Alfred Hitchcock Presents (Season 5)

Arthur (Episode 1) 6.5

Air date: 1959-09-27

Runtime: 27 min

Overview: When his former fiancee turns up missing, chicken farmer Arthur obligingly lets the police search his ranch, despite the fact that they seem to suspect him of her murder.

The Crystal Trench (Episode 2) 7.0

Writer: Stirling Silliphant

Air date: 1959-10-04

Runtime: 27 min

Overview: Dangerous secrets are revealed when a devoted widow travels to the glacier in Switzerland where her husband's body has been preserved since his deadly fall forty years earlier.

Appointment at Eleven (Episode 3) 7.0

Writer: Evan Hunter

Air date: 1959-10-11

Runtime: 27 min

Overview: A 17-year-old causes havoc at a bar and alarms everyone around him when he talks hysterically about how he'll be "born again" when someone else dies at eleven o'clock.

Coyote Moon (Episode 4)

Air date: 1959-10-18

Runtime: 26 min

Overview: John Piltkin picks up three hitchhikers who rob him. After he spots them in a diner, he exacts his revenge. He steals a car and picks the hitchhikers up. Concealing his face in shadows, he then pretends the car has stalled and walks off to get help. The hitchhickers are then arrested in the stolen car.

No Pain (Episode 5) 4.0

Air date: 1959-10-25

Runtime: 27 min

Overview: Nothing is as it seems when a polio victim in an iron lung suspects his wife of becoming attracted to a new neighbor and wonders if she's planning to get rid of him for good.

Anniversary Gift (Episode 6) 7.0

Air date: 1959-11-01

Runtime: 26 min

Overview: Sick of his wife's menagerie of strange and high-maintenance animals, a frazzled husband decides to get her the perfect present - a highly poisonous coral snake.

Dry Run (Episode 7) 7.0

Writer: Bill S. Ballinger

Air date: 1959-11-08

Runtime: 27 min

Overview: An aspiring hitman takes on a risky assignment to kill a rival gangster but then finds himself easily conned by his target in a treacherous game of cat and mouse.

The Blessington Method (Episode 8) 7.0

Air date: 1959-11-15

Runtime: 26 min

Overview: Troubled by the responsibility of his aging mother in law, a man takes advantage of a society that specializes in "taking care of" elderly relatives and then soon finds out that he may be in for a similar fate.

Dead Weight (Episode 9) 7.0

Writer: Jerry Sohl

Air date: 1959-11-22

Runtime: 27 min

Overview: Lovers' Lane becomes a dark and deadly destination when an ad executive and his former girlfriend are attacked by a young thug, and his efforts to protect them quickly go from heroic to something much more criminal.

Special Delivery (Episode 10) 7.0

Writer: Ray Bradbury

Air date: 1959-11-29

Runtime: 27 min

Overview: After his neighbor warns him about suspicious disappearances around them, a man wonders if the vanishings have anything to do with a delivery to his young son.

Road Hog (Episode 11) 7.0

Writer: Bill S. Ballinger

Air date: 1959-12-06

Runtime: 27 min

Overview: When a traffic delay prevents a dying boy from reaching the hospital in time, his bereaved father and brothers swear revenge on the salesman who hogged the road when a life was on the line.

Specialty of the House (Episode 12) 7.0

Air date: 1959-12-13

Runtime: 26 min

Overview: A successful businessman finally gets his greatest wish to see inside the kitchen of his favorite dining club, but has he just ordered his final meal as well?

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Episode 13) 7.0

Air date: 1959-12-20

Runtime: 26 min

Overview: Moments before he's set to swing from the end of a Union rope, a Southern supporter reflects on the sabotage attempt that brought him there and sees a possibility for freedom.

Graduating Class (Episode 14) 7.0

Writer: Stirling Silliphant

Air date: 1959-12-27

Runtime: 26 min

Overview: A teacher's interest in the one student who seems to care about her lessons turns tragic when she and a kindly neighbor follow the girl to a man's apartment.

Man from the South (Episode 15) 8.3

Air date: 1960-01-03

Runtime: 27 min

Overview: A down-on-his-luck gambler bets his hand (literally) for a convertible, but the game is stopped by a person with an even larger interest in the outcome.

The Ikon of Elijah (Episode 16)

Air date: 1960-01-10

Runtime: 26 min

Overview: An antiques dealer takes refuge in a tucked away monastery with the goal of seizing a priceless manuscript, but his greed will extend his stay at the holy place for much longer than he ever imagined.

The Cure (Episode 17) 7.0

Writer: Michael Pertwee

Air date: 1960-01-24

Runtime: 27 min

Overview: Some important things get lost in translation when a South American oil explorer agrees to have his loyal native assistant take his murderous wife to a head shrinker for her health.

Backward, Turn Backward (Episode 18) 7.0

Writer: Charles Beaumont

Air date: 1960-01-31

Runtime: 26 min

Overview: A middle aged plumber is suspected of bludgeoning to death the father of his 19-year-old love interest, but the Sheriff can't figure out how the man could have done the crime and been caring for his baby grandson at the same time.

Not the Running Type (Episode 19) 7.0

Writer: Jerry Sohl

Air date: 1960-02-07

Runtime: 26 min

Overview: After twelve years in prison for stealing $200,000 from his investment firm employers, Milton Potter calmly returns all the money he embezzled and pursues some very unique post-prison retirement plans.

The Day of the Bullet (Episode 20) 7.0

Writer: Bill S. Ballinger

Air date: 1960-02-14

Runtime: 26 min

Overview: When Clete Vine, a successful businessman, reads about a gangster's violent death, he recalls how he and a childhood friend were profoundly affected by an event that began with their innocent admiration of an elegant car.

Hitch Hike (Episode 21) 7.0

Writer: Bernard C. Schoenfeld

Air date: 1960-02-21

Runtime: 26 min

Overview: A righteous and hypocritical civic leader on a road trip accepts mechanical help from a young man who then asks for a lift, soon afterwards he reveals he's recently been released from reform school.

Across the Threshold (Episode 22) 7.0

Air date: 1960-02-28

Runtime: 27 min

Overview: When his over-bearing mother mentions missing her dead husband, a selfish bachelor is happy to arrange the reunion and enlists his actress girlfriend to help by posing as a clairvoyant.

Craig's Will (Episode 23) 7.0

Writer: Burt Styler

Air date: 1960-03-06

Runtime: 27 min

Overview: It's one lucky dog who is named the beneficiary of his deceased master's estate, but he then becomes the target of murderous plots concocted by the humans in his life.

Madame Mystery (Episode 24) 7.0

Air date: 1960-03-27

Runtime: 27 min

Overview: A ruthlessly ambitious Hollywood publicist capitalizes on the drowning death of an actress, but his hopes for success sink like a stone when he learns that she's still alive.

The Little Man Who Was There (Episode 25) 7.0

Writer: Gordon Russell

Air date: 1960-04-03

Runtime: 26 min

Overview: The patrons in a copper town saloon initially scoff at the mysterious, small man who barges in, but soon find themselves handing over their valuables when he takes on two strapping brothers.

Mother, May I Go Out to Swim? (Episode 26) 7.0

Air date: 1960-04-10

Runtime: 27 min

Overview: What begins as a mother-son vacation soon becomes a trip to agony when he falls in love with a girl who is determined to share his affections ... and will do anything to get rid of her nemesis.

The Cuckoo Clock (Episode 27) 7.0

Writer: Robert Bloch

Air date: 1960-04-17

Runtime: 26 min

Overview: A sensible widow beginning her stay in a remote summer cottage refuses to be alarmed by news of an escaped mental patient, but her resolve weakens as she visits with an off-beat local.

Forty Detectives Later (Episode 28) 7.0

Writer: Henry Slesar

Air date: 1960-04-24

Runtime: 25 min

Overview: The forty-first private eye hired by a man to find his wife's killer follows the clues to a suspect, and then realizes that the case is more complex than he had realized.

The Hero (Episode 29) 7.0

Writer: Bill S. Ballinger

Air date: 1960-05-01

Runtime: 26 min

Overview: A wealthy entrepreneur is sure that the man he meets on a cruise ship is the same person he robbed and left for dead many years ago ... or is he?

Insomnia (Episode 30) 7.0

Writer: Henry Slesar

Air date: 1960-05-08

Runtime: 26 min

Overview: Lack of sleep is ruining a widower's life, but the real nightmare begins when he finally meets his brother-in-law, a menacing veteran still holding a grudge for his sister's death.

I Can Take Care of Myself (Episode 31) 7.0

Air date: 1960-05-15

Runtime: 27 min

Overview: A beautiful Greenwich Village nightclub singer unwittingly risks her life - and that of her pianist - when she makes the mistake of brushing off "Little Dandy", a dangerous mobster.

One Grave Too Many (Episode 32) 7.0

Air date: 1960-05-22

Runtime: 27 min

Overview: Chronic unemployment makes a poor husband desperate enough to steal from a man he believes is dead, but he soon regrets the decision when he sees that the lifted wallet contains more than just cash.

Party Line (Episode 33) 6.5

Air date: 1960-05-29

Runtime: 26 min

Overview: A busybody fears for her life when she learns that the man who blames her for his wife's death has escaped from prison and may be planning a visit with his former neighbor.

Cell 227 (Episode 34) 7.0

Writer: Bill S. Ballinger

Air date: 1960-06-05

Runtime: 26 min

Overview: A falsely convicted prisoner is determined to make his walk to the gas chamber on of dignity, but his plan suddenly changes when he hurls himself at the jovial guard known as "Pops".

The Schartz-Metterklume Method (Episode 35) 7.0

Writer: Marian B. Cockrell

Air date: 1960-06-12

Runtime: 26 min

Overview: An unconventional governess disrupts a conservative household with her radical ideas about interior design, wines, art and - especially - children and their education.

Letter of Credit (Episode 36) 7.0

Air date: 1960-06-19

Runtime: 26 min

Overview: When he goes to a bank to transfer money, a man writing a book on the subject of unsolved crimes has no idea that he will find information about the $500,000 robbery he is chronicling ... or does he?

Escape to Sonoita (Episode 37)

Air date: 1960-06-26

Runtime: 27 min

Overview: A pair of truck drivers stranded in the Arizona desert find themselves at the mercy of two kidnappers who are heading to the border ... and determined to take the last of the drinking water with them.

Hooked (Episode 38) 7.0

Air date: 1960-09-25

Runtime: 27 min

Overview: Believing that financial reasons prevent him from leaving his wife, an unhappily married man and the woman he really loves hatch a scheme that they believe will solve all their problems.