Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Season 3

Aired 6 October 1957 • 26 min

Captivated by his physical beauty, an aging spinster develops an obsession for a ventriloquist, travelling all over the country to watch his act with his child-sized dummy.

Aired 13 October 1957 • 26 min

When an ordinary clerk starts receiving letters which accurately predict the outcome of future events, he takes a dangerous gamble with his life.

Aired 20 October 1957 • 25 min

A lawyer, with blackmail in mind, meets with a famous detective who prides himself on never having committed a single mistake in his long and distinguished career, to prove that he convicted an innocent man.

Aired 27 October 1957 • 27 min

A convicted robber is released to the family of one of his cell mates, against the better judgment of his parole officer.

Aired 3 November 1957 • 26 min

Intending to break up with an infatuated student, professor Donald Mason tracks her down at a babysitting job, where the conversation ends in murder.

Aired 10 November 1957 • 26 min

After finding a cash-laden wallet John Gaminski promises his wife that he'll return it. But when he reneges, she demands that he share the money.

Aired 17 November 1957 • 26 min

An ex-con heads to a mine to retrieve a cache of stolen loot. When his two former partners show up, three's a crowd with $100,000 at stake.

Aired 24 November 1957 • 26 min

A death-row inmate awaiting the electric chair uses his final hours to prove his innocence in a killing.

Aired 1 December 1957 • 27 min

A pretty underage girl, bored with adolescence and eager to experience all that adulthood allows, acts out in ways that could ultimately prove deadly.

Aired 8 December 1957 • 27 min

Touring Mexico, Janet's rich aunt dies, and the car holding her corpse is stolen. Without a body, Janet can't claim the inheritance.

Aired 15 December 1957 • 26 min

A conniving handyman tries to blackmail an innocent housewife for a fabricated dalliance.

Aired 22 December 1957 • 26 min

An elderly woman is terrified that her disagreeable male neighbor will kill her beloved—but habitually roving—tabby cat.

Aired 29 December 1957 • 26 min

Warren, a prosecuting attorney with a long history of acquittals, must deliver a guilty verdict in a murder case to ensure his political future.

Aired 5 January 1958 • 26 min

A successful businessman who once acted cowardly in the war—but got undeserved credit for heroism—attempts to buy off an old Army buddy who knows the truth.

Aired 12 January 1958 • 26 min

When a businessman's mistress threatens to expose their secret relationship to his wife, he realizes he must do anything to stop her.

Aired 19 January 1958 • 26 min

Her elderly father becomes alarmed when a jilted woman purchases a handgun.

Aired 26 January 1958 • 26 min

Two crime-obsessed buddies plot the perfect murder—one with absolutely no motive.

Aired 2 February 1958 • 26 min

Traveling in Paris, an Englishwoman finds herself accidentally locked in a hotel room with a corpse.

Aired 9 February 1958 • 27 min

Filled with jealous rage, a man plots revenge on a coworker he is convinced has had an affair with his wife.

Aired 16 February 1958 • 27 min

A gambling-addicted housewife owes money to a bookie, and resorts to desperate measures in order to raise the money.

Aired 23 February 1958 • 26 min

In this violent home-invasion tale, a gun-wielding convict terrorizes a married couple whose relationship is already on the ropes.

Aired 2 March 1958 • 26 min

Things are not what they seem when two soldiers discharged from the Algerian war spend some time together in Marseilles.

Aired 9 March 1958 • 27 min

After the death of her troubled son, a mother decides to sell her house, but a potential buyer discovers she may be hiding something.

Aired 16 March 1958 • 26 min

A woman alone in a quiet house finds herself haunted by the noise of a foghorn. As the story progresses, she tries to recall how the sound became so horrifying to her, but the answer may be deeper than she thinks.

Aired 23 March 1958 • 25 min

The plight of an American war correspondent suddenly becomes front-page news when a former British Army nurse recalls a strange incident from the past.

Aired 30 March 1958 • 27 min

A handsome homicide detective is befriended by four old ladies who invite him for tea and proceed to play out a variation of Arsenic and Old Lace for his benefit.

Aired 6 April 1958 • 27 min

A debonair tennis player looks into his attractive partner's past and her presumed dead husband.

Aired 13 April 1958 • 27 min

Domestic bliss comes to a rapid halt when a housewife discovers that her police chief husband has been having an affair while she's been pregnant.

Aired 20 April 1958 • 27 min

It's all in the numbers when a bookkeeper becomes obsessed with his mundane life and crime statistics.

Aired 27 April 1958 • 27 min

Love is in the eye of the beholder when a happily married woman sees a bomb attached to the family car as a sign of her husband's affection.

Aired 4 May 1958 • 27 min

'Tis the season to resurrect old family grudges when a brother accuses his sister of murdering his wife on a less than jolly Christmas Eve.

Aired 11 May 1958 • 27 min

When three beautiful blonde women are strangled with a silk stocking, Mr. Morgan becomes convinced he knows how it happened, even though no one will hear him out.

Aired 18 May 1958 • 27 min

When a newly married couple realizes that a lottery ticket is in her recently deceased ex-husband's burial suit, they put their love on the line to exhume the winnings.

Aired 25 May 1958 • 27 min

A man learns never to separate a woman from her accessories when his "perfect" murder plot is spoiled by a missing piece of luggage.

Aired 1 June 1958 • 27 min

A desperate man takes the ultimate plunge when he gambles a fortune without his wife's knowledge.

Aired 8 June 1958 • 26 min

A senior bank teller is tempted by the prospect of sudden wealth when a known gangster makes a large withdrawal from his account.

Aired 15 June 1958 • 27 min

A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing when a woman discovers she has extraordinary powers to see the past of objects.

Aired 22 June 1958 • 26 min

Still waters run deep when a lawyer with mayoral ambitions murders a woman who claimed he tried to embezzle money from her in the past.

Aired 29 June 1958 • 26 min

An elderly actor invites a playwright and his wife to dinner to tell a touching story of a long-lost love.