Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 5

When his pretty ex-fiancee returns from another failed relationship, a chicken farmer, not wanting anything to do with her, decides to eliminate her.

An obsessed young woman waits decades for her husband's body to emerge from the ice, after he fell from a mountain. 

David Logan lives at home with his mother and he's still upset that his father left them many years before. He is haunted by an event when he was twelve years old and he came home to find his father with a blue-eyed blond. He tells his mother he has an appointment at 11:00 so he skips dinner and heads to a bar. There he meets a girl and repeats several times that something big is going to happen at 11:00. He gets into a fight with a sailor in the bar and tells him the same and then again with a patron in an Irish pub, now saying someone is going to die at the prescribed hour. When the 11 o'clock news come on the air, you learn the full story.

While driving through the desert, Professor John Piltkin stops his car to care for a seriously injured coyote. Not long afterward, the coyote vanishes -- whereupon Piltkin is confronted by a wild-eyed young girl named Julie. Whether or not Julie and the coyote are one and the same turns out to be a moot point, as the story segues into a morality play involving treachery, theft, and sweet revenge.

Just at a point when he has everything to live for, wealthy Dave Rainey is stricken down with polio. Now confined to an iron lung, Rainey obsesses over the possibility that his wife, Cindy, plans to kill him. When Cindy falls for a handsome stranger named Arnold Barrett, it would appear that Rainey's fears are about to be realized -- but as we all know, appearances on Alfred Hitchcock Presents have a habit of being deceiving.

Myra Jensen loves her pets more than she does people -- and that includes her long-suffering husband, Hermie. Ultimately, Hermie plots to exact vengeance against Myra by purchasing a pet that she doesn't already have: a poisonous coral snake. What Hermie hasn't counted on is Myra's thorough knowledge of all animals -- not to mention his utter lack of that same knowledge.

Would-be gangland assassin Art is given a test by his boss, Barbossa -- a test that will prove fatal should Art fail. Assigned to kill an out-of-favor Barbossa henchman named Moran, Art bungles the job. Surprisingly, Moran doesn't kill Art, but instead arranges a deal whereby Art will knock off Barbossa for a tidy fee. Figuring that neither he nor Moran owe Barbossa a thing, Art accepts...and then....

Unknown to his wife, Courtney Masterson has a latenight encounter with his girlfriend at lover's lane. There they are attacked by a robber named Rudy. Courtney manages to overpower his attacker and locks him in the trunk. Fearing blackmail, he kills Rudy after taking his girlfriend home. He tells the police that he acted in self-defense. Later, however, he learns that his wife hired a detective to follow him to lover's lane. The detective (knowing everything) decides to blackmail Courtney.

In Las Vegas, millionaire Carlos bets a young gambler that he can't light a cigarette lighter ten times in a row. If the gambler wins, he gets Carlos' car. If he loses, Carlos cuts off one of his fingers.

Carpius obtains a copy of a valuable ikon and wishes to switch it with the original. He goes to the monastery where it is kept and tries to steal it. He is discovered by a monk whom he then kills. Other monks hear the commotion and capture Carpius. Carpius pleads for forgiveness. The archimandrite tell him that forgiveness is only possible through prayer. Carpius gets down on his knees and prays. Behind him the monks lock the door. They want him to pray there for the rest of his life.

A down & out unemployed man feels his luck has changed when he stumbles on a man who suffers a heart attack.

A elderly woman who lives alone spends much of her time talking - and snooping - on her telephone. But her busy body ways may have more dire consequences than she ever imagined.

A cynical inmate on death row {Brian Keith} rebuffs all attempts to get him a stay of execution.

A woman is hired to be governess to four children, but her teaching methods soon prove to be disconcerting to the children's parents.

A man named Henry Lowden calls William Spengler and asks for information for a book he's writing. Spengler is a president of a bank and Lowden wants information on an unsolved crime. Lowden is interested in a man named Mathias who was shot after attempting an escape from prison. Spengler tells Lowden that Mathias stole a half million dollars from the bank which has not been recovered. Later, Lowden's investigation reveals that Spengler was in fact the robber. Spengler offers to cut him in. Lowden refuses and calls the police. He was not a writer; rather, he was the prison guard who shot Mathias, an innocent man framed by Spengler.