Universal Television, Revue Studios, Shamley Productions
Network or Platform: NBC, CBS
Country: United States
Original Language: English
Premiere: October 2, 1955
Last Episode: July 3, 1962 (Season 7, Episode 39)
Status: Ended
Type: Fiction
Awards: Won 3 Emmy Awards; 9 wins and 15 nominations in total.
Links: IMDb · TMDB

Trivia about Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Hitchcock personally directed 18 of the series' 361 episodes, although his name tops the entire project as creator, host and producer.

In the 21st century, Time magazine included it among its 100 greatest TV series of all time, and the Writers Guild of America ranked it No. 79 on its list of the best-written series.

At the 1957 Emmy Awards, James P. Cavanagh received the award for Outstanding Writing for the episode "Fog Closing In."

At the 1958 Primetime Emmy Awards, Robert Stevens won the award for Outstanding Directing for the episode "The Glass Eye."

Rapper Eminem used the series' theme in his song "Alfred's Theme," included on his 2020 album Music to Be Murdered By - Side B, inspired by a Hitchcock record from 1958.

The series ended its original run in 1962 when the half-hour format was switched to a 50-minute format and retitled "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour," which ran for three more seasons.

The success of the series led NBC to commission "Suspicion" in 1957, a mystery anthology with 40 episodes planned; Dennis O'Keefe hosted the premiere, but Walter Abel later took over as host.

Sources: Wikipedia (English) · Wikipedia (Spanish)