The BEST episodes directed by Paul Henreid
#1 - My Son, My Son
The Big Valley - Season 1 - Episode 8
An old childhood friend of Audra's returns and surprises her at her birthday party. She doesn't know that he is dangerous and emotionally disturbed.
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The Big Valley - Season 1 - Episode 9
An earthquake traps Victoria with several others in a forgotten mine shaft under the mission church.
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#5 - The Fallen Hawk
The Big Valley - Season 1 - Episode 23
Heath feels that his friend's injury and paralysis is his fault, and ends up being used by the man.
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#6 - The Crooked Road
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 4 - Episode 4
A joyride in a new convertible is seriously called to a halt as the corrupt public officials in a small town attempt to take advantage of the defenseless drivers.
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#7 - 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.
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#8 - Annabel
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Season 1 - Episode 7
David Kelsey, a research chemist, is in love with Annabel. He assumes another identity so that they can share their moments together in complete privacy. He even builds a beautiful dream home for the two of them. David is hopelessly infatuated with her. Unfortunately, Annabel wants no part of him. She's married and both she and her husband wonder when David will get the hint. He does not and eventually murders the couple. He installs her corpse in the bedroom of their dreamhouse so that she can be by his side for the rest of his life.
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The Big Valley - Season 2 - Episode 18
15-year-old Lud Akeley is determined to take care of his younger siblings without any help from the Barkley family, while looking for the mother who left them.
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#10 - Last Request
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 3 - Episode 8
A death-row inmate awaiting the electric chair uses his final hours to prove his innocence in a killing.
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#11 - Out There, Darkness
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 4 - Episode 16
When a wealthy woman mistakenly accuses her elevator boy of robbing her, his resulting imprisonment will take her to levels of guilt she never expected.
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#12 - Services Rendered
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 7 - Episode 10
Being hit by a falling plank of wood has rendered a young man with amnesia. All he has in his possession is a $1000 bill and a note with a doctor's address. Visiting the doctor jogs his memory, which is unfortunate for one of them.
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#13 - A Time to Step Down
Bonanza - Season 8 - Episode 3
After the Cartwrights put wrangler Dan Tolliver out to pasture, the embittered old man plans to take part in robbing the Ponderosa.
#14 - The Landlady
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 6 - Episode 19
In a small provincial town, an English lady takes in lodgers. For Billy Weaver, the town of Bramley offers accommodation at a reasonable rate, and a vacation to die for.
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#15 - Enough Rope for Two
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 3 - Episode 7
An ex-con heads to a mine to retrieve a cache of stolen loot. When his two former partners show up, three's a crowd with $100,000 at stake.
#16 - Hitch Hike
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 5 - Episode 21
A righteous and hypocritical civic leader on a road trip accepts mechanical help from a young man who then asks for a lift, soon afterwards he reveals he's recently been released from reform school.
#17 - Victim Four
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 7 - Episode 32
A newlywed couple are involved in an accident, leaving them each with a disability. The husband has a bad limp, but his wife's injuries are not as easily identified ... until one night when she goes missing.
#18 - You Can't Trust a Man
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 6 - Episode 30
When a nightclub beauty is visited upon by the misfortune of a former husband whom she has carelessly neglected to divorce amidst her rapid rise to stardom and subsequent bigamy, murder seems the only answer. Surely, reasons beautiful Crystal Coe, you can't trust a man to be of any worth her now?
#19 - Letter of Credit
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 5 - Episode 36
When he goes to a bank to transfer money, a man writing a book on the subject of unsolved crimes has no idea that he will find information about the $500,000 robbery he is chronicling ... or does he?
#20 - A Little Sleep
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 2 - Episode 38
A fickle young woman gets entangled in a web of crime and deceit at her remote mountain cabin.
#21 - 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.
#22 - Self Defense
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 6 - Episode 32
When a robbery goes wrong and one fatal bullet becomes four, can self defense really be the motive behind a frightened man's gun-toting pursuit of the culprits? The police think not ... and they may have a point.
#23 - Ambition
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 6 - Episode 38
The price of ambition for District Attorney Rudolf Cox is high when a hard-bitten hoodlum prepares to make a confession that could put an end to his high-profile career.
#24 - 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.
#25 - Museum Piece
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 6 - Episode 25
Dark secrets lie at the heart of a private Indian museum, with one particular exhibit telling a sinister story of seduction, betrayal and murder.
#26 - Guilty
The Big Valley - Season 3 - Episode 7
A client of Jarrod's escapes and takes over the schoolhouse where Audra is the substitute teacher.
#27 - 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?
#28 - What Frightened You, Fred?
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 7 - Episode 30
The warden of a prison is puzzled by the fact a man has just broken his parole conditions just two days after being released. Despite probing for answers, the warden eventually discovers the reason for the convict's return.
#29 - Cell 227
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 5 - Episode 34
A falsely convicted prisoner is determined to make his walk to the gas chamber on of dignity, but his plan suddenly changes when he hurls himself at the jovial guard known as "Pops".
#30 - The Diplomatic Corpse
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 3 - Episode 10
Touring Mexico, Janet's rich aunt dies, and the car holding her corpse is stolen. Without a body, Janet can't claim the inheritance.
#31 - Silent Witness
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 3 - Episode 5
Intending to break up with an infatuated student, professor Donald Mason tracks her down at a babysitting job, where the conversation ends in murder.
#32 - A Personal Matter
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 4 - Episode 15
Two construction engineers are between more than just a rock and a hard place when one of them discovers the other's violent past during an explosive tunnel blast.
#33 - Guest for Breakfast
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 3 - Episode 21
In this violent home-invasion tale, a gun-wielding convict terrorizes a married couple whose relationship is already on the ropes.
#34 - The Old Pro
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 7 - Episode 8
A hit-man's retirement is jeopardized when he is blackmailed by a man threatening to reveal his past to his wife - who knows nothing about his wicked ways.
#35 - Death Sentence
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 3 - Episode 30
Love is in the eye of the beholder when a happily married woman sees a bomb attached to the family car as a sign of her husband's affection.
#36 - Long Ride to Wind River
The Virginian - Season 4 - Episode 18
Medicine Bow storekeeper, Benjy Davis (Quinn Redeker), a friend of the Virginian, is sentenced to death for murdering Hobey Kendall (Robert Karnes), a man who sexually assaulted his wife. However, Benjy says he had met a man near the murdered man's home named Jonah McIntosh (John Cassavettes) and the Virginian traces that man to a colony of mountain men near Wind River. Jonah admits he killed Kendall in self-defence but will not return to clear Benjy. The Virginian takes Jonah a prisoner but has a difficult time getting Jonah back to Medicine Bow due to the pursuing mountain men and an encounter with a murderous trapper (Dub Taylor). He manages to accomplish his task thanks to the help of a beautiful young Shoshone widow, Hapamawa (Pilar Seurat) and to a growing respect and trust between himself and Jonah.
#37 - Vicious Circle
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 2 - Episode 29
A hired killer discovers there's a huge catch to being the favorite of his organization's big boss.
#38 - The Impromptu Murder
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 3 - Episode 38
Still waters run deep when a lawyer with mayoral ambitions murders a woman who claimed he tried to embezzle money from her in the past.