The BEST episodes written by Henry Slesar
#1 - Blood Bargain
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Season 2 - Episode 5
Jim Derry is a hit man who is hired to kill a bookie named Eddie Breech. He begins to have second thoughts when he finds out that Eddie's wife Connie is confined to a wheelchair and is being cheated on by her husband. He talks to the Breechs and agrees to help the two fake Eddie's death so that Derry can get paid for the hit and the two can start over in Mexico. Derry goes to the morgue and aquires a body. He puts Eddies wallet and wedding ring on the corpse and starts it on fire after putting it in a car. Derry gets paid, but is arrested by the police. The police found the car and believe Eddie is dead. Derry tells the police that Eddie is in Mexico. The police then bring Connie into the room. She accuses Derry of shooting Eddie the night before. Derry has been set up. Connie killed her husband and set up Derry to take the fall.
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#2 - Behind the Locked Door
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Season 2 - Episode 22
Newlyweds Dave and Bonnie Snowden visit the abandoned home of Bonnie's late father. In the home, Dave finds a locked door and comes to believe that there is something valuable inside. Later, Dave and Bonnie tell Bonnie's elderly mother Mrs. Daniels that they are married. Bonnie's mother is convinced that Dave is after her daughter inheritance. She tries to bribe Dave to annull the marriage. Dave refuses, but he is desperate for money. In an effort to convince Bonnie's mother of his good intentions. He convinces Bonnie to fake a suicide attempt by overdosing on sleeping pills. Dave hopes that Mrs. Daniels will see him caring for her and change her mind about him. Unfortunately, Bonnie is allergic to sleeping pills and accidently dies. After the funeral, Mrs. Daniels tells Dave that she has had a change of heart. She gives him the abandoned house. Dave heads to the home and again wonders what is behind the locked door. As he talks to himself, Dave accidently reveals to a secretly listeni
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#3 - Isabel
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Season 2 - Episode 31
Howard Clements is wrongfully accused of assaulting a woman named Isabel Smith. He is convicted of the crime and is sent to prison for two years. When he gets out of prison he steals $13,000 which is the exact amount he would have earned if he had not been in prison. He then opens a record store in his hometown. He meets Isabel a few times and manages to get a date with her. Eventually the two become engaged. On their honeymoon, Howard sabotages the fuel line of the boat they rented and convinces Isabel to take a ride on it solo. Later, Howard gets hiw revenge when he hears an explosion in the distance. As he returns home, he is stopped by the police who know about his theft and also suspect him of murder.
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#4 - I Saw the Whole Thing
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Season 1 - Episode 4
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 defense attorney. He is exonerated after he shows that each witness only saw what they wanted to see. Ultimately, however, it is revealed that he was not the driver. The driver was his pregnant wife. Barnes arranged to have himself accused because he knew that his wife would not be able to stand the strains of a trial.
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#5 - Who Needs an Enemy?
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Season 2 - Episode 28
Charlie Osgood has been robbing his partner Eddie Turtin for years. When Eddie finds out, he threatens to go to the police unless Charlie can give him back what he stole. Determined not to ply, Charlie and his girlfriend Danielle decide to fake Charlie's suicide and then leave the country. Charlie gives Eddie hints of suicide and then throws an explosives laden dummy over a bridge. After blowing up the dummy in the water, Eddie becomes convinced that Charlie is dead. Eddie gives the eulogy at Charlie's memorial service as Charlie heads to the office to pick up his stolen cash. He grabs the money and, afterwards, he and Danielle celebrate with drink. Charlie passes out after the drink and awakens to find Eddie and Danielle. Charlie realizes that he has been set up. Eddie planned to take the money and blame the theft on his dead partner. Eddie and Danielle get rid of Charlie for good by pushing him off a pier and blowing him up in the water.
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#6 - Final Vow
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Season 1 - Episode 6
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 the convent give her time to think everything over by letting her pick up a valuable statue from a reformed gangster. As she is returning, however, the statue is stolen by a young criminal named Jimmy Bresson. In order to get the statue back she leaves the convent and hunts Jimmy down. She arranges to have a date with him to get into his apartment. Unfortunately, she discovers that he has pawned the statue. She takes the pawn ticket and heads for the pawn shop. As she is about to get it back, Jimmy catches her. Jimmy and the dishonest pawn shop owner want to kill Pamela, but they want to have the statue appraised first. They call an appraiser, but it turns out to be the man who originally offered the statue to the convent. He tells them that the statue is worthless and convinces them to let Pamela go. Having confr
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#7 - Starring the Defense
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Season 2 - Episode 7
Miles Crawford is a former actor turned lawyer. He gets an oppotunity to practice both professions when his son Tod is arrested an put on trial for murder. Tod is guilty but Miles makes an impassioned summation that manages to sway both the judge and the jury. Unfortunately, the prosecutor is a movie fan and he points out that Miles's summation was lifted word for word from a old movie in which Crawford played a defense attorney in charge of a case very similar to the one he is in charge of now.
#8 - House Guest
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Season 1 - Episode 8
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 believe that they made a terrible mistake. One night Roscoe wrecks their car and hits on a camper's wife. Angry, John punches him and knocks him to the ground. John is shocked, however, when the camper examines Roscoe's body and declares that Roscoe is dead. The camper suggests that they bury the body in the woods and forget the whole thing. John agrees and lets the camper deal with the body. Later, John is disturbed to discover that the woods are going to be excavated as a part of a new highway construction. Since he doesn't know exactly where the body is, he calls the camper and tells him that they must move the corpse. The camper agrees, but demands $20,000. He tells John that he will go to the police if he does not pay the money. John writes a check, but before he can give it to the camper his wif
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#9 - The Second Verdict
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Season 2 - Episode 30
Ned Murray is a lawyer who gets Lew Rydell off on a murder charge, but later learns that he is guilty. Knowing that Lew cannot be tried twice for the same crime, Ned seeks out other ways to bring the man to justice. He talks to a gangster Tony Hardeman who misinterprets Ned's concern and decides to have Lew killed. Ned suspects that a murder is about to take place and tries to save Lew. He arrives at Lew's house too late and discovers that Lew is still alive. He managed to kill Tony before he could kill him. Ned realizes that he can now have Lew sent to prison since he can now be tried for another murder. Guilt overwhealms him, however, and Ned decides to defend Lew in court once again.
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#10 - The Right Kind of House
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 3 - Episode 23
After the death of her troubled son, a mother decides to sell her house, but a potential buyer discovers she may be hiding something.
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#11 - The Round Table Affair
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - Season 2 - Episode 27
Lucho Nostra and a group of criminals take over a tiny European country, Ingolstein, because it has no extradition treaty. Prince Frederick is afraid to kick them out, so Solo convinces princess Vicky to return and do so, only to find that she cannot because the treasury has been replaced with IOU's to Nostra for the prince's gambling debts. Nostra arranges for permanent protection by forcing a marriage between Vicky and one of his henchmen, Artie King, but the two actually do fall in love. King duels Nostra, with the fate of the country riding on the outcome.
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#12 - The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross
The Twilight Zone - Season 5 - Episode 16
A man finds that he can trade characteristics with others.
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#13 - The Kind Waitress
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 4 - Episode 25
Thelma Tomkins and her deadbeat boyfriend begin poisoning an old and wealthy woman in order to get an inheritance ... but the results are not what they expected.
#14 - The Matched Pearl
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 7 - Episode 29
The sale of an expensive pearl teaches a con-man a lesson in honesty that will cost him far more than just his integrity.
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#15 - The Morning After
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 4 - Episode 14
Motherly love knows no bounds when a woman decides to get revenge on the married man who has been dating her daughter.
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#16 - Forty Detectives Later
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 5 - Episode 28
The forty-first private eye hired by a man to find his wife's killer follows the clues to a suspect, and then realizes that the case is more complex than he had realized.
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#17 - The Old Man in the Cave
The Twilight Zone - Season 5 - Episode 7
A mysterious guardian helps a tiny community survive after the Bomb destroys much of the Earth.
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#18 - The Horseplayer
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 6 - Episode 22
On a wing and a prayer, a gambler with a mission thinks he has a hotline to God in praying for a string of successful winners. Convincing a naive minister to play the odds with the parish funds, could this be the race which beats the horse player?
#19 - Not the Running Type
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 5 - Episode 19
After twelve years in prison for stealing $200,000 from his investment firm employers, Milton Potter calmly returns all the money he embezzled and pursues some very unique post-prison retirement plans.
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#20 - Incident in a Small Jail
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 6 - Episode 23
An arresting tale of crime and misdemeanor in a small town sees a traveling salesman embroiled in deceit and murder. In a twisted variation on the prince and the pauper, the swapping of clothes reveals the true identity of a murderous fiend.
#21 - Heart of Gold
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 3 - Episode 4
A convicted robber is released to the family of one of his cell mates, against the better judgment of his parole officer.
#22 - Keep Me Company
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 7 - Episode 5
A lonely housewife invents the story a prowler is on her property in order to entice a handsome detective to visit her. But she may have inadvertently helped the police with a major investigation that will affect her own life.
#23 - The Test
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 7 - Episode 20
When a young boy murders another boy with a knife, his father convinces attorney Vernon Wedge to take on the case. Wedge comes up with a rather unique "test" to prove the boy's innocence, providing it can be used in court.
#24 - The Right Kind of Medicine
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 7 - Episode 11
A doctor gets more than he bargains for when he attends to a man's gunshot wound. However, the doctor may have the ultimate revenge from the grave.
#25 - Night of the Execution
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 3 - Episode 13
Warren, a prosecuting attorney with a long history of acquittals, must deliver a guilty verdict in a murder case to ensure his political future.
#26 - Coming Home
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 6 - Episode 35
When an armed robber is released from prison, beaten down by the system and wanting to retreat to his long-lost family life, his homecoming makes for a shocking revelation.
#27 - A Crime for Mothers
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 6 - Episode 16
When a mother returns to seek out her long-lost abandoned daughter, money rather than love seems to be her driving motive. Refusing to pay, the girl's pseudo-adoptive parents call the woman's bluff and demand a court settlement to the matter.
#28 - What Really Happened
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Season 1 - Episode 16
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 poison, but Eve is the chief suspect after she is fingered by Howard's mother. Believing that Eve's innocence will come out in trial, Addie remains silent about any wrong doing. Unfortunately, the prosecution reveals that Addie's 'son' is really Eve's son from a previous marriage. They claim that Eve killed her husband to prevent being seperated from the boy. As things begin to look worse for Eve, Addie confesses her guilt in a note and attempts suicide. Her suicide attempt is stopped in time and she is forced to stand trial.
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#29 - The Bridge of Lions Affair (1)
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - Season 2 - Episode 20
Illya investigates the mysterious disappearance of cats in Soho, and he and Solo discover that a salon run by Madame De Sala is a front for her plan to develop a rejuvenation process, which De Sala plans to use on the now elderly target of her romantic desires, Sir Norman Swickert. Assisted by Joanna Sweet, a nurse, they end up in the bottom of a wine press. Meanwhile, THRUSH agent Jordin plots to obtain the process for THRUSH.
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#30 - Burglar Proof
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 7 - Episode 21
As part of a publicity gimmich, ex-criminal Sammy Morrissey agrees to attempt opening a "burglar proof" safe. If he can unlock the safe at a press conference, he can keep the $50,000 contained within. But will Morrissey prove the hand is quicker than the eye?
#31 - The Last Escape
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 6 - Episode 17
An escapologist with a daring new act, a deceitful wife with a passion for music and the musician performing it, and a last escape worthy of Houdini himself, make cheating death a circus act to bend anyone's sanity.
#32 - Most Likely to Succeed
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 7 - Episode 31
A bragging, successful businessman takes pity on a former down-on-his-luck college friend by giving him a job, revealing how he has cheated the government out of tax revenue. Perhaps he should have kept his mouth shut.
#33 - On the Nose
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 3 - Episode 20
A gambling-addicted housewife owes money to a bookie, and resorts to desperate measures in order to raise the money.
#34 - A Night with the Boys
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 4 - Episode 30
When he loses all his money in a poker game, a man tells his pregnant wife an involved lie to explain the missing cash.
#35 - The Money
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 6 - Episode 9
To win the hand of his beautiful girlfriend, a bookie-turned-import agent eyes the main chance with a deceitful ploy. In so doing, he finds himself earning more than the highest prize.
#36 - The Kerry Blue
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 7 - Episode 28
The death of a beloved pooch sets off a series of deadly events for the dog's shattered owner.
#37 - The Last Remains
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 7 - Episode 25
A funeral director blackmails a client when he discovers the man's business partner didn't really die in a road accident, but was shot instead.
#38 - One Grave Too Many
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 5 - Episode 32
Chronic unemployment makes a poor husband desperate enough to steal from a man he believes is dead, but he soon regrets the decision when he sees that the lifted wallet contains more than just cash.
#39 - The Man with Two Faces
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 6 - Episode 11
The theft of a woman's purse is the start of a tale of profit and loss which strikes close to home when the identity of the culprit is sought through a series of conflicting photographs.
#40 - Party Line
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 5 - Episode 33
A busybody fears for her life when she learns that the man who blames her for his wife's death has escaped from prison and may be planning a visit with his former neighbor.
#41 - The Right Price
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 4 - Episode 22
A middle-aged couple, recently wed and constantly bickering, learn how married life can be murder.
#42 - A Woman's Help
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 6 - Episode 24
When you're handsome and attractive, the ladies will always pay you the sort of attention you want. For Arnold Bourdon, there's only one problem: how to get rid of his shrewish but wealthy wife. Perhaps her new companion and nurse hold the key.
#43 - The Opportunity
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 7 - Episode 33
An assistant manager of a department store finds a unique use for a girl he has caught shoplifting. Agreeing to let the girl off, he sets into motion a plan that will lead to murder.
#44 - The Virtue Affair
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - Season 2 - Episode 11
French fanatic Robespierre seeks to destroy France's vineyards in his quest for virtue, and Solo enlists the aid of scientist Raoul Dubois and his daughter Albert in combating the plan. Illya is captured by THRUSH agent Carl Voegler and, with a target painted on his back, is hunted through the woods by Voegler's archers.
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#45 - The Hatbox
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 7 - Episode 1
When caught cheating on a test, Perry Hatch visits his college Professor to plead his case before a letter is sent to his parents. But upon witnessing the Professor disposing of a brand new ladies hat box, Perry thinks he may be onto something sinister.
#46 - The Case of M.J.H.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 7 - Episode 16
Young criminal Jimmy French convinces his girlfriend to take a peek at her psychiatrist boss' files in order to find the perfect blackmail victim. But will Jimmy end up being the one under analysis?
#47 - First Class Honeymoon
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 7 - Episode 36
Initially delighted with divorce, a man soon regrets the agreement when his ex-wife's alimony payments are wiping him out. Desperate to claw back the money, a scheme involving a stranger may be the key to his happiness ... or cause further debt.
#48 - Cop for a Day
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 7 - Episode 4
Two bank robbers, Phil and Davey, are forced to act when it is revealed a woman was an eye-witness to their crime. Phil devises a clever plan to dress up as a policeman to gain entry to her secure location, but will his plan go without a hitch?
#49 - Examination Day
The Twilight Zone (1985) - Season 1 - Episode 14
In the far future, twelve-year-old Dickie must pass the mandatory government intelligence test.
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#50 - Insomnia
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 5 - Episode 30
Lack of sleep is ruining a widower's life, but the real nightmare begins when he finally meets his brother-in-law, a menacing veteran still holding a grudge for his sister's death.