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Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Weeknights at 1 AM & 1:30 AM

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The “Master of Suspense” hosts this diabolical collection of 30-minute tales that runs the gamut from crime and mystery to horror and the supernatural. Thieving schemers, murderous spouses and a host of other unsavory characters run amok in nightmarish stories loaded with twists and turns. Premiering in 1955, the episode duration doubled in 1962 and the title changed to 'The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.'

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Episode Guide

Episode Guide

Season 1
  • Season 1
  • Season 2
  • Season 3
  • Season 4
  • Season 5
  • Season 6
  • Season 7

Ep 1: Revenge

Revenge fuels a husband looking for the man who raped his wife

Ep 2: Premonition

A pianist returns to his home town, hoping to mend a broken relationship with his father, and instead finds mystery and foreboding in everything he encounters.

Ep 3: Triggers in Leash

Maggie, a restaurant owner, tries to prevent a duel between two customers.

Ep 4: Don't Come Back Alive

A detective suspects murder when a man tries to have his missing wife declared dead.

Ep 5: Into Thin Air

A woman and her mother check into a Paris hotel. The woman goes out and when she returns her mother is gone, nobody remembers her mother and the room now looks totally different.

Ep 6: Salvage

Dan, an underworld kingpin, hatches a plan to punish a singer who killed his brother.

Ep 7: Breakdown

After a terrible accident leaves a man completely paralyzed, people who encounter him think he is dead, though he is very much alive.

Ep 8: Our Cook's a Treasure

A real estate agent becomes obsessed with the idea that his new cook is a serial killer.

Ep 9: The Long Shot

A gambling addict cannot resist the lure of $200,000.

Ep 10: The Case of Mr. Pelham

Albert Pelham is slowly being replaced at home and at work by a double.

Ep 11: Guilty Witness

When the husband of an unhappy marriage disappears, the neighbors suspect foul play.

Ep 12: Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid

A criminal fresh out of prison takes a job as Santa Claus for the holiday season.

Ep 13: The Cheney Vase

A dishonest ex-museum curator uses a forged letter to get close to an elderly woman and her priceless vase.

Ep 14: A Bullet for Baldwin

Benjamin Stepp turns into a cold-blooded murderer after being fired from his job.

Ep 15: The Big Switch

A man buys an alibi so he can murder his girlfriend.

Ep 16: You Got to Have Luck

A crazy man holds a woman hostage in her farmhouse while he plans his escape from the area.

Ep 17: The Older Sister

A reporter discovers the truth about the infamous Lizzie Borden murder case.

Ep 18: Shopping for Death

Two retired sales clerks test their theory that people become killers at 92 degrees.

Ep 19: The Derelicts

Ralph is having monetary problems and his wife has just bought a mink coat. To make matters worse, two bums are blackmailing him.

Ep 20: And So Died Riabouchinska

A ventriloquist with a very lifelike puppet is accused of a murder at a vaudeville theater.

Ep 21: Safe Conduct

Suspense and romance fill the travel of an American reporter returning after a visit to an Iron Curtain nation.

Ep 22: Place of Shadows

A man looking for revenge goes undercover in a monastery but things do not turn out the way he planned.

Ep 23: Back For Christmas

A man plans to get rid of his nagging wife — permanently.

Ep 24: The Perfect Murder

Two twisted brothers scheme to speed up their inheritance by killing their aunt.

Ep 25: There Was an Old Woman

An old and eccentric woman is targeted by a crooked couple who think she has a lot of money stashed away.

Ep 26: Whodunit

Arthur comes back from the afterlife to find out the identity of his murderer.

Ep 27: Help Wanted

A man desperate for money takes on a strange job offer.

Ep 28: Portrait of Jocelyn

A man finds his disappeared wife in a painting.

Ep 29: The Orderly World of Appleby

Lawrence Appleby will do anything to keep his antiques shop, even murder.

Ep 30: Never Again

Karen has a problem with alcohol, one that leaves her wondering what happened the previous night.

Ep 31: The Gentlemen From America

Howard Latimer accepts a peculiar bet: to spend the night at a supposedly haunted manor.

Ep 32: The Baby Sitter

Lottie Slocum is excited to be the center of attention after the woman she babysits for is murdered.

Ep 33: The Belfry

A jealous man kills the fiancé of his unrequited love.

Ep 34: The Hidden Thing

Dana needs to find the license plate number of the car that killed his fiancée.

Ep 35: The Legacy

A prince sets his eye on Irene and her money.

Ep 36: Mink

A housewife buys a stolen mink for $400.

Ep 37: Decoy

Gil is in love with a married singer who wants to kill her abusive husband.

Ep 38: The Creeper

A serial killer known as “the strangler” terrorizes a New York neighborhood.

Ep 39: Momentum

A man ends up running to the Mexican border after trying to collect money his employer owes him.

Ep 1: Wet Saturday

A vulnerable man is pinned with a murder he did not commit.

Ep 2: Fog Closing In

A woman hears strange noises in her house while her husband is away on business.

Ep 3: De Mortius

An old college professor decides to take action when he finds out that his wife cheated on him.

Ep 4: Kill With Kindness

Fitz Oldham plans to torch his home and fake his death to collect insurance money.

Ep 5: None Are So Blind

Seymour Johnson disguises himself before killing his wealthy aunt.

Ep 6: Toby

Albert finds his childhood love, and she agrees to marry him.

Ep 7: Alibi Me

Georgie is a gang member looking for an alibi after the death of his alter ego.

Ep 8: Conversation Over a Corpse

Two sisters poison the banker who holds their mortgage.

Ep 9: Crack of Doom

Mason Bridges plays poker with wealthy clients. He gambles everything he has and everything his company owns on one game.

Ep 10: Jonathan

A widower remarries but his son does not take this too kindly.

Ep 11: The Better Bargain

A mobster hires a hit man to kill his cheating wife and lover.

Ep 12: The Rose Garden

A publisher finds more fact than fiction in an author’s text.

Ep 13: Mr. Blanchard's Secret

A homemaker decides to play investigator when she starts to think that a neighbor is up to no good.

Ep 14: John Brown's Body

A woman has her husband committed to a mental institution.

Ep 15: Crackpot

Two newlyweds stay at the same hotel as a man with whom they got into a scuffle with earlier that day.

Ep 16: Nightmare in 4-D

A husband has a vague memory of helping a woman get rid of a corpse.

Ep 17: My Brother, Richard

A man kills his brother’s opponent for the governor’s office.

Ep 18: The Manacled

A criminal offers $50,000 to a detective in exchange for his freedom.

Ep 19: A Bottle of Wine

A judge tries to prove that his wife’s lover is a coward.

Ep 20: Malice Domestic

Carl, a newlywed, suspects his wife is trying to poison him.

Ep 21: Number Twenty-Two

A petty crook clashes with a hardened criminal in a jail cell.

Ep 22: The End of Indian Summer

An old woman is investigation by her insurance company when she plans to get married for a third time, her previous husbands having died mysteriously.

Ep 23: One for the Road

Marsha discovers that her husband has a lover and decides to poison him.

Ep 24: The Cream of the Jest

An unemployed actor plays his last role.

Ep 25: I Killed the Count: Part 1

Count Mattoni is brutally murdered and Scotland Yard Inspector Davidson must wade through a myriad of suspects.

Ep 26: I Killed the Count: Part 2

Scotland Yard Inspector Davidson continues in his investigation of the murder of Count Mattoni. He discovers that each suspect not only appears guilty, but also that many readily admit to having committed the crime.

Ep 27: I Killed the Count: Part 3

Scotland Yard Inspector Davidson discovers who killed Count Mattoni. Due to a legal loophole, however, the killer cannot be tried.

Ep 28: One More Mile to Go

With the dead body of his wife in the trunk of his car, a man is hassled by police for a burnt-out taillight.

Ep 29: Vicious Circle

A hit man has to choose between his childhood sweetheart and obeying his boss.

Ep 30: Three Dreams of Findlater

A husband dreams constantly of a beautiful woman who prompts him to kill his wife.

Ep 31: Night the World Ended

A group of newspapermen plays a joke on a man who in return decides to get payback.

Ep 32: The Hands of Mr. Otterhole

A serial killer uses the heavy London fog to confuse the police.

Ep 33: A Man Greatly Beloved

A newcomer refuses to allow his garden to be used for a church activity.

Ep 34: Martha Mason, Movie Star

After years of being teased by her husband, a woman discovers that she looks very similar to movie star and decided to get payback.

Ep 35: West Warlock Time Capsule

A taxidermist uses his art to dispose of his brother.

Ep 36: Father and Son

Sam needs the money his father will not give him so his girlfriend can marry him.

Ep 37: Indestructible Mr. Weems

An apparently dying man is offered the first plot at a brand-new cemetery.

Ep 38: A Little Sleep

Two brothers, one of them a murderer, share a cabin with a woman.

Ep 39: The Dangerous People

Two travelers carefully watch each other, thinking that the other is a psycho escaped from jail.

Ep 1: The Glass Eye

A shocking surprise awaits a woman who is about to meet her favorite star.

Ep 2: Mail Order Prophet

Ronald risks his future following the predictions of a fortuneteller.

Ep 3: The Perfect Crime

A famous criminologist discovers that he has sent an innocent man to jail.

Ep 4: Heart of Gold

An ex-con searches for a place to stay after he is released from prison.

Ep 5: Silent Witness

A toddler is the only witness to the murder of his babysitter.

Ep 6: Reward to Finder

A very poor janitor finds a wallet containing $5,000.

Ep 7: Enough Rope for Two

A criminal released after 10 years in imprison plans to recover his stash.

Ep 8: Last Request

A longtime criminal is sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit.

Ep 9: The Young One

A teenager’s desire to be free leads her to murder.

Ep 10: The Diplomatic Corpse

A young couple tries to smuggle a corpse out of Mexico.

Ep 11: The Deadly

Housewives being blackmailed by a plumber exact their revenge.

Ep 12: Miss Paisley's Cat

A lonely woman learns to love a stray cat that wandered into her apartment.

Ep 13: Night of the Execution

A tramp confesses to a crime. Unfortunately, the D.A. has already prosecuted another man.

Ep 14: The Percentage

A young gangster tries to repay an old Army buddy by starting a business for him.

Ep 15: Together

A man is trapped in an office with the body of the woman he just murdered.

Ep 16: Sylvia

Sylvia will do anything to get her ex-husband back into her life.

Ep 17: The Motive

Tommy Greer is a crime buff who decides to commit a motiveless murder in order to confuse the police, selecting his victim from a phone book at random.

Ep 18: Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty

An elderly maid leaves the parsonage in search of her sister.

Ep 19: The Equalizer

Eldon Marsh sets out to confront the man who stole his wife from him.

Ep 20: On the Nose

A woman has problems staying away from the race track and it threatens her marriage.

Ep 21: Guest for Breakfast

A shaky marriage is saved by a killer.

Ep 22: The Return of the Hero

A war hero must choose between a new love and the girl he left behind.

Ep 23: The Right Kind of a House

A woman schemes to avenge her son's death with a unique plan.

Ep 24: The Foghorn

A beautiful woman meets and falls in love with a stranger at her engagement party.

Ep 25: Flight to the East

A reporter goes from star to villain and then back to "star."

Ep 26: Bull in a China Shop

A handsome homicide detective is befriended by four old ladies who invite him for tea and proceed to play out a variation of Arsenic and Old Lace for his benefit.

Ep 27: Disappearing Trick

A gullible tennis player with a nose for snooping is scammed by a woman and her supposedly dead husband.

Ep 28: Lamb to the Slaughter

A woman is surprised to learn that her husband has fallen in love with another woman.

Ep 29: Fatal Figures

A bookkeeper decides to come out of anonymity by commiting a crime.

Ep 30: Death Sentence

When a woman finds a bomb in her car, it convinces her that her husband loves her.

Ep 31: The Festive Season

A man believes that his sister murdered his wife.

Ep 32: Listen, Listen

With a rash of strangulations keeping people on edge, a man believes he knows who the murderer is, having seen the man in a dream.

Ep 34: The Crocodile Case

A man murders his lover's husband to have her for himself.

Ep 35: A Dip in the Pool

A man comes up with a desperate plan to win a bet while crossing the Atlantic on a liner.

Ep 36: The Safe Place

A bankteller schemes the perfect plan.

Ep 37: The Canary Sedan

A woman hears voices in her car when she arrives in Hong Kong to join her husband.

Ep 33: Post Mortem

A woman learns that a winning sweepstakes ticket is in the suit her husband was buried in.

Ep 38: The Impromptu Murder

A lawyer decides to murder one of his clients.

Ep 39: Little White Frock

A producer is surprised when an actor announces his retirement plans.

Ep 1: Poison

Two plantation owners plan to break up their partnership so one of them can get married.

Ep 2: Don't Interrupt

A little boy on a train tries desperately to tell someone a secret.

Ep 3: The Crooked Road

A couple passing through a small town falls victim to its crooked officials.

Ep 4: The $2,000,000 Defense

A desperate man makes a deal with his defense lawyer in order to get acquitted.

Ep 5: Design for Loving

A man plots to get away from his wife for a while without her knowing.

Ep 6: A Man With a Problem

A man stands on the ledge of a hotel while police try to talk to him.

Ep 7: Safety for the Witness

A man witnesses a murder by two gangsters.

Ep 8: Murder Me Twice

A woman commits murder while under hypnosis.

Ep 9: Tea Time

A woman confronts the wife of a rich man and tries to convince her to give her husband a divorce.

Ep 10: And the Desert Shall Blossom

Two old men face being evicted from their shack when they show no evidence of self-support.

Ep 11: Mrs. Herman and Mrs. Fenimore

Two women scheme to get rid of a rich old man.

Ep 12: Six People, No Music

A rich man comes back to life to ensure that his funeral is not overly ornate.

Ep 13: The Morning After

A mother is shocked to learn that her daughter is having an affair with a married man.

Ep 14: A Personal Matter

Two engineers fight each other and a mountain to get a tunnel built on time.

Ep 15: Out There - Darkness

A woman refuses to lend a man $50 to help his girlfriend.

Ep 16: Total Loss

A woman has problems keeping her husband's company solvent after his death.

Ep 17: The Last Dark Step

A man tries to get away from one woman so he can marry another.

Ep 18: The Morning of the Bride

A young woman is apprehensive about meeting her future mother-in-law for the first time.

Ep 19: The Diamond Necklace

A man is told he has to retire from his job at the jewelry store where he has worked most of his life.

Ep 20: Relative Value

A young man schemes to become the sole heir to his rich uncle's estate.

Ep 21: The Right Price

A burglar bargains with his victim when he discovers robbery will not be very profitable.

Ep 22: I'll Take Care of You

A used car salesman is driven to murder by his big-spending wife.

Ep 23: The Avon Emeralds

A Scotland Yard detective is assigned to tail a woman and prevent her from smuggling jewels out of England.

Ep 24: The Kind Waitress

A waitress and her boyfriend plan the death of an elderly rich guest.

Ep 25: Cheap Is Cheap

A miserly man is appalled to discover his wife is planning to spend his life's savings.

Ep 26: The Waxwork

A reporter decides to stay overnight in the Murderers' Den of a wax museum.

Ep 27: The Impossible Dream

A woman's dream comes true when she witnesses a murder.

Ep 28: Banquo's Chair

A suspected murderer is put through a little hoax by Scotland Yard to make him confess.

Ep 29: A Night With the Boys

A man loses his paycheck in a poker game and doesn't know how to face his wife.

Ep 30: Your Witness

A woman is dissatisfied with her life with a prominent attorney.

Ep 31: The Dusty Drawers

A man seeks revenge on a bank clerk who once stole money from him.

Ep 32: A True Account

A woman consults an attorney about her husband, whom she believes is a murderer.

Ep 33: Touché

A man is enraged when he learns that his wife is unfaithful.

Ep 34: Invitation to an Accident

A man tries to tell another man that his wife is cheating on him.

Ep 1: Arthur

A chicken farmer murders his gold-digging girlfriend but the police can't convict him without the body.

Ep 2: The Crystal Trench

A woman heads for the mountain in Switzerland on which her husband died while climbing.

Ep 3: Appointment at Eleven

An angry young man accurately predicts an impending death.

Ep 4: Coyote Moon

A man seeks revenge after being robbed by hitchhikers.

Ep 5: No Pain

A man destined to live in an iron lung learns that his wife has been unfaithful to him.

Ep 6: Anniversary Gift

A man tries to murder his rich wife by giving her a poisonous snake.

Ep 7: Dry Run

A syndicate boss decides to test an ambitious young man to see if he's good enough to join him.

Ep 8: The Blessington Method

A unique society has a different method for preparing for the future.

Ep 9: Dead Weight

A man's plan to rid himself of a blackmailer backfires.

Ep 10: Special Delivery

A little boy's hobby of growing mushrooms in his cellar turns into a nightmare.

Ep 11: Road Hog

A businessman is responsible for a death when he refuses to allow a truck to pass him on a narrow road.

Ep 12: Specialty of the House

A restaurant is specialized in "serving" its costumers very well.

Ep 13: An Occurrence at Owl Creek

A Southerner is about to be hanged for attempting to destroy a bridge vital to the Union's advance.

Ep 14: Graduating Class

A teacher gets too involved in the life of one of her students.

Ep 15: Man From the South

An intriguing bet is accepted by an out-of-luck gambler.

Ep 16: The Ikon of Elijah

A man's dream of wealth takes form when he learns of a treasure buried in the mountains.

Ep 17: The Cure

A South American native helps his boss' wife when it's evident that she needs a shrink.

Ep 18: Backward, Turn Backward

When a man is murdered, suspicion falls on his daughter's suitor.

Ep 19: Not the Running Type

A man has an interesting way of making a small fortune.

Ep 20: The Day of the Bullet

When a friend is killed, a man reminisces about an incident in their past.

Ep 21: Hitch Hike

A businessman has second thoughts about having picked up a hitchhiker.

Ep 22: Across the Threshold

An overly possessive mother takes charge of her bachelor son's life.

Ep 23: Craig's Will

A woman's desire to marry into a rich family gets her into more trouble than she can handle.

Ep 24: Madame Mystery

A man creates a successful publicity campaign to advertise his new movie.

Ep 25: Little Man Who Was There

A little man comes into a mining town with surprising results.

Ep 26: Mother, May I Go to Swim?

A young man tries desperately to free himself from the women who would control his life.

Ep 27: The Cuckoo Clock

An escaped mental patient terrorizes a woman left alone in a remote cottage.

Ep 28: Forty Detectives Later

A man's search for his wife's murderer leads to a small hotel room.

Ep 29: The Hero

Two men meet aboard a ship at sea, and one of them is sure he knows the other.

Ep 30: Insomnia

A man seeks an end to the insomnia that is ruining his life.

Ep 31: I Can Take Care Of Myself

When a man and his girlfriend run afoul of a gangster, they find their lives in danger.

Ep 32: One Grave Too Many

A man is ridden with guilt after he takes a wallet from a heart attack victim.

Ep 33: Party Line

A woman shares a party line with two nosy neighbors.

Ep 34: Cell 227

An innocent man faces death in the gas chamber for the death of a girl.

Ep 35: Schartz-Metterklume Method

The arrival of a governess at the Wellington household has surprising results.

Ep 36: Letter of Credit

A researcher comes to a small-town bank to find out what happened at a robbery years earlier.

Ep 37: Escape to Sonoita

Two kidnappers find a tanker in the middle of the desert and decide to make their escape in it.

Ep 38: Hooked

A man schemes with a young woman to get rid of his wealthy wife.

Ep 24: The Museum Piece

A museum piece causes problems for a curious visitor.

Ep 1: Mrs. Bixby And the Colonel's Coat

A woman is heartbroken when she is forced to end her affair with a colonel.

Ep 2: The Doubtful Doctor

A man relates an unusual situation to his doctor.

Ep 3: A Very Moral Theft

A desperate man tries to save his company from bankruptcy.

Ep 4: The Contest for Aaron Gold

A young man devotes his entire stay at a summer camp to modeling a one-armed clay knight.

Ep 5: The Five-Forty-Eight

A philandering senior manager finds himself being stalked by a previous secretary.

Ep 6: Pen Pal

With the law one step ahead of him, runaway prisoner Rod Collins searches for the pen pal he plans to wed.

Ep 7: O, Youth and Beauty!

Cash Bentley frantically clings to his youth, even if it means proving he can do exhausting corporal calisthenics.

Ep 8: The Money

Pushed by his girlfriend, Larry Chetnick plans to rob his company.

Ep 9: Sybilla

A man begins to resent having married his wife and decides to do something about it.

Ep 10: The Man With Two Faces

A widow sees her son-in-law's photograph among law enforcement mug shots.

Ep 11: The Baby Blue Expression

Philip Weaver concocts a scheme to murder his employer.

Ep 12: Man Who Found Money

Traveler William Benson learns the hard way that integrity may not always be the best strategy.

Ep 13: The Changing Heart

Dane Ross falls in love with a gorgeous lady who has an eccentric reliance on her watchmaker grandfather.

Ep 14: Summer Shade

A young couple moves to a new town and discovers that their child seems to be the only one around.

Ep 15: A Crime for Mothers

An alcoholic woman threatens to take her daughter from the guardianship of her foster parents.

Ep 16: The Last Escape

A practical joke has a devastating effect on an adulterous spouse.

Ep 17: Greatest Monster of Them All

A horror-film actor plans payback after an incompetent director ruins his comeback.

Ep 18: The Landlady

A bank clerk secures accommodation at an apparently uninhabited rooming residence run by a peculiar old woman.

Ep 19: The Throwback

Immature Elliott Gray challenges a much older gentleman for the hand of Enid Patterson.

Ep 20: The Kiss-Off

After spending six years in prison for a robbery he didn't commit, a man decides to get even.

Ep 21: The Horse Player

After a man turns to prayer, he starts to win at the races.

Ep 22: Incident in a Small Jail

In prison for jaywalking, a salesman finds himself locked in a cell with an accused murderer.

Ep 23: A Woman's Help

After falling in love with his invalid wife's nurse, a man schemes to get rid of his wife altogether.

Ep 25: Coming, Mama

A woman begins to realize that her mother has no intentions of cutting her from her apron strings.

Ep 26: Deathmate

An older woman tries to convince her young lover to end her husband's life.

Ep 27: Gratitude

When the syndicate turns against the owner of a casino, he fears for his life.

Ep 28: The Pearl Necklace

A young man convinces his girlfriend to accept the marriage proposal from an old, sick and very rich man.

Ep 29: You Can't Trust a Man

Guilt and fear plague a woman when her husband returns from prison after serving time for a crime she committed.

Ep 30: A Gloating Place

Susan Harper craves attention so desperately that she makes up a story about being attacked by a man.

Ep 31: Self Defense

Bravery is not a man's only motivation when he picks up a weapon and goes after a liquor store robber.

Ep 32: A Secret Life

A man hires a detective to follow his wife in hopes of finding grounds for divorce.

Ep 33: Servant Problem

A writer is shocked and far from happy when his long-missing wife reappears.

Ep 34: Coming Home

A man just released from prison becomes desperate when his stash of money disappears.

Ep 35: Final Arrangements

A man decides to get away from his nagging, invalid wife once and for all.

Ep 36: Make My Death Bed

It is New Year's Eve and Mr. Taylor's resolution is to end Mrs. Taylor's extramarital flirtations.

Ep 37: Ambition

D.A. Rudolf Cox expects to get a politically valuable conviction with the help of stool pigeon Lou Heinz.

Ep 37: Sorcerer's Apprentice

An unfaithful woman plans to get rid of her husband with the help of a stranded young man. (This episode was deemed too horrifying by a sponsor and was not broadcast until the series was sold into syndication.)

Ep 1: The Hatbox

Two young men suspect one of their professors of murdering his wife.

Ep 2: Bang, You're Dead

A boy believes the gun he found was meant for him.

Ep 3: Maria

A carnival man buys a monkey to use in his act, but the "monkey" doesn't like being used.

Ep 4: Cop For a Day

Two crooks rob a bank messenger but don't manage to make a clean getaway.

Ep 5: Keep Me Company

A woman's desire for company proves disastrous for her husband.

Ep 6: Beta Delta Gamma

A fraternity beach party takes a grim turn when a practical joke gets out of hand.

Ep 7: You Can't Be Little Girl All Your Life

After a woman is attacked, she tries to hide from the incident.

Ep 8: The Old Pro

A professional killer tries to retire from his job.

Ep 9: I Spy

A man hires a detective to follow his estranged wife, who he believes is seeing another man.

Ep 10: Services Rendered

After getting hit on the head, a young man suffers from amnesia.

Ep 11: The Right Kind of Medicine

A bank robber with a bullet wound receives the wrong medicine from an old pharmacist.

Ep 12: A Jury of Her Peers

A sheriff suspects the wife of a murdered man to be his killer.

Ep 13: The Silk Petticoat

A man plans to remarry after the death of his first wife.

Ep 14: Bad Actor

An actor is outraged when another man gets the part he wanted.

Ep 15: The Door Without a Key

An old man with amnesia and a young boy with no one find each other in a police station.

Ep 16: The Case of M.J.H.

A small-time crook cooks up a scheme for getting rich quick.

Ep 17: Faith of Aaron Menefee

A man's belief in a faith healer leads to an interesting situation for both of them.

Ep 18: Woman Who Wanted to Live

On the run from the law, an escaped convict kidnaps a young woman.

Ep 19: Strange Miracle

A man plans to cheat an insurance company out of a large amount of money.

Ep 20: The Test

An attorney seeks the truth more for his own satisfaction than the pursuit of justice.

Ep 21: Burglar Proof

An advertising executive is on the verge of being fired when he can't sell a new product.

Ep 22: The Big Score

A teenage gang of robbers hits one household too many.

Ep 23: Profit-Sharing Plan

A man's plan to run away with his company's funds encounters a small hitch.

Ep 24: Apex

A man and his lover decide to get rid of his wife.

Ep 25: The Last Remains

A man tries to hide the murder of his business partner.

Ep 26: The Ten O'Clock Tiger

A seedy character comes up with an amazing formula and then puts it to good use.

Ep 27: The Kerry Blue

A man's love for his pet dog leads to disaster.

Ep 28: The Matched Pearl

A successful jewelry shop owner sells a rare black pearl to a wealthy client.

Ep 29: Most Likely to Succeed

Two old college friends meet again after a long separation.

Ep 30: Victim Four

A husband searches desperately for his wife in a neighborhood where numerous murders have been committed.

Ep 31: Golden Opportunity

A man's plan to leave his wife takes a turn he didn't foresee.

Ep 32: The Twelve Hour Caper

A meek clerk plots with his companions to rob the investment firm for which he works.

Ep 33: Children of Alda Nuova

A man disappears while visiting little-known tourist attractions in Italy.

Ep 34: First Class Honeymoon

A man makes a deal with a friend to keep from having to pay his wife alimony.

Ep 35: The Big Kick

A man decides to demonstrate to his new girlfriend how he gets his kicks.

Ep 36: Where Beauty Lies

A woman strives to keep her brother from running her life.