The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
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1. A Piece of the Action
Community Score
| 6.3 Fair |
Expert gambler Duke Marsden finds his existence at risk when he wins $30,000 from a inhuman ex-hood.
Director: Bernard Girard
Guest star: Gig Young (Duke Marsden), Martha Hyer (Alice), Robert Redford (Chuck), Gene Evans (Krutcher), Roger De Koven (Nate), Kreg Martin (Smiley), Dee J. Thompson (Kelly), Ralph Smiley (Waiter), Jack Sahakian (Gambler), Rob Reiner (Pete), Nick Dennis (Danny), Raymond Bailey (Allie)
2. Don't Look Behind You
Community Score
| 7.1 Good |
A number of women have been victims of ritualistic murders, and a medical undergraduate thinks she's next.
Director: John Brahm
Guest star: Mary Scott (Wanda Hatfield), Clancy Cooper (Police Lieutenant), Ralph Roberts (Paul Hatfield), Dick Sargent (Dave Fulton), Madge Kennedy (Mrs. MacFarlane), Jeffrey Hunter (Harold), Vera Miles (Daphne), Alf Kjellin (Edwin Volck), Abraham Sofaer (Dr. MacFarlane), Suzanne Noel (Woman)
3. Night of the Owl
Community Score
| 8.2 Great |
A chap blackmails a couple by threatening to tell their adopted daughter the reality about her natural parents.
Director: Alan Crosland Jr.
Guest star: Frank Ferguson (Captain Garner), Claudia Cravey (Anne Mallory), Terry Ann Ross (Barbara Mallory), Mike Kellin (Parker), Robert Bray (Lt. Ames), Philip Coolidge (Locke), Norman Leavitt (Ben Kaylor), Patricia Breslin (Linda Mallory), Brian Keith (Jim Mallory)
4. I Saw the Whole Thing
Community Score
| 7.8 Good |
A well-known mystery author is accused of running a stop sign before hitting a youthful motorcyclist.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Guest star: Kent Smith (Jerry O'Hara), John Zaremba (Richard Anderson), Ronnie Rondell Jr. (Motorcyclist), Ben Pollock (Court Clerk), Barney Phillips (Lt. Sweet), Philip Ober (Colonel John Hoey), William Newell (Sam Peterson), Maurice Manson (Doctor), Rusty Lane (Judge Martin), Robert Karnes (Police Sergeant), Anthony Jochim (Foreman), Kenneth Harp (Bailiff), Claire Griswold (Joanne Dowling), John Forsythe (Michael Barnes), John Fiedler (Malcolm Stuart), Evans Evans (Penny Sanford), Marc Cavell (Young Man), Lou Byrne (Nurse), Willis Bouchey (Judge B. Neilson)
5. Captive Audience
Community Score
| 5.8 Mediocre |
The tape-recorded material for a renowned mystery author's upcoming book sounds all too factual to his publisher.
Director: Alf Kjellin
Guest star: Roland Winters (Ivar West), Cosmo Sardo (Croupier), Ed Nelson (Tom Keller), Arnold Moss (Victor Hartman), James Mason (Warren Barrow), Renee Godfrey (Hartman's secretary), Angie Dickinson (Janet West/Janet Waverly), Bart Burns (Summers), Don Matheson (Jack Pierson), Sara Shane (Helen Barrow), Geraldine Wall (Mrs. Hurley)
6. Final Vow
Community Score
| 6.4 Fair |
Blaming herself for the robbery of a priceless figurine, an apprentice nun leaves her convent to track down the robber.
Director: Norman Lloyd
Guest star: R.G. Armstrong (Reformed Gangster), Isobel Elsom (Reverend Mother), Clu Gulager (Jimmy Bresson), Carol Lynley (Sister Pamela), Carmen Phillips (Bess Macken), Sara Taft (Sister Lydia), Don Hanmer (Wormer)
7. Annabelle
Community Score
| 8.0 Great |
A chemist refuses to accept his ex-girlfriend's marriage to another man.
Director: Paul Henreid
Guest star: Bert Remsen (Sheriff), Florence MacMichael (Daisy), Lisabeth Hush (Linda), Kathleen Nolan (Doris), Charles Knox Robinson (Wes), Hank Brandt (Gerald Delaney), Susan Oliver (Annabel), Dean Stockwell (David Kelsey)
8. House Guest
Community Score
| 8.8 Great |
John Mitchell receives much more than he expected for when he offers a youthful chap a new start in life.
Director: Alan Crosland Jr.
Guest star: Karl Swenson (George Sherston), Linda Rand (Kira), Robert Armstrong (Charles Faulkner), Adele Mara (Eve Sherston), Bill Mumy (Tony Mitchell), Robert Sterling (Ray Roscoe), Peggy McCay (Sally Mitchell), Macdonald Carey (John Mitchell), William Hellinger (Workman)
9. The Black Curtain
Community Score
| 4.9 Poor |
A former amnesiac learns he is an accused killer wanted by the law and by a hit man.
Director: Sydney Pollack
Guest star: Joe Trapaso (Motorcycle Policeman), Andy Romano (PAL Officer), Lee Philips (Frank Carlin), Neil Nephew (Chuck), George Mitchell (Druggist), Celia Lovsky (Mrs. Fisher), James Farentino (Bernie), Gail Kobe (Virginia), Richard Basehart (Phil Townsend), Lola Albright (Ruth), William Sharon (The Man), Harold J. Stone (Taxi Driver), Frank Sully (Drunk)
10. Day of Reckoning
Community Score
| 8.4 Great |
An easygoing gentleman has a curious difficulty: he can't convince anyone that he murdered his adulterous partner.
Director: Jerry Hopper
Guest star: K.T. Stevens, Hugh Marlowe (unknown), Jeremy Slate (Tent Parker), Dee Hartford (Felicity Sampson), Katharine Bard (Caroline Sampson), Barry Sullivan (Paul Sampson), Claude Akins (Sheriff Jordan), Louis Hayward (Judge David Wilcox)
11. Ride the Nightmare
Community Score
| 8.3 Great |
An elderly acquaintance plunges Chris Martin into a nightmare stuffed with blackmail, kidnapping and murder.
Director: Bernard Girard
Guest star: Gail Bonney (Elderly Woman) , Richard Shannon (Steve), Philippa Bevans (Mrs. Anthony), Jay Lanin (Fred), Olan Soule (Bill), John Anderson (I) (Adam), Hugh O'Brian (Christopher Martin), Gena Rowlands (Helen Martin)
12. Hangover
Community Score
| 8.5 Great |
A man wakes up with a hangover, a fair-haired in his room and his wife lost.
Director: Bernard Girard
Guest star: Chris Roman (Cliff), June Levant (Saleswoman), James Maloney (Cushman), Myron Healey (Bob Blake), Richard Franchot (Albert), Tyler McVey (District Attorney Driscoll), Robert P. Lieb (Bill Hunter), Dody Heath (Sandra Purvis), William Phipps (Bartender), Tony Randall (Hadley Purvis), Jayne Mansfield (Marion)
13. Bonfire
Community Score
| 6.7 Fair |
Preacher Robert Evans will do everything as well as murder to obtain a woman's manor for a gospel sanctuary.
Director: Joseph Pevney
Guest star: Craig Duncan (Police Officer), Craig Curtis (Young Man), Paul von Schreiber (Youth), Sam Weston (Taxi Driver), Patricia Collinge (Naomi Freshwater), Peter Falk (Robert Evans), Dina Merrill (Laura)
14. The Tender Poisoner
Community Score
| 6.3 Fair |
Two business executives throw themselves into a battle of wits and trickery as they compete for a gorgeous lady.
Director: Leonard Horn
Guest star: Bettye Ackerman (Lorna Dickson), Jan Sterling (Beatrice Bartel), Dan Dailey (Philip Bartel), Howard Duff (Peter Harding), Philip Reed (John O'Brien), William Bramley (Lt. McDonald), Richard Bull (Detective), Robert Reiner (Policeman), Stanley Jones (Drugstore Clerk)
15. The Thirty First of February
Community Score
| 4.6 Poor |
The passing away of Andrew Anderson's spouse sets off strange events calculated to drive the widower insane.
Director: Alf Kjellin
Guest star: Steve Gravers (Psychiatrist), Kathleen O'Malley (Valerie Anderson), Bernadette Hale (Miss Wright), King Calder (Riverton), Staats Cotsworth (Mr. Vincent), Bob Crane (Charlie Lessing), William Sargent (Peter Granville), David Wayne (Andrew Anderson), Elizabeth Allen (Molly O'Rourke), William Conrad (Sgt. Cresse)
16. What Really Happened
Community Score
| 7.0 Good |
When a distressed housekeeper murders her boss, the deceased man's wife is charged with the crime.
Director: Jack Smight
Guest star: Steve Dunne (Jack Wentworth), Ruth Roman (Addie), Gene Lyons (Howard Raydon), Anne Francis (Eve Raydon), Gladys Cooper (Mrs. Raydon), Tim O'Connor (Defender), Michael Crisalli (Gilly Strain), Michael Strong (Molloy)
17. Forecast: Low Clouds and Coastal Fog
Community Score
| 7.2 Good |
A lady is plunged into a nightmare after she refuses to help a gentleman and his badly beaten girlfriend.
Director: Charles F. Haas
Guest star: Simon Scott (Stan Wilson), Russell Thorsen (Geary), Richard Jaeckel (Tom), Chris Robinson (Ricky), Christopher Dark (Manuel Sanchez), Inger Stevens (Karen Wilson), Dan O'Herlihy (Simon Carter), Peter Brown (Ed), Robert Millar (Mitch), Greg Morris (Intern)
18. A Tangled Web
Community Score
| 7.1 Good |
David Chesterman is a thief whose girlfriend Maria is cheating on him with his partner Carl Gault. Carl has fallen in love with Maria and plans to get rid of David. He tells David about the body of rich man who is loaded with jewelry. David goes to rob the corpse, but is discovered by a guard. Later, the guard is found dead by the police. David tells Maria that he is innovent, but he decides to hide out for a while and leaves Maria with Carl. Carl informs the police of David's location and he is arrested for murder. As David is about to be sentence Maria gets away from Carl by stabbing him. She heads to the court building convinced that David is innocent. In the court building she climbs out on a ledge and threatens to jump unless David is brought to her and is allowed to tell the truth about the entire robbery. David is brought to her, but he reveals that he did kill the guard. Knowing that he will go to prison, David begs her for forgiveness.
Director: Alf Kjellin
Guest star: Elizabeth Thompson (Student's girlfriend), Ronnie Rondell Jr. (Student), Robert Redford (David Chesterman), Hinton Pope (Cab Driver), Barry Morse (Carl Gault), Syl Lamont (Photographer), Zohra Lampert (Maria), Gertrude Flynn (Ethel Chesterman), Cathleen Cordell (Mrs. Spaulding), Hal Bokar (Reporter)
19. To Catch a Butterfly
Community Score
| 7.6 Good |
Bill and Janet Nelson are besieged by the understanding that a troubled neighborhood lad is planning to slay them.
Director: David Lowell Rich
Guest star: Bradford Dillman (Bill Nelson), June Dayton (Barbara Stander), Clegg Hoyt (Trucker), Diana Hyland (Janet Nelson), John Pickard (I) (First fireman), Andy Romano (Second fireman), Mickey Sholdar (Eddie Stander), Than Wyenn (Dr. Burns), John Newton, Edward Asner (Jack Stander)
20. The Paragon
First aired: 2/9/1963John Pemberton comes up with an everlasting answer for dealing with his cruel, intrusive wife.
Director: James Smight
Guest star: Joan Fontaine (Alice Pemberton), Gary Merrill (John Pemberton), Virginia Vincent (Madge Fletcher), William Sargent (Walter Fletcher), Richard Carlyle (Leo Wales), Linda Leighton (Evie Wales), June Walker (Mrs. Wales), Irene Tedrow (Ethel), Willis Bouchey (Mr. Norton)
21. I'll Be the Judge, I'll Be the Jury
Community Score
| 5.2 Mediocre |
A police officer uses his partner as a lure to catch a murderer.
Director: James Sheldon
Guest star: Albert Salmi (Theodore Bond), Peter Graves (Mark Needham), Sarah Marshall (Louise Trevor), Ed Nelson (Alex Trevor), Rodolfo Hoyos Jr. (Inspector Ortiz), Eileen O'Neill (Laura Needham), Zolya Talma (Mrs. Bond), Eric Tovar (Perez), Judith DeHart (Margaret), Martin Garralaga (Mexican priest)
22. Diagnosis: Danger
Community Score
| 5.8 Mediocre |
Health-department officials try to stop an anthrax outbreak.
Director: Sydney Pollack
Guest star: Marc Cavell (Alf), Rupert Crosse (Dr. Mackey), Stefan Gierasch (Sgt. Boyle), Clarke Gordon (Dr. Miller), Berkeley Harris (Deputy Sheriff Judd), Douglas Henderson (Huntziger), Allen Joseph (Dr. Abrams), Celia Lovsky (Mrs. Jatouba), Irene Martin (Mrs. Benson), Charles McGraw (Mr. Oliver), Michael Parks (Dr. Dan Dana), Al Ruscio (Dr. Taylor), Audrey Swanson (Office nurse), Dee J. Thompson (Miss Nelson), Gus Trikonis (Gordie), Howard Wendell (General petitioner), Helen Westcott (Mrs. Fletcher), Marc Rambeau (Doug)
23. The Lonely Hours
Community Score
| 6.9 Fair |
A renter shows an odd attention in her landlord's kid.
Director: Jack Smight
Guest star: Nancy Kelly (Vera Brandon), Juanita Moore (Mrs. McFarland), Gena Rowlands (Louise Henderson), Joyce Van Patten (Grace Thorpe), Jackie Russell (Sandra), Jennifer Gillespie (Celia), Jesslyn Fax (Miss McGuiness), Annette Ferra (Harriet), Sally Smith (Marjorie), Willa Pearl Curtis (Hassie)
24. The Star Juror
Community Score
| 8.2 Great |
Killer George Davies faces a sarcastic difficulty: he's a part of the jury that is trying a different man for the crime he committed.
Director: Herschel Daugherty
Guest star: Dean Jagger (George Davies), Betty Field (Jenny Davies), Will Hutchins (J.J. Fenton), Crahan Denton (Sheriff Watson), Katherine Squire (Mrs. Fenton), Cathie Merchant (Lola), Harry Harvey, Sr. (Dr. Vince), Josie Lloyd (Pauline Davies), Jennifer West (Alice Morse), William Challee (Jess), John McLiam (Judge Higgins), Don Hanmer (Leo Lloyd), Sammy Reese (Martin Hendrix), Mark Murray (Jack), Burt Mustin (Jury Foreman), Lew Brown (I) (Prosecuting Attorney), Martine Bartlett (Flossie), Kathryn Card (Elsie Grissom), Dennis Guernsey (Bob), Ray Hemphill (Pete)
25. The Long Silence
Community Score
| 6.5 Fair |
Cory Manson is paralyzed, voiceless and scared that her spouse is scheduling her murder.
Director: Robert Douglas
Guest star: Michael Rennie (Ralph Manson), Phyllis Thaxter (Nora Cory Manson), Natalie Trundy (Jean Dekker), Jim McMullan (George Cory), Connie Gilchrist (Emma), Vaughan Taylor (Dr. Babcock), Claude Stroud (Edgar Ogden), Rees Vaughan (Robbie Cory)
26. An Out for Oscar
Community Score
| 8.8 Great |
Weighed down by an adulterous partner and her money-mad lover, a shy bank teller schemes to free himself via the "perfect crime."
Director: Bernard Girard
Guest star: Rayford Barnes (Ronald), Linda Christian (Eva Ashley), Myron Healey (Peter Rogan), John Marley (Mike), Alan Napier (Mr. Hodges), George Petrie (Rogers), Henry Silva (Bill Grant), Larry Storch (Oscar Blenny), David White (Detective Burr)
27. Death and the Joyful Woman
Community Score
| 4.9 Poor |
During a drinking bout with his disinherited child, a chap wins a gamble but loses his life.
Director: John Brahm
Guest star: Don Galloway (Al Aguilar), Laraine Day (Ruth), Gilbert Roland (Luis Aguilar), Tom Lowell (Dominic Felse), Laura Devon (Kitty Norris), Frank Overton (George Felse), Maggie Pierce (Jean Aguilar)
28. Last Seen Wearing Blue Jeans
Community Score
| 5.5 Mediocre |
Subsequent to witnessing a kill, a juvenile schoolgirl becomes the goal of the killers.
Director: Alan Crosland Jr.
Guest star: Michael Wilding (David Saunders), Anna Lee (Roberta Saunders), Katherine Crawford (Loren Saunders), Randy Boone (Pete Tanner), James Anderson (I) (Vince Cates), Jesse Jacobs (Grosse), Eve McVeagh (Rose Cates), Russ Conway (Henderson), Kreg Martin (Al), Jose De Vega (Gato), Frank Albertson (Tom Batterman), Carlos Romero (I) (Alfau), Tito De Mario (The 1st Youth), Ricky Vera (The 2nd Youth), Paul Fierro (The Priest), Rose Montiel (Maria), Karl Lukas (Mel Tanner)
29. The Dark Pool
Community Score
| 7.8 Good |
A woman's nightmares start the day her kid drowns and an unfamiliar person tries to blackmail her.
Director: Jack Smight
Guest star: Anthony George (Victor), Madlyn Rhue (Consuela Sandine), Lois Nettleton (Dianne Castillejo), Doris Lloyd (Mrs. Gibbs), David White (Lance Hawthorn), John Zaremba (Coroner), Eugene Iglesias (Pedro Sanchez), Walter Woolf King (Senator Hayes), Eva Novak (Mrs. Hayes), Isobel Elsom (Sister Marie Therese), Bess Flowers (Mrs. Pradanos), Paul Bradley (I) (Mr. Pradanos)
30. Dear Uncle George
Community Score
| 8.6 Great |
An advice journalist has a crisis of his own: his partner is adulterous.
Director: Joseph M. Newman
Guest star: Gene Barry (John Chambers), Dabney Coleman (Tom Esterow), Brendon T. Dillon (Sam), Patricia Donahue (Louise Chambers), Charity Grace (Mrs. Weatherby), Lou Jacobi (Lt. Wolfson), Jimmy Joyce (Fingerprint man), John Larkin (Simon Aldritch), Alicia Li (Bea), Robert Sampson (Sgt. Duncan)
31. Run for Doom
Community Score
| 7.6 Good |
A doctor plans to wed a good-looking soloist in spite of warnings that her three ex-husbands all experienced brutal deaths.
Director: Bernard Girard
Guest star: Gail Bonney (Sarah) , Scott Brady (Bill Floyd), Lew Brown (II) (David Carson), Barry Cahill (CPO), Robert Carson (Mulloy), Diana Dors (Niki Carroll), John Gavin (Dr. Don Reed), Carl Benton Reid (Horace Reed), Jackie Russell (Waitress), Jon Shepodd (Curtis), Tom Skerritt (Dr. Frank Farmer), Audrey Swanson (Nurse), Cathie Taylor (Singer)
32. Death of a Cop
Community Score
| 7.9 Good |
A police officer concocts a grim preparation to punish the killer of his son, a recruit cop.
Director: Joseph M. Newman
Guest star: Victor Jory (Reardon), Peter Brown (Philip Reardon), Lawrence Tierney (Herbie Lane), Paul Hartman (Trenker), John Marley (Singer), Richard Jaeckel (Boxer), Wilton Graff (George Chaney), Read Morgan (Freddie), Jean Willes (Eva), Paul Genge (Lt. Tom Mills)
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