The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

A continuation of the dramatic anthology series Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) hosted by the Master of Suspense and Mystery.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror

Cast:Alfred Hitchcock , Hinton Pope , Jimmy Joyce , Lew Brown , Robert Reiner , Alice Backes , Dee J. Thompson , Gail Bonney , Brendan Dillon , Myron Healey , Mary Scott , Carmen Phillips , David Fresco , John Zaremba , Doris Lloyd , Vince Williams , Cathie Merchant , Sam Reese

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ A Piece of the Action

Thu, Sep 20, 1962

Duke Marsden is a compulsive gambler and is about to lose his wife because of it. She gives him an ultimatum to either give up poker or else she's gone. He agrees, but there's one last thing he has to do first.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ Don't Look Behind You

Thu, Sep 27, 1962

Some unknown person is brutally attacking women in a small college town and a host of weird staff members are suspects.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ Night of the Owl

Thu, Oct 4, 1962

A blackmailer threatens to reveal some horrific information to an adopted teen girl about her real parents, unless her adoptive father pays him off.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ I Saw the Whole Thing

Thu, Oct 11, 1962

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?

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ Captive Audience

Thu, Oct 18, 1962

A mystery novelist sends a series of weird audiotapes to his publisher. On the first tape, the author boasts that the publisher won't be able to discern if the story he narrates is the history of an imminent murder - or a mere fantasy. The author tells of his brief marriage ending when his wife was killed after he lost control of their car. They were kissing, making up after an argument over his wife's staying out all night with a rich old man, the same evening the author was briefly with the man's alluring, young wife Janet. Janet made a pass at the author, who immediately cut the evening short. The author says he fell into a severe depression, declined a needed brain operation, moved from France to San Francisco where he changed his name, then became a mystery writer. The tapes relate how the author eventually ran into Janet , and though she's still married, dived into an affair. When she and the author begin to plan her husband's murder, the publisher calls in another of his mystery novelists to determine: are these tapes just an unorthodox pitch of a new novel - or the bizarre confession of a deranged killer?

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ Final Vow

Thu, Oct 25, 1962

On her way back to the nunnery, a beautiful novice loses a priceless 15th-century Donatello statuette donated to the convent by an aging criminal seeking redemption for his illegal endeavors. To track it down, the guilt-ridden young woman leaves the order and dives naively into the sleazy world of the criminal who stole the icon from her at a train station on her return trip.

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ Annabel

Thu, Nov 1, 1962

A disturbed man's other identity snares others in a perilous web. David is a successful, quiet young scientist - but on weekends he has an impeccable country cottage where as the confident William, he fantasizes as if actually entertaining ex-girlfriend Annabel, now happily married nearby. When his co-workers, one of whom has a crush on David, follow him up the coast, David's dream world by the sea for Annabel, morphs into a nightmare for all.

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ House Guest

Thu, Nov 8, 1962

A young boy named Tony Mitchell is saved from drowning by an unwelcome guest.

9Season 1

S1.E9 ∙ The Black Curtain

Thu, Nov 15, 1962

A mugging restores the memory of a man with amnesia.

10Season 1

S1.E10 ∙ Day of Reckoning

Thu, Nov 22, 1962

An unfaithful wife taunts her husband that she's ditching him for a real man. As the drunken couple argue on the stern of a yacht, the normally timid husband shoves her overboard to drown. The society party-goers on the boat support his tale that the wife accidentally fell overboard that night, and the police believe the husband, too. At first, he's relieved, then gradually guilt takes him over, but friends feel his panicky behavior is grief. The widower blurts the murder to his friends, but his story was so convincing they downplay his confession, not wanting to be involved in an embarrassing murder inquiry. As his internal pressure mounts, the killer desperately seeks a way out.

11Season 1

S1.E11 ∙ Ride the Nightmare

Thu, Nov 29, 1962

A perfect couple's content suburban world is interrupted by a telephone threat ("I'm going to kill you") against the cocksure husband. His past misdeeds unravel his new life, terrifying his unknowing wife.

12Season 1

S1.E12 ∙ Hangover

Thu, Dec 6, 1962

Remembering nothing of what happened the day before, a talented, alcoholic ad man painfully reconstructs the events of what proves to have been a very bad day indeed.

13Season 1

S1.E13 ∙ Bonfire

Thu, Dec 13, 1962

A lonely young woman moves into her newly deceased aunt's home in a small town. A way-too-helpful, next-door neighbor becomes her guardian angel, yet with his own agenda in mind. He's a lay preacher, who's determined not to go back to being a coal miner.

14Season 1

S1.E14 ∙ The Tender Poisoner

Thu, Dec 20, 1962

An executive plans to end an associate's love affair and save the man's career and marriage.

15Season 1

S1.E15 ∙ The Thirty-First of February

Fri, Jan 4, 1963

An inquest rules a wife's death as accidental, but when the widower returns to work, it seems someone is tricking him, including a letter accusing him of murder and one of his wife's letters appearing, revealing she had a lover. Increasingly the widower's own mind tricks him, rejecting logical explanations, instead angrily confronting his co-workers.

16Season 1

S1.E16 ∙ What Really Happened

Fri, Jan 11, 1963

A woman stands trial for her wealthy husband's murder. Her vengeful mother-in-law is convinced that she did it, but a family servant knows the key to what really happened.

17Season 1

S1.E17 ∙ Forecast: Low Clouds and Coastal Fog

Fri, Jan 18, 1963

A beautiful young newlywed is wary of her much-older husband's business trip leaving her alone in their beach house. A group of beach boys and a neighboring screenwriter provide her some company, unwanted by the husband. When an Hispanic man knocks on her door at night asking for help, she turns him away, leading to tragic consequences.

18Season 1

S1.E18 ∙ A Tangled Web

Fri, Jan 25, 1963

A very sweet French maid runs away with, and marries a professional burglar with hopes of making him honest. However, the burglar's "fence" (Karl) has his own hopes in mind.

19Season 1

S1.E19 ∙ To Catch a Butterfly

Fri, Feb 1, 1963

At first, a childless young couple are thrilled to relocate for the husband's new executive job, and especially happy with their new home. Is the next-door neighbor boy's cruelty to them just a youngster rebelling against his blue-collar, strict father? The husband's empathy for the boy drives a dangerous wedge into their marriage.

20Season 1

S1.E20 ∙ The Paragon

Fri, Feb 8, 1963

A man tries to stop his insensitive wife from alienating their family and friends.

21Season 1

S1.E21 ∙ I'll Be Judge - I'll Be Jury

Fri, Feb 15, 1963

Relatives of a murdered newlywed decide to bring the killer to justice themselves.

22Season 1

S1.E22 ∙ Diagnosis: Danger

Fri, Mar 1, 1963

An apparent hit-and-run turns out to be so much more. It leads to an anthrax scare that spreads through Los Angeles, but the perpetrator is elusive.

23Season 1

S1.E23 ∙ The Lonely Hours

Fri, Mar 8, 1963

A mother of three notices that her baby son fascinates the lady renting a room in her home.

24Season 1

S1.E24 ∙ The Star Juror

Fri, Mar 15, 1963

After killing a woman, a man is chosen to be a juror for the trial of the man accused of her murder.

25Season 1

S1.E25 ∙ The Long Silence

Fri, Mar 22, 1963

A paralyzed woman is terrified her husband will learn she is recovering.

26Season 1

S1.E26 ∙ An Out for Oscar

Fri, Apr 5, 1963

Mousy bank teller Oscar Blenny, a guest at a desert casino, is enamored with Eva, a seductive casino hostess who is having affairs with two male co-workers. With the sinister Bill, she's conniving to rip off the casino. When her superior discovers she's two-timing him, their confrontation turns violent and she kills him. Realizing that Oscar is just outside the room, she screams so schlemiel Oscar can corroborate her damsel-in-distress excuse of self-defense. The casino owner limits the publicity damage by firing Eva and exiling Bill, who drops Eva cold, to Mexico. The now unemployed Eva cadges a ride to L.A. with Oscar and soon they are wed. When Oscar is nominated for a promotion, slovenly alcoholic Eva is a big liability, especially when Bill resurfaces in L.A. Does Eva kill Bill, will Bill reveal all about Eva, or will Oscar decline the award?

27Season 1

S1.E27 ∙ Death and the Joyful Woman

Fri, Apr 12, 1963

The secretary of a wine baron murders when her dream of marrying him is shattered.

28Season 1

S1.E28 ∙ Last Seen Wearing Blue Jeans

Fri, Apr 19, 1963

A beautiful 17-year-old British girl is inadvertently driven to Mexico by a dangerous car thief who is unaware she is sleeping in the back seat.

29Season 1

S1.E29 ∙ The Dark Pool

Fri, May 3, 1963

After an adopted son drowns, a strange woman arrives claiming to be the boy's birth mother and proceeds to blackmail the adoptive mother.

30Season 1

S1.E30 ∙ Dear Uncle George

Fri, May 10, 1963

A neighbor's letter about an unfaithful wife disturbs an advice columnist.

31Season 1

S1.E31 ∙ Run for Doom

Fri, May 17, 1963

A young doctor continues to date a beautiful showgirl in spite of warnings that her three previous marriages ended badly for her past husbands.

32Season 1

S1.E32 ∙ Death of a Cop

Fri, May 24, 1963

A remorseful detective vows to find the men who killed his son, who was also a cop.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ A Home Away from Home

Fri, Sep 27, 1963

A patient at a mental hospital kills the head doctor and takes over, replacing the staff with fellow patients. Things get complicated when the niece of the real doctor makes an unexpected visit.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ A Nice Touch

Fri, Oct 4, 1963

A successful Hollywood actor convinces his lover to kill her abusive husband, then makes a phone call.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ Terror at Northfield

Fri, Oct 11, 1963

A small town is rocked by a series of murders which begins with the killing of a local farmer's son.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ You'll Be the Death of Me

Fri, Oct 18, 1963

A woman becomes the target of her murderous spouse after she finds a button from one of his victims.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ Blood Bargain

Fri, Oct 25, 1963

Racketeer Harney gives Derry a contract to hit Breech, whose wife Connie is a paraplegic. Derry meets Connie, helping her to play a bar jukebox. Sympathizing with Connie, Derry decides, for a price, to fake Breech's death by buying a mortuary corpse and staging an automobile smash-up. Derry expects Breech and Connie to abscond to Mexico City.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ Nothing Ever Happens in Linvale

Fri, Nov 8, 1963

A sheriff investigates the disappearance of the wife of a man who has been acting suspiciously.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ Starring the Defense

Fri, Nov 15, 1963

Miles Crawford, a former movie star, is now a successful attorney. When his young son Tod is charged with first-degree murder, he hires the best criminal lawyer, but then convinces Tod that he should represent him at trial. His closing argument is an impassioned performance, bringing applause from spectators. Then the judge calls the attorneys into his chambers. The prosecutor has discovered some startling new evidence that may affect the case.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ The Cadaver

Fri, Nov 29, 1963

A college aide borrows a dead female body from the lab and plants it in his roommate's dorm to try and scare him sober, but the joke becomes disastrous.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ The Dividing Wall

Fri, Dec 6, 1963

Three ex-cons plan to heist a fortune in jewels, but inadvertently steal a container of radioactive cobalt.

10Season 2

S2.E10 ∙ Good-Bye, George

Fri, Dec 13, 1963

The husband of a successful actress, thought for years to be dead, suddenly returns and demands he once again become a part of her life, now that she's a success. Things get complicated when she accidentally kills him after he attacks her.

11Season 2

S2.E11 ∙ How to Get Rid of Your Wife

Fri, Dec 20, 1963

Gerald Swinney is a henpecked husband suffering under the constant verbal abuse of his overbearing wife. Gerald devises a plan to rid himself of her and begin his life over again, but the results have unexpected consequences.

12Season 2

S2.E12 ∙ Three Wives Too Many

Fri, Jan 3, 1964

One of a bigamist's four wives takes it upon herself to track down and kill the other three women.

13Season 2

S2.E13 ∙ The Magic Shop

Fri, Jan 10, 1964

After a little boy vanishes in a magic shop, he comes back later with supernatural powers and evil intentions.

14Season 2

S2.E14 ∙ Beyond the Sea of Death

Fri, Jan 24, 1964

An heiress finally finds a young man who loves her for herself instead of her money. After he dies in a Bolivian mine explosion, she tries to regain contact with him through an Indian mystic.

15Season 2

S2.E15 ∙ Night Caller

Fri, Jan 31, 1964

Marcia Fowler is sunbathing in her backyard when she spots a new neighbor, Roy Bullock, eyeing her. Frightened, she calls the police, who take her to the Bullock house and warn Roy not to be a peeping Tom. Marcia also asks her husband Jack to admonish Roy, but Jack finds Roy to be friendly. Roy befriends 12-year-old Stevey Fowler. Marcia begins getting obscene telephone calls, and blames them on Roy. When Jack and Stevey take a flight to San Francisco, Roy visits Marcia to leave a gift for Stevey, and to chide Marcia for her infidelity. Panicked, she overreacts, and soon regrets her rashness.

16Season 2

S2.E16 ∙ The Evil of Adelaide Winters

Fri, Feb 7, 1964

A woman runs a psychic scam with hidden speakers to make people believe she can contact their dead love ones, and one man believes she has contacted his dead son, so he becomes dangerously obsessed with her sessions.

17Season 2

S2.E17 ∙ The Jar

Fri, Feb 14, 1964

Charlie Hill is mesmerized by a strange jar at a carnival sideshow. He buys it from the owner, but his wife Thedy Sue is frightened and wants it thrown out. The townspeople come from miles to see it and Charlie becomes a local celebrity.

18Season 2

S2.E18 ∙ Final Escape

Fri, Feb 21, 1964

A convict at a state prison work camp plans a clever escape with the help of the aging, alcoholic fellow prisoner who's in charge of making coffins and burying the camp's deceased.

19Season 2

S2.E19 ∙ Murder Case

Fri, Mar 6, 1964

A struggling actor auditioning in London learns that his actress-girlfriend who dumped him is married to the play's backer, a rich diamond merchant. They soon rekindle their romance and plan to get her out of her marriage.

20Season 2

S2.E20 ∙ Anyone for Murder?

Fri, Mar 13, 1964

James Parkerson is a professor and dean of psychology. He places a classified ad in the newspaper offering to help husbands and wives who want to be relieved of their spouses, ostensibly to conduct research. The editor calls him into the newspaper office for a meeting with a police detective, who suspects him of offering murder for hire. The ad is discontinued, but he receives 20 responses. The first responder is Bingham, a real hit man, who wants all of Parkerson's referrals. The second responder is Robert Johnson, with whom Doris Parkerson is having an adulterous affair. Bingham plans to kill Mrs. Parkerson, but Johnson gets in the way.

21Season 2

S2.E21 ∙ Beast in View

Fri, Mar 20, 1964

An attorney helps a client threatened by an unstable woman who blames her for a broken wedding engagement.

22Season 2

S2.E22 ∙ Behind the Locked Door

Fri, Mar 27, 1964

Dave Snowden elopes with wealthy Bonnie Daniels, and Mr. Spencer sees them break into the abandoned old estate where Bonnie lived until age six. Mr. Spencer informs Bonnie's mother, Mrs. Daniels, who finds Snowden struggling to open a mysterious locked door on the upper floor. Mrs. Daniels annuls the marriage, because Bonnie's true age is only 17, not 19, as Dave was told. Three weeks later, when Bonnie reaches majority, she rejoins Dave, and they consummate nuptials, but Mrs. Daniels will not release Bonnie's trust fund until she is 25.

23Season 2

S2.E23 ∙ A Matter of Murder

Fri, Apr 3, 1964

A notorious but ethical auto thief and his gang steal a Rolls-Royce, unaware that the trunk contains the body of a woman who was murdered by her husband.

24Season 2

S2.E24 ∙ The Gentleman Caller

Fri, Apr 10, 1964

Gerald Musgrove shoots and kills a night watchman while stealing $100,000 from a bank. On the street nearby, while eluding police, he meets elderly Emmy Rice, and befriends her. Since he is on parole, he must launder the loot, so he stows it in some of Emmy's old magazines. Gerald then prods impoverished Emmy into writing a will, awarding all money found in her apartment to himself. He tries to murder Emmy three times, but she survives, and arranges for the arrest of Milly Musgrove for attempting to gas her to death. Gerald is apprehended too, when he realizes that Emmy gave all her magazines to a junk collector, and blurts admissions of guilt. Emmy, however, kept one magazine in cold storage, containing all of the purloined bills.

25Season 2

S2.E25 ∙ The Ordeal of Mrs. Snow

Fri, Apr 17, 1964

An elderly woman is locked in an air tight safe with one of her cats by her niece's fiancé when she discovers he is a forger.

26Season 2

S2.E26 ∙ Ten Minutes from Now

Fri, May 1, 1964

The Commissioner of Recreation & Parks receives three life-threatening letters in one week, complaining about the method by which art is selected for museum display. When James Bellington enters City Hall with a breadbox-sized package and runs from a lobby policeman, he is apprehended, but the parcel only contains an alarm clock. Bellington is sent to Dr. Glover, a psychiatrist, who labels him a paranoid with homicidal or suicidal tendencies. Bellington delivers two shoeboxes to the art museum, but shows the bomb squad that they only contain art supplies. In a bistro, he tells an undercover policewoman that he plans to bring a dangerous device to the museum. When he arrives with his finger on a button atop a box possibly filled with explosive, police clear the museum. Then Bellington rendezvous with his confederates, art thieves, who have already replaced five paintings with his forgeries.

27Season 2

S2.E27 ∙ The Sign of Satan

Fri, May 8, 1964

Studio executives want Karl Jorla for their next horror film, but he reveals his "audition film" was actually surveillance footage of an actual black mass with devil worshipers.

28Season 2

S2.E28 ∙ Who Needs an Enemy?

Fri, May 15, 1964

Eddie Turtin discovers that his friend and business partner, Charlie Osgood, has fraudulently defalcated at least $60,000 from their company, and warns him that if he does not repay the money promptly, criminal charges will be pressed that should result in a 35-year prison sentence. Charlie concocts a plan with his girlfriend Danielle to fake his death, placing a dummy in public view on a pier. The dummy appears to jump suicidally, then a violent explosion destroys the body. Charlie and Danielle plan to abscond with $89,000 stowed in a company filing cabinet. But the best laid plans often don't go as planned.

29Season 2

S2.E29 ∙ Bed of Roses

Fri, May 22, 1964

A married man finds his beautiful mistress murdered and flees without reporting it, only to become the victim of blackmail.

30Season 2

S2.E30 ∙ The Second Verdict

Fri, May 29, 1964

An ethical lawyer becomes very disturbed about what to do when the client he just got acquitted of murder brags that he committed the crime.

31Season 2

S2.E31 ∙ Isabel

Fri, Jun 5, 1964

After serving a prison sentence, a man romances the woman whose false testimony got him convicted.

32Season 2

S2.E32 ∙ Body in the Barn

Fri, Jul 3, 1964

A domineering wife is suspected of murdering her husband when the body of an unrecognizable man is found buried in her barn.

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ Return of Verge Likens

Mon, Oct 5, 1964

After his father is murdered by a politician who gets away with it, a young man becomes determined to get revenge.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ Change of Address

Mon, Oct 12, 1964

An older husband becomes very disenchanted with his wife at their new beach house, and has a devious plan for her.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ Water's Edge

Mon, Oct 19, 1964

Rusty Connors is a prison cellmate with Mike Krause, who tells Rusty all about his girlfriend Helen. Mike becomes ill with pneumonia, and reveals to Rusty on his deathbed that a stash of $56,000 is with his dead accomplice, Pete Taylor. When he is released, Rusty goes to Hanesville and courts Helen, while attempting with her help to find the loot. They finally go to a boat house on a lake, populated by rats. Rusty finds Pete's skeleton, and the money, in a crawl space above the ceiling. Rusty tries to grab a rock to do Helen in, but Helen beats him to the punch, knocking him out with a prying iron and tying him up. Before Helen leaves, Rusty manages to kick her, and she falls, impaled fatally on a pole. Rusty futilely tries to untie his restraints as the rats pile on his body.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ The Life Work of Juan Diaz

Mon, Oct 26, 1964

A dishonest graveyard owner exhumes body of a poor Mexican woman's husband, but she makes it work to her children's benefit.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ See the Monkey Dance

Mon, Nov 9, 1964

During a brief train stop, George takes the opportunity to telephone another man's wife and arrange a two-day rendezvous. When he returns to his compartment, there's now a stranger there who provokes him into conversation. George reveals the location of his caravan in the country, but the stranger claims to reside at the same location. After George arrives, the stranger shows up and begins to dig a grave.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ Lonely Place

Mon, Nov 16, 1964

A poor, loving, farmer's wife discovers just how evil a hired drifter is, and how much of a coward her husband is too.

7Season 3

S3.E7 ∙ The McGregor Affair

Mon, Nov 23, 1964

In Georgian Scotland, a simple and unhappily-married man (Andrew Duggan) is employed to deliver "supplies" to anatomy professor Dr. Robert Knox of the Edinburgh Medical College, but, is unaware of the true contents of the boxes furnished by his associates, Messrs. Burke and Hare.

8Season 3

S3.E8 ∙ Misadventure

Mon, Dec 7, 1964

A wife awaiting the arrival of her lover is visited by a bizarre meter reader who jams on the gas in her basement and then cons her into letting him shower by faking a malaria attack. What's behind his strange behavior: blackmail, insanity, lust or something else?

9Season 3

S3.E9 ∙ Triumph

Mon, Dec 14, 1964

Two new missionaries, the Spragues, arrive at the Fitzgibbons' medical mission in the Indian jungle. John Sprague is a physician and Lucy a nurse. Mary Fitzgibbons suspects that they were sent to check up on them, and that they want the mission for themselves. Thomas Fitzgibbons is not medically competent, and Mary must perform difficult procedures for him. When John leaves to attend to a cholera outbreak, Thomas takes Lucy for an evening canoe ride on the river. They discuss philosophy and her beauty. Mary sees them together, and becomes jealous. Early in the morning, she grabs a scalpel and enters Lucy's bedroom. A piercing scream resounds. A messenger is sent to inform John of his wife's sudden death from cholera. He rushes back, but the Fitzgibbons have gone down-river for several days. He asks the Indian employees to help find the grave of his wife, which was hidden to prevent the spread of cholera, because he suspects that she was not a cholera victim. When he opens the coffin, he is startled at the sight.

10Season 3

S3.E10 ∙ Memo from Purgatory

Mon, Dec 21, 1964

Wannabee writer Jay Shaw arrives in NYC. He decides if he's going to write fiction about juvenile delinquent gangs, he'd best learn what they're really like. Using the alias Phil Beldone, he moves into a flat in a rough section of Brooklyn and seeks to join the Barons, a violent gang led by Tiger. During his gang initiation, he gains Tiger's trust and respect and begins a relationship with one of the gang's "debs". He also makes an enemy of the gang's second-in-command and risks exposure of his true identity.

11Season 3

S3.E11 ∙ Consider Her Ways

Mon, Dec 28, 1964

A woman awakens in a dystopian society formed after the extinction of all men where women are sorted at birth into one of four social castes - Workers, Mothers (incubators), Servitors and Doctors. She rebels against being just a mother.

12Season 3

S3.E12 ∙ Crimson Witness

Mon, Jan 4, 1965

When an embezzling engineer is demoted and his brother takes over his former position, he makes plans to kill him.

13Season 3

S3.E13 ∙ Where the Woodbine Twineth

Mon, Jan 11, 1965

After Eva Snyder becomes an orphan, she comes to live with the elderly Mississippi riverboat Captain King Snyder and his old-maid daughter Nell. While the Captain is piloting his boat, Nell finds it difficult to govern Eva, who constantly talks to imaginary friends whom Eva believes are real, including Mingo and her father Mr. Peppercorn. When the Captain returns, he presents Eva with a gift--a black doll named Numa. Nell hears Eva chatting and playing with Numa, but suspects that it is a child from the neighborhood. Eva warns that if Nell takes Numa away, Eva will trade places with Numa and go to the idyllic place "Where the Woodbine Twineth." When Nell puts Numa on top of the player piano, Eva steals Numa away, and the piano mysteriously plays by itself. Nell finds Eva in the backyard with a black-girl playmate, and Nell chases the girl away, warning her to never return. Then Eva disappears. When Nell finds a doll in Numa's box that looks exactly like Eva, she tearfully realizes what has happened.

14Season 3

S3.E14 ∙ Final Performance

Mon, Jan 18, 1965

Cliff's driving when a young woman flags him down and asks for a ride. He soon has trouble - both legal and automotive, when they're stopped by the police and she lies, and says he forced her. What's more, his car won't start, and it's towed to a repair shop. While he waits for the car, Cliff gets a room at the hotel, run by Rudolph Bitzner - a former vaudevillian, with a specialty act with his only employee, Rosie. She pleads with Cliff to help her escape from Rudolph, who plans to marry her as soon as she becomes 18. There's a lot about Rudolph, and the relationship between the two, which Cliff isn't aware of, but he should, because it'll soon be one of their last performances.

15Season 3

S3.E15 ∙ Thanatos Palace Hotel

Mon, Feb 1, 1965

Suicidal Robert Manners is saved by a firefighting brigade when he jumps from a tall building. While recuperating, he is visited by Mr. J. Smith, who invites him to a recreational resort for those who wish to die, the Thanatos Palace Hotel. Borchter, the proprietor, tells Mr. Manners that he can stay for as long as it takes to become comfortably ready for death. He meets a beautiful guest, Ariane Shaw, who has resided at the hotel for six months, providing services for her room and board. Her service is the "romancing" of male guests in preparation for their death. With Manners, for the first time, she finds a reason to live, as does he.

16Season 3

S3.E16 ∙ One of the Family

Mon, Feb 8, 1965

A man and his wife hire his childhood nanny to care for their baby son. After they hear of the arsenic murder of another baby, the mother becomes suspicious, but the father thinks she's overreacting.

17Season 3

S3.E17 ∙ An Unlocked Window

Mon, Feb 15, 1965

A serial killer is in the area where some private nurses have locked themselves in a large house, except for one basement window.

18Season 3

S3.E18 ∙ The Trap

Mon, Feb 22, 1965

A toy manufacturer's new assistant has an affair with the obnoxious, overbearing businessman's beautiful younger wife. After enduring a rather humiliating interview, the bright college grad, condescendingly nicknamed "Princeton", proves valuable to the manufacturer through his hard work. But the assistant is impatient for, among other things, advancement.

19Season 3

S3.E19 ∙ Wally the Beard

Mon, Mar 1, 1965

When a man purchases a wig and a beard, he winds up getting a whole new personality, which also leads to a new girlfriend along with a lot of serious problems that have the very real potential to drive him to madness unless he does something soon.

20Season 3

S3.E20 ∙ Death Scene

Mon, Mar 8, 1965

Auto mechanic Leo Manfred fixes a limousine owned by Gavin Revere, a famed, retired and wheelchair-bound Hollywood director. Gavin's beautiful daughter Nicky catches Leo's eye, so he offers to drive her home where he meets Gavin. Gavin, distrusting, warns Leo to stay away from Nicky. Leo is persistent and eventually Nicky falls in love with him. But when Gavin learns about their marriage plans, he fears Leo only wants her for their money. To convince the director of his true intentions, Leo takes out a life insurance policy for fifty thousand dollars with the payoff going to Nicky. Gavin agrees, and the marriage plans continue. Shortly before the wedding, however, Leo makes the fatal mistake of insulting one of Gavin's movies entitled "Death Scene," and the old man changes his mind about the wedding. Not willing to give up Nicky over a quarrel, Leo wheels Gavin to an empty swimming pool to stage an "accidental" death, but his plan goes awry.

21Season 3

S3.E21 ∙ The Photographer and the Undertaker

Mon, Mar 15, 1965

Two professional killers with the same employer find out that each has the other as his next target.

22Season 3

S3.E22 ∙ Thou Still Unravished Bride

Mon, Mar 22, 1965

A man is greatly concerned for his fiancée's safety after she has taken a walk alone in the London fog while an elusive strangler is on the loose, potentially putting her life at risk if she encounters the relentless killer who targets lone women on the street.

23Season 3

S3.E23 ∙ Completely Foolproof

Mon, Mar 29, 1965

Joe Brisson tries to make a political payoff to Baines in a parking lot, but spots an observer, private detective Foyle. Foyle says he was hired by Joe's wife Lisa. Joe visits his girlfriend Anna, and discovers a bug in her telephone, and that their love letters were seized. Lisa wants a divorce, but also wants a disproportionate settlement, including 75% of the Brisson Land Development Company. Lisa's young boyfriend, racetrack gambler Bobby Davenport, will lose his inherited property if Joe calls in Bobby's debt. Joe couldn't hire Foyle to murder his wife, but he convinces Bobby to do it while Joe is on a sea cruise to London. Joe calls Lisa from the ship, and listens as Bobby plugs her. Then Joe has a guest. It is Foyle, whom Lisa paid to murder Joe.

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S3.E24 ∙ Power of Attorney

Mon, Apr 5, 1965

A clever con man makes a living by preying on women by having them invest their life savings into non-existent stocks.

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S3.E25 ∙ The World's Oldest Motive

Mon, Apr 12, 1965

A philandering husband decides to improve his situation by having his overweight and frumpy wife killed. When he tells his girlfriend about the plan, she is outraged, and he desperately tries to stop the murder.

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S3.E26 ∙ The Monkey's Paw--A Retelling

Mon, Apr 19, 1965

A businessman desperate for a change in his fortunes tests the power of a gypsy woman's monkey-paw charm which is said to grant its holder three wishes. His son suffers the consequences.

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S3.E27 ∙ The Second Wife

Mon, Apr 26, 1965

A mail-order bride begins to believe her husband killed his first wife and wants to kill her as well.

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S3.E28 ∙ Night Fever

Mon, May 3, 1965

A handsome young thief, wounded by police in a robbery that left a young rookie cop dead, is hospitalized under tight security. After middle-aged spinster Nurse Ellen Hatch takes charge of his care, he tries to sweet-talk her into believing that he is innocent of the crime and contends the vindictive police are victimizing him and that he won't make it to trial alive if they have their way. As the police relent somewhat under the influence of her strict, no-nonsense attitude, the young thief develops a personal relationship with her. As she reluctantly succumbs to his romantic advances, the convalescing prisoner tries to cajole her into helping him escape.

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S3.E29 ∙ Off Season

Mon, May 10, 1965

A trigger-happy ex-cop gets a job as an unarmed deputy, but still has some very violent tendencies.