About this season
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
Episodes (39)
1. Wet Saturday
7.0Aired 30 September 1956 • 27 min
After his daughter kills a man, Mr. Princey devises a plan to save his family name.
2. Fog Closing In
7.7Aired 7 October 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.
3. De Mortuis
8.0Aired 14 October 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.
4. Kill with Kindness
9.0Aired 21 October 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.
5. None Are So Blind
7.5Aired 28 October 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.
6. Toby
6.0Aired 4 November 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.
7. Alibi Me
7.0Aired 11 November 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.
8. Conversation Over a Corpse
Aired 18 November 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.
9. Crack of Doom
Aired 25 November 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.
10. Jonathan
Aired 2 December 1956 • 26 min
When his father dies a teenager suspects his stepmother, whom he's resented since the day she married his father.
11. The Better Bargain
Aired 9 December 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.
12. The Rose Garden
Aired 16 December 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.
13. Mr. Blanchard's Secret
Aired 23 December 1956 • 26 min
A nosy housewife sets out to prove that the new neighbor has murdered his wife.
14. John Brown's Body
4.5Aired 30 December 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.
15. Crackpot
8.0Aired 6 January 1957 • 26 min
When a car breaks down, a newlywed couple is helped by Mr. Moon, who turns nasty when his suits get dirty.
16. Nightmare in 4-D
7.0Aired 13 January 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.
17. My Brother Richard
7.5Aired 20 January 1957 • 26 min
A district attorney faces a crisis in his campaign for governor when his mentally unstable brother decides to eliminate the competition.
18. The Manacled
8.3Aired 27 January 1957 • 26 min
A crafty, resourceful criminal being transported via train tries to bribe his escorting police sergeant for his freedom.
19. A Bottle of Wine
8.3Aired 3 February 1957 • 26 min
A wealthy older man confronts the young, handsome suitor (Horton) that his wife is leaving him for.
20. Malice Domestic
4.6Aired 10 February 1957 • 26 min
A man begins to suspect that his wife is trying to poison him.
21. Number Twenty-Two
8.5Aired 17 February 1957 • 26 min
A young ruffian involved in a failed stickup learns some hard facts of life during a police interrogation.
22. The End of Indian Summer
7.5Aired 24 February 1957 • 26 min
An insurance investigator is compelled to re-examine an old claim when troubling new facts come to light.
23. One for the Road
Aired 3 March 1957 • 26 min
When the wife of a two-timing husband starts to connect the dots, the consequences could prove deadly.
24. The Cream of the Jest
Aired 10 March 1957 • 26 min
An alcoholic has-been actor tries to blackmail a producer into casting him in a new play.
25. I Killed the Count (1)
7.0Aired 17 March 1957 • 26 min
Count Mattoni is brutally murdered and Scotland Yard Inspector Davidson must wade the through a myraid of suspects.
26. I Killed the Count (2)
7.0Aired 24 March 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.
27. I Killed the Count (3)
7.0Aired 31 March 1957 • 26 min
Scotland Yard Inspector Davidson discovers who killed Count Mattoni. Due to a legal loophole, however, the killer cannot be tried.
28. One More Mile to Go
8.0Aired 7 April 1957 • 26 min
After murdering his shrewish spouse, a man finds that disposing of her body may be the challenge of his life.
29. Vicious Circle
Aired 14 April 1957 • 26 min
A hired killer discovers there's a huge catch to being the favorite of his organization's big boss.
30. The Three Dreams of Mr. Findlater
8.5Aired 21 April 1957 • 26 min
A henpecked husband escapes into a fantasy world populated by a girl from the South Seas and a dream of murder.
31. The Night the World Ended
7.7Aired 28 April 1957 • 26 min
A practical joker convinces a barfly into thinking that the world is about to end.
32. The Hands of Mr. Ottermole
8.0Aired 5 May 1957 • 26 min
In 1919 London, a killer is stalking the streets, and residents look to a police sergeant to catch the culprit.
33. A Man Greatly Beloved
8.0Aired 12 May 1957 • 26 min
A precocious, pigtailed girl attaches herself to a grumpy loner in the hopes of learning his secrets.
34. Martha Mason, Movie Star
5.0Aired 19 May 1957 • 26 min
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.
35. The West Warlock Time Capsule
7.0Aired 26 May 1957 • 26 min
Taxidermist George Tiffany conceives a macabre method of dealing with a brother-in-law who has long outstayed his welcome.
36. Father and Son
7.0Aired 2 June 1957 • 26 min
The shifty son of a shop owner plots to extract money from his long-suffering father.
37. The Indestructible Mr. Weems
7.5Aired 9 June 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.
38. A Little Sleep
4.8Aired 16 June 1957 • 26 min
A fickle young woman gets entangled in a web of crime and deceit at her remote mountain cabin.
39. The Dangerous People
7.7Aired 23 June 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.