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  • TV-PG
  • CBS
  • Dec 21, 1964
  • 48 m
  • TV-PG
  • CBS
  • Dec 21, 1964
  • 48 m
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Summary The Alfred Hitchcock Hour was a mystery and suspense anthology hosted by the master of supsense Alfred Hitchcock. Each 60 minute episode included opening and closing vingettes featuring Hitchcock who would often explain some aspect of the day's show and would often offer subtle (or not so subtle) jabs at the shows sponsors. The series...

Directed By: Joseph Pevney

Written By: Harlan Ellison

  • TV-PG
  • CBS
  • Dec 21, 1964
  • 48 m
  • TV-PG
  • CBS
  • Dec 21, 1964
  • 48 m
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
S3 • Episode 10
Memo from Purgatory
Air Date: Dec 21, 1964
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Summary The Alfred Hitchcock Hour was a mystery and suspense anthology hosted by the master of supsense Alfred Hitchcock. Each 60 minute episode included opening and closing vingettes featuring Hitchcock who would often explain some aspect of the day's show and would often offer subtle (or not so subtle) jabs at the shows sponsors. The series...

Season Episodes

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Episode 1 • Oct 5, 1964 • 48 m
Return of Verge Likens
After his father is murdered by a politician who gets away with it, a young man becomes determined to get revenge.
Episode 2 • Oct 12, 1964 • 48 m
Change of Address
An older husband becomes very disenchanted with his wife at their new beach house, and has a devious plan for her.
Episode 3 • Oct 19, 1964 • 48 m
Water's Edge
Episode 4 • Oct 26, 1964 • 48 m
The Life Work of Juan Diaz
A dishonest graveyard owner exhumes body of a poor Mexican woman's husband, but she makes it work to her children's benefit.
Episode 5 • Nov 9, 1964 • 48 m
See the Monkey Dance
Episode 6 • Nov 16, 1964 • 48 m
Lonely Place
A poor, loving, farmer's wife discovers just how evil a hired drifter is, and how much of a coward her husband is too.
Episode 7 • Nov 23, 1964 • 48 m
The McGregor Affair
Episode 8 • Dec 7, 1964 • 1 h
Misadventure
Episode 9 • Dec 14, 1964 • 48 m
Triumph
Episode 10 • Dec 21, 1964 • 48 m
Memo from Purgatory
Episode 11 • Dec 28, 1964 • 48 m
Consider Her Ways
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.
Episode 12 • Jan 4, 1965 • 48 m
Crimson Witness
When an embezzling engineer is demoted and his brother takes over his former position, he makes plans to kill him.
Episode 13 • Jan 11, 1965 • 48 m
Where the Woodbine Twineth
Episode 14 • Jan 18, 1965 • 48 m
Final Performance
Episode 15 • Feb 1, 1965 • 48 m
Thanatos Palace Hotel
Episode 16 • Feb 8, 1965 • 1 h
One of the Family
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.
Episode 17 • Feb 15, 1965 • 49 m
An Unlocked Window
A serial killer is in the area where some private nurses have locked themselves in a large house, except for one basement window.
Episode 18 • Feb 22, 1965 • 1 h
The Trap
Episode 19 • Mar 1, 1965 • 48 m
Wally the Beard
Episode 20 • Mar 8, 1965 • 1 h
Death Scene
Episode 21 • Mar 15, 1965 • 1 h
The Photographer and the Undertaker
Two professional killers with the same employer find out that each has the other as his next target.
Episode 22 • Mar 22, 1965 • 48 m
Thou Still Unravished Bride
Episode 23 • Mar 29, 1965 • 48 m
Completely Foolproof
Episode 24 • Apr 5, 1965 • 48 m
Power of Attorney
A clever con man makes a living by preying on women by having them invest their life savings into non-existent stocks.
Episode 25 • Apr 12, 1965 • 1 h
The World's Oldest Motive
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.
Episode 26 • Apr 19, 1965 • 1 h
The Monkey's Paw--A Retelling
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.
Episode 27 • Apr 26, 1965 • 1 h
The Second Wife
A mail-order bride begins to believe her husband killed his first wife and wants to kill her as well.
Episode 28 • May 3, 1965 • 1 h
Night Fever
Episode 29 • May 10, 1965 • 1 h
Off Season
A trigger-happy ex-cop gets a job as an unarmed deputy, but still has some very violent tendencies.

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Alfred Hitchcock

Self - Host

Hinton Pope

The 1st Bomb Squad Man, The 2nd Guard, The 2nd Man

Jimmy Joyce

Fingerprint Man, Photographer, Prison Orderly

Lew Brown

Al Ruben, David Carson, Detective Lanning

Robert Reiner

Mr. Brown, Pedro, the Bartender, Pete

Alice Backes

Helen Fiske, Martha Hinchley, Mrs. Tridden

Dee J. Thompson

Kelly, Miss Nelson, Miss Rice

Gail Bonney

Mrs. Harris, Mrs. Hayes, Sarah

Brendan Dillon

Bartender, Collins, Inspector Roberts

Myron Healey

Bob Blake, Dave Connor, George Foyle

Mary Scott

Laura, Sarah Norton, The Party Guest, Wanda Hatfield

Carmen Phillips

Bess Macken, Bette Rose Calder, Mary Smith, Mother Daisy

David Fresco

Brother-in-Law, Newsstand Dealer, Sam Ogle, The Waiter

John Zaremba

Mr. Meecham, Richard Anderson, The Coroner, The Judge

Doris Lloyd

Andrina Gibbs, Martha, Mother, The Callendars' Maid

Vince Williams

Newscaster, Our Hero, The Court Bailiff, The Hotel Clerk

Cathie Merchant

Frieda Little, Lola Penderwaller, Mary Masterson, The Receptionist

Sam Reese

Henry, The Barber, Martin Hendrix, Milt Marshall, Wilford Likens

Len Hendry

Mr. Horner, The Driver, The Man, The Night Watchman

Audrey Swanson

2nd Woman, Eric's Mother, The Nurse, The Office Nurse

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