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Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode Guide (part 1) 

1. Revenge

 First aired: 10/2/1955

 Writer: Samuel Blas,  Francis Cockrell 

Director:  Alfred Hitchcock 

Guest star:  Ray Teal (Police Lieutenant) ,  Frances Bavier (Mrs. Fergusen),  Vera Miles 

(Elsa Span),  Ralph Meeker (Carl Span),  John Gallaudet (The Doctor), Norman Willis 

(Cop),  John Daheim (Cop),  Lilian O' Malley (Hotel maid), Herbert Lytton (Police

 Lieutenant),  Ray Montgomery (Man In Grey Suit)

Global rating: 9.2 

 Revenge fuels a husband looking for the man who raped his wife

2. Premonition

 First aired: 10/9/1955

 Writer: Harold Swanton 

Director:  Robert Stevens 

Guest star:  Percy Helton (Gerald Eaton), Harry Tyler (Mr. Dodds) , Cloris Leachman 

(Susan Stanger),  John Forsythe (Kim Stanger), George Macready (Doug Irwin),  Warren

Stevens (Perry Stanger),  Paul Brinegar (Mason)

Global rating: 8.1 

 A pianist returns to his home town, hoping to mend a broken relationship with his

father, and instead finds mystery and foreboding in everything he encounters.

3. Triggers in Leash

 First aired: 10/16/1955

 Writer: Dick Carr,  Allan Vaughn Elston 

Director: Don Medford 

Guest star: Darren McGavin (Red Hillman), Gene Barry (Dell Delaney), Ellen Corby 

(Maggie), Casey MacGregor (Ben)

Global rating: 7.0 

Maggie, a restaurant owner, tries to prevent a duel between two of the clients.

4. Don t Come Back Alive

 First aired: 10/23/1955

 Writer:  Robert C. Dennis 

Director:  Robert Stevenson Guest star:  Robert Emhardt (Kettle) , Sidney Blackmer (Frank Partridge),  Virginia

Gregg  (Mildred Partridge), Edna Holland (Librarian), Irene Tedrow (Lucy)

Global rating: 8.1 

 A detective suspects murder when a man tries to have his, apparently disappeared

wife, declared dead.

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5. Into Thin Air (aka The Vanishing Lady)

 First aired: 10/30/1955

 Writer:  Alexander Woollcott, Marian Cockrell 

Director: Don Medford 

Guest star:  Alan Napier (Sir Everett),  Pat Hitchcock (Diana Winthrop) , Mary Forbes 

(Mrs. Winthrop),  John Mylong  (Doctor),  Ann Codee (Doctor's wife), Maurice Marsac 

(Clerk), Geoffrey Toone (Basil Farnham), Gerry Gaylor (Maid),  Peter Camlin (Porter), Jack Chefe (Detective),  Albert D'Arno (Bellhop), Michael Hadlow (Maris)

Global rating: 7.7 

 A woman and her mother check in at a hotel in Paris. The woman goes out and when

she comes back discovers that nobody remembers her mother and all the things in the

room have been changed.

6. Salvage

 First aired: 11/6/1955

 Writer:  Fred Freiberger, Dick Carr,  Fred Freiberger 

Director:  Justus Addiss 

Guest star: Gene Barry (Dan Varrel), Elisha Cook Jr. (Shorty), Nancy Gates (Lois

 Williams),  Peter Adams (Tim Grady),  Paul Bryar (Lou Henry), Maxine Cooper (Mary),

 Ralph Montgomery (Drunk),  Billy Wayne (Bartender), Edit Angold (Hilda),  Virginia

Christine (Model)

Global rating: 7.8 

Dan, an underworld king, prepares a plan to punish a singer who killed his brother.

7. Breakdown

 First aired: 11/13/1955

 Writer:  Francis Cockrell,  Louis Pollock, Louis Pollock 

Director:  Alfred Hitchcock 

Guest star:  Raymond Bailey (Ed Johnson), Holly Bane (Escaped Convict (as Mike

 Ragan)) ,  Aaron Spelling  (Road Worker),  Joseph Cotten (William Callew), Murray Alper 

(Lloyd),  Lane Chandler (Sheriff), Marvin Press (Chessy), Harry Shannon (Dr. Harner), Forrest Stanley (Hubka),  James Edwards (Convict), Elzie Emanuel (Black Escaped

Covict), Harry Landers (Coroner),  Richard Newton (Ambulance Driver),  Ralph Peters, 

 Jimmy Weldon (Guard)

Global rating: 8.5 

 William, a cold man in life, is ready to be buried alive after an accident leaves him

paralyzed.

8. Our Cook s A Treasure First aired: 11/20/1955

 Writer:  Robert C. Dennis, Dorothy L. Sayers 

Director:  Robert Stevens 

Guest star: Everett Sloane (Ralph Montgomery),  Janet Ward (Ethel. Montgomery),

 Beulah Bondi (Mrs. Sutton), Doris Singleton (Secretary), Olan Soule (Chemist), Gavin

Gordon (Mr Brooks),  Walter Woolf King  (Card player), Elliott Reid (Earl Kramer)

Global rating: 9.2 

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 A real state agent becomes obsessed with finding out if his new cook is a serial killer

who poisons her victims.

9. The Long Shot

 First aired: 11/27/1955

 Writer: Harold Swanton 

Director:  Robert Stevenson 

Guest star:  John Williams (II) (Walker D. Hendricks) ,  Peter Lawford (Charlie

 Raymond), Charles Cantor (Tommy De Witt), Gertrude Hoffman (Marguerite

Stoddard),  Robert Warwick (Matthew Kelson),  Frank Gerstle (Mack),  Tim Graham 

(Bartender),  Virginia Christine (Secretary)

Global rating: 8.4 

 A gambling addict cannot resist the lure of $200.000 dollars.

10. The Case of Mr. Pelham

 First aired: 12/4/1955

 Writer:  Anthony Armstrong ,  Francis Cockrell 

Director:  Alfred Hitchcock 

Guest star:  Raymond Bailey (Dr. Harley) ,  Tom Ewell (Albert Pelham),  Jan Arvan 

(Harry), Kirby Smith (Tom Mason), Kay Stewart (Miss Clement),  John Compton 

(Vincent), Diane Brewster (Secretary),  Richard Collier (Bartender), Norman Willis 

(Bartender),  Justice Watson (Henry Peterson),  Tim Graham (Lawyer)

Global rating: 7.8 

 Albert Pelham is slowly being replaced at home and at work by a double.

11. Guilty Witness

 First aired: 12/11/1955

 Writer:  Robert C. Daniels, Morris Hersman 

Director:  Robert Stevens 

Guest star:  Judith Evelyn (Amelia Verber),  Joe Mantell (Stanley Crane),  Robert F.

Simon (Detective Halloran), Kathleen Maguire (Dorothy Krane), Ed Kemmer (Dan Verber), Grazia Narciso (Mrs Santini),  Leola Wendorff  (Mrs Glavetsky)

Global rating: 9.1 

 The male in a very unhappy couple disappears. Neighbors suspect foul play.

12. Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid

 First aired: 12/18/1955

 Writer: Marian Cockrell, Margaret Cousins 

Director: Don Weis 

Guest star:  Tyler McVey ,  Barry Fitzgerald (Stretch Sears),  Bobby Clark (The 10th

 Avenue Kid),  Virginia Gregg  (Miss Webster),  Arthur Space (Mr. Chambers),  Justice

 Watson (Mr. Shaw), Norman Willis,  Wendy Winkelman,  Alan Reynolds, Harrison Lewis, 

Gary Hunley,  Betty Harford, Mimi Gibson,  Anthony Blankley,  Butch Bernard 

Global rating: 7.3 

 A criminal just released from prison finds a job as Santa Claus for the holiday season.

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13. The Cheney Vase

 First aired: 12/25/1955

 Writer:  Robert Blees 

Director:  Robert Stevens 

Guest star: Carolyn Jones (Pamela Waring), Darren McGavin (Lyle Endicott),  Patricia

Collinge (Martha Cheney), George Macready (Homer Koether),  Ruta Lee (Ruby

 Boyenton), Kathryn Card (Bella)Global rating: 7.5 

Martha Cheney, an elderly invalid, has only one preoccupation in life. She wants to

protect a priceless vase that has been in her family for generations. Lyle Endicott, a

dishonest ex-museum curator, wants the vase and uses a forged letter to get close to

Miss Cheney and the vase.

14. A Bullet for Baldwin

 First aired: 1/1/1956

 Writer: Eustace Cockrell,  Francis Cockrell,  Joseph Ruscoll 

Director:  Justus Addiss 

Guest star: Sebastian Cabot (Nathaniel Baldwin/Mr. Davidson),  John Qualen (Mr.

Stepp),  Philip Reed (Walter King), Cheryl Clark (Mrs. Baldwin), Don McArt (Albert),

Kate Drain Lawson (Landlady),  James Adamson (Janitor),  Bill Erwin (Fireman), David

Dwight,  Arthur D. Gilmour,  Ruth Lee 

Global rating: 7.9 

 Benjamin Stepp turns into a cold-blooded murderer after being fired from his job.

15. The Big Switch

 First aired: 1/8/1956

 Writer:  Richard Carr, Cornell Woolrich 

Director: Don Weis 

Guest star: George Mathews (Sam Dunleavy), George E. Stone (Barney),  Joe Downing  

(Lieutenant Al),  Beverly Michaels (Goldie),  James Edwards (Ed)

Global rating: 7.1 

Sam, bent on homicide buys an alibi so he can kill his girlfriend.

16. You Got to Have Luck

 First aired: 1/15/1956

 Writer: Eustace Cockrell,  Francis Cockrell, S. R. Ross 

Director:  Robert Stevens 

Guest star:  Ray Teal (Warden) ,  John Cassavetes (Sam Cobbett), Marisa Pavan (Mary

Schaffner),  Robert Patten (Willis),  Vivi Janiss (Maude), Hal K. Dawson (Secretary), Lamont Johnson (I) (Davis), Steve Clark (Pilot)

Global rating: 7.8 

Sam Cobbet, a crazy man, holds a woman hostage in her farmhouse while he plans his

escape from the area.

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17. The Older Sister

 First aired: 1/22/1956

 Writer:  Robert C. Daniels,  Lillian de la Torre 

Director:  Robert Stevens 

Guest star:  Pat Hitchcock (Margaret), Carmen Mathews (Lizzie Borden) ,  Joan

 Lorring  (Emma Borden),  Polly Rowles (Nell Cutt), Kay Stewart (Neighbor),  Wendy

 Winkelman (Little Girl)Global rating: 7.5 

 A reporter discovers the truth about the infamous Lizzie Borden murder case.

18. Shopping for Death

 First aired: 1/29/1955

 Writer:  Ray Bradbury 

Director:  Robert Stevens 

Guest star:  Robert H. Harris (Mr. Foxe) ,  Jo Van Fleet (Mrs. Shrike),  John Qualen (Mr.

Shaw), Michael Ross (I) (Mr. Shrike), Michael Ansara (Butcher)

Global rating: 8.3 

 Two retired sales clerks test their theory that people become killers at 92 degrees.

19. The Derelicts

 First aired: 2/5/1956

 Writer:  Robert C. Dennis,  Terence Maples Director:  Robert Stevenson 

Guest star:  Philip Reed (Ralph Cowell), Cyril Delevanti (Alfred Sloane),  Robert Foulk 

(Det. Sgt. Monroney),  Robert Newton (Peter J. Goodfellow),  Johnny Silver (Shanks),

 Peggy Knudsen (Herta)

Global rating: 7.1 

 Ralph is having monetary problems. His wife is spending money faster than he can make

it and she just bought a mink coat. His silent partner calls in an IOU. Just when he

 thinks he's solved his problem, two homeless men start blackmailing him.

20. And So Died Riabouchinska

 First aired: 2/12/1956

 Writer: Mel Dinelli,  Ray Bradbury 

Director:  Robert Stevenson 

Guest star:  Virginia Gregg  (Voice of Riabouchinska), Harry Tyler (Dan Silver), Iris

 Adrian (Macey), Charles Bronson (Det. Krovitch), Claude Rains (John Fabian),  William

Haade (Stagehand),  Lowell Gilmore (Mel Douglas), Claire Carleton (Alice Fabian),

Charles Cantor (Zander)Global rating: 6.3 

 A ventriloquist with a very lifelike dummy is questioned about a murder that occurred

at a vaudeville theater.

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