Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Season 4

Aired 5 October 1958 • 27 min

Two partners discover their real feelings for one another when one is bitten by a poisonous snake and it's up to the other to save his life.

Aired 12 October 1958 • 26 min

Silence may be golden, but it also proves lethal when a young boy witnesses an escaped mental patient and can't tell anyone about it.

Aired 19 October 1958 • 26 min

A morgue attendant gets the last laugh when he finally has enough of a man who has been provoking him.

Aired 26 October 1958 • 27 min

A joyride in a new convertible is seriously called to a halt as the corrupt public officials in a small town attempt to take advantage of the defenseless drivers.

Aired 2 November 1958 • 27 min

A lawyer gets creative when the man he is defending offers him half of his net worth if he will find a way out of the case.

Aired 9 November 1958 • 26 min

A man's marriage seriously malfunctions when he buys a robot to take over his relationship with his demanding wife so he can escape to Rio.

Aired 16 November 1958 • 27 min

A man relates the series of events that led him to contemplate suicide to a police officer.

Aired 23 November 1958 • 26 min

A gunsmith sets his sight on two gangsters who will kill him if he testifies to what they've purchased in court.

Aired 7 December 1958 • 25 min

When a hypnotist puts a young woman into a trance during a seance, things go wildly out of control and she stabs her husband. But is she really to blame for her actions?

Aired 14 December 1958 • 26 min

It's hard to tell who's the bigger cheater when a wife and her husband's jealous mistress sit down for some lethal negotiating.

Aired 21 December 1958 • 26 min

When two old men need a miracle in order to keep their home, the answer arrives in the unlikely form of a killer on the run from the law.

Aired 28 December 1958 • 27 min

Two women plot to do away with an irascible old man and seize his money, but their plan is foiled when one of them decides she deserves more of the fortune.

Aired 4 January 1959 • 26 min

A funeral parlor owner is put in an awkward position when a deceased client comes back to life and demands a much smaller affair than what was planned for his funeral.

Aired 11 January 1959 • 27 min

Motherly love knows no bounds when a woman decides to get revenge on the married man who has been dating her daughter.

Aired 18 January 1959 • 27 min

Two construction engineers are between more than just a rock and a hard place when one of them discovers the other's violent past during an explosive tunnel blast.

Aired 25 January 1959 • 27 min

When a wealthy woman mistakenly accuses her elevator boy of robbing her, his resulting imprisonment will take her to levels of guilt she never expected.

Aired 1 February 1959 • 27 min

A desperate department store owner foolishly agrees to a scheme to have her store burned down so she can collect the insurance, but the fiery transaction doesn't go down as planned.

Aired 8 February 1959 • 27 min

It's murder most foul when a man decides to drown the longtime girlfriend who's been supporting him, but his crime doesn't go unnoticed for very long.

Aired 15 February 1959 • 27 min

A young woman with her eye on marriage wonders why she still hasn't met her boyfriend's mother.

Aired 22 February 1959 • 27 min

During his last week of work before retirement, the longtime employee of a jewelry store serves an unusual client.

Aired 1 March 1959 • 27 min

When John learns that he has been made the beneficiary in his cousin's will, he decides he can't wait for nature to take its course and begins plotting murder.

Aired 8 March 1959 • 26 min

A middle-aged couple, recently wed and constantly bickering, learn how married life can be murder.

Aired 15 March 1959 • 27 min

A used car salesman with a spendthrift wife concocts a killer deal with his father and two college boys.

Aired 22 March 1959 • 26 min

Nothing is as it seems when a young Scotland Yard inspector follows a widow suspected of smuggling jewelry.

Aired 29 March 1959 • 27 min

Thelma Tomkins and her deadbeat boyfriend begin poisoning an old and wealthy woman in order to get an inheritance ... but the results are not what they expected.

Aired 5 April 1959 • 27 min

When a miser discovers how expensive a divorce will cost, he comes up with another way to rid himself of his wife.

Aired 12 April 1959 • 27 min

A reporter with a gambling problem will do anything for a lucrative story - including spending the night in the Murderers' Den of a wax museum.

Aired 19 April 1959 • 27 min

Pining for her boss - a former movie star now forced to take supporting roles - a middle-aged secretary shows how she will do anything to make her romantic fantasy a reality.

Aired 3 May 1959 • 25 min

A retired Scotland Yard inspector goes to extreme lengths to prove the guilt of a suspect in an old murder case.

Aired 10 May 1959 • 27 min

When he loses all his money in a poker game, a man tells his pregnant wife an involved lie to explain the missing cash.

Aired 17 May 1959 • 25 min

A prominent lawyer appears able to manipulate any situation successfully - except, perhaps, for his marriage.

Aired 24 May 1959 • 27 min

A newspaper reporter gets a tip about an out of this world story: a man who claims to be a Martian.

Aired 31 May 1959 • 27 min

When a local bank clerk cheats him out of $200, a man takes extreme measures to get back his money.

Aired 7 June 1959 • 27 min

Paul Brett is a top-notch criminal attorney who is consulted by Mrs. Cannon-Hughes. She was a nurse by profession who tended to the bedridden wife of Gilbert Hughes until her death. In the time since then, she married Mr. Hughes only to come to the conclusion that he murdered his first wife. Brett advises her that little that can be done without evidence, but he takes a liking to her and they eventually become lovers and marry when Gilbert takes his own life. Little does he realize the consequences of the choices he has made.

Aired 14 June 1959 • 26 min

A millionaire takes a hunting trip during which he hatches a plan to make his wife's lover his prey.

Aired 21 June 1959 • 27 min

When a woman's blatant indiscretions with her ex-husband continue even after a confrontation with her current spouse, the consequences are dire.