Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season 1

1955 · 39 episodes · ★ 7.3

What Season 1 of Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Season 1 of Alfred Hitchcock Presents It has 39 episodes and aired October 2, 1955. Here's the complete episode guide with air dates, runtimes and ratings.

39episodes

Oct 2, 1955aired

Jun 24, 1956latest episode

17 hrtotal runtime

Season 1 Episodes

1x01 Revenge
Oct 2, 1955 · 27 min · ★ 7.1
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.
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock · Written by: Francis M. Cockrell · Starring: Ralph Meeker, Vera Miles, Ray Teal, Frances Bavier
1x02 Premonition
Oct 9, 1955 · 27 min · ★ 7.9
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.
Directing: Robert Stevens · Writing: Harold Swanton · Starring: George Macready, Warren Stevens, Percy Helton, Paul Brinegar
1x03 Triggers in Leash
Oct 16, 1955 · 27 min · ★ 7.1
A cook tries everything she can think of to end a dispute between two gunmen who have sworn to kill each other.
Directing: Don Medford · Writing: Richard Carr · Starring: Gene Barry, Darren McGavin, Casey MacGregor, Ellen Corby
1x04 Don't Come Back Alive
Oct 23, 1955 · 27 min · ★ 7.7
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.
Directing: Robert Stevenson · Writing: Robert C. Dennis · Starring: Virginia Gregg, Sidney Blackmer, Irene Tedrow, Edna Holland
1x05 Into Thin Air
Oct 30, 1955 · 26 min · ★ 7.5
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.
Directing: Don Medford · Writing: Marian B. Cockrell · Starring: Geoffrey Toone, Ann Codee, Mary Forbes, Alan Napier
1x06 Salvage
Nov 6, 1955 · 26 min · ★ 7.0
Gangster Dan Varrell, just released from prison, goes looking for the woman he holds responsible for his brother's death.
Directed by: Jus Addiss · Written by: Fred Freiberger, Richard Carr · Starring: Virginia Christine, Elisha Cook Jr., Gene Barry, Nancy Gates
1x07 Breakdown
Nov 13, 1955 · 26 min · ★ 7.2
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.
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock · Written by: Francis M. Cockrell, Louis Pollock · Starring: Joseph Cotten, Harry Shannon, Murray Alper, Raymond Bailey
1x08 Our Cook's a Treasure
Nov 20, 1955 · 26 min · ★ 8.2
A man fears that the new cook he's hired is actually a murderess.
Directing: Robert Stevens · Writing: Robert C. Dennis · Starring: Beulah Bondi, Walter Woolf King, Olan Soule, Everett Sloane
1x09 The Long Shot
Nov 27, 1955 · 26 min · ★ 7.9
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.
Directing: Robert Stevenson · Writing: Harold Swanton · Starring: Gertrude Hoffmann, Robert Warwick, John Williams, Peter Lawford
1x10 The Case of Mr. Pelham
Dec 4, 1955 · 26 min · ★ 8.3
A series of troubling incidents lead Mr. Pelham to believe that he has a double who is deliberately impersonating him.
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock · Written by: Francis M. Cockrell · Starring: Diane Brewster, Tom Ewell, Raymond Bailey, Justice Watson
1x11 Guilty Witness
Dec 11, 1955 · 26 min · ★ 7.4
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.
Directing: Robert Stevens · Writing: Robert C. Dennis · Starring: Ed Kemmer, Joe Mantell, Kathleen Maguire, Judith Evelyn
1x12 Santa Claus and the 10th Avenue Kid
Dec 18, 1955 · 26 min · ★ 6.9
While working as a department store 'Santa Claus', a paroled convict tries to help a troubled boy.
Directing: Don Weis · Writing: Marian B. Cockrell · Starring: Mimi Gibson, Barry Fitzgerald, Arthur Space, Tony Blankley
1x13 The Cheney Vase
Dec 25, 1955 · 26 min · ★ 6.4
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.
Directed by: Robert Stevens · Written by: Robert Blees · Starring: Kathryn Card, Patricia Collinge, Carolyn Jones, Ruta Lee
1x14 A Bullet for Baldwin
Jan 1, 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.
Directing: Jus Addiss · Writing: Francis M. Cockrell, Eustace Cockrell · Starring: Sebastian Cabot, John Qualen, Bill Erwin, Phillip Reed
1x15 The Big Switch
Jan 8, 1956 · 26 min · ★ 7.4
Gangster Sam Dunleavy sets up an elaborate alibi so that he can kill his ex-girlfriend Goldie, who left him for another man.
Directing: Don Weis · Writing: Richard Carr · Starring: George E. Stone, George Mathews, Beverly Michaels, James Edwards
1x16 You Got to Have Luck
Jan 15, 1956 · 26 min · ★ 8.5
During a massive manhunt for escaped convict Sam Cobbett, Cobbett invades a house where young housewife Mary Schaffner is home alone.
Directed by: Robert Stevens · Written by: Francis M. Cockrell, Eustace Cockrell · Starring: Marisa Pavan, John Cassavetes, Ray Teal, Lamont Johnson
1x17 The Older Sister
Jan 22, 1956 · 26 min · ★ 7.2
A reporter discovers the truth about the infamous Lizzie Borden murder case.
Directing: Robert Stevens · Writing: Robert C. Dennis · Starring: Joan Lorring, Carmen Mathews, Polly Rowles, Patricia Hitchcock
1x18 Shopping for Death
Jan 29, 1956 · 26 min
Two retired insurance salesmen confront an aggressive, hostile woman in hopes of saving her from a disaster.
Directing: Robert Stevens · Writing: Ray Bradbury · Starring: Robert H. Harris, Michael Ansara, Jo Van Fleet, John Qualen
1x19 The Derelicts
Feb 5, 1956 · 26 min
Inventor Ralph Cowell murders his silent partner Alfred, only to be blackmailed by vagrant Peter Goodfellow, who witnessed the crime.
Directing: Robert Stevenson · Writing: Robert C. Dennis · Starring: Robert Newton, Peggy Knudsen, Phillip Reed, Johnny Silver
1x20 And So Died Riabouchinska
Feb 12, 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.
Directing: Robert Stevenson · Writing: Ray Bradbury, Mel Dinelli · Starring: Iris Adrian, William Haade, Charles Bronson, Claude Rains
1x21 Safe Conduct
Feb 19, 1956 · 26 min · ★ 6.8
An American journalist meets a soccer star while traveling behind the Iron Curtain, but then is arrested as a suspected smuggler.
Directing: Jus Addiss · Writing: Andrew Solt · Starring: Werner Klemperer, Peter van Eyck, John Banner, Ralph Manza
1x22 Place of Shadows
Feb 26, 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.
Directed by: Robert Stevens · Written by: Robert C. Dennis · Starring: Sean McClory, Claude Akins, Everett Sloane, Harry Tyler
1x23 Back for Christmas
Mar 4, 1956 · 26 min · ★ 7.3
Herbert Carpenter plans to murder his wife Hermione, bury her body in the basement, and then leave on a long business trip.
Directing: Alfred Hitchcock · Writing: John Collier, Francis M. Cockrell · Starring: Katherine Warren, Isobel Elsom, John Williams, Irene Tedrow
1x24 The Perfect Murder
Mar 11, 1956 · 26 min
Unscrupulous brothers Paul and Henri Tallendier plan to murder their Aunt Rosalie so that they can get their uncle's inheritance.
Directed by: Robert Stevens · Written by: Victor Wolfson · Starring: Mildred Natwick, Hurd Hatfield, Hope Summers, Philip Coolidge
1x25 There Was an Old Woman
Mar 18, 1956 · 27 min
Dishonest Frank and Lorna Bramwell visit the home of wealthy, eccentric Monica Laughton, with the intention of robbing her.
Directed by: Robert Stevenson · Written by: Marian B. Cockrell, Francis M. Cockrell · Starring: Estelle Winwood, Norma Crane, Charles Bronson, Dabbs Greer
1x26 Whodunit
Mar 25, 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.
Directing: Francis M. Cockrell · Writing: Marian B. Cockrell, Francis M. Cockrell · Starring: Amanda Blake, Jerry Paris, John Williams, Alan Napier
1x27 Help Wanted
Apr 1, 1956 · 26 min
Mr. Crabtree is grateful to find a new job, until his new employer gives him a most unexpected assignment.
Directing: James Neilson · Writing: Robert C. Dennis, Stanley Ellin · Starring: Malcolm Atterbury, Parley Baer, Madge Kennedy, Lorne Greene
1x28 Portrait of Jocelyn
Apr 8, 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.
Directing: Robert Stevens · Writing: Harold Swanton · Starring: Philip Abbott, Olan Soule, Raymond Bailey, Harry Tyler
1x29 The Orderly World of Mr. Appleby
Apr 15, 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.
Directed by: James Neilson · Written by: Robert C. Dennis, Victor Wolfson · Starring: Meg Mundy, Robert H. Harris, Michael Ansara, Edna Holland
1x30 Never Again
Apr 22, 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.
Directing: Robert Stevens · Writing: Stirling Silliphant, Gwen Bagni, Irwin Gielgud · Starring: Jack Mullaney, Phyllis Thaxter, Joan Banks, Mason Curry
1x31 The Gentleman from America
Apr 29, 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.
Directed by: Robert Stevens · Written by: Francis M. Cockrell · Starring: Biff McGuire, Ralph Clanton, John Irving, Eric Snowden
1x32 The Baby Sitter
May 6, 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.
Directed by: Robert Stevens · Written by: Sarett Tobias · Starring: Thelma Ritter, Carole Mathews, Mary Wickes, Michael Ansara
1x33 The Belfry
May 13, 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.
Directed by: Herschel Daugherty · Written by: Robert C. Dennis · Starring: Dabbs Greer, Jim Hayward, Jack Mullaney, Patricia Hitchcock
1x34 The Hidden Thing
May 20, 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.
Directing: Robert Stevens · Writing: James P. Cavanagh · Starring: Rachel Ames, Katherine Warren, Biff McGuire, Robert H. Harris
1x35 The Legacy
May 27, 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.
Directing: James Neilson · Writing: Andrew Solt, Gina Kaus · Starring: Rudolph Anders, Roxanne Arlen, Joan Dixon, Leora Dana
1x36 Mink
Jun 3, 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.
Directed by: Robert Stevenson · Written by: Gwen Bagni, Irwin Gielgud · Starring: Mary Jackson, Vinton Hayworth, Veda Ann Borg, Anthony Eustrel
1x37 Decoy
Jun 10, 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.
Directing: Arnold Laven · Writing: Bernard C. Schoenfeld · Starring: Cara Williams, Robert Horton, Jack Mullaney, Philip Coolidge
1x38 The Creeper
Jun 17, 1956 · 26 min
A serial killer known as "the strangler" terrorizes a New York neighborhood.
Directing: Herschel Daugherty · Writing: James P. Cavanagh · Starring: Reta Shaw, Constance Ford, Steve Brodie, Percy Helton
1x39 Momentum Season Finale
Jun 24, 1956 · 26 min
A man ends up running to the Mexican border after trying to collect money his employer owes him.
Directing: Robert Stevens · Writing: Francis M. Cockrell · Starring: Joanne Woodward, Skip Homeier, Ken Christy, Henry Hunter