Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season 4

1958 · 36 episodes · ★ 7.3

What Season 4 of Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Season 4 of Alfred Hitchcock Presents It has 36 episodes and aired October 5, 1958. Here's the complete episode guide with air dates, runtimes and ratings.

36episodes

Oct 5, 1958aired

Jun 21, 1959latest episode

15.9 hrtotal runtime

Season 4 Episodes

4x01 Poison
Oct 5, 1958 · 27 min
Two partners discover their real feelings for one another when one is bitten by a poisonous snake and it's up to the other to save his life.
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock · Written by: Casey Robinson · Starring: James Donald, Wendell Corey, Arnold Moss, Weaver Levy
4x02 Don't Interrupt
Oct 12, 1958 · 26 min
Silence may be golden, but it also proves lethal when a young boy witnesses an escaped mental patient and can't tell anyone about it.
Directed by: Robert Stevens · Written by: Sidney Carroll · Starring: Chill Wills, Scatman Crothers, Biff McGuire, Cloris Leachman
4x03 The Jokester
Oct 19, 1958 · 26 min
A morgue attendant gets the last laugh when he finally has enough of a man who has been provoking him.
Directed by: Arthur Hiller · Writer: Bernard C. Schoenfeld · Starring: James Coburn, Roscoe Ates, Arthur Batanides, Baynes Barron
4x04 The Crooked Road
Oct 26, 1958 · 27 min
A joyride in a new convertible is seriously called to a halt as the corrupt public officials in a small town attempt to take advantage of the defenseless drivers.
Directed by Paul Henreid · Written by William Fay · Starring Patricia Breslin, Richard Erdman, Richard Kiley, Walter Matthau
4x05 The $2,000,000 Defense
Nov 2, 1958 · 27 min
A lawyer gets creative when the man he is defending offers him half of his net worth if he will find a way out of the case.
Directed by: Norman Lloyd · Writer: William Fay · Starring: Barry Sullivan, Herbert Anderson, Leslie Nielsen, Wendell Holmes
4x06 Design for Loving
Nov 9, 1958 · 26 min
A man's marriage seriously malfunctions when he buys a robot to take over his relationship with his demanding wife so he can escape to Rio.
Directed by: Robert Stevens · Written by: Ray Bradbury · Starring: Marian Seldes, Elliott Reid, Norman Lloyd, Barbara Baxley
4x07 Man with a Problem
Nov 16, 1958 · 27 min · ★ 6.1
A man relates the series of events that led him to contemplate suicide to a police officer.
Directed by: Robert Stevens · Written by: Joel Murcott · Starring: Vic Tayback, Peter Mark Richman, Alex Gerry, Elizabeth Montgomery
4x08 Safety for the Witness
Nov 23, 1958 · 26 min
A gunsmith sets his sight on two gangsters who will kill him if he testifies to what they've purchased in court.
Directed by: Norman Lloyd · Writer: William Fay · Starring: James Westerfield, Art Carney, James Flavin, Robert Bray
4x09 Murder Me Twice
Dec 7, 1958 · 25 min
When a hypnotist puts a young woman into a trance during a seance, things go wildly out of control and she stabs her husband. But is she really to blame for her actions?
Directed by: David Swift · Writer: Irving Elman · Starring: Ward Costello, Phyllis Thaxter, Herbert Anderson, Tom Helmore
4x10 Tea Time
Dec 14, 1958 · 26 min
It's hard to tell who's the bigger cheater when a wife and her husband's jealous mistress sit down for some lethal negotiating.
Directed by: Robert Stevens · Writer: Kathleen Hite · Starring: Fritz Feld, Marsha Hunt, Margaret Leighton, Murray Matheson
4x11 And the Desert Shall Blossom
Dec 21, 1958 · 26 min
When two old men need a miracle in order to keep their home, the answer arrives in the unlikely form of a killer on the run from the law.
Directed by: Arthur Hiller · Writer: Bernard C. Schoenfeld · Starring: Mike Kellin, William Demarest, Ben Johnson, Wesley Lau
4x12 Mrs. Herman and Mrs. Fenimore
Dec 28, 1958 · 27 min
Two women plot to do away with an irascible old man and seize his money, but their plan is foiled when one of them decides she deserves more of the fortune.
Directed by: Arthur Hiller · Writer: Robert C. Dennis · Starring: Doro Merande, Wesley Lau, Mary Astor, Russell Collins
4x13 Six People, No Music
Jan 4, 1959 · 26 min
A funeral parlor owner is put in an awkward position when a deceased client comes back to life and demands a much smaller affair than what was planned for his funeral.
Directed by: Norman Lloyd · Written by: Richard Berg · Starring: Peggy Cass, Joby Baker, Howard Smith, John McGiver
4x14 The Morning After
Jan 11, 1959 · 27 min
Motherly love knows no bounds when a woman decides to get revenge on the married man who has been dating her daughter.
Directed by: Herschel Daugherty · Writers: Robert C. Dennis, Rose Simon Kohn · Starring: Dorothy Provine, Robert Alda, Fay Wray, Jeanette Nolan
4x15 A Personal Matter
Jan 18, 1959 · 27 min
Two construction engineers are between more than just a rock and a hard place when one of them discovers the other's violent past during an explosive tunnel blast.
Directed by: Paul Henreid · Writer: Joel Murcott · Starring: Frank Silvera, Wayne Morris, Frank De Kova, Joe Maross
4x16 Out There - Darkness
Jan 25, 1959 · 27 min · ★ 5.4
When a wealthy woman mistakenly accuses her elevator boy of robbing her, his resulting imprisonment will take her to levels of guilt she never expected.
Directed by: Paul Henreid · Written by: Bernard C. Schoenfeld · Starring: Bette Davis, Frank Albertson, James Congdon, Arthur Marshall
4x17 Total Loss
Feb 1, 1959 · 27 min
A desperate department store owner foolishly agrees to a scheme to have her store burned down so she can collect the insurance, but the fiery transaction doesn't go down as planned.
Directed by: Don Taylor · Written by: Robert Lees · Starring: Nancy Olson, Dave Willock, Ralph Meeker, Ray Teal
4x18 The Last Dark Step
Feb 8, 1959 · 27 min
It's murder most foul when a man decides to drown the longtime girlfriend who's been supporting him, but his crime doesn't go unnoticed for very long.
Directed by: Herschel Daugherty · Written by: William Fay · Starring: Joyce Meadows, Fay Spain, Robert Horton, Herbert Ellis
4x19 The Morning of the Bride
Feb 15, 1959 · 27 min
A young woman with her eye on marriage wonders why she still hasn't met her boyfriend's mother.
Directed by: Arthur Hiller · Written by: Kathleen Hite · Starring: Don Dubbins, Barbara Bel Geddes, Patricia Hitchcock, Helen Conrad
4x20 The Diamond Necklace
Feb 22, 1959 · 27 min
During his last week of work before retirement, the longtime employee of a jewelry store serves an unusual client.
Directed by: Herschel Daugherty · Written by: Sarett Tobias · Starring: Selmer Jackson, Claude Rains, Betsy von Furstenberg, Alan Hewitt
4x21 Relative Value
Mar 1, 1959 · 27 min
When John learns that he has been made the beneficiary in his cousin's will, he decides he can't wait for nature to take its course and begins plotting murder.
Directed by: Paul Almond · Written by: Francis M. Cockrell · Starring: Denholm Elliott, Torin Thatcher, Tom Conway, Frederick Worlock
4x22 The Right Price
Mar 8, 1959 · 26 min
A middle-aged couple, recently wed and constantly bickering, learn how married life can be murder.
Directed by: Arthur Hiller · Written by: Bernard C. Schoenfeld · Starring: Eddie Foy Jr., Allyn Joslyn, Jane Dulo
4x23 I'll Take Care of You
Mar 15, 1959 · 27 min
A used car salesman with a spendthrift wife concocts a killer deal with his father and two college boys.
Directed by: Robert Stevens · Written by: William Fay · Starring: Elisabeth Fraser, Ralph Meeker, Russell Collins, Arthur Batanides
4x24 The Avon Emeralds
Mar 22, 1959 · 26 min
Nothing is as it seems when a young Scotland Yard inspector follows a widow suspected of smuggling jewelry.
Directed by: Bretaigne Windust · Written by: William Fay · Starring: Gertrude Flynn, Roger Moore, Hazel Court, Alan Napier
4x25 The Kind Waitress
Mar 29, 1959 · 27 min
Thelma Tomkins and her deadbeat boyfriend begin poisoning an old and wealthy woman in order to get an inheritance ... but the results are not what they expected.
Directed by: Paul Henreid · Writer: William O'Farrell · Starring: Charles Meredith, Rick Jason, Celia Lovsky, John Zaremba
4x26 Cheap Is Cheap
Apr 5, 1959 · 27 min
When a miser discovers how expensive a divorce will cost, he comes up with another way to rid himself of his wife.
Directed by: Bretaigne Windust · Written by: Burt Styler, Albert E. Lewin · Starring: Dennis Day, Jack Lambert, Alice Backes, Fred Essler
4x27 The Waxwork
Apr 12, 1959 · 27 min
A reporter with a gambling problem will do anything for a lucrative story - including spending the night in the Murderers' Den of a wax museum.
Directed by: Robert Stevens · Writer: Casey Robinson · Starring: Shaike Ophir, Everett Sloane, Barry Nelson, Charles Davis
4x28 The Impossible Dream
Apr 19, 1959 · 27 min
Pining for her boss - a former movie star now forced to take supporting roles - a middle-aged secretary shows how she will do anything to make her romantic fantasy a reality.
Directed by: Robert Stevens · Writer: Meade Roberts · Starring: Franchot Tone, Carmen Mathews, Mary Astor, Josie Lloyd
4x29 Banquo's Chair
May 3, 1959 · 25 min · ★ 6.8
A retired Scotland Yard inspector goes to extreme lengths to prove the guilt of a suspect in an old murder case.
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock · Written by: Francis M. Cockrell · Starring: Kenneth Haigh, Max Adrian, Reginald Gardiner, John Williams
4x30 A Night with the Boys
May 10, 1959 · 27 min
When he loses all his money in a poker game, a man tells his pregnant wife an involved lie to explain the missing cash.
Directed by: John Brahm · Written by: Bernard C. Schoenfeld · Starring: Joe De Santis, John Smith, Joyce Meadows, Sam Buffington
4x31 Your Witness
May 17, 1959 · 25 min
A prominent lawyer appears able to manipulate any situation successfully - except, perhaps, for his marriage.
Directed by: Norman Lloyd · Writer: William Fay · Starring: Brian G. Hutton, Brian Keith, Leora Dana, William Hansen
4x32 Human Interest Story
May 24, 1959 · 27 min
A newspaper reporter gets a tip about an out of this world story: a man who claims to be a Martian.
Directed by: Norman Lloyd · Writer: Fredric Brown · Starring: Arthur Hill, Steve McQueen, Tyler McVey, William Challee
4x33 The Dusty Drawer
May 31, 1959 · 27 min
When a local bank clerk cheats him out of $200, a man takes extreme measures to get back his money.
Directed by: Herschel Daugherty · Written by: Halsted Welles · Starring: Dick York, Philip Coolidge, Wilton Graff, J. Pat O'Malley
4x34 A True Account
Jun 7, 1959 · 27 min
Paul Brett is a top-notch criminal attorney who is consulted by Mrs. Cannon-Hughes. She was a nurse by profession who tended to the bedridden wife of Gilbert Hughes until her death. In the time since then, she married Mr. Hughes only to come to the conclusion that he murdered his first wife. Brett advises her that little that can be done without evidence, but he takes a liking to her and they eventually become lovers and marry when Gilbert takes his own life. Little does he realize the consequences of the choices he has made.
Directed by: Leonard Horn · Written by: Robert C. Dennis, Fredric Brown · Starring: Kent Smith, Jocelyn Brando, Jane Greer, Robert Webber
4x35 Touché
Jun 14, 1959 · 26 min
A millionaire takes a hunting trip during which he hatches a plan to make his wife's lover his prey.
Directed by: John Brahm · Written by: William Fay · Starring: Paul Douglas, Robert Morse, Hugh Marlowe, Dody Heath
4x36 Invitation to an Accident Season Finale
Jun 21, 1959 · 27 min
When a woman's blatant indiscretions with her ex-husband continue even after a confrontation with her current spouse, the consequences are dire.
Directed by: Don Taylor · Written by: Robert C. Dennis · Starring: Joanna Moore, Gary Merrill, Alan Hewitt, Ernestine Barrier