The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Season 2
Season 2
Network
Episodes32
Datessept. 27, 1963 - juil. 3, 1964
Episodes
Season 2Episode 160 min
A Home Away from Home
When the inmates take over, 'Dr. Howard Fenwick' (Ray Milland), is most convincing. So convincing, in fact, that when the REAL Dr. Fenwick's niece arrives, she thinks the fake one is the real thing! Is there any way this bizarre nightmare can come to a successful ending?
sept. 27, 1963
Season 2Episode 260 min
A Nice Touch
Larry Duke is an actor making his film debut in Hollywood. He gets a phone call from his New York girlfriend Janice Brandt. She is an older woman who sacrificed her marriage and acting ambition to advance Larry's career. She tells Larry that her husband Ed followed her to New York and showed up drunk at her apartment. He was knocked unconscious in a scuffle. Larry persuades Janice to smother Ed with a pillow so that she can return to Hollywood. She agrees and reluctantly commits murder. In Hollywood, Larry informs police about the murder in New York. He then head upstairs to join his new bride, whom he married to further advance his Hollywood career.
oct. 4, 1963
Season 2Episode 360 min
Terror at Northfield
When his teenage son Tommy is found murdered in the town of Northfield, John Cooley sets out to avenge the boys death. John is a religious fanatic who believes he is on a mission from God. When he finds a piece of car headlight at the murder scene, he seeks out and kills the car's original owner Frency La Font and an elderly librarian who had some connection to the car. With all the murders, the residents of Northfield are unstandably shaken. They demand that Sheriff Will Pearce solve the case. Unfortunately, Pearce's girlfriend Susan Marsh falls under Cooley's suspicions since she bought the car from La Font. His attempt to kill her, however, is foiled at the last second by the timely arrival of Sheriff Pearce. Pearce explains that La Font murdered Tommy and confessed to it in his last will and testament.
oct. 11, 1963
Season 2Episode 460 min
You'll Be the Death of Me
During a lovers' quarrel Dandy Arthur kills his ex-girlfriend. Unfortunately, a button torn from her coats lands in his pocket during the struggle. His wife finds the button and Dandy sets out to kill her as well. Eventually, however, Dandy gives himself away by talking too much and is arrested by the police.
oct. 18, 1963
Season 2Episode 560 min
Blood Bargain
Jim Derry is a hit man who is hired to kill bookie Eddie Breech. Jim begins to have second thoughts when he finds out that Eddie's wife Connie is confined to a wheelchair and that her husband is cheating on her. Jim talks to the Breechs and agrees to help them fake Eddie's death so that Jim can get paid for the hit and the two can start over in Mexico. Jim goes to the morgue and acquires a body. He puts Eddie's wallet and wedding ring on the corpse and sets it on fire after putting it in a car. Jim gets paid for his hit but is arrested. The police found the car and believe Eddie is dead. Jim tells the police that Eddie is in Mexico. The police then bring Connie into the room. She accuses Jim of shooting Eddie the night before. Jim has been framed, as Connie killed her husband and had Jim take the fall.
oct. 25, 1963
Season 2Episode 660 min
Nothing Ever Happens in Linvale
Mrs. Logan calls Sheriff Ben Wister when she begins to believe that her neighbor Harry Jarvis killed his wife and buried her in his back yard. She notes that Harry has been acting strangely. He has been digging in the yard all night and has been drinkinf beer all day. She also notes that Mrs. Jarvis's annoying little dog has also gone missing. When the police interview him, Harry claims that his wife left him for another man. He also claims that his wife left her dog with him and that it died after an illness. The sheriff is unconvinced by Harry's explanation and gets a search warrant to dig up his back yard. When the police start digging they find a dead dog and believe Harry's story. Later, Harry visits Mrs. Logan who is in fact his secret lover. Harry did kill his wife and he and Mrs. Logan bury Mrs. Jarvis's body where the dog was once buried. They think that the police would never bother to check the dog's grave again. All goes according to plan until Sheriff Wister returns and tells them that they must dig up the dog's body since its against the law to bury dead pets in the back yard.
nov. 8, 1963
Season 2Episode 760 min
Starring the Defense
Miles Crawford is an actor-turned-lawyer. His son Tod is arrested and put on trial for murder. Tod is guilty of the crime but Miles makes an impassioned summation that manages to sway both the judge and the jury. Unfortunately, the prosecutor is a movie fan and points out that the summation was lifted word for word from one of Miles's old movies in which he played a defense attorney in a case similar to his son's.
nov. 15, 1963
Season 2Episode 860 min
The Cadaver
Medical student Skip Baxter has a drinking problem and a practical jokester for a roommate named Doc Carroll. Doc wants Skip to quit drinking and cooks up a scheme. He takes a cadaver from the medical school morgue and dresses it to look like a waitress named Ruby. He then puts it into Skip's bed as he is sleeping off a hangover. When Skip wakes up, he sees the body and becomes convinced he committed murder while drunk. He wraps the body in a rug and disposes of it. When he returns to school, he finds out that Ruby is alive and that Doc has gotten into trouble for stealing a cadaver. Skip agrees to replace the body to get Doc out of trouble. At the next anatomy class, however, the professor reveals the replacement cadaver to be the body of Doc Carroll.
nov. 29, 1963
Season 2Episode 960 min
The Dividing Wall
Fred Kruger, Al Norman, and Terry are three ex-convicts who are now gainfully employed as garage mechanics. One day, they decide to break into a payroll office. They are unable to open the safe, so the take it with them to the garage. Unfortunately, the safe contains, not only money, but also a lethal radioactive isotope which, if released, could poison the city.
déc. 6, 1963
Season 2Episode 1060 min
Goodbye, George
Academy Award hopeful Lana Layne's past comes back to haunt her when her husband George, an ex-convict who she thought was dead, wants her back. She's not interested, but if she does divorce him, he would get half of everything. Then there's Haila French, a gossip columnist who wants an exclusive story, so she surprises Lana and her boyfriend with surprising results.
déc. 13, 1963
Season 2Episode 1160 min
How to Get Rid of Your Wife
Gerald Swiney, a henpecked husband, decides to get rid of his nagging wife, Edith, when she won't agree to a divorce. He intends to drive her away by making her think he's planning to kill her, but things don't go exactly as planned.
déc. 20, 1963
Season 2Episode 1260 min
Three Wives Too Many
Brown is a chronic gambler and bigamist who starts to run out of money when his wealthy wives start turning up dead. The police suspect that he is responsible for murder, but when no evidence turns up they are forced to conclude that each death was a suicide. The real murderer is one of Brown's wives who jealously wants to keep her husband all to herself. She tells him that if he strays again she will commit suicide and she will arrange for him to be charged for her murder and the murders of his other wives.
janv. 3, 1964
Season 2Episode 1360 min
The Magic Shop
Memorable chiller Seems little Tony has extra-sensory powers when he sees a magic shop that no one else sees. Once he and Dad enter the magic shop's preternatural bubble, simple trickery gives way to the inexplicable powers of real magic, and a demonic force emerges. For the Grainger family, suburban life will never be the same.
janv. 10, 1964
Season 2Episode 1460 min
Beyond the Sea of Death
Grace Renford is a wealthy and attractive woman who is interested in meeting a man who will love her, not for her money, but for what she is. So she pretends to be a middle class woman after corresponding with a young engineer named Keith Holloway, who she met through an ad in a spiritualism magazine.
janv. 24, 1964
Season 2Episode 1560 min
Night Caller
Marcia Fowler accuses a neighborhood boy named Roy Bullock of being a peeping Tom. Roy denies it and manages to ingratiate himself with Marcia's husband, Jack, and her lonely stepson. When Marcia gets an obscene phone call she tells Jack that it was Roy, but he denies it. Later, after Jack goes away on a business trip, Marcia confronts Roy after receiving another obscene phone call and becomes fearful that Roy is crazy when he tells her that his mother was just like her.
janv. 31, 1964
Season 2Episode 1660 min
The Evil of Adelaide Winters
Near the end of World War II, a phony medium named Adelaide Winters cheats grieving families of soldiers killed in battle by pretending to communicate with ghosts. When she meets a wealthy widower named Edward Porter and finds out that his son was killed in battle, she insists that he join her seance. Edward reluctantly joins and begins to believe in Adelaide powers. Eventually, he proposes marriage to her so that the two of them can be with his son. Adelaide accepts the proposal but the honeymoon doesn't go as planned.
févr. 7, 1964
Season 2Episode 1760 min
The Jar
At a carnival sideshow, a farmer named Charlie Hill buys a strange jar, which brings him notoriety and respect in the community because people travel for miles to gather in his parlor and look at the jar and it's obscure content. But his young wife, Thedy Sue, is frightened of it and insists that he throw it out.
févr. 14, 1964
Season 2Episode 1860 min
Final Escape
Thanks to a thoughtful script and persuasive acting, the story works, though you may see the major twist coming. So how's young Paul (Byrnes) going to escape prison; after all, he's got a slick reputation to protect. Besides, the head guard (McNally) is one arrogant son of a gun, and keeps challenging Paul to just try to escape. Also, how's old broken-down inmate Doc (Keith) going to help since he sort of totters around.
févr. 21, 1964
Season 2Episode 1960 min
Murder Case
Lee Griffin is an actor who is reunited with his old girlfriend Diana at a London production of a play being financed by Diana's husband Charles Justin. Lee and Diana rekindle their old romance and hatch a plot to kill her husband who is a wealthy diamond merchant. Lee's first attempt to kill Charles fails, but he succeeds on his second try. On a trip to Paris, Lee assumes Charles's identity. Unfortunately, Charles was aware of Diana's unfaithfulness and murderer her before he was killed. He hid her body in a car which is being shipped to Paris. Customs officials find the body and Lee, who is posing as Charles, is arrested for the crime.
mars 6, 1964
Season 2Episode 2060 min
Anyone for Murder?
A professor decides to research married couples who have proclivities toward killing their spouse. So he advertises that in so many words and in a newspaper, no less. No wonder Barry Nelson as the prof keeps rolling his eyes in loopy fashion. I'm guessing such research is not part of his school's core curriculum.
mars 13, 1964
Season 2Episode 2160 min
Beast in View
After being the repeated victim of harassing phone calls, Helen Clarvoe asks a lawyer Paul Blackshear to investigate a woman named Dorothy Johnson who may be behind the calls. Dorothy blames Helen for the break-up of her wedding engagement. Paul investigates and finds the unexpected.
mars 20, 1964
Season 2Episode 2260 min
Behind the Locked Door
Newlyweds Dave and Bonnie Snowden visit the abandoned home of Bonnie's late father. In the home, Dave finds a locked door and comes to believe that there is something valuable inside. Later, Dave and Bonnie tell Bonnie's elderly mother Mrs. Daniels that they are married. Bonnie's mother is convinced that Dave is after her daughter inheritance. She tries to bribe Dave to annull the marriage. Dave refuses, but he is desperate for money. In an effort to convince Bonnie's mother of his good intentions. He convinces Bonnie to fake a suicide attempt by overdosing on sleeping pills. Dave hopes that Mrs. Daniels will see him caring for her and change her mind about him. Unfortunately, Bonnie is allergic to sleeping pills and accidently dies. After the funeral, Mrs. Daniels tells Dave that she has had a change of heart. She gives him the abandoned house. Dave heads to the home and again wonders what is behind the locked door. As he talks to himself,
mars 27, 1964
Season 2Episode 2360 min
A Matter of Murder
Sheridan Westcott kills his wife, hides it in his Rolls Royce, and heads to a nearby lake to dispose of it. While he is checking the water level in the lake, his car is stolen by a car thief named Philadelphia Harry.
avr. 3, 1964
Season 2Episode 2460 min
The Gentleman Caller
Gerald and Milly Musgrove successfully steal $100,000 dollars, but run into the problem of where to hide the money. The couple befriend an elderly and somewhat senile woman named Emmy Rice. After a visit to her home, Gerald stashes the money in a stack of old magazines. Later, he convinces the old woman to name him in her will.
avr. 10, 1964
Season 2Episode 2560 min
The Ordeal of Mrs. Snow
A elderly woman is locked in an air tight safe, with one of her cats, by her niece's fiancé when she discovers he is a forger.
avr. 17, 1964
Season 2Episode 2660 min
Ten Minutes from Now
Donnelly Rhodes (as James Bellington) Lonny Chapman (as Lt. Wymar) Lou Jacobi (as Dr. Glover) Neile Adams (as Sgt. Louise Marklen) Jess Kirkpatrick (as Thomas Grindley) Sandra Gould (as Secretary) Betty Harford (as Woman in Museum) Harold Ayer (as Salesman) Police become suspicious of an unsuccessful artist named James Bellington after a city commissioner of parks and recreation recieves a series of bomb threats. Bellington tries to met the official. Since he is carrying a box that might be a bomb, the police stop him. They discover that the box only contains art supplies. Later, at an art museum Bellington is again stopped for carry a suspicious package whcih turns out to be harmless. The police force Bellington to see a psychiatrist and Bellington tells the psychiatrist that his next bomb threat will be real. The police stop a bomb carrying Bellington at the museum. He gives everyone in the museum ten minutes to get out and they do.
mai 1, 1964
Season 2Episode 2760 min
The Sign of Satan
When the story begins, some Hollywood folks are watching a film made in Vienna and it's of a Satanic mass and starring Karl Jorla (Lee). The problem is that they think it's from a movie but it's actually from a Satanic ceremony. And, they insist that Jorla is a great actor...but he ain't acting in the film! What's next? See the episode and find out for yourself.
mai 8, 1964
Season 2Episode 2860 min
Who Needs an Enemy?
Charlie is a real jerk. After embezzling $60,000, his partner, Eddie, catches him and threatens to send Charlie to jail unless he returns the money. But Charlie feels entitled to the money because he's a sociopath...and doesn't feel the least bit of guilt about his actions. So, he tries to kill Eddie...but ends up failing miserably. So, he then decides to fake his own death...and he plans on running off to some other country with his equally mercenary girlfriend. What's next? See the show...but Charlie's solution is really, really dopey!
mai 15, 1964
Season 2Episode 2960 min
Bed of Roses
Husband George sits silently by, enduring wife Mavis's air-head blather as she flits around like a blonde butterfly. But George better keep quiet, because she's the boss's daughter entitling him to a big house, servants, and an executive position with the firm. Lovely empty-headed Mavis amounts to real tour-de- force by actress Browne. But who's that dead girl George finds in an apartment. Panicked, he leaves in a hurry along with obnoxious cab driver Kirby. Trouble is Kirby turns up later much to George's chagrin. So how will things sort out for the now besieged George
mai 22, 1964
Season 2Episode 3060 min
Second Verdict
The story begins in court. Lew is on trial for murder and his lawyer, Ned, was able to convince the jury that Lew is innocent. However, shortly after this, Lew confesses to Ned that he DID commit the murder....and he seems pretty happy about it. Well, Ned isn't happy...in fact, he's angry that he helped a scum-bag beat the system. What's next? Plenty!
mai 29, 1964
Season 2Episode 3160 min
Isabel
Howard is out walking late at night when the police stop him. Isabel Smith told the police she'd been sexually assaulted by someone and since it is late and Howard had no alibi, the police bring him in for questioning. During this time, the police do something very inappropriate...they bring in Isabel to identify Howard. The problem is that there was no lineup...no alternate suspects. And, in such a case an eye witness is less reliable. Regardless, Howard soon finds himself convicted of this assault and he goes to prison.
juin 5, 1964
Season 2Episode 3260 min
Body in the Barn
Bessie is upset because her husband died....and it might have been due to a new fence installed by her very grouchy neighbor. Through most of the rest of the episode, Bessie and this lady fight and later, Bessie becomes friends with the nasty woman's mild mannered husband. However, when he disappears, Bessie is convinced her neighbor killed her husband and she works hard to prove it. What's next? Well, a whole heck of a lot...that's for sure!!
juil. 3, 1964
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