Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season #6

Season #6

💋💋Episode #1: Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel’s Coat 💋💋 – Twice a month, Mrs. Bixby travels to Baltimore to visit an elderly aunt, her only living relative. Or so she tells her dentist husband. In fact, she visits the Colonel, her rich lover. Before returning home, he gives her a gift of a fur coat – along with a letter saying that they won’t be seeing each other anymore. Mrs. Bixby decides to pawn the coat but her elaborate scheme to explain the coat to her husband doesn’t quite go as planned. An adulterous wife has one consolation when her lover ends their affair. A deluxe mink coat. Mrs. Bixby is having an affair with the Colonel. When he decides to stop seeing her, he gives her a gift, an expensive mink coat. Mrs. Bixby, however, does not want her husband to know where she got the coat. She pawns it and tells the pawnbroker not to write a description of the item on the pawn ticket. She then tells her husband that she found the ticket. She tells him to turn it in and see what it is. She stops by her husband’s office expecting him to give her back the mink coat. Instead, he gives her a cheap mink neckpiece. As she leaves, she sees her husband’s secretary dressed in the Colonel’s mink coat.

💋💋Episode #2: The Doubtful Doctor💋💋 – Bewitched advertising executive Ralph Jones seeks psychiatric help when he inexplicably finds an escape from his present-day marital woes by traveling back in time to his earlier carefree bachelorhood. A doctor examines a man who suffers from blackouts, in which he reverts to living and seeing things two years back in time. Ralph Jones visits his doctor with a strange tale of an event that has affected him greatly. After having an argument with his wife, he awakens to find himself having apparently gone back in time almost two years. He’s back living in his old apartment, has no money and no one knowns him, least of all his future wife. He realizes what life would be like if the future he knows doesn’t come to pass. The doctor assures him that this type of mental break is not uncommon and can be brought on by stress. He assures Ralph that this was just a mental breakdown. But Ralph has one bit of evidence that even the good doctor can’t quite explain. Winning marketing executive, Ralph Jones, is plummeted two years into the past, where he finds himself unaccompanied, single and penniless. Ralph Jones tells his psychiatrist of a disturbing episode. He came home from work one day and had a fight with his wife. He then wished that he was single again and was transported back to his bachelor days. Ralph’s problem, however, is that when he tried to live his life again everything went wrong. He became depressed and gave all his money to a boy for some baseball cards. He then jumped in the river. Ralph then claims to have awakened back in the present day. The psychiatrist doubts his story until Ralph tells him what he found in his pocket after he woke up in the present day: A pack of baseball cards soaked with water.

💋💋Episode #3: Very Moral Theft💋💋 – Lumbered with more than an enormous debt, a businessman needs money – and fast. His doting fiancée-in-waiting provides an instant solution, but in doing so, her act of desperate kindness leads to fatal consequences. Helen’s brother John informs her that he is soon to be married and they’ll have to decide what to do about the house they share. Helen is quite attracted to Harry Wade, the owner of a lumber yard who has fallen on hard times after one of his customers goes bankrupt. Helen decides to help Harry out with an $8,000 “loan” after he assures her that he can repay her within 48 hours. When things don’t work out as planned, Harry has a decision to make. A dishonest businessman tries to trick his girlfriend into supplying him with money. Harry Wade works at a lumberyard and owes his customers money. His girlfriend Helen provides him with a loan to pay off his debts. She tells him that she is remortgaging her house, but in actuality is embezzling the money from her office. Harry agrees to pay her back in 48 hours. When Harry fails to pay up, she grows worried and tells him how she got the money. Harry leaves and comes back with the money. He tells her that he got the money from costumer, but in reality, he got it from a loan shark. Later, however, Harry disappears. Helen discovers that Harry was killed when he could not pay the loan shark back in time.

💋💋Episode #4: The Contest for Aaron Gold💋💋 – A pensive, withdrawn child attending a summer camp fashions a one-armed warrior knight in clay, to the consternation of his counselors. Is there a reason behind this particular display? Aaron Gold stays at a summer camp and is being taught ceramics by Bernie Samuelson. Aaron makes a clay figure of a knight for Bernie’s class. The figure, however, lacks a right arm. Bernie encourages the boy to finish up before his parent’s visit. Aaron brushes off the encouragement and leaves the figure without an arm. Later, the camp director worrying how the camp would look if Aaron appeared to learn nothing in is stay orders Bernie to finish the figure himself. He does so and greatly upsets Aaron. When Aaron’s father arrives on Parents day, Bernie is shocked to discover that he is missing his right arm. Bernie Samuelson is a ceramic arts teacher at a children’s summer camp. From the very first day, he notices that young Aaron Gold has a real talent for sculpture. Aaron much prefers ceramics to swimming classes but when the Camp Director criticizes Bernie for Aaron’s lateness in swimming, Bernie promises not to hold him back. After a few weeks though, Bernie lets Aaron skip swimming and then learns that Aaron has yet to complete any of the camp activities. As Parents’ Day approaches, the Camp Director files into a rage when he realizes Aaron has yet to complete his sculpture. When Aaron’s Dad shows up, things become a little clearer. A young man devotes his entire day at a summer camp to modeling a one-armed clay knight. Aaron Gold stays at a summer camp and is being taught ceramics by Bernie Samuelson. Aaron makes a clay figure of a knight for Bernie’s class. The figure, however, lacks a right arm. Bernie encourages the boy to finish up before his parent’s visit. Aaron brushes off the encouragement and leaves the figure with an arm. Later, the Camp Director worrying how the camp would look if Aaron appeared to learn nothing in his stay orders Bernie to finish the figure himself. He does and greatly upsets Aaron. When Aaron’s father arrives on Parents’ Day, Bernie is shocked to discover that he is missing his right arm.

💋💋Episode #5: The Five Forty-Eight💋💋 – Two passengers on a train leaving Grand Central Station at 5:48 – one in fear of his past catching up with him at long last, the other intent on exacting a revenge which will restore the balance of power. James Blake leaves his office and is stalked by a woman named Iris Dent. She follows him onto a train and pulls a gun on him. Apparently, Iris is James’ former secretary. She is also his former lover. She was fired when James began to worry that his wife might find out. Iris is back for revenge. She follows him off the train and forces him to kneel in the dirt. She does not kill James, she only wanted to humiliate him. A mentally unstable secretary finally catches up to her cruel former boss and makes him listen to what she has to say, at gunpoint. Mr. Blake commutes to work by train and is followed by a Miss Dent who is obviously desperate to speak to him. She sits next to him on the train and threatens to kill him if he doesn’t listen to her. She has been hospitalized for eight months after having suffering a mental breakdown. It seems she once worked as his secretary but lived a very lonely life with few friends. After spending the night together, however, Blake has her fired and she is clearly intent on revenge. A philandering senior manager finds himself being stalked by his previous secretary woman he seduced, then fired. James Blake leaves his office and is stalked by a woman named Iris Dent. She follows him onto a train and pulls a gun on him. Apparently, Iris is James’s former secretary. She is also his former lover. She was fired when James began to worry that his wife might find out. Iris back for revenge. She follows him off the train and forces him to kneel in the dirt. She does not kill James; she only wanted to humiliate him.

💋💋Episode #6: Pen Pal💋💋 – Love letters from a pen pal bring an escaped convict to a country cottage in search of the woman he plans to make his bride. With the police closing in, is more than his heart trapped? Margaret Lowen discovers from a detective that her niece is corresponding with a convict named Rod Collins who has just escaped rom prison. She agrees to tell the police if the convict comes to her home. Later, Rod arrives. He tells Margaret that he has fallen in love with her niece. Margaret tells the police who arrive in time to arrest him. After Rod is escorted away, Margaret sits down to write a letter to him. She was the one that corresponding to him in prison. She wrote the letters in her niece’s name. A no parole prisoner breaks out of prison to meet the woman pen pal he has fallen in love with, but only finds her aunt at home. Miss Lowen receives visit from the police to warn her that her niece, who is an orphan and has lived with her for nine years, has been corresponding with Rod Collins, a lifer at the State Penitentiary. It would appear that her niece got in touch with him through a pen pal club. The officer warns her that Collins has broken out of jail and may be coming her way. Fortunately, her niece is out of town visiting friends and when Collins shows up, she is left with no choice but to call the police Collins is recaptured, but what does she tell her niece? With the law enforcement one step ahead of him, runaway prisoner Rod Collins searches for the pen pal he plans to wed. Margaret Lowen discovers from a detective that her niece is corresponding with a convict named Rod Collins who has just escaped from prison. She agrees to tell the police if the convict comes to her home. Later, Rod arrives. He tells Margaret he has fallen in love with her niece. Margaret tells the police who arrive in time to arrest him. After Rod is escorted away, Margaret sits down to write a letter to him. She was the one that was corresponding to him in prison. She wrote the letters in her niece’s name.

💋💋Episode #7: Outlaw in Town💋💋 – At the Last Chance Saloon, an outlaw rides in town amidst a raging blizzard. The “Whisking Kid” has a price on his head and everyone wants a piece of the action. Pepe Lorca enters a saloon in the Old West. One of the bar patrons notices that Lorca resembles a man on a wanted poster offering a large reward. Soon, all the bar patrons are bidding with him for the right to collect the reward. Soon a raffle is held. A woman named Shasta wins, but she has no intention of turning Lorca in. The next day both she and Lorca re gone. A U.S. Marshall arrives and reveals that Pepe was the brother of a wanted man who has since died. The raffle held the day before was just a scam to collect money. Tony Lorca arrives in a small town in the middle of a blizzard to a less than pleasant reception in the local saloon. One of the locals says he’s seen him before but leaves the saloon before trouble starts. Lorca loses his gun in a Poker game at which point the same local returns with a Sheriff’s poster: Lorca is a wanted man with a $5000 reward on his head. Seeing his way out, Lorca auctions himself to the highest bidder, offering to turn himself in without a fuss. His plan is to spend the money and have a good time before he meets the hangman. Turns out he killed the saloon girl’s husband some time ago and she has something else in mind. But is Lorca really who he says he is? A gentleman with a price on his head watches as avaricious townspeople bid for the right to turn him in. Pepe Lorca enters a saloon in an Old West time. One of the bar patrons notices that Lorca resembles a man on a wanted poster offering a large reward. Soon, all the bar patrons are bidding with him for the right to collect the reward. Soon, a raffle is held. A woman named Shasta wins, but she has no intention of turning Lorca in. The next day both her and Lorca are gone. A U.S. Marshal arrives and reveals that Pepe was the brother of a wanted man who has since died. The raffle held the day before was just a scam to collect money.

💋💋Episode #8: Oh, Youth and Beauty!💋💋 – A midlife crisis for a man with a teenage past boasting athletic prowess and vigor puts a dangerous strain on his marriage and his own physical state. How much more can a wife take living under starter’s orders? Cash Bentley is a former hurdling champ who has grown much too old to compete. When he goes to a dance, he is taunted into putting on an exhibition which his wife Louise opposes. Later, Cash forces his wife to help him run another course. He gives her a revolver to use as a starting pistol. As he starts the race, Louise pulls the trigger. He starts out but is hit by the bullet in mid-hurdle and dies. Cash Bentley is having a hard time coping with middle age. A one-champion hurdler, he now drinks a bit too much and doesn’t quite earn enough money to pay for the lifestyle he would like to provide for his family, such as a membership at local country club. Despondent he decides to try one last “race”, with tragic results. Grownup Cash Bentley frantically clings to his youth, even if it means proving he can do the exhausting corporal calisthenics of a younger man. Cash Bentley is a former hurdling champion who has grown much too old to compete. When he goes to a dance, he is taunted into putting an exhibition, which is wife Louise opposes. Later, Cash forces his wife to help him run another course. He gives her a revolver to use as a starting pistol. As he starts the race, Louis pulls the trigger. He starts out but is hit by the bullet in mid-hurdle and dies.