Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Back for Christmas
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. 25:23 minutes.
All Full Episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents
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Revenge (10/2/55)
A man takes the law into his own hands when his mentally unstable wife claims she has been attacked by a mysterious man in a gray suit.
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Premonition (10/9/55)
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.
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Triggers in Leash (10/16/55)
A clever tavern owner tries to prevent a shoot-out from taking place in her restaurant.
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Don't Come Back Alive (10/23/55)
A married couple plan to scam their life insurance by having the wife fake her own disappearance.
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Into Thin Air (10/30/55)
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.
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Salvage (11/6/55)
A gangland big shot and ex-con conceives a diabolical plot to avenge the homicide of his younger brother.
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Breakdown (11/13/55)
A cruel businessman is left for dead after a car accident renders him completely paralyzed. Joseph Cotton guest stars. Hitchcock directs.
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Our Cook's A Treasure (11/20/55)
A wealthy man suspects he may have hired a serial killer as his new cook.
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The Long Shot (11/27/55)
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.
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The Case of Mr. Pelham (12/4/55)
A businessman discovers that a look-alike is impersonating him around town and trying to assume his identity.
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Guilty Witness (12/11/55)
Neighborhood snoops suspect a wife has murdered her husband, with whom she frequently quarreled.
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Santa Claus and the 10th Avenue Kid (12/18/55)
An ex-convict department store Santa has his heart set on robbery until he meets and befriends a juvenile delinquent he hopes to reform.
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The Cheney Vase (12/25/55)
A dishonest ex-curator covets a priceless vase that has been in the Cheney family for generations.
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A Bullet For Baldwin (1/1/56)
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.
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The Big Switch (1/8/56)
A gunman, bent on homicide, buys an airtight alibi in an ironic tale of fateful circumstance.
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You Got to Have Luck (1/15/56)
An escaped convict hides in a farmhouse where he holds a woman hostage--only there is something peculiar about the woman.
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The Older Sister (1/22/56)
A reporter discovers the truth about the Lizzie Borden case.
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Shopping for Death (1/29/56)
Famed writer Ray Bradbury pens this episode about two retired salesmen who propose that most murders occur in hot weather.
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The Derelicts (2/5/56)
A man with strapped finances is blackmailed after a bum witnesses him murder an old business partner.
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And So Died Riabouchinska (2/12/56)
Academy Award® nominee Claude Rains guest stars as a ventriloquist who has a somewhat unnatural relationship with his marionette.
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Safe Conduct (2/19/56)
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.
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Place of Shadows (2/26/56)
A man hunts down two swindlers who have taken all of his money and ruined his life.
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The Perfect Murder (3/11/56)
Two scheming brothers attempt to murder their aunt for her fortune.
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There Was an Old Woman (3/18/56)
A couple, desperate for cash, plan to rob a senile, old woman. Charles Bronson guest stars.
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Whodunit (3/25/56)
A slain mystery writer is given a chance in heaven to return to Earth for one day in order to solve his own murder.
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Help Wanted (4/1/56)
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.
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Portrait of Jocelyn (4/8/56)
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.
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The Orderly World of Mr. Appleby (4/15/56)
An antiques dealer stumbles upon some financial difficulty and resorts to murder as a solution to his problems.
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Never Again (4/22/56)
The insecure girlfriend of an advertising executive has too much to drink and makes a terrible mistake.
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Gentleman From America (4/29/56)
Two scheming gamblers wager with an unsuspecting American that he can't stay the whole night in a haunted manor.
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The Baby Sitter (5/6/56)
A chatty babysitter becomes the center of a domestic squabble that ends in murder.
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The Belfry (5/13/56)
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.
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The Hidden Thing (5/20/56)
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.
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The Legacy (5/27/56)
A married socialite's affair with a handsome prince ends in tragedy.
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Mink (6/3/56)
A woman buys a mink stole that lands her in the middle of an investigation involving insurance fraud and theft.
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Decoy (6/10/56)
A man falls in love with a married woman. When her husband turns up dead, he is the most obvious suspect.
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The Creeper (6/17/56)
A serial killer known as the Creeper is terrorizing the women of New York.
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Momentum (6/24/56)
A young man, prompted by his nagging wife, gets what he is owed by his boss--using all possible means. Academy Award® winner Joanne Woodward guest stars.
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Wet Saturday (9/30/56)
A schoolmaster's murder creates havoc for an unsuspecting and innocent man.
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Fog Closing In (10/7/56)
A woman's unfounded fears come to realization with deadly results.
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De Mortius (10/14/56)
An unsuspecting college professor with a promiscuous younger wife and a hole in a cellar leads to an unexpected opportunity.
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Kill With Kindness (10/21/56)
Arson for insurance money makes for an unlikely and unworthy "hero."
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None Are So Blind (10/28/56)
A greedy nephew overlooks a minor detail after murdering his wealthy aunt for her inheritance.
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Toby (11/4/56)
A reunion between childhood sweethearts does not end happily ever after.
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Conversation Over A Corpse (11/18/56)
Over tea, cookies and poison, the ownership of a home is decided.
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Crack of Doom (11/25/56)
A man stakes his job, home and life's savings on the turn of a card.
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A Little Sleep (12/2/56)
A young woman looking for excitement finds more than she bargained for.
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Jonathan (12/2/56)
A son's hatred of his step-mother has deadly results, but not for the intended victim.
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The Better Bargain (12/9/56)
A jealous and wealthy man with a much younger and cheating wife finds that some things can't be bought.
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The Rose Garden (12/16/56)
A "fictional" murder mystery turns out to be too good not to be true.
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Mr. Blanchard's Secret (12/23/56)
A woman mystery writer discovers that sometimes things aren't always as they seem.
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John Brown's Body (12/30/56)
Being forcibly committed to a rest home turns out to be just what the doctor ordered.
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Crackpot (1/6/57)
A stranger casts a threatening shadow over the honeymoon of a young couple.
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Nightmare in 4-D (1/13/57)
An older man's infatuation with a beautiful actress who lives in his apartment building ends in murder.
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My Brother, Richard (1/20/57)
A man's political aspirations for his brother have deadly results.
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The Manacled (1/27/57)
A desperate death row convict destroys his one means of escape.
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A Bottle of Wine (2/3/57)
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.
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Malice Domestic (2/10/57)
An adulterous husband, a dog and arsenic -- sometimes there is such a thing as a perfect murder.
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Number Twenty-Two (2/17/57)
An arrogant young thief makes the mistake of a lifetime.
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The End of Indian Summer (2/24/57)
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.
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One For The Road (3/3/57)
A two-timing husband, content to keep both his marriage and mistress, realizes that his life may not be so sweet after all.
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I Killed the Count - Part 1 (3/17/57)
Count Mattoni is brutally murdered and Scotland Yard Inspector Davidson must wade through a myriad of suspects.
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I Killed the Count - Part 2 (3/24/57)
The investigation into the murder of Count Mattoni continues as more suspects are identified.
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I Killed the Count - Part 3 (3/31/57)
Count Mattoni's murderer is finally unmasked but escapes justice.
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One More Mile To Go (4/7/57)
A faulty wire and a persistent policeman trip up an accidental killer.
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Vicious Circle (4/14/57)
A hitman realizes too late that perhaps his chosen profession is not one with a great deal of job security.
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The Three Dreams of Findlater (4/21/57)
After months of planning his wife's demise with the help of his imaginary girlfriend, a man's murderous machinations come to naught.
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The Night the World Ended (4/28/57)
A perpetrator of practical jokes finds out that some jokes are not so funny.
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The Hands of Mr. Ottermole (5/5/57)
The police are hampered by fog as they try to solve a rash of murders by strangulation in foggy London
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A Man Greatly Beloved (5/12/57)
A convicted murderer unwittingly redeems himself in the eyes of a 9 year-old girl.
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Martha Mason, Movie Star (5/19/57)
A woman's obsession with a movie star leads to violence and more than a little self-delusion.
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The West Warlock Time Capsule (5/26/57)
A taxidermist preserves a beloved town mascot and rids himself of his manipulative brother-in-law -- in one fell swoop.
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Father and Son (6/2/57)
An ungrateful and undeserving son manipulates his father's unswerving love, even after he betrays his father to the police.
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The Indestructible Mr. Weems (6/9/57)
A cemetery plot, a cash endowment and a dying man's will to live?
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The Dangerous People (6/23/57)
An escaped lunatic creates panic in two strangers who are waiting for a train.
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