Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 3

Season 3

Air date: 1957-10-06

Episodes: 39

Episodes

E1: The Glass Eye

Captivated by his physical beauty, an aging spinster develops an obsession for a ventriloquist, travelling all over the country to watch his act with his child-sized dummy.

Air date: 1957-10-06 • ★ 10

E2: Mail Order Prophet

When an ordinary clerk starts receiving letters which accurately predict the outcome of future events, he takes a dangerous gamble with his life.

Air date: 1957-10-13 • ★ 8

E3: The Perfect Crime

A lawyer, with blackmail in mind, meets with a famous detective who prides himself on never having committed a single mistake in his long and distinguished career, to prove that he convicted an innocent man.

Air date: 1957-10-20

E4: Heart of Gold

A convicted robber is released to the family of one of his cell mates, against the better judgment of his parole officer.

Air date: 1957-10-27

E5: Silent Witness

Intending to break up with an infatuated student, professor Donald Mason tracks her down at a babysitting job, where the conversation ends in murder.

Air date: 1957-11-03

E6: Reward to Finder

After finding a cash-laden wallet John Gaminski promises his wife that he'll return it. But when he reneges, she demands that he share the money.

Air date: 1957-11-10

E7: Enough Rope for Two

An ex-con heads to a mine to retrieve a cache of stolen loot. When his two former partners show up, three's a crowd with $100,000 at stake.

Air date: 1957-11-17

E8: Last Request

A death-row inmate awaiting the electric chair uses his final hours to prove his innocence in a killing.

Air date: 1957-11-24

E9: The Young One

A pretty underage girl, bored with adolescence and eager to experience all that adulthood allows, acts out in ways that could ultimately prove deadly.

Air date: 1957-12-01

E10: The Diplomatic Corpse

Touring Mexico, Janet's rich aunt dies, and the car holding her corpse is stolen. Without a body, Janet can't claim the inheritance.

Air date: 1957-12-08

E11: The Deadly

A conniving handyman tries to blackmail an innocent housewife for a fabricated dalliance.

Air date: 1957-12-15 • ★ 7

E12: Miss Paisley's Cat

An elderly woman is terrified that her disagreeable male neighbor will kill her beloved—but habitually roving—tabby cat.

Air date: 1957-12-22

E13: Night of the Execution

Warren, a prosecuting attorney with a long history of acquittals, must deliver a guilty verdict in a murder case to ensure his political future.

Air date: 1957-12-29

E14: The Percentage

A successful businessman who once acted cowardly in the war—but got undeserved credit for heroism—attempts to buy off an old Army buddy who knows the truth.

Air date: 1958-01-05

E15: Together

When a businessman's mistress threatens to expose their secret relationship to his wife, he realizes he must do anything to stop her.

Air date: 1958-01-12

E16: Sylvia

Her elderly father becomes alarmed when a jilted woman purchases a handgun.

Air date: 1958-01-19

E17: The Motive

Two crime-obsessed buddies plot the perfect murder—one with absolutely no motive.

Air date: 1958-01-26

E18: Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty

Traveling in Paris, an Englishwoman finds herself accidentally locked in a hotel room with a corpse.

Air date: 1958-02-02

E19: The Equalizer

Filled with jealous rage, a man plots revenge on a coworker he is convinced has had an affair with his wife.

Air date: 1958-02-09

E20: On the Nose

A gambling-addicted housewife owes money to a bookie, and resorts to desperate measures in order to raise the money.

Air date: 1958-02-16

E21: Guest for Breakfast

In this violent home-invasion tale, a gun-wielding convict terrorizes a married couple whose relationship is already on the ropes.

Air date: 1958-02-23

E22: The Return of the Hero

Things are not what they seem when two soldiers discharged from the Algerian war spend some time together in Marseilles.

Air date: 1958-03-02

E23: The Right Kind of House

After the death of her troubled son, a mother decides to sell her house, but a potential buyer discovers she may be hiding something.

Air date: 1958-03-09

E24: The Foghorn

A woman alone in a quiet house finds herself haunted by the noise of a foghorn. As the story progresses, she tries to recall how the sound became so horrifying to her, but the answer may be deeper than she thinks.

Air date: 1958-03-16

E25: Flight to the East

The plight of an American war correspondent suddenly becomes front-page news when a former British Army nurse recalls a strange incident from the past.

Air date: 1958-03-23

E26: 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.

Air date: 1958-03-30

E27: Disappearing Trick

A debonair tennis player looks into his attractive partner's past and her presumed dead husband.

Air date: 1958-04-06

E28: Lamb to the Slaughter

Domestic bliss comes to a rapid halt when a housewife discovers that her police chief husband has been having an affair while she's been pregnant.

Air date: 1958-04-13 • ★ 10

E29: Fatal Figures

It's all in the numbers when a bookkeeper becomes obsessed with his mundane life and crime statistics.

Air date: 1958-04-20

E30: Death Sentence

Love is in the eye of the beholder when a happily married woman sees a bomb attached to the family car as a sign of her husband's affection.

Air date: 1958-04-27

E31: The Festive Season

'Tis the season to resurrect old family grudges when a brother accuses his sister of murdering his wife on a less than jolly Christmas Eve.

Air date: 1958-05-04

E32: Listen, Listen. . . !

When three beautiful blonde women are strangled with a silk stocking, Mr. Morgan becomes convinced he knows how it happened, even though no one will hear him out.

Air date: 1958-05-11

E33: Post Mortem

When a newly married couple realizes that a lottery ticket is in her recently deceased ex-husband's burial suit, they put their love on the line to exhume the winnings.

Air date: 1958-05-18

E34: The Crocodile Case

A man learns never to separate a woman from her accessories when his "perfect" murder plot is spoiled by a missing piece of luggage.

Air date: 1958-05-25

E35: Dip in the Pool

A desperate man takes the ultimate plunge when he gambles a fortune without his wife's knowledge.

Air date: 1958-06-01

E36: The Safe Place

A senior bank teller is tempted by the prospect of sudden wealth when a known gangster makes a large withdrawal from his account.

Air date: 1958-06-08

E37: The Canary Sedan

A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing when a woman discovers she has extraordinary powers to see the past of objects.

Air date: 1958-06-15

E38: The Impromptu Murder

Still waters run deep when a lawyer with mayoral ambitions murders a woman who claimed he tried to embezzle money from her in the past.

Air date: 1958-06-22

E39: Little White Frock

An elderly actor invites a playwright and his wife to dinner to tell a touching story of a long-lost love.

Air date: 1958-06-29 • ★ 10