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Season 5 - Episode Guide

Episodes

Arthur

Episode: 5x01 | Airdate: Sep 27, 1959

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

The Crystal Trench

Episode: 5x02 | Airdate: Oct 4, 1959

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

Appointment at Eleven

Episode: 5x03 | Airdate: Oct 11, 1959

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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.

Coyote Moon

Episode: 5x04 | Airdate: Oct 18, 1959

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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.

No Pain

Episode: 5x05 | Airdate: Oct 25, 1959

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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.

Anniversary Gift

Episode: 5x06 | Airdate: Nov 1, 1959

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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.

Dry Run

Episode: 5x07 | Airdate: Nov 8, 1959

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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....

Dead Weight

Episode: 5x09 | Airdate: Nov 22, 1959

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Unknown to his wife, Courtney Masterson has a latenight encounter with his girlfriend at lover's lane. There they are attacked by a robber name 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.

Special Delivery

Episode: 5x10 | Airdate: Nov 29, 1959

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Tommy Fortnum is an eleven year old boy who recieves a special delivery package from a house of novelties. It contains mushrooms. Tommy's dad, Hugh begins to worry about the mushroom when people in his neighborhood start disappearing. He believes the Earth is being invaded by Martians and that the mushroom are being used to take people over. Later, Hugh goes down into his basement. He sees the mushroom growing everywhere. His son offers him a mushroom sandwich. His father overcome, decides to have a bite.

Road Hog

Episode: 5x11 | Airdate: Dec 6, 1959

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Specialty of the House

Episode: 5x12 | Airdate: Dec 13, 1959

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Mr. Laffler wants to be a life member of a gourmet restaurant named Spiro's. When he looks into the off-limits kitchen he becomes a life member and like all life members - he becomes the specialty of the house!

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Episode: 5x13 | Airdate: Dec 20, 1959

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After the Battle of Shiloh a confederate prisoner Peyton Farquhar is taken to Owl Creek Bridge to be hanged for his Southern sympathies. When the trap is sprung his rope breaks and he escapes. He manages to make it home and is almost in the arms of his wife Melissa when his neck snaps suddenly and he dies at the end of the hangman's rope having imagined the entire escape in the seconds before his death.

Man from the South

Episode: 5x15 | Airdate: Jan 3, 1960

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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.

The Ikon of Elijah

Episode: 5x16 | Airdate: Jan 10, 1960

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Carpius obtains a copy of a valuable ikon and wished 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!

The Cure

Episode: 5x17 | Airdate: Jan 24, 1960

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Jeff Jensen searches the Amazon for oil with a middle-aged man and his wife Marie. One night, Jensen is startled to discover Maria holding a knife on him. His servant Luiz stops her before she can do anything. Jeff tells Luiz and his business partner Mike to take her to a head shrinker. Maria likes this idea since she hopes to talk Mike into killing Luiz. Later Luiz returns and reveals that he had been forced to kill Mike. He also adds that everything else went smoothly. He proudly displays Marie's shrunken head.

Backward, Turn Backward

Episode: 5x18 | Airdate: Jan 31, 1960

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Sheriff Andy Willett investigates the murder of a man named Matt Thompson who was beaten to death with a wrench. He suspects a man named Phil Canby. Phil was involved in an affair with Matt's daughter Sue. Sheriff Willett discovers that a baby's cries were heard on the murder night. Knowing that Phil had been babysitting, he arrests Canby. As he is being taken way, his daughter Betty Canby yells at Sue. She blames him for ruining her father. She also yells at the sheriff. She begins to cry, almost regressing into infancy. She is mentally ill and was the murderer.

Not the Running Type

Episode: 5x19 | Airdate: Feb 7, 1960

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Milton Potter steals twenty thousand dollars from the firm where he works. He then turns himself in. He, however, does not return the money. Twelve years later he is released from jail. Suprisingly, he returns the money and goes on a cruise. He had kept the money in banks and wants to live the rest of his life on the interested it earned while he was in Prison.

The Day of the Bullet

Episode: 5x20 | Airdate: Feb 14, 1960

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Clete Vine discovers that his boyhood friend turned gangster Iggy has been murdered. He recalls the origin of Iggy's life of crime. Thirty five years ago a young Clete and Iggy saw a thug named Mr. Rose attacking a man. Clete was too scared to say anything while Iggy went to the police. Rose, however, was released. Later Iggy's father is intimidated by Rose and accuses his son of making up the whole story. Alienated, Iggy turned to a life of crime and later died from it.

Hitch Hike

Episode: 5x21 | Airdate: Feb 21, 1960

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Charles Underhill is driving to San Francisco with his niece Anne. They pick up a hitchhiker. The boy tells them he was once in reform school. Charles grows nervous. When he is pulled over by the police for speeding, he accuses the boy of trying to stab him. The police search the boy and find nothing and writes a ticket for Charles. The boy later reveals that he was sent to reform school for pick-pocketing. He reveals the police officer's ticket book and rips up Charles's speeding ticket.

Across the Threshold

Episode: 5x22 | Airdate: Feb 28, 1960

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Sofie Winter is a wealthy widow that tries to control the life of her son Hubert. She misses her husband dearly and often thinks of him as waiting just across the threshold for her. She wants to talk to her husband wondering whether he is lonely and wants her to come to him. Hubert convinces his mother that he knows a medium. The "medium" is actually his girlfriend Irma. Irma tells Sofie that her dead husband is lonely and that he wants her to join them. Sofie agrees to take a fatal dose of medicine, but stalls. Hubert grows upset and gets himself a drink. He soon dies. His mother poisoned the drink. She wanted her son to join his parents in the afterlife.

Craig's Will

Episode: 5x23 | Airdate: Mar 6, 1960

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Tom's late uncle leave millions of dollars to his dog Casper. The will has one condition: when Casper dies all the money will be Tom's. Tom is persuaded by his girlfriend to kill the dog. He takes Casper to the woods but gets cold feet. He tells Judy that he will not hurt the dog. Later, Judy hires a hitman named Noonan to kill the dog. He tries to drown the dog in a boat. When the boat tips over the dog saves his life. He tells Judy that he is not going to kill the dog. When Tom finds out about Judy's murder plot he grows unhappy with her. Casper the dog, however, does not.

Madame Mystery

Episode: 5x24 | Airdate: Mar 27, 1960

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Jimmy Dolan works for Goliath Studios. When star actress Betsy Blake drowns, he hopes to turn the publicity surrounding the murder into publicity for her last movie which was produced by Goliath Studios. When Betsy later turns up alive and seriously overweight, he drives her to the beach and drowns her. Later he is arrested. The police tell him he would kill his own mother if it served his purposes. He responds by asking how the police knew she was his real mother?

The Little Man Who Was There

Episode: 5x25 | Airdate: Apr 3, 1960

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A group of miners at a bar are shocked when a little man arrives and challenges two large men named Ben and Jamie to a test of strength. They laugh at him, but when the test happens the two men are paralyzed by the little man's "magical power". The little man then robs the astonished and fearful group of miners. Later Ben and Jamie show up at the little man's cabin. They thank each other and begin to plan for their next big scam.

Mother, May I Go Out to Swim?

Episode: 5x26 | Airdate: Apr 10, 1960

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John Crane is a mother's boy. He goes to Vermont and falls in love with Lotte Rank. They decide to get married. Later, John's mother, Claire, arrives. She obviously dislikes Lotte and John is reluctant to tell her that they want to marry. Lotte and John plan to kill Claire. They take her up to a cliff, but John has a change of heart. He shoves someone to her death, but it is not his mother; it's Lotte.

Forty Detectives Later

Episode: 5x28 | Airdate: Apr 24, 1960

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William Tyre is the forty-first detective hired by Munro Dean in order to track down his wife's killer. William manages to track down a man named Otto. Munro then offers William money to kill Otto, but William turns it down. He arranges a meeting between Munro and Otto. At the encounter, Otto is killed. Before dying he confesses to the murder but also adds order to track down his hit man in order to keep him quiet. William Tyre is the forty-first detective hired by Munro Dean in order to track down his wife's killer. William manages to track down a man named Otto. Munro then offers William money to kill Otto, but William turns it down. He arranges a meeting between Munro and Otto. At the encounter, Otto is killed. Before dying he confesses to the murder but also adds that he was paid by Munro to do so. Munro hired the detectives inder to track down his hit man in order to keep him quiet.

The Hero

Episode: 5x29 | Airdate: May 1, 1960

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While traveling on a ship, Richard Musgrave meets a man named Keyser that looks like his former partner, a man he once robbed and left for dead. He talks to Keyser, but Keyser denies that he ever met Musgrave. Later, however, Keyser subtly reveals that he was indeed Musgrave's former partner. Musgrave becomes distraught and jumps overboard in remorse. Keyser jumps after him. He pretends to save him, but drowns him in the ocean. After Keyser is pulled back aboard the ship, he is awarded a medal for attempting to save a man he never met.

Insomnia

Episode: 5x30 | Airdate: May 8, 1960

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Charles Cavender is having a terrible case of insomnia. He visits a psychologist Doctor Tedaldi for help. He tells the doctor that his his wife died in a fire. He also adds that her brother Fletcher blames him for her death. The doctor suggests that he and his brother-in-law should try to resolve their differences. He meets Fletcher but they get into an argument. There is a fight and Fletcher is killed. Cavender then returns home and is finally able to get some rest. He goes to sleep and a fire breaks out. His sleep is so deep that the fire does not wake him up and he dies.

I Can Take Care of Myself

Episode: 5x31 | Airdate: May 15, 1960

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Bert Haber is a piano player who injects himself into a scuffle between a mobster named Little Dandy and a singer. Dandy is punched in the faces and vows revenge. Later, Bert is approached by a man trying to sell him life insurance at Dandy's recommendation. Bert refuses thinking that he can take care of himself. The next day a detective arrives. He tells Bert that his singer friend was murdered last night. The detective wants Bert to testify against Dandy. Bert agrees, but he wants police protection. The detective takes him to his car. Bert gets in and discovers the insurance man. The men work for Little Dandy, and Bert is promptly killed.

One Grave Too Many

Episode: 5x32 | Airdate: May 22, 1960

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

Party Line

Episode: 5x33 | Airdate: May 29, 1960

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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.

Cell 227

Episode: 5x34 | Airdate: Jun 5, 1960

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

The Schartz-Metterklume Method

Episode: 5x35 | Airdate: Jun 12, 1960

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

Letter of Credit

Episode: 5x36 | Airdate: Jun 19, 1960

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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.

Escape to Sonoita

Episode: 5x37 | Airdate: Jun 26, 1960

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Bill and Andy Davis drive a tanker truck through the Arizona desert. When their car overheats, they see another car get into an accident. They go to help out, but discover a kidnapping victim and her kidnappers: Marshall and Lemon. The kidnappers pull guns on Bill and Andy and then take their truck. Bill, Andy, and the kidnapping victim are left in the desert. Andy knows there is a nearby town. At night they travel and are rescued. Later, there is a search for the kidnappers. They find Lemon's body. He had been shot in a fight over the waterbag. Later, the tanker truck is located. Marshall lies dead outside it. Next to him in an empty waterbag. Later, it is revealed that the tanker truck stolen by the kidnappers was hauling water: two thousand gallons of it.

Hooked

Episode: 5x38 | Airdate: Sep 25, 1960

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Ray Marchand is on a fishing trip at a camp with his wife Gladys. Ray falls for and becomes involved with Nila, the young daughter of the owner of the camp. Ray plans to kill his wife so he can be with Nila. Since Gladys can't swim he will accompany her on the next fishing boat and push her off. All goes according to plan, except when the boat comes back it is Gladys who survives. She then reveals that she wants to marry Nila's dad. She'll do so, of course, after a proper mourning period.
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