
The familiar "plink, plink" of the theme song, accompanied by the line drawing of a man in profile immediately identifies the show as "Alfred Hitchcock Presents." The famed director opens almost every episode with the words "Good evening ..." After a joke -- usually about the evening's sponsor -- Hitchcock lays the groundwork for that episode's freestanding story of suspense and terror.

A murderer (Lee Philips) searches for an alibi after he kills a rival gangster (Chick Chandler) in a fit of rage.

Two sisters (Dorothy Stickney, Carmen Mathews) resort to desperate measures to keep their house.

A man (Robert Horton) stakes his job, home and life savings on the turn of a card. With Robert Middleton.

A young man is overcome with grief when he learns of his father's demise and accuses his new mother of the crime.