List of Alfred Hitchcock Presents episodes
Season 6 (1960–61)

List of Alfred Hitchcock Presents episodes

Section Title: Season 6 (1960–61)
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No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Stars	Original air date

192	1	"Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat"	Alfred Hitchcock	Story by : Roald Dahl Teleplay by : Halsted Welles	Audrey Meadows, Les Tremayne	September 27, 1960

Married Mrs. Bixby (Meadows) receives an expensive coat from her lover and wants to keep it without arousing her husband, Dr.

193	2	"The Doubtful Doctor"	Arthur Hiller	Story by : Louis Paul Teleplay by : Jerry Sohl	Dick York, Gena Rowlands	October 4, 1960

One stressful day, Ralph Jones (York) argues with his wife, Lucille (Rowlands), and then mysteriously travels two years back in time, to when he was still a bachelor.

194	3	"A Very Moral Theft"	Norman Lloyd	Story by : Jack Dillon Teleplay by : Allan Gordon	Betty Field, Walter Matthau	October 11, 1960

Spinster Helen (Field) is dating Harry Wade (Matthau), a rude lumber yard owner who Helen's brother, John, believes is a crook.

195	4	"The Contest for Aaron Gold"	Norman Lloyd	Story by : Philip Roth Teleplay by : William Fay	Barry Gordon, Sydney Pollack, Frank Maxwell	October 18, 1960

Bernie (Pollack) is a ceramics teacher at a summer camp, and is protective of Aaron Gold (Gordon), a boy who dislikes athletics but loves sculpture.

196	5	"The Five-Forty-Eight"	John Brahm	Story by : John Cheever Teleplay by : Charlotte Armstrong	Phyllis Thaxter, Zachary Scott	October 25, 1960

Miss Dent (Thaxter) was secretary to married Mr. Blake (Scott), but was fired the day after they had a liaison.

197	6	"Pen Pal"	John Brahm	Story by : Henry Slesar & Jay Folb Teleplay by : Hilary Murray	Katherine Squire, Clu Gulager	November 1, 1960

Elderly Miss Lowen (Squire) learns from Detective Berger that her niece Margie has been exchanging romantic letters with convict Rod Collins (Gulager) for the past two years, and Collins has just escaped prison and may come for her.

198	7	"Outlaw in Town"	Herschel Daugherty	Michael Fessier	Ricardo Montalban, Constance Ford	November 15, 1960

Tony Lorca (Montalban) is an outlaw who arrives at a small town during a blizzard. The townsfolk learn that there's reward of $5000 to turn Tony in, so various people bid for his custody.

199	8	"O Youth and Beauty!"	Norman Lloyd	Story by : John Cheever Teleplay by : Halsted Welles	Gary Merrill, Patricia Breslin	November 22, 1960

Cash Bentley (Merrill) is a former champion hurdler who's bitter that his glory days have passed. Despite his wife Louise (Breslin)'s protests and Cash's physical limitations, Cash keeps racing whenever he's taunted by others.

200	9	"The Money"	Alan Crosland, Jr.	Henry Slesar	Robert Loggia, Doris Dowling, Will Kuluva	November 29, 1960

Small-time crook Larry (Loggia) gets a job with wealthy Stefan Bregornick (Kuluva), who knew Larry's father and is an importer of stolen goods.

201	10	"Sybilla"	Ida Lupino	Story by : Margaret Manners Teleplay by : Charlotte Armstrong	Barbara Bel Geddes, Alexander Scourby	December 6, 1960

Horace Meade (Scourby)'s new wife Sybilla (Geddes) is perfectly obedient and agrees to all his unconventional demands. Despite this, Horace grows uncomfortable with her and tries to poison her, but is mysteriously thwarted.

202	11	"The Man with Two Faces"	Stuart Rosenberg	Henry Slesar	Spring Byington, Steve Dunne, Bethel Leslie	December 13, 1960

While browsing mugshots, elderly Alice Wagner (Byington) finds a photo of a man who looks like her beloved daughter's husband. She's assured by policeman Lt.

203	12	"The Baby-Blue Expression"	Arthur Hiller	Story by : Mary Stolz Teleplay by : Helen Nielsen	Sarah Marshall	December 20, 1960

Scatterbrained Mrs. Barrett (Marshall) conspires with her lover Philip to kill her husband James while he's away on a business trip.

204	13	"The Man Who Found the Money"	Alan Crosland, Jr.	Story by : James E. Cronin Teleplay by : Allan Gordon	Arthur Hill	December 27, 1960

While on holiday in Las Vegas, William Benson (Hill) stumbles on a clip containing $92,000. Despite being tempted, he reports it in so that it can be returned to its owner, casino mogul Mr.

205	14	"The Changing Heart"	Robert Florey	Robert Bloch	Nicholas Pryor, Anne Helm, Abraham Sofaer	January 3, 1961

Dane Rosse (Pryor) falls in love with Lisa Klemm (Helm), granddaughter of clockmaker Ulrich Klemm (Sofaer). Ulrich is highly protective of Lisa and refuses to let the pair marry.

206	15	"Summer Shade"	Herschel Daugherty	Story by : Nora H. Caplan Teleplay by : Harold Swanton	Julie Adams, James Franciscus	January 10, 1961

Not long after Phyllis and Ben Kendall (Adams and Franciscus) move into the house they've bought from elderly Amelia Gastiell, their daughter Katie claims she's made a new friend, "Lettie", whom her parents never see.

207	16	"A Crime for Mothers"	Ida Lupino	Henry Slesar	Claire Trevor, Biff Elliot	January 24, 1961

Mrs. Meade (Trevor) wants to extort money from Jane and Ralph Birdwell, the couple who raised Mrs.

208	17	"The Last Escape"	Paul Henreid	Henry Slesar	Keenan Wynn, Jan Sterling	January 31, 1961

Joe and Wanda Ferlini (Wynn and Sterling) are a husband-and-wife escape artist act, though their marital relationship is strained. When Joe performs a dangerous water escape, Wanda switches his keys, causing him to drown.

209	18	"The Greatest Monster of Them All"	Robert Stevens	Story by : Bryce Walton Teleplay by : Robert Bloch	William Redfield, Richard Hale, Sam Jaffe, Robert H. Harris	February 14, 1961

Screenwriter Fred Logan (Redfield) asks his director Morty Lenton (Harris) to cast veteran horror actor Ernst von Croft (Hale) in their latest film in a comeback role.

210	19	"The Landlady"	Paul Henreid	Story by : Roald Dahl Teleplay by : Robert Bloch	Dean Stockwell, Patricia Collinge	February 21, 1961

Billy Weaver (Stockwell) finds accommodations in the house of a friendly landlady (Collinge). The landlady keeps referring to two other tenants but Weaver never sees them.

211	20	"The Throwback"	John Brahm	Henry Slesar	Scott Marlowe, Murray Matheson, Joyce Meadows	February 28, 1961

Enid (Meadows) has two lovers, Eliot Gray (Marlowe) and Cyril Hardeen (Matheson). The two men meet, and the older and more sophisticated Cyril frames Eliot for beating Cyril up.

212	21	"The Kiss-Off"	Alan Crosland, Jr.	Story by : John P. Foran Teleplay by : Talmage Powell	Rip Torn	March 7, 1961

Ernie Walters (Torn) is newly released from prison after serving 6 years for a crime he was only just proven to be innocent of.

213	22	"The Horse Player"	Alfred Hitchcock	Henry Slesar	Claude Rains, Ed Gardner	March 14, 1961

The newest arrival at Father Amion (Rains)'s church is Sheridan (Gardner), a gambler who believes that prayer has caused his recent success at the horse races.

214	23	"Incident in a Small Jail"	Norman Lloyd	Henry Slesar	John Fiedler, Richard Jaeckel, Ron Nicholas	March 21, 1961

Traveling salesman Leon Gorwald (Fiedler) is arrested for jaywalking in a small town and placed in jail with a suspected serial killer (Jaeckel).

215	24	"A Woman's Help"	Arthur Hiller	Henry Slesar	Geraldine Fitzgerald, Scott McKay, Antoinette Bower	March 28, 1961

Arnold (McKay) is controlled by his domineering but invalid wife, Elizabeth (Fitzgerald). When the attractive Miss Greco (Bower) is hired as Elizabeth's nurse, she and Arnold begin an affair and slowly poison Elizabeth by overdosing her medicine.

216	25	"Museum Piece"	Paul Henreid	Story by : William C. Morrison Teleplay by : Harold Swanton	Larry Gates, Myron McCormick	April 4, 1961

Mr. Hollister (Gates) is curator of a small museum that displays trinkets and human remains.

217	26	"Coming, Mama"	George Stevens, Jr.	Story by : Henriette McClelland Teleplay by : James Cavanagh	Eileen Heckart, Don DeFore	April 11, 1961

Lucy (Heckart) has waited on her malingering mother her whole life, to the point where she isn't allowed to get married.

218	27	"Deathmate"	Alan Crosland, Jr.	Story by : James Causey Teleplay by : Bill S. Ballinger	Lee Philips, Gia Scala, Russell Collins	April 18, 1961

Fred Sheldon (Philips) is a con artist who targets wealthy married women. His current con on Lisa Talbot (Scala) is threatened by private detective Alvin Moss (Collins), who knows about his past.

219	28	"Gratitude"	Alan Crosland, Jr.	Story by : Donne Byrne Teleplay by : William Fay	Peter Falk, Paul Hartman	April 25, 1961

New York, 1916. Meyer Fine (Falk) is a casino owner with a crippling fear of death.

220	29	"The Pearl Necklace"	Don Weis	Peggy and Lou Shaw	Hazel Court, Ernest Truex, Jack Cassidy	May 2, 1961

Wealthy 65-year-old Howard Rutherford (Truex) proposes to 25-year-old Charlotte (Court). Charlotte's current lover, Mark (Cassidy), makes Charlotte accept so they can live on Howard's fortune when he dies.

221	30	"You Can't Trust a Man"	Paul Henreid	Helen Nielsen	Polly Bergen, Joe Maross	May 9, 1961

Successful singer Crystal Coe (Bergen) tried to erase all evidence of her sordid past, and the only person who knows the truth is Tony, her husband, who spent 7 years in prison after taking the fall for Crystal's petty theft.

222	31	"The Gloating Place"	Alan Crosland, Jr.	Robert Bloch	Susan Harrison, Henry Brandt	May 16, 1961

Lonely high school student Susan Harper (Harrison) pretends that she was attacked by a masked man in order to get attention.

223	32	"Self Defense"	Paul Henreid	John T. Kelley	George Nader, Audrey Totter	May 23, 1961

Gerald Clark (Nader) is a former soldier with PTSD. When he's held at gunpoint by young robber, he shoots the boy, killing him.

224	33	"A Secret Life"	Don Weis	Story by : Nicholas Monsarrat Teleplay by : Jerry Sohl	Ronald Howard, Mary Murphy, Patricia Donahue	May 31, 1961

James (Howard) wants to divorce his wife Marjorie (Donahue) but has no grounds for it. He reluctantly hires a private investigator who tails after Marjorie, and is shocked to hear that his wife has been throwing parties and has an actor as her lover.

225	34	"Servant Problem"	Alan Crosland, Jr.	Henry Slesar	Jo Van Fleet, John Emery	June 6, 1961

Successful author Kerwin Drake (Emery) receives a surprise visit from Molly (Fleet), the wife he walked out on 22 years ago.

226	35	"Coming Home"	Alf Kjellin	Henry Slesar	Crahan Denton, Jeanette Nolan	June 13, 1961

Harry Beggs (Denton) leaves prison with over $1600 of backpay from twenty years working in the prison work camps. He stops at a bar and is tricked by a young woman named Angela into getting drunk, and all his money is stolen.

227	36	"Final Arrangements"	Gordon Hessler	Story by : Lawrence A. Page Teleplay by : Robert Arthur	Martin Balsam, Vivian Nathan, Slim Pickens	June 20, 1961

Leonard Thompson (Balsam) is tired of being stuck with his invalid wife Elise (Nathan) and longs for adventure anywhere else. He buys poison and makes lavish arrangements with a funeral home, but it isn't for her — instead, Leonard commits suicide.

228	37	"Make My Death Bed"	Arthur Hiller	Story by : Babs H. Deal Teleplay by : Henry A. Cogge	Diana Van der Vlis, James Best	June 27, 1961

Married Elise Taylor (der Vlis) is having an affair with married Bish Darby (Best). While Bish's wife is away, Elise's husband walks in on the pair and shoots Bish dead.

229	38	"Ambition"	Paul Henreid	Story by : Charles Boeckman Teleplay by : Joel Murcott	Leslie Nielsen, Harold J. Stone	July 4, 1961

District attorney Rudy Cox (Nielsen) has been hiding his relationship with racketeer Marc Davis (Stone), who saved his life in the war years ago.

Sentence(s)

Peter Falk appeared in a 1961 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

final_sentence: Peter Falk appeared in a 1961 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents.