Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1, Episode 18: Shopping for Death

1

Revenge

When Carl Spann's wife Elsa is left traumatized after being assaulted by an unknown attacker, he becomes determined to track down the perpetrator and take revenge.

27 min

2

Premonition

A famous pianist returning to his home town finds his father has died, and suspects his friends and family are covering up the true details of that death.

27 min

3

Triggers in Leash

A cook tries everything she can think of to end a dispute between two gunmen who have sworn to kill each other.

27 min

4

Don't Come Back Alive

Frank Partridge and his wife plot to cheat their life insurance company by having her hide out for 7 years and declared legally dead, but an investigator believes Mr. Partridge has murdered her.

27 min

5

Into Thin Air

When a young woman leaves her ill mother in a Paris hotel room and comes back later, she finds her mother is missing, and all the hotel's employees deny she and her mother were ever there.

26 min

6

Salvage

Gangster Dan Varrell, just released from prison, goes looking for the woman he holds responsible for his brother's death.

26 min

7

Breakdown

William Callew is involved in a bad traffic accident on a rural road, that leaves him so paralyzed he appears lifeless, and when help arrives they think he's really dead.

26 min

8

Our Cook's a Treasure

A man fears that the new cook he's hired is actually a murderess.

26 min

9

The Long Shot

Heavily indebted Charlie Raymond is hired to accompany a British visitor on a trip across the USA, and looks for a way to take advantage of his employer.

26 min

10

The Case of Mr. Pelham

A series of troubling incidents lead Mr. Pelham to believe that he has a double who is deliberately impersonating him.

26 min

11

Guilty Witness

When Mr. and Mrs. Crane hear the Verbers having a violent argument in the apartment just above them, and then Mr. Verber disappears the next day, they can't help suspecting the worst.

26 min

12

Santa Claus and the 10th Avenue Kid

While working as a department store 'Santa Claus', a paroled convict tries to help a troubled boy.

26 min

13

The Cheney Vase

When Lyle Endicott is fired from his job at an art museum, he comes up with a plan to take advantage of a trusting invalid whom he befriended at the museum.

26 min

14

A Bullet for Baldwin

When an office worker is fired from his job, he shoots his boss to death, but when he returns to the office his boss is alive, and has no recollection of the incident.

26 min

15

The Big Switch

Gangster Sam Dunleavy sets up an elaborate alibi so that he can kill his ex-girlfriend Goldie, who left him for another man.

26 min

16

You Got to Have Luck

During a massive manhunt for escaped convict Sam Cobbett, Cobbett invades a house where young housewife Mary Schaffner is home alone.

26 min

17

The Older Sister

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

26 min

18

Shopping for Death

Two retired insurance salesmen confront an aggressive, hostile woman in hopes of saving her from a disaster.

26 min

19

The Derelicts

Inventor Ralph Cowell murders his silent partner Alfred, only to be blackmailed by vagrant Peter Goodfellow, who witnessed the crime.

26 min

20

And So Died Riabouchinska

While investigating a murder in a theater, Detective Krovitch uncovers a strange web of tensions revolving around ventriloquist John Fabian and his female dummy.

26 min

21

Safe Conduct

An American journalist meets a soccer star while traveling behind the Iron Curtain, but then is arrested as a suspected smuggler.

26 min

22

Place of Shadows

A young man tries to insinuate his way into a monastery, in order to gain revenge on a thief whom he blames for ruining his life.

26 min

23

Back for Christmas

Herbert Carpenter plans to murder his wife Hermione, bury her body in the basement, and then leave on a long business trip.

26 min

24

The Perfect Murder

Unscrupulous brothers Paul and Henri Tallendier plan to murder their Aunt Rosalie so that they can get their uncle's inheritance.

26 min

25

There Was an Old Woman

Dishonest Frank and Lorna Bramwell visit the home of wealthy, eccentric Monica Laughton, with the intention of robbing her.

27 min

26

Whodunit

Recently deceased mystery writer Alexander Penn Arlington gets permission from the recording angel to relive his last day on earth, so that he can find out who murdered him.

26 min

27

Help Wanted

Mr. Crabtree is grateful to find a new job, until his new employer gives him a most unexpected assignment.

26 min

28

Portrait of Jocelyn

When Mark Halliday and his new wife unexpectedly see a portrait of Halliday's first wife, it is only the first in a series of disturbing developments.

26 min

29

The Orderly World of Mr. Appleby

Antiques dealer Laurence Appleby thinks he has solved his financial problems by killing his wife Lena, but new complications arise in his second marriage.

27 min

30

Never Again

Karen Stewart has once again broken her promise not to drink anymore, and now she is in a strange bed, injured, with no memory of what happened the night before.

26 min

31

The Gentleman from America

Rich American Howard Lattimer visits London, and bets 1000 pounds that he can spend the night in a room that is said to be haunted.

26 min

32

The Baby Sitter

When Clara Nash is murdered, her baby-sitter Lottie Slocum is excited to be the center of attention, and she also hopes to become closer to Clara's husband.

25 min

33

The Belfry

When Clint Ringle learns that Ellie Marsh, the schoolteacher whom he loves, is engaged to Walt Norton, Clint kills Walt and then hides in the schoolhouse's bell tower, waiting for his chance to exact further revenge.

26 min

34

The Hidden Thing

After Dana Edwards' fiancée Laura is killed by a hit-and-run driver, he is visited by John Hurley, who claims to be able to use memory recall techniques that will help him to remember the car's license plate number.

26 min

35

The Legacy

When a prince who is well known as a playboy takes a sudden romantic interest in a shy, plain housewife, everyone is baffled and fascinated.

27 min

36

Mink

Paula Hudson has a stolen mink coat she tells police she purchased on a recommendation, and when they retrace her steps to find out how she obtained it, everyone denies they ever talked to her about it.

26 min

37

Decoy

Gil Larkin is suspected of murder when Mona Cameron's allegedly abusive husband is shot dead in front of him and he gets knocked out by an unknown assailant.

26 min

38

The Creeper

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

26 min

39

Momentum

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

26 min