Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season 6

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A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season 6 episodes

Episode 6.1

Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat

A touch of mink for Mr and Mrs Bixby is... More only part of a story of love grown cold and a hidden passion beneath the surface.

Episode 6.2

The Doubtful Doctor

Bewitched advertising executive Ralph Jones seeks psychiatric help when he... More inexplicably finds an escape from his present day marital woes by traveling back in time to his earlier carefree bachelorhood.

Episode 6.3

Very Moral Theft

Lumbered with more than an enormous debt, a businessman needs... More money - and fast. His doting fiance-in-waiting provides an instant solution, but in so doing, her act of desperate kindness leads to fatal consequences.

Episode 6.4

The Contest for Aaron Gold

A pensive, withdrawn child attending a summer camp fashions a... More one-armed warrior knight in clay, to the consternation of his counselors. Is there a reason behind this particular display?

EPISODE 6.5

The Five Forty-eight

Two passengers on a train leaving Grand Central station at... More 5:48 - one in fear of his past catching up with him at long last, the other intent on exacting a revenge which will restore the balance of power.

EPISODE 6.6

Pen Pal

Love letters from a pen pal bring an escaped convict... More to a country cottage in search of the woman he plans to make his bride. With the police closing in, is more than his heart trapped?

EPISODE 6.7

Outlaw in Town

At the Last Chance Saloon, an outlaw rides in to... More town amidst a raging blizzard. The "Whistling Kid" has a price on his head, and everyone wants a piece of the action.

EPISODE 6.8

O Youth and Beauty!

A midlife crisis for a man with a teenage past... More boasting athletic prowess and vigor puts a dangerous strain on his marriage, and his own physical state. How much more can a wife take living under starter's orders?

EPISODE 6.9

The Money

To win the hand of his beautiful girlfriend, a bookie-turned-import... More agent eyes the main chance with a deceitful ploy. In so doing, he finds himself earning more than the highest prize.

EPISODE 6.10

Sybilla

On the passing of his wife, a man reflects on... More a marriage filled with bitterness and suspicion through the pages of her diary, and comes to realize he never really knew her at all.

EPISODE 6.11

The Man With Two Faces

The theft of a woman's purse is the start of... More a tale of profit and loss which strikes close to home when the identity of the culprit is sought through a series of conflicting photographs.

EPISODE 6.12

The Baby Blue Expression

Philip Weaver concocts a scheme to murder his employer.

EPISODE 6.13

The Man Who Found the Money

William Benson finds a money clip containing $92,000. He takes... More the money to a bank and alerts the police. Captain Bone is able to identify the clip but he claims that it contained $102,000. The Captain accuses Benson of robbery until the owner of the clip Curtis Newsome says that Benson is telling the truth. Newsome invites Benson to stay at his inn as a reward. When Benson arrives at the inn, however, he is attacked. Newsome holds up a phone so that Benson can hear his wife screaming. He, then, demands his $10,000 dollars back.

EPISODE 6.14

The Changing Heart

Dane Ross goes to a shop owned by Ulrich Klemm... More in order to get his watch repaired. Ulrich is a master clockmaker who fled Europe during World War II. At the shop, Dane falls in love with Ulrich's daughter Lisa. Klemm, however, insists that they not see each other. Dane reluctantly agrees to stop seeing her and leaves. Later, he hears that she has grown dangerous ill. Dane returns to the shop and discovers that Ulrich has passed away and that Lisa is confined to a wheelchair. Still loving her, he embraces her and is startled to hear a strange ticking coming from her chest. The old clockmaker saved his daughter by giving her a clockwork heart.

EPISODE 6.15

Summer Shade

Ben and Phyllis Kendall move to Salem, Massachusetts with their... More 9-year old daughter Kate. Ben and Phyllis become deeply worried when their daughter starts playing with an imaginary friend named Letty. Kate's parents get help from a local minister when Kate shows up one day with a magic charm to ward off evil spirits. The Minister tells them that a girl named Letty died in 1692. Ben a Phyllis become worried that their daughter is possessed, but a relieved when Kate befriends a girl in the neighborhood named Judy. When the two girls are alone, however, Judy begins to speak in colonial English. Kate tells her to stop and warns her that she might be exorcised.

EPISODE 6.16

A Crime for Mothers

Lottie Mead is an alcoholic mother who demands that custody... More of her daughter be returned to her. She has not seen her daughter in years. When her daughter's guardians Ralph and Jane Birdwell refuse to cooperate, she demands money in order to leave them alone. The Birdwells do not give her the money so she plots with a detective named Ames to kidnap the girl for ransom. Ames takes Lottie to a schoolyeard a points out her daughter. Later, Lottie kidnaps the girl. Unfortunately, she kidnaps the wrong girl. Faced with a real kidnapping charge, Ames agrees to help her if she returns the girl unharmed and if she promises to stop annoying the Birdwells. Ames is, in fact, a friend of the couple and the kidnapped girl is really his own daughter.

EPISODE 6.17

The Last Escape

Joe Ferlini is an escape artist who decides to perform... More a dangerous escape in order to be famous. His wife Wanda who is seeing another man, however, has other plans. Joe plans to be handcuffed, locked in a truck, and lowered into a river. Wanda, however, replaces Joe's key to the handcuffs with a fake key. Joe drowns. At the funeral, a policeman insists that the coffin be open. When it is opened, everyone is shocked to discover that it is empty. Wanda goes insane and is locked up in an asylum. Later Joe's manager reveals that he and Joe arranged to have his body removed if he were to die while performing the river escape. Joe wanted to be known as the greatest escape artist of all time.

EPISODE 6.18

The Greatest Monster of Them All

Ernst von Croft is an has-been actor once billed as... More ""The Greatest Monster of Them All"". He gets a part in a low-budget vampire movie. He is proud of his performance, but is shocked when he sees the film and discovers that his voice has been redubbed. Fred Logan, the films writer, visits Ernst and offers his condolences. Later on a soundstage, however, he finds the bodies of the films producer Hal Ballew and the film's director Morty Lenton. The necks of each have been punctioned as if they were bitten by a vampire. On a catwalk high above the soundstage Ernst appears wearing his vampire cape. He falls from the catwalk and plunges to his death on the soundstage floor.

EPISODE 6.19

The Landlady

Billy Weaver gets a room at an unusual boarding house.... More The landlady claims that there are other tenants in the building, but Billy never sees anyone. Later, the landlady invites him over for tea. He comments about a stuffed bird and the landlady tells him that she stuffs all her pets after the die. Billy later realizes that his drink has been poisoned and that he is about to join the landlady collection.

EPISODE 6.20

The Throwback

Elliot Gray's girlfriend Enid admits to having an affair with... More a maned named Cyril. He insists that she break off with the other man and she agrees. Later, Cyril challenges Elliot to a duel. Elliot refuses given Cyril's age. He agrees, however, when Cyril offers a proxy. The proxy beats Elliot severely. Elliot returns home, but is greeted by the police. They take him back to Cyril's home where Enid is found tending to the old man's wounds. Cyril claims that Elliot beat him up. Enid is horrified that Elliot would do such a thing. She dumps him and agrees to stay with Cyril.

EPISODE 6.21

The Kiss Off

Ernie Walters is released from prison after serving time for... More a crime he did not commit. After his release he robs a tax office. He is later arrested, but is let go. Although the police have enough evidence to prosecute him, they realize that he will not be sent to jail because he has already been there for a crime he did not commit.

EPISODE 6.22

The Horse Player

Father Amian is the pastor of a small church. One... More day, he gets a sizable contribution from a horse race gambler named Sheridan. Sheridan, apparantly, has been praying to win and has been winning. Sheridan then gives the priest a tip on a horse. The priest gives him five hundred dollars of the church's savings to bet on the horse. Later, however, Farther Amian's conscience gets to him. He prays that the horse loses and it does. Later, Sheridan arrives. He tells the priest that he bet his money on the horse to win and it almost did, but suddenly quit. Sheridan also reveals that he was not willing to risk the church's money on a win. Instead he bet on the horse to show. Since it did, Sheridan gives Father Amian the church's winnings: $2,100.

EPISODE 6.23

Incident in a Small Jail

A traveling salesman Leon Gorwald arrives in a small town... More and is promptly arrest for jaywalking and placed into jail. The sheriff arrives with the suspected murderer of a young girl. He tosses the suspected murderer into the cell next to Leon. The mood of the towns people begins to grow ugly and a lynch mob assembles. The sheriff decides to move the alleged killer for his safety, but is knock unconscious. The suspect switches clothes with Gorwald and forces him into a cell. The mob rushes the jail but Gorwald is saved in the nick of time. The charges against him are dropped and he leaves town. He later stops for a pretty hitchhiker who accepts his offer of a ride without knowing that he is the actual killer.

EPISODE 6.24

A Woman's Help

Arnold Bourdon has a domineering wife named Elizabeth. When Elizabeth... More takes ill, she hires a lovely nurse named Joan. Arnold grows close to Joan, but she refuses to continue the affair as long as Arnold his married. The two plot to give Elizabeth a fatal does of medication. Unfortunately, Elizabeth sees Joan kissing Arnold and fires her. Later Elizabeth hires another nurse. This one an old woman in her sixties. Arnold asks the new nurse about Liz's medicine. The new nurse tells him that she will give her more medicine that the doctor recommended. Arnold knowing that the dose will prove fatal thanks the nurse and in his thanks reveals that she is his mother.

EPISODE 6.25

Museum Piece

Clay Hollister is a museum curator and collector of Indian... More relics. On day, during a tour Clay notices a man named Newton Clovis who is fascinated by a skeleton in Clay's collection. Newton wants to analyze the bones. He does so and reveals that the bones are those of a long-missing district attorney. Newton is really a dective and demands the skeleton for further investigation. Clay refuses and kills him. Later, he adds the bones of yet another man to his collection.

EPISODE 6.26

Coming, Mama

Lucy Baldwin wishes to marry her boy friend Arthur. Unfortunately,... More her domineering mother believe that Arthur is only out for money opposes the marriage. When Lucy's mother falls ill, Lucy sees her chance. She slips her a fatal dose of sleeping tonc and she dies. Lucy and Arthur are married and Arthur takes Lucy to visit his mother. Unfortunately, Arthur's mother is just as domineering as Lucy's. Since Arthur's mother is ill, Lucy suggests a dose of sleeping tonic to take care of the problem.

EPISODE 6.27

Deathmate

Ben Conant is a con artist that his having an... More affair with Lisa Talbot who is married to a wealthy man named Peter. One day a detective confronts Ben and tells him that he was hired to keep an eye on him. Ben believes that Peter sent the detective and he and Lisa plan a murder. Lisa tells him that since her husband has once had a heart attack it would be easy to kill him and stage another. Ben confronts Peter who denies hiring the detective. Ben knocks Peter out and puts him in the bathtub. He fills the bath hoping that the police will believe him when he tells him that Peter had a heart attack in the bathtub and drowned. The detective arrives and sees Peter's body. He doesn't believe Ben's story because Peter has had no history of heart attacks. The detective also reveals that he was, in fact, hired by Lisa. Lisa, it seem, conned the man who was trying to con her. She now will inherit everything and Ben will go to jail.

EPISODE 6.28

Gratitude

Meyer Fine is a gangster with an intense fear of... More death known only to his servent John Ingo. Meyer discovers taht several gangsters are planning to kill him. The narrowly miss in one attempt. Meyer wishes that he had the courage to commit suicide, but he doesn't. His faithful servant John, however, wanting only the best for Meyer tearfully agrees to kill him.

EPISODE 6.29

The Pearl Necklace

Charlotte Jameson agrees to marry her millionaire boss Howard. Charlotte... More already has a boyfriend named Mark, but agrees to the marriage after Howard explains he has only a year to live. A year later, Howard is still alive. Charlotte calls Mark, but he urges her to stay with Howard since he won't live forever. Ten years pass and Howard is still alive. Mark see Charlotte and hope to resume their former relationship. Unfortunately she is not interested, but she does take a liking to Mark's seven year old son and agrees to pay for his education. After twenty five years of marriage, Howard finally dies. Mark visits Charlotte and discovers that Charlotte is no longer interested in him. She is going to get married, but to Mark's son who is now twenty-two.

EPISODE 6.30

You Can't Trust a Man

Crystal Coe's husband Tony returns after serving time in prison... More for a crime that she committed. He wants to resume his relationship with her. She, however, has a different idea. As they are driving to her beach house, she alerts the police at a gas station. Later, as Crystal continues on her trip a police car pulls up behind her. She stops the car and shoots Tony. She tells the police that she has never met Tony. Because of his prison record, they believe her. Unfortunately, Tony patented an invention while in prison. He owned a substantial amount of money and the police launch an investigation to determine his next of kin.

EPISODE 6.31

The Gloating Place

Susan Harper fakes an assault near a pond and blames... More it on a masked attacker in order to gain notoriety. The newspapers fall for her story and give her the celebrity status she craves. After the news dies down, she starts cheming to regain the spotlight. She lures a young girl to the spot where the alleged first attack occurred a strangles her. The newspapers report the murder and recall the incident with Susan and she once again is in the spotlight. Susan returns to the pond to gloat over her cleverness and celebrity, a genuine masked killer appears and strangles her.

EPISODE 6.32

Self Defense

Gerald Clarke is held up at gunpoint by a boy... More who has just robbed a liquor store. The boy runs and Clarke follows. Using a gun provided by the store's owner, he shoots the boy four times in the back. Later the police arrive and discover that the boy's gun was not loaded. They rule the killing an act of self-defense and release Gerald. Later Gerald goes home and is confronted by the boy's mother. She holds a gun on him and asks why he killed her son. Clarke explains that he was frightened. The woman turns and begins to leave. As she goes, Clarke grabs the gun and shoots her. He screams ""I told you not to pull that gun on me"" to the woman's dead corpse.

EPISODE 6.33

A Secret Life

James Howgill wants a divorce from his wife. Whe she... More refuses to give him one, he hires a private eye to follow her in hope of finding evidence of adultery.

EPISODE 6.34

Servant Problem

Kerwin Drake is throwing an important party. When his cook... More get ill, he has his secretary prepare some hors d'oeuvres which are enthusiastically praised by his guests. At the party, Kerwin's estranged wife Molly arrives. Not wanting to be embarrassed by her, Kerwin tells everyone it is the cook. After the party, Kerwin shows her the door. Later, Kerwin goes to Molly's apartment and kills her. He is shocked, however, when he discovers that one of his dinner guests, Mrs. Standish, has witnessed the murder. Mrs. Standish was there to hire Molly as her cook.

EPISODE 6.35

Coming Home

Harry Beggs is released from prison after twenty years for... More armed robbery. He has saved up sixteen hundred dollars and goes to his home town. He stops by a bar to phone his wife, but gets cold feet. Later a young girl at the bar sees Harry's money, gets him drunk, and robs him. After being robbed, Harry decides to visit his wife. He goes to her and they are reconciled. Later, the young girl from the bar arrives. The girl, who robbed Harry, is also his now-grown daughter.

EPISODE 6.36

Final Arrangements

Leonard Compson hates living with his overweight and overbearing wife... More Elsie. He goes to a funeral home and orders a casket. The next day he calls the funeral home and tells them to bring to casket to his house to pick up a body. Leonard then buys some rat poison and goes home. When he gets there his wife berates him. He drinks the poison and dies. The men from the funeral home arrive and take away his body.

EPISODE 6.37

Make My Death Bed

Elise Taylor has an affair with a man named Bishop... More Darby. Darby's wife, Jackie gives Elise a bottle of saccharin and tells her to make sure that Darby stays on his diet. The saccharin, however, is poisoned. Later, however, Darby is killed when another man catches him with his wife. When Jackie hears the news she confesses to the murder believing that her poisoned saccharin did the job. Later, Elise has a cup of coffee with the tainted saccharin and dies.

EPISODE 6.38

Ambition

Rudy Cox is a district attorney who learns that the... More cover of his mob informant Lou Heinz has been blown. He learns that the mob plans to kill him. The mayor tells Cox to leave the case since he was once friends with a mobster named Mac Davis. Davis also tells Cox to leave the case. Later Heinz calls Cox and asks fro a guard. Cox promises one, but later learns that Heinz has been murdered. Davis and his chief hitman have alibis. Cox decides to lie in order to protect his politcal aspirations. He says that he has neither seen nor heard from Davis in the last six months.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season 6 | Ratings & Reviews

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Rating
TV-PG,
Genre
Drama
Country of origin
USA