Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 5
Run Time: 25 mins
Air Date: Sun, 27 Sept 1959
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.763 (240 votes)
NBC CBS38 Episodes
Arthur
Season 5 - Episode 1
When his former fiancee turns up missing, chicken farmer Arthur obligingly lets the police search his ranch, despite the fact that they seem...
The Crystal Trench
Season 5 - Episode 2
Dangerous secrets are revealed when a devoted widow travels to the glacier in Switzerland where her husband's body has been preserved since ...
Appointment at Eleven
Season 5 - Episode 3
A 17-year-old causes havoc at a bar and alarms everyone around him when he talks hysterically about how he'll be "born again" when someone e...
Coyote Moon
Season 5 - Episode 4
John Piltkin picks up three hitchhikers who rob him. After he spots them in a diner, he exacts his revenge. He steals a car and picks the hi...
No Pain
Season 5 - Episode 5
Nothing is as it seems when a polio victim in an iron lung suspects his wife of becoming attracted to a new neighbor and wonders if she's pl...
Anniversary Gift
Season 5 - Episode 6
Sick of his wife's menagerie of strange and high-maintenance animals, a frazzled husband decides to get her the perfect present - a highly p...
Dry Run
Season 5 - Episode 7
An aspiring hitman takes on a risky assignment to kill a rival gangster but then finds himself easily conned by his target in a treacherous ...
The Blessington Method
Season 5 - Episode 8
Troubled by the responsibility of his aging mother in law, a man takes advantage of a society that specializes in "taking care of" elderly r...
Dead Weight
Season 5 - Episode 9
Lovers' Lane becomes a dark and deadly destination when an ad executive and his former girlfriend are attacked by a young thug, and his effo...
Special Delivery
Season 5 - Episode 10
After his neighbor warns him about suspicious disappearances around them, a man wonders if the vanishings have anything to do with a deliver...
Road Hog
Season 5 - Episode 11
When a traffic delay prevents a dying boy from reaching the hospital in time, his bereaved father and brothers swear revenge on the salesman...
Specialty of the House
Season 5 - Episode 12
Mr. Laffler introduces his colleague Mr. Costain to Spirro's, an exclusive gentleman's club, but to their disappointment, the house specialt...
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Season 5 - Episode 13
Moments before he's set to swing from the end of a Union rope, a Southern supporter reflects on the sabotage attempt that brought him there ...
Graduating Class
Season 5 - Episode 14
A teacher's interest in the one student who seems to care about her lessons turns tragic when she and a kindly neighbor follow the girl to a...
Man from the South
Season 5 - Episode 15
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 y...
The Ikon of Elijah
Season 5 - Episode 16
An antiques dealer takes refuge in a tucked away monastery with the goal of seizing a priceless manuscript, but his greed will extend his st...
The Cure
Season 5 - Episode 17
Some important things get lost in translation when a South American oil explorer agrees to have his loyal native assistant take his murderou...
Backward, Turn Backward
Season 5 - Episode 18
A middle aged plumber is suspected of bludgeoning to death the father of his 19-year-old love interest, but the Sheriff can't figure out how...
Not the Running Type
Season 5 - Episode 19
After twelve years in prison for stealing $200,000 from his investment firm employers, Milton Potter calmly returns all the money he embezzl...
The Day of the Bullet
Season 5 - Episode 20
When Clete Vine, a successful businessman, reads about a gangster's violent death, he recalls how he and a childhood friend were profoundly ...
Hitch Hike
Season 5 - Episode 21
A righteous and hypocritical civic leader on a road trip accepts mechanical help from a young man who then asks for a lift, soon afterwards ...
Across the Threshold
Season 5 - Episode 22
When his over-bearing mother mentions missing her dead husband, a selfish bachelor is happy to arrange the reunion and enlists his actress g...
Craig's Will
Season 5 - Episode 23
It's one lucky dog who is named the beneficiary of his deceased master's estate, but he then becomes the target of murderous plots concocted...
Madame Mystery
Season 5 - Episode 24
A ruthlessly ambitious Hollywood publicist capitalizes on the drowning death of an actress, but his hopes for success sink like a stone when...
The Little Man Who Was There
Season 5 - Episode 25
The patrons in a copper town saloon initially scoff at the mysterious, small man who barges in, but soon find themselves handing over their ...
Mother, May I Go Out to Swim?
Season 5 - Episode 26
What begins as a mother-son vacation soon becomes a trip to agony when he falls in love with a girl who is determined to share his affection...
The Cuckoo Clock
Season 5 - Episode 27
A sensible widow beginning her stay in a remote summer cottage refuses to be alarmed by news of an escaped mental patient, but her resolve w...
Forty Detectives Later
Season 5 - Episode 28
The forty-first private eye hired by a man to find his wife's killer follows the clues to a suspect, and then realizes that the case is more...
The Hero
Season 5 - Episode 29
A wealthy entrepreneur is sure that the man he meets on a cruise ship is the same person he robbed and left for dead many years ago ... or i...
Insomnia
Season 5 - Episode 30
Lack of sleep is ruining a widower's life, but the real nightmare begins when he finally meets his brother-in-law, a menacing veteran still ...
I Can Take Care of Myself
Season 5 - Episode 31
A beautiful Greenwich Village nightclub singer unwittingly risks her life - and that of her pianist - when she makes the mistake of brushing...
One Grave Too Many
Season 5 - Episode 32
Chronic unemployment makes a poor husband desperate enough to steal from a man he believes is dead, but he soon regrets the decision when he...
Party Line
Season 5 - Episode 33
A busybody fears for her life when she learns that the man who blames her for his wife's death has escaped from prison and may be planning a...
Cell 227
Season 5 - Episode 34
A falsely convicted prisoner is determined to make his walk to the gas chamber on of dignity, but his plan suddenly changes when he hurls hi...
The Schartz-Metterklume Method
Season 5 - Episode 35
An unconventional governess disrupts a conservative household with her radical ideas about interior design, wines, art and - especially - ch...
Letter of Credit
Season 5 - Episode 36
When he goes to a bank to transfer money, a man writing a book on the subject of unsolved crimes has no idea that he will find information a...
Escape to Sonoita
Season 5 - Episode 37
A pair of truck drivers stranded in the Arizona desert find themselves at the mercy of two kidnappers who are heading to the border ... and ...
Hooked
Season 5 - Episode 38
Believing that financial reasons prevent him from leaving his wife, an unhappily married man and the woman he really loves hatch a scheme th...