Alfred Hitchcock Presents season 5 Special Delivery Reviews (2025)

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Episode 1 • Sep 27, 1959 • 30 m Arthur When his pretty ex-fiancee returns from another failed relationship, a chicken farmer, not wanting anything to do with her, decides to eliminate her.
Episode 2 • Oct 4, 1959 • 30 m The Crystal Trench An obsessed young woman waits decades for her husband's body to emerge from the ice, after he fell from a mountain.
Episode 3 • Oct 11, 1959 • 30 m Appointment at Eleven
Episode 4 • Oct 18, 1959 • 30 m Coyote Moon A goodhearted man picks up an old man and his adult son and daughter hitchhiking, but they steal from him every chance they get.
Episode 5 • Oct 25, 1959 • 30 m No Pain A woman reveals to her rich husband who's confined to an iron lung that she's planning to painlessly murder him, but he may have a surprise for her.
Episode 6 • Nov 1, 1959 • 30 m Anniversary Gift
Episode 7 • Nov 8, 1959 • 30 m Dry Run A crime boss gives a new employee an assignment to kill another man, but the intended victim tempts him with another offer.
Episode 8 • Nov 15, 1959 • 30 m The Blessington Method
Episode 9 • Nov 22, 1959 • 30 m Dead Weight A married man captures a gunman who tried to rob him and his mistress, but to avoid a scandal, he contemplates whether to let him go or kill him.
Episode 10 • Nov 29, 1959 • 30 m Special Delivery Mental suggestions and odd behavior have some people believing a special delivery of quick-growing mushroom spores may be an invading life form.
Episode 11 • Dec 6, 1959 • 30 m Road Hog A rude traveling salesman forces a truck off the road causing a delay in emergency care for an injured young man who then dies.
Episode 12 • Dec 13, 1959 • 30 m Specialty of the House
Episode 13 • Dec 20, 1959 • 30 m An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge In the Civil War, Union soldiers hang a Confederate farmer for sabotage. The rope breaks and he falls into a river. He swims to safety and begins walking home. Disoriented, he's glad to see plantation staff who guide his befogged travel.
Episode 14 • Dec 27, 1959 • 30 m Graduating Class While on a date, a new teacher of European literature at an all-girl college observes one of her students leaving a nightclub with a man and follows them. What could go wrong?
Episode 15 • Jan 3, 1960 • 26 m Man from the South In a Las Vegas casino, an unpleasant little man hopes to use a young man's wish to impress the young woman he has just met to pressure the young fellow into accepting a macabre bet.
Episode 16 • Jan 10, 1960 • 30 m The Ikon of Elijah
Episode 17 • Jan 24, 1960 • 30 m The Cure
Episode 18 • Jan 31, 1960 • 30 m Backward, Turn Backward The father of a teenage girl being romanced by a much older man is bludgeoned to death with a pipe wrench and suspicion immediately falls on the older man.
Episode 19 • Feb 7, 1960 • 30 m Not the Running Type
Episode 20 • Feb 14, 1960 • 30 m The Day of the Bullet When a young boy reports a mob-beating to the police and his father fails to support him under questioning in the presence of the mobster, he's adversely affected for the rest of his life.
Episode 21 • Feb 21, 1960 • 30 m Hitch Hike A young troublemaker teaches a surprising lesson in morality.
Episode 22 • Feb 28, 1960 • 30 m Across the Threshold A woman hoping to contact her late husband takes drastic steps.
Episode 23 • Mar 6, 1960 • 30 m Craig's Will A greedy man and his scheming girlfriend concoct various plans for a dog's early demise after the man's uncle leaves the bulk of his estate to the dog instead of to the man, who was the deceased's only living relative.
Episode 24 • Mar 27, 1960 • 30 m Madame Mystery A soaking wet woman enters a novelist's apartment. She's followed by his PR friend who wants the writer to create a tale exaggerating the actress' recent disappearance right before her latest movie is released. How far will the story go?
Episode 25 • Apr 3, 1960 • 30 m The Little Man Who Was There
Episode 26 • Apr 10, 1960 • 30 m Mother, May I Go Out to Swim? A coroner's inquiry takes a man back to a fateful decision.
Episode 27 • Apr 17, 1960 • 30 m The Cuckoo Clock
Episode 28 • Apr 24, 1960 • 30 m Forty Detectives Later After 40 detectives in a row have failed to locate the killer of his wife, a man hires his 41st detective to set up a meeting so he can avenge the murder.
Episode 29 • May 1, 1960 • 30 m The Hero While on a sea cruise, Richard Musgrave meets his former business partner, whom he once robbed and left for dead, traveling under an assumed name. His task is now to convince the man to reveal his true identity.
Episode 30 • May 8, 1960 • 30 m Insomnia
Episode 31 • May 15, 1960 • 30 m I Can Take Care of Myself
Episode 32 • May 22, 1960 • 30 m One Grave Too Many
Episode 33 • May 29, 1960 • 30 m Party Line
Episode 34 • Jun 5, 1960 • 30 m Cell 227 Professor Herbert Morrison is on death row awaiting his sentence to go through. His lawyer is trying to get a last-minute stay of execution but the professor says he doesn't want a reprieve.
Episode 35 • Jun 12, 1960 • 30 m The Schartz-Metterklume Method
Episode 36 • Jun 19, 1960 • 30 m Letter of Credit
Episode 37 • Jun 26, 1960 • 30 m Escape to Sonoita Two kidnappers think they have made their escape when they hijack a tanker truck in the arid desert, leaving the truck drivers and the female kidnap victim behind to die.
Episode 38 • Sep 25, 1960 • 30 m Hooked Ray Marchand schemes with a beautiful young woman to get rid of his wealthy wife.

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