Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Series of unrelated short stories covering elements of crime, horror, drama, and comedy about people of different backgrounds committing murders, suicides, thefts, and other sorts of crime caused by certain motivations, perceived or not.
Genre: Drama
Cast:Alfred Hitchcock , Harry Tyler , John Williams , Patricia Hitchcock , Arthur Gould-Porter , Raymond Bailey , Lillian O'Malley , Russell Collins , Robert Carson , Barry Harvey , Robert H. Harris , Ray Teal , Bartlett Robinson , David Fresco , Robert Horton , Percy Helton , Ralph Clanton , Charles Davis
S1.E1 ∙ Revenge
When Carl Spann's wife Elsa is assaulted by an unknown attacker, he drives his still-incoherent wife around town, hoping she can point him out, so he can kill him.
S1.E2 ∙ Premonition
A man returning to his home town finds his father has died, and suspects his friends are covering up the true details of that death.
S1.E3 ∙ Triggers in Leash
A cook tries everything she can think of to end a dispute between two gunmen who have sworn to kill each other.
S1.E4 ∙ Don't Come Back Alive
Frank Partridge and his wife plot to cheat their life insurance company by having her hide out for 7 years and declared legally dead, but an investigator believes Mr. Partridge has murdered her.
S1.E5 ∙ Into Thin Air
When a young woman leaves her ill mother in a Paris hotel room and comes back later, she finds her mother is missing, and all the hotel's employees deny she and her mother were ever there.
S1.E6 ∙ Salvage
Gangster Dan Varrell, just released from prison, goes looking for the woman he holds responsible for his brother's death.
S1.E7 ∙ Breakdown
William Callew is involved in a bad traffic accident on a rural road, that leaves him so paralyzed he appears lifeless, and when help arrives they think he's really dead.
S1.E8 ∙ Our Cook's a Treasure
A serial-murderess maid is on the loose in the city. Ralph becomes suspicious of his wife Ethel's housemaid Mrs. Sutton.
S1.E9 ∙ The Long Shot
Heavily indebted Charlie Raymond is hired to accompany a British visitor on a trip across the USA, and looks for a way to take advantage of his employer.
S1.E10 ∙ The Case of Mr. Pelham
A series of troubling incidents lead Mr. Pelham to believe that he has a double who is deliberately impersonating him.
S1.E11 ∙ Guilty Witness
When Mr. and Mrs. Crane hear the Verbers having a violent argument in the apartment just above them, and then Mr. Verber disappears the next day, they can't help suspecting the worst.
S1.E12 ∙ Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid
While working as a department store 'Santa Claus', a paroled convict tries to help a troubled boy.
S1.E13 ∙ The Cheney Vase
When Lyle Endicott is fired from his job at an art museum, he comes up with a plan to take advantage of a trusting invalid whom he befriended at the museum.
S1.E14 ∙ A Bullet for Baldwin
When an office worker is fired from his job, he shoots his boss to death, but when he returns to the office his boss is alive, and has no recollection of the incident.
S1.E15 ∙ The Big Switch
Gangster Sam Dunleavy sets up an elaborate alibi so that he can kill his ex-girlfriend Goldie, who left him for another man.
S1.E16 ∙ You Got to Have Luck
During a massive manhunt for escaped convict Sam Cobbett, Cobbett invades a house where young housewife Mary Schaffner is home alone.
S1.E17 ∙ The Older Sister
One year after Lizzie Borden's parents were brutally murdered, reporter Nell Cutts tries to interview Lizzie and her younger sister Emma about the killings
S1.E18 ∙ Shopping for Death
Two retired insurance salesmen confront an aggressive, hostile woman in hopes of saving her from a disaster.
S1.E19 ∙ The Derelicts
Inventor Ralph Cowell murders his silent partner Alfred, only to be blackmailed by vagrant Peter Goodfellow, who witnessed the crime.
S1.E20 ∙ And So Died Riabouchinska
Detective Krovitch investigates a murder at a run-down vaudeville theater and gets a hot lead from the ventriloquist's dummy.
S1.E21 ∙ Safe Conduct
An American journalist meets a soccer star while traveling behind the Iron Curtain, but then is arrested as a suspected smuggler.
S1.E22 ∙ Place of Shadows
A young man tries to insinuate his way into a monastery, in order to gain revenge on a thief whom he blames for ruining his life.
S1.E23 ∙ Back for Christmas
Before leaving on a trip to America, a man kills his wife and buries her in the basement. Once in the United States, he receives correspondence. Has he gotten away with his crime?
S1.E24 ∙ The Perfect Murder
Worried that their Aunt Rosalie doesn't really like them, brothers Paul and Henri set out to get their hands on her fortune any way they can.
S1.E25 ∙ There Was an Old Woman
Dishonest Frank and Lorna Bramwell visit the home of wealthy, eccentric Monica Laughton, with the intention of robbing her.
S1.E26 ∙ Whodunit
Recently deceased mystery writer Alexander Penn Arlington gets permission from the recording angel to relive his last day on earth, so that he can find out who murdered him.
S1.E27 ∙ Help Wanted
To pay for his wife's operation, Mr. Crabtree takes a job working for the mysterious Mr. X, who asks him to manage a job involving a blackmailer.
S1.E28 ∙ Portrait of Jocelyn
At an art gallery, Mark is surprised when the art dealer hands over a portrait of Mark's first wife instead of the painting he'd originally purchased.
S1.E29 ∙ The Orderly World of Mr. Appleby
An antique dealer comes up with a clever way to raise money to pay off a loan. But things won't be as easy for him the second time around...or will they?
S1.E30 ∙ Never Again
After arguing with her boyfriend, Karen wakes up in a jail cell with no recollection of what transpired and is told some horrifying news.
S1.E31 ∙ The Gentleman from America
Rich American Howard Latimer visits London, and bets 1,000 pounds that he can spend the night in a room that is said to be haunted.
S1.E32 ∙ The Baby Sitter
When Clara Nash is murdered, her baby-sitter Lottie Slocum is excited to be the center of attention, and she also hopes to become closer to Clara's husband.
S1.E33 ∙ The Belfry
When Clint Ringle learns that Ellie Marsh, the schoolteacher whom he loves, is engaged to Walt Norton, Clint kills Walt and then hides in the schoolhouse's bell tower, waiting for his chance to exact further revenge.
S1.E34 ∙ The Hidden Thing
After Dana Edwards' fiancée Laura is killed by a hit-and-run driver, he is visited by John Hurley, who claims to be able to use memory recall techniques that will help him to remember the car's license plate number.
S1.E35 ∙ The Legacy
When a prince who is well known as a playboy takes a sudden romantic interest in a shy, plain housewife, everyone is baffled and fascinated.
S1.E36 ∙ Mink
Paula Hudson has a stolen mink coat she tells police she purchased on a recommendation, and when they retrace her steps to find out how she obtained it, everyone denies they ever talked to her about it.
S1.E37 ∙ Decoy
Gil Larkin is suspected of murder when Mona Cameron's allegedly abusive husband is shot dead in front of him and he gets knocked out by an unknown assailant.
S1.E38 ∙ The Creeper
A frightened housewife is alone in her apartment when she begins to suspect just about anyone could be the unknown killer who has been strangling women.
S1.E39 ∙ Momentum
Richard Paine decides to steal money from his boss that he has owed him for months, and it turns into an unnecessary and ironic murder.
S2.E1 ∙ Wet Saturday
Mr. Princey's daughter has just murdered the schoolmaster. A murderess in the family? That won't do. It's up to Mr. Princey to frame someone else for her crime.
S2.E2 ∙ Fog Closing In
When her husband goes away on a business trip, Mary Summers is all alone in her house--and gripped with a nameless fear. Then an escaped mental patient breaks in.
S2.E3 ∙ De Mortuis
Professor Rankin's buddies Wally and Bud stop by to take him fishing. They find him in his cellar, filling in a hole with cement. They suspect he may have also filled it with his wife.
S2.E4 ∙ Kill with Kindness
Katherine Oldham feeds stew to a homeless man as she struggles to keep the mind of her brother, Fitzhugh--a butterfly hunter and birdwatcher--on the task of murder.
S2.E5 ∙ None Are So Blind
An antiques dealer feels he should be enjoying the finer things in life, but his Aunt Muriel is the one with all the money. Finding another man's wallet gives him an evil idea.
S2.E6 ∙ Toby
New York, 1910. Bookkeeper Al Birch expects the arrival of his sweetheart Edwina from 20 years ago. When she arrives, she is still every bit the lady. But she doesn't come alone.
S2.E7 ∙ Alibi Me
Georgie Minnelli kills his old childhood enemy Lucky Moore for interfering in his pinball machine racket. Now Georgie desperately needs an alibi.
S2.E8 ∙ Conversation Over a Corpse
Cissie Enright is not exactly thrilled with the idea of poisoning the real estate man. But her sister, Joanna, insists that it's the only way.
S2.E9 ∙ Crack of Doom
A no-limit game of poker brings a real estate man to the brink of ruin.
S2.E10 ∙ Jonathan
A college boy with an unnaturally close relationship to his father suspects his stepmother of foul play.
S2.E11 ∙ The Better Bargain
A middle-aged mobster suspects his young wife is cheating on him. He gets in touch with Harry Silver, the best hitman in the business.
S2.E12 ∙ The Rose Garden
A book publisher visits two elderly sisters at their Louisiana mansion. One of them has written a murder mystery. And he learns that it may contain more fact than fiction.
S2.E13 ∙ Mr. Blanchard's Secret
A mystery writer's imagination gets her in trouble when she turns her overstimulated mind to her new next-door neighbors -- and wonders why she has never seen the wife.
S2.E14 ∙ John Brown's Body
An upstart furniture designer colludes with his boss's wife to drive her husband mad.
S2.E15 ∙ Crackpot
A Good Samaritan helps a newlywed couple with a flat tire. But when the groom accidentally dirties the man's suit, the stranger reveals himself to be a dangerous crackpot.
S2.E16 ∙ Nightmare in 4-D
A man who reads too much pulp fiction finds himself playing Sir Galahad to the blonde in the apartment downstairs. It seems she's burdened with a corpse.
S2.E17 ∙ My Brother, Richard
District attorney Martin Ross, who's running for governor, learns that his brother, Richard, has killed the other candidate, Burton Reeves.
S2.E18 ∙ The Manacled
Shackled prisoner Stephen Fontaine tries to negotiate an escape from Sergeant Rockwell while en route to San Quentin.
S2.E19 ∙ A Bottle of Wine
Judge Connors shares amontillado and civilized conversation with the young architect about to steal his wife. But the quality of his mercy is strained.
S2.E20 ∙ Malice Domestic
Marital discord between writer Carl Borden and his wife Annette intensifies when poison is found in his food.
S2.E21 ∙ Number Twenty-Two
Young robber Steve Morgan is in jail for his first offense and too cocky for his own good.
S2.E22 ∙ The End of Indian Summer
An insurance investigator and his wife look into the case of Mrs. Gillespie, who has been widowed twice -- and has twice enjoyed windfalls from her husbands' life insurance.
S2.E23 ∙ One for the Road
A former nurse learns that when her husband is away on business trips, he's seeing another woman.
S2.E24 ∙ The Cream of the Jest
Broken-down actor Charles Gresham, who has a weakness for booze, demands that playwright Wayne Campbell give him a part. When Campbell refuses, Gresham resorts to blackmail.
S2.E25 ∙ I Killed the Count: Part 1
A maid discovers the body of Count Victor Mattoni. It's up to Inspector Davidson from Scotland Yard to find the murderer.
S2.E26 ∙ I Killed the Count: Part 2
Inspector Davidson continues to investigate the murder of Count Mattoni.
S2.E27 ∙ I Killed the Count: Part 3
Inspector Davidson continues to investigate the murder of Count Mattoni -- and receives yet another confession.
S2.E28 ∙ One More Mile to Go
Sam Jacoby has his wife's corpse in the trunk of his car, and is menaced by a motorcycle cop, who nags him about a taillight.
S2.E29 ∙ Vicious Circle
A hired killer reluctantly sets out to kill his own girlfriend as ordered by his crime boss, knowing he won't accept any failures.
S2.E30 ∙ The Three Dreams of Mr. Findlater
Ernest Findlater is constantly nagged at by his wife so he fantasizes about Lalage, an exotic lover from the South Seas.
S2.E31 ∙ The Night the World Ended
A newsman plays a joke on a homeless man by showing him a fake article that says the world is going to end that night, but the prank has deadly results.
S2.E32 ∙ The Hands of Mr. Ottermole
A murderer has been strangling people in the London fog. A reporter manages to continually make it to the crime scene before the police.
S2.E33 ∙ A Man Greatly Beloved
In a small Massachusetts town, precocious young Hildegarde Fell learns a secret about crusty old John Anderson, who has just moved there.
S2.E34 ∙ Martha Mason, Movie Star
A vain, querulous woman can't get a divorce from her husband. Luckily, he loves to garden. And he's just dug a nice big hole in the backyard.
S2.E35 ∙ The West Warlock Time Capsule
Taxidermist George Tiffany has domestic trouble when his wife's visiting brother Waldren overstays his welcome.
S2.E36 ∙ Father and Son
London, 1912. Shop owner Joe Saunders refuses to lend money to his son Sam, who is anxious to win over a cheap showgirl.
S2.E37 ∙ The Indestructible Mr. Weems
A lodge is selling cemetery plots, but nobody will buy one until the first person is buried there. The brothers turn to Mr. Weems.
S2.E38 ∙ A Little Sleep
A bored rich girl goes up to her cabin in the mountains. Before the night is over, she'll wish desperately she had just gone home.
S2.E39 ∙ The Dangerous People
Two men wait at a train station. A wailing siren periodically reminds them that a maniac has escaped from the local mental hospital.
S3.E1 ∙ The Glass Eye
Captivated by the actor's physical beauty, an aging spinster pulls up stakes to follow a ventriloquist and his dummy from performance to performance; finally, the man consents to a much-wanted meeting.
S3.E2 ∙ Mail Order Prophet
Clerk Ronald Grimes starts receiving letters from a mysterious Mr. Christiani that seemingly predict the future.
S3.E3 ∙ The Perfect Crime
A lawyer, with blackmail in mind, meets with a famed detective to prove he convicted an innocent man.
S3.E4 ∙ Heart of Gold
A convicted robber is released to the family of one of his cell mates, against the better judgment of his parole officer.
S3.E5 ∙ Silent Witness
A professor kills the beautiful, blackmailing female student he has been having a sexual affair with, in front of a baby.
S3.E6 ∙ Reward to Finder
When 5,200 dollars in lost cash is found by a man, he gets into a potentially deadly conflict with his wife about what to do with it.
S3.E7 ∙ Enough Rope for Two
An ex-convict plans on killing his double-crossing partner and maybe his ex-girlfriend, after they help him recover the stolen money he hid.
S3.E8 ∙ Last Request
A man about to be executed for a murder he did not commit, uses a last request to give his version of events.
S3.E9 ∙ The Young One
A rebellious, pretty teenage girl uses any means, even murder, to get free of her overly protective aunt who is raising her.
S3.E10 ∙ The Diplomatic Corpse
A married couple stands to inherit 30,000 British pounds when the wife's aunt riding with them dies, but while in Mexico their car with her body inside is stolen.
S3.E11 ∙ The Deadly
A plumber who blackmails housewives over false claims of having affairs , meets one who has some ideas about stopping him and maybe getting restitution for all his victims.
S3.E12 ∙ Miss Paisley's Cat
An elderly woman's beloved alley cat is killed by the local bookie, and she gets the strong urge to murder him.
S3.E13 ∙ Night of the Execution
A desperate deputy DA who gets a murder conviction against a man for killing his wife, is confronted by another man who claims he committed the crime.
S3.E14 ∙ The Percentage
Eddie Slovak meets an old Army buddy named Pete who once saved his life. He intends to repay his friend. He offers him money for a business, but Peter refuses. Eddie tries to talk to Pete's wife Louise. Louise falls for Eddie and the two become romantically involved.
S3.E15 ∙ Together
A husband gets locked in a secure office with the body of his beautiful young mistress, whom he has just murdered.
S3.E16 ∙ Sylvia
A man fears his mentally unstable daughter has bought a gun to kill herself, but perhaps she has other plans.
S3.E17 ∙ The Motive
A man, who has a theory that murders committed without a motive are very rarely solved, is coaxed by his friend into killing someone.
S3.E18 ∙ Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty
Millicent Bracegirdle is a sheltered old woman who decides to go to Paris. Her visit does not turn out well when she accidentally enters the wrong hotel room and gets locked inside with a notorious murderer.
S3.E19 ∙ The Equalizer
A man challenges a bigger guy to a duel with weapons, after his lustful actions caused his wife to leave him.
S3.E20 ∙ On the Nose
Fran is a housewife addicted to gambling and has to repay a $25 loan by 5 o'clock that afternoon.
S3.E21 ∙ Guest for Breakfast
A murderer holding a bickering married couple at gunpoint, tries to decide which one to kill, but their constant arguing over who should die confuses him.
S3.E22 ∙ The Return of the Hero
Sgt. Andre is a returning veteran from the French-Algerian war. He heads home to his estate with his crippled friend Marcel. Marcel lost his leg saving Andre's life. Along the way Andre falls for a beautiful girl Therese even though he is already engaged to be married. Marcel and a good web of lies help Andre out of his problem.
S3.E23 ∙ The Right Kind of House
Mr. Waterbury believes he can get a good deal on some real estate because a murder occurred in the home. But he hasn't dealt with Sadie Grimes the owner who refuses to lower the price because of an emotional attachment.
S3.E24 ∙ The Foghorn
Lucia meets and falls in love with a man named Allen Bliss at a party that is a celebration of her engagement to another man: John St. Rogers. She decides to break the engagement. She later discovers that Allen is already married. The lovers decide to go for a ride in a sailboat to discuss their plans.
S3.E25 ∙ Flight to the East
A newsman taking a forced plane trip to Egypt describes his past connection with arms trafficking to a lovely governess who knows part of his story is untrue.
S3.E26 ∙ Bull in a China Shop
A handsome homicide detective is befriended by four old ladies who invite him for tea and proceed to play out a variation of Arsenic and Old Lace for his benefit.
S3.E27 ∙ Disappearing Trick
A bookmaker blackmails a man who faked his own death to collect insurance money, and finds the man's wife wants a share also.
S3.E28 ∙ Lamb to the Slaughter
When Mary Maloney's police chief husband is found murdered, the police investigate and have a hard time trying to find the murder weapon.
S3.E29 ∙ Fatal Figures
A meek bored man wants to feel important, so he commits increasingly serious crimes ranging from theft to eventual murder.
S3.E30 ∙ Death Sentence
Paula Frayne's husband Norman is a chronic worrier who shows her little attention. When an old friend of Norman's shows up and shows too much interest in Paula, Norman becomes difficult. Paula becomes convinced that Norman no longer loves her and moves out of the house. She was wrong, however. Norman really loves her and threatens murder to prove it.
S3.E31 ∙ The Festive Season
A bitter man continues to live in a dark old mansion with his controlling sister, who he believes killed his wife, while openly planning her murder.
S3.E32 ∙ Listen, Listen.....!
No one will listen to a mild-mannered man's theory about a string of local murders.
S3.E33 ∙ Post Mortem
A wife refuses to let her husband squander away the money from a 133,000-dollar sweepstakes ticket inherited from her first dead spouse, so he plans on killing her.
S3.E34 ∙ The Crocodile Case
Jack Lyons and Phyllis Chaundry are married after Jack kills Phyllis' first husband, but Phyllis is unhappy because Jack lost the crocodile dressing case her late husband was returning to her the night of his murder. When the police finally find the case, Jack identifies it based on the initials, but that just might give away his guilt.
S3.E35 ∙ Dip in the Pool
William Botibol is a compulsive gambler. While on a cruise he enters a betting pool to guess the number of miles the ship will travel in the course of 24 hours. William thinks he has figured out a way to guarantee he will win the bet.
S3.E36 ∙ The Safe Place
George Piper is a bank teller. Worried about his finances, he and his brother Fred think they have a foolproof plan to secure funds for the future.
S3.E37 ∙ The Canary Sedan
Laura Bowlby is a psychic who is traveling to Hong Kong to reunite with her businessman husband. Upon her arrival, arrangements are made to purchase for her a black sedan. Mrs. Bowlby says she would prefer a different color, perhaps yellow. The car dealer is taken aback, as he reveals that the car was once canary yellow before a recent paint job. While being driven by her chauffeur, Laura begins to hear a woman's voice. The voice tells Laura about a passionate affair.
S3.E38 ∙ The Impromptu Murder
A broker strangles his client when she requests her money he no longer has, buries the body, then impersonates her leaving town and disappearing.
S3.E39 ∙ Little White Frock
Colin Bragner is an elderly actor who invites both playwright Adam Longsworth and his wife over to dinner. During dinner, Colin talks about a long-lost love. The tale deeply affects both Adam and his wife, practically reducing them to tears.
S4.E1 ∙ Poison
Harry Pope is lying in bed and discovers that there is a sleeping snake on his stomach.
S4.E2 ∙ Don't Interrupt
Radio warns that a mental patient escaped from a hospital into a severe New Mexico blizzard. At the rail-stop near the sanitarium, a huge, old cowboy boards the train and calms a rattled family with tall tales of the West, as the besieged train grinds to a halt. Totally entranced is the family's young boy, dressed as a gunslinger. Is the patient the old cowpoke ?
S4.E3 ∙ The Jokester
Newspaperman Bradley's habit of playing practical jokes puts morgue attendant Pop Henderson in danger of losing his job.
S4.E4 ∙ The Crooked Road
A couple driving through a rural location discover that the police and judge of the town of Robertsville are more intent on extorting money from them than being honest servants of the people.
S4.E5 ∙ The $2,000,000 Defense
The fate of accused killer Lloyd Ashley depends on whether or not his lawyer Mark Robeson can prove that a gun can fire accidentally, even with the safety catch on.
S4.E6 ∙ Design for Loving
In the near future of 1965, a drone seeks escape from his dull job, and his wife's constant demands. Charles Brailing longs to chuck it all and fly down to Rio a la Fred Astaire. Sharing his dilemma with another middle-age crazy hubby, Brailing purchases an answer which should satisfy all parties, even the lovely Lydia - an android duplicate.
S4.E7 ∙ Man with a Problem
Karen Adams' infidelity drives her husband Carl to attempt suicide by jumping from a high window ledge at a hotel. Can police officer Barrett stop him?
S4.E8 ∙ Safety for the Witness
A milquetoast gun shop owner witnesses two hoods murdering a witness from another crime in 1927 Chicago and is afraid he will share the same fate.
S4.E9 ∙ Murder Me Twice
At a house party, Lucy Pryor allows herself to be hypnotized by Miles Farnham. While under his spell, she claims to be a woman living in 1853 and in the process of describing what she did, picks up a pair of scissors and kills her husband. In looking into the case, the coroner determines that in 1853 a woman did just as Lucy described but is suspicious that this could be a sham. At the inquest, Miles suggests that he hypnotize Lucy, with unexpected consequences.
S4.E10 ∙ Tea Time
Blanche Herbert invites Iris Teleton to tea at a posh restaurant. Blanche and Iris' husband Oliver have been having an affair for some time and she now wants Iris to grant her husband a divorce. Iris flatly refuses but it appears that she too once had an affair, a fact that Blanche is obviously prepared to use to her advantage. Iris is determined not to let her husband go free and sets out to ensure that neither he nor his lover ever spend time together again. Little does she realize exactly what her husband is up to.
S4.E11 ∙ And the Desert Shall Blossom
A killer on the run demands help from two cantankerous Western prospectors, when his car breaks down near their remote shack. The old couple already face eviction unless they can demonstrate that they are homesteading, but in a patch of Nevada desert which can barely support a juniper tree, how can they?
S4.E12 ∙ Mrs. Herman and Mrs. Fenimore
A woman conspires with a classy, mature stage actress, to help kill her live-in uncle for inheritance money.
S4.E13 ∙ Six People, No Music
When wealthy department store owner Barryvale dies, local mortician Art Motherwell anticipates a windfall from a lavish funeral. But the dearly beloved awakens from death to insist the mortician keep expenses to the bare minimum.
S4.E14 ∙ The Morning After
A married businessman keeps his naive young mistress in an apartment, assuring her with costly gifts that he will marry her as soon as he can secure a divorce from his harpy wife. The young woman's mother is not so easily persuaded.
S4.E15 ∙ A Personal Matter
A failing mine operation in the Mexican hills had claimed its latest 'victim'; the project's current engineer's had it. Just then, a car pulls up, with two occupants; one's the mine's financier. The other gentleman's an associate of his. With the mine needing only five more weeks of drilling, and the engineer about to quit, the desperate financier has no options, and asks his associate to help make the engineer stay. He will; on one condition. The man's plan? Have the financier drive off, right then, leaving the engineer stuck there...as well as the financier's associate stuck.With no options for at least 5-6 weeks, the engineer begrudgingly agrees to continue the work. That night, the engineer hears a news report, which tells of the murder of a building project official in southern California. The killer? The project's engineer, who managed to escape, and headed south - to Mexico. Fearing for his life, the engineer tries to make a quick exit, but the financiers' associate comes in, brandishing a gun. The two agree to a truce, albeit a temporary one; till the job's completed, the engineer doesn't have to fear the associate killing him, and he'll continue to do his work. But after the job's completed, it's anyone's guess what'll happen.
S4.E16 ∙ Out There - Darkness
Miss Fox is a rich old widow who falsely identifies one of the building's employees as the guy who robbed her, and later she wants to help him but it may be too late.
S4.E17 ∙ Total Loss
Jan Manning is having serious financial problems. She runs a dress shop but sales are down and she doesn't have her late husband's knack at purchasing, the end result being that she has too much inventory. One of her suppliers, Mel Reeves, has a solution: he needs only to hire someone to break in to the shop through the skylight and set it on fire allowing Jan to collect on her insurance policy. But when the shop burns down, Jan tells the insurance investigator what happened, only to be told that no one broke into the shop but that she is nonetheless responsible for setting the fire herself.
S4.E18 ∙ The Last Dark Step
Brad Taylor is a real-estate entrepreneur who is engaged to Janice Wright. Unbeknownst to her, Brad is still seeing an old flame, Leslie Lenox, a writer. Leslie doesn't take to Brad's decision to stop seeing her very well, particularly as she has been paying all of his bills for quite a long time. Leslie makes it very clear that should Brad not drop Janice, she will do everything in her power to ensure he never marries her. Seeing no other way out, Brad decides get rid of Leslie permanently, but is in for a surprise when he gets home to find two detectives waiting for him.
S4.E19 ∙ The Morning of the Bride
A lonely woman who waited years to marry the man she loves finds out a horrible secret about why he stalled for so long.
S4.E20 ∙ The Diamond Necklace
A jewelry firm casts out the last of a family who've been employees for 117 years, and the company won't hire the last of the line because she's a woman. Faithful service goes unrewarded when her father is given a week to finish up, but he'll show how much he'll be missed by selling the firm's most expensive gem by his last day of 37 years service.
S4.E21 ∙ Relative Value
John Manbridge likes the good things in life, including betting on the horses. With no real means of support, he's taken to forging cheques from his cousin Felix Manbridge's account. Aware of this, Felix warns his cousin that should it happen again, he would prosecute--but reminds him that with his own current state of ill-health, John will soon inherit everything. John decides to accelerate the process, not realizing that Felix has decided to do the same, with unintended consequences.
S4.E22 ∙ The Right Price
Jocelyn and Mort Barnhardt are married but are also business partners who bicker constantly about who contributes more to the business. One night, their home is broken into and the burglar goes about methodically looking for their valuables. When Mort investigates, he finds a chatty crook who offers him a deal: if they work together, they can get a nice fat insurance settlement in the bargain. Mort doesn't have much that's valuable so he proposes that the burglar kill Jocelyn. It doesn't quite go as planned however.
S4.E23 ∙ I'll Take Care of You
After a man puts a permanent end to his dominant wife's demands for extravagance, he becomes the victim of blackmail.
S4.E24 ∙ The Avon Emeralds
Scotland Yard is tasked with ensuring that the recently widowed Lady Gwendolyn Avon doesn't smuggle an expensive necklace known as the "Avon Emeralds" out of England. Most of her late husband's estate was given up in death taxes and the police are sure she could sell them at a premium abroad. Inspector Benson is tasked with ensuring the jewels' safekeeping but when they are stolen from the hotel safe, it appears Lady Avon has a perfect plan.
S4.E25 ∙ The Kind Waitress
Thelma Tompkins is a waitress in a hotel restaurant. She's a good waitress and has always been kind to old Mrs. Mannerheim who eats in the restaurant every evening. Thelma is shocked when Mrs. Mannerheim tells her that she is her closest friend and has left her a considerable legacy in her will. In the interim, she gives Thelma a brooch. Over the following months, Mrs. Mannerheim becomes ever more demanding and Thelma's musician boyfriend Arthur suggests that maybe the time has come for the old lady's demise to accelerated somewhat. Thelma poison's her tea but without any obvious effect. Thelma takes matters into her own hands and the subsequent coroner's inquiry reveals some interesting information about the poison she was using.
S4.E26 ∙ Cheap Is Cheap
Alexander Gifford has to be the cheapest skinflint on the planet. He chides his wife for leaving a light turned on and he reads his neighbor's newspaper rather than buy his own. When his wife discovers he has bank accounts totaling $33,000 she starts spending money on herself, and he decides he has to do something about it. He tries to hire a "hit man," but recoils when he's told that the fee would be $500. The "hit man" refers him to a chemist to buy poison, but again recoils at the cost. He decides to find a low-cost way to proceed, but even when he's successful, he is taken aback when the doctor tells him that the funeral will likely cost at least $160. Even with that, he finds a way to avoid the costs.
S4.E27 ∙ The Waxwork
A writer must spend a night in a wax museum's murderers' gallery, to make good a gambling debt knowingly paid with a bad check to a testy Englishman. The museum's owner is so obsessed with the accuracy of his replicas, he's as scary as they are. Especially so to the magazine writer from the U.S., who's already facing deportation or a stretch in a London jail.
S4.E28 ∙ The Impossible Dream
Oliver Mathews was once a major movie star, but is now an over-the-hill "has-been" with only limited movie roles and with few fans. He's also being blackmailed by Grace Dolan whose daughter once had an affair with Mathews. He's now broke and decides to get rid of Dolan but finds that his personal assistant Miss Hall, who is infatuated with him, saw him commit the deed. Her price for not going to the police is to make her one dream come true.
S4.E29 ∙ Banquo's Chair
A retired detective plans to make a suspect in a murder think he's seeing the victim's ghost on the anniversary of her death in the home she was murdered in. Others are invited to pretend they see nothing, hoping to jar a confession.
S4.E30 ∙ A Night with the Boys
When a husband fakes being a victim of a robbery to hide his gambling losses from his pregnant wife, the police still produce a suspect - with unexpected results.
S4.E31 ∙ Your Witness
Naomi Shawn is unhappily married. Her husband Arnold, a successful defense attorney, is having an affair with a younger woman and it's apparent that he's no longer interested in her. He also refuses to agree to a divorce, liking the freedom he already has. In court, she sees her husband in action. He is defending a hit-and-run driver and demolishes the prosecution's chief witness by challenging his visual acuity. During the lunch recess, Naomi decides to take action to end her marriage, and fortunately has the correct eye-witness to back her up.
S4.E32 ∙ Human Interest Story
Newspaperman Bill Everett is told by his editor to go to the bar across the street and interview a man who claims to be a Martian. There, Everett meets Howard Wilcox who spins a long tale about how he woke up one morning to find that his fellow Martians had all disappeared. He traveled to Earth and found himself in Wilcox's body. Everett convinces him to go home to his wife and even offers to accompany him. He nearly convinces Wilcox to keep his story to himself, but when he decides to tell his wife the whole story, Everett must take drastic action. All is explained when Everett provides a complete report to his editor.
S4.E33 ∙ The Dusty Drawer
A professor is convinced his boarding housemate (a bank teller) stole $200 from his bank deposit; the teller vehemently denies it. He wants his money back, and employs a series of pranks to challenge the teller's sanity - but to what end?
S4.E34 ∙ A True Account
A nurse claiming she suspects her very rich husband of killing his first wife, seeks advice from a lawyer, instead of going to the police.
S4.E35 ∙ Touché
Bill Fleming is upset that his wife is having an affair with Philip Baxter, the most recent of a long line of lovers. Bill is an ex-boxer and an outdoors man and nothing would give him more pleasure than to wring Baxter's neck. When he mentions to his fishing pal that he has a large collection of dueling weapons, his buddy suggests that he challenge Baxter to a duel. He tells Bill that under California law, you get special treatment in the courts if you kill someone in a duel. Little does Bill realize that his fishing pal had a purpose in giving Bill the advice he did.
S4.E36 ∙ Invitation to an Accident
A scaffold falls on a new bride, after her husband accuses her of rendezvousing with an old flame. Another former suitor suspects the husband faked the accident, and urges her to cut off the affair. When she persists, he fears the unbalanced husband will again try to kill her, so he devises a plan to protect her.
S5.E1 ∙ Arthur
When his pretty ex-fiancee returns from another failed relationship, a chicken farmer, not wanting anything to do with her, decides to eliminate her.
S5.E2 ∙ The Crystal Trench
An obsessed young woman waits decades for her husband's body to emerge from the ice, after he fell from a mountain.
S5.E3 ∙ Appointment at Eleven
David Logan lives at home with his mother and he's still upset that his father left them many years before. He is haunted by an event when he was twelve years old and he came home to find his father with a blue-eyed blond. He tells his mother he has an appointment at 11:00 so he skips dinner and heads to a bar. There he meets a girl and repeats several times that something big is going to happen at 11:00. He gets into a fight with a sailor in the bar and tells him the same and then again with a patron in an Irish pub, now saying someone is going to die at the prescribed hour. When the 11 o'clock news come on the air, you learn the full story.
S5.E4 ∙ Coyote Moon
A goodhearted man picks up an old man and his adult son and daughter hitchhiking, but they steal from him every chance they get.
S5.E5 ∙ No Pain
A woman reveals to her rich, invalid husband dependent on a respirator, that she's planning to painlessly murder him, but he may have a surprise for her.
S5.E6 ∙ Anniversary Gift
Myra Jenkins has quite a menagerie in her home: birds, a turtle, a monkey, a chameleon and on and on. She is quite devoted to them, usually at the expense of her husband Hermie. Their neighbor, George Bay, is always telling Hermie how much he misses his late wife and that since since she's died, all he ever does is travel, go fishing and drink beer. All of this sounds pretty good to Hermie who hatches a plan to get his wife a new pet that may not be very cuddly and lovable but may give him the way out that he desires. Little does Hermie realize the predicament he is getting himself into.
S5.E7 ∙ Dry Run
A crime boss gives a new employee an assignment to kill another man, but the intended victim tempts him with another offer.
S5.E8 ∙ The Blessington Method
In the future year of 1980, life expectancy has increased dramatically and J.J. Bunce provides an essential service. He approaches John Treadwell and informs him that his elderly mother-in-law, now in her 80s and who lives with him full-time, will live at least another 32 years. Bunce's offer is quite simple: he will dispose of her for a fee. Initially Treadwell rejects the suggestion out of hand, but at home, the old lady is becoming ever more demanding. In the end, he accepts Bunce's offer but he does wonder what his own children might do when the time comes.
S5.E9 ∙ Dead Weight
A married man captures a gunman who tried to rob him and his mistress, but to avoid a scandal, he contemplates whether to let him go or kill him.
S5.E10 ∙ Special Delivery
Mental suggestions and odd behavior have some people believing a special delivery of quick-growing mushroom spores may be an invading life form.
S5.E11 ∙ Road Hog
A very rude traveling salesman forces a truck off the road, causing a delay in emergency care for an injured young man, who dies.
S5.E12 ∙ Specialty of the House
Mr. Laffler invites Mr. Costain to join him for dinner at a private club that he describes as a very special experience. To his disappointment, Laffler is informed that the house specialty, a lamb dish, is not being served. They continue to visit the club and one evening, the famous dish is served. It also happens that a long-time member has resigned. What, if anything, do the two events have in common?
S5.E13 ∙ An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
In the Civil War, Union soldiers hang a Confederate farmer for sabotage. The rope breaks and he falls into a river. He swims to safety and begins walking home. Disoriented, he's glad to see plantation staff who guide his befogged travel.
S5.E14 ∙ Graduating Class
While on a date, a new teacher of European literature at an all-girl college observes one of her students leaving a nightclub with a man and follows them. What could go wrong?
S5.E15 ∙ Man from the South
In a Las Vegas casino, an unpleasant little man hopes to use a young man's wish to impress the young woman he has just met to pressure the young fellow into accepting a macabre bet.
S5.E16 ∙ The Ikon of Elijah
Carpius owns an antique shop in Cyprus and is quite excited to hear that a local monastery may be in possession of a very valuable icon. Knowing that a client would pay a fortune for it, he arranges to visit the monastery to steal the icon. During the robbery, Carpius kills a praying monk but claims it was an accident. The Abbot says he will forgive him, but as he has sinned he must pray for forgiveness. Only then does Carpius understand what the Abbot has in mind.
S5.E17 ∙ The Cure
Living in the remote tropics are two oil explorers, one of whom is married to a very attractive woman. One night, she tries to stab her husband and he is convinced by his partner that she is sick with tropical fever. They agree that she needs to see a head shrinker. En route to the doctor however, she convinces her husband's partner to help her kill the husband. Fortunately, the husband's trusted manservant is also with them and protects his master's interests in a very unusual way.
S5.E18 ∙ Backward, Turn Backward
Matt Thompson is bludgeoned to death with a pipe wrench and suspicion immediately falls on 59-year-old Phil Canby. The wrench belonged to Canby and he was there that evening fixing a leaky sink. The real problem however is that Canby is in love with Thompson's 19-year-old daughter, Sue, and they plan on getting married; everyone knew Matt Thompson was violently opposed to their relationship. Canby maintains his innocence throughout and the local Sheriff, who finds it very hard to believe that the mild-mannered Canby would do such a thing, investigates. In the end, the true culprit is revealed.
S5.E19 ∙ Not the Running Type
When Capt. Ernest Fisher learns that Milton Potter has been released from prison after serving his 15-year sentence, he tells his subordinates about this very strange case. Potter was a bookkeeper for a bank. He did his work well and was reliable but people knew very little about his private life. When it's determined that he embezzled $200,000 he is eventually sent to jail. No one can quite believe that he was really the type to steal, and he never tells anyone what happened to the money. After his release, Fisher visits him and incredibly, Potter tells him he's not the type to run and returns the stolen money. Only later, aboard a cruise ship does he explain to a fellow passenger that there is "method" to his apparent madness.
S5.E20 ∙ The Day of the Bullet
When a young boy reports a mob-beating to the police, and his father does not encourage him, he is adversely affected for the rest of his life.
S5.E21 ∙ Hitch Hike
Anne has just been acquitted in court and her uncle, Charles Underhill is not a happy man. He feels that her brush with the law will reflect badly on him and is of the view that the only reason she got off was because of his reputation as an upstanding citizen. Underhill doesn't think much of young people, questioning their constant attempt at rebellion. On the way home he has a problem with his car and is assisted by a teenager, Len, who then asks for a ride to the next town. Len is constantly talking about reform school and his "friend" who is good with a knife. Underhill becomes alarmed and purposely speeds in order to be stopped by the police. He tries to explain to the officer that Len is threatening, but there is no evidence to support that claim. He does however get a summons for court and is now really worried about his reputation. Len however presents him with an easy solution to his problem that tests his moral resolve and his self-righteous attitude.
S5.E22 ∙ Across the Threshold
Sofie Winter hires mediums in an attempt to contact her late husband, who died six years previously. Her son Hubert, who feels somewhat overwhelmed by his doting mother, decides to ask his actress-girlfriend to impersonate a medium and she convinces Sofie that her husband misses her and the time has come for her to join him. Sofie meticulously plans her departure and on what is intended to be her final evening, lets her son in on the final elements of her plan.
S5.E23 ∙ Craig's Will
Thomas Craig is feeling pretty good about himself. His rich uncle has just died and knowing that he is the only living relative, expects to inherit the family fortune. He's thrown for a loop however, when his uncle leaves everything to his pet dog for the balance of its lifetime, with the inheritance going to Thomas only after the dog's passing. Thomas' gold-digging girlfriend, Judy, decides it's time to speed up the dog's demise, with humorous consequences. Visiting a psychiatrist, she comes to the conclusion that there is only one way in the current circumstances for a girl to nab a millionaire.
S5.E24 ∙ Madame Mystery
Steven is working on his novel when into his apartment walks an attractive woman, soaking wet. She's with Steven's neighbour, Jimmy Dolan, who's a bit of a playboy. Jimmy is a PR man for a major studio but has only limited talent so he needs Steven's help to write material about Betsy Blake, a long-time Hollywood star who recently drowned and who has a major movie being released. Steven's work gets Jimmy a big raise from the studio and ensures Betsy's last movie will be a big hit. But it turns out Betty hasn't drowned. What's a PR man to do?
S5.E25 ∙ The Little Man Who Was There
Jamie and Ben McMahon have brought a civilized attitude to a rough and tumble mining town. Although both strongmen in their own rights, they preach brotherly love and turning the other cheek. One day, in walks the Little Man, a strange little fellow who challenges the McMahons and says that his powers are far greater than theirs. To the shock of everyone present, he proves his point and the local folk think they are dealing with the devil incarnate. There is however, far more to this than meets the eye.
S5.E26 ∙ Mother, May I Go Out to Swim?
John Crane is attending a coroner's inquiry and remembers the events that brought him there. John lives with his mother Claire and they are obviously very close. While on holiday, he meets Lottie and falls in love for the first time in his life. When his mother visits, it's obvious she and Lottie do not like one another. Lottie suggests that they take Claire up to the waterfalls to enjoy the view. He knows exactly what Lottie has in mind, and resolves the situation. He awaits the decision of the coroner's jury.
S5.E27 ∙ The Cuckoo Clock
Mrs. Blythe goes to spend a weekend at her cottage. She hasn't been there since her husband died the year before. Stopping at the general store, she's told that a patient has escaped from the local mental institution. Once at her cottage, she meets Madeleine who says she had seen a dangerous looking man nearby. Madeleine is obviously upset and wants to leave, but Mrs. Blythe begs her to stay. She agrees, but with dire consequences.
S5.E28 ∙ Forty Detectives Later
After locating the killer of his wife, a man hires his 41st detective to set up a meeting so he can kill the male suspect.
S5.E29 ∙ The Hero
Richard Musgrave, a business man of middle years, starts a sea voyage and recognizes one of the other passengers as his partner of many years ago who was presumed dead. However, the gentleman is going by the name of Mr. Kyser and not Mr. Jan Vander Klaue. Musgrave works himself into a frenzy of guilt over a mistake he made all those years ago and takes drastic steps to try and force Kyser into admitting his real identity.
S5.E30 ∙ Insomnia
Charles Cavender suffers from terrible insomnia. He hasn't had a good night's sleep in months and has lost a number of jobs as a result. He visits a psychiatrist and recounts a recurring dream he has about the death of his wife, who died in a house fire. Cavender's brother-in-law, Jack Fletcher, blames him for his sister's death and it's determined there is a link between that and the insomnia. Cavender feels threatened but decides to pay him a visit to clear the air. However, things don't quite go as planned.
S5.E31 ∙ I Can Take Care of Myself
Bert Haber is an old-time piano player, and he and Georgia who sings, have proven to be a very popular nightclub act. Problems arise when a gangster, 'Little Dandy' Dorf, takes a liking to Georgia but she wants no part of him and pours a drink over his head. Soon after, Bert is threatened when someone suggests he get an insurance policy. Things come to a head a few weeks later when Bert is approached by a police officer who has information and suggests that he is in need of protection. Bert doesn't quite realize who he needs protection from, however.
S5.E32 ∙ One Grave Too Many
Joe Helmer is having serious financial problems. He's been out of work for some time and his unemployment insurance has run out. Walking home after unsuccessfully trying to get a loan, he comes across a well-to-do gent, apparently dead on the sidewalk. Joe takes the man's wallet and flees. It's only when he gets home that he finds a revealing note in the man's wallet.
S5.E33 ∙ Party Line
Helen Parch shares a party-line telephone with several others. She likes to talk on the phone quite a bit but also listens in on others. She's warned by the police one day that a Mr. Miller, with whom she once shared the party line, has broken out of prison and that her life may be in danger. Years before, Miller needed to contact a doctor when his wife was ill, and Helen refused to get off the line. Miller's wife died and he turned to a life of crime. Now he may be after Helen.
S5.E34 ∙ Cell 227
Professor Herbert Morrison is on death row awaiting his sentence to go through. His lawyer is trying to get a last-minute stay of execution but the professor says he doesn't want a reprieve.
S5.E35 ∙ The Schartz-Metterklume Method
Charlotte Hope arrives into the peaceful lives of the Wellington household to act as a governess of their children. She's a somewhat brash, opinionated and iconoclastic lady who boldly announces she uses the "Schartz-Metterklume method" for teaching.
S5.E36 ∙ Letter of Credit
Henry Taylor visits the town of Kirkland where, three years before, a bank employee, Arnold Mathias, had been convicted of stealing $200,000 from the bank where he worked. None of the money has been found and Mathias always maintained his innocence. It would appear that Mathias had recently been killed in an attempted prison escape and Taylor visits the bank manager telling him he's an author researching a book on the robbery. It turns out that Taylor is after something altogether different and all is not altogether what it seems.
S5.E37 ∙ Escape to Sonoita
Two kidnappers think they have made their escape when they hijack a tanker in the dry desert, leaving the occupants and a female victim behind to die.
S5.E38 ∙ Hooked
Ray Marchand is married to an older woman but he is quite attracted to Nyla Foster, a very attractive college student spending the summer working at her father's fishing camp. She tells Ray that her father would never leave her alone with him - so he should stop by on Mondays, when her father goes into town for supplies. When Nyla hears that Ray's wife can't swim, they start thinking that an "accident" might be in order, so Ray decides to take up fishing, his wife's favourite pastime. His plans don't quite work out, however.
S6.E1 ∙ Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat
Twice a month, Mrs. Bixby travels to Baltimore to visit an elderly aunt, her only living relative. Or so she tells her dentist-husband. In fact, she visits the Colonel, her rich lover. Before returning home, he gives her a gift of a fur coat - along with a letter saying that they won't be seeing each other anymore. Mrs. Bixby decides to pawn the coat but her elaborate scheme to explain the coat to her husband doesn't quite go as planned.
S6.E2 ∙ The Doubtful Doctor
A doctor examines a man who suffers from blackouts, in which he reverts to living and seeing things two years back in time.
S6.E3 ∙ A Very Moral Theft
Helen's brother John informs her that he is soon to be married and they'll have to decide what to do about the house they share. Helen is quite attracted to Harry Wade, the owner of a lumber yard who has fallen on hard times after one of his customers goes bankrupt. Helen decides to help Harry out with an $8,000 "loan" after he assures her that he can repay her within 48 hours. When things don't work out as planned, Harry has a decision to make.
S6.E4 ∙ The Contest for Aaron Gold
Bernie Samuelson is a ceramic arts teacher at a children's summer camp. From the very first day, he notices that young Aaron Gold has a real talent for sculpture. Aaron much prefers ceramics to swimming classes but when the camp Director criticizes Bernie for Aaron's lateness at swimming, Bernie promises not to hold him back. After a few weeks though, Bernie lets Aaron skip swimming and then learns that Aaron is has yet to complete any of the camp activities. As parents' day approaches, the Director flies into a rage when he realizes Aaron has yet to complete his sculpture. When Aaron's Dad shows up, things become a little clearer.
S6.E5 ∙ The Five-Forty-Eight
A mentally unstable secretary finally catches up to her cruel former boss and makes him listen to what she has to say, at gunpoint.
S6.E6 ∙ Pen Pal
A no-parole prisoner breaks out of prison to meet the woman pen pal he has fallen in love with, but only finds her aunt at home.
S6.E7 ∙ Outlaw in Town
Tony Lorca arrives in a small town in the middle of a blizzard to a less-than-pleasant reception in the local saloon. One of the locals says he's seen him before but leaves the saloon before trouble starts. Lorca loses his gun in a poker game at which point the same local returns with a sheriff's poster: Lorca is a wanted man with a $5,000 reward on his head. Seeing no way out, Lorca auctions himself to the highest bidder, offering to turn himself in without a fuss. His plan is to spend the money and have a good time before he meets the hangman. Turns out he killed the saloon girl's husband some time ago and she has something else in mind. But is Lorca really who he says he is?
S6.E8 ∙ O Youth and Beauty!
Cash Bentley is having a hard time coping with middle age. A one-time champion hurdler, he now drinks a bit too much and doesn't quite earn enough money to pay for the lifestyle he would like to provide for his family, such as a membership at the local country club. Despondent he decides to try one last "race," with tragic results.
S6.E9 ∙ The Money
Larry Chetnick and his girlfriend are always bickering about money. She wants more of it and he assures her that he has plans to get a job with a better future. Larry visits his father's former friend, Mr. Bregornick hoping to land a job. Bregornick offers him a job. But after several months of doing this, Larry decides the best way to get money will be to steal it from Bregornick.
S6.E10 ∙ Sybilla
Horace and Sybilla Meade return home after their wedding. Sybilla is a very un-demanding wife and agrees to all of her husband's requests. Horace is a bit of an odd duck and very set in his ways. Meals must be served at specific times and Sybilla must never enter his study. She never gets upset or raises her voice and is always accommodating. Over time, Horace comes to distrust her, to the point where he even tries to kill her. He changes his attitude when she tells him of a plot in a murder mystery she is reading and realizes that he may be in trouble. Unfortunately for Horace, he realizes far too late just how much he really loves her.
S6.E11 ∙ The Man with Two Faces
A woman looking at pictures in a police mug book is shocked to see a picture of her son-in-law, who's living at her home with her daughter.
S6.E12 ∙ The Baby-Blue Expression
A beautiful, simple-minded blonde changes her mind, after conspiring with her boyfriend to kill her rich, loving husband.
S6.E13 ∙ The Man Who Found the Money
A teacher reports to the police that he found 92,000 dollars in a clip, amid claims that 10,000 dollars of the money is missing.
S6.E14 ∙ The Changing Heart
Looking to have an old pocket watch repaired, Dane Ross stops in at Ulrich Klemm's shop. He's amazed by the old man's tales of the special clocks he has built over the years with moving parts such as marching soldiers and flying birds. They strike up a friendship and Dane is asked to stay for dinner which he gladly accepts, especially after he meets Ulrich's pretty granddaughter, Lisa. Over time, Dane and Lisa fall in love but theirs is a secret romance as Lisa says she can never leave as long as her grandfather is alive. Dane has to relocate to another city and after a three month absence, visits the old man's shop only to find him dead. Only then does he realize the extent of the secret the Klemms shared.
S6.E15 ∙ Summer Shade
Parents living in modern Salem, think their lonely 9-year-old daughter might need an evil spirit driven from her, when she seems to have made up a girlfriend with a witchcraft ancestry.
S6.E16 ∙ A Crime for Mothers
Jane and Ralph Birdwell get an unexpected and unwelcome visit from Mrs. Meade, their foster daughter's biological mother. It's been seven years since they took responsibility for the girl, but an adoption was never formalized as Mrs. Meade had simply disappeared. Meade now wants money from the Birdwells and threatens to sue to get her daughter back. A private detective suggests that Mrs. Meade just take her daughter and demand $25,000 from the Birdwells to give her back. She agrees but things don't quite go as the planned.
S6.E17 ∙ The Last Escape
Joe Ferlini is a Houdini-like escape artist who performs in nightclubs. He claims to be the fastest at getting out of a straight jacket but wants to make a bigger splash. He proposes to have himself handcuffed, tied with a rope, locked into a trunk and dumped into a nearby river. His promoter agrees but his wife Wanda and her lover Tommy arrange for the inevitable. When a coroner demands to examine Ferlini's body, it seems Ferlini may have made the greatest escape of all.
S6.E18 ∙ The Greatest Monster of Them All
Hal is a producer of cheap horror films. He decides to cast has-been actor Ernst von Croft in his next movie, a cheap vampire film for the teenage market. Ernst was once billed as the 'Greatest Monster of Them All' and sees this as his great comeback, but when he sees the final product, he's the one who's horrified.
S6.E19 ∙ The Landlady
Billy Weaver's just moved to a small English village, and sees an advert for a room. The landlady's quite pleasant. He's perplexed when she later mentions two others are also staying; he's never seen nor heard of them before, so, who are these tenants?
S6.E20 ∙ The Throwback
When Enid's boyfriend Eliot presses her, she finally admits that she has been seeing another man, Cyril Hardeen. She agrees to break it off with Cyril whom she describes as an older, gentler man who wouldn't harm a flea. When they finally meet, Eliot finds Cyril much as Enid described him. In fact, Cyril describes himself as a throwback - someone who values honor and civility above all else. Cyril also has no intention of giving Enid up and so puts into action a plan to ensure that she will remain his.
S6.E21 ∙ The Kiss-Off
Ernie Walters has just been released after six years in prison. It was determined that he was falsely convicted of a gas station robbery and now wants to get even with the detective and District Attorney who convicted him. Wearing a disguise, Walters robs the local tax office but drops his hotel room key as he makes his escape. He's quickly re-arrested by the same detective who arrested him six years previously but the witnesses can't quite identify him. Will he get away with it?
S6.E22 ∙ The Horseplayer
Father Amion discovers that the large amounts of money turning up on the collection plate come from a grateful horse player who has hit a winning streak.
S6.E23 ∙ Incident in a Small Jail
A suspected serial killer is put in a jail house with a salesman, while a lynch mob waits outside.
S6.E24 ∙ A Woman's Help
Arnold Burton hires a very attractive nurse, Miss Greco, to care for his bedridden and demanding wife, Elizabeth. Over a period of months, Arnold and Miss Greco fall in love and concoct a scheme to slowly poison Elizabeth. She catches them kissing one evening and demands that Miss Greco leave. Realizing that his wife controls all of the money, he reluctantly agrees. Arnold then arranges for his wife to interview three candidates to replaces the now departed nurse and she takes great delight in hiring the eldest, a grandmotherly type. Little does she know that she is the one who is in for the surprise.
S6.E25 ∙ Museum Piece
Mr. Hollister now runs a small museum that is actually something of a shrine to his late son, Ben. He tells a visitor that the human skeleton in the museum is actually that of his son. In a flashback he recounts that his son was hunting a fox for his collection of stuffed animals when he comes across Tim McCaffrey, the son of a wealthy and influential rancher. A fight breaks out and Tim is accidentally shot. Despite his protestations that it was all an accident, he is convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. Once there, he loses all interest in life. But just who is this stranger Mr. Hollister is telling this story to and is he being completely honest?
S6.E26 ∙ Coming, Mama
Lucy Baldwin rushes home when she hears her mother has taken ill but by the time she arrives, her mother seems fine. It seems that her mother is very possessive and the doctor confirms to Lucy that her mother faked the attack only because she was out with her friend, Arthur. It seems that her mother has done this before and Arthur, who very much wants to marry Lucy, tells her she has only until the next day to choose between him or her mother. Desperate to get out of her predicament Lucy decides to take drastic action, but with unanticipated results.
S6.E27 ∙ Deathmate
A handsome gigolo is seduced by a beautiful rich young woman to kill her older boring husband.
S6.E28 ∙ Gratitude
Meyer Fine is a casino manager who is so afraid of death that he can't even attend funerals. One evening he expresses concern at the amount of money being lost by a young gambler, who is later found to have committed suicide. When one of Fine's henchmen is killed by fellow mobsters, he becomes convinced that he's next. Terrified at what the future may hold, he begs his butler to help him in the only way he knows how.
S6.E29 ∙ The Pearl Necklace
A rich old man proposes to his secretary. Claiming poor health, he says she will inherit $11 million. She says no but her fiancé convinces her, figuring to marry a rich wife. On each anniversary for 25 years, the old man gives her a pearl.
S6.E30 ∙ You Can't Trust a Man
Singer Crystal Coe is being harassed by her ex-husband, a volatile man who has a grudge with her for remarrying without divorcing him. He tracks her down despite changing her name and pursues her, giving her no peace.
S6.E31 ∙ The Gloating Place
Susan Harper is an unhappy high-schooler who falsely reports an attack in the park in order to get attention and make herself more important than she is. The press get hold of the story and Susan is more than happy to oblige with an ever-expanding tale. When the press seem to be losing interest, Susan goes to extraordinary lengths to keep the "park prowler" story alive, with tragic results.
S6.E32 ∙ Self Defense
Mr. Clarke is incredibly terrified of guns being pointed at him, and feels he must destroy anyone who would do that to him, like he does to one young robber.
S6.E33 ∙ A Secret Life
A man is bored with marriage and leaves his wife, but when he hires a private investigator to watch her in order to gather evidence for a divorce, he discovers that she is living a secret life.
S6.E34 ∙ Servant Problem
An obnoxious wife finds her husband, who walked out on her 22 years ago, and tries to force him to come back to her by the use of threats.
S6.E35 ∙ Coming Home
A man just released from prison becomes desperate when his earned money, put away during his prison term, vanishes one night in town.
S6.E36 ∙ Final Arrangements
A man, fed up with his invalid wife's nagging, plans and prepays for a stylish coffin and funeral expenses.
S6.E37 ∙ Make My Death Bed
When a woman has a sexual affair with a handsome married singer, her jealous husband has murder in mind, and so does the wife of the singer.
S6.E38 ∙ Ambition
A DA's ambition for higher office may interfere with the plans of a crime boss, who saved his life during the war, to go straight.
S7.E1 ∙ The Hatbox
A college student tries to make the police believe that a professor has murdered his missing wife.
S7.E2 ∙ Bang! You're Dead
A 5-year-old boy finds his uncle's revolver, partially loads it with bullets, and plays with it in public, unaware of its deadly power.
S7.E3 ∙ Maria
While drunk, Leo Thorby buys what he thinks is a chimp. His wife Carol is outraged when she finds out he spent $500 and wants him to get his money back. Both of them are shocked to find out that the chimp is actually a woman, Maria, in a monkey suit, and Leo thinks he has found the perfect circus act. Maria can sketch but only draws what she sees, and when Leo sees a sketch of his wife kissing the lion tamer, he immediately jumps to conclusions. Little does he realize it's all part of Maria's plan to get rid of Carol. When he then gets rid of Maria, she plots her own revenge.
S7.E4 ∙ Cop for a Day
When a young woman witnesses two men rob and kill a bank messenger, one of the men devises a plan to silence her.
S7.E5 ∙ Keep Me Company
A husband who works late continuously neglects his pretty wife's need for companionship, inadvertently bringing about an unwanted police presence.
S7.E6 ∙ Beta Delta Gamma
A college fraternity drugs and makes up one of their members to look as if he is dead, then lead another unsuspecting member into believing he killed him.
S7.E7 ∙ You Can't Be a Little Girl All Your Life
A woman beaten by an unknown attacker comes under great pressure by her husband and the police to identify a suspect.
S7.E8 ∙ The Old Pro
A retired hit man being blackmailed finds out in his profession, he has to keep on killing to protect his wife and to survive.
S7.E9 ∙ I Spy
A London private detective trying to find evidence that a sweet, gentle, older woman is cheating on her separated husband, falls in love with her.
S7.E10 ∙ Services Rendered
A man can't remember who he is, but has a $1000 bill and an address of a doctor.
S7.E11 ∙ The Right Kind of Medicine
A wounded killer of a policeman rushes to get his prescription of painkiller filled, and a big mistake is made.
S7.E12 ∙ A Jury of Her Peers
An old woman is suspected of murdering her mentally cruel husband, as her childhood girlfriend tries to cover up evidence against her.
S7.E13 ∙ The Silk Petticoat
In 1817 London, a silk petticoat belonging to the first wife of a newly remarried husband reveals him to be a very evil man.
S7.E14 ∙ Bad Actor
An alcoholic actor strangles his friend who won his part in a play, and then tries an unusual way to try to dispose of his body.
S7.E15 ∙ The Door Without a Key
A man goes to a police station claiming memory loss, followed by a boy who says he was accidentally left behind by his father, but the desk sergeant is suspicious of both their stories.
S7.E16 ∙ The Case of M.J.H.
A psychiatrist's secretary falls for a shady man who pressures her to steal files from her office.
S7.E17 ∙ The Faith of Aaron Menefee
Aaron is a garage mechanic who becomes a devotee of a faith healer after he is apparently cured of an ulcer. The healer persuades Aaron to become his chauffeur and he becomes part of the tour. But a questionable man seeks a major healing.
S7.E18 ∙ The Woman Who Wanted to Live
When a woman is forced by a murderer to drive him to safety, she deliberately passes up chances to escape.
S7.E19 ∙ Strange Miracle
A man dares to try and fake a miracle, after pretending to be paralyzed to get insurance money.
S7.E20 ∙ The Test
A lawyer defending a 17-year-old in his stabbing murder trial, wants to use a controversial chemical test that would show if the weapon ever had blood on it.
S7.E21 ∙ Burglar Proof
A paroled safe cracker is hired by a safe company to try and break open one of their safes publicly, and get the 50,000-dollar reward inside.
S7.E22 ∙ The Big Score
A babysitter and her gang kill and rob her employer of 32,000 dollars, unaware that it belongs to a deadly criminal syndicate.
S7.E23 ∙ Profit-Sharing Plan
A retiring office worker plots with his wife to steal money from the company's vault, but apparently unknown to her, he is planning to flee with his mistress.
S7.E24 ∙ Apex
A man's attractive mistress tells him she will handle the killing of his wife, but he wants to hire someone to do it, and a miscommunication results.
S7.E25 ∙ The Last Remains
Amos Duff is a mortician whose business is failing. The bills are piling up and Amos laments the fact that he has never sold his top-of-the-line 'class A' funeral. He does finally get a client when Marvin Foley makes arrangements for his business partner's funeral. Supposedly, the partner was killed in a car accident but Amos discovers a bullet wound. Foley agrees to buy the 'class A' funeral provided Amos cremates the body but after several months has yet to settle his final account for the funeral. With the body cremated Foley refuses to pay but Amos reports the case to the police with a convincing piece of evidence.
S7.E26 ∙ Ten O'Clock Tiger
A boxing manager risks his fighter's health by increasing the dosage of a secret energy formula he has been injecting him with.
S7.E27 ∙ Act of Faith
Ralston Temple is a successful novelist who receives a letter from struggling writer Alan Chatterton asking him for comments on the first three chapters of his book. Temple invites him to his apartment and Chatterton asks him for a loan of $40 per week for six months to allow him to finish his novel. Over time, the loans grow larger and Temple has yet to see anything of the novel. At a restaurant one evening, Temple sees Chatterton entertaining a group of friends and learns that he is a regular patron. Thinking he has been swindled, Temple throws him out. Only later does he realize that he may have been hasty.
S7.E28 ∙ The Kerry Blue
A man is devoted to his old, unwell Kerry Blue terrier. Sadly the dog dies while he's out of town. Convinced his wife buried his beloved Annie alive (out of jealousy), he sets out to make her pay - but has his blind rage made him careless?
S7.E29 ∙ The Matched Pearl
Laurent Dubois is a jeweler who manages to sell a magnificent black pearl for $4000. Turns out the buyer's wife doesn't know what to do with only one pearl and insists that they find another. Dubois returns to the pearl's original owner, Captain McCabe, to see if he can find another. McCabe feels that he was cheated on the first deal and he refuses Dubois' offer to double the original price if he can find a second pearl. Dubois eventually gets the pearl and a bit of a surprise as well.
S7.E30 ∙ What Frightened You, Fred?
Fred Riordan is an ex-con who is re-arrested less than 48 hours after his release on parole. He served four years for robbery and on his release, seems like a mild-mannered man who is intent on making a go of it. He recounts to the warden and prison psychiatrist the events during his two days of freedom as they try to determine what may have caused him to get drunk and break up a bar in his old neighborhood. The psychiatrist is convinced that something in the outside world frightened him and probes to determine exactly what that was. Little do they know that there is something altogether different taking place.
S7.E31 ∙ Most Likely to Succeed
A seemingly poor man who was supreme in his college class, gets a servant's job from a rich former classmate, where he finds he makes unlawful tax deals, and should be stopped.
S7.E32 ∙ Victim Four
A man searches for his brain-injured wife who has to walk home from work nightly, in the midst of a serial killer.
S7.E33 ∙ The Opportunity
Paul Devore is an unhappily married department store manager whose wealthy wife loathes him and refuses to divorce him, unwilling to give him half of her assets as community property. He blackmails a thirty-something shoplifter into coming to his house the following Sunday evening. Assuming he was going to force her to have sex, she is surprised to find the master bedroom ransacked and all of the valuables missing. She realizes Devore has staged a robbery and all he wants the shoplifter to do is tie him to the bed to make it look like a robbery. But what will Mrs. Devore say when she gets home and finds her husband in this state?
S7.E34 ∙ The Twelve Hour Caper
Herbert Wiggam has been the assistant cashier at his securities trading firm for 11 years. He has always been a loyal employee but things may be changing. He's advised by his boss that he will not be getting the head cashier position as that will be going to another employee, who just happens to be his wife's favorite nephew. Wiggam goes ahead with an elaborate plan to steal $500,000 in bearer bonds that are scheduled for delivery late on a Friday afternoon. He's planned everything down to the minute - but has he forgotten one important factor?
S7.E35 ∙ The Children of Alda Nuova
Frankie Fane is an American who has been in Rome for about six weeks and is starting to get bored. He hasn't picked up much of the language, and has visited most of the tourist sites in Rome itself. A fellow American suggests that he rent a car and visit some old ruins just a short drive from the city. When he gets there he finds the villagers unfriendly, and a large group of teenagers that constantly follow him around. He quickly realizes that he may be in trouble, but it may also be the case that he gets what he deserves.
S7.E36 ∙ First Class Honeymoon
Edward Gibson is newly divorced and a very happy man. He's less happy when he learns that his ex-wife Gloria commissioned a portrait of herself for $2500. He refuses to pay and asks his friend Carl, who's now seeing his ex-wife, to buy the painting. Carl has something else in mind: he offers to marry Gloria, for a price.
S7.E37 ∙ The Big Kick
Ken is a square university professor who likes hanging around with a group of beatniks. At a party he meets Judy who is down and out and can't buy food, let alone pay the rent. Urged on by her boyfriend Mitch, Judy agrees to go out on a date with Ken in the hopes of getting some money out of him.
S7.E38 ∙ Where Beauty Lies
Caroline has an uncanny infatuation with her brother and is jealous whenever he spends time away from her.
S7.E39 ∙ The Sorcerer's Apprentice
A magician takes a simple-minded runaway under his wing. But the magician's wife has a sinister idea for the easily manipulated young man.
