The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
(1962)
Originaltitel: The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Release: 1962-09-20
TV-bolag: NBC
Längd per avsnitt: 60 min min
Status: AVSLUTAD
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour was a mystery and suspense anthology hosted by the master of supsense Alfred Hitchcock. Each 60 minute episode included opening and closing vingettes featuring Hitchcock who would often explain some aspect of the days show and would often offer subtle (or not so subtle) jabs at the shows sponsors. The series premiered on CBS on Thursday, September 20, 1962 in the 10:00-11:00 PM timeslot opposite ABCs Alcoa Premiere and NBCs The Andy Williams Show. In its... (TheTVDB)
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A Piece of the Action
1962-09-20
A Piece of the...
1962-09-20
Duke Marsden is about to lose his wife because of his gambling habits. She gives him an ultimatum: either give up poker or she leaves. He decides to give up poker. Later, Dukes younger brother Chuck arrives looking for a high-stakes game of poker. Duke arranges to have brother play a couple of his...
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Don't Look Behind You
1962-09-27
Don't Look Behind...
1962-09-27
At a college campus, two young girls are killed while strolling through a nearby forest. Suspicion falls on a chemistry professor and an intense and brooding music professor named Edwin Volck. Harold, a psychology professor, convinces his fiancee Daphne to act as bait to help trap the killer. The...
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Night of the Owl
1962-10-04
Night of the Owl
1962-10-04
Jim Mallory is a forest ranger who along with his wife Linda, have adopted a girl named Anne. The couple have never told Anne that her parents died in a bizarre murder-suicide for fear that the news might disturb her. A blackmailer contacts Jim and demands money. He says that he will tell Anne the...
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I Saw the Whole Thing
1962-10-11
I Saw the Whole...
1962-10-11
Michael Barnes is a mystery writer who is accused of causing a fatal car accident. Each eyewitness, however, proves to be unreliable when their testimony is shredded by Barnes who is acting as his own defense attorney. He is exonerated after he shows that each witness only saw what they wanted to...
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Captive Audience
1962-10-18
Captive Audience
1962-10-18
Warren Barrow writes mystery novels under a pseudonymn. He sends his publisher a series of tape recordings that appear to detail either the plot of his next mystery novel or the plan for a murder he is actually going to commit. Using his own name on the tapes, Barrow describes how he renewed a...
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Final Vow
1962-10-25
Final Vow
1962-10-25
Sister Pamela suffers a crisis of conscience just as she is about to take her final vows. Is her belief real or is she just hiding from the rest of the world? The sisters in the convent give her time to think everything over by letting her pick up a valuable statue from a reformed gangster. As she...
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Annabelle
1962-11-01
Annabelle
1962-11-01
David Kelsey, a research chemist, is in love with Annabel. He assumes another identity so that they can share their moments together in complete privacy. He even builds a beautiful dream home for the two of them. David is hopelessly infatuated with her. Unfortunately, Annabel wants no part of him....
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House Guest
1962-11-08
House Guest
1962-11-08
John and Sally Mitchell offer a stranger named Ray Roscoe a place to stay after Roscoe saves the life of their son Tony. When Roscoe turns out to be a womanizing freeloader, they begin to believe that they made a terrible mistake. One night Roscoe wrecks their car and hits on a campers wife. Angry,...
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The Black Curtain
1962-11-11
The Black Curtain
1962-11-11
Phil Townsend suffers amnesia after he is mugged outside his drug store. All he remembers is that he is about to get married. A taxi driver takes him to his fiancées house, but he discovers that she is already married and has been married for three years. Later, Townsend discovers that he has...
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Day of Reckoning
1962-11-22
Day of Reckoning
1962-11-22
Paul Sampson murders his wife Caroline and is relieved when the police rule her death and accident. His conscience gets the best of him, however, and he decides to confess the murder to his family and friends. Unfortunately, no one believes him. They think the stress of his wifes death has gotten...
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Ride the Nightmare
1962-11-29
Ride the Nightmare
1962-11-29
When three of his childhood pals break out of prison, Christopher Martin is in trouble. When he was younger, he and his pals committed a crime. All except Christopher were caught and sent to jail. Each of them vowed revenge. Christopher confesses his crime to his wife Helen though he fears she will...
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Hangover
1962-12-06
Hangover
1962-12-06
Hadley Purvis is an alcoholic advertising executive whose wife Sandra tells him that she will leave him if he takes another drink. Unfortunately, he drinks himself into a stupor. When he awakens he cannot remember anything that happened to him while he was drunk. He cant remember losing his job for...
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Bonfire
1962-12-13
Bonfire
1962-12-13
Robert Evans is a revivalist preacher who is desperate for money to build his own church. He romances a rich woman named Naomi Freshwater and kills her. Some time later, Robert meets Naomis neice Laura. He tries to romance her as well, but she is not interested. When Laura discovers that Robert...
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The Tender Poisoner
1962-12-20
The Tender Poisoner
1962-12-20
Peter Harding is a corporate executive who tries to help save the sagging career of an associate named Philip Bartel. He hopes to get Bartel into one of the corporations very popular training courses. Later, however, Harding discovers that Bartel is interested in leaving his wife Beatrice. He wants...
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The Thirty First of February
1963-01-04
The Thirty First of...
1963-01-04
Andrew Anderson is an advertising executive who discovers the body of his deadwife laying at the bottom of the basement stairs. An investigating detective named Sgt. Cresse believes Mr. Anderson is guilty of murder. He wants to trick him into making a confession by making Mr. Anderson believe that...
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What Really Happened
1963-01-11
What Really Happened
1963-01-11
Over the protests of his wife Eve, Howard Raydon fires Addie the family maid when her son breaks a valuable antique. Unwilling to leave, she poisons Howards milk and kills him. An autopsy reveals the poison, but Eve is the chief suspect after she is fingered by Howards mother. Believing that Eves...
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Forecast: Low Clouds and Coastal Fog
1963-01-18
Forecast: Low...
1963-01-18
Dan OHerlihy (as Simon Carter) Inger Stevens (as Karen Wilson) Christopher Dark (as Manuel Sanchez) Chris Robinson (as Ricky) Richard Jaeckel (as Tom)
One night when her husband is away, Karen Wilson is frightened when a man named Manuel Sanchez comes pounding on her door. He claims to be out of...
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A Tangled Web
1963-01-25
A Tangled Web
1963-01-25
David Chesterman is a thief whose girlfriend Maria is cheating on him with his partner Carl Gault. Carl has fallen in love with Maria and plans to get rid of David. He tells David about the body of rich man who is loaded with jewelry. David goes to rob the corpse, but is discovered by a guard....
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To Catch a Butterfly
1963-02-02
To Catch a Butterfly
1963-02-02
Bill and Janet Nelson move into a new home next door to a family named Stander. Unfortunately, the Standers son Eddie is a homicidal monster. Eddie kills the Nelsons dog and then runs a trip wire across the cellar stairs that almost causes Janet to break her neck. Bill knows that Eddie is...
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The Paragon
1963-02-08
The Paragon
1963-02-08
Alice Pemberton is a busy-body housewife who injects herself into the personal lives of everyone she knows: friends, relatives, her husbands business associates. Unfortunately she fails to realize that her constant attempts to give advice are alienating everyone. Her husband John is patient. He...
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I'll Be the Judge, I'll Be the Jury
1963-02-15
I'll Be the Judge,...
1963-02-15
Laura Needham is murdered while vacationing in Mexico. Her husband Mark discovers that the police are holding as a suspect an American named Theodore Bond. Mark wants something to be done, but the police are helpless because they cannot prove their case. Mark decides to get the proof, but he is...
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Diagnosis: Danger
1963-03-01
Diagnosis: Danger
1963-03-01
An outbreak of anthrax in Los Angeles threatens to panic the city until the health departments Dr. Dan Dana arrives to track down the source of the disease. With this assistance of his boss Dr. Oliver and Deputy Sheriff Judd, he discovers that the disease comes from a pair of bongos purchased in...
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The Lonely Hours
1963-03-08
The Lonely Hours
1963-03-08
Louise Henderson rents a room to woman named Vera Brandon who begins to show an unreasonable amount of interest in Louises newborn son. Louise begines investigating and discovers that she and Vera shared the same maternity ward when her son was born. She also discovers that Veras baby died during...
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The Star Juror
1963-03-15
The Star Juror
1963-03-15
George Davies is mild mannered store-keeper who makes a pass on the town floozie. When she rejects him, he accidentally kills her. Unfortunately, the girls boyfriend is arrested for the crime and put on trial. When George is appointed to the jury for the case, he finds a way to get the boy off...
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The Long Silence
1963-03-22
The Long Silence
1963-03-22
In an elaborate con, Ralph Mason marries a rich woman named Nora Cory for her money. Unfortunately his schemes goes awry when he murders one of her sons from a former marriage. As he attempts to make the death look like a suicide, he is caught by Nora as he is writing a fake suicide note. Nora...
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An Out for Oscar
1963-04-05
An Out for Oscar
1963-04-05
Oscar Blenny is a timid bank clerk who discovers that his wife Eva is cheating on him. He demands a divorce and Eva agrees, but insists on a $50,000 settlement. She tells him to steal it from the bank, but Oscar is reluctant. Oscar is approached by Evas tough hitman boyfriend Bill Grant. Bill...
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Death and the Joyful Woman
1963-04-12
Death and the...
1963-04-12
Luis Aguilar is a rich wine merchant who disowns his son when he refuses to marry beautiful vineyard owner Kitty Norris. At a party, however, Luis agrees to give his destitute son $5000 if boy can drink him under the table. Drinking his own wine called Joyful Woman Luis humiliates his son by...
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Last Seen Wearing Blue Jeans
1963-04-19
Last Seen Wearing...
1963-04-19
Visiting from Englad, David Saunders is making a cross-country tour of America by car with his wife Roberta and their daughter Loren. They stop at a cafe in Arizona late one evening. Since Loren cannot stay awake she heads to the car and goes to sleep in the backseat. Unfortunately she get into the...
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The Dark Pool
1963-05-03
The Dark Pool
1963-05-03
Dianne Castillejo is a recovering alcoholic who gets into trouble when her adopted son drowns in the family swimming pool. Dianne is visted by a mysterious woman named Consuela Sandine who threatens to tell everyone that Dianne was negligent and drunk at the time of the drowning. Consuela says she...
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Dear Uncle George
1963-05-10
Dear Uncle George
1963-05-10
John Chambers writes an advice to the lovelorn column under the pseudonymn Uncle George. He learns that his wife is cheating on him when a neighbor named Mrs. Weatherby, not knowing that John and Uncle George are the same person, writes a letter to his column asking for advice. Chambers kills his...
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Run for Doom
1963-05-17
Run for Doom
1963-05-17
Dr. Don Reed falls in love with a nightclub singer named Niki Carroll despite the warnings of his seriously ill father and her ex-boyfriend who both tell him she is not good for him. Niki accepts his marriage proposal, but Dons father dies when he hears the news. The newlyweds take an exotic...
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Death of a Cop
1963-05-24
Death of a Cop
1963-05-24
When policeman Philip Reardon is killed in drug bust, his police officer father feels responsible because his son joined the police force to follow in his fathers footsteps. In order to set things right, Philips father strives to brings his sons killers and their mob boss Herbie Lane to justice....
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