Presenting Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Ann Arbor District Library
In 'Presenting Alfred Hitchcock Presents,' Al Sjoerdsma is dedicated to examining each episode of the original 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents' television series, show by show in chronological order, in depth and with an eye to the popular culture of the 1950s and 1960s.
- Update frequency
- every 29 days
- Average duration
- 89 minutes
- Episodes
- 89
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
PAHP #44: None Are So Blind.
In this installment, Seymour plans to disguise himself to murder his Aunt Muriel. But there's one crucial blip in his plan that he just refuses to see.
01:30:20 |
Tue 31 May 2022
PAHP #43a: Amazing Stories: The Doll.
In this surprise installment, Al and Tom Elliott, the host of the Award-Winning "The Twilight Zone Podcast," discuss Richard Matheson's sentimental Amazing Stories tale. The surprise is that it has n…
00:39:15 |
Mon 23 May 2022
PAHP #43: Kill with Kindness.
In this installment, Fitz and Katherine invite the homeless Mr. Jorgy into their home. They plan to kill him but they may as well kill him with kindness.
01:37:22 |
Mon 25 Apr 2022
PAHP #42: De Mortuis.
In this installment, short story writer John Collier and teleplay writer Francis Cockrell put a different spin on Collier's "Back for Christmas"in which a man digs a hole in his cellar to bury his mu…
01:32:06 |
Mon 28 Mar 2022
PAHP #41: Fog Closing In.
In this installment, Mary is always frightened but it is not until Ted, an escaped psychiatric patient, breaks into her home that she finds out what she actually is afraid of.
01:18:18 |
Mon 28 Feb 2022
PAHP #40: Wet Saturday.
In this installment, Millicent has committed murder but her father is not going to let that stand in the way of the family's reputation. Enter Captain Smollett, the perfect fall guy.
01:55:28 |
Mon 31 Jan 2022
PAHP #39b: The Man Who Knew Too Much.
So, it's June of 1956, you've come to the end of the first season of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" and you've seen all the repeats that are being shown through the summer. What do you do? Well, there's…
00:35:59 |
Mon 17 Jan 2022
PAHP #39a: Jack Seabrook.
In this special installment, Al talks to Jack Seabrook, the author of "The Hitchcock Project" blog, about the AHP first season, Batman of the 1980s, author Jack Finney, and the crazy number of hits J…
00:37:57 |
Mon 13 Dec 2021
PAHP #39: Momentum.
In this installment, Dick Paine misses all the hints that would tell him that his wife Beth has already taken care of the errand that, instead, puts him on the road to murder. It's all a bit contrive…
01:52:40 |
Mon 22 Nov 2021
PAHP #38: The Creeper.
In this installment, a mysterious killer known as the Creeper is strangling blonde women whose husbands work at night, leaving them alone. And as Ellen Grant's husband Steve realizes, "Ellen's alone …
01:43:34 |
Mon 18 Oct 2021
PAHP #37: Decoy.
In this installment, Gil Larkin is set up for murder. He is a "patsy, a fall guy, a clay pigeon." A decoy. He tries to find a witness that will clear him but instead finds the vulnerability that can …
01:44:39 |
Mon 20 Sep 2021
PAHP #36: Mink.
In this installment, Paula Hudson buys a mink stole at the "too good to be true" price of $400, getting her in trouble with the law. Police Sgt. Delaney wonders "What's mink got for you women, anyway…
01:23:07 |
Mon 16 Aug 2021
PAHP #35: The Legacy.
In this installment, Al looks at the idle rich of Palm Beach as Prince Burhan of India romances "mousey little thing" Irene Cole, much to the surprise of their fellow visitors. But is it love? Or is …
01:34:39 |
Mon 19 Jul 2021
PAHP #34: The Hidden Thing.
In this installment, Al looks at a Hitchcockian Shaggy Dog story as Dana Edwards uses total recall (with Arnold Schwarzenegger nowhere in sight) to track the hit and run driver who killed his fiancee…
01:09:34 |
Tue 22 Jun 2021
PAHP #33: The Belfry.
In this installment, Clint Ringle murders Walt Norton in a jealous rage because he wants to marry Walt's fiancee, Ellie. With a posse pursuing him, Clint knows just where to hide...in the belfry on t…
01:30:02 |
Mon 17 May 2021
PAHP #32: The Baby Sitter.
In this installment, the woman for whom Lottie Slocum has been baby sitting has been murdered. Lottie seems to know something but, unfortunately, she doesn't tell the police, she doesn't tell her dau…
01:34:09 |
Mon 19 Apr 2021
PAHP #31: The Gentleman From America.
In this installment, Howard Latimer, the Gentleman From America, makes a bet that he can spend the night in a room that is supposed to be haunted. It is a room that ends up haunting him, as well as t…
01:42:24 |
Mon 15 Mar 2021
PAHP #30: Never Again.
In this installment, Karen wakes up, hungover, in a strange bed. Her memory vague, she tries to piece things together only for reality to be far worse than she ever imagined. A harrowing tale of alco…
01:47:46 |
Mon 15 Feb 2021
PAHP #29: The Orderly World of Mr. Appleby.
In episode #18, Robert H. Harris played a man committed to preventing murder but in this installment, he is Mr. Appleby, a man committed to committing murder, all in the name of his "old curios."
01:24:19 |
Mon 18 Jan 2021
PAHP #28: Portrait of Jocelyn.
In this installment, Mark Halliday buys a painting for his wife, Debbie, that somehow is replaced with a portrait of his first wife, Jocelyn. So, who made the switch? And why?
01:26:41 |
Mon 14 Dec 2020
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