Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season 5

1959 · 38 episodes · ★ 7.4

What Season 5 of Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Season 5 of Alfred Hitchcock Presents Has 38 episodes and premiered on September 27, 1959. Here's the complete episode guide with air dates, runtimes and ratings.

38episodes

Sep 27, 1959premiered

Sep 25, 1960last episode

16.8 hrtotal runtime

Season 5 Episodes

5x01 Arthur
Sep 27, 1959 · 27 min · ★ 7.2
When his former fiancee turns up missing, chicken farmer Arthur obligingly lets the police search his ranch, despite the fact that they seem to suspect him of her murder.
Directing: Alfred Hitchcock · Writing: James P. Cavanagh · Starring: Laurence Harvey, Patrick Macnee, Hazel Court, Robert Douglas
5x02 The Crystal Trench
Oct 4, 1959 · 27 min
Dangerous secrets are revealed when a devoted widow travels to the glacier in Switzerland where her husband's body has been preserved since his deadly fall forty years earlier.
Directing: Alfred Hitchcock · Writing: Stirling Silliphant · Starring: Patricia Owens, Oscar Beregi Jr, James Donald, Werner Klemperer
5x03 Appointment at Eleven
Oct 11, 1959 · 27 min
A 17-year-old causes havoc at a bar and alarms everyone around him when he talks hysterically about how he'll be "born again" when someone else dies at eleven o'clock.
Directing: Robert Stevens · Writing: Evan Hunter · Starring: Clu Gulager, Sean McClory, Norma Crane, Clint Kimbrough
5x04 Coyote Moon
Oct 18, 1959 · 26 min
John Piltkin picks up three hitchhikers who rob him. After he spots them in a diner, he exacts his revenge. He steals a car and picks the hitchhikers up. Concealing his face in shadows, he then pretends the car has stalled and walks off to get help. The hitchhickers are then arrested in the stolen car.
Directing: Herschel Daugherty · Writing: Harold Swanton · Starring: Macdonald Carey, Edgar Buchanan, Collin Wilcox Paxton, Jack Lambert
5x05 No Pain
Oct 25, 1959 · 27 min · ★ 5.0
Nothing is as it seems when a polio victim in an iron lung suspects his wife of becoming attracted to a new neighbor and wonders if she's planning to get rid of him for good.
Directing: Norman Lloyd · Writing: William Fay · Starring: Brian Keith, Yale Wexler, Dorothea Lord, Joanna Moore
5x06 Anniversary Gift
Nov 1, 1959 · 26 min
Sick of his wife's menagerie of strange and high-maintenance animals, a frazzled husband decides to get her the perfect present - a highly poisonous coral snake.
Directed by: Norman Lloyd · Written by: Harold Swanton · Starring: Michael J. Pollard, Harry Morgan, Jackie Coogan, Barbara Baxley
5x07 Dry Run
Nov 8, 1959 · 27 min
An aspiring hitman takes on a risky assignment to kill a rival gangster but then finds himself easily conned by his target in a treacherous game of cat and mouse.
Directing: John Brahm · Writing: Bill S. Ballinger · Starring: David White, Robert Vaughn, Tyler McVey, Walter Matthau
5x08 The Blessington Method
Nov 15, 1959 · 26 min
Troubled by the responsibility of his aging mother in law, a man takes advantage of a society that specializes in "taking care of" elderly relatives and then soon finds out that he may be in for a similar fate.
Directing: Herschel Daugherty · Writing: Halsted Welles · Starring: Elizabeth Patterson, Henry Jones, Dick York, Irene Windust
5x09 Dead Weight
Nov 22, 1959 · 27 min
Lovers' Lane becomes a dark and deadly destination when an ad executive and his former girlfriend are attacked by a young thug, and his efforts to protect them quickly go from heroic to something much more criminal.
Directed by: Stuart Rosenberg · Written by: Jerry Sohl · Starring: Don Gordon, Angela Greene, Joseph Cotten, Julie Adams
5x10 Special Delivery
Nov 29, 1959 · 27 min
After his neighbor warns him about suspicious disappearances around them, a man wonders if the vanishings have anything to do with a delivery to his young son.
Directing: Norman Lloyd · Writing: Ray Bradbury · Starring: Beatrice Straight, Frank Maxwell, Michael Burns, Stephen Dunne
5x11 Road Hog
Dec 6, 1959 · 27 min
When a traffic delay prevents a dying boy from reaching the hospital in time, his bereaved father and brothers swear revenge on the salesman who hogged the road when a life was on the line.
Directing: Stuart Rosenberg · Writing: Bill S. Ballinger · Starring: Richard Chamberlain, Raymond Massey, Roscoe Ates, Ray Teal
5x12 Specialty of the House
Dec 13, 1959 · 26 min
Mr. Laffler introduces his colleague Mr. Costain to Spirro's, an exclusive gentleman's club, but to their disappointment, the house specialty, a lamb dish, is not being served that day.
Directing: Robert Stevens · Writing: Victor Wolfson, Bernard C. Schoenfeld · Starring: Bettye Ackerman, Robert Morley, Lee Turnbull, Kenneth Haigh
5x13 An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Dec 20, 1959 · 26 min
Moments before he's set to swing from the end of a Union rope, a Southern supporter reflects on the sabotage attempt that brought him there and sees a possibility for freedom.
Directing: Robert Stevenson · Writing: Harold Swanton · Starring: Kenneth Tobey, Ronald Howard, James Coburn, Douglas Kennedy
5x14 Graduating Class
Dec 27, 1959 · 26 min
A teacher's interest in the one student who seems to care about her lessons turns tragic when she and a kindly neighbor follow the girl to a man's apartment.
Directed by: Herschel Daugherty · Written by: Stirling Silliphant · Starring: Wendy Hiller, Gigi Perreau, Julie Payne, Robert H. Harris
5x15 Man from the South
Jan 3, 1960 · 27 min · ★ 8.3
In a Las Vegas casino, an unpleasant little man hopes to use a young man's wish to impress the young woman he has just met to pressure the young fellow into accepting a macabre bet.
Directing: Norman Lloyd · Writing: William Fay · Starring: Steve McQueen, Peter Lorre, Neile Adams, Tyler McVey
5x16 The Ikon of Elijah
Jan 10, 1960 · 26 min
An antiques dealer takes refuge in a tucked away monastery with the goal of seizing a priceless manuscript, but his greed will extend his stay at the holy place for much longer than he ever imagined.
Directing: Paul Almond · Writing: Victor Wolfson, Norah Perez · Starring: Sam Jaffe, Danielle De Metz, Oskar Homolka, Arthur Gould-Porter
5x17 The Cure
Jan 24, 1960 · 27 min
Some important things get lost in translation when a South American oil explorer agrees to have his loyal native assistant take his murderous wife to a head shrinker for her health.
Directing: Herschel Daugherty · Writing: Michael Pertwee · Starring: Cara Williams, Peter Mark Richman, Nehemiah Persoff, Leonard Strong
5x18 Backward, Turn Backward
Jan 31, 1960 · 26 min
A middle aged plumber is suspected of bludgeoning to death the father of his 19-year-old love interest, but the Sheriff can't figure out how the man could have done the crime and been caring for his baby grandson at the same time.
Directing: Stuart Rosenberg · Writing: Charles Beaumont · Starring: Alan Baxter, Tom Tully, Phyllis Love, Raymond Bailey
5x19 Not the Running Type
Feb 7, 1960 · 26 min
After twelve years in prison for stealing $200,000 from his investment firm employers, Milton Potter calmly returns all the money he embezzled and pursues some very unique post-prison retirement plans.
Directing: Arthur Hiller · Writing: Jerry Sohl · Starring: O.Z. Whitehead, Bert Freed, Murray Alper, Robert Bray
5x20 The Day of the Bullet
Feb 14, 1960 · 26 min
When Clete Vine, a successful businessman, reads about a gangster's violent death, he recalls how he and a childhood friend were profoundly affected by an event that began with their innocent admiration of an elegant car.
Directing: Norman Lloyd · Writing: Bill S. Ballinger · Starring: Dennis Patrick, Barry Gordon, Norman Lloyd, Glenn Walken
5x21 Hitch Hike
Feb 21, 1960 · 26 min
A righteous and hypocritical civic leader on a road trip accepts mechanical help from a young man who then asks for a lift, soon afterwards he reveals he's recently been released from reform school.
Directed by: Paul Henreid · Written by: Bernard C. Schoenfeld · Starring: Suzanne Pleshette, John McIntire, Robert Morse, Read Morgan
5x22 Across the Threshold
Feb 28, 1960 · 27 min
When his over-bearing mother mentions missing her dead husband, a selfish bachelor is happy to arrange the reunion and enlists his actress girlfriend to help by posing as a clairvoyant.
Directing: Arthur Hiller · Writing: Charlotte Armstrong · Starring: George Grizzard, Patricia Collinge, Barbara Baxley
5x23 Craig's Will
Mar 6, 1960 · 27 min
It's one lucky dog who is named the beneficiary of his deceased master's estate, but he then becomes the target of murderous plots concocted by the humans in his life.
Directing: Gene Reynolds · Writing: Burt Styler, Albert E. Lewin · Starring: Paul Stewart, Dick Van Dyke, Harry Tyler, Stella Stevens
5x24 Madame Mystery
Mar 27, 1960 · 27 min
A ruthlessly ambitious Hollywood publicist capitalizes on the drowning death of an actress, but his hopes for success sink like a stone when he learns that she's still alive.
Directing: John Brahm · Writing: William Fay · Starring: Audrey Totter, Joby Baker, Harp McGuire, Mike Ragan
5x25 The Little Man Who Was There
Apr 3, 1960 · 26 min
The patrons in a copper town saloon initially scoff at the mysterious, small man who barges in, but soon find themselves handing over their valuables when he takes on two strapping brothers.
Directing: George Stevens Jr. · Writing: Gordon Russell, Larry Ward · Starring: Norman Lloyd, Robert Armstrong, Read Morgan, Clegg Hoyt
5x26 Mother, May I Go Out to Swim?
Apr 10, 1960 · 27 min
What begins as a mother-son vacation soon becomes a trip to agony when he falls in love with a girl who is determined to share his affections ... and will do anything to get rid of her nemesis.
Directing: Herschel Daugherty · Writing: James P. Cavanagh · Starring: Jessie Royce Landis, Gia Scala, William Shatner, Robert Carson
5x27 The Cuckoo Clock
Apr 17, 1960 · 26 min
A sensible widow beginning her stay in a remote summer cottage refuses to be alarmed by news of an escaped mental patient, but her resolve weakens as she visits with an off-beat local.
Directing: John Brahm · Writing: Robert Bloch · Starring: Don Beddoe, Beatrice Straight, Fay Spain, Donald Buka
5x28 Forty Detectives Later
Apr 24, 1960 · 25 min
The forty-first private eye hired by a man to find his wife's killer follows the clues to a suspect, and then realizes that the case is more complex than he had realized.
Directing: Arthur Hiller · Writing: Henry Slesar · Starring: James Franciscus, George Mitchell, Jack Weston, Arlene McQuade
5x29 The Hero
May 1, 1960 · 26 min
A wealthy entrepreneur is sure that the man he meets on a cruise ship is the same person he robbed and left for dead many years ago ... or is he?
Directed by: John Brahm · Written by: Bill S. Ballinger · Starring: Eric Portman, Richard Lupino, Jack Livesey, Oskar Homolka
5x30 Insomnia
May 8, 1960 · 26 min
Lack of sleep is ruining a widower's life, but the real nightmare begins when he finally meets his brother-in-law, a menacing veteran still holding a grudge for his sister's death.
Directing: John Brahm · Writing: Henry Slesar · Starring: Al Hodge, John S. Ragin, Dennis Weaver, Ken Clark
5x31 I Can Take Care of Myself
May 15, 1960 · 27 min
A beautiful Greenwich Village nightclub singer unwittingly risks her life - and that of her pianist - when she makes the mistake of brushing off "Little Dandy", a dangerous mobster.
Directing: Alan Crosland, Jr. · Writing: Thomas Grant · Starring: Frankie Darro, Lennie Weinrib, Edmon Ryan, Pat Harrington Jr.
5x32 One Grave Too Many
May 22, 1960 · 27 min
Chronic unemployment makes a poor husband desperate enough to steal from a man he believes is dead, but he soon regrets the decision when he sees that the lifted wallet contains more than just cash.
Directing: Arthur Hiller · Writing: Henry Slesar · Starring: Jeremy Slate, Howard McNear, Neile Adams, Tyler McVey
5x33 Party Line
May 29, 1960 · 26 min
A busybody fears for her life when she learns that the man who blames her for his wife's death has escaped from prison and may be planning a visit with his former neighbor.
Directing: Hilton A. Green · Writing: Henry Slesar · Starring: Judy Canova, Ted Knight, Gertrude Flynn, Royal Dano
5x34 Cell 227
Jun 5, 1960 · 26 min
A falsely convicted prisoner is determined to make his walk to the gas chamber on of dignity, but his plan suddenly changes when he hurls himself at the jovial guard known as "Pops".
Directing: Paul Henreid · Writing: Bill S. Ballinger · Starring: Sal Ponti, Liam Sullivan, James Westerfield, James Best
5x35 The Schartz-Metterklume Method
Jun 12, 1960 · 26 min
An unconventional governess disrupts a conservative household with her radical ideas about interior design, wines, art and - especially - children and their education.
Directing: Richard Dunlap · Writing: Marian B. Cockrell · Starring: Elspeth March, Hermione Gingold, Noel Drayton, Doris Lloyd
5x36 Letter of Credit
Jun 19, 1960 · 26 min
When he goes to a bank to transfer money, a man writing a book on the subject of unsolved crimes has no idea that he will find information about the $500,000 robbery he is chronicling ... or does he?
Directing: Paul Henreid · Writing: Helen Nielsen · Starring: Bob Sweeney, Robert Bray, Ronald Nicholas, Theodore Newton
5x37 Escape to Sonoita
Jun 26, 1960 · 27 min
A pair of truck drivers stranded in the Arizona desert find themselves at the mercy of two kidnappers who are heading to the border ... and determined to take the last of the drinking water with them.
Directing: Stuart Rosenberg · Writing: James A. Howard, Bill S. Ballinger · Starring: Murray Hamilton, Burt Reynolds, Harry Dean Stanton, Venetia Stevenson
5x38 Hooked Season Finale
Sep 25, 1960 · 27 min
Believing that financial reasons prevent him from leaving his wife, an unhappily married man and the woman he really loves hatch a scheme that they believe will solve all their problems.
Directing: Norman Lloyd · Writing: Thomas Grant · Starring: Vivienne Segal, Anne Francis, Robert Horton, John Holland