Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season Six (5 disc box set) [DVD]

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At least two versions of the opening were shot for every episode. A version intended for the American audience would often spoof a recent popular commercial or poke fun at the sponsor, leading into the commercial. [12] [13] Helen Brewster (Bel Geddes) is frustrated that her boyfriend Philip Pryor (Dubbins) has been stalling their wedding for almost five years on the excuses of his serving in the Korean War and that his mother's health is quite precarious. When they finally do get married, Helen learns that Philip's mother has been dead since 1949, but Philip believes that she is still alive due to his insanity.

New York, 1916. Meyer Fine (Falk) is a casino owner with a crippling fear of death. When he makes a mistake that threatens his business, his former partners put a hit out on him. Meyer is terrified of waiting for them to act, so he begs his loyal valet, John (Hartman) to help kill him first. Supporting Cast: Tyler McVey as Cargan, William Challee as Barney Welch, Anne Anderson as Elsie Wilcox Supporting Cast: K.T. Stevens as Liza, Rusty Lane as Police Detective, Lillian Bronson as Neighbor, Dorothy Crehan as Maid Ned Malley loves his old dog Annie, a Kerry Blue. Ned's wife Thelma grows jealous. Though she likes the dog, she thinks her husband's love for it is unhealthy. One day, Annie dies. Ned accuses his wife of murder. He slips an overdose of sleeping pills into her hot chocolate. As she slips into unconsciousness, Ned hears familiar barking. He goes to investigate, but trips and fatally injures himself. A neighbor calls the police who come and revive Thelma. As her dead husband is being taken away, she wonders whether she should have bought him a new Kerry Blue.Supporting Cast: Rusty Lane as Police Detective, Vinton Hayworth as Mr. Abernathy, Karen Norris as Cora

Albert Salmi as Bradley the Reporter, Roscoe Ates as Pop Henderson, James Coburn as Andrews the Reporter Supporting cast: Dabbs Greer as the Sheriff, Horst Ehrhardt, Jim Hayward as Preacher, Ralph Moody as Local Citizen, John Compton as Walter 'Walt' Norton, Norman Leavitt as Elmer, David Saber as Albert Grinstead, Rudy Lee as Luke, Kathleen Hartnagel as Schoolgirl Supporting Cast: Harry Bellaver as Police Sergeant Waggoner, William Boyett as Captain Davidson, Mercedes Shirley as Mrs. Davidson, Katherine Warren as Policewoman, Theodora Davitt as College Student American journalist Mary Prescott (Trevor) is traveling on a train out of the Iron Curtain when she is befriended by local celebrity Jan Gubak (Bergerac). Mary agrees to carry a luxury watch for Gubak, but during the customs inspection Gubak turns her in to officers for smuggling luxury items. Mary is arrested, but released soon after when the watch is discovered to be fake. Mary learns that Gubak is part of the underground resistance, and the charade was to create a distraction that enabled Gubak to smuggle sensitive microfilm out of the country. Gubak gives Mary the microfilm and urges her to write the truth about his country. Supporting cast: Robert Simon as Sergeant Halloran, Ed Kemmer as Ben Verber, Grazia Narciso as Mrs. Santini, Laiola Wendorff as Mrs. Glavetsky

Cast & Crew

Supporting Cast: Murray Alper as Sergeant Ed Carmody, Wendell Holmes as John B. Halverson, Herb Ellis as Lieutenant Hogan, Bert Freed as Captain Harvey Ellison, O.Z. Whitehead as Mr. Newton, Maurice Manson as Ship Passenger, Claude Dauphin as Co-host

Supporting Cast: Madge Kennedy as Mrs. Baldwin, Robert Karnes as Mr. Simon, Gail Bonney as Mrs. Clark Supporting Cast: Frank Gerstle as Police Sergeant Thompson, Anabel Shaw as Rhoda Forbes, Peggy McCay as Myra Herbert, Jacqueline Mayo as Ann Warren, Sally Hughes as Lady, Margaret Muse as Mildred, Deidre Harrison as Lady, Marietta Hayes as LadyPregnant housewife Mary Maloney ( Barbara Bel Geddes) bludgeons her husband ( Allan Lane) to death with a frozen leg of lamb when he says that he is going leave her for another woman. Mary sets the scene to look like a struggle and puts the leg of lamb in the oven to cook. When the police arrive to investigate, they are unable to find the murder weapon, and Mary gives them the cooked leg of lamb to eat for supper. Supporting Cast: Theodore Newton as Sam Kern, Cyril Delevanti as Josiah Wingate, Ronald Nicholas as Arnold Mathias, Joseph Hamilton as Station Master Supporting Cast: Sam Buffington as Charlie, Christine White as Shelley, Sanford Gibbons as Party Guest, Gordon Wynn as John Courtney, Bonnie Green (credited as Bonne Green) as Party Guest, Florence MacAfee as Gloria Gould, Frank Logan (credited as Frank Allocca) as Frank the Policeman, George Eldredge as George the Police Lieutenant Married Elise Taylor (der Vlis) is having an affair with married Bish Darby (Best). While Bish's wife is away, Elise's husband walks in on the pair and shoots Bish dead. When the police call Bish's wife, she confesses to the murder, thinking that Bish drank her poisoned saccharin.