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Alfred Hitchcock Presents : Season 4
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Air date: 05 Oct '58 - 36 episodesAlfred Hitchcock Presents is an American television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock. The series featured dramas, thrillers, and mysteries. By the time the show premiered on October 2, 1955, Hitchcock had been directing films for over three decades. Time magazine named Alfred Hitchcock Presents one of "The 100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME". A series of literary anthologies with the running title Alfred Hitchcock Presents were issued to capitalize on the success of the television series. One volume, devoted to stories that censors wouldn't allow to be adapted for the TV series, was entitled Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV—though eventually several of the stories collected were adapted.
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List of Episodes (36)
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)
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26. Cheap Is Cheap
05 Apr '59Alexander Gifford is a misery who wants be rid of his wife. He thinks about divorcing her, but realizes that it will be expensive. He then considers hitmen to kill her, but the cost of hitmen is quite high. He then kills her himself. Later, he is shocked by a funeral bill of a hundred and fifty dollars. He decides to sell his wife's body to science and picks up seventy-five dollars.
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)
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27. The Waxwork
12 Apr '59Mr. Marriner is an owner of a wax museum. He lets a reporter named Raymond Houston stay the night at his waxworks in order to right a story. At night, the reporter sees the wax figure of a murdering barber named Bourdette. The statue comes to life and tells the reporter to get ready for a shave. In the morning, the reporter's body is discovered. He sits in a barber chair as if ready for a shave. His body is unmarked. Marriner concludes that he must had died of fear brought on my an overactive im
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)
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28. The Impossible Dream
19 Apr '59Oliver Matthews is a has been actor who is worshipped by his adoring secretary. To get away from his secretary, he tells her he is going to Mexico. Instead he meets with Grace Dolan, a woman who has been blackmailing him. Since he can no longer afford the payments, he kills her. He goes home to find his secretary. She knows about the murder, but will not go to the police if he marries her.
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)
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29. Banquo's Chair
03 May '59A wealthy woman named Miss Ferguson is murdered and Scotland Yard detective is determined to force the lead suspect John Bedford to confess. He stages an elaborate hoax including an actress named May Thorpe to play the ghost of Miss Ferguson. The hoax goes off as plan, the ghost appears, and Bedford confesses. Later, May Thorpe arrives and apologizes for being late. She also asks if she is too late to give her performance.
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)
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30. A Night With the Boys
10 May '59After losing eighty dollars in a poker game, Irv worries about explaining his losses to his wife. He fakes being mugged and reports it to the police. The next day the police tell him that his mugger has been caught. Unwilling to condemn an innocent man, he agrees not to press charges if his money is returned to him. The mugger gives him eighty dollars. Later Irv visits his poker pals. He discovers that one of them was mugged the night before and was robbed of the eighty dollars he won from Irv.
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)
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31. Your Witness
17 May '59Arnold Shawn is a lawyer who is defending a man invovled in a hit-and-run accident. Arnold's wife Naomi worries about her marriage. She knows that Arnold is seeing another woman. During the trial, Shawn discredits a witness to the accident named Babcock. Without his glasses, he is blind. Later Naomi kills her husband in a hit-and-run. The discredited Babcock is the only witness.
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)
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32. The Human Interest Story
24 May '59Bill Everett interviews a man named Howard Wilcox who claims to be a Martain. Howard claims he has escaped Mars and has assumed the identity of an earthman. Everett later goes to his editor, he tells him that he has killed Everett. Everett was really a Martian and his existence was a danger to the other Martians who are planning to invade the Earth.
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)
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33. The Dusty Drawer
31 May '59Norman Logan was once cheated by a man named william William Tritt. He uses a secret door in a table to extract his revenge.
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)
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34. Curtains for Me
07 Jun '59Maureen Hughes suspects that her husband is a murderer. She asks a lawyer Paul Brett what to do and is told that she cannot testify against her husband. Maureen's husband commits suicide and Maureen marries Paul. Later in her sleep Maureen confesses to murder. Brett aware of the law dictates the story into a tape recorder. Maureen finds out that he knows and kills him with poison. She also burns the tape.
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)
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35. Touch????
14 Jun '59Bill Fleming's wife cheats on him constantly. A friend named Sandy tells him about a law that prevents a man from being prosecuted for murder if one engages in an honorable duel. Bill challenge's his wife's current boyfriend and kills him. He is not prosecuted for murder but he must deliver a substantial amount of money to the man's next of kin: Sandy.
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)
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36. Invitation to an Accident
21 Jun '59Albert Magnum is a well known ladies man. He advise a woman named Virginia to stay away from her ex-husband Joseph because he is a jealous man. After Virginia is almost killed, Albert suspects Joseph. To find out the truth, Albert takes Joseph fishing and asks him subtle questions about how to murder's one wife. Albert shifts the conversation to one about how to murder the lover of one's wife. Albert suggests coffee laced with arsenic. He offers Albert some coffee. He drinks it and dies. Joseph
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