Stone, Gail Kobe, Lola Albright, James Farentino Cannon, Patricia Barry, Geoffrey Horne, Joyce Meadowsįoyle, a private eye hired to follow a crooked real estate agent by his wife, inadvertently witnesses a payoff. the original play was written by John Mortimer, the creator of Rumpole of the Bailey. In Brighton, England, Frute, an rather incompetent private investigator, is hired to tail a wife suspected of cheating on her jealous husband, Captain Morgan, witrh unintended consequences. Starring Ronald Howard, Mary Murphy, Patricia Donahue, Arte Johnson, Florence MacMichaelĪ man wants a divorce but his wife won’t grant him one, so he hires a private detective (Arte Johnson)to get the goods on her, convinced she’s cheating on him with a movie star.Īlso starring Kay Walsh, William Kendall, Cecil Parker Starring Lee Phillips, Les Tremayne, Ann Staunton, Gia ScalaĪ con artist and a woman hatch a plot to murder her rich husband, but Moss, a private eye, tumbles to their scheme. Starring Claire Trevor, Patricia Smith, Howard McNear, Robert SampsonĪn unscrupulous private eye, Phil Ames, gets involved in a nasty child custody battle between the adfoptive parents and the girl’s alcoholic birth mother. Starring James Franciscus as William TyreĪlso starring Jack Weston, George Mitchell, Arlene McQuadeĪn obseessed man who has hired forty detectives to track down his wife’s killer turns to Chicago P.I. hired by a young American couple to find the body of elderly relation which has disappeared.īased on the short story by Stanley Ellinīallinger won an Edgar Award for his adaptation. The highlight is Lorre’s portrayal of a scheming Tijuana P.I. Starring George Peppard, Mary Scott, Isobel Elsom Starring Robert Middleton, Henry Silva, Kathleen HughesĪ semi-retired mobster suspects his young wife of cheating on him and hires first Cutter, a private eye, and then a hitman to deal with the problem. Harris, Russell Collins, Barbara Baxley, Ray Teal, Percy Helton, Phyllis Thaxter, Carmen Mathews, Mildred Dunnock, Alan Napier, Robert Vaughn, Robert Redford, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Robert Newton, Steve McQueen, Bruce Dern, Walter Matthau, Laurence Harvey, Claude Rains, Dennis Morgan, Joseph Cotten, Vera Miles, Tom Ewell, Peter Lorre, Dean Stockwell, Barbara Bel Geddes Guest stars included James Franciscus, Dick York, Robert Horton, James Gleason, John Williams, Robert H. Ballinger, Evan Hunter, Halsted Wellesĭirectors: Robert Stevens, Paul Henreid, Herschel Daughert, Norman Lloyd, Alfred Hitchcock, Arthur Hiller, James Neilson, Jus Addiss, John Brahm, Robert Altman, Ida Lupino, Stuart Rosenberg, Robert Stevenson, David Swift, Sydney Pollack, William Friedkin, Irwin & Gwen Gielgud If you come across ones I’ve missed, please let me know. I’ve tried to list them below, but this is just a preliminary list. The point is, Alfred Hitchcock Presents was a very, very good show, and it even featured a few pretty good private eye stories, as well as several episodes that involved various writers and/or source material that ought to be familiar to P.I. Again, much like the show (and the children’s mystery series of books, Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators, for that matter), Hitchcock himself had very little to do with it - it was mostly a licensing deal. The show was so popular it inspired a string of printed collections with the running title Alfred Hitchcock Presents. It featured dramas, thrillers, and mysteries, often featuring a “Gotcha!” twist at the end, and boasted a stellar list of talent, both behind and in front of the cameras.Īlthough he did direct several episodes, Hitchcock, by then a well known film director, had relatively little to do with the show’s production, save for his appearances as the show’s host at the beginning and end of every episode, but his droll, tongue in cheek intros tied the shows –which could vary widely thematically - nicely together. ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS (and later, THE ALFRED HITCHCOCK HOUR, when the format changed to 60 minutes) was a very popular American television anthology series that was hosted and produced by Alfred Hitchcock which bounced back and forth between CBS and NBC during its amazing ten year run.
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