Episode list for
"The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" (1962)

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Episode Count: 93
Season: 1 | 2 | 3
Year: 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965

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Season 1

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Season 1, Episode 1: A Piece of the Action

Original Air Date: 20 September 1962
Professional gambler Duke Marsden (Gig Young) bitterly treads in his father's footsteps, which led to tragedy. Duke's wife is cold and aristocratic, fed up with his habits. Duke's appalled when his younger brother (Robert Redford) a law student, catches the fever too - does he have Duke's ability or their father's luck ?

Season 1, Episode 2: Don't Look Behind You

Original Air Date: 27 September 1962
In the insular world of a small college, someone is attacking women in a nearby woods. A group of faculty aridly mull the situation at their regular cocktail parties. Is one of the men the attacker, is the group's beautiful Daphne (Vera Miles, the sister in Psycho (1960)) being lined up as a victim ?

Season 1, Episode 3: Night of the Owl

Original Air Date: 4 October 1962
A discharged schoolteacher desperate for cash blackmails a happy family. He knows that their youngest daughter is adopted, & comes from a tragic background - her father killed her mother, then himself. The middle-aged couple love raising their daughters in the picturesque Appalachin mountains. The husband, a forest ranger, wants to shield the daughter from taunts and gossip. The smarmy blackmailer keeps coming back for more, so the husband mulls other options and their consequences. Then the blackmailer's accomplice is found murdered deep in the pines.

Season 1, Episode 4: I Saw the Whole Thing

Original Air Date: 11 October 1962
A mystery writer named Michael Barnes (John Forsythe) is accused of causing a fatal motorcycle accident with his car. The eyewitnesses prove less than reliable, however, when he defends himself in court and shreds their testimony by demonstrating that in each case the witnesses saw only what they wanted to see rather than the actual truth. Finally, George Peabody (Billy Wells) is called in as a witness. He was the only one who really saw the whole thing. This episode marked Alfred Hitchcock's last directorial effort for television.

Season 1, Episode 5: Captive Audience

Original Air Date: 18 October 1962
A mystery novelist sends a series of weird audiotapes to his publisher. On the first tape, the author (James Mason, Humbert Humbert in "Lolita") boasts that the publisher won't be able to discern if the story he narrates is the history of an imminent murder - or a mere fantasy. The author tells of his brief marriage ending when his wife was killed after he lost control of their car. They were kissing, making up after an argument over his wife's staying out all night with a rich old man, the same evening the author was briefly with the man's alluring, young wife Janet (Angie Dickinson, "Police Woman"). Janet made a pass at the author, who immediately cut the evening short. The author says he fell into a severe depression, declined a needed brain operation, moved from France to San Francisco where he changed his name, then became a mystery writer. The tapes relate how the author eventually ran into Janet , and though she's still married, dived into an affair. When she and the author begin to plan her husband's murder, the publisher calls in another of his mystery novelists (Ed Nelson, "Peyton Place") to determine: are these tapes just an unorthodox pitch of a new novel - or the bizarre confession of a deranged killer?

Season 1, Episode 6: Final Vow

Original Air Date: 25 October 1962
On the way back to the nunnery, a beautiful novice (Carol Lynley, who did a remake of Strangers on a Train (1951): "Once You Kiss a Stranger") loses a priceless statue donated by an aging criminal, the failed protégé of the head of the nunnery. To track it down, the guilt-ridden young woman leaves the convent, and dives naively into the sleazy world where the statue may have disappeared.

Season 1, Episode 7: Annabel

Original Air Date: 1 November 1962
A disturbed man's other identity snares others in a perilous web. David is a successful, quiet young scientist - but on weekends he has an impeccable country cottage where as the confident William, he fantasizes as if actually entertaining ex-girlfriend Annabel, now happily married nearby. When his co-workers, one of whom has a crush on David, follow him up the coast, David's dream world by the sea for Annabel, morphs into a nightmare for all.

Season 1, Episode 8: House Guest

Original Air Date: 8 November 1962
An oily hero quickly makes himself unwelcome - even harder to dispose of, until he crashes his hosts' car & mashes a neighbor's wife. The unemployed stranger saved the life of a young boy, whose grateful parents welcomed the recently discharged vet into their seaside home.

Season 1, Episode 9: The Black Curtain

Original Air Date: 15 November 1962
A mugging restores the memory of a man with amnesia, who remembers he is wanted for murder.

Season 1, Episode 10: Day of Reckoning

Original Air Date: 22 November 1962
An unfaithful wife taunts her husband that she's ditching him for a real man. As the drunken couple argue on the stern of a yacht, the normally-timid husband shoves her overboard to drown. The society party-goers on the boat support his tale that the wife accidentally fell over the side that night, & the police believe the husband too. At first, he's relieved, then gradually guilt takes him over, but friends feel his panicky behavior is grief. The widower blurts the murder to his friends, but his story was so convincing they downplay his confession, not wanting to be involved in an embarrassing murder inquiry. As his internal pressure mounts, the killer desperately seeks a way out.

Season 1, Episode 11: Ride the Nightmare

Original Air Date: 29 November 1962
A perfect couple's content suburban world is interrupted by a telephone threat ("I'm going to kill you") against the cocksure husband. His past misdeeds unravel his new life, terrifying his unknowing wife.

Season 1, Episode 12: Hangover

Original Air Date: 6 December 1962
Hadley Purvis (Tony Randall), an advertising man, finds himself facing a divorce if he doesn't knock off his heavy drinking. This does little to slow him down as he continues to drink himself into an alcoholic stupor, and one morning, finds himself at home with a girl named Marian (Jayne Mansfield) that he picked up the night before.

Season 1, Episode 13: Bonfire

Original Air Date: 13 December 1962
A lonely young woman moves into her newly-deceased aunt's home in a small town. A way-too-helpful next-door neighbor becomes her guardian angel. He's a lay preacher, who's determined not to go back to being a coal miner.

Season 1, Episode 14: The Tender Poisoner

Original Air Date: 20 December 1962
An executive plans to end an associate's love affair and save the man's career and marriage.

Season 1, Episode 15: The Thirty-First of February

Original Air Date: 4 January 1963

Season 1, Episode 16: What Really Happened

Original Air Date: 11 January 1963
A woman stands trial for her wealthy husband's murder. Her vengeful mother-in-law is convinced that she did it, but a family servant knows the key to what really happened.

Season 1, Episode 17: Forecast: Low Clouds and Coastal Fog

Original Air Date: 18 January 1963
A beautiful young newlywed (Inger Stevens) is wary of her much-older husband's business trip leaving her alone in their beach house. A group of beach boys and a neighboring screenwriter provide her some company, unwanted by the husband. When an Hispanic man knocks on her door at night asking for help, she turns him away, leading to tragic consequences.

Season 1, Episode 18: A Tangled Web

Original Air Date: 25 January 1963
David Chesterman (Robert Redford) is kissing his family's French maid when his mother returns to their mansion. His mother immediately fires Marie, so young David counters he's leaving with her, to be married. Snorting that she won't be at the wedding, mother trickles 60 cents from her purse to the floor, for a wedding gift. Marie (Zohra Lampert) loves hot-tempered David, so she embraces the off-the-cuff proposal - and the immediate problems which come with it. David's friend Karl is charmed by Marie and eager to fill in jobless David's resume gaps for her: David is a professional jewel thief, who served a year in prison. Karl, a Beverly Hills wigmaker, omits his role in David's profession: Karl (Barry Morse, Inspector Gerard in "The Fugitive") cases his customers, then sics David on them. The older Karl's been divorced 4 times, so Marie's self-sacrificing love for David, turns Karl's bitterness into a consuming jealousy.

Season 1, Episode 19: To Catch a Butterfly

Original Air Date: 1 February 1963
At first, a childless young couple (Diana Hyland, Bradford Dillman) are thrilled to relocate for the husband's new executive job, and especially happy with their new home. Is the next-door neighbor boy's cruelty to them just a youngster rebelling against his blue-collar, strict father (Ed Asner) ? The husband's empathy for the boy drives a dangerous wedge into their marriage.

Season 1, Episode 20: The Paragon

Original Air Date: 8 February 1963
A man tries to stop is insensitive wife from alienating their family and friends.

Season 1, Episode 21: I'll Be Judge -- I'll Be Jury

Original Air Date: 15 February 1963
Relatives of a murdered newlywed decide to bring the killer to justice themselves.

Season 1, Episode 22: Diagnosis: Danger

Original Air Date: 1 March 1963

Season 1, Episode 23: The Lonely Hours

Original Air Date: 8 March 1963
A mother of three notices that her baby son fascinates the lady renting a room in her home.

Season 1, Episode 24: The Star Juror

Original Air Date: 15 March 1963
After killing a woman, a man is chosen to be a juror for the trial of the man accused of her murder.

Season 1, Episode 25: The Long Silence

Original Air Date: 22 March 1963
"Let's keep it within the family" instructs Mr. Manson, after an audit reveals $200,000 embezzled from the family bank he married into. The money was pilfered from accounts of his stepson Robbie, the bank loan officer, who's missing. Late that night, Robbie returns to the Manson family mansion, just as Manson (Michael Rennie, The Day the Earth Stood Still) is fleeing with a packed suitcase. Robbie holds a bag too, filled with documents from out-of-town which prove Manson stole the money. When Robbie refuses to let him get away, Manson clamps his hand over Robbie's mouth, begging him to listen. Robbie suffocates, so Manson doctors the crime scene to look like a suicide by hanging. Manson's typing a fake suicide note awakens Robbie's mother, who accuses her husband of killing Robbie. Manson shoves her down a staircase, bringing everyone else running. She lives, paralyzed, unable to speak. Everyone hopes she'll recover, except Manson, who stays by her side...

Season 1, Episode 26: An Out for Oscar

Original Air Date: 5 April 1963
Mousey bank teller Oscar Blenny (Larry Storch, F Troop), a guest at a desert casino, is enamored with Eva, a seductive casino hostess, who's happily juggling 2 male co-workers. With the sinister Bill (Henry Silva) she's conniving to ripoff the casino. When her boss discovers she's two-timing him, their confrontation turns violent and she kills her boss. Realizing that Oscar's just outside, she screams, so schlemiel Oscar can corroborate her damsel-in-self-defense tale. The casino owner limits the publicity damage, by firing Eva and exiling Bill, who drops Eva cold, to Mexico. Eva cadges a ride to L.A. with Oscar and soon they are wed. When Oscar is nominated for a promotion, slovenly drunken Eva is a big liability, especially when Bill resurfaces in L.A. Does Eva kill Bill, will Bill reveal all about Eva, or will Oscar decline the award ?

Season 1, Episode 27: Death and the Joyful Woman

Original Air Date: 12 April 1963
The secretary of a wine baron murders when her dream of marrying him is shattered.

Season 1, Episode 28: Last Seen Wearing Blue Jeans

Original Air Date: 19 April 1963
A vacationing British family is on the Arizona border with Mexico when their teenage daughter mistakes a criminal's stolen car for her family's and goes to sleep in the backseat. Not realizing she is there, the criminal drives the car to Mexico, where the girl witnesses a murder. When the parents realize their daughter is missing, they return to the diner in an attempt to locate her, but corrupt police forces on both sides of the border conspire to keep the daughter from her parents. A handful of honest citizens on both sides of the border try to help, but with the daughter knowing the truth about the car theft business, the criminals must keep her from reuniting with her parents. It's always good to see James Anderson, and here he plays a pivotal role in the effort to keep the parents from the daughter.

Season 1, Episode 29: The Dark Pool

Original Air Date: 3 May 1963
After an adopted son drowns, a strange woman arrives claiming to be the boy's birth mother and proceeds to blackmail the adoptive mother.

Season 1, Episode 30: Dear Uncle George

Original Air Date: 10 May 1963
A neighbor's letter about an unfaithful wife disturbs an advice columnist.

Season 1, Episode 31: Run for Doom

Original Air Date: 17 May 1963
"Our love affair was too hot" coos lounge singer Nickie, heating up quickly when young Dr. Reed beckons her to his table. Her menacing combo leader Floyd warns the handsome physician off, but keeps his cool - his "boomerang baby" (Diana Dors) returned after each of 3 brief, lucrative marriages. The news that she's giving the physician's huge diamond a trial run (just to make Floyd jealous), kills Dr. Reed's father. Because naive Dr. Reed (John Gavin, Reagan's first Ambassador to Mexico) zooms from struggling to loaded, Nickie seizes his proposal. On their honeymoon voyage Nickie has a fling with an army officer, and when her drunken, seasick cuckold stumbles into them, their fight ends with the lover overboard. Blackmailing her husband for murder seems to deal Nickie an unbeatable hand. Dr. Reed looks ready to chuck in his cards, but the jilted pianist is hard to back off.

Season 1, Episode 32: Death of a Cop

Original Air Date: 24 May 1963
A remorseful detective vows to find the men who killed his son, who was also a cop.

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Season 2

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Season 2, Episode 1: A Home Away from Home

Original Air Date: 27 September 1963
An patient at a mental hospital kills the head doctor and takes over, replacing the staff with fellow patients. Things get complicated when the niece of the real doctor makes an unexpected visit.

Season 2, Episode 2: A Nice Touch

Original Air Date: 4 October 1963
A successful Hollywood actor convinces his lover to kill her abusive husband, then makes a phone call.

Season 2, Episode 3: Terror at Northfield

Original Air Date: 11 October 1963
A small-town is rocked by a series of murders which begins with the killing of a local farmer's son.

Season 2, Episode 4: You'll Be the Death of Me

Original Air Date: 18 October 1963
A woman becomes the target of her murderous spouse after she finds a button from one of his victims.

Season 2, Episode 5: Blood Bargain

Original Air Date: 25 October 1963
Racketeer Harney gives Derry (Kiley) a contract to hit Breech (Long), whose wife Connie (Francis) is a paraplegic. Derry meets Connie, helping her to play a bar jukebox. Sympathizing with Connie, Derry decides, for a price, to fake Breech's death by buying a mortuary corpse and staging an automobile smash-up. Derry expects Breech and Connie to abscond to Mexico City. Instead, Connie murders her husband, then tells police that Derry shot him. Connie's paralysis was caused by Breech, an inveterate philanderer.

Season 2, Episode 6: Nothing Ever Happens in Linvale

Original Air Date: 8 November 1963
A sheriff investigates the disappearance of the wife of a man who has been acting suspiciously.

Season 2, Episode 7: Starring the Defense

Original Air Date: 15 November 1963
Miles Crawford, a former movie star, is now a successful attorney. When his young son Tod is charged with first degree murder, he hires the best criminal lawyer, then convinces Tod that he should represent him at trial. His closing argument is an impassioned performance, bringing applause from spectators. Then the judge calls the attorneys into his chambers. The prosecutor discovered that Miles gave the identical speech in a movie, and the movie is replayed in camera, including the closing scene when the boy is executed. The jury finds Tod guilty. The judge sentences him to life, but recommends early parole.

Season 2, Episode 8: The Cadaver

Original Air Date: 29 November 1963
Medical student Doc Carroll decides to play a practical joke on his drunken roommate, Skip. He plants a cadaver from the medical school in Skip's bed and convinces him he killed their friend, Ruby. The joke works much better than Doc had hoped.

Season 2, Episode 9: The Dividing Wall

Original Air Date: 6 December 1963
A wall separating the innocent from the guilty is perilously breached when ex-cons mistakenly steal radioactive cobalt, then abandon it. Thinking the cobalt container hides industrial diamonds, they open it in their front, an auto repair shop, endangering the neighborhood. As they lie low, before fleeing to Mexico, only the youngest of the trio is concerned about the neighbors, especially a female shopkeeper he cares for (Katharine Ross, The Graduate). Fear mounts, as the mechanic (Norman Fell, 3's Company) who pried open the Pandora's box, grows ill, and the FBI tracks the radioactivity.

Season 2, Episode 10: Good-Bye, George

Original Air Date: 13 December 1963
The husband of a successful actress, thought for years to be dead, suddenly returns and demands money. Things get complicated as she accidentally kills him when he attacks her.

Season 2, Episode 11: How to Get Rid of Your Wife

Original Air Date: 20 December 1963
Gerald Swinney's wife Edith is a termagant who won't give him a divorce, so he devises a scheme to get rid of her. He makes everyone believe that he might commit suicide, then puts rats in the kitchen. When Edith buys rat poison, Gerald gives her a note that sounds suicidal, entrapping her into trying to poison him. She reports his death, but the police are surprised to find him sleeping in bed. When Edith is sentenced to five years for attempted murder, Gerald visits Rosie, a sex kitten that was part of his scheme, and they make a date. Unfortunately, Gerald is apprehended before he can make the date by the lonely woman who sold him the rats.

Season 2, Episode 12: Three Wives Too Many

Original Air Date: 3 January 1964
Raymond Brown has wives in Baltimore, Newark, Hartford, and Boston. His wealthiest wife (Teresa Wright) is also the oldest, and she visits the other wives, killing each by lacing a drink with cyanide, so that Brown will be all hers. When Brown discovers her treachery, he threatens to tell the police, but she reminds him that he is a bigamist with a motive for the murders.

Season 2, Episode 13: The Magic Shop

Original Air Date: 10 January 1964
Steven Grainger gives his son Tony money for his birthday, and takes the little boy to a remote magic store in town, where Tony can spend his money. The owner, Mr. Dulong, sees a promising future in the youngster, and offers to teach him all he knows about "real" magic. Tony's eyes fill with delight and stepping into a cabinet, he promptly disappears. Dulong then vanishes as well, leaving Mr. Grainger stranded in the streets, searching for his son. Strangely enough, the magic shop has vanished, along with Tony.

Season 2, Episode 14: Beyond the Sea of Death

Original Air Date: 24 January 1964
An heiress finally finds a young man who loves her for herself instead of her money. After he dies in a Bolivian mine explosion, she tries to regain contact with him through an Indian mystic.

Season 2, Episode 15: Night Caller

Original Air Date: 31 January 1964
Marcia Fowler is sunbathing in her backyard when she spots a new neighbor, Roy Bullock, eyeing her. Frightened, she calls the police, who take her to the Bullock house and warn Roy not to be a peeping Tom. Marcia also asks her husband Jack to admonish Roy, but Jack finds Roy to be friendly. Roy befriends 12-year-old Stevey Fowler. Marcia begins getting obscene telephone calls, and blames them on Roy. When Jack and Stevey take a flight to San Francisco, Roy visits Marcia to leave a gift for Stevey, and to chide Marcia for her infidelity. Fearful, Marcia grabs a pistol and kills Roy. The phone rings; it is the crank caller.

Season 2, Episode 16: The Evil of Adelaide Winters

Original Air Date: 7 February 1964
Adelaide Winters was trained by her colleague and admirer, McBain, to fleece the aggrieved parents of war casualties by pretending to communicate with the dearly departed. They pick their marks from the newspaper, based upon the affluence of their addresses. Adelaide is so convincing to Edward Porter that he wants her to live with him, and invoke the spirit of his son full-time. McBain warns Adelaide that it is time to move on, but she wants to marry Porter for his money. Porter, however, seeks to expedite reunion with his son, and shoots Adelaide first, then turns the gun on himself.

Season 2, Episode 17: The Jar

Original Air Date: 14 February 1964
A carnival barker sells a jar containing a mysterious, hairy, octopus-like mass to Charlie Hill of Wilder's Hollow for $12.25. He shows it to his wife Thedy, who hates it. Soon everyone from miles around comes to look at the jar and wonder what is inside. Trudy and her paramour, Tom Carmody, conspire with Jahdoo, paying him $1 to steal the jar and shatter it at Heron Swamp. Charlie hurries to the swamp, but gets trapped in quicksand. Jahdoo speculates on the contents of the jar before rescuing Charlie and returning the jar. When Charlie gets home, Thedy tries to break the jar with a spoon. Charlie grabs the spoon and nearly attacks Thedy with it, so she runs away. When she comes back, she says that she visited the carnival, and the carny boss told her the jar is full of junk--wire, clay, paper, cotton, yarn, inner tube, doll's eyes, and silk. Thedy says she will tell everyone, but Charlie likes his new popularity. He strangles Thedy, and puts her head in the jar.

Season 2, Episode 18: Final Escape

Original Air Date: 21 February 1964
A young convict at a state prison work camp plans a clever escape with the help of an alcoholic fellow prisoner, who is also the camp doctor.

Season 2, Episode 19: Murder Case

Original Air Date: 6 March 1964
A struggling actor auditioning in London learns that his actress-girlfriend who dumped him is married to the play's backer, a rich diamond merchant. They soon rekindle their romance and and plan to get her out of her marriage.

Season 2, Episode 20: Anyone for Murder?

Original Air Date: 13 March 1964
James Parkerson is a professor and dean of psychology. He places a classified ad in the newspaper offering to help husbands and wives who want to be relieved of their spouses, ostensibly to conduct research. The editor calls him into the newspaper office for a meeting with a police detective, who suspects him of offering murder for hire. The ad is discontinued, but he receives 20 responses. The first responder is Bingham, a real hit man, who wants all of Parkerson's referrals. The second responder is Robert Johnson, with whom Doris Parkerson is having an adulterous affair. Bingham plans to kill Mrs. Parkerson, but Johnson gets in the way.

Season 2, Episode 21: Beast in View

Original Air Date: 20 March 1964
An attorney helps a client threatened by an unstable woman who blames her for a broken wedding engagement.

Season 2, Episode 22: Behind the Locked Door

Original Air Date: 27 March 1964
Dave Snowden (James MacArthur) elopes with wealthy Bonnie Daniels (Lynn Loring), and they break into the abandoned old estate where Bonnie grew up. As they wonder what is behind a locked door on the upper floor, they stumble upon Bonnie's mother, Mrs. Daniels (Gloria Swanson). Mrs. Daniels always protected Bonnie--who was sickly and plain in her childhood--against gold-digging suitors. She annuls the marriage, because Bonnie's true age is only 17. A month later, when Bonnie reaches majority, she rejoins Dave, and they consummate nuptials, but Mrs. Daniels snubs them, and will not release Bonnie's trust fund until she is 25. Dave convinces Bonnie to attempt suicide with sleeping pills, in order to convince her mother that she loves Dave. Although she takes only 4 pills, Bonnie dies, because of a history of rheumatic disease. After the funeral, as an apparent gesture of goodwill, Mrs. Daniels grants Dave the childhood estate. Dave proclaims that he only married Bonnie for her money. Mrs. Daniels, hiding in the house, overhears Dave's admission, then watches as he enters the locked door, behind which is an unfinished elevator shaft. Dave plunges to the bottom of the shaft, becoming paralyzed. He begs Mrs. Daniels to save him, but she just tosses the house keys down to him, and closes the door.

Season 2, Episode 23: A Matter of Murder

Original Air Date: 3 April 1964
A notorious but ethical auto thief and his gang steal a Rolls-Royce, unaware that the trunk contains the body of a murdered who's been murdered by her husband.

Season 2, Episode 24: The Gentleman Caller

Original Air Date: 10 April 1964
Gerald Musgrove shoots and kills a night watchman while stealing $100,000 from a bank. On the street nearby, while eluding police, he meets elderly Emmy Rice, and befriends her. Since he is on parole, he must launder the loot, so he stows it in some of Emmy's old magazines. Gerald then prods impoverished Emmy into writing a will, awarding all money found in her apartment to himself. He tries to murder Emmy three times, but she survives, and arranges for the arrest of Milly Musgrove for attempting to gas her to death. Gerald is apprehended too, when he realizes that Emmy gave all her magazines to a junk collector, and blurts admissions of guilt. Emmy, however, kept one magazine in cold storage, containing all of the purloined bills.

Season 2, Episode 25: The Ordeal of Mrs. Snow

Original Air Date: 14 April 1964
Bruce Richmond marries Laura (Jessica Walter), daughter of wealthy Adelaide Snow. Laura must wait another year for her inheritance, so Bruce forges a $1,200 check of Adelaide's. When Adelaide finds out, Bruce locks her in her home financial vault, and tells Laura that her mother went to Connecticut. Laura wonders who is taking care of Adelaide's cats, then discovers the forged check Bruce is hiding. She hops in her car to head home, but Bruce spots her, and comes along. Thanks to the cats, Laura finds Adelaide, who is still alive.

Season 2, Episode 26: Ten Minutes from Now

Original Air Date: 1 May 1964
The Commissioner of Recreation & Parks receives three life-threatening letters in one week, complaining about the method by which art is selected for museum display. When James Bellington enters City Hall with a breadbox-sized package and runs from a lobby policeman, he is apprehended, but the parcel only contains an alarm clock. Bellington is sent to Dr. Glover, a psychiatrist, who labels him a paranoid with homicidal or suicidal tendencies. Bellington delivers two shoeboxes to the art museum, but shows the bomb squad that they only contain art supplies. In a bistro, he tells an undercover policewoman that he plans to bring a dangerous device to the museum. When he arrives with his finger on a button atop a box possibly filled with explosive, police clear the museum. Then Bellington rendezvous with his confederates, art thieves, who have already replaced five paintings with his forgeries.

Season 2, Episode 27: The Sign of Satan

Original Air Date: 8 May 1964
A group of studio executives and a leading lady (Gia Scala) view a screening of a black mass, and are impressed by the performance of Karl Jorla. They want him for the lead in their next horror picture, so they fly him into Hollywood from France. They need to arrange for publicity but Jorla refuses, saying that the film they observed was of him as the real-life arch-priest of a group of devil worshipers who will track him down and kill him. The studio tries to protect him, but he trusts no one. He disappears, then suddenly emerges three days later in a scene with the leading lady, cryptically mumbling the address in Topanga Canyon where he may be located. The police find his murdered corpse, but an autopsy reveals that he has been dead for at least three days.

Season 2, Episode 28: Who Needs an Enemy?

Original Air Date: 15 May 1964
Eddie Turtin discovers that his friend and business partner, Charlie Osgood, has fraudulently defalcated at least $60,000 from their company, and warns him that if he does not repay the money promptly, criminal charges will be pressed that should result in a 35-year prison sentence. Charlie concocts a plan with his girlfriend Danielle to fake his death, placing a dummy in public view on a pier. The dummy appears to jump suicidally, then a violent explosion destroys the body. Charlie and Danielle plan to abscond with $89,000 stowed in a company filing cabinet. Charlie meets Danielle to collect the stash, then they celebrate with a bottle of Eddie's liquor. Danielle is now in cahoots with Eddie, and the liquor is poisoned. Eddie and Danielle return to the same pier to dispose of Charlie.

Season 2, Episode 29: Bed of Roses

Original Air Date: 22 May 1964
George Maxwell takes a cab for a late-night meeting with his old girlfriend, showgirl Adele Beaumont, only to discover that she is dead. The next morning her murder is front-page news. The cab driver, Sam Kirby, remembers Maxwell, because he couldn't break a $20 bill. Kirby comes to his office, and makes a blackmail demand. He tells his wife Mavis about the threat, and she tells him to set up a meeting with Kirby at the house. When she offers Kirby a molasses cookie, she pulls a pistol from the plate, and kills Kirby. George and Mavis plant Kirby's body in a new rose tree bed. Then Mavis reveals that she killed Adele. Next morning in his office, his secretary, Ms. Hinchley, asks for a raise, and for more personal attention. She has a tape recording of Maxwell's conversation with Kirby, because Mavis' father, company president Alva Hardwicke, put a bug in the office. Maxwell immediately calls his wife, and tells her to prepare the garden for another bed of roses.

Season 2, Episode 30: The Second Verdict

Original Air Date: 29 May 1964
Attorney Ned Murray wins traveling salesman Lew Rydell a not guilty verdict in a murder trial. An hour later, Rydell tells Murray that he murdered the delivery boy, because he flirted with his wife, Melanie. Murray wants justice and threatens to go to the D.A., contrary to the admonishments of his senior partner, Mr. H.E. Osterman, and Osterman's daughter, Karen, Murray's fiancée. Murray also confronts Melanie about Lew's guiltiness, inflaming Lew's jealousy. Murray has a friend, Tony Hardeman, who offers to personally administer capital punishment to Lew. Murray discusses the case with Judge Arthur, and decides to leave Lew alone, but rushes to the Rydell apartment, only to discover that Lew has killed Tony. Murray offers to defend Lew in his next murder trial.

Season 2, Episode 31: Isabel

Original Air Date: 5 June 1964
After serving a prison sentence, a man romances the woman whose false testimony got him convicted.

Season 2, Episode 32: Body in the Barn

Original Air Date: 3 July 1964
The Wilkins put up a fence, which causes the next-door neighbor to fall from a seaside cliff, presumably dying, although his body is not found. Samantha Wilkins is a shrew who owns a large estate, and henpecks her husband Henry. Henry befriends the old neighbor woman Bessie Carnby and her daughter, Camilla, who invite him for dinner, but he never shows. A quick-lime decimated body is discovered in the Wilkins barn, and it is identified as Henry, so Samantha is hung for murder. On the night after the execution, Henry reappears, and soon announces his betrothal to Camilla. Bessie blames Henry for his wife's execution, and disowns him, but now fears for her life. She notifies the sheriff that her new son-in-law may poison her with morphine, then she poisons herself, so Henry is also executed for murder. Just as the execution is consummated, a suicide note from Bessie is discovered.

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Season 3

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Season 3, Episode 1: Return of Verge Likens

Original Air Date: 5 October 1964
After his father is murdered by a politician and gets away with it, a young man is determined to get revenge.

Season 3, Episode 2: Change of Address

Original Air Date: 12 October 1964
Keith Hollands finds a beach house for lease, but his wife Elsa hates it. Nevertheless, Keith tries to convince the previous owner to sell. Elsa sees beautiful Rachel strolling in the surf, but doesn't know that Rachel is the object of her husband's desire. Keith digs a trench in the cellar, ostensibly to eliminate dampness, but instead uses it to bury Elsa. Soon three policemen arrive. Two dig in the cellar, while their sergeant explains to Keith that Elsa informed them that the body of the previous owner's wife must be buried in the cellar, since her mail was not being forwarded.

Season 3, Episode 3: Water's Edge

Original Air Date: 19 October 1964
Rusty Connors is a prison cellmate with Mike Krause, who tells Rusty all about his girlfriend Helen. Mike becomes ill with pneumonia, and reveals to Rusty on his deathbed that a stash of $56,000 is with his dead accomplice, Pete Taylor. When he is released, Rusty goes to Hanesville and courts Helen, while attempting with her help to find the loot. They finally go to a boat house on a lake, populated by rats. Rusty finds Pete's skeleton, and the money, in a crawl space above the ceiling. Rusty tries to grab a rock to do Helen in, but Helen beats him to the punch, knocking him out with a prying iron and tying him up. Before Helen leaves, Rusty manages to kick her, and she falls, impaled fatally on a pole. Rusty futilely tries to untie his restraints as the rats pile on his body.

Season 3, Episode 4: The Life Work of Juan Diaz

Original Air Date: 26 October 1964
Young Juan Diaz gives cemetery caretaker Alejandro 40 pesos to rent a burial plot. He soon falls fatally ill, and warns his wife, Maria, to not let Alejandro cheat her out of the two-year lease for which he paid. One year later, Alejandro asks Maria for more money, or he will disinter Juan's mummy and place it in the catacomb. Maria and her son Jorge sneak into the catacomb, and frighten Alejandro as they walk Juan's mummy out of the cemetery. Alejandro asks Ricardo, the Chief of Police and Maria's brother-in-law, to confiscate Juan's mummy from the Diaz home, but Ricardo refuses. Maria puts Juan's mummy on display as a tourist attraction.

Season 3, Episode 5: See the Monkey Dance

Original Air Date: 9 November 1964
During a brief train stop, George disembarks to call a wife and arrange a two-day rendezvous. When he returns to his booth, a stranger provokes him into conversation. George reveals where he lives, but the stranger claims to reside at the same location. After George gets home, the stranger arrives and begins to dig a grave. The stranger leads George to believe that the grave is for him, because George has been cheating with his wife. The stranger shows George a letter signed by George that was in the wife's possession. George demonstrates that it was not his handwriting, and they realize that the wife wants them both dead. The stranger suggests that when the wife arrives, George should loosen her wheel, so that she will have a fatal accident when descending from their mountain road. The car crashes. The stranger now denies that he is the husband, and suggests that he is just another of the wife's lovers. He advises George to bury the evidence of their crime and fill in the grave, then flees. While George is still standing in the grave, the police arrive.

Season 3, Episode 6: Lonely Place

Original Air Date: 16 November 1964
Stella is serving her peach farmer husband Emery a big breakfast when a squirrel appears on the front window screen. She fondles the rodent and gives it food and water, then spots a tramp walking down the public dirt road near their home. Emery says that he has plenty of peaches to pick, and the going wage in the valley is $6 per day, but he might get this tramp to work for $5/day. Emery invites the tramp inside, and offers him three dollars a day plus board and a place in the back yard. The tramp, who says his name is Jesse with no middle or last name, hires on. Jesse gobbles down his breakfast, using a big knife to slice a tomato and some bread. Stella asks him to put the knife away. Jesse asks Stella whether the fat squirrel outside is a pet. She says that it is. He replies that he could kill it so she could make stew for supper. A few minutes later, she hears Jesse's laughter in the yard, rushes outside to find her pet squirrel lying dead, and screams. Jesse claims the squirrel attacked him, and Emery buries it. The men fill their picking baskets with peaches, and Stella transfers the peaches to crates which are stacked on the truck. After a long day and supper, Emery tells Stella that he will take the peaches to the cannery first thing next morning. She says that she wants to go along, and stay at the hotel in town until Jesse leaves, because she is afraid of him. Emery convinces Stella to stay, but the next morning, while Stella provides a breakfast of flapjacks to Jesse, he says that many people are afraid of him, and he likes it that way, especially women, who never invite him and always tell him to get away. In the orchard, Stella overhears Jesse telling Emery that he killed the squirrel because he hates animals, and Emery sympathizes. That evening, after picking three truckloads of peaches, Jesse is tired, as is Stella, who, according to Emery, has cooked her first bad meal in twelve years of marriage. Stella goes to bed before washing the dishes, and Jesse leaves for his bed after supping. In the front room, Emery puts a country music station on the radio to get the weather report, but falls asleep. Stella packs her suitcase and sneaks out the back window. Jesse is waiting for her, grabs her, and threatens her with his knife. Stella screams, but Emery continues to sleep, as the weather report warns of a cold front with thunderclouds, hail, and lightning. Jesse yells that Emery is a slave-driver and tightwad, yet so afraid that he is completely under Jesse's command. Stella manages to grab the knife, and Jesse absconds, taking the truck loaded with peaches. Stella enters the house and wakens Emery. She tells him that Jesse left with the truck, so they should call the police, but he mutters that it is no use, because the thunderstorm will wipe out the crop. Stella realizes then that Emery was awake while Jesse attacked her. Emery laments that he thought that she could handle Jesse, whereas Jesse would probably kill him, and he needed this hired hand who did the work of two men. Mortified, Stella gets Jesse's knife, and kills her husband. She calls the sheriff and reports that Jesse murdered Emery and stole the truck. Then she finishes the dishes.

Season 3, Episode 7: The McGregor Affair

Original Air Date: 23 November 1964
Edinburgh, Scotland, March 1827: John McGregor works all day to support his wife, Aggie, a fat drunk who sleeps incessantly, snoring, and has not left their cottage in two years. He does a lot of hauling for Hare, whom he suspects of being a resurrectionist, who digs up bodies to supply to medical schools. McGregor notes that some people who enter Hare's hotel never walk out again. McGregor is unhappy, and imagines killing his wife via bashing her head with a stone, drowning, and hanging, but realizes that none of those routes would be successful. One day he picks up another box of tanbark from Burke and Hare to deliver to Dr. Knox's medical museum. Knox says that he needs all of the tanbark to "spread around." McGregor notices a shock of human hair hanging from the box, and opens it with his pocket knife. He sees that the box contains the body of Elsie, the match vendor who was alive and well yesterday, frolicking in the spring countryside with Tommy Lad. McGregor decides to make Aggie his next cargo, so buys many bottles of whiskey, and serves them to Aggie. When she is inebriated, he leaves her on a bench outside Hare's hotel. Hare and Burke hear her snoring, and she is soon dispatched. The next day, McGregor asks Burke whether he has another load of tanbark, and Burke complies, but he asks McGregor to tell Knox that he will visit soon to discuss a new price for tanbark. Burke is surprised when McGregor refuses a double fee for the oversize load, instead asking for the regular rate. When Knox receives the box, he flips the usual coin to McGregor as a tip, and is perplexed when McGregor rejects it. McGregor is now lonely, and imagines that Aggie is still lying in her bed. He invites the new match seller, comely Rosie, into his dwelling, but becomes enraged when she lies in Aggie's bed, and scares Rosie away. He returns to the medical museum, and asks Knox to let him see the body that he delivered one last time. Knox tells Burke about McGregor's visit. When McGregor's liberation celebration renders him intoxicated, Burke produces another cadaver, which a new hauler brings to the medical college.

Season 3, Episode 8: Misadventure

Original Air Date: 7 December 1964

Season 3, Episode 9: Triumph

Original Air Date: 14 December 1964
Two new missionaries, the Spragues, arrive at the Fitzgibbons' medical mission in the Indian jungle. John Sprague is a physician and Lucy a nurse. Mary Fitzgibbons suspects that they were sent to check up on them, and that they want the mission for themselves. Thomas Fitzgibbons is not medically competent, and Mary must perform difficult procedures for him. When John leaves to attend to a cholera outbreak, Thomas takes Lucy for an evening canoe ride on the river. They discuss philosophy and her beauty. Mary sees them together, and becomes jealous. Early in the morning, she grabs a scalpel and enters Lucy's bedroom. A piercing scream resounds. A messenger is sent to inform John of his wife's sudden death from cholera. He rushes back, but the Fitzgibbons have gone down-river for several days. He asks the Indian employees to help find the grave of his wife, which was hidden to prevent the spread of cholera, because he suspects that she was not a cholera victim. When he opens the coffin, he is startled at the sight. He takes a jeep to catch up with the Fitzgibbons. When he spots them in the canoe, he fires repeatedly at Thomas and the woman that he believes killed his wife, felling both of them and capsizing the boat. The woman is shrouded, as Mary customarily dressed to avoid insects. John turns her head and sees that it is Lucy.

Season 3, Episode 10: Memo from Purgatory

Original Air Date: 21 December 1964
The teleplay was adapted by Harlan Ellison from his autobiographical story "The Gang", which appears in his book "Memos from Purgatory". Fresh college graduate and wannabee writer Jay Shaw (James Caan) moves to early 1950's New York and decides that if he's going to write fiction about juvenile delinquent gangs, he'd better learn what they are really like. Becoming tough-guy Phil Beldone, he moves to a rough section of Brooklyn and seeks to join the Barons, a violent youth gang led by Tiger (Walter Koenig). During his three-step initiation into the gang, he gains Tiger's trust and respect and begins to fall in love with one of the gang's "debs". However, he makes an enemy of the gang's second-in-command, and risks exposure of his true identity.

Season 3, Episode 11: Consider Her Ways

Original Air Date: 28 December 1964
Dr. Jane Waterleigh wakes to find herself in an obese body, having just given birth to her fourth baby, and is called "Mother Orchis" and "Mother 417" by an all-female medical staff. The other Mothers, all of whom are corpulent and much larger than their helpers, the Servitors, tell Jane that there are no men, their only responsibility is to give birth, and Mothers neither read nor write. Jane, however, remembers her past life as a physician and wife, so two policewomen try to arrest her for "reactionism." The Doctors refuse to surrender her, and send her to sick bay, then to Laura, the historian. Laura explains that all of the men died decades ago, when a Dr. Perrigan developed a virus to control the rat population, but the strain mutated, killing all male humans, but sparing females, who were immune. Now only women survive, and they are sorted at birth into four classes--Doctors, Mothers, Servitors, and Workers--and raised in learning centers. When Laura tells Jane that she will now receive an hypnotic treatment, a drug-induced amnesia to remove all of her memory, she becomes hysterical, and returns to her earlier world. She is in the office of Dr. Hellyer, her boss and the Chief of Staff at her hospital, who reminds her that she volunteered to test a new narcotic, Sonadrin, which apparently took her to the fantastic feminist world from which she just escaped. She discovers that Dr. Perrigan is a real biologist, who is working on a myxomatosis strain to exterminate brown rats. She meets Perrigan and tries to convince him to discontinue his project, but he refuses, so she shoots him, lights a fire using all of Perrigan's research notes, and burns down his laboratory. She is tried for murder, but refuses to plead insanity, and insists that her sacrifice is worthwhile, since she is saving humanity from a terrible future. Then her attorney, Max Wilding, tells her that Perrigan has a son, another Dr. Perrigan, who promises to complete his father's work.

Season 3, Episode 12: Crimson Witness

Original Air Date: 4 January 1965
Engineer Ernie Mullett, a plant manager, is having an affair with his secretary, Babs, financed through embezzlement. His boss, Mr. Baldwin, tells him that he will be replaced by his brother, Farnum, although Ernie brought Farnum into the company, and Farnum is staying at Ernie's house. When he gets home, Ernie is so angry he has a fight with Farnum, but his wife of six years tells him that she is in love with Farnum, and leaving with him. The next day at work, Babs tells Ernie how much she loves Farnum, who is exciting, while Ernie is just pleasant to look at. Ernie is demoted to cost estimator, sharing his secretary Madeleine with five other cost estimators. Ernie returns to his old office to retrieve items from the vault. Farnum tells him that he has defalcated $2,724.00, but that he will take care of the problem, if they can be amicable. Farnum says that the lock combination is changed, but offers to get an insurance policy from the safe, which Ernie wants to change to remove Judith as benefactor. Ernie then asks Farnum to retrieve an isometric drawing from the strong room, in order to further espy the new combination. The next day he arrives at work with a Gallica maxima rose boutonnière. He enters his brother's office, and comments that the flaming star of Farnum's boutonnière doesn't live very long. He also tells Farnum that the new combination is J-U-D-Y, his wife's name. Ernie then dispatches his brother with a lead pipe, slides him into the vault, and tells Babs that Farnum left via the back door. Ernie goes on a date with the new secretary, Maddy, at a Mexican restaurant, where he swigs Margueritas. Afterward, he returns to the plant manager's office, and sets the scene to appear as a robbery-murder. The following morning, the police interview Ernie, and he tells them that he has not been in the vault since he was transferred to Room 774. Shortly thereafter, they call Ernie back, and ask him to explain why they found a rose petal in the safe.

Season 3, Episode 13: Where the Woodbine Twineth

Original Air Date: 11 January 1965
After Eva Snyder becomes an orphan, she comes to live with the elderly Mississippi riverboat Captain King Snyder and his old maid sister Nell. While the Captain is piloting his boat, Nell finds it difficult to govern Eva, who constantly talks to imaginary friends whom Eva believes are real, including Mingo and her father Mr. Peppercorn. When the Captain returns, he presents Eva with a gift--a black doll named Numa. Nell hears Eva chatting and playing with Numa, but suspects that it is a child from the neighborhood. Eva warns that if Nell takes Numa away, Eva will trade places with Numa and go to the idyllic place "where the woodbine twineth." When Nell puts Numa on top of the player piano, Eva steals Numa away, and the piano mysteriously plays by itself. Nell finds Eva in the backyard with a black girl playmate, and Nell chases the girl away, warning her to never return. Then Eva disappears. When Nell finds a doll in Numa's box that looks exactly like Eva, she tearfully realizes what has happened.

Season 3, Episode 14: Final Performance

Original Air Date: 18 January 1965
Cliff is driving down a country road when a young girl, Rosie, flags him down and asks for a ride to Rawlins. He tells her that he is going to Hollywood, and she wants to go all the way. Then they are stopped by a sheriff, who throws the book at Cliff. Cliff cannot restart his car, so it is towed to Mr. Davis' repair shop. Cliff takes a room at the nearby hotel and diner, run by Rudolph Bitzner, while he waits for his car. Rudolph shows his home to Cliff, which is filled with photographs from his career in vaudeville. Rudolph's only employee is Rosie, who pleads with Cliff to help her escape from Rudolph, who plans to marry her in one week, when she attains her eighteenth birthday. When the car is finally ready, Cliff comes to take Rosie away, but Rudolph says that she is rehearsing in the auditorium. As Rudolph and Rosie sit together on the stage, Cliff asks Rosie whether she wants to stay or leave for Hollywood. Rosie repeatedly insists that she wants to remain with Rudolph. After Cliff exits, the camera reveals that Rosie has a dagger in her back, and that Rudolph is a great ventriloquist.

Season 3, Episode 15: Thanatos Palace Hotel

Original Air Date: 1 February 1965
Norman Manners is suicidal, and is saved by a fire company when he jumps from a building. While recuperating, he is visited by Mr. J. Smith, who invites him to a recreational resort for those who wish to die, the Thanatos Palace Hotel. Borchter, the proprietor, tells Mr. Manners that he can stay for as long as it takes to become comfortably ready for death. He meets a beautiful guest, Ariane Shaw, who has resided at the hotel for six months, providing services for her room and board. Her service is the romancing of male guests in preparation for their deaths. With Manners, for the first time, she finds a reason to live, as does he. In order to avoid death, they must escape from Thanatos. Manners devises a scheme whereby each of the three Riders who guard the facility will be killed. Unfortunately, Ariane is too weak, and she allows the Riders to capture Manners, hanging him from the nearest tree.

Season 3, Episode 16: One of the Family

Original Air Date: 8 February 1965
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.

Season 3, Episode 17: An Unlocked Window

Original Air Date: 15 February 1965
A third murder in the last two weeks is reported over the television, and police confess they have a psychotic madman on the loose, preying only on live-in nurses. One dark stormy night, Nurse Stella Crosson (Dana Wynter) and Nurse Betty Ames (T.C. Jones) are tending to their employer, a man with a heart condition who resides in a creepy old mansion just outside of town and needs constant attention. A phone call from the murderer informs the women that he knows they're alone, and intends to pay them a visit before the night is over. Checking to make sure all the doors and windows are locked, Stella finds that she overlooked a basement window, a mistake that might prove all too costly.

Season 3, Episode 18: The Trap

Original Air Date: 22 February 1965

Season 3, Episode 19: Wally the Beard

Original Air Date: 1 March 1965
After work, Lucy, a keypunch operator, meets Walter, a short, balding, bespectacled computer technician who is her supervisor. She tells him that he is a forgettable bore, and hands back her ring, breaking their six-week engagement. Walter walks past a custom wig shop, and enters. Soon he is persuaded to buy a $250 human hair toupee and beard. He stops at a bar and overhears Noreen and Curly talking about sailing. He tells them that he is Philip Marshall, an expert yachtsman who has sailed the Caribbean and around the world several times. Noreen tells Curly that it is 5:15, and he is late for an appointment. When Philip and Noreen are alone, he offers to teach her how to sail. He then goes home to his room and board walk-up, where the manager, Mrs. Adams, confronts him. He identifies himself as Philip, and says that he is a friend of Walter. In his room, he looks out the window, and sees Curly watching him. He removes his wig and beard. The next morning, Mrs. Adams tells Walter that she has a letter for Philip from Curly. She demands back rent for Philip, whom she thinks has been freeloading. Walter tells her that he was just a visitor, and he will move rather than pay any more rent. As Philip, he moves into Mrs. Jones' rooming house. He then sets up a date with Noreen at Keefer's Marina. He confides in Keefer that he knows nothing about ships, but wants to impress the girl, so Keefer sells him a $3000 boat on credit. Noreen, who is legally separated from a rich husband, has a luxury apartment. As Philip leaves the apartment, he is approached by Curly, who calls him Walter. Curly coerces Philip into stashing a $50,000 booty of silver and jewelry at his boat's mooring, or else Curly will tell Noreen about the masquerade. Mrs. Adams runs a personal ad seeking the whereabouts of Walter Mills or Philip Marshall, and gets a response from Mrs. Jones. She meets with Jones, and they suspect that Mills and Marshall are avoiding rent by doubling up, or that Marshall has killed Mills, so they call the police. When Philip gets home, he is confronted by a lieutenant, who asks him to prove that he did not murder Mills. In front of everyone, including Adams and Jones, he removes his wig and beard. Nevertheless, the lieutenant suspects that only a criminal would use such a disguise, and plans to contact everyone Walter knows. Walter then goes to Noreen's apartment to explain why Philip will not appear. Once inside, the drab little man puts his wig and beard on, and chides himself over his Halloweenish behavior. To his surprise, Noreen kisses him. He tells her about Curly, and she convinces him to remove the loot from his dock. He enters the marina that night, and must reveal his wig and beard in order to get past Keefer. When he finishes pulling up the rope to which the bag of stolen goods is attached, a police boat shines its light on him. As they begin to take Walter away, a dead body is spotted on the pier. It is identified as Joseph Kimberly, Noreen's husband.

Season 3, Episode 20: Death Scene

Original Air Date: 8 March 1965
When an auto mechanic named Leo Manfred fixes a limousine owned by Gavin Revere, a famed but over-the-hill Hollywood director, he is invited to join the family for a couple of days. It is here that Leo meets Nicky, Gavin's beautiful daughter and the two youths fall in love. But when Gavin learns about their marriage plans, he fears Leo wanting only her money, and nothing more. To convince the director of his true intentions, Leo takes out a life-insurance policy for fifty thousand dollars, with the payoff going to Nicky. Gavin agrees and the marriage plans continue. Shortly before the wedding, however, Leo makes the fatal mistake of insulting one of Gavin's movies, entitled "Death Scene," and the old man changes his mind about the wedding. Not willing to give up Nicky over a quarrel, Leo takes the old man to a cliff, intending to push him off.

Season 3, Episode 21: The Photographer and the Undertaker

Original Air Date: 15 March 1965
Two professional killers with the same employer find out that each has the other as his next target.

Season 3, Episode 22: Thou Still Unravished Bride

Original Air Date: 22 March 1965
Tommy Bonn returns to London amidst a pleasure cruise, during which he met his American fiancée, Sally Benner. On the Soho riverfront, his Scotland Yard colleague, Stephen, shows him the latest victim in a series of four silk stocking strangulations, all of whom were thirtyish women roaming the streets alone. The wedding guests begin to arrive, beginning with the Setlins, shipboard acquaintances of the Benners, including Elliot Benner, the best man. Although matrimony is only four hours away, Sally insists upon taking a walk to assuage her premarital jitters. First she visits Guerney and Son Chemists to pick up some cosmetics and a candy bar. Guerney Jr. follows her when she leaves the pharmacy and watches as she passes an antique shop followed by a hi-fi store, briefly chats with a streetwalker, then enters Sutherland's Book Shop. Sutherland recites some Keats to her, the first time a customer has asked for a reading in years; then she buys a rare poetry edition. She then goes to a pub named Whoop and Whine, where she is met by Edward Clarke. Myrna, the cruise social director and maid of honor, arrives for the wedding ceremony, followed belatedly by Tommy. Tommy is concerned by Sally's disappearance, and takes a snapshot of her, along with a description of her wardrobe, and searches for her, eventually encountering Clarke. Clarke acts suspiciously, and soon leads Tommy and Stephen to the banks of the Thames, and shows them where he dumped her body. Stephen dredges the river, while Tommy returns to the wedding party to console the family, but finds Sally waiting for him, anxious to get married. A thirtyish woman is trawled from the water.

Season 3, Episode 23: Completely Foolproof

Original Air Date: 29 March 1965
Joe Brisson tries to make a political payoff to Baines in a parking lot, but spots an observer, private detective Foyle. Foyle says he was hired by Joe's wife Lisa. Joe visits his girlfriend Anna, and discovers a bug in her telephone, and that their love letters were seized. Lisa wants a divorce, but also wants a disproportionate settlement, including 75% of the Brisson Land Development Company. Lisa's young boyfriend, racetrack gambler Bobby Davenport, will lose his inherited property if Joe calls in Bobby's debt. Joe couldn't hire Foyle to murder his wife, but he convinces Bobby to do it while Joe is on a sea cruise to London. Joe calls Lisa from the ship, and listens as Bobby plugs her. Then Joe has a guest. It is Foyle, whom Lisa paid to murder Joe.

Season 3, Episode 24: Power of Attorney

Original Air Date: 5 April 1965
Wilford James, who met Sarah Norton on a plane from Jamaica, promises to love and marry her, connives her into investing $10,000, says that it was a total loss, and disappears. Next, becomes James Jarvis in the first class compartment of another plane, where he meets elderly Mary Caulfield and her companion, Agatha, on their way home from Salzburg. At the airport terminal, Mary tells him that they live at the Golden Angel Hotel, and he claims coincidentally that he will be staying there. He sends two dozen roses to Mary and Agatha, charms Mary while romancing Agatha, and tells them that he has "the deal of five lifetimes," an opportunity to buy stock at $30 and sell it for $50. Before investing, Mary sets up a lunch appointment for the following day so that Jarvis can meet her learned attorney, Barton. That night, Jarvis sneaks into the aged Barton's home wearing black leather gloves. Next morning, Jarvis brings more flowers, but Agatha tells him that Jarvis died of a stroke or suffocation. Mary promptly converts her entire estate into shares in the Arlo Trust Company, on Jarvis' advice. He tells her that her wealth has increased by 21%. A day later, Jarvis laments that Arlo has gone bankrupt, reducing the equity from $75 per share to 0. Agatha goes to her bank to withdraw $1200, to help Jarvis get back on his feet. While she is gone, Mary calls her great-niece, Eileen, and tells her that she can no longer finance her trip to Germany. Mary then plays a morose piano solo on her Victrola, writes a suicide note, ignores the ringing telephone, and does herself in with a pistol. When Agatha returns, the hotel clerk tells her that they will miss Jarvis, who is checking out. Agatha returns to the hotel suite, pages Jarvis in vain, then discovers Mary's corpse. Jarvis comes back to his room, makes a first class flight reservation as Jarvis Smith, then calls Agatha. She tells him that the morning mail brought news of a windfall inheritance from Mary's dead brother, and that she has $1200 for him. He rushes over, and Agatha shows him Mary's revolver. She tells Jarvis that it was a great surprise to find a handgun, in the light of Mary's recent despondency, and asks him to take it away. After he pockets the firearm, Agatha invites him to visit with Mary, then locks him in Mary's room. Agatha immediately calls the front desk, and summons the police. As Jarvis is shooting his way out of the room, the police arrive, and gun him down.

Season 3, Episode 25: The World's Oldest Motive

Original Air Date: 12 April 1965
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.

Season 3, Episode 26: The Monkey's Paw--A Retelling

Original Air Date: 19 April 1965
A desperate businessman tests the power of a gypsy woman's monkey paw charm which is said to grant three wishes. His son suffers the consequences.

Season 3, Episode 27: The Second Wife

Original Air Date: 26 April 1965

Season 3, Episode 28: Night Fever

Original Air Date: 3 May 1965
A handsome, young defendant severely wounded by police in a robbery which left a rookie cop dead, is hospitalized under tight guard. When older, plain Nurse Hatch (4 time Emmy winner Colleen Dewhurst, twice married to George C. Scott) takes charge of his care, he sincerely maintains his innocence and paints the police as victimizing him, pleading he won't make it to trial alive. Her no-nonsense patient care demeanor backs off the police, and the young man builds a personal relationship with her. As she melts, the strengthening prisoner works to gain her help in escaping.

Season 3, Episode 29: Off Season

Original Air Date: 10 May 1965
After shooting an unarmed bum, Johnny Kendall is asked to resign from the police force, due to an excessive display of anger, and an itchy trigger finger. Deciding to leave town for awhile, his girlfriend Sandy tags along faithfully. In a new town, Johnny is assigned as a deputy watching over vacant summer vacation homes. Johnny soon meets up with Milt Woodman, the former deputy, who was apparently fired for fooling around with a girl in one of the vacant homes. Milt expresses a dislike toward Johnny, and in retaliation, starts showing an interest in Sandy. Directed by William Friedkin ("The Exorcist"). The last show of "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" TV series.

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