In 'Presenting Alfred Hitchcock Presents,' Al Sjoerdsma is dedicated to examining each episode of the original 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents' television series, show by show in chronological order, in depth and with an eye to the popular culture of the 1950s and 1960s.
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PAHP #71: The Hands of Mr. Ottermole.
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In this installment, as the title suggests, Mr. Ottermole is a murderer who uses his hands to strangle his victims but which of our characters IS Mr. Ottermole? We won't hear his name until we hear the solution.
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PAHP #70: The Night the World Ended.
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In this installment, Johnny Gin believes the world will end in three hours, so how should he spend the rest of his life? Plus, Al picks the actor that he thinks is the best known in the episode. It is not a character you'd expect.
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PAHP #69: The Three Dreams of Mr. Findlater.
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In this installment, Ernest Findlater has three dreams. One involves Lalage, a South Sea Island woman. The other two involve the death of his wife.
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PAHP #68: Vicious Circle.
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In this installment, Manny Cole kills a man to rise in Mr. Williams' criminal organization. But they don't call it "Vicious Circle" for nothing.
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PAHP #67: One More Mile To Go.
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In this installment, Sam Jacoby murders his wife and tries to dispose of her body but is hampered by the most helpful and least helpful cop in the world. Then, Amy and Al discuss the library archives, Hitch rehearsing for his later films, and how the cop seems to have nothing else to do but follow Sam around. Al throws out some possible interpretat…
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PAHP #66: I Killed the Count, Part Three.
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In this installment, Count Mattoni is STILL dead and the list of confessed killers has expanded to four. But which one them actually did it? Then, Al engages in a little silent "Blackmail."
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PAHP #65: I Killed the Count, Part Two.
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In this installment, Count Mattoni is still dead and Inspector Davidson is still investigating but the list of confessed killers only grows longer. Then, Al pays a visit to "The Manxman."
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PAHP #64: I Killed the Count, Part One.
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It's March 12th, National Alfred Hitchcock Day! To quote the Hitchcock Festival website: "It is not the birthday or the death of Hitchcock, and it is unclear why it is celebrated on this date." But what a perfect time to present the first episode of the only multi-part story in the series. Who killed Count Mattoni? You won't find out in THIS episod…
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PAHP #63: The Cream of the Jest.
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In this installment, Charles Hannover Gresham resorts to blackmail to play a blackmailer in Wayne Campbell's new play. But that's just a taste of the cream of the jest. Then, Al flirts with "The Farmer's Wife."
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PAHP #62: One For The Road.
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In this installment, as Hitch tells us, we have a story of the eternal triangle...where two of the three are willing to commit murder. Then, Al puts on the gloves and enters "The Ring."
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PAHP #61: The End of Indian Summer.
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In this installment, insurance man Joe Rogers investigates a woman whose previous two husbands died under mysterious circumstances. And it looks like she's preparing to marry again. Then, Al indulges in a little Easy Virtue.
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PAHP #60: Number Twenty-Two.
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In this installment, Steve Morgan becomes a number...number 22...when he is arrested and enters a police line-up. Steve thinks it's a game but it is more serious than Steve thinks. Then, Al counts down from Number Twenty-Two to Number Seventeen.
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PAHP #59: Malice Domestic.
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In this installment, there's some arsenic poisoning going on in the home of Carl and Annette Borden. But who is the poisoner and who is the victim? Then, it's Downhill from there.
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PAHP #58: A Bottle of Wine.
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In this installment, the Judge invites young Wallace, who is running off with the Judge's wife, to share a bottle of wine, which he just may have poisoned. In stories pitting young and old rivals, one or the other invariably comes to a tragic end. But which one in this story?
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PAHP #57: The Manacled.
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In this installment, Stephen Fontaine is a prisoner, saddled with an "Oregon Boot," a manacle around his ankle. He is sure that he can convince police Sgt. Rockwell to free him for $50,000 but things do not go as planned.
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PAHP #56a: The Wrong Man.
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In this special installment, Al takes a look at the Hitchcock film that came out in the middle of the show's second season; a film very much like "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" in tone, look, and feeling.
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PAHP #56: My Brother Richard.
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In this installment, Richard Ross murders his brother's political rival, then can't believe that his district attorney brother doesn't appreciate it. There's nothing else to do but threaten the life of his brother's wife to make him cooperate.
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PAHP #55: Nightmare in 4D.
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In this installment, Harry has a nightmare in 4D, then helps to clean up a murder in 3D. So where does the nightmare end and reality begin?
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Presenting Alfred Hitchcock Presents #54: Crackpot.
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In this installment, newlyweds Meg and Ray encounter Mr. Moon who may be a dangerous crackpot. On the other hand, he may be something else.
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Presenting Alfred Hitchcock Presents #53: John Brown's Body.
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In this installment, how do Harold and Vera get her husband John Brown out of the way? Easy. They commit him to a rest home. But maybe that isn't the best idea.
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Presenting Alfred Hitchcock Presents #52: Mr. Blanchard's Secret.
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In this installment, Babs Fenton hasn't ever seen her new neighbor, Mrs. Blanchard, and wonders whether Mr. Blanchard has done away with her. Al and Amy completely disagree on the merits of "Mr. Blanchard's Secret" and even on whether Mr. Blanchard HAS a secret. Alfred Hitchcock directs.
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Presenting Alfred Hitchcock Presents #51: The Rose Garden.
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In this installment, Miss Julia has written a murder mystery that appears to take place in her house. Did a murder actually take place in her house, too? And, Al looks at "Dial M For Murder," which, as does this episode, features John Williams.
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Presenting Alfred Hitchcock Presents #50: The Better Bargain.
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In this installment, mobster Louis "King" Koster wants to find out who his wife's lover is so he can have him bumped off. The answer is likely more of a surprise to King than it is to us.
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Presenting Alfred Hitchcock Presents #49: Jonathan.
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In this installment, Gil wants to know how his stepmother, Rosine, managed to murder his father, Jonathan. Little does he know that he had something to do with it himself.
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Presenting Alfred Hitchcock Presents #48: Crack of Doom.
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In this installment, Mason Bridges has always been an honest man...except once when, thanks to poker, for a few hours, he was a thief. But when is a thief a thief?
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Presenting Alfred Hitchcock Presents #47: Conversation Over a Corpse.
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In this installment, Cissy's sister wants to murder Mr. Brenner. She poisons him but things are not what they seem. For one thing, Mr. Brenner isn't dead. For another, Cissy's sister isn't her sister.
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Presenting Alfred Hitchcock Presents #46: Alibi Me.
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In this installment, Georgie has bumped off his old rival Lucky and is sure to be the prime suspect unless he can come up with an alibi. But from who, Who, WHO???
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Presenting Alfred Hitchcock Presents #45: Toby.
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In this installment, Albert has prepared an apartment for his long-lost love Edwina whom he hasn't seen for twenty years, but she shows up with a baby named Toby. Or maybe not.
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Presenting Alfred Hitchcock Presents #44b: TV Guide.
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Alfred Hitchcock appeared on the cover of TV Guide magazine four different times. The first was the October 27-November 2, 1956 issue with a listing for episode 44 "None Are So Blind" and an article about Hitch. Here's a short look at that magazine.
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Presenting Alfred Hitchcock Presents #44a: Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.
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In our last installment, Hitch promoted a new magazine that would soon be the source of many episodes. Here is a look at that first issue, along with the first story to find its way from the magazine to the series.
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Presenting Alfred Hitchcock Presents #44: None Are So Blind.
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In this installment, Seymour plans to disguise himself to murder his Aunt Muriel. But there's one crucial blip in his plan that he just refuses to see.
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Presenting Alfred Hitchcock Presents #43a: Amazing Stories: The Doll.
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In this surprise installment, Al and Tom Elliott, the host of the Award-Winning "The Twilight Zone Podcast," discuss Richard Matheson's sentimental Amazing Stories tale. The surprise is that it has nothing to do with Alfred Hitchcock except that the 80s AHP was on at the same time.
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Presenting Alfred Hitchcock Presents #43: Kill with Kindness.
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In this installment, Fitz and Katherine invite the homeless Mr. Jorgy into their home. They plan to kill him but they may as well kill him with kindness.
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Presenting Alfred Hitchcock Presents #42: De Mortuis.
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In this installment, short story writer John Collier and teleplay writer Francis Cockrell put a different spin on Collier's "Back for Christmas"in which a man digs a hole in his cellar to bury his murdered wife. Here, the Prof fills a cellar hole with concrete, but has he murdered his wife? His friends think he did.…
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Presenting Alfred Hitchcock Presents #41: Fog Closing In.
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In this installment, Mary is always frightened but it is not until Ted, an escaped psychiatric patient, breaks into her home that she finds out what she actually is afraid of.
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Presenting Alfred Hitchcock Presents #40: Wet Saturday.
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In this installment, Millicent has committed murder but her father is not going to let that stand in the way of the family's reputation. Enter Captain Smollett, the perfect fall guy.
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Presenting Alfred Hitchcock Presents #39b: The Man Who Knew Too Much.
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So, it's June of 1956, you've come to the end of the first season of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" and you've seen all the repeats that are being shown through the summer. What do you do? Well, there's always that Hitchcock film starring James Stewart and Doris Day currently playing in the theaters.
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Presenting Alfred Hitchcock Presents #39a: Jack Seabrook.
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In this special installment, Al talks to Jack Seabrook, the author of "The Hitchcock Project" blog, about the AHP first season, Batman of the 1980s, author Jack Finney, and the crazy number of hits Jack's blog of the later episode "A Bottle of Wine" gets.
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Presenting Alfred Hitchcock Presents #39: Momentum.
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In this installment, Dick Paine misses all the hints that would tell him that his wife Beth has already taken care of the errand that, instead, puts him on the road to murder. It's all a bit contrived which may be why they made it the last episode of the season.
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Presenting Alfred Hitchcock Presents #38: The Creeper.
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In this installment, a mysterious killer known as the Creeper is strangling blonde women whose husbands work at night, leaving them alone. And as Ellen Grant's husband Steve realizes, "Ellen's alone and she's blonde."
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Presenting Alfred Hitchcock Presents #37: Decoy.
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In this installment, Gil Larkin is set up for murder. He is a "patsy, a fall guy, a clay pigeon." A decoy. He tries to find a witness that will clear him but instead finds the vulnerability that can accompany unrequited love.
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Presenting Alfred Hitchcock Presents #36: Mink.
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In this installment, Paula Hudson buys a mink stole at the "too good to be true" price of $400, getting her in trouble with the law. Police Sgt. Delaney wonders "What's mink got for you women, anyway?" A question with broader social ramifications than he realizes.
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Presenting Alfred Hitchcock Presents #35: The Legacy.
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In this installment, Al looks at the idle rich of Palm Beach as Prince Burhan of India romances "mousey little thing" Irene Cole, much to the surprise of their fellow visitors. But is it love? Or is it something else?
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Presenting Alfred Hitchcock Presents #34: The Hidden Thing.
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In this installment, Al looks at a Hitchcockian Shaggy Dog story as Dana Edwards uses total recall (with Arnold Schwarzenegger nowhere in sight) to track the hit and run driver who killed his fiancee. But like all Shaggy Dog stories, the ending is sure to be a letdown.
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Presenting Alfred Hitchcock Presents #33: The Belfry.
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In this installment, Clint Ringle murders Walt Norton in a jealous rage because he wants to marry Walt's fiancee, Ellie. With a posse pursuing him, Clint knows just where to hide...in the belfry on the roof of the one-room schoolhouse, where Ellie is the schoolteacher.
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Presenting Alfred Hitchcock Presents #32: The Baby Sitter.
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In this installment, the woman for whom Lottie Slocum has been baby sitting has been murdered. Lottie seems to know something but, unfortunately, she doesn't tell the police, she doesn't tell her daughter, she doesn't tell anyone...including us!
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Presenting Alfred Hitchcock Presents #31: The Gentleman From America.
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In this installment, Howard Latimer, the Gentleman From America, makes a bet that he can spend the night in a room that is supposed to be haunted. It is a room that ends up haunting him, as well as the two men with whom he wagered.
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Presenting Alfred Hitchcock Presents #30: Never Again.
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In this installment, Karen wakes up, hungover, in a strange bed. Her memory vague, she tries to piece things together only for reality to be far worse than she ever imagined. A harrowing tale of alcohol and excess with a nasty kick of an ending.
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Presenting Alfred Hitchcock Presents #29: The Orderly World of Mr. Appleby.
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In episode #18, Robert H. Harris played a man committed to preventing murder but in this installment, he is Mr. Appleby, a man committed to committing murder, all in the name of his "old curios."
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Presenting Alfred Hitchcock Presents #28: Portrait of Jocelyn.
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In this installment, Mark Halliday buys a painting for his wife, Debbie, that somehow is replaced with a portrait of his first wife, Jocelyn. So, who made the switch? And why?
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