Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season 7

1961 · 39 episodes · ★ 7.8

What Season 7 of Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Season 7 of Alfred Hitchcock Presents It has 39 episodes and aired October 10, 1961. Here's the complete episode guide with air dates, runtimes and ratings.

39episodes

Oct 10, 1961aired

Jul 3, 1962latest episode

16.9 hrtotal runtime

Season 7 Episodes

7x01 The Hatbox
Oct 10, 1961 · 26 min
When caught cheating on a test, Perry Hatch visits his college Professor to plead his case before a letter is sent to his parents. But upon witnessing the Professor disposing of a brand new ladies hat box, Perry thinks he may be onto something sinister.
Directing: Alan Crosland, Jr. · Writing: Henry Slesar · Starring: Paul Ford, Frank Maxwell, Billy Gray, Jamie Brothers
7x02 Bang, You're Dead
Oct 17, 1961 · 26 min
Young Jackie Chester is ostracized by his fellow playmates because he doesn't own a toy gun like theirs. Upset at being left out, he finds a gun in his Uncle's suitcase - unaware he has a real revolver ... and it's loaded.
Directing: Alfred Hitchcock · Writing: Harold Swanton · Starring: Mary Grace Canfield, Bill Mumy, Juanita Moore, John Zaremba
7x03 Maria
Oct 24, 1961 · 26 min
The manager of a carnival discovers his drunken purchase of a monkey is in fact a female midget dressed up as the animal. Falling in love with her "owner", she sets about to break up his marriage.
Directing: Boris Sagal · Writing: John Collier · Starring: Merry Anders, Norman Lloyd, Nita Talbot, Edmund Hashim
7x04 Cop for a Day
Oct 31, 1961 · 26 min
Two bank robbers, Phil and Davey, are forced to act when it is revealed a woman was an eye-witness to their crime. Phil devises a clever plan to dress up as a policeman to gain entry to her secure location, but will his plan go without a hitch?
Directing: Paul Henreid · Writing: Henry Slesar · Starring: Walter Matthau, Susan Brown, Glenn Cannon, Carol Grace
7x05 Keep Me Company
Nov 7, 1961 · 26 min
A lonely housewife invents the story a prowler is on her property in order to entice a handsome detective to visit her. But she may have inadvertently helped the police with a major investigation that will affect her own life.
Directing: Alan Crosland, Jr. · Writing: Henry Slesar · Starring: Jack Ging, Anne Francis, Sal Ponti, Edmund Hashim
7x06 Beta Delta Gamma
Nov 14, 1961 · 26 min
After a drinking contest, students decide to play a joke on one of their fraternity friends, Alan. Putting fake blood on one of them, they lead Alan to believe he has committed murder, placing into action a deadly chain of events.
Directing: Alan Crosland, Jr. · Writing: Calvin Clements Sr. · Starring: Severn Darden, Barbara Harris, Joel Crothers, Barbara Steele
7x07 You Can't Be a Little Girl All Your Life
Nov 21, 1961 · 26 min
When a young wife is assaulted in her home, her husband is enraged upon her selecting who she thinks was the culprit from a police line-up. But his wife is on the brink of making a shocking discovery.
Directing: Norman Lloyd · Writer: Helen Nielsen · Starring: Dick York, Bill Quinn, Carolyn Kearney, Ted de Corsia
7x08 The Old Pro
Nov 28, 1961 · 26 min
A hit-man's retirement is jeopardized when he is blackmailed by a man threatening to reveal his past to his wife - who knows nothing about his wicked ways.
Directing: Paul Henreid · Writing: Calvin Clements Sr. · Starring: Richard Conte, John Anderson, Sara Shane, Stacy Harris
7x09 I Spy
Dec 5, 1961 · 26 min
Private detective Al Frute falls love with his client's wife when her husband hires him to prove her infidelity. Al decides the best way forward is to provide the required evidence to ensure a happy ending for all.
Directing: Norman Lloyd · Writing: John Collier · Starring: Cecil Parker, Eric Barker, Kay Walsh, William Kendall
7x10 Services Rendered
Dec 12, 1961 · 26 min
Being hit by a falling plank of wood has rendered a young man with amnesia. All he has in his possession is a $1000 bill and a note with a doctor's address. Visiting the doctor jogs his memory, which is unfortunate for one of them.
Directing: Paul Henreid · Writing: Richard Levinson, William Link · Starring: Bert Remsen, Percy Helton, Hugh Marlowe, Stephen Dunne
7x11 The Right Kind of Medicine
Dec 19, 1961 · 26 min
A doctor gets more than he bargains for when he attends to a man's gunshot wound. However, the doctor may have the ultimate revenge from the grave.
Directing: Alan Crosland, Jr. · Writing: Henry Slesar · Starring: Robert Redford, Bert Remsen, Bernard Kates, Joby Baker
7x12 A Jury of Her Peers
Dec 26, 1961 · 26 min
A local sheriff has failed to find enough evidence to prove Millie Wright killed her husband. When the sheriff's wife stumbles across some clues that may prove Millie guilty, will she speak up?
Directing: Robert Florey · Writing: James P. Cavanagh · Starring: Ann Harding, Frances Reid, Philip Bourneuf, Ray Teal
7x13 The Silk Petticoat
Jan 2, 1962 · 26 min
Elisa Minden begins to question her actions when discovering her fiance talking to his late wife's grave about the virtues of torture and the fact he had caught his wife having an affair. Will Elisa regret going through with the vows?
Directing: John Newland · Writing: Norman Ginsbury, Halsted Welles · Starring: Antoinette Bower, Michael Rennie, Doris Lloyd, Jack Livesey
7x14 Bad Actor
Jan 9, 1962 · 26 min
Two young actors are up for the same role and get together for an afternoon's rehearsal. Alcoholic Bart Collins shows just a tad too much realism when he strangles his friend Jerry to death. Now what to do with the body?
Directing: John Newland · Writing: Robert Bloch · Starring: Carole Eastman, Robert Duvall, William Schallert, David Lewis
7x15 The Door Without a Key
Jan 16, 1962 · 26 min
Two lonely people, one an old man suffering amnesia, the other a young, lost boy, find they have more in common that they realize when meeting at the police station.
Directing: Herschel Daugherty · Writing: Irving Elman · Starring: John Larch, Bill Mumy, Claude Rains, Connie Gilchrist
7x16 The Case of M.J.H.
Jan 23, 1962 · 26 min
Young criminal Jimmy French convinces his girlfriend to take a peek at her psychiatrist boss' files in order to find the perfect blackmail victim. But will Jimmy end up being the one under analysis?
Directing: Alan Crosland, Jr. · Writing: Henry Slesar · Starring: Robert Loggia, Barbara Baxley, Richard Gaines, Theodore Newton
7x17 The Faith of Aaron Menefee
Jan 30, 1962 · 26 min
When a faith-healer cures a mechanic's stomach ulcer, it leads to love and murder.
Directing: Norman Lloyd · Writing: Ray Bradbury · Starring: Andrew Prine, Robert Armstrong, Olan Soule, Sidney Blackmer
7x18 The Woman Who Wanted to Live
Feb 6, 1962 · 26 min
When a convict takes a girl hostage after murdering a gas station attendant, he is puzzled why she doesn't try to escape when several opportunities arise ... and why she is being so helpful.
Directing: Alan Crosland, Jr. · Writing: Bryce Walton · Starring: Lola Albright, Charles Bronson, Jesslyn Fax, Ray Montgomery
7x19 Strange Miracle
Feb 13, 1962 · 26 min
Following a train accident, Mr. Sequiras fakes being paralyzed from the waist down so he can collect compensation from the train company. When tiring of having to pretend he cannot walk, Sequiras comes up with a plan to "walk" again when meeting a girl who really is paralyzed.
Directing: Norman Lloyd · Writer: Halsted Welles · Starring: Eduardo Ciannelli, Miriam Colon, Frank De Kova, David Opatoshu
7x20 The Test
Feb 20, 1962 · 26 min
When a young boy murders another boy with a knife, his father convinces attorney Vernon Wedge to take on the case. Wedge comes up with a rather unique "test" to prove the boy's innocence, providing it can be used in court.
Directing: Boris Sagal · Writing: Henry Slesar · Starring: Tenen Holtz, Rod Lauren, Eduardo Ciannelli, Brian Keith
7x21 Burglar Proof
Feb 27, 1962 · 26 min
As part of a publicity gimmich, ex-criminal Sammy Morrissey agrees to attempt opening a "burglar proof" safe. If he can unlock the safe at a press conference, he can keep the $50,000 contained within. But will Morrissey prove the hand is quicker than the eye?
Directing: John Newland · Writing: Henry Slesar · Starring: Whit Bissell, Philip Ober, Robert Webber, Paul Hartman
7x22 The Big Score
Mar 6, 1962 · 26 min
A group of young thieves hit on the idea of robbing a wealthy man by one of them volunteering to babysit. However, when robbing the premises, the man returns home, leading to murder and revenge.
Directing: Boris Sagal · Writing: Bryce Walton · Starring: Evans Evans, Rafael Campos, John Zaremba, Tom Gilleran
7x23 Profit Sharing Plan
Mar 13, 1962 · 26 min
When a long-time employee retires with little in the way of thanks, the man decides to rob the company and run off with his secret girlfriend. His wife, however, has other plans.
Directing: Bernard Girard · Writing: William Link, Richard Levinson · Starring: Henry Jones, Ruth Storey, Rebecca Sand, Frank Maxwell
7x24 Apex
Mar 20, 1962 · 26 min
An unfaithful husband and his girlfriend concoct a plan to murder his wife after she plans to divorce him, which will leave him penniless.
Directing: Alan Crosland, Jr. · Writing: John T. Kelley · Starring: Mark Miller, Patricia Breslin, Vivienne Segal, George Kane
7x25 The Last Remains
Mar 27, 1962 · 26 min
A funeral director blackmails a client when he discovers the man's business partner didn't really die in a road accident, but was shot instead.
Directing: Leonard Horn · Writing: Henry Slesar · Starring: Lennie Weinrib, Ed Gardner, John Fiedler, Walter Kinsella
7x26 Ten O'Clock Tiger
Apr 3, 1962 · 26 min
When a boxing manager tries out a special formula designed to enhance the performance of race horses on one of his prize-fighters, he finds himself in the ring fighting for his own life.
Directing: Bernard Girard · Writing: William Fay · Starring: Robert Keith, Frankie Darro, Karl Lukas, Syl Lamont
7x27 Act of Faith
Apr 10, 1962 · 26 min
When a writer agrees to sponsor a fledgling author's first book, he receives a lesson in patience.
Directing: Bernard Girard · Writing: Nicholas Monsarrat, Eric Ambler · Starring: Dennis King, Mary Grace Canfield, George Grizzard, Florence MacMichael
7x28 The Kerry Blue
Apr 17, 1962 · 26 min
The death of a beloved pooch sets off a series of deadly events for the dog's shattered owner
Directing: Paul Henreid · Writing: Henry Slesar · Starring: Gene Evans, John Zaremba, Carmen Mathews, David Carlile
7x29 The Matched Pearl
Apr 24, 1962 · 26 min
The sale of an expensive pearl teaches a con-man a lesson in honesty that will cost him far more than just his integrity.
Directing: Bernard Girard · Writing: Henry Slesar · Starring: Sharon Farrell, Émile Genest, John Ireland, Ernest Truex
7x30 What Frightened You, Fred?
May 1, 1962 · 26 min
The warden of a prison is puzzled by the fact a man has just broken his parole conditions just two days after being released. Despite probing for answers, the warden eventually discovers the reason for the convict's return.
Directing: Paul Henreid · Writing: Joel Murcott · Starring: Ed Asner, Adam Williams, R.G. Armstrong, Steve Peck
7x31 Most Likely to Succeed
May 8, 1962 · 26 min
A bragging, successful businessman takes pity on a former down-on-his-luck college friend by giving him a job, revealing how he has cheated the government out of tax revenue. Perhaps he should have kept his mouth shut.
Directing: Richard Whorf · Writing: Henry Slesar · Starring: Jack Carter, Howard Morris, John Zaremba, Joanna Moore
7x32 Victim Four
May 15, 1962 · 26 min
A newlywed couple are involved in an accident, leaving them each with a disability. The husband has a bad limp, but his wife's injuries are not as easily identified ... until one night when she goes missing.
Directing: Paul Henreid · Writer: Talmage Powell · Starring: Peggy Ann Garner, John Lupton, Paul Comi, Bryan O'Byrne
7x33 The Opportunity
May 22, 1962 · 26 min
An assistant manager of a department store finds a unique use for a girl he has caught shoplifting. Agreeing to let the girl off, he sets into motion a plan that will lead to murder.
Directing: Robert Florey · Writing: Henry Slesar, Bryce Walton · Starring: Coleen Gray, Richard Long, Rebecca Sand, Olive Dunbar
7x34 The Twelve Hour Caper
May 29, 1962 · 26 min
A disgruntled employee hatches a plan, with the help of two professional thieves, to steal a shipment of negotiable bonds. Will he get away with a clean sweep?
Directing: John Newland · Writing: Harold Swanton · Starring: Dick York, Wendell Holmes, Sarah Marshall, Gage Clarke
7x35 The Children of Alda Nuova
Jun 5, 1962 · 26 min
An American criminal living in Rome gets more than he bargained for when supplying narcotics to a group of juveniles.
Directing: Robert Florey · Writing: Robert Wallsten · Starring: Jack Carson, Christopher Dark, Stefan Schnabel, Thano Rama
7x36 First Class Honeymoon
Jun 12, 1962 · 26 min
Initially delighted with divorce, a man soon regrets the agreement when his ex-wife's alimony payments are wiping him out. Desperate to claw back the money, a scheme involving a stranger may be the key to his happiness ... or cause further debt.
Directing: Don Weis · Writing: Henry Slesar · Starring: John Abbott, Jeremy Slate, James Flavin, Robert Webber
7x37 The Big Kick
Jun 19, 1962 · 26 min
A desperately broke beatnik couple, Mitch and Judy, plan to use a well-off man, who has shown an interest in Judy, to finance their lifestyle. But who's using who?
Directing: Alan Crosland, Jr. · Writing: Robert Bloch · Starring: Wayne Rogers, Brian G. Hutton, Anne Helm, Frances Morris
7x38 Where Beauty Lies
Jun 26, 1962 · 26 min
Caroline Hardy's affair with the handsome Paul Ross comes to an abrupt end when her brother tells Paul's wife about them. Intent on revenge, Caroline sets off an explosion that will have life-changing results.
Directing: Robert Florey · Writing: James P. Cavanagh · Starring: George Nader, Raymond Bailey, Cloris Leachman, Pamela Curran
7x39 The Sorcerer's Apprentice Season Finale
Jul 3, 1962 · 26 min
The frustrated wife of a carnival musician is in love with the circus strong man. With the appearance of a homeless boy comes a plan to free her from her husband. But will he play the final trick?
Directing: Józef Lejtes · Writing: Robert Bloch · Starring: Larry Kert, Brandon De Wilde, Diana Dors, David J. Stewart