Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season 2

1956 · 39 episodes · ★ 7.2

What Season 2 of Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Season 2 of Alfred Hitchcock Presents Has 39 episodes and premiered on September 30, 1956. Here's the complete episode guide with air dates, runtimes and ratings.

39episodes

Sep 30, 1956premiered

Jun 23, 1957latest episode

16.9 hrtotal runtime

Season 2 Episodes

2x01 Wet Saturday
Sep 30, 1956 · 27 min
After his daughter kills a man, Mr. Princey devises a plan to save his family name.
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock · Written by Marian B. Cockrell · Starring Cedric Hardwicke, John Williams, Tita Purdom, Kathryn Givney
2x02 Fog Closing In
Oct 7, 1956 · 27 min
A woman begs her husband not to go away on a business trip. But he refuses, deserting her just as an escaped lunatic finds their neighborhood.
Directed by Herschel Daugherty · Written by James P. Cavanagh · Starring George Grizzard, Paul Langton, Phyllis Thaxter, Carol Veazie
2x03 De Mortuis
Oct 14, 1956 · 26 min
Aware that their friend's wife is cheating, Wally and Bud draw the same conclusion when they find him digging up his basement and his wife's missing.
Directing: Robert Stevens · Writer: Francis M. Cockrell · Starring: H.M. Wynant, Henry Jones, Cara Williams, Robert Emhardt
2x04 Kill with Kindness
Oct 21, 1956 · 26 min
Hoping to profit from insurance fraud, a man torches his house. But the plan could backfire unless he enters the burning home to retrieve his ring.
Directed by: Herschel Daugherty · Starring: James Gleason, Margie Liszt, Hume Cronyn, Carmen Mathews
2x05 None Are So Blind
Oct 28, 1956 · 27 min
A man conceives the perfect plan to murder his rich aunt. Confidently, he cooperates with the police, only to discover one fatal flaw in the elaborate scheme.
Directing: Robert Stevens · Writer: James P. Cavanagh · Starring: K.T. Stevens, Rusty Lane, Mildred Dunnock, Lillian Bronson
2x06 Toby
Nov 4, 1956 · 26 min
Albert Birch's childhood sweetheart Edwina Freel gets in touch with him and, surprisingly, agrees to marry him. She arrives with her sickly baby named Toby, but things are not as they seem.
Directing: Robert Stevens · Writer: Victor Wolfson · Starring: Jessica Tandy, Robert H. Harris, George Mathews, Mary Wickes
2x07 Alibi Me
Nov 11, 1956 · 26 min
When a gangster is killed, his rival realizes the cops will come after him. His alibi unravels with the arrival of a mysterious package.
Directed by Jules Bricken · Written by Bernard C. Schoenfeld · Starring Lee Philips, Herb Vigran, Alan Reed, Lee Erickson
2x08 Conversation Over a Corpse
Nov 18, 1956 · 25 min
Mr. Brenner threatens to take sisters Cissie and Joanna to court unless they sell him their home. But the sisters will stop at nothing to stay put.
Directing: Jules Bricken · Writers: Marian B. Cockrell, Norman Daniels · Starring: Dorothy Stickney, Ray Collins, Carmen Mathews, Ted Stanhope
2x09 Crack of Doom
Nov 25, 1956 · 26 min
Mason Bridges plays poker with one of his company's wealthy clients. He gambles everything he has and everything his company owns on one single game.
Directing: James Neilson · Writer: Robert C. Dennis · Starring: Pierre Watkin, Dayton Lummis, Robert Middleton, Robert Horton
2x10 Jonathan
Dec 2, 1956 · 26 min
When his father dies a teenager suspects his stepmother, whom he's resented since the day she married his father.
Directed by: John Meredyth Lucas · Written by: Bernard C. Schoenfeld, Stirling Silliphant · Starring: Corey Allen, Douglas Kennedy, Nancy Kulp, Walter Kingsford
2x11 The Better Bargain
Dec 9, 1956 · 26 min
Furious at his cheating wife, a mobster hires a hit man to kill her. But the plan turns complicated when he overlooks some loose ends.
Directed by Herschel Daugherty · Written by Bernard C. Schoenfeld · Starring Henry Silva, Kathleen Hughes, Jack Lambert, Robert Middleton
2x12 The Rose Garden
Dec 16, 1956 · 26 min
A man thinks that a manuscript's murder mystery is more fact than fiction, so he visits the author's home to see what lies buried in the garden.
Directed by: Francis M. Cockrell · Written by: Marian B. Cockrell · Starring: John Williams, Patricia Collinge, Evelyn Varden, Ralph Peters
2x13 Mr. Blanchard's Secret
Dec 23, 1956 · 26 min
A nosy housewife sets out to prove that the new neighbor has murdered his wife.
Directing: Alfred Hitchcock · Writer: Sarett Tobias · Starring: Dayton Lummis, Meg Mundy, Robert Horton, Mary Scott
2x14 John Brown's Body
Dec 30, 1956 · 25 min
A man's wife devises a greedy scheme to take over his failing business. But persuading him to come back isn't as easy as getting rid of him.
Directed by: Robert Stevens · Written by: Robert C. Dennis · Starring: Hugh Marlowe, Edmon Ryan, Russell Collins, Leora Dana
2x15 Crackpot
Jan 6, 1957 · 26 min
When a car breaks down, a newlywed couple is helped by Mr. Moon, who turns nasty when his suits get dirty.
Directed by John Meredyth Lucas · Written by Martin Berkeley · Starring Michael Fox, Raymond Guth, Biff McGuire, Robert Emhardt
2x16 Nightmare in 4-D
Jan 13, 1957 · 27 min
A man agrees to help his pretty neighbor, an actress, to hide her murdered husband. But his good deed backfires when he becomes a suspect.
Directing: Jus Addiss · Writer: Robert C. Dennis · Starring: Barbara Baxley, Norman Lloyd, Virginia Gregg, Henry Jones
2x17 My Brother Richard
Jan 20, 1957 · 26 min
A district attorney faces a crisis in his campaign for governor when his mentally unstable brother decides to eliminate the competition.
Directed by: Herschel Daugherty · Written by: Sarett Tobias · Starring: Inger Stevens, Royal Dano, Ray Teal, Robert Ellis
2x18 The Manacled
Jan 27, 1957 · 26 min
A crafty, resourceful criminal being transported via train tries to bribe his escorting police sergeant for his freedom.
Directed by: Robert Stevens · Written by: Stirling Silliphant · Starring: Gary Merrill, Rusty Lane, William Redfield, Betty Harford
2x19 A Bottle of Wine
Feb 3, 1957 · 26 min
A wealthy older man confronts the young, handsome suitor (Horton) that his wife is leaving him for.
Directing: Herschel Daugherty · Writer: Stirling Silliphant · Starring: Herbert Marshall, Robert Horton, Jarma Lewis
2x20 Malice Domestic
Feb 10, 1957 · 26 min · ★ 5.7
A man begins to suspect that his wife is trying to poison him.
Directed by: John Meredyth Lucas · Written by: Victor Wolfson · Starring: Ralph Meeker, Vinton Hayworth, Phyllis Thaxter, Ralph Clanton
2x21 Number Twenty-Two
Feb 17, 1957 · 26 min
A young ruffian involved in a failed stickup learns some hard facts of life during a police interrogation.
Directed by Robert Stevens · Written by Joel Murcott · Starring Paul Picerni, Rip Torn, Peter Leeds, Martin Wilkins
2x22 The End of Indian Summer
Feb 24, 1957 · 26 min
An insurance investigator is compelled to re-examine an old claim when troubling new facts come to light.
Directed by: Robert Stevens · Written by: James P. Cavanagh · Starring: Gladys Cooper, Steve Forrest, James Gleason, Hope Summers
2x23 One for the Road
Mar 3, 1957 · 26 min
When the wife of a two-timing husband starts to connect the dots, the consequences could prove deadly.
Directing: Robert Stevens · Writer: Robert C. Dennis · Starring: Louise Platt, Mickey Kuhn, John Baragrey, Georgann Johnson
2x24 The Cream of the Jest
Mar 10, 1957 · 26 min
An alcoholic has-been actor tries to blackmail a producer into casting him in a new play.
Directed by Herschel Daugherty · Written by Sarett Tobias · Starring James Gregory, Paul Picerni, Joan Banks, Claude Rains
2x25 I Killed the Count (1)
Mar 17, 1957 · 26 min
Count Mattoni is brutally murdered and Scotland Yard Inspector Davidson must wade the through a myraid of suspects.
Directed by Robert Stevens · Written by Francis M. Cockrell · Starring Melville Cooper, John Williams, Alan Napier, Charles Cooper
2x26 I Killed the Count (2)
Mar 24, 1957 · 26 min
Scotland Yard Inspector Davidson continues in his investigation of the murder of Count Mattoni he contiunes to wade the through suspects. He discovers that each not only appears guilty, but also that many readily admit to having committed the crime.
Directed by: Robert Stevens · Written by: Francis M. Cockrell · Starring: Rosemary Harris, John Williams, Alan Napier, Melville Cooper
2x27 I Killed the Count (3)
Mar 31, 1957 · 26 min
Scotland Yard Inspector Davidson discovers who killed Count Mattoni. Due to a legal loophole, however, the killer cannot be tried.
Directing: Robert Stevens · Writer: Francis M. Cockrell · Starring: John Williams, Alan Napier, Melville Cooper, Rosemary Harris
2x28 One More Mile to Go
Apr 7, 1957 · 26 min · ★ 8.4
After murdering his shrewish spouse, a man finds that disposing of her body may be the challenge of his life.
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock · Written by James P. Cavanagh · Starring David Wayne, Steve Brodie, Louise Larabee, Norman Leavitt
2x29 Vicious Circle
Apr 14, 1957 · 26 min
A hired killer discovers there's a huge catch to being the favorite of his organization's big boss.
Directing: Paul Henreid · Writer: Bernard C. Schoenfeld · Starring: Russell Johnson, Paul Lambert, Dick York, George Macready
2x30 The Three Dreams of Mr. Findlater
Apr 21, 1957 · 26 min
A henpecked husband escapes into a fantasy world populated by a girl from the South Seas and a dream of murder.
Directed by: Jules Bricken · Written by: Sarett Tobias · Starring: John Williams, Raymond Bailey, Isobel Elsom, Barbara Baxley
2x31 The Night the World Ended
Apr 28, 1957 · 26 min
A practical joker convinces a barfly into thinking that the world is about to end.
Directed by Jus Addiss · Written by Bernard C. Schoenfeld · Starring Edith Barrett, Charles Herbert, Henry Corden, Harry Shearer
2x32 The Hands of Mr. Ottermole
May 5, 1957 · 26 min
In 1919 London, a killer is stalking the streets, and residents look to a police sergeant to catch the culprit.
Directed by Robert Stevens · Written by Francis M. Cockrell · Starring Torin Thatcher, Theodore Bikel, Rhys Williams, James McCallion
2x33 A Man Greatly Beloved
May 12, 1957 · 26 min
A precocious, pigtailed girl attaches herself to a grumpy loner in the hopes of learning his secrets.
Directing: James Neilson · Writer: Sarett Tobias · Starring: Evelyn Rudie, Rebecca Welles, Robert Culp, Edith Barrett
2x34 Martha Mason, Movie Star
May 19, 1957 · 26 min · ★ 5.0
The wife of a gardener goes to extreme lengths to spend more time with her movie-star daydreams—and less time with her fertilizer-obsessed husband.
Directing: Jus Addiss · Writer: Robert C. Dennis · Starring: Rusty Lane, Vinton Hayworth, Judith Evelyn, Robert Emhardt
2x35 The West Warlock Time Capsule
May 26, 1957 · 26 min
Taxidermist George Tiffany conceives a macabre method of dealing with a brother-in-law who has long outstayed his welcome.
Directed by: Jus Addiss · Written by: Marian B. Cockrell · Starring: Henry Jones, Mildred Dunnock, Sam Buffington, Russell Thorson
2x36 Father and Son
Jun 2, 1957 · 26 min
The shifty son of a shop owner plots to extract money from his long-suffering father.
Directed by Herschel Daugherty · Written by James P. Cavanagh · Starring Edmund Gwenn, Charles Davis, Frederick Worlock, Pamela Light
2x37 The Indestructible Mr. Weems
Jun 9, 1957 · 26 min
Cemetery owners bribe an allegedly dying man to be their first customer for business reasons...but the plot backfires when the man simply will not expire.
Directed by: Jus Addiss · Written by: George F. Slavin · Starring: Joe Mantell, Robert Middleton, Russell Collins, Rebecca Welles
2x38 A Little Sleep
Jun 16, 1957 · 26 min · ★ 5.2
A fickle young woman gets entangled in a web of crime and deceit at her remote mountain cabin.
Directing: Paul Henreid · Writer: Robert C. Dennis · Starring: Barbara Cook, Vic Morrow, Robert Karnes, George Chandler
2x39 The Dangerous People Season Finale
Jun 23, 1957 · 26 min
Two men are waiting for their train in the station's waiting room. The neighborhood has a criminal asylum nearby from which a criminal has escaped. Nervous about the situation, these two people start suspecting each other.
Directed by Robert Stevens · Written by Francis M. Cockrell · Starring Albert Salmi, Robert H. Harris, Harry Tyler, Ken Clark