List of Alfred Hitchcock Presents episodes
Season 2 (1956–57)

List of Alfred Hitchcock Presents episodes

Section Title: Season 2 (1956–57)
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No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Stars	Original air date

40	1	"Wet Saturday"	Alfred Hitchcock	Story by : John Collier Teleplay by : Marian Cockrell	Sir Cedric Hardwicke, John Williams	September 30, 1956

After his daughter Millie kills a man, Mr. Princey (Hardwicke) devises a plan to save his family name.

41	2	"Fog Closing In"	Herschel Daugherty	Story by : Martin Brooke Teleplay by : James Cavanagh	Phyllis Thaxter, Paul Langton	October 7, 1956

Mary (Thaxter) begs her husband Arthur (Langton) not to go away on a business trip but he refuses. Mary is alone in the house when Ted Lambert (Grizzard), an escapee from a mental institution, breaks in.

42	3	"De Mortuis"	Robert Stevens	Story by : John Collier Teleplay by : Francis Cockrell	Robert Emhardt, Cara Williams	October 14, 1956

Aware that their friend Rankin (Emhardt)'s wife Irene (Williams) is cheating on him, Wally and Bud draw the same conclusion when they find Irene missing and Rankin sealing up a hole in his basement.

43	4	"Kill with Kindness"	Herschel Daugherty	A. J. Russell	Hume Cronyn, Carmen Mathews	October 21, 1956

Hoping to profit from life insurance fraud, siblings Katherine (Matthews) and Fitzhugh (Cronyn) plan to torch their house and have a homeless man, Jorgy, die in Fitzhugh's place.

44	5	"None Are So Blind"	Robert Stevens	Story by : John Collier Teleplay by : James Cavanagh	Hurd Hatfield, Mildred Dunnock	October 28, 1956

Egotistical Seymour Johnston (Hatfield) murders his rich Aunt Muriel (Dunnock) and pins the blame on "Antonio Battani", a fake persona he's created using make-up and a wig.

45	6	"Toby"	Robert Stevens	Story by : Joseph Bates Smith Teleplay by : Victor Wolfson	Jessica Tandy, Robert H. Harris	November 4, 1956

Albert Birch (Harris) is excited to be reunited with his sweetheart, Edwina (Tandy) after twenty years. Although the reunion is joyful, Edwina has mood swings and refuses to let anyone see her baby nephew, Toby, whom she has brought with her.

46	7	"Alibi Me"	Jules Bricken	Story by : Therd Jefre and Walter Newman Teleplay by : Bernard C. Schoenfeld	Lee Philips, Chick Chandler	November 11, 1956

Gangster Georgie Minnelli (Philips) kills his known rival, Lucky Moore (Chandler) and sets up an alibi that he was in his apartment the whole day.

47	8	"Conversation Over a Corpse"	Jules Bricken	Story by : Norman Daniels Teleplay by : Marian Cockrell and Norman Daniels	Dorothy Stickney, Carmen Mathews	November 18, 1956

Mr. Brenner threatens to take sisters Cissie (Stickney) and Joanna (Matthews) to court unless they sell him their home.

48	9	"Crack of Doom"	James Neilson	Story by : Don Marquis Teleplay by : Robert C. Dennis	Robert Horton, Robert Middleton	November 25, 1956

Company man Mason Bridges (Horton) keeps returning to a high-stakes poker game because he's determined to beat his rich client, Sam Klinker (Middleton).

49	10	"Jonathan"	John Meredyth Lucas	Story by : Fred Levan Teleplay by : Bernard C. Schoenfeld and Stirling Silliphant	Georgann Johnson, Corey Allen	December 2, 1956

Gil (Allen), who had an extremely close relationship with his late father, Jonathan, accuses his stepmother, Rosine (Johnson) of killing him.

50	11	"The Better Bargain"	Herschel Daugherty	Story by : Richard Deming Teleplay by : Bernard C. Schoenfeld	Robert Middleton, Henry Silva	December 9, 1956

Mobster Louis Koster (Middleton) learns from a private investigator that his wife, Marion, is cheating on him. Koster hires hit man Harry Silver (Silva) to kill her, but Koster is killed instead, because Silver is the man that Marion is having an affair with.

51	12	"The Rose Garden"	Francis Cockrell	Story by : Vincent Fotre Teleplay by : Marian Cockrell	John Williams, Patricia Collinge	December 16, 1956

Publisher Alexander Vinton (Williams) suspects that the novel Julia Pickering (Collinge) has written is based on a true story of how Julia's sister, Cordelia, had killed her husband.

52	13	"Mr. Blanchard's Secret"	Alfred Hitchcock	Story by : Emily Neff Teleplay by : Sarett Rudley	Mary Scott, Robert Horton, Meg Mundy	December 23, 1956

Mystery writer Babs Fenton (Scott) has an overactive imagination and suspects the worst when their new neighbor Charles Blanchard (Lummis) acts strangely around his wife Ellen (Mundy).

53	14	"John Brown's Body"	Robert Stevens	Story by : Thomas Burke Teleplay by : Robert C. Dennis	Hugh Marlowe, Russell Collins, Leora Dana	December 30, 1956

Harold Skinner (Marlowe) and Vera Brown (Dana), who are having an affair, oust Vera's husband, John (Collins), from his company by getting him declared mentally unfit and sent to a home.

54	15	"Crackpot"	John Meredyth Lucas	Story by : Harold Gast Teleplay by : Martin Berkeley	Biff McGuire, Robert Emhardt, Mary Scott	January 6, 1957

Newlyweds Ray (McGuire) and Meg (Scott)'s honeymoon is slightly marred by the recent death of their aunt. At their hotel they are harassed by Mr.

55	16	"Nightmare in 4-D"	Justus Addiss	Story by : Stuart Jerome Teleplay by : Robert C. Dennis	Henry Jones, Barbara Baxley, Virginia Gregg	January 13, 1957

Harry Parker (Jones) agrees to help his pretty neighbor, Miss Elliot (Baxley), hide her murdered boyfriend's body. When the police arrive, the investigation uncovers that Harry's wife (Gregg) was having an affair with the dead man, but Harry killed him over envy of Miss Elliot.

56	17	"My Brother, Richard"	Herschel Daugherty	Story by : Jay Bennett Teleplay by : Sarett Rudley	Royal Dano, Inger Stevens, Harry Townes	January 20, 1957

District attorney Martin Ross (Dano) faces a crisis in his campaign for governor when his brother Richard (Townes) kills the competition, Burton Reeves, and threatens to kill Martin's wife, Laura.

57	18	"The Manacled"	Robert Stevens	Story by : A. Sanford Wolfe Teleplay by : Stirling Silliphant	Gary Merrill, William Redfield	January 27, 1957

White-collar criminal Stephen Fontaine (Redfield) is being transported via train and tries to bribe his escorting police sergeant Rockwell (Merrill) for his freedom with $50,000.

58	19	"A Bottle of Wine"	Herschel Daugherty	Story by : Borden Deal Teleplay by : Stirling Silliphant	Herbert Marshall, Robert Horton, Jarma Lewis	February 3, 1957

Wealthy, elderly Judge Connors (Marshall)'s wife, Grace (Lewis) is leaving him for a younger man, Wallace Donaldson (Horton). Connors invites Wallace into his home, pretends to poison him and locks him in a room in an attempt to show Grace what kind of man Wallace is.

59	20	"Malice Domestic"	John Meredyth Lucas	Story by : Philip MacDonald Teleplay by : Victor Wolfson	Ralph Meeker, Phyllis Thaxter	February 10, 1957

When Carl Borden (Meeker) gets severe indigestion twice due to the home cooking prepared by his wife Annette (Thaxter), their friend Ralph has the food tested and finds a large dose of arsenic in it.

60	21	"Number Twenty-Two"	Robert Stevens	Story by : Evan Hunter Teleplay by : Joel Murcott	Russell Collins, Rip Torn	February 17, 1957

Steve Morgan (Torn), a young ruffian, is picked up by the police for his first offense after a failed stick-up at a candy store.

61	22	"The End of Indian Summer"	Robert Stevens	Story by : Maurice Baudin Jr. Teleplay by : James Cavanagh	Steve Forrest, Gladys Cooper	February 24, 1957

Insurance investigator Joe Rogers (Forrest) is ordered to re-examine old claims made by Mrs. Gillespie (Cooper), whose previous two husbands died under mysterious circumstances, and is now engaged to a third.

62	23	"One for the Road"	Robert Stevens	Story by : Emily Neff Teleplay by : Robert C. Dennis	John Baragrey, Georgann Johnson, Louise Platt	March 3, 1957

When Marsha Hendricks (Platt) learns that her husband Charles (Bagarey) is cheating on her, she tracks down the home of the other woman, Beryl (Johnson), and puts poison in her sugar.

63	24	"The Cream of the Jest"	Herschel Daugherty	Story by : Fredric Brown Teleplay by : Sarett Rudley	Claude Rains, James Gregory	March 10, 1957

Alcoholic has-been actor Charles Gresham (Rains) tries to blackmail producer Wayne Campbell (Gregory) into casting him in a new play. Campbell gives Gresham the script for a role as a gangster, and advises him to perform it for one of the play's financial backers, Nick Roper.

64	25	"I Killed The Count, Part I"	Robert Stevens	Story by : Alec Coppel Teleplay by : Francis Cockrell	John Williams	March 17, 1957

Inspector Davidson (Williams) and his assistant Detective Raines investigate the murder of Count Victor Mattoni in his London flat. They find a great deal of evidence in the flat, and the investigation uncovers Mattoni's links to Lord Sorrington and American businessman Bernard K.

65	26	"I Killed The Count, Part II"	Robert Stevens	Story by : Alec Coppel Teleplay by : Francis Cockrell	John Williams	March 24, 1957

Continuing from the previous episode, Inspector Davidson is alarmed when the flat's elevator operator, Mullet, becomes the third person to confess to the murder of Mattoni.

66	27	"I Killed The Count, Part III"	Robert Stevens	Story by : Alec Coppel Teleplay by : Francis Cockrell	John Williams, Rosemary Harris	March 31, 1957

Concluding the three-episode story, Inspector Davidson arranges so that Sorrington, Froy and Mullet meet each other, and they are joined by Helen (Harris), Mattoni's widow and Sorrington's daughter, who also confesses to the murder.

67	28	"One More Mile to Go"	Alfred Hitchcock	Story by : F. J. Smith Teleplay by : James Cavanagh	David Wayne	April 7, 1957

After murdering his spouse, Sam Jacoby (Wayne) has trouble disposing of the body. He is stopped by a motorcycle cop because of his faulty tail light, and the cop helpfully detours Jacoby to the nearby police headquarters so their mechanic can open the trunk and fix it.

68	29	"Vicious Circle"	Paul Henreid	Story by : Evan Hunter Teleplay by : Bernard C. Schoenfeld	Dick York, Kathleen Maguire	April 14, 1957

Young gangster Manny Coe (York) kills a man by order of his boss, Vince Williams. Williams promises to take Manny as his protege if he kills his girlfriend Betty (Maguire); Manny is unable to do it, but Betty dies in an accident and Manny claims it as a hit.

69	30	"The Three Dreams of Mr. Findlater"	Jules Bricken	Story by : A. A. Milne Teleplay by : Sarett Rudley	John Williams, Barbara Baxley	April 21, 1957

Ernest Findlater (Williams), who has suffered years of verbal abuse by his wife, fantasizes about her death. He invents Lalage (Baxley), an imaginary exotic lover from the South Seas.

70	31	"The Night the World Ended"	Justus Addiss	Story by : Fredric Brown Teleplay by : Bernard C. Schoenfeld	Russell Collins, Harold J. Stone	April 28, 1957

Practical joker Halloran (Stone) convinces homeless man Johnny (Collins) that the world will end at 11:45 that night. With nothing to lose, Johnny steals liquor, breaks into a toy store to give presents to homeless children, and kills the policeman who tries to apprehend him.

71	32	"The Hands of Mr. Ottermole"	Robert Stevens	Story by : Thomas Burke Teleplay by : Francis Cockrell	Theodore Bikel, Rhys Williams, Torin Thatcher	May 5, 1957

In 1919 London, a serial killer is stalking the streets, killing by strangulation a husband and wife, an elderly flower seller, and a policeman.

72	33	"A Man Greatly Beloved"	James Neilson	Story by : A. A. Milne Teleplay by : Sarett Rudley	Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Evelyn Rudie, Hugh Marlowe	May 12, 1957

Precocious little girl Hildegard Fell (Rudie) attaches herself to the grumpy, reclusive newcomer in town, John Anderson (Hardwicke). Hildegard's friend Clarence uncovers John Anderson's identity as a retired judge who had put many criminals away.

73	34	"Martha Mason, Movie Star"	Justus Addiss	Story by : Raymond Mason Teleplay by : Robert C. Dennis	Judith Evelyn, Robert Emhardt	May 19, 1957

Mabel McKay (Evelyn) believes her husband Henry (Emhardt) is in the way of her dreams of glamour, so she kills and buries him in their garden.

74	35	"The West Warlock Time Capsule"	Justus Addiss	Story by : J. P. Cahn Teleplay by : Marian Cockrell	Henry Jones, Mildred Dunnock	May 26, 1957

Taxidermist George Tiffany (Jones) is distressed when his wife Mildred (Dunnock) invites her good-for-nothing brother Waldren into their home. Waldren pretends to be sick, refuses to work, and has Mildred waiting on him hand and foot.

75	36	"Father and Son"	Herschel Daugherty	Story by : Thomas Burke Teleplay by : James Cavanagh	Edmund Gwenn	June 2, 1957

London 1912. Shop owner Joe Saunders (Gwenn) refuses to give any more money to his spendthrift son, Sam.

76	37	"The Indestructible Mr. Weems"	Justus Addiss	George F. Slavin	Robert Middleton, Joe Mantell, Russell Collins	June 9, 1957

Brothers of a Lodge have trouble getting people to buy plots in their cemetery project, which worries their leader, Brother Cato Stone (Middlestone).

77	38	"A Little Sleep"	Paul Henreid	Story by : Joe Grenzeback Teleplay by : Robert C. Dennis	Barbara Cook, Vic Morrow	June 16, 1957

Barbie Hallem (Cook) uses her beauty to play with men's hearts. One night she goes up into the mountains to visit her cabin, where Benny Mungo (Morrow) is hiding out, seemingly unaware that he's being hunted by townsfolk for the murder of the woman he loves.

78	39	"The Dangerous People"	Robert Stevens	Story by : Fredric Brown Teleplay by : Francis Cockrell	Albert Salmi, Robert H. Harris	June 23, 1957

Lawyer Bellefontaine (Harris) and accountant Jones (Salmi) are waiting for their train in the station's isolated waiting room. When they learn that an inmate has escaped from a nearby criminal asylum, both men suspect the other of being said inmate.

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Stevens appeared in an episode of The Alfred Hitchcock.

final_sentence: Stevens appeared in an episode of The Alfred Hitchcock.