List of Alfred Hitchcock Presents episodes

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The following is a list of episodes from the 1955–1962 television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents and the 1962–1965 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.

Series overview

Season		Title	Episodes		Originally aired			Rank	Rating
					First aired	Last aired	Network
	1	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	39		October 2, 1955 (1955-10-02)	June 24, 1956 (1956-06-24)	CBS	N/A	N/A
	2		39		September 30, 1956 (1956-09-30)	June 23, 1957 (1957-06-23)		6	33.9
	3		39		October 6, 1957 (1957-10-06)	June 29, 1958 (1958-06-29)		12	30.3 (Tied with Cheyenne)
	4		36		October 5, 1958 (1958-10-05)	June 21, 1959 (1959-06-21)		24	26.8
	5		38		September 27, 1959 (1959-09-27)	September 25, 1960 (1960-09-25)		25	24.1
	6		38		September 27, 1960 (1960-09-27)	July 4, 1961 (1961-07-04)	NBC	N/A	N/A
	7		39[a]		October 10, 1961 (1961-10-10)	June 26, 1962 (1962-06-26)		N/A	N/A
	8	The Alfred Hitchcock Hour	32		September 20, 1962 (1962-09-20)	May 24, 1963 (1963-05-24)	CBS	N/A	N/A
	9		32		September 27, 1963 (1963-09-27)	July 3, 1964 (1964-07-03)		N/A	N/A
	10		29		October 5, 1964 (1964-10-05)	May 10, 1965 (1965-05-10)	NBC	N/A	N/A

1. The 39th episode was never broadcast.

Episodes

Season 1 (1955–56)

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Stars	Original air date
1	1	"Revenge"	Alfred Hitchcock	Story by : Samuel Blas Teleplay by : Francis Cockrell	Ralph Meeker, Vera Miles	October 2, 1955 (1955-10-02)
While Carl (Meeker) is at work, his wife Elsa (Miles) is apparently attacked and left traumatized. Later, driving in town, Elsa points out a man as her attacker, so an enraged Carl kills him in his hotel room. But moments later, Elsa, still mentally disturbed, identifies another man as her attacker. Supporting cast: Frances Bavier, Ray Montgomery, John Gallaudet, Ray Teal
2	2	"Premonition"	Robert Stevens	Harold Swanton	John Forsythe, Warren Stevens, Cloris Leachman	October 9, 1955 (1955-10-09)
Kim (Forsythe) returns home to the U.S. from four years in Paris, hoping to reunite with his estranged father. He learns that his father died four years ago, a fact that his brother and sister-in-law did not tell him. Kim suspects foul play, but eventually learns that he is the one who killed his father, and he has been in a mental hospital for four years; his memories of Paris are just a delusion. Supporting cast: George MacReady, Percy Helton, Harry Tyler, Paul Brinegar
3	3	"Triggers in Leash"	Don Medford	Story by : Allen Vaughn Elston Teleplay by : Dick Carr	Ellen Corby, Gene Barry, Darren McGavin	October 16, 1955 (1955-10-16)
Cowboys Red (McGavin) and Dell (Barry) meet in old Maggie (Corby)'s roadhouse and threaten a shoot-out. Maggie does her best to negotiate a peace, eventually convincing them to only shoot each other when the clock strikes. When the clock mysteriously stops, the men take it to be a sign from God and leave peacefully. The light-hearted ending is enhanced by an explanation of why the clock stops. Supporting cast: Casey MacGregor
4	4	"Don't Come Back Alive"	Robert Stevenson	Robert Dennis	Sidney Blackmer	October 23, 1955 (1955-10-23)
Financially strapped couple Frank (Blackmer) and Mildred Partridge (Gregg) scheme to have Mildred "disappear" for seven years and declared legally dead in order to collect Frank's insurance pay-off. Insurance investigator Mr. Kettle (Emhardt) suspects that Frank killed Mildred, and his constant hounding of Frank means that the couple cannot be in contact with each other. The night before the seven years is up, Frank is visited by Mildred, who has moved on with life, and she declares that she wants a divorce and an end to the scheme. In a rage, Frank kills her and buries her in his garden. The next day Kettle apologizes to Frank for his assumption, and offers to help him with his garden. Supporting cast: Virginia Gregg, Robert Emhardt, Irene Tedrow
5	5	"Into Thin Air"	Don Medford	Marian Cockrell	Pat Hitchcock	October 30, 1955 (1955-10-30)
Paris, 1899. British Mrs. Winthrop (Forbes) and her daughter Diana (Hitchcock) are on their way home via France, and check into a Paris hotel. Mrs. Winthrop is suddenly ill, and the hotel doctor (Mylong) sends Diana to his home for medicine. When Diana returns, the front-desk clerk (Marsac) and other hotel employees claim to have no recollection of her, nor is there any record that the Winthrops were ever there. Diana goes to the embassy, where her story is believed only by Basil Farnham (Toone). Diana and Basil demand to see the room, which is very different from Diana's description, but Diana rips off the wallpaper, proving that there is a conspiracy at hand. The cover-up is revealed to have been set in place by the French government, because Mrs. Winthrop, who is now dead, had the bubonic plague. Based on the Legend of the Vanishing Lady. Supporting cast: Geoffrey Toone, Alan Napier, Maurice Marsac, Mary Forbes, Ann Codee, Gerry Gaylor, John Mylong, Albert d'Arno, Peter Camlin, Jack Chefe, Michael Hadlow
6	6	"Salvage"	Justus Addiss	Story by : Fred Freiberger Teleplay by : Fred Freiberger & Dick Carr	Gene Barry, Nancy Gates	November 6, 1955 (1955-11-06)
Lois (Gates) expects ex-con Dan (Barry) to kill her as revenge for her causing his brother's death. Dan is surprised when Lois refuses to put up a fight. He seemingly has a change of heart and offers her a business deal. Lois sets up a boutique, which after months of hard work is launched successfully. Dan also convinces Lois's ex-boyfriend, Tim, to reconcile with her. Lois, now happy and full of life, expresses her gratitude, but Dan reveals that he did all of it so that Lois would not want to die, and that now he can kill her with satisfaction. Supporting cast: Maxine Cooper, Elisha Cook, Jr., Virginia Christine
7	7	"Breakdown"	Alfred Hitchcock	Story by : Louis Pollock Teleplay by : Francis Cockrell & Louis Pollock	Joseph Cotten	November 13, 1955 (1955-11-13)
Movie producer Mr. Callew (Cotten) fires a long-time employee on the phone and scoffs at his crying. Callew later gets into a car accident and is completely paralyzed. He is assumed to be dead and is ignored by everyone, and only gets the mortician's attentions with his tears. Supporting cast: Raymond Bailey, Forrest Stanley, Harry Shannon, Lane Chandler, James Edwards, Marvin Press, Murray Alper, Mike Ragan, Aaron Spelling, Harry Landers
8	8	"Our Cook's a Treasure"	Robert Stevens	Story by : Dorothy L. Sayers Teleplay by : Robert C. Dennis	Everett Sloane, Beulah Bondi	November 20, 1955 (1955-11-20)
With a serial-murderer maid on the loose in the city, Ralph (Sloane) becomes suspicious of his and his wife Ethel (Ward)'s housemaid, Mrs. Sutton (Bondi). When Ralph gets violent cramps at work, he has his home cocoa analyzed, and it turns out to contain arsenic. Ralph initially blames Mrs. Sutton, until he learns that the serial murderer has been caught. However, Mrs. Sutton confesses to him her unhappiness at having had to lie for Ethel, who is having an affair. Ethel, unaware of what Ralph has learned, offers him a cup of cocoa that she made for him. Supporting cast: Janet Ward, Elliott Reid, Gavin Gordon, Doris Singleton, Walter Woolf King, Olan Soulé
9	9	"The Long Shot"	Robert Stevenson	Harold Swanton	Peter Lawford, John Williams	November 27, 1955 (1955-11-27)
Heavily indebted Charlie Raymond (Lawford) answers a newspaper ad placed by Walker Hendricks (Williams), who wants a companion for his road trip to San Francisco. During their journey, Charlie learns that Walker is on his way to claim an inheritance from a family that he has never met. Charlie kills Walker and takes his identity to present himself at the lawyer's office. There he is met by a policeman, who informs him that the real Walker Hendricks was killed much earlier, and the man that he had killed was English Jim, another con man who had also been after the inheritance. Supporting cast: Gertrude Hoffman, Robert Warwick, Frank Gerstle, Charles Cantor, Tim Graham, Virginia Christine
10	10	"The Case of Mr. Pelham"	Alfred Hitchcock	Story by : Anthony Armstrong Teleplay by : Francis Cockrell	Tom Ewell	December 4, 1955 (1955-12-04)
Albert Pelham (Ewell) has a paranoid suspicion that he has a double who is slowly taking over his life, and is better at it. Pelham varies his schedule and buys a one-of-a-kind tie in the hopes of catching his double off-guard. When Pelham returns home, his double is already there, and they are seen together by Pelham's manservant Peterson (Watson). The double points out that Pelham is wearing an unusual tie, and when Peterson accepts that this means Pelham is the impostor, Pelham has a breakdown. Supporting cast: Raymond Bailey, Justice Watson, Kirby Smith, Kay Stewart, John Compton, Jan Arvan, Norman Willis, Tim Graham, Richard Collier, Diane Brewster
11	11	"Guilty Witness"	Robert Stevens	Story by : Morris Hershman Teleplay by : Robert C. Dennis	Judith Evelyn, Kathleen Maguire, Joseph Mantell	December 11, 1955 (1955-12-11)
Stanley (Mantell) and Dorothy (Maguire) Crane live in the apartment below volatile couple Amelia (Evelyn) and Ben (Kemmer) Verber, and often hear them fighting. After a particularly loud fight, Ben mysteriously vanishes, and Dorothy pushes Stanley to find out more. Despite his skepticism, Stanley helps Sgt. Halloran's (Simon) investigation. They eventually discover that Amelia killed and hid Ben's body in the basement, and the reason the fight got so out of hand was because Ben was about to leave Amelia — for Dorothy. Supporting cast: Robert Simon, Ed Kemmer, Grazia Narciso, Laiola Wendorff
12	12	"Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid"	Don Weis	Story by : Margaret Cousins Teleplay by : Marian Cockrell	Barry Fitzgerald	December 18, 1955 (1955-12-18)
Disgruntled ex-con Harold Sears (Fitzgerald) is hired as a department store Santa thanks to his parole officer, Clementine Webster (Gregg). Sears loathes the job but his attention is caught by a cynical poor boy who wants an expensive toy and believes that Santa is unable to give it to him. Sears steals the toy to give it to the boy for Christmas. Sears is caught by the police, but Webster understands Sears' intent and has the charges dropped. Supporting cast: Virginia Gregg, Bobby Clark, Arthur Space, Justice Watson, Norman Willis, Betty Harford, Alan Reynolds, Mimi Gibson, Gary Hunley, Wendy Winkleman, Anthony Blankley, Butch Bernard, Noel Green, Tyler McVey, Harrison Lewis
13	13	"The Cheney Vase"	Robert Stevens	Robert Blees	Patricia Collinge, Darren McGavin	December 25, 1955 (1955-12-25)
Lyle Endicott (McGavin) worms his way into the good graces of Martha Cheney (Collinge), a rich, invalid woman with a penchant for sculpture. Lyle hopes to obtain her Cheney vase, which will fetch a high price on the market. Lyle methodically cuts Martha off from the world in the hopes that she will die. When Lyle's girlfriend warns the authorities about his plan, Lyle rushes to Martha's gallery to take the vase, but discovers that Martha has been working on dozens of copies of the vase, and now he is unable to identify the correct one. Supporting cast: Carolyn Jones, George Macready, Kathryn Card, Ruta Lee
14	14	"A Bullet for Baldwin"	Justus Addiss	Story by : Joseph Ruscoll Teleplay by : Eustace and Francis Cockrell	John Qualen	January 1, 1956 (1956-01-01)
When middle-aged Mr. Stepp (Qualen) is suddenly fired, he shoots his boss Baldwin (Cabot). Stepp is surprised when Baldwin is at work the next day as though nothing happened. Baldwin's partner, King (Reed), convinces Stepp that he hallucinated the shooting, but King has actually hired a look-alike actor named Davidson to take Baldwin's place in order to close an important deal. King and Davidson agree to stage Baldwin's "death" later, and in order to close all possible leaks, King forces Stepp to retire. In retaliation, Stepp shoots and kills King. Supporting cast: Sebastian Cabot, Philip Reed, Ruth Lee, Cheryll Clarke, James Adamson, Don McArt, Kate Drain Lawson, Bob Patten, David Dwight, Arthur Gilmour
15	15	"The Big Switch"	Don Weis	Story by : Cornell Woolrich Teleplay by : Richard Carr	George Mathews, Beverly Michaels	January 8, 1956 (1956-01-08)
Gangster Sam Dunleavy (Mathews) wants to murder his ex-girlfriend, Goldie (Michaels), so he has his friend Barney (Stone) arrange for him the perfect alibi. Barney has it staged as though he and Sam are playing a game of poker in Barney's back room. Sam sneaks out successfully, but is unable to kill Goldie when she claims that she is pregnant. When Sam returns to Barney's backroom, Barney has accidentally shot himself, and Sam is arrested for murder. Supporting cast: George E. Stone, Joseph Downing, James Edwards, Mark Dana, Napoleon Whiting
16	16	"You Got to Have Luck"	Robert Stevens	Story by : S. R. Ross Teleplay by : Eustace & Francis Cockrell	John Cassavetes, Marisa Pavan	January 15, 1956 (1956-01-15)
Sam Cobbett (Cassavetes) has just broken out of prison and enters the house of Mary Schaffner (Pavan) while her husband is away. Cobbett makes Mary cook for him, dismiss her neighbors when they come by, and pretend that everything is okay over the phone when her mother calls. Cobbett believes that he can take his time, but the police suddenly arrive to arrest him. They were tipped off by Mary's mother — Mary is deaf and should not have answered the phone. Supporting cast: Lamont Johnson, Ray Teal, Vivi Janiss, Hal K. Dawson, Bob Patten, Steve Clark, Bill Pullen, Wendy Winkleman
17	17	"The Older Sister"	Robert Stevens	Story by : Lillian de la Torre Teleplay by : Robert C. Dennis	Joan Lorring, Carmen Mathews, Polly Rowles	January 22, 1956 (1956-01-22)
Based on the Lizzie Borden murders, and set one year after Lizzie was acquitted for the murder of her parents. Ambitious reporter Nell Cutts (Rowles) barges into the home of the Borden sisters Lizzie (Mathews) and Emma (Lorring) in the hopes of an exclusive interview. Cutts' aggressive questioning causes Emma distress, but it turns out that Emma killed their parents, and Lizzie was merely trying to protect her. Supporting cast: Pat Hitchcock, Wendy Winkleman, Kay Stewart
18	18	"Shopping for Death"	Robert Stevens	Ray Bradbury	Jo Van Fleet	January 29, 1956 (1956-01-29)
Clarence (Harris) and Elmer (Qualen) are retired insurance agents, and hope to use their years of experience to save people that they believe will die soon. Clarence has his sights of Mrs. Shrike (Fleet), a boorish alcoholic who he believes has a death wish. They try to advise her to change her life and fix her house, but this just causes her to lash out. As the pair leave, they see Mrs. Shrike's husband return home, and she is killed soon afterward. Supporting cast: Robert Harris, John Qualen, Mike Ross, Michael Ansara, Alfred Linder, Charlotte Knight, Lee Erickson, Jack Tesler, Laiola Wendorff, Ralph Montgomery, Bob Morgan
19	19	"The Derelicts"	Robert Stevens	Story by : Terence Maples Teleplay by : Robert C. Dennis	Robert Newton	February 5, 1956 (1956-02-05)
Businessman Ralph Cowell (Reed) kills his silent partner, Alfred Sloane (Delevanti), in order to avoid paying what he owes. The murder is witnessed by vagrant Peter J. Goodfellow (Newton), who picks up Sloane's cigarette case with the IOU inside, and uses it to blackmail Cowell. Goodfellow and his friend Fenton Shanks (Silver) move into Cowell's home, much to the disgust of Cowell's wife, Herta (Knudsen). After months of Goodfellow and Fenton living with them and pawning almost everything in the Cowell home, Cowell is able to find the IOU and burn it. Goodfellow and Fenton leave, but soon afterward a policeman arrives with a pawn ticket signed by Cowell for Sloane's cigarette case, tying Cowell to the Sloane murder. Supporting cast: Philip Reed, Peggy Knudsen, Johnny Silver, Robert Foulk, Cyril Delevanti
20	20	"And So Died Riabouchinska"	Robert Stevenson	Story by : Ray Bradbury Teleplay by : Mel Dinelli	Claude Rains	February 12, 1956 (1956-02-12)
Detective Krovitch (Bronson) investigates the murder of juggler Luke Ockham in a theatre. His suspicions fall on John Fabian (Rains), a ventriloquist with a fixation on his female dummy, Riabouchinska (voice of Gregg). Riabouchinska, seemingly acting independent of Fabian's control, insists on telling Krovitch the truth that Fabian killed Ockham, because Ockham threatened to expose Fabian and Riabouchinska's love affair to the world. Riabouchinska declares she can no longer love Fabian and stops moving, while Fabian is arrested by Krovitch. Supporting cast: Charles Bronson, Claire Carleton, Lowell Gilmore, Charles Cantor, Harry Tyler, Iris Adrian, Bill Haade, Virginia Gregg
21	21	"Safe Conduct"	Justus Addiss	Andrew Solt	Claire Trevor, Jacques Bergerac	February 19, 1956 (1956-02-19)
American journalist Mary Prescott (Trevor) is traveling on a train out of the Iron Curtain when she is befriended by local celebrity Jan Gubak (Bergerac). Mary agrees to carry a luxury watch for Gubak, but during the customs inspection Gubak turns her in to officers for smuggling luxury items. Mary is arrested, but released soon after when the watch is discovered to be fake. Mary learns that Gubak is part of the underground resistance, and the charade was to enable Gubak to smuggle sensitive microfilm out of the country. Gubak gives Mary the microfilm and urges her to write the truth about his country. Supporting cast: Werner Klemperer, Peter Van Eyck, John Banner, Konstantin Shayne, Ralph Manza
22	22	"Place of Shadows"	Robert Stevens	Robert C. Dennis	Everett Sloane	February 26, 1956 (1956-02-26)
Ray Clements (Damon) travels to a monastery to get revenge on a crook who is taking sanctuary there. Father Vincente (Sloane) advises him to choose forgiveness, and Clements is forced to leave. Clements later kills the crook's partner in self-defense and takes sanctuary at the same monastery. He tells Father Vincente that he no longer wants revenge, but the crook has already died. Supporting cast: Sean McClory, Mark Damon, Claude Akins, Joseph Downing, Everett Glass, Harry Tyler, Steve Mitchell
23	23	"Back for Christmas"	Alfred Hitchcock	Story by : John Collier Teleplay by : Francis Cockrell	John Williams	March 4, 1956 (1956-03-04)
Herbert Carpenter (Williams) and his loving but pesky wife Hermione (Elsom) are planning a long holiday in California, all carefully planned by Herbert. On the day of their departure, and after doting good-byes from their friends, Herbert kills his wife, as planned, and buries her body in a hole in their basement that he has started digging under the guise of a wine cellar. He then goes off alone on his road trip to California, and a new job there. Then one day soon after arriving at his new swanky “digs,” Herbert receives the mail … among the letters to his wife from their friends back home, is a bill from a contractor for work that Hermione had secretly arranged for - excavating the wine cellar as a present for Herbert. Supporting cast: Isabel Elsom, A. E. Gould-Porter, Lily Kemble-Cooper, Gavin Muir, Katherine Warren, Gerald Hamer, Irene Tedrow, Ross Ford, Theresa Harris, Mollie Glessing
24	24	"The Perfect Murder"	Robert Stevens	Story by : Stacey Aumonier Teleplay by : Victor Wolfson	Hurd Hatfield, Mildred Natwick	March 11, 1956 (1956-03-11)
Brothers Paul (Hatfield) and Henri (Coolidge) plot to kill their Aunt Rosalie (Natwick) to inherit her fortune. Paul has Henri grind glass into fine powder, and Paul adds it to the egg mixture that is supposed to make a soufflé for Rosalie's dinner. However, that night Rosalie insists on eating something else, and the next morning Paul dies when he eats an omelette made out of the lethal egg mixture. Supporting cast: Philip Coolidge, Gladys Hurlbut, Walter Kingsford, Percy Helton, Hope Summers, Jack Chefe
25	25	"There Was an Old Woman"	Robert Stevenson	Story by : Jerry Hackady & Harold Hackady Teleplay by : Marian Cockrell	Estelle Winwood	March 18, 1956 (1956-03-18)
Couple Frank (Bronson) and Lorna (Crane) Branwell go to the mansion of eccentric Monica Laughton (Winwood) to rob her. The plan goes awry because Laughton is crazy and wholly unresponsive to their threats. The Bramwells become tired and frustrated, because they cannot find any money and there seems to be no food in the house. In desperation, they eat a batch of freshly-made muffins, not knowing that they are filled with rat poison. Laughton's fortune turns out to be inside a handbag that she carries everywhere with her. Supporting cast: Charles Bronson, Norma Crane, Dabbs Greer, Emerson Treacy
26	26	"Whodunit"	Francis Cockrell	Story by : C. B. Gilford Teleplay by : Francis Cockrell & Marian Cockrell	John Williams	March 25, 1956 (1956-03-25)
Dead mystery writer Alexander Penn Arlington (Williams) is distraught when he arrives in Heaven not knowing who killed him. His angel, Wilfred (Napier), returns Alexander to Earth to repeat his last day to investigate. Alexander's assistant, nephew, wife and her lover all have motives. In his study, he tells them all that one of them is planning his death. His wife's lover turns off the light and Alexander is killed in the dark without seeing who did it. Returning to Heaven, Wilfred points out that the killer must have trusted the person who turned off the light, so it must have been Alexander's wife. Supporting cast: Amanda Blake, Jerry Paris, Philip Coolidge, Alan Napier, Bill Slack, Ruta Lee, and Filipino Hollywood actor Rudy Robles.
27	27	"Help Wanted"	James Neilson	Teleplay by : Robert C. Dennis Based upon the Mary Orr and Reginald Denham adaptation of a story by : Stanley Ellin	John Qualen, Lorne Greene	April 1, 1956 (1956-04-01)
Elderly Mr. Crabtree (Qualen) is ordered by his boss, Mr. X (Greene), to kill a man who will enter his office on a certain day. Crabtree decides not do the task, but when a man enters his office at the expected time, Crabtree is so upset at the thought of losing his job that he ends up killing him anyway. Shortly afterward another man, the correct target, arrives at Crabtree's office, but Crabtree has already received his payment for the murder and walks out. Supporting cast: Madge Kennedy, Ruth Swanson, John Harmon, Malcolm Atterbury, Parley Baer, Paul Brinegar
28	28	"Portrait of Jocelyn"	Robert Stevens	Story by : Edgar Marvin Teleplay by : Harold Swanton	Philip Abbott, Nancy Gates, John Baragrey	April 8, 1956 (1956-04-08)
Married couple Mark (Abbott) and Debbie (Gates)'s first anniversary is ruined when a portrait they commissioned is revealed to be of Mark's first wife, Jocelyn, who has been missing for five years. Debbie believes that Mark stills loves Jocelyn and urges him to find the truth. With the help of Mark's ex-brother-in-law Jeff (Bailey), Mark tracks down the painter, Arthur Clymer (Baragrey), who claims to have been married to Jocelyn and killed her in a jealous rage. Mark attacks Clymer, because he described how Mark killed Jocelyn five years ago. Clymer is actually a police officer, and worked together with Jeff to get a confession out of Mark. Supporting cast: Raymond Bailey, Olan Soule, Harry Tyler
29	29	"The Orderly World of Mr. Appleby"	James Neilson	Story by : Stanley Ellin Teleplay by : Victor Wolfson & Robert C. Dennis	Robert H. Harris, Meg Mundy	April 15, 1956 (1956-04-15)
Antiques dealer Laurence Appleby (Harris) kills his wife in order to get her inheritance. Since he still has debts, he woos and marries wealthy heiress Martha Sturgis (Mundy). When Martha refuses to give him money, he tries to kill her, but she is prepared for him. Martha and her lawyer have evidence that Appleby killed his first wife, and if anything happens to Martha, her lawyer will go to the police. Appleby is about to comply with Martha's demands, but she accidentally falls and dies. Supporting cast: Gage Clark, Louise Larabee, Michael Ansara, Helen Spring, Edna Holland, Mollie Glessing
30	30	"Never Again"	Robert Stevens	Story by : Adela Rogers St. Johns Teleplay by : Gwen Bagni, Irwin Gielgud and Stirling Silliphant	Phyllis Thaxter, Louise Allbritton, Warren Stevens	April 22, 1956 (1956-04-22)
Karen (Thaxter), a recovering alcoholic, wakes up hungover and with no memory of the night before. She slowly recalls attending a party with her lover, Jeff (Stevens). Karen started drinking when she was told that her friend Renee (Allbritton) was trying to seduce Jeff. Her last memory is of breaking a glass in her hand, and Jeff trying to help her. Karen then learns that she is in jail for killing a man with a broken glass. Supporting cast: Jack Mullaney, Joan Banks, Mason Curry, Karine Nordman, Marion Gray, Jack Mulhall, Carol Veazie, Jack Ramstead
31	31	"The Gentleman from America"	Robert Stevens	Story by : Michael Arlen Teleplay by : Francis Cockrell	Biff McGuire	April 29, 1956 (1956-04-29)
Sir Stephen Hurstwood (Clanton) offers a bet of $1,000 if Howard Latimer (McGuire) can stay the entire night in a supposedly haunted room of the Hurstwood mansion. Latimer is given a gun, one candle, one match, and a book that describes the mysterious beheading of Julia Hurstwood in the room. That night Latimer sees a ghostly headless figure and collapses in fright. The ghost is a trick set up by Hurstwood for money, but Latimer becomes insane from the experience. Supporting cast: Ralph Clanton, John Irving, Eric Snowdon, Geoffrey Steele, John Alderson, John Dodsworth, Sonia Torgeson, Jan Chaney
32	32	"The Baby Sitter"	Robert Stevens	Story by : Emily Neff Teleplay by : Sarett Rudley	Thelma Ritter	May 6, 1956 (1956-05-06)
Lottie Slocum (Ritter) is the last person to have seen Clara Nash (Mathews) before she was strangled to death. Lottie, who used to be the Nashes' babysitter, believes that Clara had it coming because she treated her husband Mr. Nash (Newton) badly. Lottie has feelings for Mr. Nash, and hopes to please him by keeping his secret from the police — that he was at home the night that Clara died — but he kills her instead. Supporting cast: Mary Wickes, Carol Mathews, Theodore Newton, Reba Tassel, Michael Ansara, Ray Teal
33	33	"The Belfry"	Herschel Daugherty	Story by : Allan Vaughan Elston Teleplay by : Robert C. Dennis	Jack Mullaney, Pat Hitchcock	May 13, 1956 (1956-05-13)
Clint Ringle (Mullaney) wants to marry schoolteacher Ellie Marsh (Hitchcock), but when she refuses him, he kills her fiancé. Clint is hunted by the townsfolk and hides in the belfry of Ellie's school, planning to kill her when he gets the chance. Clint stays in the belfry for a few days and feels smug when everyone assumes that he is long gone. When Ellie's fiancé is buried, a man rings the bell for the funeral, causing Clint to shout in surprise and reveal his whereabouts. Supporting cast: Dabbs Greer, Horst Ehrhardt, Jim Hayward, Ralph Moody, John Compton, Norman Leavitt, David Saber, Rudy Lee, Kathleen Hartnagel
34	34	"The Hidden Thing"	Robert Stevens	Story by : A. J. Russell Teleplay by : James Cavanagh	Biff McGuire, Robert H. Harris	May 20, 1956 (1956-05-20)
Dana Edwards (McGuire)'s fiancée is killed in a hit-and-run, and he is unable to remember any details of the car involved. Dana is approached by John Hurley (Harris), who claims to know how to encourage memory recall. After many sessions, Dana is successfully able to remember the license plate of the car and tells the police. He is then surprised to learn that John Hurley is crazy and not a memory expert at all. Supporting cast: Judith Ames, Theodore Newton, Katherine Warren, Richard Collier
35	35	"The Legacy"	James Neilson	Story by : Gina Kaus Teleplay by : Gina Kaus & Andrew Solt	Leora Dana, Jacques Bergerac	May 27, 1956 (1956-05-27)
Wealthy but plain-looking housewife Irene Cole (Dana) is pursued by playboy Prince Burhan (Bergerac), but refuses to leave her neglectful husband (Hewitt) for him. When Burhan dies, Irene and her husband assume that he killed himself over his love for Irene. Some time later, Irene's friend Randolph Burnside (Clanton) learns that Burhan's death was an accident, and that he had pursued Irene for her money. Randolph decides to keep this a secret, however, when he learns that Irene, believing a man killed himself over his love for her, has a newfound confidence that has greatly improved her marriage. Supporting cast: Enid Markey, Alan Hewitt, Walter Kingsford, Ralph Clanton, Roxanne Arlen, Rudolph Anders, Joan Dixon
36	36	"Mink"	Robert Stevenson	Irwin Gielgud & Gwen Bagni	Ruth Hussey	June 3, 1956 (1956-06-03)
Mild-mannered Paula Hudson (Hussey) is apprehended by the police for owning a stolen mink coat. Paula attempts to prove that she bought it, but to her distress the people she bought it from deny ever having sold it to her. Paula is eventually approached by the man who stole the coat, and he steals it back in order to end the investigation, but ends up being arrested. Supporting cast: Vinton Hayworth, Vivi Janiss, Sheila Bromley, Anthony Eustrel, Paul Burns, Eugenia Paul, Veda Ann Borg, James McCallion, Mary Jackson
37	37	"Decoy"	Arnold Laven	Story by : Richard George Pedicini Teleplay by : Bernard C. Schoenfeld	Robert Horton, Cara Williams	June 10, 1956 (1956-06-10)
Gil Larkin (Horton) is upset when he learns that the woman he loves, Mona Cameron (Williams), is being abused by her husband Ben (McDearmon). Gil confronts Ben in his office, but someone knocks Gil unconscious and shoots Ben. Gil is briefly apprehended, but after he is released he goes to Mona and realizes that she set him up so she could be with her lover, Ritchie (Lewis). Mona and Ritchie are arrested. Supporting cast: Jack Mullaney, Philip Coolidge, David Orrick, Harry Lewis, Frank Gorshin, Eileen Harley, Mary Jean Yamaji, Edo Mita, Harry Tyler
38	38	"The Creeper"	Herschel Daugherty	Story by : Joseph Ruscoll Teleplay by : James Cavanagh	Constance Ford, Steve Brodie, Harry Townes	June 17, 1956 (1956-06-17)
A murderer has killed two blonde women while they are alone at night. Ellen (Ford) is terrified, but her husband Steve (Brodie) is dismissive of her. While Brodie is at work, Ellen is scared and suspicious of various people that she meets. She is only relieved when the locksmith arrives to fix a lock and chain on her door, but the locksmith turns out to be the murderer. Supporting cast: Reta Shaw, Percy Helton, Alfred Linder
39	39	"Momentum"	Robert Stevens	Story by : Cornell Woolrich Teleplay by : Francis Cockrell	Skip Homeier, Joanne Woodward	June 24, 1956 (1956-06-24)
Richard (Homeier) and his wife Beth (Woodward) are about to be kicked out of their home. Richard steals the money that his boss, Burroughs (Christy), owes him, and in the process accidentally kills him. Richard becomes paranoid, and he overreacts and is shot when a financier comes to collect his debt. While injured and possibly dying, Richard discovers that Beth met Burroughs the night before and got the money that was owed them. Supporting cast: Ken Christy, Henry Hunter, Mike Ragan, Billy Newell, Frank Krieg, Harry Tyler, Jack Tesler, Dorothy Crehan, Don Dillaway, Patricia Knox, John Lehmann, Joseph Gilbert, Myron Cook

Season 2 (1956–57)

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Stars	Original air date
40	1	"Wet Saturday"	Alfred Hitchcock	Story by : John Collier Teleplay by : Marian Cockrell	Sir Cedric Hardwicke, John Williams	September 30, 1956 (1956-09-30)
After his daughter Millie kills a man, Mr. Princey (Hardwicke) devises a plan to save his family name. Working together with his wife, son and daughter, Princey methodically sets up the body and crime scene so that family friend Captain Smollett (Williams) will take the blame for the murder.
41	2	"Fog Closing In"	Herschel Daugherty	Story by : Martin Brooke Teleplay by : James Cavanagh	Phyllis Thaxter, Paul Langton	October 7, 1956 (1956-10-07)
Mary (Thaxter) begs her husband Arthur (Langton) not to go away on a business trip, but he refuses. Mary is alone in the house when Ted Lambert (Grizzard), an escapee from a mental institution, breaks in. The two develop a rapport, and Mary confesses that she is always been afraid except for when she lived with her parents, only her husband no longer wants to live with them. After Ted leaves, Arthur returns home and Mary shoots him. Mary then tells her father on the phone that she can return home now. In 1957, this episode won an Emmy Award for Best Teleplay Writing.[1]
42	3	"De Mortuis"	Robert Stevens	Story by : John Collier Teleplay by : Francis Cockrell	Robert Emhardt, Cara Williams	October 14, 1956 (1956-10-14)
Aware that their friend Rankin's (Emhardt) wife Irene (Williams) is cheating on him, Wally and Bud draw the same conclusion when they find Irene missing and Rankin sealing up a hole in his basement. Wally and Bud confront Rankin, asking which of Irene's lovers he caught her with, but their assumptions were wrong. When Irene returns home, Rankin kills her for real.
43	4	"Kill with Kindness"	Herschel Daugherty	A. J. Russell	Hume Cronyn, Carmen Mathews	October 21, 1956 (1956-10-21)
Hoping to profit from life insurance fraud, siblings Katherine (Matthews) and Fitzhugh (Cronyn) plan to torch their house and have a homeless man, Jorgy, die in Fitzhugh's place. The plan backfires when, once they have lit the fire, they are unable to put Fitzhugh's identifying ring on Jorgy. The siblings have no choice but to save themselves and Jorgy, and watch the house burn.
44	5	"None Are So Blind"	Robert Stevens	Story by : John Collier Teleplay by : James Cavanagh	Hurd Hatfield, Mildred Dunnock	October 28, 1956 (1956-10-28)
Egotistical Seymour Johnston (Hatfield) murders his rich Aunt Muriel (Dunnock) and pins the blame on "Antonio Battani", a fake persona that he has created using make-up and a wig. Seymour's plan fails because his willful blindness of his own faults means that he no longer "sees" his distinctive facial birthmark, which gives his disguise away.
45	6	"Toby"	Robert Stevens	Story by : Joseph Bates Smith Teleplay by : Victor Wolfson	Jessica Tandy, Robert H. Harris	November 4, 1956 (1956-11-04)
Albert Birch (Harris) is excited to be reunited with his sweetheart, Edwina (Tandy) after 20 years. Although the reunion is joyful, Edwina has mood swings and refuses to let anyone see her baby nephew, Toby, whom she has brought with her. Eventually it is revealed that Edwina has escaped from a mental asylum, and that Toby is a cat.
46	7	"Alibi Me"	Jules Bricken	Story by : Therd Jefre and Walter Newman Teleplay by : Bernard C. Schoenfeld	Lee Philips, Chick Chandler	November 11, 1956 (1956-11-11)
Gangster Georgie Minnelli (Philips) kills his known rival, Lucky Moore (Chandler) and sets up an alibi that he was in his apartment the whole day. When the police question Georgie, a delivery boy arrives with a package, revealing that he had tried to deliver the package five times that day because Georgie was not at home.
47	8	"Conversation Over a Corpse"	Jules Bricken	Story by : Norman Daniels Teleplay by : Marian Cockrell and Norman Daniels	Dorothy Stickney, Carmen Mathews	November 18, 1956 (1956-11-18)
Mr. Brenner threatens to take sisters Cissie (Stickney) and Joanna (Matthews) to court unless they sell him their home. The domineering Joanna orders Cissie to poison Brenner, but Cissie allows him to live just long enough so that he can kill Joanna before succumbing to the poison, thus leaving Cissie alone with the house.
48	9	"Crack of Doom"	James Neilson	Story by : Don Marquis Teleplay by : Robert C. Dennis	Robert Horton, Robert Middleton	November 25, 1956 (1956-11-25)
Company man Mason Bridges (Horton) keeps returning to a high-stakes poker game because he is determined to beat his rich client, Sam Klinker (Middleton). When Mason discovers that his wife has lost all their savings, he steals a portion of Klinker's money from the office to keep playing, intending to return it later. During a crucial hand, Mason thinks he has four queens and bets aggressively, to Klinker's surprise. At the last moment Mason realizes that he had read his cards wrong, but Klinker folds and Mason wins the pot.
49	10	"Jonathan"	John Meredyth Lucas	Story by : Fred Levan Teleplay by : Bernard C. Schoenfeld and Stirling Silliphant	Georgann Johnson, Corey Allen	December 2, 1956 (1956-12-02)
Gil (Allen), who had an extremely close relationship with his late father, Jonathan, accuses his stepmother, Rosine (Johnson) of killing him. Gil's investigation uncovers a bottle of poisoned brandy that he had given to Rosine to kill her, except Rosine had guessed that it was poison and gave it to Jonathan, killing him.
50	11	"The Better Bargain"	Herschel Daugherty	Story by : Richard Deming Teleplay by : Bernard C. Schoenfeld	Robert Middleton, Henry Silva	December 9, 1956 (1956-12-09)
Mobster Louis 'King' Koster (Middleton) learns from a private investigator that his wife, Marian, is cheating on him. Koster hires hit man Harry Silver (Silva) to kill her, but Koster is killed instead, because Silver is the man that Marian is having an affair with.
51	12	"The Rose Garden"	Francis Cockrell	Story by : Vincent Fotre Teleplay by : Marian Cockrell	John Williams, Patricia Collinge	December 16, 1956 (1956-12-16)
Publisher Alexander Vinton (Williams) suspects that the novel Julia Pickering (Collinge) has written is based on a true story of how Julia's sister, Cordelia, had killed her husband. Vinton encourages Julia to stand up to her dominating sister, eventually drawing out a confession of the murder.
52	13	"Mr. Blanchard's Secret"	Alfred Hitchcock	Story by : Emily Neff Teleplay by : Sarett Rudley	Mary Scott, Robert Horton, Meg Mundy	December 23, 1956 (1956-12-23)
Mystery writer Babs Fenton (Scott) has an overactive imagination and suspects the worst when their new neighbor Charles Blanchard (Lummis) acts strangely around his wife Ellen (Mundy). However, every time that Babs thinks that she has figured out the truth, she is proven wrong.
53	14	"John Brown's Body"	Robert Stevens	Story by : Thomas Burke Teleplay by : Robert C. Dennis	Hugh Marlowe, Russell Collins, Leora Dana	December 30, 1956 (1956-12-30)
Harold Skinner (Marlowe) and Vera Brown (Dana), who are having an affair, oust Vera's husband, John (Collins), from his company by getting him declared mentally unfit and sent to a home. When the company tanks, Vera and Harold need help, but are unable to get John discharged.
54	15	"Crackpot"	John Meredyth Lucas	Story by : Harold Gast Teleplay by : Martin Berkeley	Biff McGuire, Robert Emhardt, Mary Scott	January 6, 1957 (1957-01-06)
Newlyweds Ray (McGuire) and Meg (Scott)'s honeymoon is slightly marred by the recent death of their aunt. At their hotel they are harassed by Mr. Moon (Emhardt), whom Ray believes is trying to kill them. Ray orders Meg to leave when he hears what sounds like a bomb, but rushes back for his bag that contains the jewels that were stolen from his aunt. Moon is a police officer, and set up the ruse to trap Ray.
55	16	"Nightmare in 4-D"	Justus Addiss	Story by : Stuart Jerome Teleplay by : Robert C. Dennis	Henry Jones, Barbara Baxley, Virginia Gregg	January 13, 1957 (1957-01-13)
Harry Parker (Jones) agrees to help his pretty neighbor, Miss Elliot (Baxley), hide her murdered boyfriend's body. When the police arrive, the investigation uncovers that Harry's wife (Gregg) was having an affair with the dead man, but Harry killed him over envy of Miss Elliot.
56	17	"My Brother, Richard"	Herschel Daugherty	Story by : Jay Bennett Teleplay by : Sarett Rudley	Royal Dano, Inger Stevens, Harry Townes	January 20, 1957 (1957-01-20)
District attorney Martin Ross (Dano) faces a crisis in his campaign for governor when his brother Richard (Townes) kills the competition, Burton Reeves, and threatens to kill Martin's wife, Laura. Martin makes a deal with Tommy, Burton's caddy, to temporarily confess to the murder in order to save Laura's life. Tommy's mother, mistaking Richard for Martin, begs him to release Tommy, and when Richard refuses, she kills him.
57	18	"The Manacled"	Robert Stevens	Story by : A. Sanford Wolfe Teleplay by : Stirling Silliphant	Gary Merrill, William Redfield	January 27, 1957 (1957-01-27)
White-collar criminal Stephen Fontaine (Redfield) is being transported via train and tries to bribe his escorting police sergeant, Rockwell (Merrill) for his freedom with $50,000. When they reach their final stop and Rockwell still has not accepted, Fontaine grabs for Rockwell's gun and kills him. Fontaine then discovers that the bullet damaged the key in Rockwell's pocket, and he cannot unlock the manacles.
58	19	"A Bottle of Wine"	Herschel Daugherty	Story by : Borden Deal Teleplay by : Stirling Silliphant	Herbert Marshall, Robert Horton, Jarma Lewis	February 3, 1957 (1957-02-03)
Wealthy, elderly Judge Connors (Marshall)'s wife, Grace (Lewis), is leaving him for a younger man, Wallace Donaldson (Horton). Connors invites Wallace into his home, pretends to poison him and locks him in a room in an attempt to show Grace what kind of man Wallace is. Wallace shoots the door in order to get out, and accidentally kills Connors.
59	20	"Malice Domestic"	John Meredyth Lucas	Story by : Philip MacDonald Teleplay by : Victor Wolfson	Ralph Meeker, Phyllis Thaxter	February 10, 1957 (1957-02-10)
When Carl Borden (Meeker) gets severe indigestion twice due to the home cooking prepared by his wife Annette (Thaxter), their friend Ralph has the food tested and finds a large dose of arsenic in it. Carl is angered at Ralph for insinuating that Annette tried to poisoned him, but Annette later dies from arsenic-laced coffee. Carl's friends deduce that Annette gave Carl the wrong cup of coffee, and help keep the circumstances of her death quiet. The entire scheme was a ruse by Carl to kill Annette, so that he could be with his lover.
60	21	"Number Twenty-Two"	Robert Stevens	Story by : Evan Hunter Teleplay by : Joel Murcott	Russell Collins, Rip Torn	February 17, 1957 (1957-02-17)
Steve Morgan (Torn), a young ruffian, is picked up by the police for his first offense after a failed stick-up at a candy store. At first he is cocky about being arrested, but he slowly cracks under the interrogation and learns that the man he robbed has died.
61	22	"The End of Indian Summer"	Robert Stevens	Story by : Maurice Baudin Jr. Teleplay by : James Cavanagh	Steve Forrest, Gladys Cooper	February 24, 1957 (1957-02-24)
Insurance investigator Joe Rogers (Forrest) is ordered to re-examine old claims made by Mrs. Gillespie (Cooper), whose previous two husbands died under mysterious circumstances, and is now engaged to a third. Just after Gillespie and her new fiancée, Fieldstone, leave for their wedding, Joe discovers that Fieldstone is also being investigated by an insurance company, because he had made claims following the deaths of his four previous wives.
62	23	"One for the Road"	Robert Stevens	Story by : Emily Neff Teleplay by : Robert C. Dennis	John Baragrey, Georgann Johnson, Louise Platt	March 3, 1957 (1957-03-03)
When Marsha Hendricks (Platt) learns that her husband Charles (Bagarey) is cheating on her, she tracks down the home of the other woman, Beryl (Johnson), and puts poison in her sugar. Beryl discovers that her sugar is poisoned, and gives it to Charles when he refuses to leave Marsha for her.
63	24	"The Cream of the Jest"	Herschel Daugherty	Story by : Fredric Brown Teleplay by : Sarett Rudley	Claude Rains, James Gregory	March 10, 1957 (1957-03-10)
Alcoholic has-been actor Charles Gresham (Rains) tries to blackmail producer Wayne Campbell (Gregory) into casting him in a new play. Campbell gives Gresham the script for a role as a gangster, and advises him to perform it for one of the play's financial backers, Nick Roper. Gresham goes to Roper and performs the monologue, but it turns out to contain details of one of Roper's real crimes, and Roper shoots Gresham. As two of Roper's henchmen take away Gresham's body, Roper learns that Gresham learned about the crime from Wayne Campbell, and it is implied that Roper later killed Campbell.
64	25	"I Killed The Count Part I"	Robert Stevens	Story by : Alec Coppel Teleplay by : Francis Cockrell	John Williams	March 17, 1957 (1957-03-17)
Inspector Davidson (Williams) and his assistant Detective Raines investigate the murder of Count Victor Mattoni in his London flat. They find a great deal of evidence in the flat, and the investigation uncovers Mattoni's links to Lord Sorrington and American businessman Bernard K. Froy. However, both men separately confess to the murder, confusing Davidson.
65	26	"I Killed The Count Part II"	Robert Stevens	Story by : Alec Coppel Teleplay by : Francis Cockrell	John Williams	March 24, 1957 (1957-03-24)
Continuing from the previous episode, Inspector Davidson is alarmed when the flat's elevator operator, Mullet, becomes the third person to confess to the murder of Mattoni. All three men are linked to the crime scene by physical evidence, have seemingly sound reasons for killing Mattoni, and are able to describe the murder convincingly.
66	27	"I Killed The Count Part III"	Robert Stevens	Story by : Alec Coppel Teleplay by : Francis Cockrell	John Williams, Rosemary Harris	March 31, 1957 (1957-03-31)
Concluding the three-episode story, Inspector Davidson arranges so that Sorrington, Froy and Mullet meet each other, and they are joined by Helen (Harris), Mattoni's widow and Sorrington's daughter, who also confesses to the murder. Sorrington, Froy and Mullet are secretly friends and conspired to kill Mattoni together and set up the evidence accordingly; however, Helen killed Mattoni before the others got the chance. Davidson and Raines realize that they will never be able to pinpoint the murderer, so all four will likely end up getting away with it.
67	28	"One More Mile to Go"	Alfred Hitchcock	Story by : F. J. Smith Teleplay by : James Cavanagh	David Wayne	April 7, 1957 (1957-04-07)
After murdering his spouse, Sam Jacoby (Wayne) has trouble disposing of the body. He is stopped by a motorcycle cop because of his faulty tail light, and the cop helpfully detours Jacoby to the nearby police headquarters so that their mechanic can open the trunk and fix it.
68	29	"Vicious Circle"	Paul Henreid	Story by : Evan Hunter Teleplay by : Bernard C. Schoenfeld	Dick York, Kathleen Maguire	April 14, 1957 (1957-04-14)
Young gangster Manny Coe (York) kills a man by order of his boss, Vince Williams. Williams promises to take Manny as his protege if he kills his girlfriend Betty (Maguire); Manny is unable to do it, but Betty dies in an accident and Manny claims it as a hit. Some time later, Manny has become rich and successful, but he botches a robbery and is killed by Williams' next young protege.
69	30	"The Three Dreams of Mr. Findlater"	Jules Bricken	Story by : A. A. Milne Teleplay by : Sarett Rudley	John Williams, Barbara Baxley	April 21, 1957 (1957-04-21)
Ernest Findlater (Williams), who has suffered years of verbal abuse by his wife, fantasizes about her death. He invents Lalage (Baxley), an imaginary exotic lover from the South Seas. Lalage encourages him to murder his wife, and Ernest spends weeks preparing every detail to ensure success without discovery. When Ernest finally returns home to commit the deed, he finds that his wife has died of natural causes.
70	31	"The Night the World Ended"	Justus Addiss	Story by : Fredric Brown Teleplay by : Bernard C. Schoenfeld	Russell Collins, Harold J. Stone	April 28, 1957 (1957-04-28)
Practical joker Halloran (Stone) convinces homeless man and drunk Johnny (Collins) at the bar that the world will end at 11:45 that night. With nothing to lose, Johnny steals liquor, unwittingly frightens a well-meaning spinster who was trying to help him, then breaks into a sporting goods store to give presents to homeless children, and kills the security guard who tries to apprehend him with a gun from the store. When Johnny realizes what Halloran did, he returns to the bar and shoots him at 11:45.
71	32	"The Hands of Mr. Ottermole"	Robert Stevens	Story by : Thomas Burke Teleplay by : Francis Cockrell	Theodore Bikel, Rhys Williams, Torin Thatcher	May 5, 1957 (1957-05-05)
In 1919 London, a serial killer is stalking the streets, killing by strangulation a husband and wife, an elderly flower seller, and a policeman. The city is filled with fear, and the police, led by Sgt. Ottermole (Bikel), are stumped. Journalist Summers (Williams) suspects that the killer has to be someone that people take for granted, and helps trap the true killer: Sgt. Ottermole, who claims that his hands are out of his control.
72	33	"A Man Greatly Beloved"	James Neilson	Story by : A. A. Milne Teleplay by : Sarett Rudley	Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Evelyn Rudie, Hugh Marlowe	May 12, 1957 (1957-05-12)
Precocious little girl Hildegard Fell (Rudie) attaches herself to the grumpy, reclusive newcomer in town, John Anderson (Hardwicke). Hildegard's friend Clarence uncovers John Anderson's identity as a retired judge who had put many criminals away. Thanks to Hildegard's friendship, John opens up to the townspeople and is loved by all due to his kindness and generosity. After Anderson's death, Clarence discovers that "John Anderson" was a fake name, and that the man he knew was one of the murderers that the real John Anderson had sentenced to prison.
73	34	"Martha Mason, Movie Star"	Justus Addiss	Story by : Raymond Mason Teleplay by : Robert C. Dennis	Judith Evelyn, Robert Emhardt	May 19, 1957 (1957-05-19)
Mabel McKay (Evelyn) believes that her husband Henry (Emhardt) is in the way of her dreams of glamour, so she kills and buries him in their garden. She sets up a story that Henry left her for another woman; the police investigation reveals that there was indeed another woman, but she has no idea where Henry is. This prompts the police to check Mabel's house, and they discover Henry's body.
74	35	"The West Warlock Time Capsule"	Justus Addiss	Story by : J. P. Cahn Teleplay by : Marian Cockrell	Henry Jones, Mildred Dunnock	May 26, 1957 (1957-05-26)
Taxidermist George Tiffany (Jones) is distressed when his wife Mildred (Dunnock) invites her good-for-nothing brother Waldren into their home. Waldren pretends to be sick, refuses to work, and has Mildred waiting on him hand and foot. When Mildred succumbs to exhaustion, George kills Waldren and stuffs him inside a horse that is being prepared for the town memorial.
75	36	"Father and Son"	Herschel Daugherty	Story by : Thomas Burke Teleplay by : James Cavanagh	Edmund Gwenn	June 2, 1957 (1957-06-02)
London, 1912. Shop owner Joe Saunders (Gwenn) refuses to give any more money to his spendthrift son, Sam. Sam spies Joe hiding his friend and wanted fugitive, Gus, in the shop cellar; hoping to collect a reward, Sam calls it in to the police. Gus manages to escape after Sam's lady friend, Mae, calls Joe to warn him. Joe is hurt when he learns what Sam did, but Sam still takes the reward money from the police.
76	37	"The Indestructible Mr. Weems"	Justus Addiss	George F. Slavin	Robert Middleton, Joe Mantell, Russell Collins	June 9, 1957 (1957-06-09)
Brothers of a Lodge have trouble getting people to buy plots in their cemetery project, which worries their leader, Brother Cato Stone (Middlestone). Brother Harry (Mantell) suggests they ask former member Clarence Weems (Collins), who is elderly and sick, to be their first customer. Weems accepts, but then gets better, having taken the contract as a challenge to rejuvenate his life. After months of Weems not dying, the brothers decide to confront him over the contract, but in the excitement Brother Cato dies of a heart attack. He becomes the first to be buried in their cemetery instead.
77	38	"A Little Sleep"	Paul Henreid	Story by : Joe Grenzeback Teleplay by : Robert C. Dennis	Barbara Cook, Vic Morrow	June 16, 1957 (1957-06-16)
Barbie Hallem (Cook) uses her beauty to play with men's hearts. One night she goes up into the mountains to visit her cabin, where Benny Mungo (Morrow) is hiding out, seemingly unaware that he is being hunted by townsfolk for the murder of the woman he loves. Although Barbie believes that Benny has been framed by his brother, Benny declares that the woman he murdered was just like Barbie, and he strangles her.
78	39	"The Dangerous People"	Robert Stevens	Story by : Fredric Brown Teleplay by : Francis Cockrell	Albert Salmi, Robert H. Harris	June 23, 1957 (1957-06-23)
Lawyer Bellefontaine (Harris) and accountant Jones (Salmi) are waiting for their train in the station's isolated waiting room. When they learn that an inmate has escaped from a nearby criminal asylum, both men suspect the other of being said inmate. They are about to attack each other when the real inmate enters the waiting room. They work together to subdue the inmate, just long enough that the orderlies arrive to take him into custody.

Season 3 (1957–58)

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Stars	Original air date
79	1	"The Glass Eye"	Robert Stevens	Story by : John Keir Cross Teleplay by : Stirling Silliphant	Jessica Tandy, Tom Conway, William Shatner	October 6, 1957 (1957-10-06)
Jim Whitely (Shatner) tells his cousin a story about how their late extended cousin Julia (Tandy) fell in love with ventriloquist Max Collodi (Conway). Julia was so devoted that she traveled all over the country to watch Collodi's act with his child-sized dummy. After writing many letters, Julia was finally able to meet Collodi in person, but she discovered that "Collodi" was the dummy, and the puppet was the real man, wearing a mask. Julia took with her "Collodi"'s glass eye as a keepsake of her love.
80	2	"Mail Order Prophet"	James Neilson	Story by : Antony Ferry Teleplay by : Robert C. Dennis	E. G. Marshall, Jack Klugman	October 13, 1957 (1957-10-13)
Ordinary clerk Grimes (Marshall) starts receiving letters from a mysterious Christiani that seemingly predict the future. His friend George (Klugman) advises caution, but Grimes starts investing money to great success. For Christiani's last tip, Grimes steals office funds to invest in the stock market, and earns enough to retire comfortably even after returning the office money and paying Christiani's share. Afterward, George investigates Christiani and discovers that he is a con man, and the letters were sent out to thousands of people using different predictions; Grimes just happened to receive a correct series of predictions.
81	3	"The Perfect Crime"	Alfred Hitchcock	Story by : Ben Ray Redman Teleplay by : Stirling Silliphant	Vincent Price, James Gregory	October 20, 1957 (1957-10-20)
Lawyer John Gregory (Gregory) meets with famous detective Charles Courtney (Price) who prides himself on never being wrong. Gregory has evidence that Courtney convicted the wrong man in a recent case and threatens to expose him. Courtney kills Gregory and uses his body to create a ceramic trophy in tribute of what he considers to be "the perfect crime".
82	4	"Heart of Gold"	Robert Stevens	Story by : Henry Slesar Teleplay by : James Cavanagh	Mildred Dunnock, Darryl Hickman, Nehemiah Persoff	October 27, 1957 (1957-10-27)
When convicted robber Jackie Blake (Hickman) is released from prison, he is warmly accepted into the home of Martha Collins (Dunnock), mother of Jackie's former cellmate. Jackie has hopes of making a new honest life, but Martha and her other son, Ralph (Persoff), only took Jackie in because they believe that he has the loot from a previous robbery hidden somewhere. Ralph tries to force Jackie to reveal its whereabouts, and Jackie kills him.
83	5	"Silent Witness"	Paul Henreid	Story by : Jeanne Barry Teleplay by : Robert C. Dennis	Don Taylor, Dolores Hart, Pat Hitchcock	November 3, 1957 (1957-11-03)
Professor Donald Mason (Taylor) kills his student, Claudia (Hart), when she refuses to end their affair. The only witness is Linda, the baby that Claudia was babysitting at the time. Afterward, every time Linda sees Donald she starts crying, which makes Donald fear that she will identify him once she starts talking. Donald ends up confessing to the police, but it turns out that Linda cries whenever she sees any man.
84	6	"Reward to Finder"	James Neilson	Story by : F.J. Smith Teleplay by : Frank Gabrielson	Jo Van Fleet, Oskar Homolka	November 10, 1957 (1957-11-10)
After finding a cash-laden wallet, John Gaminski (Homolka) and his wife Anna (Fleet) constantly fight over Anna's lavish spending of the money. The conflict climaxes when John bludgeons Anna to death before drinking the cup of poisoned coffee that Anna had prepared for him.
85	7	"Enough Rope for Two"	Paul Henreid	Story by : Clark Howard Teleplay by : Joel Murcott	Jean Hagen, Steven Hill, Steve Brodie	November 17, 1957 (1957-11-17)
Ex-con Joe (Hill) and his former partners Madge (Hagen) and Maxie (Brodie) drive to an abandoned mine in the middle of desert in order to collect hidden robbery loot. Once there, the three turn on each other: Joe shoots and kills Maxie, and Madge traps Joe down in the mine once she has obtained the money. This leaves Madge with the loot, but the keys to the car are in the mine with Joe.
86	8	"Last Request"	Paul Henreid	Story by : Helen Fislar Brooks Teleplay by : Joel Murcott	Harry Guardino, Cara Williams, Hugh Marlowe	November 24, 1957 (1957-11-24)
While awaiting his execution, inmate Gerry Daniels (Guardino) types a final letter to the newspaper protesting the incompetence of district attorney Bernard Butler (Marlowe). Gerry confesses that he had murdered three other people, but Butler had never suspected him for those incidents; instead Gerry was prosecuted for a murder that he did not commit. The execution is canceled when Butler gets new evidence exonerating Gerry from the incorrect charge, but Gerry's letter is already read for censorship in the warden's office.
87	9	"The Young One"	Robert Altman	Story by : Phillip Goodman and Sandy Sax Teleplay by : Sarett Rudley	Carol Lynley, Vince Edwards	December 1, 1957 (1957-12-01)
Teenager Jan (Lynley) befriends Tex (Edward), a drifter through town, to frame him for the murder of her guardian, Aunt Mae. However, Jan's boyfriend, Stan, found Aunt Mae's body and knows that Jan committed the murder.
88	10	"The Diplomatic Corpse"	Paul Henreid	Story by : Alec Coppel Teleplay by : Robert C. Dennis	Peter Lorre, George Peppard, Mary Scott	December 8, 1957 (1957-12-08)
Married couple Evan (Peppard) and Janet (Scott) are touring Mexico with their aunt Mrs. Tait, who dies of a heart attack. While Evan and Janet are searching for a doctor, their car is stolen with Mrs. Tait's corpse in it. They hire detective Thomas Salgado (Lorre) to find the car, and later the body. When Evan and Janet finally return home, they find Salgado has given them the wrong body.
89	11	"The Deadly"	Don Taylor	Story by : Lawrence Treat Teleplay by : Robert C. Dennis	Phyllis Thaxter, Lee Phillips, Craig Stevens	December 15, 1957 (1957-12-15)
Plumber Jack Staley (Phillips), who has been blackmailing housewives for fabricated dalliances throughout a suburban neighborhood, sets his sights on new target Margot Brenner (Thaxter). In retaliation, Margot gathers all the wives of the neighborhood to confront Jack together. United, the women blackmail Jack into performing housework for them in the value of the money that he has extorted from them and more.
90	12	"Miss Paisley's Cat"	Justus Addiss	Story by : Roy Vickers Teleplay by : Marian Cockrell	Dorothy Stickney, Orangey	December 22, 1957 (1957-12-22)
Emma Paisley (Stickney) is distressed when her neighbor, Rinditch, kills her pet cat Stanley. Emma blacks out and wakes up four hours later, to find that Rinditch has been murdered. Emma confesses to the police that she did it, but is unable to convince them as she cannot explain how she did it.
91	13	"Night of the Execution"	Justus Addiss	Story by : Henry Slesar Teleplay by : Bernard C. Schoenfeld	Pat Hingle, Georgann Johnson	December 29, 1957 (1957-12-29)
Warren Selvy (Hingle), a prosecuting attorney with a long history of acquittals, delivers a guilty verdict in a crucial murder case. Afterward Warren is confronted by a homeless man, Ed, who claims to be the actual murderer. Warren tries to scare him off, but when that fails, Warren kills him. Warren then learns that Ed has a history of confessing to crimes that he did not commit.
92	14	"The Percentage"	James Neilson	Story by : David Alexander Teleplay by : Bernard C. Schoenfeld	Alex Nicol, Nita Talbot	January 5, 1958 (1958-01-05)
Successful businessman Eddie Slovak (Nicol) has a good life with his wife, Faye, but is haunted by his past. He once acted cowardly in the Korean War, and seeks out his old Army buddy Pete Williams (Keefer), who knows his secret. Pete repeatedly rebuffs Eddie's attempts to pay him, to Eddie's frustration. Eddie begins an affair with Pete's wife, Louise (Talbot), and one night Eddie, triggered by a picture of Pete in his Army uniform, loses his mind and strangles her. Eddie is arrested for murder, and this leaves Pete and Faye, who are lovers, to be together.
93	15	"Together"	Robert Altman	Story by : Alec Coppel Teleplay by : Robert C. Dennis	Joseph Cotten	January 12, 1958 (1958-01-12)
Tony Gould (Cotten) meets with his mistress, Shelley, in her office after hours. When Shelley threatens to expose their relationship to Tony's wife, he kills her, but is unable to leave because the office is locked. The next day the police are called, and they discover the body.
94	16	"Sylvia"	Herschel Daugherty	Story by : Ira Levin Teleplay by : James Cavanagh	Ann Todd, John McIntire	January 19, 1958 (1958-01-19)
John Leeds (McIntire) is concerned when his daughter, Sylvia (Todd) purchases a handgun. Sylvia's unscrupulous ex-husband, Peter, once left her because of money, and has returned to town at Sylvia's request. John fears that Sylvia wants to kill Peter, so he pays Peter off so that he leaves. Sylvia then shoots John for thwarting her attempt to reunite with Peter.
95	17	"The Motive"	Robert Stevens	Rose Simon Kohn	Skip Homeier, William Redfield	January 26, 1958 (1958-01-26)
Crime-obsessed best friends Tommy (Homeier) and Richard (Redfield) discuss Tommy's theory that motiveless murders cannot be solved. In order to prove this theory, Tommy decides to murder a random person that Richard picks out from a phone book. After the murder is done, Tommy discovers that the victim is the man that Tommy's ex-wife had left him for; Richard picked him on purpose for revenge, as Tommy had once stolen the same woman from Richard.
96	18	"Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty"	Robert Stevens	Story by : Stacy Aumonier Teleplay by : Marian Cockrell	Mildred Natwick	February 2, 1958 (1958-02-02)
Traveling in France, elderly Englishwoman Millicent Bracegirdle (Natwick) accidentally locks herself in the wrong hotel room with a corpse. She eventually manages to escape, and learns that the dead man is an accused murderer who had died of a heart attack.
97	19	"The Equalizer"	James Neilson	Story by : C.B. Gilford Teleplay by : Robert C. Dennis	Leif Erickson, Martin Balsam, Norma Crane	February 9, 1958 (1958-02-09)
Wayne Phillips (Erickson) has an affair with Louise Marsh (Crane) to spite her husband Eldon Marsh (Balsam). When Eldon publicly confronts Wayne over this, Eldon loses his wife and his job. With nothing to lose, Eldon challenges the much stronger Wayne to a gun duel. Wayne agrees, but shoots Eldon without warning. When the police investigate, they find that Eldon wasn't carrying a gun.
98	20	"On the Nose"	James Neilson	Story by : Henry Slesar Teleplay by : Irving Elman	Jan Sterling	February 16, 1958 (1958-02-16)
Gambling-addicted housewife Fran Holland (Sterling) rushes to raise $25 to pay a bookie before her husband comes home. Fran uses various tactics that nearly get her in trouble with the police, but just manages to pay off the debt in time. She promises to never gamble again, but soon after succumbs to temptation and places a new bet.
99	21	"Guest for Breakfast"	Paul Henreid	Story by : C.B. Gilford Teleplay by : Robert C. Dennis	Joan Tetzel, Scott McKay, Richard Shepard	February 23, 1958 (1958-02-23)
Eve (Tetzel) and Jordan (McKay) Ross's marriage is on the rocks, and their morning argument is interrupted when gun-wielding Chester Lacey (Shepard) breaks into their home. Lacey is on the run for murder and needs a hostage; Eve and Jordan try to convince Lacey to kill the other. When Lacey is about to kill Eve, Jordan intervenes and Eve helps her husband. After Lacey is arrested, the couple is open to reconciliation.
100	22	"The Return of the Hero"	Herschel Daugherty	Story by : Andrew Solt Teleplay by : Andrew Solt and Stirling Silliphant	Jacques Bergerac, Susan Kohner	March 2, 1958 (1958-03-02)
Sgt. Andre Doniere (Bergerac) is a veteran traveling home with his friend Corp. Marcel Marchand, who saved his life. Doniere makes a phone call to his aristocratic family, asking if they will accommodate his friend, who lost his leg. Doniere's mother, stepfather and fiancée are uninterested in welcoming a cripple, so Doniere decides to never return home, because he is the one who lost his leg.
101	23	"The Right Kind of House"	Don Taylor	Story by : Henry Slesar Teleplay by : Robert C. Dennis	Robert Emhardt, Jeanette Nolan	March 9, 1958 (1958-03-09)
Waterbury (Emhardt) wants to buy the house owned by elderly Sadie Grimes (Nolan), despite her demanding a price five times the house's worth. Grimes tells Waterbury how her son was killed by an unseen figure in that house over stolen loot, and the loot was never found. Grimes put the house on the market to trap the killer, because only they would agree to the exorbitant price for the sake of the loot. Waterbury confirms her suspicion, but he dies because Grimes has poisoned his drink.
102	24	"The Foghorn"	Robert Stevens	Story by : Gertrude Atherton Teleplay by : Frank Gabrielson	Barbara Bel Geddes, Michael Rennie	March 16, 1958 (1958-03-16)
Lucia Clay (Bel Geddes) is haunted by the sound of a foghorn, and cannot recall why. She pieces together memories of her falling in love with Allen Bliss (Rennie), a married man. Allen was killed in a boat trip, when a liner crashed into them in the fog. To Lucia this happened only a few days ago, but in actuality 50 years have passed.
103	25	"Flight to the East"	Arthur Hiller	Story by : Bevil Charles Teleplay by : Joel Murcott	Gary Merrill, Patricia Cutts	March 23, 1958 (1958-03-23)
While traveling on a plane, war correspondent Ted Franklin (Merrill) strikes up a conversation with fellow passenger Barbara Denim (Cutts). Franklin is under arrest, and is traveling with a police inspector on the way home to be tried for a murder. Once he has told her his story, Franklin learns that Denim is a witness who is going to testify against him.
104	26	"Bull in a China Shop"	James Neilson	Story by : C.B. Gilford Teleplay by : Sarett Rudley	Dennis Morgan, Estelle Winwood	March 30, 1958 (1958-03-30)
Homicide detective Dennis O'Finn (Morgan) lives next door to a group of elderly women who are smitten with him. Miss Hildy-Lou (Winwood) murders two of the other ladies solely so that O'Finn will visit them for the murder investigation. O'Finn, horrified to learn of their motive, transfers to the arson department, only for the remaining ladies to set their house on fire.
105	27	"Disappearing Trick"	Arthur Hiller	Story by : Victor Canning Teleplay by : Kathleen Hite	Robert Horton, Betsy von Furstenberg	April 6, 1958 (1958-04-06)
Bookie Walter Richmond (Horton) develops a relationship with Laura Gild (von Furstenberg), the widow of former client Herbert Gild. Walter discovers that Herbert had faked his death to get away from Laura, and blackmails him for money. When Herbert confronts the pair with a gun, Walter is shot non-fatally, and Laura absconds from both men with the money.
106	28	"Lamb to the Slaughter"	Alfred Hitchcock	Roald Dahl	Barbara Bel Geddes	April 13, 1958 (1958-04-13)
Pregnant housewife Mary Maloney (Barbara Bel Geddes) bludgeons her husband (Allan Lane) to death with a frozen leg of lamb when he says that he is going leave her for another woman. Mary sets the scene to look like a struggle and puts the leg of lamb in the oven to cook. When the police arrive to investigate, they are unable to find the murder weapon, and Mary gives them the cooked leg of lamb to eat for supper. In 2009, TV Guide ranked this episode #59 on its list of the 100 Greatest Episodes.[2]
107	29	"Fatal Figures"	Don Taylor	Story by : Rick Edelstein Teleplay by : Robert C. Dennis	John McGiver, Vivian Nathan	April 20, 1958 (1958-04-20)
Statistics-obsessed Harold Goames (McGiver) feels unimportant in the world and starts committing crimes in order to become "significant". After committing auto-theft and robbery, he murders his sister Margaret (Nathan) and confesses to the disbelieving police officer his reasons. For his last statistically-significant act, Harold commits suicide.
108	30	"Death Sentence"	Paul Henreid	Story by : Miriam Allen deFord Teleplay by : Joel Murcott	James Best, Katherine Bard, Steve Brodie	April 27, 1958 (1958-04-27)
Norman Frayne (Best) grew up in an orphanage and feels undeserving of his wife Paula (Bard). Al (Brodie), a man from Norman's past, arrives and blackmails Norman over a crime that they committed 12 years earlier. Norman believes that Al is having an affair with Paula and plans to blow them up with dynamite. When Paula insists that it is untrue, Norman lets himself be blown up so that Paula will be free from Al's threats and Norman's past.
109	31	"The Festive Season"	Arthur Hiller	Story by : Stanley Ellin Teleplay by : James Cavanaugh	Carmen Mathews, Edmon Ryan, Richard Waring	May 4, 1958 (1958-05-04)
On Christmas Eve, attorney John (Ryan) visits the home of his estranged siblings Celia (Mathews) and Charlie (Waring). Charlie wants to kill Celia, whom he believes murdered his wife, but Celia protests her innocence and is determined to care for Charlie regardless of his feelings. John leaves after making them promise not to hurt each other. John has been doing this every Christmas Eve since Charlie's wife's death 20 years ago.
110	32	"Listen, Listen...!"	Don Taylor	Story by : R.E. Kendall Teleplay by : Bernard C. Schoenfeld	Edgar Stehli	May 11, 1958 (1958-05-11)
Herbert Johnson (Stehli) tries to convince the authorities that the final murder of the Stockings Murders was committed by a copycat, but no one takes him seriously. A priest, Father Rafferty, finally listens to Herbert's story about how the victim, Helen Jameson, left her controlling, religious parents for a life of "sin", and her death was a "punishment". Herbert is Helen's father, and his wife is the copycat who killed Helen, but Herbert is unable to accuse his wife openly.
111	33	"Post Mortem"	Arthur Hiller	Story by : Cornell Woolrich Teleplay by : Robert C. Dennis	Steve Forrest, Joanna Moore, James Gregory	May 18, 1958 (1958-05-18)
Judy (Moore) exhumes her first husband Harry's body because a winning sweepstakes ticket was buried with him. Insurance investigator Wescott (Gregory) takes advantage of this to perform an autopsy on Harry, proving that he was poisoned. Judy's second husband, Steve (Forrest) murdered Harry before marrying Judy so that they could live on Harry's insurance money. Wescott helps Judy catch Steve in a failed act of trying to murder her, and Steve is arrested.
112	34	"The Crocodile Case"	Don Taylor	Story by : Roy Vickers Teleplay by : Robert C. Dennis	Denholm Elliott, Hazel Court	May 25, 1958 (1958-05-25)
Jack Lyons (Elliot) and Phyllis Chaundry (Court) are married after Jack kills Phyllis' first husband, but Phyllis is unhappy because Jack lost the crocodile dressing case that her late husband was returning to her on the night of his murder. When the police finally find the case, Jack identifies it based on the initials, but that gives away his guilt, because the initials were only placed on the case just before the murder.
113	35	"Dip in the Pool"	Alfred Hitchcock	Roald Dahl	Keenan Wynn, Fay Wray	June 1, 1958 (1958-06-01)
While traveling on a cruise ship, William Botibol (Wynn) bets heavily in a betting pool on how many miles the ship travels every day. When the ship goes faster than William expected, he decides to jump off the ship to force it to stop. He makes sure that a young woman, Emily, is there to see him jump, assuming that she will call for help. Emily is intellectually disabled, and does not react after he goes over.
114	36	"The Safe Place"	James Neilson	Story by : Jay Wilson Teleplay by : Michael Hogan	Robert H. Harris, Joanne Linville	June 8, 1958 (1958-06-08)
Bank teller George Piper (Harris) murders one of the bank's dubious clients, Victor Mannett, to steal his money, which Piper then hides in plain sight inside his teller drawer. The next day, Piper is dressed down by his boss for keeping the Mannett account, as the murder will ruin the bank's reputation. Piper is fired on the spot and ordered to give up his teller drawer keys immediately.
115	37	"The Canary Sedan"	Robert Stevens	Story by : Ann Bridge Teleplay by : Stirling Silliphant	Jessica Tandy, Murray Matheson	June 15, 1958 (1958-06-15)
Laura Bowlby (Tandy) arrives in Hong Kong to join her husband, James (Matheson), who has been living there for a while. Laura has psychic abilities; when she is inside her second-hand sedan she can hear the disembodied voice of a French woman talking to her lover. Laura, envious of the woman's passionate affair, investigates her story and discovers that she was having an affair with Laura's husband, James.
116	38	"The Impromptu Murder"	Paul Henreid	Story by : Roy Vickers Teleplay by : Francis Cockrell	Hume Cronyn, Robert Douglas	June 22, 1958 (1958-06-22)
England, 1916. Solicitor Henry Daw (Cronyn) kills a client, Miss Wilkinson, and buries her under a slab of stone next to the river. A body is found floating in the river a few days later, but Daw refuses to identify it properly, igniting Inspector Charles Tarrant's (Douglas) suspicions. Placed under pressure, Daw confesses to the murder, but it turns out that the body belongs to someone else.
117	39	"Little White Frock"	Herschel Daugherty	Story by : Stacy Aumonier Teleplay by : Stirling Silliphant	Herbert Marshall, Julie Adams, Tom Helmore	June 29, 1958 (1958-06-29)
Elderly out-of-work actor Colin Bragner (Marshall) invites playwright Adam Longsworth (Helmore) and his wife Carol (Adams) for dinner. He tells them a story about the love of his life, Lila Gordon, who turned him down and died tragically. Adam and Carol are deeply touched by the story, but it turns out to be complete fiction — Colin was showing off his acting skills in the hope of getting work. Adam is impressed and offers him a job on the spot.

Season 4 (1958–59)

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Stars	Original air date
118	1	"Poison"	Alfred Hitchcock	Story by : Roald Dahl Teleplay by : Casey Robinson	Wendell Corey, James Donald	October 5, 1958 (1958-10-05)
Harry Pope (Donald) has been stuck in bed for hours because there is a venomous snake on his stomach. His friend Timber Woods (Corey) calls a doctor, but is flippant about the danger and makes fun of Harry. When the doctor arrives, they help Harry stand up and there is no snake to be seen. Timber mocks Harry for his fear, but as soon as the doctor is gone, he gets bitten by the snake instead.
119	2	"Don't Interrupt"	Robert Stevens	Sidney Carroll	Chill Wills, Cloris Leachman, Biff McGuire, Scatman Crothers	October 12, 1958 (1958-10-12)
The Templetons (McGuire and Leachman) are on a train with their young son, Johnny, who they have trouble controlling. The Templetons offer Johnny one silver dollar if he can be quiet for 10 minutes while elderly cowboy Mr. Kilmer (Wills) tells a story. When the train stops, Johnny sees a man outside the window, caught in the blizzard and begging for help, but Johnny cannot speak up, having promised not to.
120	3	"The Jokester"	Arthur Hiller	Story by : Robert Arthur Teleplay by : Bernard C. Schoenfeld	Albert Salmi, Roscoe Ates, James Coburn	October 19, 1958 (1958-10-19)
Practical joker Bradley (Salmi) pulls a prank on easily-confused morgue attendant Pop Henderson (Ates) by pretending to be a corpse and "coming alive". When Bradley is later brought to the morgue presumed dead (but only actually paralyzed), Pop refuses to believe that Bradley's moaning is real and puts him inside the freezer.
121	4	"The Crooked Road"	Paul Henreid	Story by : Alex Gaby Teleplay by : William Fay	Richard Kiley, Walter Matthau, Patricia Breslin	October 26, 1958 (1958-10-26)
Harry Adams (Kiley) and his wife (Breslin) are traveling on a rural road when they are waylaid by crooked cop Officer Chandler (Matthau), who is running an extortion racket with the local mechanic and judge. The Adamses leave after paying the fees, but it turns out that they are part of the State Commission, and have recorded everything on tape.
122	5	"The $2,000,000 Defense"	Norman Lloyd	Story by : Harold Q. Masur Teleplay by : William Fay	Barry Sullivan, Leslie Nielsen, Herbert Anderson	November 2, 1958 (1958-11-02)
Lloyd Ashley (Nielsen) is accused of killing his wife Eve's lover, and offers his lawyer Mark Robeson (Sullivan) 2 million dollars if he can get him an acquittal. Mark succeeds, but as soon as Ashley is released, he shoots Mark for also having an affair with Eve.
123	6	"Design for Loving"	Robert Stevens	Ray Bradbury	Norman Lloyd, Marian Seldes, Elliott Reid, Barbara Baxley	November 9, 1958 (1958-11-09)
Charles Brailing (Lloyd) is tired of his wife, Lydia (Seldes), so he has a robot double of himself made by Marionettes, Inc. to take his place when he wants to get away. Charles' robot double develops feelings for Lydia and turns on Charles, taking his place permanently.
124	7	"Man with a Problem"	Robert Stevens	Story by : Donald Martin Teleplay by : Joel Murcott	Gary Merrill, Mark Richman, Elizabeth Montgomery	November 16, 1958 (1958-11-16)
Carl (Merill) climbs out a window onto the ledge of a high rise Chicago hotel. He is disconsolate over his wife Karen (Montgomery)'s recent death; she committed suicide when her lover abandoned her. After some banter, the patrolman on duty (Richman), joins Carl on the ledge to rescue him, but this turns out to fulfill Carl's plot: this police officer is Steve, Karen's lover; he had recently spurned her precipitating her suicide. Once Carl is secured by a rope lasso, he tells Steve of the plot and who he really is, then pushes Steve off the ledge.
125	8	"Safety for the Witness"	Norman Lloyd	Story by : John De Meyer Teleplay by : William Fay	Art Carney	November 23, 1958 (1958-11-23)
1927. Mild-mannered gun shop owner Cyril T. Jones (Carney) witnesses a murder by a pair of highly-wanted gangsters. Distrustful of the police's ability to protect him, Jones kills the gangsters with a rifle and turns himself in. The police, fearful that their reputation will be ruined by Jones' accomplishment, refuse to arrest him.
126	9	"Murder Me Twice"	David Swift	Story by : Lawrence Treat Teleplay by : Irving Elman	Phyllis Thaxter, Tom Helmore	December 7, 1958 (1958-12-07)
At a dinner party, hypnotist Miles Farnham (Helmore) demonstrates his skills on Lucy Pryor (Thaxter). She speaks in old-fashioned English, claims to be "Dora Evans", and kills her husband with a pair of scissors. During the inquest, Farnham insists that Lucy was inhabited by the spirit of Dora Evans, a real woman who killed her husband in 1853. Farnham hypnotizes Lucy to prove this, but during the testimony "Dora" stabs Farnham, killing him. Lucy is set free, and when a journalist questions her if she planned it all, she replies, "Wouldst not thee like to know."
127	10	"Tea Time"	Robert Stevens	Story by : Margaret Manners Teleplay by : Kathleen Hite	Margaret Leighton, Marsha Hunt, Murray Matheson	December 14, 1958 (1958-12-14)
Iris Teleton (Leighton) is threatened with blackmail by her husband Oliver's mistress, Blanche Herbert (Hunt), who wants them to divorce. In retaliation, Iris kills Blanche, hoping to frame Oliver for the murder. However, Iris was seen by a private detective hired by Oliver (Matheson), and he is still planning to divorce Iris for another younger mistress.
128	11	"And the Desert Shall Blossom"	Arthur Hiller	Story by : Loren D. Good Teleplay by : Bernard C. Schoenfeld	William Demarest, Roscoe Ates, Ben Johnson	December 21, 1958 (1958-12-21)
Elderly cowboys Tom Akins (Demarest) and Ben White (Ates) are in danger of being taken away from their desert property by the town council. One night, a criminal barges into their cabin and threatens them with a gun, but the cowboys manage to kill him. A month later, when Sheriff Jeff (Johnson) arrives to inspect the property, Akins and White proudly show off a lush rosebush, secretly grown using the criminal's body as fertilizer, thus proving the fertility of their land and allowing them to stay.
129	12	"Mrs. Herman and Mrs. Fenimore"	Arthur Hiller	Story by : Donald Honig Teleplay by : Robert C. Dennis	Mary Astor, Russell Collins, Doro Merande	December 28, 1958 (1958-12-28)
Mrs. Herman (Merande) has a plan to kill her wealthy but paranoid uncle Bill Finley (Collins), but needs a conspirator. She picks former actress Mrs. Fenimore (Astor) who agrees to the plan for a fee. After the murder is done, Mrs. Fenimore reveals that she secretly married Finley before his death, and that she will inherit his fortune instead of Mrs. Herman.
130	13	"Six People, No Music"	Norman Lloyd	Story by : Garson Kanin Teleplay by : Richard Berg	John McGiver, Peggy Cass	January 4, 1959 (1959-01-04)
Undertaker Arthur Motherwell (McGiver) is shocked when recently-deceased businessman Stanton C. Barryvale briefly wakes up in the funeral parlor to demand that his funeral be simple and cheap. After discussing the matter with his wife, Motherwell decides to follow the instructions of Barryvale's lawyer for a lavish funeral instead.
131	14	"The Morning After"	Herschel Daugherty	Story by : Henry Slesar Teleplay by : Rose Simon Kohn	Robert Alda, Jeanette Nolan, Dorothy Provine, Fay Wray	January 11, 1959 (1959-01-11)
Mrs. Trotter (Nolan) is unhappy that her daughter Sharon (Provine) is having an affair with married businessman Ben Nelson (Alda). Mrs. Trotter appeals to Ben's wife, Mrs. Nelson (Wray), revealing the affair to her. That night Ben kills his wife and calls Sharon to set his alibi, but Mrs. Trotter takes the phone call and deliberately gives Sharon the wrong information so that Ben will go to jail.
132	15	"A Personal Matter"	Paul Henreid	Story by : Brett Halliday Teleplay by : Joel Murcott	Wayne Morris, Joe Maross	January 18, 1959 (1959-01-18)
Joe Philips (Maross) is lead engineer on a tunneling project in Mexico, and Bret Johnson (Morris) mysteriously arrives to be his assistant for the project's last six weeks. One night Philips hears a radio newscast about an ongoing manhunt of an engineer who murdered his colleague; this prompts Philips to search through Johnson's things to find his true identity, but he is stopped when Johnson pulls a gun on him. Since there is no way to leave the site for six weeks, the men work together to finish the job, despite their suspicions of each other. The tunnel is completed one day before the deadline, and it is revealed that Philips is the murderer, and Johnson is the police officer who traveled there to arrest him.
133	16	"Out There – Darkness"	Paul Henreid	Story by : William O'Farrell Teleplay by : Bernard C. Schoenfeld	Bette Davis	January 25, 1959 (1959-01-25)
Elderly widow Miss Fox (Davis) mistakenly accuses her dog walker, Eddie, of having robbed her. She learns her error after a year, during which Eddie has been in prison and his lover has died in the hospital. Miss Fox tries to make it up to Eddie when he is released, but he murders her as revenge.
134	17	"Total Loss"	Don Taylor	J.E. Selby	Nancy Olson, Ralph Meeker	February 1, 1959 (1959-02-01)
When Jan Manning (Olson) hits financial problems with her dress shop, her friend Mel Reeves (Meeker) offers to set the shop on fire so that she can collect the insurance. After the shop burns down, Jan confesses to the insurance investigator about the plan with her friend. However, the investigator has found that the fire source was Jan's overheated kettle. Jan realizes that it truly was an accident, but the investigator does not believe her.
135	18	"The Last Dark Step"	Herschel Daugherty	Story by : Margaret Manners Teleplay by : William Fay	Robert Horton, Fay Spain	February 8, 1959 (1959-02-08)
Brad Taylor (Horton) wants to marry his new girlfriend Janice Wright, but his other girlfriend, Leslie Lenox (Spain), refuses to let him go. Brad takes Leslie swimming and drowns her in the ocean, but when he returns home he is arrested for the murder of Janice, whom Leslie has stabbed to death.
136	19	"The Morning of the Bride"	Arthur Hiller	Story by : Neil S. Broadman Teleplay by : Kathleen Hite	Barbara Bel Geddes, Don Dubbins	February 15, 1959 (1959-02-15)
Helen Brewster (Bel Geddes) is frustrated that her boyfriend Philip Pryor (Dubbins) has been stalling their wedding for years on the excuse that his mother is unwell. When they finally get married, Helen learns that Philip's mother has been dead for years, but Philip in his insanity believes that she is still alive.
137	20	"The Diamond Necklace"	Herschel Daugherty	Sarett Rudley	Claude Rains, Betsy von Furstenberg	February 22, 1959 (1959-02-22)
Elderly Andrew Thurgood (Rains) is let go from a jewelry firm after almost 30 years of loyal service. On his last day, a diamond necklace is stolen by a thief (von Furstenberg). Andrew is "distressed" at the breaking of his perfect record, but the thief is secretly Andrew's daughter, Thelma, and they worked together to carry out the theft.
138	21	"Relative Value"	Paul Almond	Story by : Milward Kennedy Teleplay by : Frances Cockrell	Denholm Elliott, Torin Thatcher	March 1, 1959 (1959-03-01)
John Manbridge (Elliot) plots to murder his cousin Felix (Thatcher) in the hopes of inheriting his fortune. Felix, who is secretly terminally ill, commits suicide by poisoned whiskey first, and John unwittingly drinks the poisoned whiskey as well, also killing himself.
139	22	"The Right Price"	Arthur Hiller	Story by : Henry Slesar Teleplay by : Bernard C. Schoenfeld	Eddie Foy Jr., Allyn Joslyn	March 8, 1959 (1959-03-08)
Burglar "the Cat" (Foy Jr.) breaks into the home of couple Mort (Joslyn) and Jocelyn, who are also business partners and constantly fight about money. Mort offers the Cat $3,500 to kill Jocelyn, but Jocelyn makes a counteroffer of $5,000, so the Cat kills Mort instead.
140	23	"I'll Take Care of You"	Robert Stevens	Story by : George Johnson Teleplay by : William Fay	Ralph Meeker, Russell Collins, Elisabeth Fraser	March 15, 1959 (1959-03-15)
John Forbes (Meeker) runs his wife (Fraser) over with his car, and covers up the murder with the help of his loyal assistant, Dad (Collins). Dad hopes that John will take care of him, but John frames him for the murder.
141	24	"The Avon Emeralds"	Bretaigne Windust	Story by : Joe Pidcock Teleplay by : William Fay	Roger Moore, Hazel Court, Alan Napier	March 22, 1959 (1959-03-22)
Inspector Benson (Moore) is tasked with preventing Lady Gwendolyn Avon (Court) from smuggling her emerald necklace out of the country. Lady Avon thwarts Benson and his officers at every turn and manages to leave the country without the necklace on her. However, Benson and Avon are secretly lovers, and Benson carried the necklace for her.
142	25	"The Kind Waitress"	Paul Henreid	Henry Slesar	Olive Deering, Celia Lovsky, Rick Jason	March 29, 1959 (1959-03-29)
Hotel waitress Thelma (Deering) learns that she is in the will of her wealthy regular customer, Sara Mannerheim (Lovsky), who has stopped taking her medicine in expectation of death. Thelma's boyfriend Arthur (Jason) suggests that they speed things up by slow-poisoning Sara with anatine, a leaf extract. After half a year of no change, Thelma strangles Sara to death one night in frustration. At the inquest, it is revealed that Sara's doctor prescribed anatine for her heart condition, and Thelma had been inadvertently keeping her alive.
143	26	"Cheap Is Cheap"	Bretaigne Windust	Albert E. Lewin and Burt Styler	Dennis Day	April 5, 1959 (1959-04-05)
Miserly Alexander Gifford (Day) decides to kill his wife, Jennifer, when she starts spending money on herself. Alex explores various options, most of which he considers to be too expensive. He ends up giving her food poisoning and selling her cadaver to a medical university.
144	27	"The Waxwork"	Robert Stevens	Story by : A. M. Burrage Teleplay by : Casey Robinson	Barry Nelson, Everett Sloane	April 12, 1959 (1959-04-12)
Reporter Raymond Houston (Nelson) stays overnight in a wax museum in order to write an important article. Raymond, who is claustrophobic, hallucinates that one of the wax figures is alive, and is found dead the next morning.
145	28	"The Impossible Dream"	Robert Stevens	John Lindsey	Franchot Tone, Carmen Mathews, Mary Astor	April 19, 1959 (1959-04-19)
Has-been actor Oliver Mathews (Tone) is being blackmailed by Grace Dolan (Astor) for an affair he had with Grace's late daughter. Having had enough, Oliver murders Grace. Oliver's assistant, Miss Hall (Mathews), who is in love with Oliver but has been rebuffed for years, learns about the murder and asks him to have a relationship with her in order to keep her from going to the authorities.
146	29	"Banquo's Chair"	Alfred Hitchcock	Story by : Rupert Croft-Cooke Teleplay by : Francis Cockrell	John Williams, Kenneth Haigh, Reginald Gardiner	May 3, 1959 (1959-05-03)
Blackheath, 1903. Former Inspector Brent (Williams) conspires with his friends to stage a fake haunting in the hopes of scaring John Bedford (Haigh) into confessing to the murder of his aunt, Ms. Ferguson. Brent arranges for an actress, Mae Thorpe, to sneak into the house dressed as Ms. Ferguson and walk past their dinner room. The plan is successful and Bedford confesses when he sees the menacing figure of his aunt. After Bedford is arrested, Brent is shocked when he learns that Mae Thorpe was late and missed the dinner entirely.
147	30	"A Night with the Boys"	John Brahm	Story by : Henry Slesar and Jay Fob Teleplay by : Bernard C. Schoenfeld	John Smith, Joyce Meadows	May 10, 1959 (1959-05-10)
Irving Randall (Smith) loses his money in a poker game to his unsympathetic boss Smalley, and lies to his pregnant wife Frances (Meadows) that he was mugged. Irving makes a police report at Frances' insistence, and is surprised when the police arrest a teenage boy named Whitey as a suspect. Irving reluctantly takes Whitey's money, but feels guilty and conflicted. The next day, Irving learns that Whitey had mugged Smalley, and the money that he had was Smalley's poker winnings.
148	31	"Your Witness"	Norman Lloyd	Story by : Helen Nielsen Teleplay by : William Fay	Brian Keith, Leora Dana	May 17, 1959 (1959-05-17)
Arnold Shawn (Keith) is a ruthless defense lawyer who uses his arguing skills to put down his wife, Naomi (Dana) and defend his cheating on her. When Arnold refuses to divorce Naomi, she hits him with her car, killing him. The only witness of the "accident" is Henry Babcock, a man that Arnold had just destroyed the credibility of as an eyewitness in court.
149	32	"Human Interest Story"	Norman Lloyd	Fredric Brown	Steve McQueen, Arthur Hill	May 24, 1959 (1959-05-24)
Reporter Bill Everett (McQueen) interviews a distressed man (Hill) who claims to be a Martian named Yangan Dall. Yangan tells Bill how all the other Martians just vanished one day, and when he investigated, found a machine that transported him to Earth, inside a human body. When the kind-hearted Yangan suggests telling everyone his story, Bill kills him. Bill is also a Martian, but part of an invasion force trying to take over Earth.
150	33	"The Dusty Drawer"	Herschel Daugherty	Story by : Harry Muheim Teleplay by : Halstead Welles	Dick York	May 31, 1959 (1959-05-31)
Norman Logan (York) has for months been pestering William Tritt, a banker, to return $200 that Tritt mistakenly took from Logan's account, but to no avail. Frustrated, Logan carries out a series of pranks to make Tritt lose his credibility at the bank. Logan's final act is to rob the bank of $10,000, which Tritt is blamed for. Afterward, Logan returns the money in Tritt's name, except for $200 to replace the money that Tritt took from him.
151	34	"A True Account"	Leonard Horn	Rupert Croft-Cooke	Jane Greer, Kent Smith, Robert Webber, Jocelyn Brando	June 7, 1959 (1959-06-07)
Mrs. Cannon-Hughes (Greer) visits a lawyer, Paul Brett (Webber), to tell him of her suspicions that her husband Gilbert Hughes (Smith) murdered his first wife. Soon afterward, Gilbert dies, supposedly of suicide. Ms. Cannon and Brett begin a relationship and get married, but when Brett accidentally discovers that Ms. Cannon killed both Gilbert and his first wife, Ms. Cannon kills him as well.
152	35	"Touché"	John Brahm	Story by : Bryce Walton Teleplay by : William Fay	Paul Douglas, Robert Morse	June 14, 1959 (1959-06-14)
Bill Fleming (Douglas) is upset that his wife, Laura, is cheating on him with a man named Baxter. Bill's new friend, Phil (Morse), points out a Californian law on duels that could work in his favor, so Bill challenges Baxter to a duel and kills him. Bill is acquitted, but has to pay a hefty allowance to Baxter's only child for life. Bill then learns that Phil is Baxter's son, and is also Laura's lover; Phil and Laura plotted together to gain Bill's money and get Baxter out of the way.
153	36	"Invitation to an Accident"	Don Taylor	Wade Miller	Gary Merrill, Joanna Moore	June 21, 1959 (1959-06-21)
Albert Martin fears that his good friend, Virgilia Pond (Moore), is going to be killed by her jealous husband, Joseph Pond (Merrill) due to her affair with her ex. Albert goes on a fishing trip with Joseph to warn him off, but Joseph confronts Albert first, revealing that Albert has been poisoned. As Albert is dying, he weeps and tells Joseph that he has the wrong man.

Season 5 (1959–60)

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Stars	Original air date
154	1	"Arthur"	Alfred Hitchcock	Story by : Arthur Williams Teleplay by : James Cavanagh	Laurence Harvey, Hazel Court, Patrick Macnee	September 27, 1959 (1959-09-27)
Chicken farmer Arthur Williams (Harvey) murders his ex-fiancée (Court) when she returns to him a year after leaving him for another man. Sgt. John Theron (Macnee) investigates Arthur, but is unable to find the body because Arthur has ground it up in his hammer mill into chicken feed.
155	2	"The Crystal Trench"	Alfred Hitchcock	Story by : A. E. W. Mason Teleplay by : Stirling Silliphant	James Donald, Patricia Owens	October 4, 1959 (1959-10-04)
Mountaineer Mark Cavendish (Donald) falls in love with Stella Ballister (Owens), a young widow. Stella is devoted to her late husband, who died on a mountain and fell into a glacier, and refuses to move on until she sees his body. After 40 years they find the body, but there is a locket on him with a picture of another woman.
156	3	"Appointment at Eleven"	Robert Stevens	Story by : Robert Turner Teleplay by : Evan Hunter	Clint Kimbrough, Norma Crane, Clu Gulager, Sean McClory	October 11, 1959 (1959-10-11)
Seventeen-year-old David Logan (Kimbrough) spends a night on the town talking to various sympathetic people: a blonde in a bar (Crane), a sailor (Gulager) and an Irish pub patron (McClory), all of whom are disconcerted by David's virulent hatred of his father. However, David's father is a serial killer, and his execution is at that night at 11:00.
157	4	"Coyote Moon"	Herschel Daugherty	Story by : Kenneth B. Perkins Teleplay by : Harold Swanton	Macdonald Carey, Collin Wilcox, Edgar Buchanan	October 18, 1959 (1959-10-18)
While driving across the desert to California, a Professor (Carey) agrees to take on a hitchhiker Julie (Wilcox). However, Julie brings along her father, Pops (Buchanan) and her "brother" Harry, and the three of them take the Professor's belongings. The Professor tricks them into abandoning him and his car, and follows them to a gas station where he calls the police and reports them.
158	5	"No Pain"	Norman Lloyd	Story by : Talmage Powell Teleplay by : William Fay	Brian Keith, Joanna Moore	October 25, 1959 (1959-10-25)
Millionaire Dave Rainey (Keith) is paralyzed from the neck down and needs a respirator to breathe. He accuses his wife Cindy (Moore) of having an affair with her new friend, Arnold, and that they are planning to kill him; Cindy admits that they are both true. That night, Arnold drowns Cindy in the ocean, because he is a contract killer hired by Dave.
159	6	"Anniversary Gift"	Norman Lloyd	Story by : John Collier Teleplay by : Harold Swanton	Harry Morgan, Barbara Baxley, Jackie Coogan	November 1, 1959 (1959-11-01)
Hermie Jenkins (Morgan) buys a coral snake for his animal-loving wife Myra (Baxley), in the hopes that it will bite and kill her. The snake, which is actually a harmless kingsnake, bites Hermie instead and he dies of a heart attack.
160	7	"Dry Run"	John Brahm	Story by : Norman Struber Teleplay by : Bill S. Ballinger	Walter Matthau, Robert Vaughn, David White	November 8, 1959 (1959-11-08)
Young gangster Art (Vaughn) is ordered by his new boss Barberosa (White) to prove himself by killing a man named Moran (Matthau). Art goes to do the deed, but Moran suggests that Art kill Barberosa instead and take over the organization. When Art agrees, Moran kills him; the counteroffer was a test set by Barberosa.
161	8	"The Blessington Method"	Herschel Daugherty	Story by : Stanley Ellin Teleplay by : Halsted Welles	Henry Jones, Dick York	November 15, 1959 (1959-11-15)
In the advanced future of 1980, life expectancy has improved dramatically. J.J. Bunce (York) works for the Society of Gerology, which provides the discreet service of killing the healthy elderly. John Treadwell (Jones) agrees to have his tiresome mother-in-law "dealt with", but once it is done, Treadwell then realizes that it is only a matter of time before his own children have him "dealt with" as well.
162	9	"Dead Weight"	Stuart Rosenberg	Story by : Herb Golden Teleplay by : Jerry Sohl	Joseph Cotten, Julie Adams, Don Gordon	November 22, 1959 (1959-11-22)
Courtney Masterson (Cotten) and his secret lover Peg (Adams) are robbed in Lover's Lane by a thug (Gordon). Unwilling to go to the police, Courtney kills the thug so that he will not reveal their affair. Afterward, Courtney learns that his wife has had a private detective following him for the past week, and he saw everything.
163	10	"Special Delivery"	Norman Lloyd	Ray Bradbury	Steve Dunne, Beatrice Straight	November 29, 1959 (1959-11-29)
Boys all over the country are buying mail-order mushrooms to grow in their cellars. Bill and Cynthia Fortnam (Dunne and Straight) are worried when their neighbor mysteriously disappears after warning them that something catastrophic is going to happen. Bill posits an alien invasion by space spores that grow into mushrooms and possess human bodies after being eaten. This is confirmed when Bill's son, Tom, acts strangely, and demands that Bill eat some of his mail-order mushrooms.
164	11	"Road Hog"	Stuart Rosenberg	Story by : Harold Daniels Teleplay by : Bill S. Ballinger	Raymond Massey, Robert Emhardt, Richard Chamberlain	December 6, 1959 (1959-12-06)
Sam Pine (Massey) and his elder sons rush to get his youngest son, Davey, to a doctor after being gored by a bull. They are deliberately blocked on the road by inconsiderate salesman Ed Fratus (Emhardt), and Davey dies. With his remaining sons' help, Sam confronts Fratus and seemingly poisons him; Fratus rushes to the doctor, and in his panic crashes his car and dies. However, the drink was just water, not poison.
165	12	"Specialty of the House"	Robert Stevens	Story by : Stanley Ellin Teleplay by : Victor Wolfson & Bernard C. Schoenfeld	Robert Morley, Kenneth Haigh	December 13, 1959 (1959-12-13)
Mr. Laffler (Morley) introduces his colleague Mr. Costain (Haigh) to Spirro's, an exclusive gentleman's club. The Specialty of the House is a rare but popular lamb dish. When Laffler is about to leave the country for a business trip, he is invited by Spirro, the owner, into the kitchen to meet the chef. Afterward, Spirro tells the other members that the Specialty of the House will be served soon.
166	13	"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"	Robert Stevenson	Story by : Ambrose Bierce Teleplay by : Harold Swanton	Ronald Howard, Juano Hernandez, James Coburn	December 20, 1959 (1959-12-20)
1862, during the Civil War. Recently-widowed Confederate Peyton Farquhar (Howard) decides to blow up a bridge that the Yankees plan to use to cross, but is caught. Peyton is hanged, but the rope breaks and he seemingly escapes. With the help of slave Josh (Hernandez), Peyton travels past various Union soldiers safely and returns home to his wife Melissa. Right before the two can embrace, however, Peyton collapses with a sharp pain to his neck. Peyton is actually dead; he never escaped from the hanging. The doomed man imagined the whole escape.
167	14	"Graduating Class"	Herschel Daugherty	Story by : Edouard Sandoz Teleplay by : Stirling Silliphant	Wendy Hiller, Gigi Perreau, Jocelyn Brando	December 27, 1959 (1959-12-27)
Laura Siddons (Hiller), a teacher at a girl's college, is fond of her brightest student, Gloria Barnes (Perreau). While out with her neighbor Ben Prowdy, Siddons sees Barnes with a man and assumes that they are having an affair. Siddons later learns that Barnes is actually secretly married to the man and plans to tell her parents at the right time, but Prowdy blackmails Barnes' parents, causing her mother to collapse. Prowdy is arrested, and accuses Siddons of masterminding the blackmail.
168	15	"Man from the South"	Norman Lloyd	Story by : Roald Dahl Teleplay by : William Fay	Steve McQueen, Peter Lorre, Neile Adams	January 3, 1960 (1960-01-03)
In Las Vegas, a Gambler (McQueen) and a Woman (Adams) are approached by Carlos (Lorre), who proposes a bet on whether Gambler's lighter can light up ten times in a row. If Gambler wins, he gets Carlos' convertible; if Gambler loses, Carlos will cut off Gambler's small finger. The lighter works seven times in a row when Carlos's wife interrupts, revealing that Carlos is penniless. Carlos's entire fortune belongs to his wife, who lost three fingers to win it from him. In 1997, TV Guide ranked this episode #41 on its list of the 100 Greatest Episodes.[3]
169	16	"The Ikon of Elijah"	Paul Almond	Story by : Avram Davidson Teleplay by : Norah Perez & Victor Wolfson	Oskar Homolka, Sam Jaffe	January 10, 1960 (1960-01-10)
Antiques dealer Carpius (Homolka) visits a monastery in order to steal a valuable icon. When Carpius kills the monk who is guarding the icon, the abbot (Jaffe) forgives him, but says that he must stay with the icon for the rest of his life, praying for absolution.
170	17	"The Cure"	Herschel Daugherty	Story by : Robert Bloch Teleplay by : Michael Pertwee	Nehemiah Persoff, Mark Richman, Cara Williams	January 24, 1960 (1960-01-24)
When Jeff Jensen (Persoff) is non-fatally attacked by his wife, Marie (Williams), he assumes that Marie is suffering from tropical fever that affects the brain. Jeff arranges for his friend Mike (Richman) and native manservant Luiz to take Marie to a shrink. Mike and Marie are having an affair and attempt to kill Luiz; Luiz kills Mike and follows Jeff's orders to the letter by sending Marie to a native "head doctor" who shrinks her head.
171	18	"Backward, Turn Backward"	Stuart Rosenberg	Story by : Dorothy Salisbury Davis Teleplay by : Charles Beaumont	Tom Tully, Phyllis Love, Alan Baxter	January 31, 1960 (1960-01-31)
Phil Canby (Tully) is accused of murdering Matt Thompson during an argument over 59-year-old Canby's romantic relationship with Matt's teenage daughter Sue (Love). Canby's alibi is that he was babysitting his grandson, but a neighbor insists that she heard hysterical crying around the time of the murder. When Canby is arrested, Sue has a manic fit and begins crying, revealing that she is the one who killed her father.
172	19	"Not the Running Type"	Arthur Hiller	Story by : Henry Slesar Teleplay by : Jerry Sohl	Paul Hartman, Robert Bray	February 7, 1960 (1960-02-07)
Mild-mannered Milton Potter (Hartman) steals $200,000 from his place of work and surrenders to the police. After 13 years in prison, Potter is released and returns the money to the police, ending his parole. However, Potter has earned $150,000 from investing the stolen money, and uses the profits to travel the world in luxury.
173	20	"The Day of the Bullet"	Norman Lloyd	Story by : Stanley Ellin Teleplay by : Bill S. Ballinger	Barry Gordon, Glenn Walken	February 14, 1960 (1960-02-14)
Young best friends Iggy (Gordon) and Clete (Walken) witness mobster Mr. Rose beating up a frightened man. Iggy insists on reporting the incident to the police, but is heartbroken when the police refuse to take him seriously, and his father is too frightened to stand up for him. 35 years later, Iggy has become a mobster himself, and Clete sees a newspaper article of his death by gunshot.
174	21	"Hitch Hike"	Paul Henreid	Story by : Ed Lacy Teleplay by : Bernard C. Schoenfeld	John McIntire, Robert Morse, Suzanne Pleshette	February 21, 1960 (1960-02-21)
Charles Underhill (McIntire) and his niece Anne (Pleshette) pick up teenager Len (Morse) as a hitchhiker. Underhill learns that Len is a juvenile delinquent and, believing that Len is going to hurt him, speeds to get the attention of a police officer. Len is revealed to be unarmed, and Underhill receives a ticket instead. Underhill is distressed at destroying his crime-free record, but Len pickpockets the officer's book, saving him.
175	22	"Across the Threshold"	Arthur Hiller	Story by : L. B. Gordon Teleplay by : Charlotte Armstrong	Patricia Collinge, George Grizzard, Barbara Baxley	February 28, 1960 (1960-02-28)
Hubert (Grizzard) learns that his controlling mother Sofie (Collinge) has been thinking of taking poison to join her late husband, Arthur. Hubert has his girlfriend Irma (Baxley) pretend to be a medium and convince Sofie that Arthur is lonely. Hubert expects Sofie to take the poison alone, but she secretly poisons his drink as well.
176	23	"Craig's Will"	Gene Reynolds	Story by : Valerie Dyke Teleplay by : Burt Styler & Albert E. Lewin	Dick Van Dyke, Stella Stevens, Paul Stewart	March 6, 1960 (1960-03-06)
Thomas Craig (Van Dyke) is disappointed when his late uncle leaves his fortune to his dog Casper. Thomas' girlfriend Judy (Stevens) tries to have Casper killed, but fails repeatedly. Judy concludes that the only way to get the Craig fortune is to marry Casper herself.
177	24	"Madame Mystery"	John Brahm	Story by : Robert Bloch Teleplay by : William Fay	Audrey Totter, Joby Baker	March 27, 1960 (1960-03-27)
When aged movie star Betsy Blake (Totter) dies in a boat accident, young Hollywood PR man Jimmy Dolan (Baker) exploits her death to create a massive publicity campaign and advance his career. Three months later Betsy returns, alive and ready to take advantage of her new "legend", but Jimmy, distraught at having his success overshadowed, kills her. It is then revealed that Betsy was Jimmy's mother.
178	25	"The Little Man Who Was There"	George Stevens, Jr.	Gordon Russell & Larry Ward	Norman Lloyd, Arch Johnson, Read Morgan	April 3, 1960 (1960-04-03)
Newcomers Jamie and Ben McMahon (Johnson and Morgan) have civilized the unruly community of Copperpocket and gained everyone's respect. One night a mysterious man (Lloyd) shows seemingly demonic powers to defeat the brothers, and takes everyone's money. However, it was a con, performed by the man and the brothers together.
179	26	"Mother, May I Go Out to Swim?"	Herschel Daugherty	Story by : Q. Patrick Teleplay by : James Cavanagh	William Shatner, Jessie Royce Landis, Gia Scala	April 10, 1960 (1960-04-10)
John (Shatner) has an unnaturally close relationship with his mother, Claire (Landis), which worries John's new lover Lottie (Scala). Lottie suggests taking Claire to their favorite spot by a waterfall; John understands this as Lottie's suggestion that they kill Claire, but John pushes Lottie off the cliff instead.
180	27	"The Cuckoo Clock"	John Brahm	Story by : Frank Mace Teleplay by : Robert Bloch	Beatrice Straight, Fay Spain, Donald Buka	April 17, 1960 (1960-04-17)
Ida Blythe (Straight) is staying alone at her cottage while a patient has recently escaped from a nearby mental institution. A woman named Madeleine (Spain) sneaks into Ida's cottage, claiming that she was followed by the patient. Madeleine's rambling scares Ida, and when a man (Buka) knocks on the door to tell her about the female runaway patient, Ida opens the door. However, the man is the real patient.
181	28	"Forty Detectives Later"	Arthur Hiller	Henry Slesar	James Franciscus, Jack Weston	April 24, 1960 (1960-04-24)
Private investigator William Tyre (Franciscus) is hired by Munro Dean to lure a man named Otto (Weston) to a hotel room so that Dean can meet him. Dean believes that Otto killed his wife, and wants revenge. Tyre does his job, but has a change of heart and goes to the room just as Dean and Otto have shot each other. While dying, Otto admits to Tyre that he killed Dean's wife, but that he was hired by Dean to do it.
182	29	"The Hero"	John Brahm	Story by : Henry De Vere Stacpoole Teleplay by : Bill S. Ballinger	Eric Portman, Oskar Homolka	May 1, 1960 (1960-05-01)
While on a cruise ship Sir Richard Musgrave (Portman) sees a former business partner, Jan Vander Klaue (Homolka), whom Richard thought that he had killed years ago, but is now living under a new name. Upon learning that he was also responsible for the death of Jan's wife, Richard jumps overboard. Jan seemingly tries to save Richard, but in actuality drowns him, though he is afterward hailed as a hero for his "attempt".
183	30	"Insomnia"	John Brahm	Henry Slesar	Dennis Weaver	May 8, 1960 (1960-05-08)
Charles Cavender (Weaver) suffers from insomnia, caused by his fear of his brother-in-law, Jack Fletcher. Charles' wife was killed in a house fire and her brother, Jack, believes that Charles let her die. Charles confronts Jack at his apartment and, after a struggle, Jack is killed. That night Charles sleeps peacefully, and does not wake up when his heater catches aflame and burns his apartment building down.
184	31	"I Can Take Care of Myself"	Alan Crosland, Jr.	Story by : Fred McMorrow Teleplay by : Thomas Grant	Myron McCormick, Linda Lawson	May 15, 1960 (1960-05-15)
Bert Haber (McCormick) is a piano player in a club, and friends with singer Georgia (Lawson). When gangster "Little Dandy" harasses Georgia, she pours a drink over his head, humiliating him. The next day a detective informs Bert that Georgia has been killed and questions him, discovering that Bert knows enough to have Little Dandy arrested. However, the "detective" is one of Little Dandy's goons, and takes Bert away.
185	32	"One Grave Too Many"	Arthur Hiller	Story by : Henry Slesar Teleplay by : Eli Jerome	Neile Adams, Jeremy Slate, Biff Elliot, Howard McNear	May 22, 1960 (1960-05-22)
Irene and Joe Helmer (Adams and Slate) are in dire financial straits. One night Joe sees a man collapse and, thinking him dead, steals his wallet. Later Joe finds a card in the man's wallet stating that the man suffered from a cataleptic illness that only looks like death. Joe goes to the police to confess and save the man, only to learn that the dead man is a pickpocket and that the wallet was stolen from someone else.
186	33	"Party Line"	Hilton A. Green	Story by : Henry Slesar Teleplay by : Eli Jerome	Judy Canova, Royal Dano, Arch Johnson	May 29, 1960 (1960-05-29)
Helen Parch (Canova) enjoys abusing the party line. One day she is warned by policeman Mr. Atkins (Dano) that a man named Heywood Miller (Johnson) escaped prison and may come after her. Years ago, Helen refused to let Heywood use the party line to call the doctor, which led to the death of Miller's wife. That night Heywood breaks into Helen's house, and when she tries to call the sheriff's office, the party line is busy.
187	34	"Cell 227"	Paul Henreid	Story by : Bryce Walton Teleplay by : Bill S. Ballinger	Brian Keith, James Best	June 5, 1960 (1960-06-05)
Herbert Morrison (Keith) is on death row for murder and wants to die with dignity, refusing his lawyer's attempt for a stay of execution. When Herbert is taken to the gas chamber, he kills a guard and is taken away. Afterward the warden tells Herbert that his lawyer obtained a stay and found a witness to clear his name, but since Herbert killed the guard, he will never be pardoned.
188	35	"The Schartz-Metterklume Method"	Richard Dunlap	Story by : Saki Teleplay by : Marian Cockrell	Hermione Gingold	June 12, 1960 (1960-06-12)
Mrs. Wellington picks up the new governess Miss Hope (Gingold) from the train station, and is quickly thrown by Miss Hope's outspokenness. For the next few days Miss Hope teaches the Wellington children with enthusiasm, but Mr. and Mrs. Wellington are appalled by her unorthodox methods and fire her. Miss Hope leaves in good spirits, because she is actually wealthy aristocrat Lady Charlotte; Mrs. Wellington mistook her for Miss Hope, and Charlotte enjoyed the distraction.
189	36	"Letter of Credit"	Paul Henreid	Helen Nielsen	Bob Sweeney, Robert Bray	June 19, 1960 (1960-06-19)
Henry Taylor (Bray) visits Kirkland Bank to question its president, William Spengler (Sweeney). Three years ago a bank employee, Arnold Mathias, was convicted of stealing money from the bank, and Arnold recently died in a prison escape attempt, though his cellmate made it out. Henry questions William aggressively, believing that Arnold was framed and that William stole the money. William, believing that Henry is Arnold's escaped cellmate, tries to make a deal with him, but Henry is actually the police officer who killed Arnold and is trying to make amends by arresting the true culprit.
190	37	"Escape to Sonoita"	Stuart Rosenberg	Story by : James A. Howard Teleplay by : James A. Howard & Bill S. Ballinger	Burt Reynolds, Murray Hamilton, Harry Dean Stanton, James Bell	June 26, 1960 (1960-06-26)
When their car breaks down in the desert, criminals Marsh and Lemon (Hamilton and Stanton) steal a tanker from Andy and Bill Davis (Bell and Reynolds), unaware that Andy and Bill know how to survive in the desert. The next day the police find the tanker, also broken down, along with Marsh and Lemon's bodies. The kidnappers turned on each other when their water ran out, not realizing that the Davises' tanker was carrying water.
191	38	"Hooked"	Norman Lloyd	Story by : Robert Turner Teleplay by : Thomas Grant	Robert Horton, Vivienne Segal, Anne Francis	September 25, 1960 (1960-09-25)
Ray (Horton) is married to an older woman, Gladys (Segal), but has dalliances with younger women. Ray's latest love is Nyla Foster (Francis), who resists his attentions and inspires him to kill Gladys so they can be together. One day Ray takes Gladys fishing, hoping to drown her, but Gladys knocks him out first and throws him overboard. It was all planned by Gladys, Nyla and her father, because Gladys and Mr. Foster are lovers.

Season 6 (1960–61)

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Stars	Original air date
192	1	"Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat"	Alfred Hitchcock	Story by : Roald Dahl Teleplay by : Halsted Welles	Audrey Meadows, Les Tremayne	September 27, 1960 (1960-09-27)
Married Mrs. Bixby (Meadows) receives an expensive coat from her lover and wants to keep it without arousing her husband, Dr. Bixby's (Tremayne) suspicion. She has the coat pawned and pretends to find the pawn ticket, which she gives to her husband to retrieve the item. However, Mrs. Bixby is dismayed when her husband gives her a small mink stole; Dr. Bixby's nurse has the coat, thus implying that he is having an affair with her.
193	2	"The Doubtful Doctor"	Arthur Hiller	Story by : Louis Paul Teleplay by : Jerry Sohl	Dick York, Gena Rowlands	October 4, 1960 (1960-10-04)
One stressful day, Ralph Jones (York) argues with his wife, Lucille (Rowlands), and then mysteriously travels two years back in time, to when he was still a bachelor. Ralph finds Lucille, but what should have been their first date is a disaster. Broken-hearted, Ralph jumps into the river and wakes up back in his regular "present". Later, Ralph's psychiatrist tells him that the episode was just a dream, but Ralph has a set of baseball cards that he brought back from his travel.
194	3	"Very Moral Theft"	Norman Lloyd	Story by : Jack Dillon Teleplay by : Allan Gordon	Betty Field, Walter Matthau	October 11, 1960 (1960-10-11)
Spinster Helen (Field) is dating Harry Wade (Matthau), a rude lumber yard owner who Helen's brother, John, believes is a crook. When Harry is about to lose his business, Helen "borrows" $8,000 from her office in order to help Harry. When Harry learns about this, he pays her back the money by borrowing from his "friends". A week later, Helen learns that Harry died to get the money for her.
195	4	"The Contest for Aaron Gold"	Norman Lloyd	Story by : Philip Roth Teleplay by : William Fay	Barry Gordon, Sydney Pollack, Frank Maxwell	October 18, 1960 (1960-10-18)
Bernie (Pollack) is a ceramics teacher at a summer camp, and is protective of Aaron Gold (Gordon), a boy who dislikes athletics but loves sculpture. As Aaron has no other accomplishments, the camp's performance-driven owner Stern (Maxwell) orders that Bernie "finish" Aaron's sculpture of a one-armed knight to show off to Aaron's father. Bernie adds the arm, which upsets Aaron deeply, because the statue is a tribute to Aaron's father, who only has one arm.
196	5	"The Five-Forty-Eight"	John Brahm	Story by : John Cheever Teleplay by : Charlotte Armstrong	Phyllis Thaxter, Zachary Scott	October 25, 1960 (1960-10-25)
Miss Dent (Thaxter) was secretary to married Mr. Blake (Scott), but was fired on the day after they had a liaison. After weeks of being avoided, Miss Dent finally corners Mr. Blake at gunpoint and holds him hostage through his train commute in order to talk to him so that she can move on.
197	6	"Pen Pal"	John Brahm	Story by : Henry Slesar & Jay Folb Teleplay by : Hilary Murray	Katherine Squire, Clu Gulager	November 1, 1960 (1960-11-01)
Elderly Miss Lowen (Squire) learns from Detective Berger that her niece Margie has been exchanging romantic letters with convict Rod Collins (Gulager) for the past two years, and Collins has just escaped prison and may come for her. When Collins breaks into Miss Lowen's house in search of Margie, Miss Lowen knocks Collins out and calls the police, who capture him. Unknown to all, Miss Lowen is the one who has been writing to Collins all along, using her niece's name.
198	7	"Outlaw in Town"	Herschel Daugherty	Michael Fessier	Ricardo Montalban, Constance Ford	November 15, 1960 (1960-11-15)
Tony Lorca (Montalban) is an outlaw who arrives at a small town during a blizzard. The townsfolk learn that there is a reward of $5,000 to turn Tony in, so various people bid for his custody. However, "Tony" is actually Pepe, the real Tony's brother. Tony died a year prior and Pepe has been pretending to be Tony in order to swindle people out of their money.
199	8	"O Youth and Beauty!"	Norman Lloyd	Story by : John Cheever Teleplay by : Halsted Welles	Gary Merrill, Patricia Breslin	November 22, 1960 (1960-11-22)
Cash Bentley (Merrill) is a former champion hurdler who is bitter that his glory days have passed. Despite his wife Louise (Breslin)'s protests and Cash's physical limitations, Cash keeps racing whenever he is taunted by others. One night, Cash gives Louise his gun and asks her to fire it so he can race one more time. Louise, unfamiliar with guns, accidentally shoots him.
200	9	"The Money"	Alan Crosland, Jr.	Henry Slesar	Robert Loggia, Doris Dowling, Will Kuluva	November 29, 1960 (1960-11-29)
Small-time crook Larry (Loggia) gets a job with wealthy Stefan Bregornick (Kuluva), who knew Larry's father and is an importer of stolen goods. Four months into the job, Larry steals $30,000 from Bregornick, but returns it a few hours later, apologizing for his moment of weakness. Larry's girlfriend Angie (Dowling) is angered at Larry's giving back the money, but Larry explains that he now has Bregornick's trust, and a bigger opportunity to steal will come his way soon.
201	10	"Sybilla"	Ida Lupino	Story by : Margaret Manners Teleplay by : Charlotte Armstrong	Barbara Bel Geddes, Alexander Scourby	December 6, 1960 (1960-12-06)
Horace Meade's (Scourby) new wife Sybilla (Bel Geddes) is perfectly obedient and agrees to all his unconventional demands. Despite this, Horace grows uncomfortable with her and tries to poison her, but is mysteriously thwarted. Horace concludes that Sybilla knew about the poison and has made contingencies with her lawyer in case she dies, and his only choice is to keep her alive and healthy. After 10 years of marriage, Sybilla dies of natural causes. Horace learns that there was no contingency plan, and he realizes that he truly loved her in the end.
202	11	"The Man with Two Faces"	Stuart Rosenberg	Henry Slesar	Spring Byington, Steve Dunne, Bethel Leslie	December 13, 1960 (1960-12-13)
While browsing mugshots, elderly Alice Wagner (Byington) finds a photo of a man who looks like her beloved daughter's husband. She is assured by policeman Lt. Meade (Dunne) that it is a coincidence, but she is later shocked when both her daughter and son-in-law are revealed to be wanted criminals.
203	12	"The Baby-Blue Expression"	Arthur Hiller	Story by : Mary Stolz Teleplay by : Helen Nielsen	Sarah Marshall	December 20, 1960 (1960-12-20)
Scatterbrained Mrs. Barrett (Marshall) conspires with her lover Philip to kill her husband James while he is away on a business trip. She mistakenly mails an incriminating letter about the murder plan to James, and frantically tries to get it back, but fails.
204	13	"The Man Who Found the Money"	Alan Crosland, Jr.	Story by : James E. Cronin Teleplay by : Allan Gordon	Arthur Hill	December 27, 1960 (1960-12-27)
While on holiday in Las Vegas, William Benson (Hill) stumbles on a clip containing $92,000. Despite being tempted, he reports it in so that it can be returned to its owner, casino mogul Mr. Newsome. However, the clip is supposed to contain $102,000 and Mr. Newsome kidnaps Benson's wife, demanding that Benson "return" the missing money.
205	14	"The Changing Heart"	Robert Florey	Robert Bloch	Nicholas Pryor, Anne Helm, Abraham Sofaer	January 3, 1961 (1961-01-03)
Dane Rosse (Pryor) falls in love with Lisa Klemm (Helm), granddaughter of clockmaker Ulrich Klemm (Sofaer). Ulrich is highly protective of Lisa and refuses to let the pair marry. Dane leaves town heartbroken, and learns through a friend that Lisa has fallen seriously ill. When Dane returns, Ulrich has died of exhaustion from his work of "saving" Lisa by turning her into a clockwork automaton.
206	15	"Summer Shade"	Herschel Daugherty	Story by : Nora H. Caplan Teleplay by : Harold Swanton	Julie Adams, James Franciscus	January 10, 1961 (1961-01-10)
Not long after Phyllis and Ben Kendall (Adams and Franciscus) move into the house that they have bought from elderly Amelia Gastiell, their daughter Katie claims that she has made a new friend, "Lettie", whom her parents never see. Phyllis suspects that Lettie is Lauretta Bishop, a Puritan girl who died in 1694. When Ben asks Amelia to find a new friend for Katie, Amelia brings "Judy" to their house, but Judy is actually Lettie, who is also Lauretta Bishop.
207	16	"A Crime for Mothers"	Ida Lupino	Henry Slesar	Claire Trevor, Biff Elliot	January 24, 1961 (1961-01-24)
Mrs. Meade (Trevor) wants to extort money from Jane and Ralph Birdwell, the couple who raised Mrs. Meade's abandoned daughter Eileen as their own. Meade teams up with private investigator Phil Ames (Elliot) to kidnap Eileen, but it turns out to be a trap, as Phil is a friend of the Birdwells.
208	17	"The Last Escape"	Paul Henreid	Henry Slesar	Keenan Wynn, Jan Sterling	January 31, 1961 (1961-01-31)
Joe and Wanda Ferlini (Wynn and Sterling) are a husband-and-wife escape artist act, though their marital relationship is strained. When Joe performs a dangerous water escape, Wanda switches his keys, causing him to drown. However, at the funeral a coroner opens the coffin, revealing to the public that it is empty. Joe's agent privately arranged that Joe be buried somewhere secret as a final "escape", but due to the stunt, Wanda goes insane.
209	18	"The Greatest Monster of Them All"	Robert Stevens	Story by : Bryce Walton Teleplay by : Robert Bloch	William Redfield, Richard Hale, Sam Jaffe, Robert H. Harris	February 14, 1961 (1961-02-14)
Screenwriter Fred Logan (Redfield) asks his director Morty Lenton (Harris) to cast veteran horror actor Ernst von Croft (Hale) in their latest film in a comeback role. Although Fred and von Croft believe that it is a regular horror film, Morty has reworked it as a horror parody, which embarrasses von Croft. In revenge, von Croft dresses as a vampire and kills Morty before committing suicide.
210	19	"The Landlady"	Paul Henreid	Story by : Roald Dahl Teleplay by : Robert Bloch	Dean Stockwell, Patricia Collinge	February 21, 1961 (1961-02-21)
Billy Weaver (Stockwell) finds accommodations in the house of a friendly landlady (Collinge). The landlady keeps referring to two other tenants, but Weaver never sees them. One day Weaver drinks a cup of tea prepared by his landlady and becomes completely immobile. The landlady has a hobby of collecting and stuffing her "pets", which include the tenants that she likes.
211	20	"The Throwback"	John Brahm	Henry Slesar	Scott Marlowe, Murray Matheson, Joyce Meadows	February 28, 1961 (1961-02-28)
Enid (Meadows) has two lovers, Eliot Gray (Marlowe) and Cyril Hardeen (Matheson). The two men meet, and the older and more sophisticated Cyril frames Eliot for beating Cyril up. Enid refuses to believe the truth and leaves Eliot for Cyril.
212	21	"The Kiss-Off"	Alan Crosland, Jr.	Story by : John P. Foran Teleplay by : Talmage Powell	Rip Torn	March 7, 1961 (1961-03-07)
Ernie Walters (Torn) is newly released from prison after serving six years for a crime that he was only just proven to be innocent of. In order to get back at the detective and district attorney who convicted him, Ernie robs the tax office and leaves just enough "flaws" in his plan that the detective and DA suspect that he is the culprit, but are unable to pursue a case against him.
213	22	"The Horseplayer"	Alfred Hitchcock	Henry Slesar	Claude Rains, Ed Gardner	March 14, 1961 (1961-03-14)
The newest arrival at Father Amion's (Rains) church is Sheridan (Gardner), a gambler who believes that prayer has caused his recent success at the horse races. Father Amion disapproves of gambling but, due to shortage of funds to fix the church, gives Sheridan his life savings on a "sure" winning horse. Father Amion is quickly remorseful and prays that the horse lose instead. Sheridan returns with news that the horse just missed winning, and declares that he will stop gambling, which pleases Father Amion. However, Father Amion is surprised to get his money back with a little extra, because Sheridan put his bet on the horse to place, not to win.
214	23	"Incident in a Small Jail"	Norman Lloyd	Henry Slesar	John Fiedler, Richard Jaeckel, Ron Nicholas	March 21, 1961 (1961-03-21)
Traveling salesman Leon Gorwald (Fiedler) is arrested for jaywalking in a small town and placed in jail with a suspected serial killer (Jaeckel). The suspect escapes just before a lynch mob storms the prison, and Gorwald is mistakenly taken to be hanged, but is saved by the sheriff at the last moment. However, the escaped suspect was an innocent man, and Gorwald is the real killer.
215	24	"A Woman's Help"	Arthur Hiller	Henry Slesar	Geraldine Fitzgerald, Scott McKay, Antoinette Bower	March 28, 1961 (1961-03-28)
Arnold (McKay) is controlled by his domineering but invalid wife, Elizabeth (Fitzgerald). When the attractive Miss Greco (Bower) is hired as Elizabeth's nurse, she and Arnold begin an affair and slowly poison Elizabeth by overdosing her medicine. Before she can die, Elizabeth catches them kissing and fires Miss Greco. Elizabeth then hires an older woman to be her nurse, not knowing that the woman is Arnold's mother, who helps him continue to poison Elizabeth.
216	25	"Museum Piece"	Paul Henreid	Story by : William C. Morrison Teleplay by : Harold Swanton	Larry Gates, Myron McCormick	April 4, 1961 (1961-04-04)
Mr. Hollister (Gates) is curator of a small museum that displays trinkets and human remains. He is visited by Newton B. Clovis (McCormick) who claims to be an archaeo-psychologist. Hollister tells him that the museum's collection was made by his son, Ben, who died after being erroneously convicted of first degree murder. It is revealed that the modern skeleton in the museum belongs to the district attorney who convicted Ben, and Clovis is investigating that murder.
217	26	"Coming, Mama"	George Stevens, Jr.	Story by : Henriette McClelland Teleplay by : James Cavanagh	Eileen Heckart, Don DeFore	April 11, 1961 (1961-04-11)
Lucy (Heckart) has waited on her malingering mother her whole life, to the point where she is not allowed to get married. When Lucy's lover Arthur (DeFore) proposes for the last time, Lucy overdoses her mother's sleeping medicine successfully. However, after Lucy marries Arthur, she discovers that Arthur's mother is exactly the same kind of demanding, malingering woman that her mother had been.
218	27	"Deathmate"	Alan Crosland, Jr.	Story by : James Causey Teleplay by : Bill S. Ballinger	Lee Philips, Gia Scala, Russell Collins	April 18, 1961 (1961-04-18)
Fred Sheldon (Philips) is a con artist who targets wealthy married women. His current con on Lisa Talbot (Scala) is threatened by private detective Alvin Moss (Collins), who knows about his past. Fred murders Lisa's husband, but then learns that Moss was hired by Lisa, who used Fred to kill her husband.
219	28	"Gratitude"	Alan Crosland, Jr.	Story by : Donne Byrne Teleplay by : William Fay	Peter Falk, Paul Hartman	April 25, 1961 (1961-04-25)
New York, 1916. Meyer Fine (Falk) is a casino owner with a crippling fear of death. When he makes a mistake that threatens his business, his former partners put a hit out on him. Meyer is terrified of waiting for them to act, so he begs his loyal valet, John (Hartman) to help kill him first.
220	29	"The Pearl Necklace"	Don Weis	Peggy and Lou Shaw	Hazel Court, Ernest Truex, Jack Cassidy	May 2, 1961 (1961-05-02)
Wealthy 65-year-old Howard Rutherford (Truex) proposes to 25-year-old Charlotte (Court). Charlotte's current lover, Mark (Cassidy), makes Charlotte accept so they can live on Howard's fortune when he dies. However, Howard lives on for years, and Mark marries someone else and has a son. Howard finally dies at 90, and to Mark's dismay, Charlotte begins a new love affair with his son, Billy, who is 20 years old.
221	30	"You Can't Trust a Man"	Paul Henreid	Helen Nielsen	Polly Bergen, Joe Maross	May 9, 1961 (1961-05-09)
Successful singer Crystal Coe (Bergen) tried to erase all evidence of her sordid past, and the only person who knows the truth is Tony, her husband, who spent seven years in prison after taking the fall for Crystal's petty theft. Crystal shoots Tony and makes it seem as though she was protecting herself from a random stalker. However, she learns that Tony filed for an invention patent and the police are tracking down his beneficiaries.
222	31	"The Gloating Place"	Alan Crosland, Jr.	Robert Bloch	Susan Harrison, Henry Brandt	May 16, 1961 (1961-05-16)
Lonely high school student Susan Harper (Harrison) pretends that she was attacked by a masked man in order to get attention. She is successful, but when the community moves on to the next big news, she strangles the school's most popular girl to make it seem as though the "masked man" is responsible. Susan is pleased to be relevant again, but her actions have inspired a copycat masked man, who attacks and strangles her.
223	32	"Self Defense"	Paul Henreid	John T. Kelley	George Nader, Audrey Totter	May 23, 1961 (1961-05-23)
Gerald Clark (Nader) is a former soldier with PTSD. When he is held at gunpoint by a young robber, he shoots the boy, killing him. Although Gerald is exonerated by the police, the boy's mother, Mrs. Philips (Trotter), confronts Gerald with a gun, demanding to know why he made three killing shots in a row. After a stand-off, Mrs. Philips puts the gun away, but Gerald is triggered by her gun and shoots her repeatedly.
224	33	"A Secret Life"	Don Weis	Story by : Nicholas Monsarrat Teleplay by : Jerry Sohl	Ronald Howard, Mary Murphy, Patricia Donahue	May 31, 1961 (1961-05-31)
James (Howard) wants to divorce his wife Marjorie (Donahue), but has no grounds for it. He reluctantly hires a private investigator who tails after Marjorie, and is shocked to hear that his wife has been throwing parties and has an actor as her lover. James is jealous and reconciles with Marjorie, but later learns that the PI had been following the wrong woman, an actress who looks very similar to Marjorie.
225	34	"Servant Problem"	Alan Crosland, Jr.	Henry Slesar	Jo Van Fleet, John Emery	June 6, 1961 (1961-06-06)
Successful author Kerwin Drake (Emery) receives a surprise visit from Molly (Fleet), the wife he walked out on 22 years ago. Kerwin has made a new life for himself and refuses to acknowledge Molly; instead he tells his friends that she is his cook. Later, Kerwin visits Molly at her apartment and, after an argument, strangles her to death. The murder is witnessed by one of Kerwin's friends, who was at the apartment to hire Molly as a cook.
226	35	"Coming Home"	Alf Kjellin	Henry Slesar	Crahan Denton, Jeanette Nolan	June 13, 1961 (1961-06-13)
Harry Beggs (Denton) leaves prison with over $1,600 of back pay from 20 years of working in the prison work camps. He stops at a bar and is tricked by a young woman named Angela into getting drunk, and all of his money is stolen. Later Harry goes to his estranged wife Edith's (Nolan) house for a reunion, and is dismayed to meet Angela there — she is his daughter.
227	36	"Final Arrangements"	Gordon Hessler	Story by : Lawrence A. Page Teleplay by : Robert Arthur	Martin Balsam, Vivian Nathan, Slim Pickens	June 20, 1961 (1961-06-20)
Leonard Thompson (Balsam) is tired of being stuck with his invalid wife Elise (Nathan) and longs for adventure anywhere else. He buys poison and makes lavish arrangements with a funeral home, but it is not for her — instead, Leonard commits suicide.
228	37	"Make My Death Bed"	Arthur Hiller	Story by : Babs H. Deal Teleplay by : Henry A. Cogge	Diana Van der Vlis, James Best	June 27, 1961 (1961-06-27)
Married Elise Taylor (der Vlis) is having an affair with married Bish Darby (Best). While Bish's wife is away, Elise's husband walks in on the pair and shoots Bish dead. When the police call Bish's wife, she confesses to the murder, thinking that Bish drank her poisoned saccharin.
229	38	"Ambition"	Paul Henreid	Story by : Charles Boeckman Teleplay by : Joel Murcott	Leslie Nielsen, Harold J. Stone	July 4, 1961 (1961-07-04)
District attorney Rudy Cox (Nielsen) has been hiding his relationship with racketeer Marc Davis (Stone), who saved his life in the war years ago. Davis secretly meets Cox to tell him that he is going straight and will leave the business. However, the next day a crucial witness is killed and Davis' only alibi is that he was with Cox at the time of the murder, but Cox refuses to acknowledge Davis.

Season 7 (1961–62)

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Stars	Original air date
230	1	"The Hatbox"	Alan Crosland, Jr.	Henry Slesar	Paul Ford, Billy Gray	October 10, 1961 (1961-10-10)
Professor Jarvis is a teacher of anatomy who discovers that one of his students Perry Hatch is cheating on an exam. Perry pleads for forgiveness, but Jarvis threatens to tell Perry's father. Later, Perry visits Jarvis to try to get him to change his mind. At Jarvis's house, Perry sees the professor disposing of an old hat box. Knowing that Jarvis's wife Margaret has not been seen in a while, he begins to suspect foul play. He examines the hat box and discovers a brand new hat, which is very unlikely to be thrown away. Perry informs a police inspector named Roman who interviews Jarvis. Jarvis claims that he and his wife are separated and denies that there has been any wrongdoing. Roman accepts Jarvis's story and returns his wife's hat. Jarvis takes the hat to his study. He places the hat on a skeleton hanging there and says "Goodnight, Margaret"..
231	2	"Bang! You're Dead"	Alfred Hitchcock	Story by : Margery Vosper Teleplay by : Harold Swanton	Bill Mumy	October 17, 1961 (1961-10-17)
Six-year old Jackie Chester is delighted when his Uncle Rick arrives from Africa with a surprise gift. Unable to wait until Rick unpacks, Jackie goes through his Uncle's bags and finds a gun and ammunition. Jackie thinks it is a toy, the gift his uncle promised. He goes outside to play with it. Jackie's parents and Uncle Rick discover that Jackie is on the loose with a loaded gun and set out frantically to find him. After aiming and not firing the gun at various people, Jackie goes home and asks the maid to play with him. When she says she's too busy, Jackie aims the gun and fires it at her. Uncle Rick and the parents arrive just in time to deflect the shot.
232	3	"Maria"	Boris Sagal	Story by : John Wyndham Teleplay by : John Collier	Nita Talbot, Norman Lloyd	October 24, 1961 (1961-10-24)
Leo Torbey works at a carnival and wakes one day after a night of drinking to discover that he has bought a strange monkey for his sideshow. The monkey is actually a dwarf named Maria who draws portraits of people while disguised as a monkey. Maria falls in love with Leo, which causes problems with Leo's wife Carol. When Leo is away, El Magnifico tries to seduce Carol. Maria draws a picture depicting Carol and El Magnifico in an embrace. Seeing the picture, Leo accuses Carol of cheating on him. He throws her out after an angry denial. Finally having Leo all to herself, Maria confesses her love for Leo. Angrily, Leo spurns her affections and sells her to another carny named Benny. Leo writes to his wife begging her to return. Unfortunately, Leo is killed by an angry Benny who was driven to a murderous rage after he saw a drawing of Maria that showed Leo and Benny's wife in a romantic embrace.
233	4	"Cop for a Day"	Paul Henreid	Henry Slesar	Walter Matthau	October 31, 1961 (1961-10-31)
Phil and Davey are two stick-up men who get into trouble when Davey shoots a bank messenger during a hold up. There is a witness to the crime and when the messenger dies Phil realizes that they now face a murder charge. He is determined to eliminate the witness. He devises a plan, but refuses to tell Davey about it. Phil disguises himself as a policeman and manages to bluff his way past the guards at the witness's apartment. He kills the witness and makes a successful escape. Later, when he returns to his hideout he is shot by Davey, who mistakes him for a real cop coming to arrest him.
234	5	"Keep Me Company"	Alan Crosland, Jr.	Henry Slesar	Anne Francis	November 7, 1961 (1961-11-07)
When her husband Marco tells her that he is working late again with his brother, Julia Reddy is angry. Later when she hears a noise, she calls the police. The police think it's a false alarm, but she gets an idea. She calls a detective and asks him to find the prowler. When the detective arrives, she tries to seduce him. Marco arrives, but when he sees the pair he doesn't get jealous. He tries to run away. The detective apprehends Marco and Julie discovers that Marco and his brother have been robbing warehouses at night. Her unwitting trick on her husband has gotten him arrested.
235	6	"Beta Delta Gamma"	Alan Crosland, Jr.	Calvin Clements	Burt Brinckerhoff, Barbara Steele	November 14, 1961 (1961-11-14)
Mark and Alan are frat boys. During a party at a beachfront frat house, Mark challenges Alan to a drinking contest. Alan drinks a full pitcher of beer, but Mark refuses to do the same. Alan becomes angry, but he and Mark eventually pass out. Alan's frat brothers decide to play a joke on him by injecting Mark with a substance to make him appear dead. They place a bloody weapon in Alan's hand, hoping that when he wakes up he'll think he killed Mark. The pranks goes off according to plan until Alan decides to cover up the "murder". He buries Mark's body on the beach. When the prank is revealed to him, he desperately returns to the beach. Unfortunately the high tide has washed away all traces of Mark's grave.
236	7	"You Can't Be a Little Girl All Your Life"	Norman Lloyd	Story by : Stanley Ellin Teleplay by : Helen Nielsen	Dick York	November 21, 1961 (1961-11-21)
While her husband is away, Julie Barton is attacked in her home by an intruder. She doesn't get a good look at him, but manages to fight him off. In the process of fighting she rips one of the intruder's leather gloves. Julie is terrified. When she goes to identify the intruder in a police line up she wears a pair of dark sunglasses. She identifies one of the men and her husband Tom attacks him. Unfortunately Tom breaks his own leg. Later, as Tom is preparing to go to the doctor's, Julie notices a ripped leather glove in his possession. Tom reveals that pressure from work has caused him to have a breakdown. He admits that he snapped and was the man that attacked her. Julie goes to the police and tells them they got the wrong man.
237	8	"The Old Pro"	Paul Henreid	Story by : H. A. De Rosso Teleplay by : Calvin Clements	Richard Conte	November 28, 1961 (1961-11-28)
Loretta Burns is under the mistaken impression that her husband Frank is really a former engineer. Frank is actually a retired hit man. When a man threatens to tell Loretta about Frank's past, Frank kills him and his partner. Hearing the news Frank's ex-boss insists that Frank return to work. He tell Frank that if he doesn't his wife may end up getting rubbed out.
238	9	"I Spy"	Norman Lloyd	Story by : John Mortimer Teleplay by : John Collier	Kay Walsh, William Kendall	December 5, 1961 (1961-12-05)
A private detective named Frute is hired by a man named Captain Morgan in order to spy on his wife. Morgan is convinced that his wife is cheating on him. As Frute starts following Mrs. Morgan, he begins to fall for her. The two begin an affair though Mrs. Morgan does not know he was hired to spy on her. Later, Captain Morgan demands evidence of his wife's infidelity. Frute gives him detailed descriptions of his own meetings with Mrs. Morgan. Angrily, Morgan files for divorce and thus clears the way for a relationship between Frute and Mrs. Morgan.
239	10	"Services Rendered"	Paul Henreid	Richard Levinson & William Link	Hugh Marlowe	December 12, 1961 (1961-12-12)
While passing a construction site a young man is hit on the head and gets amnesia. He can't remember who he is or where he was going. The only clues he finds in his wallet: a thousand dollar bill and the name of Dr. Ralph Mannix. He visits Mannix, but the doctor doesn't recognize him. The doctor suggests that something familiar may trigger his memories to return. He sees a picture of the doctor's wife and wonders whether he has a wife of his own. Later his memory returns. He realizes that the thousand dollars was from the doctor's wife. He's a hitman and she hired him to kill her husband. He visits the doctor again and fulfills his contract.
240	11	"The Right Kind of Medicine"	Alan Crosland, Jr.	Henry Slesar	Robert Redford, Joby Baker	December 19, 1961 (1961-12-19)
Charlie Pugh is a burgler who one day kills a policeman in a shootout. Unfortunately, there is a witness and Charlie himself is injured. Charlie visits Dr. Vogel who prescribes pain killers. When he goes to the drug store he hears his own description on the drug store's radio. The pharmacist, Mr. Fletcher, doesn't realize Charlie is the murder and gives him the painkillers. Later Charlie returns to his apartment, but doesn't take the pain killers. He wants to stay alert in case he has to make a run for it. He decides to skip town and heads for the bus station. As he's leaving for the bus station, he sees Vernon, a clerk at the drugstore. Thinking that Vernon knows that he is a criminal, he kills him and leaves. Mr. Fletcher is called to identify Vernon's body. When he arrives, he reveals that he sent Vernon to Charlie's because he made a mistake in his prescription. Instead of giving him painkillers, he gave him a bottle of poison.
241	12	"A Jury of Her Peers"	Robert Florey	Story by : Susan Glaspell Teleplay by : James Cavanagh	Ann Harding	December 26, 1961 (1961-12-26)
Millie Wright is arrested for the murder of her husband. She is later released for lack of evidence. Millie's neighbor Sarah Hale and the sheriff's wife Mary Peters decide to do some investigating on their own. They find evidence that Millie is the murderer, but they also discovered that Millie's husband was a violent brute who probably deserved what he got. Instead of turning in the evidence, the two decide to say nothing.
242	13	"The Silk Petticoat"	John Newland	Story by : Joseph Shearing Teleplay by : Halsted Welles & Norman Ginsbury	Michael Rennie, Antoinette Bower	January 2, 1962 (1962-01-02)
Elisa Minden begins to have second thoughts about marrying Sir Humphrey J. Orford. She has these second thoughts because he took her to his wife's grave and talked about torture as a way of purifying those guilty of infidelity. After she is married, Elisa's worst fears come true when she discovers that Humphrey's first wife is not dead. She is really locked in his study and has been kept there for years. She is now insane and cannot call for help because Humphrey had her tongue out for adultery.
243	14	"Bad Actor"	John Newland	Story by : Max Franklin Teleplay by : Robert Bloch	Robert Duvall, William Schallert	January 9, 1962 (1962-01-09)
Bart Conway is a struggling actor with a bad temper and a drinking problem. He finds himself competing with a fellow actor Jerry Lane for the part of a strangler in an upcoming mystery. He invites Jerry over to his apartment for a little rehearsing. Bart gets a little too into character and chokes Jerry to death. To cover up his crime he chops up the body and dissolves most of it in acid. The police stop by to question him about Jerry's disappearance, but they find nothing amiss. They begin to leave. As they leave one of the police notices Bart's ice bucket which contains Jerry's undissolved head.
244	15	"The Door Without a Key"	Herschel Daugherty	Story by : Norman Daniels Teleplay by : Irving Elman	Claude Rains, Bill Mumy	January 16, 1962 (1962-01-16)
Captain Shaw works the night shift at a police station when he is approached by an old man who is suffering from amnesia. A lost boy then appears. Shaw tries to send the man to a hospital and the boy to home. Both, however, refuse to go. Eventually more people arrive. Each lost in some way or another. Eventually Shaw manages to clear out everyone, but the boy and the old man. The boy reveals that his father left him at the police station so that he would be sent to a home. When he hears this, the old man's memory returns. He is wealthy and has lost his family. He lives all alone in an enormous mansion. Shaw urges the old man to adopt the boy so that both of them can have a family.
245	16	"The Case of M.J.H."	Alan Crosland, Jr.	Henry Slesar	Barbara Baxley, Robert Loggia	January 23, 1962 (1962-01-23)
Psychiatrist Dr. Cooper employs Maude Sheridan who falls for a crook named Jimmy French. French convinces her to allow him to look at Dr. Cooper's private files. He wants to blackmail one of his patients. French picks the file of M.J. Harrison. He discovers that Harrison had an affair with a woman named Diana. French approaches Harrison and demands money. Harrison agrees, but kills French instead. Dr. Cooper tells Maude the bad news about French. He then reveals that Harrison never had an affair. It was all the product of his disturbed mind. He believed the delusion so strongly, however, he was willing to kill to protect it.
246	17	"The Faith of Aaron Menefee"	Norman Lloyd	Story by : Stanley Ellin Teleplay by : Ray Bradbury	Andrew Prine, Olan Soule	January 30, 1962 (1962-01-30)
Reverend Otis Jones is a faith healer who stops at a service station to get his car repaired. The station's owner Aaron Menefee is an honest man who impresses the reverend so much that he agrees to cure his ulcer. Aaron becomes attracted to Rev. Jones's daughter Emily. He quits his job and joins the reverend's revival show. Aaron wants to marry Emily, but the reverend does not give his permission. The reverend does not believe Aaron's faith in him is strong enough for him to marry his daughter. Later the revival returns to Aaron's town. Aaron discovers that the town doctor is being held by two hoodlums, one of whom is injured. Aaron believes that this is a test of faith. He calls for Reverend Jones to cure the injured man. The hoodlums warn that Jones will be killed if his faith healing does not work. The end result in never shown, but Aaron wins either way. Either the faith healing works and Aaron's faith is demonstrated, or the faith healing fails and Jones is killed. In either case, it seems that Aaron will be free to marry Emily.
247	18	"The Woman Who Wanted to Live"	Alan Crosland, Jr.	Bryce Walton	Lola Albright, Charles Bronson	February 6, 1962 (1962-02-06)
After killing a gas station attendant in a robbery attempt, a wounded Ray Bardon stops a girl named Lisa and demands to be driven to safety. Lisa realizing that her life is in danger agrees. As she drives, Ray falls asleep. Suddenly the car gets a flat tire. Instead of making an escape, Lisa changes the tire. Later the two stop at a hotel. Ray wonders about the girl's loyalty and asks why she didn't run and go to the police. As he talks, Lisa manages to get his gun. She reveals that the gas station attendant was her fiancee and that she didn't leave because she was waiting for an opportunity to kill Ray.
248	19	"Strange Miracle"	Norman Lloyd	Story by : George Langelaan Teleplay by : Halsted Welles	Eduardo Ciannelli, Míriam Colón	February 13, 1962 (1962-02-13)
Pedro Sicueros fakes paralysis after a train wreck in order to collect a huge insurance settlement. After collecting the money he doesn't want to stay in the wheelchair. He meets a young girl named Maria who is really paralyzed. He discovers that she has been going to a nearby holy shrine for years hoping for a cure. Pedro gets an idea. He visits the shrine and begins to pray. On the fifth day of his prayer he stands and pretends to be healed. After he stands, his legs collapse. He discovers that he is now paralyzed for real. At the same time, some distance away, Maria is cured.
249	20	"The Test"	Boris Sagal	Henry Slesar	Brian Keith, Eduardo Ciannelli	February 20, 1962 (1962-02-20)
Vernon Wedge is an attorney who is approached by the father of Benjy Marino. Benjy is accused of stabbing another boy with a knife. Vernon decides to take the case, but his case for the defense seems hopeless until he discovers a special test that can determine if a knife blade ever had blood on it. He tries to conduct the test in court, but the prosecution resists. Even without the test, however, Vernon manages to get Benjy off. Later, Vernon decides to conduct the test in order to determine whether Benjy was really innocent. Before he can conduct the test Benjy's father arrives and cuts himself with the murder weapon. By doing so, he prevents Vernon from ever knowing the truth about the case.
250	21	"Burglar Proof"	John Newland	Henry Slesar	Robert Webber, Whit Bissell	February 27, 1962 (1962-02-27)
Harrison Fell is an ad executive that needs to come up with an ad campaign to sell the 801 Burglar-Proof safe. Harrison invites the press and a notorious safe-cracker Sammy Morrisey to a gala ball. He challenges Sammy to open the safe in less than three hours. If Sammy can do it, he can keep an envelope containing $50,000 dollars that is being kept within the safe. If he can't, then he gets some consolation prize. Initially Sammy is reluctant. He has given up on safe-cracking and is trying out a new profession. Eventually, he agrees. At the party, Harrison puts the envelope in the safe and locks it. Sammy is given three hours, but he fails to open the safe. He is given the consolation prize. Harrison is pleased since his advertising plan is a success. Later, however, he opens the safe and discovers that the envelope contains worthless paper and no money. Sammy pulled a switch. His new profession is as a pick-pocket.
251	22	"The Big Score"	Boris Sagal	Story by : Sam Merwin, Jr. Teleplay by : Bryce Walton	Evans Evans	March 6, 1962 (1962-03-06)
Dora baby-sits for a wealthy F. Hubert Fellowes. She plans to rob him with her boyfriend Mike and his buddy Gino. The three carry out the robbery, but as they are about to leave Fellowes returns and tries to stop them. He is shot and killed. The three make off with $32,000. A hitman named Murphy tracks them down and kills them. Fellowes was a big-time gangster and the mob sent out a hitman for revenge.
252	23	"Profit-Sharing Plan"	Bernard Girard	Richard Levinson & William Link	Henry Jones	March 13, 1962 (1962-03-13)
On Miles Cheever's last day of work, he is given a retirement party. When he comes home, his wife tells him that he deserved more for fifteen years. Miles agrees and that night goes to office and robs the safe. Intending to leave his wife, he heads to the airport where he is met by his girlfriend. A stewardess, however, tells Miles to put his suitcase in a rear storage compartment. Though the suitcase contains the money from the office, Miles reluctantly agrees. Later as he waits on the plane, he learns that a bomb threat has been called in. Since the police are searching the bags, he worries that he will be caught. What he doesn't realize is that his wife called in the bomb threat. She knew he was having an affair and called the threat in so he'd get caught.
253	24	"Apex"	Alan Crosland, Jr.	Story by : James Workman Teleplay by : John T. Kelley	Patricia Breslin, Mark Miller	March 20, 1962 (1962-03-20)
Claude is cheating on his wife Clara with Clara's best friend Margo. Since Clara has been having problems with Claude, Clara asks Margo for advice. She wonders whether she should maker Claude the president of the company she knows. Clara tells Claude that his wife is going to divorce him. Since he will be left broke after a divorce, Margo suggests that Claude kill his wife. Claude tries to, but has second thoughts. Later she tells Margo that he will hire someone to do it. Margo decides to kill Clara herself. She offers Clara poisoned laced tea. Clarea drinks it and dies. A man named Weeks arrives and Margo pretends to be Clara in an effort to get rid of him. The man says he is here to collect an envelope with two thousand dollars in it. She gets the envelope and then kills Margo thinking she was Clara. Weeks was the hitman hired by Claude to kill his wife. The two thousand dollars was his payment.
254	25	"The Last Remains"	Leonard Horn	Henry Slesar	Ed Gardner, John Fiedler	March 27, 1962 (1962-03-27)
Marvin Foley is trying to arrange a burial for his late partner. He approaches a mortician, Amos Duff, and asks for advice. Since Amos's business is in need of money, he recommends the costly Class A service. Marvin, however, rejects the idea preferring a cremation without the Class A treatment. Later Amos discovers signs of foul play in the death of Marvin's partner. He approaches Marvin who agrees to buy a Class A funeral if Amos keeps his mouth shut. After the cremation, Marvin refuses to pay and tells Amos that nothing can be done since all the evidence was just destroyed. Amos, however, has kept one crucial piece of evidence: the fire-proof hunting buller Marvin used to commit murder.
255	26	"Ten O'Clock Tiger"	Bernard Girard	William Fay	Frankie Darro, Robert Keith	April 3, 1962 (1962-04-03)
Boxing manager Arthur Duffy is offered a powerful drug by a shady character named Boots Murphy. Boots tells him it is a drug used on race horses to turn losers into winners. Arthur decides to use the drug on one of his washed up fighters named Soldier Fresno. After Soldier is injected with the drug, he starts to win. Arthur and Boots begin to rake in the money. Soon Soldier gets a bout with the champion. Before the fight, however, Boots tells Arthur that he only has two more doses of the drug. Determined to win the fight, Arthur injects Soldier with both doses. Unfortunately the overdose causes Soldier to believe that he is already in the ring. He springs up and starts fighting. He beats Arthur to death.
256	27	"Act of Faith"	Bernard Girard	Eric Ambler	George Grizzard, Dennis King	April 10, 1962 (1962-04-10)
Alan Chatterton, an unsuccessful writer, sends successful author Ralston Temple a letter along with three sample chapters from his novel in progress. Alice, Temple's secretary, convinces her boss that the chapters are good and that he should meet the writer and perhaps give him money to finish his book. Temple agrees to meet Chatterton, but finds him an obnoxious boor. Nevertheless he gives him a six month loan. Six months later, Temple continues to fund Chatterton even though the book is not completed. Chatterton shows up again and asks for a thousand dollars so he can get married. Temple gives into the request, but later finds Chatterton partying in an expensive restaurant. Temple confronts Chatterton and rips up their contract. He then goes on vacation. Later, Alice tells Temple that Chatterton has finished his book. It is a best-seller and is going to be made into a movie. Temple shows up at a store where Chatterton is autographing his book. To Temple's surprise, Chatterton gives him an autographed copy of his book plus all the money he owed him with interest.
257	28	"The Kerry Blue"	Paul Henreid	Henry Slesar	Carmen Mathews, Gene Evans	April 17, 1962 (1962-04-17)
Ned Malley loves Annie his old dog, a Kerry Blue. Ned's wife Thelma grows jealous. Though she likes the dog, she thinks her husband's love for it is unhealthy. One day, Annie dies. Ned accuses his wife of murder. He slips an overdose of sleeping pills into her hot chocolate. As she slips into unconsciousness, Ned hears familiar barking. He goes to investigate, but trips on fatally injures himself. A neighbor calls the police who come and revive Thelma. As her dead husband is being taken away she wonders whether she should have bought him a new Kerry Blue.
258	29	"The Matched Pearl"	Bernard Girard	Henry Slesar	John Ireland, Ernest Truex	April 24, 1962 (1962-04-24)
A jeweler sells a $5000 black pearl left with him by Captain McCabe. He then cheats McCabe out of some of the money owed to him. Hubert Wilkens, the pearl's buyer, asks the jeweler for a second matched pearl. The jeweler returns to McCabe. McCabe can provide one, but since he has been cheated he demands more money. Figuring that he can charge Wilkens a much larger amount, the jeweler agrees. Unfortunately the jeweler disocvers that he has been conned. McCabe and Wilkens were working together. The jeweler bought the same pearl twice.
259	30	"What Frightened You, Fred?"	Paul Henreid	Story by : Jack Ritchie Teleplay by : Joel Murcott	Edward Asner, R. G. Armstrong	May 1, 1962 (1962-05-01)
Fred Riordan is a recent parole who gets into a bar fight and is thrown back into prison. The prison warden, who is also running for governor, and the prison doctor believe Fred is simply afraid to cope with the outside world. They try to find out why. Fred tells them that when he got out of prison he went to his old neighborhood and realized that no one wanted him around. He tells them that he was contacted by a mobster named Tony Wando who wanted him to kill an associate of his. Fred tells them that he pretended to go along with it, but arranged to go back to prison to get out of the deal. Warden Bragen feels sorry for Fred and arranges for him to get a comfortable desk job in the warden's office after a month of laundry detail and good behavior. This is perfect for Fred because it is Warden Bragen that he was in fact contracted to hit.
260	31	"Most Likely to Succeed"	Richard Whorf	Henry Slesar	Joanna Moore, Howard Morris	May 8, 1962 (1962-05-08)
In college, Dave Sumner was voted most likely to succeed. Nowadays, however, he has had a run of bad luck. He takes a job from Stanley Towers, a shady businessman. Stanley's business is being investigated by the government. At a meeting with the IRS, however, Stanley is shocked to discover that Dave is really an undercover Treasury Department agent. He only pretended to be down on his luck so he could get the goods on Stanley's shady business dealings.
261	32	"Victim Four"	Paul Henreid	Talmage Powell	Peggy Ann Garner, John Lupton	May 15, 1962 (1962-05-15)
While on their honeymoon, Joe and Madeline Drake get into an accident that leaves him with a bad leg and her with painful headaches. Later, Joe discovers that Madeline's old boyfriend Ralph Morrow sent her an expensive wedding present. When Ralph shows up at their house, Joe become paranoid. He is worried that Ralph is responsible for a number of butcher knife murders that have been occurring in their neighborhood. Joe goes to search for his wife, as does Ralph. Meanwhile, Madeline is walking home. She hears someone behind her. She ducks into an alley, but is followed. Joe arrives on the scene only to discover Madeline standing over Ralph's bloody corpse. She confesses to her husband that she thought someone was following her and killed to protect herself. She then admits that it has happened three times before when her headaches struck.
262	33	"The Opportunity"	Robert Florey	Story by : J. W. Aaron Teleplay by : Bryce Walton & Henry Slesar	Richard Long, Coleen Gray	May 22, 1962 (1962-05-22)
APaul Devore is an unhappily married department store manager. When he catches Lois Callen shoplifting he hatches an idea. He tells Lois that he will not turn her in, if she agrees to be part of a plan of his. Paul wants a divorce, but his wife refuses to give him one because she doesn't want him to take half of everything they own. When his wife is out of the house, he invites Lois over. Lois arrives and discovers the house burglarized. The burglary, however, is really Paul's doing. He hopes that his wife Kate will divorce him now that her treasured possessions are all gone. Paul asks Lois to tie him up. She does so and leaves. Later Kate arrives and tells Paul how lucky he is that the burglars didn't kill him. Instead of freeing her husband, however, she takes this opportunity to kill him.
263	34	"The Twelve Hour Caper"	John Newland	Story by : Mike Marmer Teleplay by : Harold Swanton	Dick York	May 29, 1962 (1962-05-29)
Herbert J. Wiggam works at an investment firm for Sylvester Tupper. Tupper treats him employees like slaves. Knowing that a $565,000 bond is about to arrive Herbert and two other disgruntled employees decide to steal it. The plan to hide the bonds in the garbage can until the police leave. The plan goes awry, however, when one of the policemen knocks over the garbage can. The plot is not foiled, however. An old cleaning lady arrives just in time to scoop up the papers and takes them out with the trash. Later, Herbert arrives at the airport. He is headed for South America. He arrives with the cleaning lady who is, in fact, his mother.
264	35	"The Children of Alda Nuova"	Robert Florey	Robert Wallsten	Jack Carson, Christopher Dark	June 5, 1962 (1962-06-05)
Frankie Fane is an American gangster hiding from United States law enforcement in Italy. He is wanted by U.S. officials because he use to sell drugs to schoolchildren. At the suggestion of an American tourist named Ainsley Crowder, Frankie visits an old Etruscan village named Alda Nouva. While on a tour, the children of the village rob him. They then toss him into a deep pit to slowly die. America officials manage to trace Frankie to the village. When they discover that he has vanished, they decide to give up the search, thinking that justice has not been served.
265	36	"First Class Honeymoon"	Don Weis	Henry Slesar	Robert Webber, Jeremy Slate	June 12, 1962 (1962-06-12)
Edward Gibson, a recent divorcee, must make alimony payments of $2000 every month. One day an artist arrives at his house and offers to sell him a portrait of his ex-wife for $2500. Edward throws him out, but keeps the painting. Later Carl Seabrook arrives and tells Edward that he will marry his ex-wife if Edward gives him $5000. If Gloria is married, Edward will not have to pay alimony. Edward accepts the offer and pays Carl $3000 up front. Later that day, Edward heads over to his ex-wife's house. He wants to give her the painting as a wedding gift. At his ex-wife's, he discovers her dead of a heart attack. He later discovers that his ex-wife died earlier that morning and that Carl was with her at the time. After his ex-wife died Carl approached him with his offer. Cheated out of $3000, Edward angrily calls Carl only to discover that he has left town going on a first class honeymoon with a stunning new wife.
266	37	"The Big Kick"	Alan Crosland, Jr.	Robert Bloch	Anne Helm, Wayne Rogers	June 19, 1962 (1962-06-19)
Mitch and Judy are out-of-work beatniks in need of money. At a party held by one of Mitch's friends Bruce, Judy meets an older man named Kenneth. Kenneth is not a beatnik, but he likes to attend their parties. He asks Judy on a date. Mitch encourages Judy to date Kenneth because he seems to have money. Kenneth gives Judy a diamond bracelet which Mitch takes and tries to sell to a jeweler. The jeweler has Mitch arrested. It seems that the bracelet Kenneth gave to Judy was in fact stolen. With Mitch in prison, Kenneth who is actually a beatnik-hater stabs Judy to death in her apartment.
267	38	"Where Beauty Lies"	Robert Florey	Story by : Henry Farrell Teleplay by : James Cavanagh	Cloris Leachman, George Nader	June 26, 1962 (1962-06-26)
Caroline Hardy keeps house for her famous brother, the actor Collin Hardy. Disappointed in her own life, she seeks escape by increasing her involvement in her brother's career. When Caroline learns through subterfuge that Collin's girlfriend will be joining him in their acting troupe's out-of-town rehearsals, Caroline hatches a plot in a jealous rage. The result of that rage is an explosion of house painting fluids that renders Collin blind. Caroline tries to act the part of the comforter, also encouraging her brother not to dwell on the supposed loss of his good looks.
268	39	"The Sorcerer's Apprentice"	Joseph Lejtes	Robert Bloch	Brandon deWilde, Diana Dors	Unaired in network run
Hugo is a mentally challenged boy without a home. He is taken in by a kind carnival magician Sadini. Sadini's deceiful wife, Irene, performs in her husband's act as the woman whose body is, supposedly, sawed in half. Irene manipulates Hugo into killing her husband. She says she wants to start a new act with Hugo and convinces him that he can perform the sawing the woman in half trick because the magic is in the wand. Hugo killes Sadini for her, but then she backs out on her promise. Hugo knocks out Irene in a struggle. He then decides to attempt the trick and ends up sawing Irene in half for real.

Season 8 (1962–63)

Beginning with this season, the program was expanded to an hour and re-titled The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Stars	Original air date
269	1	"A Piece of the Action"	Bernard Girard	Alfred Hayes	Gig Young, Robert Redford, Martha Hyer, Gene Evans	September 20, 1962 (1962-09-20)
A gambler ends up putting his life at stake when he wins $30,000 from an ex-hood.
270	2	"Don't Look Behind You"	John Brahm	Barre Lyndon	Vera Miles, Jeffrey Hunter, Dick Sargent	September 27, 1962 (1962-09-27)
An undergraduate medical student at a college campus thinks that she will be the victim of a ritualistic murder.
271	3	"Night of the Owl"	Alan Crosland, Jr.	Andrew Garve	Brian Keith	October 4, 1962 (1962-10-04)
A man blackmails a couple with the intention of telling their adopted daughter about her biological parents.
272	4	"I Saw the Whole Thing"	Alfred Hitchcock	Henry Cecil (story) Henry Slesar (teleplay)	John Forsythe, Evans Evans	October 11, 1962 (1962-10-11)
A mystery novelist is accused of going through a stop sign, then hitting a young motorcyclist.
273	5	"Captive Audience"	Alf Kjellin	John Bingham (novel) Richard Levinson, William Link (teleplay)	James Mason, Angie Dickinson	October 18, 1962 (1962-10-18)
A publisher suspects the latest book of a renowned mystery author to be all too real.
274	6	"Final Vow"	Norman Lloyd	Henry Slesar	Carol Lynley, Clu Gulager, R.G. Armstrong	October 25, 1962 (1962-10-25)
An apprentice nun tracks down the robber who stole a priceless figurine that she was entrusted to bring to her convent.
275	7	"Annabel"	Paul Henreid	Robert Bloch (teleplay) Patricia Highsmith (novel)	Dean Stockwell, Susan Oliver	November 1, 1962 (1962-11-01)
A chemist lusts for a married woman.
276	8	"House Guest"	Alan Crosland, Jr.	Andrew Garve	Macdonald Carey, Robert Sterling	November 8, 1962 (1962-11-08)
A man gets more than he bargained for when he offers a younger man a fresh start.
277	9	"The Black Curtain"	Sydney Pollack	Cornell Woolrich (novel)	Richard Basehart, Lola Albright	November 15, 1962 (1962-11-15)
A former amnesiac discovers that he is an accused killer and that he is being pursued by both the police and a hit man.
278	10	"Day of Reckoning"	Jerry Hopper	Richard Levinson, William Link	Barry Sullivan, Claude Akins	November 22, 1962 (1962-11-22)
A gentleman is unable to convince anyone that he murdered his cheating wife.
279	11	"Ride the Nightmare"	Bernard Girard	Richard Matheson (novel)	Hugh O'Brian, Gena Rowlands	November 29, 1962 (1962-11-29)
An old man gets a younger man involved in blackmail, kidnapping and murder.
280	12	"Hangover"	Bernard Girard	Charles Runyon (short story)	Tony Randall, Jayne Mansfield	December 6, 1962 (1962-12-06)
A man wakes up with a hangover and realizes that his wife is missing, while another woman is in his room.
281	13	"Bonfire"	Joseph Pevney	William D. Gordon, Alfred Hayes	Peter Falk, Dina Merrill	December 13, 1962 (1962-12-13)
A preacher is willing to commit murder in order to get a woman's manor for his church.
282	14	"The Tender Poisoner"	Leonard J. Horn	Lukas Heller (teleplay) John Bingham (novel)	Dan Dailey, Jan Sterling, Howard Duff	December 20, 1962 (1962-12-20)
Two business executives compete for the affections of a beautiful woman.
283	15	"The Thirty-First of February"	Alf Kjellin	Julian Symons (novel) Richard Matheson (teleplay)	David Wayne, William Conrad, Bob Crane, Elizabeth Allen	January 4, 1963 (1963-01-04)
A widower is driven insane by a series of events following his wife's passing.
284	16	"What Really Happened"	Jack Smight	Marie Belloc Lowndes(novel) Henry Slesar (teleplay)	Anne Francis, Ruth Roman	January 11, 1963 (1963-01-11)
A housekeeper murders her boss, but his wife is charged with the crime.
285	17	"Forecast: Low Clouds and Coastal Fog"	Charles F. Haas	Lee Erwin	Inger Stevens, Dan O'Herlihy	January 18, 1963 (1963-01-18)
A woman faces the consequences for refusing to help a gentleman and his beaten girlfriend.
286	18	"A Tangled Web"	Alf Kjellin	Nicholas Blake (novel) James Bridges (teleplay)	Robert Redford, Zohra Lampert, Barry Morse	January 25, 1963 (1963-01-25)
A married man with a life of crime stands trial for murder.
287	19	"To Catch a Butterfly"	David Lowell Rich	Richard Fielder	Bradford Dillman, Ed Asner	February 2, 1963 (1963-02-02)
A couple believe that a boy in their neighborhood intends to kill them.
288	20	"The Paragon"	Jack Smight	Alfred Hayes (teleplay) Rebecca West (story)	Gary Merrill, Joan Fontaine	February 9, 1963 (1963-02-09)
A man comes up with the solution to dealing with his cold-hearted wife.
289	21	"I'll Be Judge—I'll Be Jury"	James Sheldon	Elizabeth Hely (novel) Lukas Heller (teleplay)	Peter Graves, Rodolfo Hoyos, Jr., Albert Salmi	February 15, 1963 (1963-02-15)
A honeymoon in Mexico ends with the wife being murdered and the husband tracking down the killer.
290	22	"Diagnosis: Danger"	Sydney Pollack	Roland Kibbee	Michael Parks	March 1, 1963 (1963-03-01)
While Health Department officials try to contain an anthrax outbreak, police try to identify the man who died from the disease.
291	23	"The Lonely Hours"	Jack Smight	Celia Fremlin (novel) William D. Morgan (story)	Nancy Kelly, Gena Rowlands	March 8, 1963 (1963-03-08)
A mother of three whose husband is out of town grows concerned when a boarder gets attached to her infant son.
292	24	"The Star Juror"	Herschel Daugherty	James Bridges	Dean Jagger, Betty Field	March 15, 1963 (1963-03-15)
A killer serves jury duty for the trial of a man who has been accused of his crime.
293	25	"The Long Silence"	Robert Douglas	Charles Beaumont, William D. Gordon (teleplay) Hilda Lawrence (story "Composition for Four Hands")	Michael Rennie, Phyllis Thaxter	March 22, 1963 (1963-03-22)
A woman becomes paralyzed in reaction to the news that her eldest son apparently killed himself.
294	26	"An Out for Oscar"	Bernard Girard	Henry Kane (novel) David Goodis (teleplay)	Henry Silva, Linda Christian, Larry Storch	April 5, 1963 (1963-04-05)
A bank teller plans the perfect crime in order to do away with his cheating wife and her lover.
295	27	"Death and the Joyful Woman"	John Brahm	Ellis Peters (novel) James Bridges (teleplay)	Gilbert Roland, Laraine Day, Don Galloway	April 12, 1963 (1963-04-12)
A man loses his life upon winning a gamble with his disinherited child.
296	28	"Last Seen Wearing Blue Jeans"	Alan Crosland, Jr.	Amber Dean (novel) Lou Rambeau (teleplay)	Michael Wilding, Anna Lee, Randy Boone	April 19, 1963 (1963-04-19)
A juvenile schoolgirl witnesses a murder and becomes the killers' next target.
297	29	"The Dark Pool"	Jack Smight	Alec Coppel (story) William D. Gordon (teleplay)	Lois Nettleton, Anthony George	May 3, 1963 (1963-05-03)
A woman is blackmailed after her child drowns.
298	30	"Dear Uncle George"	Joseph M. Newman	James Bridges (teleplay) Richard Levinson, William Link (story and teleplay)	Gene Barry, John Larkin, Dabney Coleman	May 10, 1963 (1963-05-10)
An advice journalist tries to advise himself on how to deal with his cheating wife.
299	31	"Run for Doom"	Bernard Girard	James Bridges (teleplay) Henry Kane (novel)	John Gavin, Diana Dors, Scott Brady	May 17, 1963 (1963-05-17)
A doctor plans to marry a soloist, despite the fact that her three previous husbands all met gruesome deaths.
300	32	"Death of a Cop"	Joseph M. Newman	Leigh Brackett (teleplay) Douglas Warner (novel)	Victor Jory, Peter Brown, Richard Jaeckel	May 24, 1963 (1963-05-24)
A police officer plots the punishment of his son's killer.

Season 9 (1963–64)

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Stars	Original air date
301	1	"A Home Away from Home"	Herschel Daugherty	Robert Bloch	Ray Milland	September 27, 1963 (1963-09-27)
A patient at a mental institution does a role reversal by imprisoning the doctors.
302	2	"A Nice Touch"	Joseph Pevney	Mann Rubin	Anne Baxter, George Segal	October 4, 1963 (1963-10-04)
A woman is caught between her drunken husband and her determined lover.
303	3	"Terror at Northfield"	Harvey Hart	Leigh Brackett (teleplay) Ellery Queen (story)	Dick York, Jacqueline Scott, R. G. Armstrong	October 11, 1963 (1963-10-11)
The residents of a small town demand the investigation of a boy's death.
304	4	"You'll Be the Death of Me"	Robert Douglas	William D. Gordon (teleplay) Anthony Gilbert (story)	Robert Loggia	October 18, 1963 (1963-10-18)
A newlywed bride becomes suspicious of her husband when she finds a button belonging to a young woman who died not far from their mountain cabin.
305	5	"Blood Bargain"	Bernard Girard	Henry Slesar	Richard Kiley, Richard Long, Anne Francis	October 25, 1963 (1963-10-25)
A contract assassin meets his target's handicapped wife.
306	6	"Nothing Ever Happens in Linvale"	Herschel Daugherty	Richard Levinson, William Link	Gary Merrill, Phyllis Thaxter, Fess Parker	November 8, 1963 (1963-11-08)
A widow tries to convince a police officer that her neighbor has murdered her husband.
307	7	"Starring the Defense"	Joseph Pevney	Henry Slesar	Richard Basehart	November 15, 1963 (1963-11-15)
A former actor defends his son on murder charges.
308	8	"The Cadaver"	Alf Kjellin	James Bridges	Michael Parks, Joby Baker	November 29, 1963 (1963-11-29)
A medical undergraduate tries to get his roommate to stop drinking by convincing him that he killed a girl.
309	9	"The Dividing Wall"	Bernard Girard	Joel Murcott (teleplay)	James Gregory, Katharine Ross	December 6, 1963 (1963-12-06)
A break-in gang gets exposed to a radioactive capsule.
310	10	"Goodbye, George"	Robert Stevens	William Fay	Robert Culp, Stubby Kaye	December 13, 1963 (1963-12-13)
A movie actress is visited by her ex-convict husband, whom she had assumed was dead.
311	11	"How to Get Rid of Your Wife"	Alf Kjellin	Robert Gould	Bob Newhart, Jane Withers	December 20, 1963 (1963-12-20)
A gentleman and his wife each plot the other's murder.
312	12	"Three Wives Too Many"	Joseph M. Newman	Kenneth Fearing (short story) Arthur A. Ross (teleplay)	Teresa Wright, Dan Duryea	January 3, 1964 (1964-01-03)
A woman learns that her husband has three other wives.
313	13	"The Magic Shop"	Robert Stevens	H. G. Wells (story) John Collier (teleplay)	Leslie Nielsen, Peggy McCay	January 10, 1964 (1964-01-10)
A boy gains the power of mind over matter.
314	14	"Beyond the Sea of Death"	Alf Kjellin	Miriam Allen DeFord (short story) William D. Gordon and Alfred Hayes (teleplay)	Mildred Dunnock, Diana Hyland	January 24, 1964 (1964-01-24)
An heiress ends her marriage to a fortune hunter.
315	15	"Night Caller"	Alf Kjellin	Robert Westerby (teleplay)	Bruce Dern, Felicia Farr	January 31, 1964 (1964-01-31)
A woman is driven to madness by a young man and a series of intimidating phone calls.
316	16	"The Evil of Adelaide Winters"	Laslo Benedek	Arthur A. Ross	Kim Hunter, John Larkin	February 7, 1964 (1964-02-07)
A convicted artist claims that she can make contact with the dead.
317	17	"The Jar"	Norman Lloyd	Ray Bradbury (short story) James Bridges (teleplay)	Collin Wilcox, Pat Buttram, George Lindsey, Slim Pickens	February 14, 1964 (1964-02-14)
A gentleman buys a jar with something strange inside it.
318	18	"Final Escape"	William Witney	Thomas H. Cannan, Jr., Randall Hood (story) John Resko (teleplay)	Stephen McNally, Robert Keith, Edd Byrnes	February 21, 1964 (1964-02-21)
A prisoner matches wits with his custodian in his efforts to escape from a maximum-security prison.
319	19	"Murder Case"	John Brahm	James Bridges	John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands	March 6, 1964 (1964-03-06)
An American actress and her former lover plan the murder of her wealthy British husband.
320	20	"Anyone for Murder?"	Leo Penn	Jack Ritchie (short story)	Barry Nelson, Patricia Breslin, Richard Dawson	March 13, 1964 (1964-03-13)
A psychologist plans an assassination in order to get out of his miserable marriage.
321	21	"Beast in View"	Joseph M. Newman	Margaret Millar (novel) James Bridges (teleplay)	Joan Hackett, Kevin McCarthy	March 20, 1964 (1964-03-20)
A woman thinks that her brother's ex-fiancëe is trying to kill her.
322	22	"Behind the Locked Door"	Robert Douglas	Joel Murcott (teleplay)	Gloria Swanson, James MacArthur	March 27, 1964 (1964-03-27)
A woman is told by her mother that she will be cut off from her inheritance if she does not divorce her husband, whom the mother claims is a gold digger.
323	23	"A Matter of Murder"	David Lowell Rich	Boris Sobelman	Darren McGavin, Patricia Crowley, Telly Savalas	April 3, 1964 (1964-04-03)
A carjacker steals a Rolls Royce with a dead body inside it.
324	24	"The Gentleman Caller"	Joseph M. Newman	James Bridges	Roddy McDowall, Ruth McDevitt	April 10, 1964 (1964-04-10)
A couple hide their stolen money in an old woman's high-rise apartment and their plan to have her committed backfires when the police are called.
325	25	"The Ordeal of Mrs. Snow"	Robert Stevens	Alvin Sargent	Patricia Collinge, Jessica Walter	April 17, 1964 (1964-04-17)
A man hatches a plot to keep his wife's rich aunt from exposing him.
326	26	"Ten Minutes from Now"	Alf Kjellin	Arthur A. Ross (teleplay) Jack Ritchie (short story)	Donnelly Rhodes, Lou Jacobi	May 1, 1964 (1964-05-01)
A performer is suspected of making bomb threats against an official.
327	27	"The Sign of Satan"	Robert Douglas	Barre Lyndon	Christopher Lee, Gia Scala	May 8, 1964 (1964-05-08)
The lead actor in a horror movie thinks that a cult of devil worshipers are out to kill him.
328	28	"Who Needs an Enemy?"	Harry Morgan	Arthur A. Ross	Richard Anderson, Steven Hill, Joanna Moore	May 15, 1964 (1964-05-15)
A dishonest man finds a way to avoid prosecution.
329	29	"Bed of Roses"	Philip Leacock	James Bridges	Patrick O'Neal, Kathie Browne	May 22, 1964 (1964-05-22)
A newlywed man has a date with his girlfriend that turns nightmarish.
330	30	"The Second Verdict"	Lewis Teague	Alfred Hayes (teleplay) Henry Slesar (story)	Martin Landau, Frank Gorshin, Nancy Kovack	May 29, 1964 (1964-05-29)
A lawyer discovers that his acquitted client was really guilty of murder and may try to kill again.
331	31	"Isabel"	Alf Kjellin	William Fay (teleplay) S.B. Hough (novel) Henry Slesar (teleplay)	Bradford Dillman, Barbara Barrie	June 5, 1964 (1964-06-05)
An ex-convict marries the woman who had him sent to jail.
332	32	"Body in the Barn"	Joseph M. Newman	Harold Swanton	Lillian Gish, Maggie McNamara	July 3, 1964 (1964-07-03)
An old woman tracks down her husband's murderer.

Season 10 (1964–65)

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Stars	Original air date
333	1	"The Return of Verge Likens"	Arnold Laven	James Bridges (teleplay) Davis Grubb (story)	Peter Fonda, Robert Emhardt	October 5, 1964 (1964-10-05)
Verge Likens is a farmer whose father was killed by a crooked politician named Riley McGrath. Verge returns home to avenge his father's death. He manages to get close to Riley by getting hired as an assistant at a barbershop. After asking the barber to run an errand, Verge is alone with Riley and proceeds to lather up the murdering politician for a shave. Verge vividly describes how he is planning to cut Riley's throat. When the barber returns to the barbershop, he finds the door locked. He gets the police, who break down the door. Inside, they find Verge standing over Riley's dead body. Berge has avenged his father's death and he is not guilty of a crime. Riley died of a heart attack.
334	2	"Change of Address"	David Friedkin	Andrew Benedict (story) Morton S. Fine, David Friedkin (teleplay)	Arthur Kennedy, Phyllis Thaxter	October 12, 1964 (1964-10-12)
Over the protests of his wife Elsa, Keith Hollin rents a beach house. Elsa dislikes the house and is disturbed by her husband's digging of a grave-like hole in the basement. She is further disturbed when she finds out that Keith is seeing a local girl named Rachel. When Keith tells Elsa that he wants to buy the house, she decides to foil his plan by contacting the wife of the current owner to tell her to not to sell. Keith, however, grows angry and kills Elsa. He buries her body in the basement, but is surprised when the police arrive. The police carry shovels and want to dig up the basement. The police tell Keith that Elsa discovered the wife of the house's owner was missing. She tipped off the police and they began an investigation. They called the house's owner in for questioning and he confessed to murdering his wife. He told them that he buried his wife in the basement of the beach house. The police are at the beach house to dig up the basement so that they can find the body.
335	3	"Water's Edge"	Bernard Girard	Robert Bloch (short story) Alfred Hayes (teleplay)	Ann Sothern, John Cassavetes	October 19, 1964 (1964-10-19)
Rusty Connors is a con man that has just been released from prison. He looks up the wife of his dead former cellmate, a robber and murderer, named Mike Krause. Before he was imprisoned, Krause stole a significant amount of money and killed his partner. The money and the body, however, never turned up. Connors talks to Krause's wife Helen and hopes that she knows where the money is. She, however, does not have a clue. Eventually, however, they are able to figure out that the money is stored in an abandoned boathouse that is now infested with rats. In the boathouse, they find the money and the skeleton of Krause's partner. When Connors sees the money, he is overcome with greed and tries to murder Helen. She manages to knock him out. When Connors awakens, he finds himself bound and gagged and being taunted by Helen. She gets up to leave with the money, but is tripped by Connors and is impaled on a hook. As she dies, the scent of her blood attracts the rats. Since Connors is bound; all he can do is listen with horror as the rats approach him in order to kill him by eating him alive.
336	4	"The Life Work of Juan Diaz"	Norman Lloyd	Ray Bradbury (story)	Alejandro Rey, Frank Silvera	October 26, 1964 (1964-10-26)
Juan Diaz is dying and penniless. His last wish is that he can provide financial security for his family. About a year later, a gravedigger named Alejandro exhumes Juan's corpse to make room in the cemetery. He has it mummified and stores it in a crypt with a number of other mummies. Juan's wife, Maria, discovers Alejandro's plan and steals Juan's body. She hangs it in the house and tells tourists that it is an authentic Mexican mummy. Money from the tourists pays for food and clothing for Maria and her three children. Eventually, however, Maria is overcome by the ghoulishness of what she has done. She begs for forgiveness, but a gleam in the eye of the corpse's body reveals that Juan approves of what she has done.
337	5	"See the Monkey Dance"	Joseph M. Newman	Lewis Davidson	Roddy McDowall, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.	November 9, 1964 (1964-11-09)
While George is headed to see his girlfriend, he meets a mysterious limping stranger who makes George fear for his life. George learns that the stranger is his girlfriend's jealous husband and that his girlfriend arranged this meeting between them in hopes that her husband would kill George. The stranger tells George that she has done this sort of thing before and that he tried, but failed, to kill his wife's last lover. The stranger convinces George to plot revenge and tells him to tamper with the steering of his wife's car. George does as the stranger suggests and his girlfriend dies. George discovers to his dismay, however, that the limping stranger was really his girlfriend's former lover and that he used George to get his revenge on her.
338	6	"Lonely Place"	Harvey Hart	Francis Gwaltney	Teresa Wright, Pat Buttram, Bruce Dern	November 16, 1964 (1964-11-16)
Stella is married to a cowardly peach farmer named Emory and takes in a passing hobo named Jesse. She hires him to help her husband harvest the peach crop. Unfortunately, Jesse's strange behavior and fascination with a knife that he carries begins to frighten her. Emory, however, refuses to believe her. Stella tries to run away, but is caught by Jesse. He threatens to stab her, but she fights him off. She escapes in her husband's truck and heads home. There she awakens Emory and tells him about Jesse. Emory, however, confesses that he heard her screams, but was too afraid to do anything. Stella angrily stabs her husband and kills him. She then calls the police and blames the murder on the fleeing Jesse.
339	7	"The McGregor Affair"	David Friedkin	David Friedkin	Elsa Lanchester, Andrew Duggan	November 23, 1964 (1964-11-23)
Edinburgh, Scotland, 1827. John McGregor must take care of his alcoholic wife Aggie. He works for Dr. Knox and must lug large boxes of tanbark to his medical academy. When John learns that the boxes actually contain the murdered victims of two body snatchers named Burke and Hare, he decides to get rid of his wife by getting her drunk and leaving her on the body snatchers' doorstep. The plan is successful, but John is overtaken by remorse. Unfortunately, he ends up being Burke and Hare's next victim.
340	8	"Misadventure"	Joseph M. Newman	Lewis Davidson	Barry Nelson, Lola Albright, George Kennedy	December 7, 1964 (1964-12-07)
An outsider befriends a woman who is bent on murdering her husband.
341	9	"Triumph"	Harvey Hart	Arthur A. Ross	Ed Begley, Jeanette Nolan	December 14, 1964 (1964-12-14)
A woman comes between a phony medical missionary and his partner.
342	10	"Memos from Purgatory"	Joseph Pevney	Harlan Ellison	James Caan, Tony Musante, Walter Koenig	December 21, 1964 (1964-12-21)
A young author joins a gang to collect material for his latest book.
343	11	"Consider Her Ways"	Robert Stevens	Oscar Millard	Barbara Barrie, Gladys Cooper	December 28, 1964 (1964-12-28)
A physician tries to prevent her vision of an all-female society from coming true.
344	12	"Crimson Witness"	David Friedkin	David Friedkin	Peter Lawford, Martha Hyer, Julie London	January 4, 1965 (1965-01-04)
A playboy loses everything to his hated brother, leading to a reenactment of the story of Cain and Abel.
345	13	"Where the Woodbine Twineth"	Alf Kjellin	James Bridges	Margaret Leighton	January 11, 1965 (1965-01-11)
A woman's niece claims to be acquainted with "minute people".
346	14	"Final Performance"	John Brahm	Robert Bloch	Franchot Tone, Roger Perry, Sharon Farrell	January 18, 1965 (1965-01-18)
A former vaudevillian's fiancee plans to get away from him.
347	15	"Thanatos Palace Hotel"	Laslo Benedek	Arthur A. Ross	Angie Dickinson, Steven Hill	February 1, 1965 (1965-02-01)
A suicidal man checks into a hotel that caters to people just like him.
348	16	"One of the Family"	Joseph Pevney	Oscar Millard	Jeremy Slate, Lilia Skala	February 8, 1965 (1965-02-08)
A family discovers that the nurse that they hired to care for their baby is a wanted child killer.
349	17	"An Unlocked Window"	Joseph M. Newman	James Bridges	Dana Wynter, T. C. Jones, Louise Latham, John Kerr	February 15, 1965 (1965-02-15)
Three nurses care for a patient in a manor where previous nurses have been killed.
350	18	"The Trap"	John Brahm	Lee Kalcheim	Anne Francis, Robert Strauss	February 22, 1965 (1965-02-22)
A woman plots to murder her husband and marry one of his employees.
351	19	"Wally the Beard"	James H. Brown	Arthur A. Ross	Larry Blyden, Kathie Browne	March 1, 1965 (1965-03-01)
A man gets more than he bargained for when he acquires a wig and beard.
352	20	"Death Scene"	Harvey Hart	James Bridges	Vera Miles, John Carradine, James Farentino	March 8, 1965 (1965-03-08)
A mechanic aspiring to be an actor writes a screenplay for the daughter of a has-been director. Filmed at former estate of Marion Davies, which was also used as filming location for The Godfather (film series) (1972), and The Bodyguard (1992).
353	21	"The Photographer and the Undertaker"	Alex March	James Holding (story) Alfred Hayes teleplay	Jack Cassidy, Harry Townes	March 15, 1965 (1965-03-15)
A photographer and an undertaker are assassins who have each been assigned to kill the other.
354	22	"Thou Still Unravished Bride"	David Friedkin	Avram Davidson (story) Morton S. Fine, David Friedkin	Ron Randell, David Carradine, Sally Kellerman	March 22, 1965 (1965-03-22)
A police officer suspects that his missing fiancee has been killed.
355	23	"Completely Foolproof"	Alf Kjellin	Anthony Terpiloff	J. D. Cannon, Patricia Barry	March 29, 1965 (1965-03-29)
A woman plots to murder her rich, cheating husband.
356	24	"Power of Attorney"	Harvey Hart	James Bridges (teleplay)	Richard Johnson, Geraldine Fitzgerald	April 5, 1965 (1965-04-05)
A con man swindles wealthy women.
357	25	"The World's Oldest Motive"	Harry Morgan	Lewis Davidson	Henry Jones, Linda Lawson, Robert Loggia, Kathleen Freeman	April 12, 1965 (1965-04-12)
A married man gets the chance to marry his girlfriend when an outsider offers to kill his wife.
358	26	"The Monkey's Paw—A Retelling"	Robert Stevens	Morton S. Fine, David Friedkin, Anthony Terpiloff (teleplay) W. W. Jacobs (story)	Leif Erickson, Jane Wyatt, Lee Majors	April 19, 1965 (1965-04-19)
A man acquires a monkey's paw that grants three wishes - with deadly consequences.
359	27	"The Second Wife"	Joseph M. Newman	Robert Bloch (teleplay) Richard Deming (story)	June Lockhart, John Anderson	April 26, 1965 (1965-04-26)
A newlywed woman thinks that her husband killed his previous wife.
360	28	"Night Fever"	Herbert Coleman	Gilbert Ralston (teleplay) Clark Howard (short story)	Colleen Dewhurst	May 3, 1965 (1965-05-03)
An injured criminal uses a nurse's compassion to escape from the hospital.
361	29	"Off Season"	William Friedkin	Robert Bloch (teleplay) Edward D. Hoch (short story)	John Gavin, Richard Jaeckel	May 10, 1965 (1965-05-10)
A trigger-happy cop gets fired from the police department and gets a job in the office of a small town sheriff.

See also

• List of Alfred Hitchcock Presents episodes (1985-1989 series)

References

1. The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946-Present. Ballantine Books. 2003. p. 1413. ISBN 0-345-45542-8.
2. "TV Guide's Top 100 Episodes". Rev/Views. Retrieved July 4, 2016.
3. "Special Collector's Issue: 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time". TV Guide (June 28-July 4). 1997.