TV Shows

"Alfred Hitchcock Presents"

All Program Information

General Details
Awards

Specific Episodes:
"Lamb to the Slaughter"
"Dip in the Pool"
"Poison"
"Man From the South"
"Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat
"The Landlady"

General Details:

• First episode: October 2, 1955
• Runtime: 30 minutes (USA)
• Production Company: Shamley Productions
• Distributor: CBS Television (later moved to NBC)

Awards:

• WON 1958 Golden Globe
  • Best TV Show – Alfred Hitchcock

"Lamb To the Slaughter"

• First aired 4–13–58
• Story by: Roald Dahl
• Teleplay by: Roald Dahl
• Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
• Associate Producer: Joan Harrison
• Director of Photography: John L. Russell
• Cast:
  • Barbara Bel Geddes as Mary Maloney
  • Harold Stone as Jack

"Dip In the Pool"

• First aired 6–1–58
• Story by: Roald Dahl
• Teleplay by: Francis Cockrell
• Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
• Associate Producer: Joan Harrison
• Director of Photography: John F. Warren
• Cast:
  • Philip Bourneuf as Mr. Renshaw
  • Louise Platt as Ethel Bonneville
  • Fay Wray as Mrs. Renshaw
  • Keenan Wynn as William Bonneville
• Trivia: Look for Hitchcock's only television cameo on the face of a magazine, a la his sea-bound film "Lifeboat."

"Poison"

• First aired 10–5–58
• Story by: Roald Dahl
• Teleplay by: Casy Robinson
• Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
• Associate Producer: Joan Harrison
• Director of Photography: John L. Russell
• Cast:
  • Wendell Corey as Mr. Woods
  • James Donald as Harry
  • Arnold Moss as Dr. Ganderbay
  • Weaver Levy

"Man From the South"

• First aired 1–13–60
• Story by: Roald Dahl
• Cast:
  • Peter Lorre as Carlos
  • Steve McQueen as gambler

"Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat"

• First aired 9–27–60
• Story by: Roald Dahl
• Teleplay by: Halsted Welles
• Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
• Associate Producer: Joan Harrison
• Director of Photography: John L. Russell
• Cast:
  • Audrey Meadows as Mrs. Bixby
  • Maidie Norman as Eloise
  • Les Tremayne as Fred Bixby

"The Landlady"

• First aired 2–21–61
• Story by: Roald Dahl
• Teleplay by: Robert Bloch
• Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
• Cast:
  • Patricia Collinge as The Landlady
  • Dean Stockwell as Billy Weaver