A clever tavern owner tries to prevent a shoot-out from taking place in her restaurant. 26:10 minutes.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
(1955-1962)
FULL EPISODE:
Triggers in Leash
A young man has a disturbing premonition and returns home to discover his father has been dead for years and no one told him. With John Forsythe and Cloris Leachman.
A married couple plan to scam their life insurance by having the wife fake her own disappearance.
A young woman and her mother check into a hotel in Paris. Soon after the mother disappears without a trace. Pat Hitchcock, Alfred's daughter, guest stars.
A gambler attempts to scam a man who has hired him to tell him stories about London. Except the man isn't what he seems.
A businessman discovers that a look-alike is impersonating him around town and trying to assume his identity.
Neighborhood snoops suspect a wife has murdered her husband, with whom she frequently quarreled.
An ex-convict department store Santa has his heart set on robbery until he meets and befriends a juvenile delinquent he hopes to reform.
A dishonest ex-curator covets a priceless vase that has been in the Cheney family for generations.
After a loyal clerk is fired, he kills his boss out of desperation. Things get strange when the boss shows up to work, unharmed, on Monday morning.
A gunman, bent on homicide, buys an airtight alibi in an ironic tale of fateful circumstance.
An escaped convict hides in a farmhouse where he holds a woman hostage--only there is something peculiar about the woman.
Famed writer Ray Bradbury pens this episode about two retired salesmen who propose that most murders occur in hot weather.
A man with strapped finances is blackmailed after a bum witnesses him murder an old business partner.
Academy Award® nominee Claude Rains guest stars as a ventriloquist who has a somewhat unnatural relationship with his marionette.
A reporter crosses back into the West after interviewing an Iron Curtain dictator when a man she meets tries to smuggle something in her cleared luggage.
A man hunts down two swindlers who have taken all of his money and ruined his life.
Alfred Hitchcock directs this chilling tale of a man who murders his wife only to be caught by the nature and generosity of her Christmas present to him.
A couple, desperate for cash, plan to rob a senile, old woman. Charles Bronson guest stars.
A man gets a mysterious job in an office working alone for someone he never meets, until one day his boss appears and asks him to commit murder.
A man buys a recently finished painting that is the exact likeness of his former wife--a woman who has been missing for over four years.
An antiques dealer stumbles upon some financial difficulty and resorts to murder as a solution to his problems.
The insecure girlfriend of an advertising executive has too much to drink and makes a terrible mistake.
Two scheming gamblers wager with an unsuspecting American that he can't stay the whole night in a haunted manor.
A deranged man murders the fiancee of the girl he loves in cold blood and then hides in the belfry while the town searches for him.
After his lover is killed by a hit and run driver right in front of him, a man goes through Total Recall to remember the license plate of the killer car.
An unsuspecting college professor with a promiscuous younger wife and a hole in a cellar leads to an unexpected opportunity.
A greedy nephew overlooks a minor detail after murdering his wealthy aunt for her inheritance.
A jealous and wealthy man with a much younger and cheating wife finds that some things can't be bought.
A woman mystery writer discovers that sometimes things aren't always as they seem.
Being forcibly committed to a rest home turns out to be just what the doctor ordered.
An older man's infatuation with a beautiful actress who lives in his apartment building ends in murder.
When a judge's much younger wife leaves him for another man, the judge decides to prove to his wife that she is making a mistake with disastrous results.
An adulterous husband, a dog and arsenic -- sometimes there is such a thing as a perfect murder.
With their murderous backgrounds unbeknownst to each other, an engaged couple who have done away with 6 spouses between them may just be a perfect match.
A two-timing husband, content to keep both his marriage and mistress, realizes that his life may not be so sweet after all.
Count Mattoni is brutally murdered and Scotland Yard Inspector Davidson must wade through a myriad of suspects.
The investigation into the murder of Count Mattoni continues as more suspects are identified.
A hitman realizes too late that perhaps his chosen profession is not one with a great deal of job security.
After months of planning his wife's demise with the help of his imaginary girlfriend, a man's murderous machinations come to naught.
A perpetrator of practical jokes finds out that some jokes are not so funny.
The police are hampered by fog as they try to solve a rash of murders by strangulation in foggy London
A convicted murderer unwittingly redeems himself in the eyes of a 9 year-old girl.
A woman's obsession with a movie star leads to violence and more than a little self-delusion.
A taxidermist preserves a beloved town mascot and rids himself of his manipulative brother-in-law -- in one fell swoop.
An ungrateful and undeserving son manipulates his father's unswerving love, even after he betrays his father to the police.