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.

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

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.

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.

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. Contd../Pt. 2