The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, known as Alfred Hitchcock Presents from 1955 to 1962, aired 29 episodes during its 10th and final season from 1964 to 1965.
Episodes
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| 333 | 1 | "The Return of Verge Likens" | Arnold Laven | James Bridges (teleplay) Davis Grubb (story) | Peter Fonda as Verge Likens, Robert Emhardt as Riley McGrath | October 5, 1964 | |
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Verge Likens (Fonda) is a farmer whose father, Stoney (Barrat), is shot and killed by a crooked politician named Riley McGrath (Emhardt) in front of Riley's driver D.D. Martin (Lindsey), tavernkeeper Fred Starcher (Bramley), and Riley's female friend Mary Masterson (Merchant). County Sheriff Reynolds (Boles) stops by the Likens Farm to inform Verge and brother Wilford (Reese) of Stoney's death. Rush says that it was self-defense, as Stoney had bottles in his hand, but Verge insists that Stoney never carried a gun, so it could only be murder. After selling their produce, Verge throws the Likens' remaining apples through the bar's windows and is arrested. Aunt Ida Maye (Westman) and Aunt Mary Jane (Walker) arrive to look after the farm and cook meals. After spending some time in jail, Verge returns home to avenge his father's death, promising Wilford after Stoney's funeral that he kill Riley. Verge tails Riley for a month to determine his schedule and routine, even learning that he has a bad heart. Wilford goes to see Riley and tells him that Stoney was his father and Verge keeps speaking of killing Riley. Wilford gives Riley the Likens Farm address and Riley gives Wilford five hundred dollars cash. Riley gives Verge the money, and Verge decides to go to Charleston to learn how to kill Riley "real slow". He sends Riley a "rest in peace" laurel to Riley's office, so Riley has D.D. drive out to the Likens Farm, but Verge has been gone for six months, so D.D. takes Wilford for a drive to Fred's tavern instead. Riley asks numerous questions about Verge to Wilford, but Wilford plays dumb. D.D. takes Wilford out to the car but beats him looking for information. Verge returns and manages to get close to Riley by getting hired as an assistant at the barbershop of Rush Sigafoose (Seel), which resides next door to the McGrath Building where Riley works. After asking the barber to run an errand looking for towels and some rum, Verge is alone with Riley and proceeds to lather up the murdering politician for a shave, with Verge initially claiming to be named Odell Jones. Verge vividly describes how he is planning to cut Riley's throat. When the barber returns to the barbershop, he finds the door locked and gets the police. Verge finally opens the door and the sheriff rushes to Riley's now dead body. Verge has avenged his father's death, but he is not guilty of a crime; Riley died of a heart attack, though with a first-class shave. Supporting Cast: Sam Reese as Wilford Likens, Jim Boles as Sheriff Reynolds, George Lindsey as D.D. Martin, William Bramley as Fred Starcher, Robert Barrat as Stoney Likens, Charles Seel as Rush Sigafoose, June Walker as Aunt Mary Jane, Nydia Westman as Aunt Ida Maye, Cathie Merchant as Mary Masterson | |||||||
| 334 | 2 | "Change of Address" | David Friedkin | Andrew Benedict (story) Morton S. Fine, David Friedkin (teleplay) | Arthur Kennedy as Keith Hollands, Phyllis Thaxter as Elsa Hollands | October 12, 1964 | |
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Over the protests of his wife Elsa (Thaxter), Keith Hollands (Kennedy) rents a beach house from landlord Mr. Miley (Dano). Elsa dislikes the house, and she is frightened when a bird flies into the window and breaks it and is further disturbed by her husband's digging of a grave-like hole in the cellar. She is still upset with Keith about him injuring her hip on a prior excursion and believes that he wants to hurt her again. When Keith tells Elsa that he wants to buy the house, she decides to foil his plan by contacting the wife of the current owner to tell her to not to sell. Keith goes to speak with Mr. Miley, and Miley and secretary Reba (Davis) have a good laugh at Elsa's disturbed nature. Keith takes Elsa out to a club for youth, and local girl Rachel (Sterling) is there dancing with a young man (Blodgett), which both notice. Elsa tells Keith that it is possible that she wants what he does as well, to be free of each other, and she slaps him as she declares her loathing for the beach house and their new life. Elsa leaves the club without him, so he takes the opportunity to leave with Rachel. Keith gradually grows angry with Elsa accusing him of "trying to be a twenty-year-old" and being so uncompromising about his desire to live youthfully in the beach house. She is distraught when she finds out that Keith is discretely seeing Rachel, whom Elsa had thought might be a good friend for her. He kills Elsa and buries her body in the cellar hole, cementing it over with his initials and handprint before paying a $5,000 deposit to Miley to buy the house, saying that Elsa left him after a bad fight. He is surprised when the Police Sergeant Bryant (Karnes) and Officers Raymo (Lessing) and Felton suddenly arrive a couple days later with shovels and want to dig up the basement. The police tell Keith that Elsa discovered the wife of the house's owner, Mr. Wilson, was missing, so she tipped off the police and they began an investigation. They called the house's owner in for questioning, and he confessed to murdering his wife and burying her in the basement of the beach house. The police are at the beach house to dig up the basement so that they can find the body. Supporting Cast: Royal Dano as Mr. Miley, Tisha Sterling as Rachel, Robert Karnes as Sergeant Bryant, Susan Davis as Reba, Arnold Lessing as Officer Raymo, Michael Blodgett as Dancer (Apollo) Note: The actor who played Officer Felton is uncredited and currently unknown. | |||||||
| 335 | 3 | "Water's Edge" | Bernard Girard | Robert Bloch (short story) Alfred Hayes (teleplay) | Ann Sothern as Helen Cox, John Cassavetes as Rusty Connors | October 19, 1964 | |
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Rusty Connors (Cassavetes) is a con man serving time with cellmate Mike Krause (Barnes), a robber and murderer who killed his partner, Pete Taylor, and then hid both the money ($56,000) and his partner's body. Rusty is near the end of his time served, but Mike is only two years into a ten-year sentence. Despite worries from a guard (Brown) and orderly (Joyce) regarding Mike's chronic cough, Rusty and Mike discuss Mike's wife, Helen (Sothern), and his ideal life that he lost. Mike soon dies as he was beaten often and suffered greatly in prison. The money and the body have never turned up, and upon Rusty's release, he decides to look up Helen in pursuit of the stolen loot. Rusty gets to Mike's hometown and speaks with a newsstand dealer (Fresco) about the local hotspots before setting off to find Helen. Rusty stumbles upon Helen working as a restaurant waitress and mentions that he has a message for her from Mike, hoping that she knows where the money is. When they meet later in a local park, she does not have a clue, noting that even the police looked for an entire year to no avail. Mike romances Helen on the pretense of being lonely, though his heart seeks the money (and she seems more oriented towards wealth than love as well). Eventually, through logically defining the time period of the robbery night, they are able to figure out that the money is stored in an abandoned boathouse, which is now infested with rats. Rusty even figures out that Mike got bit by a rat that night, as he used a razor to purposefully cut his arm to cover the blood evidence all over the car. In the boathouse, they find the money and the skeleton of Krause's partner in the attic. When Rusty sees the money, he is overcome with greed and tries to murder Helen, but she manages to knock him out when he bends down to pick up a rock with which to hit her. When Rusty awakens, he finds himself bound and gagged and being taunted by Helen, who has been playing not only him the entire time but also Mike as well; she even admits to having an affair with Pete for six months prior to the robbery. She gets up to leave with the money but is tricked and tripped by Rusty and is impaled on a hook. As she dies, the scent of her blood attracts the rats. Since Rusty is bound, all he can do is listen with horror as the rats approach to kill him by eating him alive. Supporting Cast: Rayford Barnes as Mike Krause, Jimmy Joyce as Ed the Prison Orderly, David Fresco as Newsstand Dealer, James Brown (credited as J.B. Brown) as Prison Guard | |||||||
| 336 | 4 | "The Life Work of Juan Diaz" | Norman Lloyd | Ray Bradbury (story) | Alejandro Rey as Juan Diaz, Frank Silvera as Alejandro | October 26, 1964 | |
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Juan Diaz (Rey) is dying and penniless; his last wish is that he can provide financial security for his family. Local gravedigger Alejandro (Silvera) takes tourists (Pope, Lindsey, Swanson, Barnes) on tours of the local cemetery to look at mummies while Juan jokes with Ignacia the coffin maker (Montoya) about whether Juan has a skull with Ignacia's name on it. Juan, however, soon collapses and breaks all his skulls while wife Maria (Pellicer) and son Jorge (Domasin) try to help. With Maria and Jorge searching for medicine, Juan rents a grave from Alejandro for two years at forty pesos total payment. Alejandro takes Juan on a tour of the catacombs, where Alejandro keeps those who cannot keep paying the rent needed to stay buried. The bodies stay greatly mummified because of the dried earth of the region of Mexico. When Juan tries to leave the catacombs, he collapses and soon after dies on October 25, 1962 in front of his three children (Alonzo). Only about a year after his death, on October 30, 1963, Alejandro attempts to solicit more money from Maria, leading Maria to seek out her brother, Ricardo, who is the chief of police. Ricardo is unsuccessful at convincing Alejandro to have mercy. Alejandro exhumes Juan's corpse to make room in the cemetery and has it mummified and stored in a crypt with a number of other mummies in the catacombs. Jorge is dared by local children (Miranda, Arias, Acosta, Sandoval) to go into the catacombs and view his father's body, and he brings it a rose. Maria and Jorge sneak into the catacombs late at night and hide while Alejandro drunkenly taunts the mummies. They use Juan's body to scare away drunken Alejandro, who was frightened by Jorge blowing out matches that Alejandro believed to be the act of Juan. The next day, Alejandro accuses of stealing Juan's mummy, but Maria claims the mummy in her house to be a paper macher toy that she made. Maria hangs Juan's body in the house and tells tourists that it is an authentic Mexican mummy. Money from the tourists pays for food and clothing for Maria and her three children. Eventually, however, Maria is overcome by the ghoulishness of what she has done. She begs for forgiveness, but a gleam in the eyes of the corpse's body reveals that Juan approves of what she has done. Supporting Cast: Pina Pellicer as Maria Diaz, Valentin de Vargas as Chief of Police Ricardo, Larry Domasin as Jorge Diaz, Alex Montoya as Ignacia the Coffin Maker, Yolanda Alonzo as Ramona (Juan's Second Child), Mark Miranda as Pepe the First Boy, Hinton Pope as Man, Audrey Swanson as Second Woman, Gale Lindsey as First Woman, Suzanne Barnes as Third Woman, Vincent Arias as Second Boy, Carmelita Acosta as First Girl, Concepcion Sandoval as First Child Interesting Note: Pina Pellicer died on December 4, 1964, less than two months after the airing of this episode. Both Frank Silvera (June 11) and Alex Montoya (September 25) died in 1970, respectively. | |||||||
| 337 | 5 | "See the Monkey Dance" | Joseph M. Newman | Lewis Davidson | Roddy McDowall as George, Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as Stranger | November 9, 1964 | |
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England. While George (McDowall) is headed to see his girlfriend (Medina) via train, he takes an opportunity to make a phone call to her when the conductor (Pelling) announces a short stop. When George returns to his private car, he meets a mysterious limping stranger (Zimbalist) who annoys him greatly at first and later makes him fear for his life. The stranger, a physicist, is prone to becoming hysterical and travels with a revolver. They figure out that they both traveling to the same caravan on the same farm outside a little town. Upon arriving at their destination caravan, the stranger begins digging a grave as George demands that the stranger leaves. George finally realizes that the stranger is his girlfriend's jealous husband. The stranger tells George that she has done this sort of thing before and that he tried, but failed, to kill his wife's last lover, as his inexperienced shot only injured the man's leg and gave him a limp as well. George and the stranger discuss whether George wrote an incriminating letter, and the stranger almost shoots him when a little girl (Barnath) stops by on behalf of her father who owns the farm. They figure out that the stranger's wife arranged this meeting between them with hope that George would kill her husband. The stranger convinces George to plot revenge and tells him to tamper with the steering of his wife's car. When the woman arrives, the woman threatens the stranger while George tampers with the car. The woman then dies driving at high speed on a steep hill on the nearby road. George discovers to his dismay, however, that the limping stranger was really his girlfriend's former lover, not husband, and that he used George to get his revenge on her. George is left alone trying to desperately cover up the evidence (the grave, the car grease, fingerprints, the hammer, and the wing nut), and he just about gets the grave filled when the police arrive. Supporting Cast: Patricia Medina as Wife, George Pelling as Conductor, Shari Lee Barnath as the Little Williams Girl | |||||||
| 338 | 6 | "Lonely Place" | Harvey Hart | Francis Gwaltney | Teresa Wright as Stella, Pat Buttram as Emory, Bruce Dern as Jesse | November 16, 1964 | |
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Stella (Wright), a loving woman with a pet squirrel, is married to a cowardly peach farmer named Emory (Buttram) who hires a passing hobo named Jesse (Dern) to help harvest the peach crop in exchange for room, board, and three dollars per day (half the going rate). Unfortunately, Jesse's strange behavior and fascination with a knife that he carries begins to frighten her, but Emory refuses to believe her and doesn't want to risk losing a cheap hired hand. Jesse even kills Stella's pet squirrel for his sheer delight, claiming that he had to because animals always take a dislike to him for some reason. He eventually confesses to Emory that he just loves killing animals, and Emory admits that he was annoyed that Stella looked after the squirrel instead of spending more time on him. Emory tells Jesse that he only married Stella in order to have someone to feed him, but he tells Stella that it was "man talk" and he has been faithful to her. When Emory takes the truckload of peaches to market, Jesse admits to Stella that he also loves being scary towards women, which is why he loves torturing her. Stella packs her belongings and tries to run away by sneaking out the window while the radio plays music, but she is caught by Jesse and screams for help. As a thunderstorm approaches, he rants about his poor wages and tries to get Stella to scream for his delight, which he hopes will get Emory to come outside so that he can kill him. He threatens to stab her, but she fights him off and escapes into the orchard. After she manages to gain control of his knife, he flees in Emory's truck. She goes back to the house and promises the sleeping Emory that she will be a good wife, she then awakens Emory and tells him about Jesse, but he refuses to call the police as he heard the radio warning about the hailstorm. She realizes that he heard her screams, and he admits that he was too afraid to do anything because he would have been killed and she could "take it a little more". Stella angrily stabs Emory and kills him, and then she calls police officer Oscar and blames the murder on the fleeing Jesse. Casting Note: The actor who voiced Oscar the police officer is uncredited and currently unknown. | |||||||
| 339 | 7 | "The McGregor Affair" | David Friedkin | David Friedkin | Andrew Duggan as John McGregor, Elsa Lanchester as Aggie McGregor | November 23, 1964 | |
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Edinburgh, Scotland, March 1827. A vendor (Macollum) shouts about his wares as John McGregor (Duggan) attempts to take care of his alcoholic wife Aggie (Lanchester), a whiskey addict who has not been outside for over two years. John reminisces to himself about Aggie as a beautiful lass and how he has no one to talk to. John works for Dr. Knox (Hoyt) and must lug large boxes of tanbark to his medical academy from two men named Burke (Malet) and Hare (Pate). Knox's assistants Becker (Beckley) and Jarmley (Macready) help carry the boxes into Knox's laboratory, as it is revealed that Knox runs a medical school, and the boxes contain bodies of the deceased. After leaving, John is confronted by local match-seller Elsie Muldoon (Harford), who desires for some of the whiskey that John has bought for Aggie. John confronts Aggie for her crude meanness towards him, as he buys her whiskey, puts straw in her bed, and cooks her sausages for nothing in return, as Aggie refuses to even let him sip on the whiskey. The next day, John sits by a pond to think about what to do with Aggie when Elsie and boyfriend Tommy (Smith) stop by for a brief chat, and John thinks that he will be better off if Aggie was dead. That night, John learns that the boxes actually contain the murdered victims of Burke and Pate, who are in fact body snatchers and murderers, when Elsie's hair sticks out of the corner of a box. John is almost caught with the body when Tommy arrives looking for Elsie, but John claims that it is just tanbark and delivers it to Dr. Knox. John decides to get rid of Aggie by getting her drunk and leaving her on the body snatchers' doorstep. When he drops her off, Hare and Burke are having a party with local women Rosie (Bristol) and Glynis (Harper). After returning home, he is soon visited by Tommy, who still cannot find Elsie, and John works to convince Tommy that Elsie would become completely undesirable when she gets her hooks into him and that he should forget her. Tommy soon leaves when he hears another match wench (Gray) singing her song to sell matches. The plan is successful, but John is soon overtaken by remorse, even though the local bartender Glencannon (Dillon) attempts to cheer him up. John consoles himself that Elsie's death will help make a good surgeon and invites the new match wench to his house, though he upsets her when he forces her off Aggie's bed. John gets drunk and visits Dr. Knox to make a goodbye to Elsie, but Knox rejects him and states that it was just tanbark. He goes to the tavern and gets further drunk, but Burke and Hare take him away and have another box delivered to Knox. Unfortunately, John ends up being Burke and Hare's next victim and is himself the body inside this final box. Supporting Cast: William Smith as Tommy Lad, Betty Harford as Elsie Muldoon, John Hoyt as Dr. Knox, Arthur Malet as Burke, Michael Pate as Hare, William Beckley as Becker, Michael Macready as Jarmley, Iris Bristol as Rosie, Harriet Harper as Glynis, Brendan Dillon as Glencannon the Bartender, Janine Gray as The Wench, Barry Macollum as The Vendor | |||||||
| 340 | 8 | "Misadventure" | Joseph M. Newman | Lewis Davidson | Barry Nelson as Colin, Lola Albright as Eva Martin, George Kennedy as George Martin | December 7, 1964 | |
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An outsider, Colin, befriends a woman, Eva Martin (Albright), who is bent on murdering her husband George (Kennedy). Eva Martin cooks breakfast when she receives a phone call from her boyfriend Bruce (Bregan), and she tells husband George that it was a wrong number. He wants to come home for lunch, but her boyfriend said that he would be in later, so she says that she is going out shopping to keep George away. As he is leaving, gas man Colin arrives, but he loosens the downstairs meter to allow gas to escape rather than fix any issue and gaslights her about there being any problem. She attempts to call the gas company, but he begs her not to report him and shows her a picture of his family. He claims that his odd behavior is the result of a reoccurrence of malaria that he caught during the war. However, when he tries to pick up his workman's toolchest, a revolver slips out, but he manages to hide it before Eva can see it. He asks Eva to let him take a hot shower, which he says will cure his bout, but instead he slips out of his work clothes and lies down in her bed in his briefs. She tries to get him to dress and leave when Bruce suddenly arrives; she scares him away by mentioning that George is returning soon. She threatens to call the gas company and police, and Colin tells her to call George as well. Colin reveals that he has been watching Eva and Bruce for weeks and has pictures of the two of them together, which he shows her. Colin says that he is not after money as he admires her beauty and is madly in love with her. After a romantic and intimate interlude, he cries while talking about the jealousy he has for Bruce and how he wants to kill both Bruce and George. He even outlines how he would disconnect the gas valve so that it couldn't be fixed, and George would die of accidental death by misadventure when combined with his asthma. Colin reveals that he is a private detective hired by George to get enough evidence for divorce. He says that he would do anything for her, so she presses him to carry out his plan to murder George. George soon comes home to find a number of broken dishes and Colin waiting for him, and it is revealed that they are in fact brothers (through their shared father) who have not seen her in five years. Colin shows George a picture of his family and tells him that his oldest son died of appendicitis, which he blames on George for not giving him money. Colin broke the China dishware that their father left to George and then pulls out the revolver demanding his share of their father's money. George defiantly says no, so Colin decides to leave, but not before saying that he got rid of Eva down in the basement. When George enters the gas-filled basement to look for Eva, the doorknob falls off, trapping George. Eva comes home to Colin telling her not to worry that he had to actually hit George, leaving some blood in the kitchen, which he says that he cleaned up. Her ranting leads him to slap her, and she tries to call the police before he hangs up the phone. He reminds her that she took the screw out of the doorknob and released the gas valve, so she would be the one found guilty of murder. She makes a phony call to George's work and then calls the police about George supposedly missing. Colin suddenly claims that he cannot find the pictures of Eva and Bruce, and he tricks her into going into the basement to look for them. Colin then calls the police while claiming to be George in order to cancel the drive-by, all while Eva chokes on the fumes in the basement. Supporting Cast: Michael Bregan as Bruce the Boyfriend | |||||||
| 341 | 9 | "Triumph" | Harvey Hart | Arthur A. Ross | Ed Begley as Brother Thomas Fitzgibbons, Jeanette Nolan as Mary Fitzgibbons | December 14, 1964 | |
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A woman, Lucy, comes between a phony medical missionary, Thomas, and his partner Mary. Brother Thomas Fitzgibbons (Begley) and wife Mary welcome Brother John Sprague (Simcox) and wife Lucy (Pierce) to their missionary society and clinic while workers like Ramna (Wyenn) and others (Scott) work to keep the camp running properly. Thomas is proud to bring quinine to the native population while Mary mostly complains about the insects and tough living. Mary works behind the scenes to prop up Thomas' reputation and doesn't want anyone intruding, while Thomas sees John as an honest man who wants the best. Mary reminds Thomas that his main desire in life is fame and reputation within the missionary society, so Thomas cannot trust the newcomers. The next day, Lucy goes for a swim in the river, but Thomas yells that it is dangerous due to rampant disease and animal attacks. Over lunch, they discuss the nature of human beings and whether people are different and can progress or not. Mary goes to the local market with John while Lucy helps Thomas treat the natives, to Mary's dismay. Mary and John return to report an outbreak of cholera, and John goes to treat the infected, to Lucy's dismay. That night, a native is attacked by a jungle cat, and Mary must perform the surgery. Afterward, Lucy speaks with Thomas about how John only sees the good in people and is blind to all else, and she convinces Thomas to take her on a boat ride where they speak of vengeance and slavery to dispassionate loves. Thomas says that if her were Lucy's husband, he would praise only her beauty, which she greatly longs for. Upon returning, Mary lambasts Thomas for falling for Lucy and John's zeal, but Thomas calculates that Mary hates Lucy because she is young and beautiful. Later that night, Mary takes a scalpel to Lucy's room and attacks her. John returns and is told by the native workers that Lucy died of cholera, with the Fitzgibbons heartbroken and gone. John angrily grills the Indian employee about the whereabouts of Lucy's grave and how she could have died from cholera in just one day. Ramna and the other employee take John to the gravesite, and John digs to discover the truth. John then forces the employee to take him the Fitzgibbons' location, where the employee begs John not to kill Mary. John replies that this is rightful vengeance and shoots both Thomas twice and the woman twice, but when he removes her veil, he finds that it is Lucy that he just killed instead. Supporting Cast: Maggie Pierce as Mrs. Lucy Sprague, Tom Simcox as Brother John Sprague, Than Wyenn as Ramna, Tony Scott as Indian Employee Note: The actor who played the travel authority is uncredited and currently unknown. | |||||||
| 342 | 10 | "Memo from Purgatory" | Joseph Pevney | Harlan Ellison | James Caan as Jay Shaw, Tony Musante as Candle, Walter Koenig as Tiger | December 21, 1964 | |
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A young author, Jay Shaw (Caan), joins a gang to collect material for his latest book. Jay narrates saving money to write a book on youth gangs in New York under the false identity of Phil Beldone. He visits a malt shop hangout for gangs, where the Barons gang views him suspiciously, even though the owner Ben (Silver) requests that they take it easy on him. Jay almost gets into a knife fight with Candle (Musante) and Fish (King), the vice president, until Tiger (Koenig) intervenes, as Jay demands to speak with Tiger, who is president, about joining. Slats (Slade) and Cherry (Palmer) joke about the three-part initiation process while Filene (Loring) develops a crush on Jay. The first part of the initiation involves a gauntlet of belt buckles being used to beat the invitee, and Ski (Courtney) and Trooper (Lamont) especially enjoys the prospect of beating Jay. Jay, however, outsmarts the gauntlet participants, grabbing one member and using him as a weapon to get past the others. Later, Filene volunteers to go to Jay's room and offers to be his woman, but she admits that she reports on what they do to others as this is the second part of the initiation, so they stage a romantic interlude. She reveals that the third part involves killing someone, which must be done or the invitee while get killed instead. Jay is ordered by Candle to kill a derelict (Geer), but he refuses, telling the man to run. Candle is about to kill Jay when Tiger arrives, and Jay talks sense into Tiger about committing random murders, which angers Candle greatly, who believes that Tiger favors Jay over him now. Candle and Slats ransack Jay's room and discover Jay's writings on their gang's activity and proof that Jay's mother is from Trenton, not Manhattan as he previously stated. When Jay returns from a date with Filene, they discover that Candle has taken all Jay's saved money, and Jay tells Filene the truth about him being a writer on gangs, as Candle took his writings on raids, biographies, and even sketches of members. Filene angrily calls Jay a square and tells Jay to leave immediately, but the gang is waiting on the other side of the door for Jay. The gang hauls him before a club meeting headed by Tiger, to Candle's delight. Jay admits the truth to Tiger, and they joke about how Jay considers Filene to have changed as clean and lovely. Tiger decides that Jay is a phony and orders him to leave, but Candle demands that Jay must die and tries to convince Tiger being showing him a description of Jay's writings saying that Tiger holds women in contempt and is afraid of the opposite sex. Tiger decides to let rival gang The Flyers handle Jay as punishment. He gives Jay an empty revolver and the gang heads off for a rumble, with Filene shedding tears for Jay. Jay uses a passing truck to charge into a shoe proprietor's shop to stage a robbery, and the proprietor, Ritz (Joyce), pulls a gun and shoots to scare away the others while holding up Jay and calling the police. In court, Jay's defense attorney (Scott) doesn't care about Jay' story, only whether he has money for bail. A jail guard (White) then reveals that his girlfriend posted bail for him, and Filene lures Jay into an alley where Tiger and Candle are waiting. Jay apologizes to Filene before fighting with Candle, and they bump into Filene, causing her to be stabbed to death by Tiger. Tiger and Candle then attempt to flee but are caught immediately by police, while Jay can only hold Filene's body in despair. Based on Memos from Purgatory by Harlan Ellison Supporting Cast: Lynn Loring as Filene the Girl Gang Member, Johnny Silver as Ben, Chuck Courtney as Ski, Zalman King as Fish, Mark Slade as Slats, Jacquelin Palmer (credited as Jacque Palmer) as Cherry, Michael Lamont as Trooper, Simon Scott as The Defender, Jimmy Joyce as Ritz the Shoe Proprietor, Leonard P. Geer as Derelict, Will J. White as Guard | |||||||
| 343 | 11 | "Consider Her Ways" | Robert Stevens | Oscar Millard | Barbara Barrie as Dr. Jane Waterleigh, Gladys Cooper as Laura | December 28, 1964 | |
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A physician tries to prevent her vision of an all-female society from coming true. Supporting Cast: Gene Lyons as Max Wilding, Leif Erickson as Dr. Hellyer, Robert H. Harris as Dr. Perrigan, Carmen Phillips as Mother Daisy, Diane Sayer as Mother Hazel, Eve Bruce as the Amazon, Ellen Corby as Chief Nurse, Alice Backes as Second Doctor, Virginia Gregg as Third Doctor, Ivy Bethune as Nurse, Jennifer Gan (credited as Ginny Gan) as First Worker, Stacy King as Female Worker, Penny Zaferiou as the Little Servitor, Dee J. Thompson as First Doctor | |||||||
| 344 | 12 | "Crimson Witness" | David Friedkin | David Friedkin | Peter Lawford as Ernie Mullett, Martha Hyer as Judy Mullett, Julie London as Barbara | January 4, 1965 | |
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A playboy loses everything to his hated brother, leading to a reenactment of the story of Cain and Abel. Supporting Cast: Joanna Moore as Madeleine, Roger C. Carmel as Farnum Mullett, Paul Comi as Modeer, Alan Baxter as Mr. Baldwin, Larry Thor as Haskel, Nancy Hsueh as the Secretary, Paul Micale as the Waiter | |||||||
| 345 | 13 | "Where the Woodbine Twineth" | Alf Kjellin | James Bridges | Margaret Leighton as Nell Snyder | January 11, 1965 | |
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A woman's niece claims to be acquainted with "minute people". Supporting Cast: Carl Benton Reid as Captain King Snyder, Juanita Moore as Suse, Joel Fluellen as Jessie, E.J. Andre as the Preacher, Eileen Baral as Eva Snyder, Lila Perry as Numa | |||||||
| 346 | 14 | "Final Performance" | John Brahm | Robert Bloch | Franchot Tone as The Great Rudolph (Rudolph Bitzner), Roger Perry as Cliff Allen, Sharon Farrell as Rosie | January 18, 1965 | |
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A former vaudevillian's fiancée plans to get away from him. Supporting Cast: William Challee as Wint Davis, Kelly Thordsen as the Sheriff | |||||||
| 347 | 15 | "Thanatos Palace Hotel" | Laslo Benedek | Arthur A. Ross | Angie Dickinson as Ariane Shaw, Steven Hill as Robert Manners | February 1, 1965 | |
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A suicidal man checks into a hotel that caters to people just like him. Supporting Cast: Bartlett Robinson as Mr. J. Smith, Barry Atwater (credited as G.B. Atwater) as Borchter, Rex Comeaux as Devereau, Charles Fredericks as the Big Man, Pat Renella as the Lean Man, Robert Reiner as Doctor, Gail Bonney as Gray-Haired Woman, Nancy Sanderson as Nurse, Len Hendry as Driver, Henry Wills as First Cowboy, Lew Brown as Second Cowboy, Adrianne Ellis as Young Woman | |||||||
| 348 | 16 | "One of the Family" | Joseph Pevney | Oscar Millard | Jeremy Slate as Dexter Dailey, Lilia Skala as Frieda Schmidt | February 8, 1965 | |
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A family discovers that the nurse that they hired to care for their baby is a wanted child killer. Supporting Cast: Kathryn Hays as Joyce Dailey, Olive Deering as Christine Callendar, Willis Bouchey as Dr. Bailey, Frances Reid as Joyce's Mother, Doris Lloyd as Callendars' Maid | |||||||
| 349 | 17 | "An Unlocked Window" | Joseph M. Newman | James Bridges | Dana Wynter as Stella, T. C. Jones as Nurse Betty Ames, Louise Latham as Maude Isles, John Kerr as Glendon Baker | February 15, 1965 | |
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Two nurses care for a patient in a town where previous nurses have been killed. Supporting Cast: E.J. Andre as Sam Isles, Stephen Roberts as Boris Crispis, Lew Brown as Al Ruben, Cathie Merchant as Frieda Little, John Willis as Newscaster, Len Hendry as Man | |||||||
| 350 | 18 | "The Trap" | John Brahm | Lee Kalcheim | Anne Francis as Peg Beale, Robert Strauss as Ted Beale | February 22, 1965 | |
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A woman plots to murder her husband and marry one of his employees. Supporting Cast: Walter Mathews as Glen Arnold, Donnelly Rhodes as John Cochran, Gilchrist Stuart as Ralph the Butler, Patricia Manning as Jenifer Arnold, Emma Tyson as Rosemary Arnold, Murray Alper as Cabbie, Pat Renella as Boyfriend, Michael Blodgett as Watusi Dancer, Sandra Daro as Watusi Dancer, Mary Scott as Party Guest, Harold Ayer as Servant | |||||||
| 351 | 19 | "Wally the Beard" | James H. Brown | Arthur A. Ross | Larry Blyden as Walter Mills, Kathie Browne as Noreen Kimberly | March 1, 1965 | |
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A man gets more than he bargained for when he acquires a wig and beard. Supporting Cast: George Mitchell as Keefer, Katherine Squire as Mrs. Adams, Elizabeth Harrower as Mrs. Jones, Lee Bergere as Detective Lieutenant Johnson, Leslie Perkins as Lucy Jones, Berkeley Harris as Curly, Dave Willock as Wig Salesman, Johnny Indrisano as Bartender | |||||||
| 352 | 20 | "Death Scene" | Harvey Hart | James Bridges | Vera Miles as Nicky Revere, John Carradine as Gavin Revere, James Farentino as Leo Manfred | March 8, 1965 | |
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A mechanic aspiring to be an actor writes a screenplay for the daughter of a has-been director. Filmed at former estate of Marion Davies, which was also used as filming location for The Godfather (film series) (1972), and The Bodyguard (1992). Supporting Cast: Buck Taylor as Dancer Smith, Virginia Aldridge as Susan Revere, Nick Borgani as Sam Gread, Leonard Yorr as Bill Wagner, Horace G. Brown as Harry, Vince Williams as Our Hero | |||||||
| 353 | 21 | "The Photographer and the Undertaker" | Alex March | James Holding (story) Alfred Hayes teleplay | Jack Cassidy as Arthur Mannix, Harry Townes as Hiram Price | March 15, 1965 | |
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A photographer and an undertaker are assassins who have each been assigned to kill the other. Supporting Cast: Philip Bourneuf as Ernest Sylvester, Jocelyn Lane as Sylvia Sylvester, Alfred Ryder as Johnathan Rudolph the Attorney, Richard Jury as Willis, Joan Swift as Miss Whiting, Jack Bernardi as Mr. Leibowitz the Deli Man, Clegg Hoyt as Man, Chick Hearn as Baseball Announcer (voice) | |||||||
| 354 | 22 | "Thou Still Unravished Bride" | David Friedkin | Avram Davidson (story) Morton S. Fine, David Friedkin | Ron Randell as Tommy Bonn, David Carradine as Edward Clarke, Sally Kellerman as Sally Benner | March 22, 1965 | |
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A police officer suspects that his missing fiancée has been killed. Supporting Cast: Michael Pate as Stephen Leslie, Ted Bessell as Elliot Setlin, Alan Napier as Guerny Sr., Richard Lupino as Guerny Jr., Virginia Gregg as Mrs. Essie Setlin, Howard Caine as Mr. Setlin, Kent Smith as Mr. Benner, Edith Atwater as Mrs. Benner, Ben Wright as Mr. Sutherland, Jana Lesley as Myrna, Doris Lloyd as Mother, Betty Harford as Woman, George Pelling as Sergeant, Brendan Dillon as Bartender | |||||||
| 355 | 23 | "Completely Foolproof" | Alf Kjellin | Anthony Terpiloff | J. D. Cannon as Joe Brisson, Patricia Barry as Lisa Brisson | March 29, 1965 | |
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A woman plots to murder her rich, cheating husband. Supporting Cast: Myron Healey as George Foyle, Geoffrey Horne as Bobby Davenport, Lester Matthews as Walter Dunham, Jo de Winter as Betty Lawrence, Joyce Meadows as Anna, Robert Lieb as Baines, Janet MacLachlan as Secretary | |||||||
| 356 | 24 | "Power of Attorney" | Harvey Hart | James Bridges (teleplay) | Richard Johnson as Jarvis Smith, Geraldine Fitzgerald as Agatha Tomlin | April 5, 1965 | |
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A con man swindles wealthy women. Supporting Cast: Josie Lloyd as Eileen Carroll, Fay Bainter as Mary Caulfield, Mary Scott (credited as Mary Scott Hardwicke) as Sarah Norton, Solomon Sturges (credited as Mark Sturges) as Roger Reeves, Anthony Jochim as Thomas Barton, Jonathan Hole as Hotel Clerk, Al Ruban as Clerk, George Sims as Policeman | |||||||
| 357 | 25 | "The World's Oldest Motive" | Harry Morgan | Lewis Davidson | Henry Jones as Alex Morrow, Linda Lawson as Fiona McNiece, Robert Loggia as Richard Schausak, Kathleen Freeman as Angela Morrow | April 12, 1965 | |
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A married man gets the chance to marry his girlfriend when an outsider offers to kill his wife. Supporting Cast: Joseph Mell as Jamieson, Dee J. Thompson as Miss Rice, Susan French as Cleaning Woman, Syl Lamont as Waiter, Kai Hernandez as Hatcheck Girl, Shawn Michaels as the Drinker, Tom J. Stears as Taxi Driver | |||||||
| 358 | 26 | "The Monkey's Paw—A Retelling" | Robert Stevens | Morton S. Fine, David Friedkin, Anthony Terpiloff (teleplay) W. W. Jacobs (story) | Leif Erickson as Paul White, Jane Wyatt as Anne White, Lee Majors as Howard White | April 19, 1965 | |
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A man acquires a monkey's paw that grants three wishes – with deadly consequences. Supporting Cast: Collin Wilcox as Selina, Stuart Margolin as Robin Boyd, Pat Renella as Frank Corseli, Vincent Chase as Hume Ray, Janet MacLachlan as Gale, Carmen Phillips as Mary Smith, Marusia Toumanoff as Natasha Gurlieff, Michelle Marley as Joan Fanu, Peter Howard as Curtis Welks, Gilchrist Stuart as British Man, Zolya Talma as Gypsy Woman | |||||||
| 359 | 27 | "The Second Wife" | Joseph M. Newman | Robert Bloch (teleplay) Richard Deming (story) | June Lockhart as Martha Peters, John Anderson as Luke Hunter | April 26, 1965 | |
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A newlywed woman thinks that her husband killed his previous wife. Supporting Cast: Alice Backes as Helen Fiske, Gertrude Flynn as Peggy Gilfoyle, Eve McVeagh as Sylvia Boggs, Jim Boles as Reverend Gilfoyle, David Fresco as Sam Ogle, Vincent Chase as Pawnbroker | |||||||
| 360 | 28 | "Night Fever" | Herbert Coleman | Gilbert Ralston (teleplay) Clark Howard (short story) | Colleen Dewhurst as Nurse Ellen Hatch | May 3, 1965 | |
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An injured criminal uses a nurse's compassion to escape from the hospital. Supporting Cast: Joe De Santis as Jake Martinez, Richard Bull as Dr. Michaels, Rayford Barnes as George Clark, Don Marshall as Joe Chandler, Tom Simcox as Jerry Walsh, Don Stewart as Gabe Greely, Peggy Lipton as Mary Winters, Laurie Mitchell as Pinky, Carol Brewster as Mabel Cramm | |||||||
| 361 | 29 | "Off Season" | William Friedkin | Robert Bloch (teleplay) Edward D. Hoch (short story) | John Gavin as Johnny Kendall, Richard Jaeckel as Milt Woodman | May 10, 1965 | |
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A trigger-happy cop gets fired from the police department and gets a job in the office of a small town sheriff. Supporting Cast: Indus Arthur as Sandy Evans, Tom Drake as Sheriff Dade, Fred Draper as Dr. Hornbeck, William O'Connell as Art Summers, Dodie Heath as Irma Dade, Jimmy Joyce as Sergeant Racin, Jim Drum as Al, Harry Hines as Thief, Duncan McLeod as Bartender | |||||||