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The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Season 1

32 episodes Premiered Sep 20, 1962 Updated Jul 19, 2026
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S1·E1 Mytharc

A Piece of the Action

Sep 20, 1962 · 51 min

Duke Marsden is an inveterate gambler who's about to lose his wife because of his habit. She gives him an ultimatum to either give up poker or else she's gone. He agrees, but there

S1·E2 Core

Don't Look Behind You

Sep 27, 1962 · 51 min

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

S1·E3 Core

Night of the Owl

Oct 4, 1962 · 51 min

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

S1·E4 Core

I Saw the Whole Thing

Oct 11, 1962 · 51 min

There are five witnesses for a hit-and-run accident at an intersection who all say the car did not stop at the stop sign, but are they all wrong?

S1·E5 Core

Captive Audience

Oct 18, 1962 · 51 min

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 pl

S1·E6 Core

Final Vow

Oct 25, 1962 · 52 min

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 co

S1·E7 Core

Annabel

Nov 1, 1962 · 60 min

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

S1·E8 Core

House Guest

Nov 8, 1962 · 50 min

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 b

S1·E9 Core

The Black Curtain

Nov 11, 1962 · 50 min

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 fiancée's house, but he

S1·E10 Mytharc

Day of Reckoning

Nov 22, 1962 · 51 min

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 murd

S1·E11 Core

Ride the Nightmare

Nov 29, 1962 · 50 min

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 a

S1·E12 Core

Hangover

Dec 6, 1962 · 50 min

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. W

S1·E13 Core

Bonfire

Dec 13, 1962 · 51 min

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 mee

S1·E14 Core

The Tender Poisoner

Dec 20, 1962 · 51 min

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 corporation's very popu

S1·E15 Core

The Thirty First of February

Jan 4, 1963 · 51 min

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 believe

S1·E16 Mytharc

What Really Happened

Jan 11, 1963 · 51 min

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 Howard's milk and kills him. An

S1·E17 Mytharc

Forecast: Low Clouds and Coastal Fog

Jan 18, 1963 · 51 min

Dan O'Herlihy (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 i

S1·E18 Mytharc

A Tangled Web

Jan 25, 1963 · 51 min

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

S1·E19 Core

To Catch a Butterfly

Feb 2, 1963 · 51 min

Bill and Janet Nelson move into a new home next door to a family named Stander. Unfortunately, the Stander's son Eddie is a homicidal monster. Eddie kills the Nelson's dog and then

S1·E20 Core

The Paragon

Feb 8, 1963 · 51 min

Alice Pemberton is a busy-body housewife who injects herself into the personal lives of everyone she knows: friends, relatives, her husband's business associates. Unfortunately she

S1·E21 Mytharc

I'll Be Judge, I'll Be Jury

Feb 15, 1963 · 51 min

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

S1·E22 Core

Diagnosis: Danger

Mar 1, 1963 · 51 min

An outbreak of anthrax in Los Angeles threatens to panic the city until the health department's Dr. Dan Dana arrives to track down the source of the disease. With this assistance o

S1·E23 Core

The Lonely Hours

Mar 8, 1963 · 51 min

Louise Henderson rents a room to woman named Vera Brandon who begins to show an unreasonable amount of interest in Louise's newborn son. Louise begines investigating and discovers

S1·E24 Core

The Star Juror

Mar 15, 1963 · 51 min

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 girl's boyfriend is arrested f

S1·E25 Core

The Long Silence

Mar 22, 1963 · 50 min

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

S1·E26 Core

An Out for Oscar

Apr 5, 1963 · 51 min

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 st

S1·E27 Core

Death and the Joyful Woman

Apr 12, 1963 · 51 min

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

S1·E28 Core

Last Seen Wearing Blue Jeans

Apr 19, 1963 · 51 min

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 evenin

S1·E29 Core

The Dark Pool

May 3, 1963 · 51 min

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 San

S1·E30 Core

Dear Uncle George

May 10, 1963 · 51 min

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 knowin

S1·E31 Mytharc

Run for Doom

May 17, 1963 · 51 min

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 hi

S1·E32 Mytharc

Death of a Cop

May 24, 1963 · 51 min

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 father's footsteps. In or