The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

S01E14: The Tender Poisoner

Peter Harding is a corporate executive who tries to help save the sagging career of an associate named Philip Bartel. He hopes to get Bartel into one of the corporation's very popular training courses. Later, however, Harding discovers that Bartel is interested in leaving his wife Beatrice. He wants to run off with his mistress. Harding becomes intent on helping Bartel in his home life. He decides to do this by taking Bartel's mistress of his hands.

Overview

A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and featuring thrillers and mysteries.

Episodes

A Piece of the Action

S01E01 A Piece of the Action

September 20, 1962 6.3 51 min
Duke Marsden is about to lose his wife because of his gambling habits. She gives him an ultimatum: either give up poker or she leaves. He decides to give up poker. Later, Duke's younger brother...
Don't Look Behind You

S01E02 Don't Look Behind You

September 27, 1962 6.5 51 min
At a college campus, two young girls are killed while strolling through a nearby forest. Suspicion falls on a chemistry professor and an intense and brooding music professor named Edwin Volck. Harold, a psychology professor,...
Night of the Owl

S01E03 Night of the Owl

October 4, 1962 7.0 51 min
Jim Mallory is a forest ranger who along with his wife Linda, have adopted a girl named Anne. The couple have never told Anne that her parents died in a bizarre murder-suicide for fear that...
I Saw the Whole Thing

S01E04 I Saw the Whole Thing

October 11, 1962 7.2 50 min
Michael Barnes is a mystery writer who is accused of causing a fatal car accident. Each eyewitness, however, proves to be unreliable when their testimony is shredded by Barnes who is acting as his own...
Captive Audience

S01E05 Captive Audience

October 18, 1962 7.2 60 min
Warren Barrow writes mystery novels under a pseudonymn. He sends his publisher a series of tape recordings that appear to detail either the plot of his next mystery novel or the plan for a murder...
Final Vow

S01E06 Final Vow

October 25, 1962 7.0 60 min
Sister Pamela suffers a crisis of conscience just as she is about to take her final vows. Is her belief real or is she just hiding from the rest of the world? The sisters in...
Annabel

S01E07 Annabel

November 1, 1962 3.0 60 min
David Kelsey, a research chemist, is in love with Annabel. He assumes another identity so that they can share their moments together in complete privacy. He even builds a beautiful dream home for the two...
House Guest

S01E08 House Guest

November 8, 1962 7.0 60 min
John and Sally Mitchell offer a stranger named Ray Roscoe a place to stay after Roscoe saves the life of their son Tony. When Roscoe turns out to be a womanizing freeloader, they begin to...
The Black Curtain

S01E09 The Black Curtain

November 11, 1962 7.0 60 min
Phil Townsend suffers amnesia after he is mugged outside his drug store. All he remembers is that he is about to get married. A taxi driver takes him to his fiancée's house, but he discovers...
Day of Reckoning

S01E10 Day of Reckoning

November 22, 1962 7.0 60 min
Paul Sampson murders his wife Caroline and is relieved when the police rule her death and accident. His conscience gets the best of him, however, and he decides to confess the murder to his family...
Ride the Nightmare

S01E11 Ride the Nightmare

November 29, 1962 7.0 60 min
When three of his childhood pals break out of prison, Christopher Martin is in trouble. When he was younger, he and his pals committed a crime. All except Christopher were caught and sent to jail....
Hangover

S01E12 Hangover

December 6, 1962 7.0 60 min
Hadley Purvis is an alcoholic advertising executive whose wife Sandra tells him that she will leave him if he takes another drink. Unfortunately, he drinks himself into a stupor. When he awakens he cannot remember...
Bonfire

S01E13 Bonfire

December 13, 1962 7.0 50 min
Robert Evans is a revivalist preacher who is desperate for money to build his own church. He romances a rich woman named Naomi Freshwater and kills her. Some time later, Robert meets Naomi's neice Laura....
The Tender Poisoner

S01E14 The Tender Poisoner

December 20, 1962 7.0 60 min
Peter Harding is a corporate executive who tries to help save the sagging career of an associate named Philip Bartel. He hopes to get Bartel into one of the corporation's very popular training courses. Later,...
The Thirty First of February

S01E15 The Thirty First of February

January 4, 1963 7.0 60 min
Andrew Anderson is an advertising executive who discovers the body of his deadwife laying at the bottom of the basement stairs. An investigating detective named Sgt. Cresse believes Mr. Anderson is guilty of murder. He...
What Really Happened

S01E16 What Really Happened

January 11, 1963 7.0 60 min
Over the protests of his wife Eve, Howard Raydon fires Addie the family maid when her son breaks a valuable antique. Unwilling to leave, she poisons Howard's milk and kills him. An autopsy reveals the...
Forecast: Low Clouds and Coastal Fog

S01E17 Forecast: Low Clouds and Coastal Fog

January 18, 1963 7.0 60 min
Dan O'Herlihy (as Simon Carter) Inger Stevens (as Karen Wilson) Christopher Dark (as Manuel Sanchez) Chris Robinson (as Ricky) Richard Jaeckel (as Tom) One night when her husband is away, Karen Wilson is frightened when...
A Tangled Web

S01E18 A Tangled Web

January 25, 1963 7.0 60 min
David Chesterman is a thief whose girlfriend Maria is cheating on him with his partner Carl Gault. Carl has fallen in love with Maria and plans to get rid of David. He tells David about...
To Catch a Butterfly

S01E19 To Catch a Butterfly

February 2, 1963 7.0 60 min
Bill and Janet Nelson move into a new home next door to a family named Stander. Unfortunately, the Stander's son Eddie is a homicidal monster. Eddie kills the Nelson's dog and then runs a trip...
The Paragon

S01E20 The Paragon

February 8, 1963 8.0 60 min
Alice Pemberton is a busy-body housewife who injects herself into the personal lives of everyone she knows: friends, relatives, her husband's business associates. Unfortunately she fails to realize that her constant attempts to give advice...
I'll Be Judge, I'll Be Jury

S01E21 I'll Be Judge, I'll Be Jury

February 15, 1963 7.0 60 min
Laura Needham is murdered while vacationing in Mexico. Her husband Mark discovers that the police are holding as a suspect an American named Theodore Bond. Mark wants something to be done, but the police are...
Diagnosis: Danger

S01E22 Diagnosis: Danger

March 1, 1963 7.0 60 min
An outbreak of anthrax in Los Angeles threatens to panic the city until the health department's Dr. Dan Dana arrives to track down the source of the disease. With this assistance of his boss Dr....
The Lonely Hours

S01E23 The Lonely Hours

March 8, 1963 7.5 60 min
Louise Henderson rents a room to woman named Vera Brandon who begins to show an unreasonable amount of interest in Louise's newborn son. Louise begines investigating and discovers that she and Vera shared the same...
The Star Juror

S01E24 The Star Juror

March 15, 1963 7.0 60 min
George Davies is mild mannered store-keeper who makes a pass on the town floozie. When she rejects him, he accidentally kills her. Unfortunately, the girl's boyfriend is arrested for the crime and put on trial....
The Long Silence

S01E25 The Long Silence

March 22, 1963 7.0 60 min
In an elaborate con, Ralph Mason marries a rich woman named Nora Cory for her money. Unfortunately his schemes goes awry when he murders one of her sons from a former marriage. As he attempts...
An Out for Oscar

S01E26 An Out for Oscar

April 5, 1963 7.0 60 min
Oscar Blenny is a timid bank clerk who discovers that his wife Eva is cheating on him. He demands a divorce and Eva agrees, but insists on a $50,000 settlement. She tells him to steal...
Death and the Joyful Woman

S01E27 Death and the Joyful Woman

April 12, 1963 6.0 60 min
Luis Aguilar is a rich wine merchant who disowns his son when he refuses to marry beautiful vineyard owner Kitty Norris. At a party, however, Luis agrees to give his destitute son $5000 if boy...
Last Seen Wearing Blue Jeans

S01E28 Last Seen Wearing Blue Jeans

April 19, 1963 7.0 60 min
Visiting from Englad, David Saunders is making a cross-country tour of America by car with his wife Roberta and their daughter Loren. They stop at a cafe in Arizona late one evening. Since Loren cannot...
The Dark Pool

S01E29 The Dark Pool

May 3, 1963 7.0 60 min
Dianne Castillejo is a recovering alcoholic who gets into trouble when her adopted son drowns in the family swimming pool. Dianne is visted by a mysterious woman named Consuela Sandine who threatens to tell everyone...
Dear Uncle George

S01E30 Dear Uncle George

May 10, 1963 7.0 60 min
John Chambers writes an advice to the lovelorn column under the pseudonymn Uncle George. He learns that his wife is cheating on him when a neighbor named Mrs. Weatherby, not knowing that John and Uncle...
Run for Doom

S01E31 Run for Doom

May 17, 1963 7.0 60 min
Dr. Don Reed falls in love with a nightclub singer named Niki Carroll despite the warnings of his seriously ill father and her ex-boyfriend who both tell him she is not good for him. Niki...
Death of a Cop

S01E32 Death of a Cop

May 24, 1963 7.0 60 min
When policeman Philip Reardon is killed in drug bust, his police officer father feels responsible because his son joined the police force to follow in his father's footsteps. In order to set things right, Philip's...

Cast

Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock
Self - Host

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