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PAHP #53: John Brown's Body.

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In this installment, how do Harold and Vera get her husband John Brown out of the way? Easy. They commit him to a rest home. But maybe that isn't the ...

PAHP #52: Mr. Blanchard's Secret.

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In this installment, Babs Fenton hasn't ever seen her new neighbor, Mrs. Blanchard, and wonders whether Mr. Blanchard has done away with her. Al and A...

PAHP #51: The Rose Garden.

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In this installment, Miss Julia has written a murder mystery that appears to take place in her house. Did a murder actually take place in her house, t...

PAHP #50: The Better Bargain.

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In this installment, mobster Louis "King" Koster wants to find out who his wife's lover is so he can have him bumped off. The answer is likely more of...

PAHP #49: Jonathan.

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In this installment, Gil wants to know how his stepmother, Rosine, managed to murder his father, Jonathan. Little does he know that he had something t...

PAHP #87: The Young One.

20 Apr 2026

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This time, it’s an extra-long triple feature. First, Robert Altman directs as Janice wants to escape her Aunt May in the worst way. Then, George buy...

PAHP #86: Last Request.

12 Mar 2026

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March 12th is Alfred Hitchcock Day! Let's celebrate with "Last Request." Gerry Daniels is on death row, convicted of murder. He’s innocent, if you d...

PAHP #85: Enough Rope For Two.

23 Feb 2026

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In this installment, Joe, Madge, and Maxey go in search of $100,000 hidden in a Mojave Desert mine shaft. But can any of them trust each other and wil...

PAHP #84: Reward to Finder.

26 Jan 2026

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It's a triple feature as Carl Gaminsky finds a wallet containing $5200 in our episode followed by a look at Hitchcock's 1936 film "Sabotage," followed...

PAHP #83: Silent Witness.

15 Dec 2025

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In this installment, Bob Mason has murdered Claudia Powell. He thinks there were no witnesses but the baby who was in the room starts crying every tim...

PAHP #82: Heart of Gold.

24 Nov 2025

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In this installment, Jackie Blake thinks he's found a home with the Collins family. Does Ma Collins have a Heart of Gold or is there another reason fo...

PAHP #81: The Perfect Crime.

27 Oct 2025

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In this installment, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Vincent Price plays Charles Courtney, a detective with a perfect record who is not about to let a m...

PAHP #80: Mail Order Prophet.

29 Sep 2025

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In this installment, Ronald Grimes gets letters from a man who offers him "sure-fire" bets because he claims he can see the future. But is such a thin...

PAHP #79: The Glass Eye.

13 Aug 2025

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We begin season three on Alfred Hitchcock's 126th birthday! Julia Lester has kept a glass eye that her cousin Jim says symbolized her life. But how so...

PAHP #78b: Suspicion: Four O'Clock.

21 Jul 2025

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In this special installment, Al looks at "Four O'Clock," the premiere episode of the new series "Suspicion," an episode directed by Alfred Hitchcock. ...

PAHP #78a: Jack Seabrook 2.

24 Jun 2025

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In this special installment, Al welcomes back Jack Seabrook, the author of "The Hitchcock Project" blog, to talk about the second season, the first ep...

PAHP #78: The Dangerous People.

22 May 2025

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In this installment, two men meet at a train station as a siren announces an escaped asylum inmate. Is either one of the men the escaped maniac? Then ...

PAHP #77: A Little Sleep.

28 Apr 2025

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In this installment, wealthy Barbie Hallem looks for a little more excitement than she finds amongst her "boring" contemporaries. Unfortunately, along...

PAHP #76: The Indestructible Mr. Weems.

12 Mar 2025

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Happy Alfred Hitchcock Day! March 12th is Alfred Hitchcock Day so we've got to have a podcast! This time, the Knights of the Golden Lodge agree to su...

PAHP #75: Father and Son.

24 Feb 2025

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In this installment, Joe Saunders tells his ne'er-do-well son Sam to fend for himself. Sam does, but not in a way that Joe expects. Then, Al gets a li...

PAHP #74: The West Warlock Time Capsule.

27 Jan 2025

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In this installment, taxidermist George Tiffany has a pleasant life with his wife Louise until Louise's sponging brother Waldren shows up. What can a ...

PAHP #73: Martha Mason, Movie Star.

16 Dec 2024

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In this installment, Mabel thinks she looks like movie star Martha Mason and despises her undramatic life with her husband, so she spices it up with a...

PAHP #72: A Man Greatly Beloved.

25 Nov 2024

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In this installment, young Hildegarde Fell tells the story of her friendship with Mr. Anderson, who may or may not be a famous retired judge. Then, Al...

PAHP #71: The Hands of Mr. Ottermole.

28 Oct 2024

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In this installment, as the title suggests, Mr. Ottermole is a murderer who uses his hands to strangle his victims but which of our characters IS Mr. ...

PAHP #70: The Night the World Ended.

25 Sep 2024

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In this installment, Johnny Gin believes the world will end in three hours, so how should he spend the rest of his life? Plus, Al picks the actor that...

PAHP #69: The Three Dreams of Mr. Findlater.

26 Aug 2024

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In this installment, Ernest Findlater has three dreams. One involves Lalage, a South Sea Island woman. The other two involve the death of his wife.

PAHP #68: Vicious Circle.

22 Jul 2024

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In this installment, Manny Cole kills a man to rise in Mr. Williams' criminal organization. But they don't call it "Vicious Circle" for nothing. 

PAHP #67: One More Mile To Go.

24 Jun 2024

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In this installment, Sam Jacoby murders his wife and tries to dispose of her body but is hampered by the most helpful and least helpful cop in the wor...

PAHP #66: I Killed the Count, Part Three.

28 May 2024

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In this installment, Count Mattoni is STILL dead and the list of confessed killers has expanded to four. But which one them actually did it?  Then, A...

PAHP #65: I Killed the Count, Part Two.

29 Apr 2024

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In this installment, Count Mattoni is still dead and Inspector Davidson is still investigating but the list of confessed killers only grows longer.  ...

PAHP #64: I Killed the Count, Part One.

12 Mar 2024

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It's March 12th, National Alfred Hitchcock Day!  To quote the Hitchcock Festival website: "It is not the birthday or the death of Hitchcock, and it i...

PAHP #63: The Cream of the Jest.

26 Feb 2024

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In this installment, Charles Hannover Gresham resorts to blackmail to play a blackmailer in Wayne Campbell's new play. But that's just a taste of the ...

PAHP #62: One For The Road.

29 Jan 2024

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In this installment, as Hitch tells us, we have a story of the eternal triangle...where two of the three are willing to commit murder. Then, Al puts o...

PAHP #61: The End of Indian Summer.

18 Dec 2023

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In this installment, insurance man Joe Rogers investigates a woman whose previous two husbands died under mysterious circumstances. And it looks like ...

PAHP #60: Number Twenty-Two.

27 Nov 2023

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In this installment, Steve Morgan becomes a number...number 22...when he is arrested and enters a police line-up. Steve thinks it's a game but it is m...

PAHP #59: Malice Domestic.

23 Oct 2023

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In this installment, there's some arsenic poisoning going on in the home of Carl and Annette Borden. But who is the poisoner and who is the victim? Th...

PAHP #58: A Bottle of Wine.

26 Sep 2023

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In this installment, the Judge invites young Wallace, who is running off with the Judge's wife, to share a bottle of wine, which he just may have pois...

PAHP #57: The Manacled.

28 Aug 2023

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In this installment, Stephen Fontaine is a prisoner, saddled with an "Oregon Boot," a manacle around his ankle. He is sure that he can convince police...

PAHP #56a: The Wrong Man.

24 Jul 2023

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In this special installment, Al takes a look at the Hitchcock film that came out in the middle of the show's second season; a film very much like "Alf...

PAHP #56: My Brother Richard.

28 Jun 2023

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In this installment, Richard Ross murders his brother's political rival, then can't believe that his district attorney brother doesn't appreciate it. ...

PAHP #55: Nightmare in 4D.

30 May 2023

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In this installment, Harry has a nightmare in 4D, then helps to clean up a murder in 3D. So where does the nightmare end and reality begin?

PAHP #54: Crackpot.

24 Apr 2023

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In this installment, newlyweds Meg and Ray encounter Mr. Moon who may be a dangerous crackpot. On the other hand, he may be something else.

PAHP #48: Crack of Doom.

23 Oct 2022

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In this installment, Mason Bridges has always been an honest man...except once when, thanks to poker, for a few hours, he was a thief. But when is a t...

PAHP #47: Conversation Over a Corpse.

19 Sep 2022

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In this installment, Cissy's sister wants to murder Mr. Brenner. She poisons him but things are not what they seem. For one thing, Mr. Brenner isn't d...

PAHP #46: Alibi Me.

28 Aug 2022

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In this installment, Georgie has bumped off his old rival Lucky and is sure to be the prime suspect unless he can come up with an alibi. But from who,...

PAHP #45: Toby.

18 Jul 2022

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In this installment, Albert has prepared an apartment for his long-lost love Edwina whom he hasn't seen for twenty years, but she shows up with a baby...

PAHP #44b: TV Guide.

27 Jun 2022

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Alfred Hitchcock appeared on the cover of TV Guide magazine four different times. The first was the October 27-November 2, 1956 issue with a listing f...

PAHP #44a: Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.

13 Jun 2022

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In our last installment, Hitch promoted a new magazine that would soon be the source of many episodes. Here is a look at that first issue, along with ...

PAHP #44: None Are So Blind.

31 May 2022

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In this installment, Seymour plans to disguise himself to murder his Aunt Muriel. But there's one crucial blip in his plan that he just refuses to see...

PAHP #43a: Amazing Stories: The Doll.

23 May 2022

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In this surprise installment, Al and Tom Elliott, the host of the Award-Winning "The Twilight Zone Podcast," discuss Richard Matheson's sentimental Am...

PAHP #43: Kill with Kindness.

25 Apr 2022

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In this installment, Fitz and Katherine invite the homeless Mr. Jorgy into their home. They plan to kill him but they may as well kill him with kindne...

PAHP #42: De Mortuis.

28 Mar 2022

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In this installment, short story writer John Collier and teleplay writer Francis Cockrell put a different spin on Collier's "Back for Christmas"in whi...

PAHP #41: Fog Closing In.

28 Feb 2022

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In this installment, Mary is always frightened but it is not until Ted, an escaped psychiatric patient, breaks into her home that she finds out what s...

PAHP #40: Wet Saturday.

31 Jan 2022

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In this installment, Millicent has committed murder but her father is not going to let that stand in the way of the family's reputation. Enter Captain...

PAHP #39b: The Man Who Knew Too Much.

17 Jan 2022

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So, it's June of 1956, you've come to the end of the first season of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" and you've seen all the repeats that are being shown ...

PAHP #39a: Jack Seabrook.

13 Dec 2021

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In this special installment, Al talks to Jack Seabrook, the author of "The Hitchcock Project" blog, about the AHP first season, Batman of the 1980s, a...

PAHP #39: Momentum.

22 Nov 2021

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In this installment, Dick Paine misses all the hints that would tell him that his wife Beth has already taken care of the errand that, instead, puts h...

PAHP #38: The Creeper.

18 Oct 2021

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In this installment, a mysterious killer known as the Creeper is strangling blonde women whose husbands work at night, leaving them alone. And as Elle...

PAHP #37: Decoy.

20 Sep 2021

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In this installment, Gil Larkin is set up for murder. He is a "patsy, a fall guy, a clay pigeon." A decoy. He tries to find a witness that will clear ...

PAHP #36: Mink.

16 Aug 2021

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In this installment, Paula Hudson buys a mink stole at the "too good to be true" price of $400, getting her in trouble with the law. Police Sgt. Delan...

PAHP #35: The Legacy.

19 Jul 2021

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In this installment, Al looks at the idle rich of Palm Beach as Prince Burhan of India romances "mousey little thing" Irene Cole, much to the surprise...

PAHP #34: The Hidden Thing.

22 Jun 2021

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In this installment, Al looks at a Hitchcockian Shaggy Dog story as Dana Edwards uses total recall (with Arnold Schwarzenegger nowhere in sight) to tr...

PAHP #33: The Belfry.

17 May 2021

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In this installment, Clint Ringle murders Walt Norton in a jealous rage because he wants to marry Walt's fiancee, Ellie. With a posse pursuing him, Cl...

PAHP #32: The Baby Sitter.

19 Apr 2021

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In this installment, the woman for whom Lottie Slocum has been baby sitting has been murdered. Lottie seems to know something but, unfortunately, she ...

PAHP #31: The Gentleman From America.

15 Mar 2021

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In this installment, Howard Latimer, the Gentleman From America, makes a bet that he can spend the night in a room that is supposed to be haunted. It ...

PAHP #30: Never Again.

15 Feb 2021

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In this installment, Karen wakes up, hungover, in a strange bed. Her memory vague, she tries to piece things together only for reality to be far wors...

PAHP #29: The Orderly World of Mr. Appleby.

18 Jan 2021

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In episode #18, Robert H. Harris played a man committed to preventing murder but in this installment, he is Mr. Appleby, a man committed to committing...

PAHP #28: Portrait of Jocelyn.

14 Dec 2020

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In this installment, Mark Halliday buys a painting for his wife, Debbie, that somehow is replaced with a portrait of his first wife, Jocelyn. So, who...

PAHP #27: Help Wanted.

16 Nov 2020

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In this installment, John Qualen makes his final AHP appearance, playing a man so desperate for a job that he accepts a position with an anonymous emp...

PAHP #26: Whodunit.

12 Oct 2020

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In this installment, Alexander Arlington, our protagonist, finds himself in Heaven, where he learns that he's been murdered. So, what is he going to d...

PAHP #25: There Was An Old Woman.

14 Sep 2020

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Charles Bronson returns, this time as a crook, as he and Norma Crane come up against Estelle Winwood's alternate reality. So, which reality wins out?

PAHP #24: The Perfect Murder.

13 Aug 2020

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It's Sir Alfred's 121st birthday and what better way to celebrate than with a character who thinks he can pull off the perfect murder.

PAHP #23: Back For Christmas.

13 Jul 2020

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In this installment, Al and Amy look at the last Hitchcock-directed episode of the first season. Is it Hitch's best one so far? Al thinks so but Amy h...

PAHP #7a: The Prudential Family Hour of Stars.

15 Jun 2020

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In this installment, Al adjusts to podcasting from home by presenting a bonus episode: the radio version of "Breakdown" starring Joseph Cotten.

PAHP #22: Place of Shadows.

18 May 2020

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In this installment, Al wanders into a monastery with a man seeking revenge but will forgiveness be found within those walls...or retribution?

PAHP #21: Safe Conduct.

14 Apr 2020

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In this installment, Al enters the Cold War on a train from the East with a reporter who believes she has safe conduct out of the country.

PAHP #20: And So Died Riabouchinska.

16 Mar 2020

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In this installment, Al looks at the story of a love between a man and his puppet and the murder that occurs as a result of it.

PAHP #19: The Derelicts.

10 Feb 2020

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In this installment, Al looks at the consequences of murdering your silent partner in a public park where a derelict can spy on you and blackmail you.

PAHP #18: Shopping For Death.

13 Jan 2020

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In this installment, Al looks at Ray Bradbury and his first episode for the series.

PAHP #17: The Older Sister.

09 Dec 2019

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In this installment, Al looks at the Lizzie Borden story and somehow manages to examine Hitchcock's "Stage Fright," too.

PAHP #16: You Got To Have Luck.

12 Nov 2019

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In this installment, Al looks at a story about an escaped prisoner who doesn't have the luck he thinks he has, starring John Cassavetes, the father of...

PAHP #15: The Big Switch.

14 Oct 2019

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In this installment, Al looks at the first episode based on a story by Cornell Woolrich naturally leading to a look into a Rear Window.

PAHP#14: A Bullet For Baldwin.

05 Sep 2019

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In this installment, Al looks at Mr. Stepp's murder of Mr. Baldwin. But did Mr. Stepp really murder Mr. Baldwin or is it all in his head?

PAHP #13: The Cheney Vase.

13 Aug 2019

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In this installment, Al celebrates Sir Alfred's 120th birthday with a popular little piece of pottery called the Cheney Vase.

PAHP #12: Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid.

08 Jul 2019

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In this installment, Al celebrates Christmas in July with Barry Fitzgerald as the original Bad Santa.

PAHP #11: Guilty Witness.

10 Jun 2019

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In this installment, Al looks at an episode that seeks to determine if an abused wife has murdered her husband. But who is the witness and why are the...

PAHP #10: The Case of Mr. Pelham.

13 May 2019

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In this installment, Al and Amy Cantu look at the one episode for which Hitchcock earned an Emmy nomination; a strange story in a literary tradition ...

PAHP #9: The Long Shot.

08 Apr 2019

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In this installment, Al looks at a story dealing not with who the murderer is but who the murderer murdered.

PAHP #8: Our Cook's a Treasure.

11 Mar 2019

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In this installment, Al looks at an adaptation of Dorothy Sayers' story “Suspicion,” offering a perfect excuse to also talk about Hitchcock’s fi...

PAHP #7: Breakdown.

11 Feb 2019

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In this installment, Al Sjoerdsma discusses the second Hitchcock-directed episode along with Hitchcock films "Shadow of a Doubt" and "Under Capricorn,...

PAHP #6: Salvage.

07 Jan 2019

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In this installment, Al Sjoerdsma examines "Salvage," the first of the "retribution" stories but without the "retribution" closing narration as Gene ...

PAHP #5: Into Thin Air.

03 Dec 2018

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In this installment, Al Sjoerdsma delves into a story with roots in "The Lady Vanishes," Alexander Woolcott, Ernest Hemingway, Marie Belloc Lowndes, ...

PAHP #4: Don't Come Back Alive.

05 Nov 2018

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In this installment, Al Sjoerdsma looks at the first of thirty episodes scripted by Robert C. Dennis and finds something in common between Irene Dunn...

PAHP #3: Triggers in Leash.

08 Oct 2018

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In this installment, Al Sjoerdsma looks at Hitchcock's aversion to directing a Western then examines the third episode, a Western.

PAHP #2: Premonition.

06 Sep 2018

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In this installment, Al Sjoerdsma examines "The Trouble With Harry," Hitchcock's sense of humor, and "Premonition," the second episode.

PAHP #1: Revenge.

13 Aug 2018

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In this installment, Al Sjoerdsma delves into "Revenge," the first episode. Amy Cantu later joins Al for a discussion of "Revenge," "Vertigo," and Hi...

Presenting Alfred Hitchcock Presents #0.

13 Aug 2018

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In this initial installment, launched on Hitchcocks 119th birthday, Al Sjoerdsma explores the details behind the series' creation.