CRIME/MYSTERY TV EPISODES
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1.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
Revenge
(1955)
TV-14 | 26 min | Drama, Mystery
When Carl Spann's wife Elsa is assaulted by an unknown attacker, he drives his still-incoherent wife around town, hoping she can point him out, so he can kill him.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Ralph Meeker, Vera Miles, Frances Bavier
Votes: 2,398
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Ralph Meeker, Vera Miles
2.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
Premonition
(1955)
TV-14 | 24 min | Drama, Mystery
A man returning to his home town finds his father has died, and suspects his friends are covering up the true details of that death.
Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, John Forsythe, Cloris Leachman, Warren Stevens
Votes: 1,735
Starring: John Forsythe
3.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
Don't Come Back Alive
(1955)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
Frank Partridge and his wife plot to cheat their life insurance company by having her hide out for 7 years and declared legally dead, but an investigator believes Mr. Partridge has murdered her.
Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Sidney Blackmer, Virginia Gregg, Robert Emhardt
Votes: 1,453
Directed by Robert Stevenson
4.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
Breakdown
(1955)
TV-14 | 26 min | Drama, Mystery
William Callew is involved in a bad traffic accident on a rural road, that leaves him so paralyzed he appears lifeless, and when help arrives they think he's really dead.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Joseph Cotten, Raymond Bailey, Forrest Stanley
Votes: 1,987
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Joseph Cotten
5.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
Our Cook's a Treasure
(1955)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
A serial-murderess maid is on the loose in the city. Ralph becomes suspicious of his wife Ethel's housemaid Mrs. Sutton.
Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Everett Sloane, Beulah Bondi, Janet Ward
Votes: 1,251
6.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
The Long Shot
(1955)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
Heavily indebted Charlie Raymond is hired to accompany a British visitor on a trip across the USA, and looks for a way to take advantage of his employer.
Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Peter Lawford, John Williams, Gertrude Hoffman
Votes: 1,224
Directed by Robert Stevenson
Starring: John Williams
7.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
The Case of Mr. Pelham
(1955)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
A series of troubling incidents lead Mr. Pelham to believe that he has a double who is deliberately impersonating him.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Tom Ewell, Raymond Bailey, Justice Watson
Votes: 1,430
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
8.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
Guilty Witness
(1955)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
When Mr. and Mrs. Crane hear the Verbers having a violent argument in the apartment just above them, and then Mr. Verber disappears the next day, they can't help suspecting the worst.
Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Judith Evelyn, Kathleen Maguire, Joe Mantell
Votes: 1,147
9.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
You Got to Have Luck
(1956)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
During a massive manhunt for escaped convict Sam Cobbett, Cobbett invades a house where young housewife Mary Schaffner is home alone.
Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, John Cassavetes, Marisa Pavan, Lamont Johnson
Votes: 1,180
Starring: John Cassavetes
10.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
And So Died Riabouchinska
(1956)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
Detective Krovitch investigates a murder at a run-down vaudeville theater and gets a hot lead from the ventriloquist's dummy.
Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Claude Rains, Charles Bronson, Claire Carleton
Votes: 1,060
Directed by Robert Stevenson
Based on a short story by Ray Bradbury
Starring: Claude Rains, Charles Bronson
11.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
Back for Christmas
(1956)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
Before leaving on a trip to America, a man kills his wife and buries her in the basement. Once in the United States, he receives correspondence. Has he gotten away with his crime?
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, John Williams, Isobel Elsom, Arthur Gould-Porter
Votes: 1,154
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: John Williams
12.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
Help Wanted
(1956)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
To pay for his wife's operation, Mr. Crabtree takes a job working for the mysterious Mr. X, who asks him to manage a job involving a blackmailer.
Director: James Neilson | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, John Qualen, Lorne Greene, Madge Kennedy
Votes: 903
13.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
The Creeper
(1956)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
A frightened housewife is alone in her apartment when she begins to suspect just about anyone could be the unknown killer who has been strangling women.
Director: Herschel Daugherty | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Constance Ford, Steve Brodie, Harry Townes
Votes: 981
14.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
The Manacled
(1957)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
Shackled prisoner Stephen Fontaine tries to negotiate an escape from Sergeant Rockwell while en route to San Quentin.
Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Gary Merrill, William Redfield, Rusty Lane
Votes: 747
15.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
One More Mile to Go
(1957)
TV-14 | 26 min | Drama, Mystery
Sam Jacoby has his wife's corpse in the trunk of his car, and is menaced by a motorcycle cop, who nags him about a taillight.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, David Wayne, Steve Brodie, Louise Larabee
Votes: 915
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
16.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
The Dangerous People
(1957)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
Two men wait at a train station. A wailing siren periodically reminds them that a maniac has escaped from the local mental hospital.
Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Albert Salmi, Robert H. Harris, Ken Clark
Votes: 653
17.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
The Glass Eye
(1957)
TV-14 | 33 min | Drama, Mystery
Captivated by the actor's physical beauty, an aging spinster pulls up stakes to follow a ventriloquist and his dummy from performance to performance; finally, the man consents to a much-wanted meeting.
Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Jessica Tandy, Tom Conway, Rosemary Harris
Votes: 1,109
18.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
Mail Order Prophet
(1957)
TV-14 | 32 min | Drama, Mystery
Clerk Ronald Grimes starts receiving letters from a mysterious Mr. Christiani that seemingly predict the future.
Director: James Neilson | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, E.G. Marshall, Jack Klugman, Judson Pratt
Votes: 749
19.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
The Perfect Crime
(1957)
TV-14 | 25 min | Drama, Mystery
A lawyer, with blackmail in mind, meets with a famed detective to prove he convicted an innocent man.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Vincent Price, James Gregory, Gavin Gordon
Votes: 778
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Vincent Price
20.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
Heart of Gold
(1957)
TV-14 | Drama, Mystery
A convicted robber is released to the family of one of his cell mates, against the better judgment of his parole officer.
Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Mildred Dunnock, Darryl Hickman, Nehemiah Persoff
Votes: 662
21.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
The Motive
(1958)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
A man who has a theory that murders committed without a motive are very rarely solved is then coaxed by his friend into killing someone.
Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Skip Homeier, William Redfield, Carl Betz
Votes: 628
22.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
The Right Kind of House
(1958)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
Mr. Waterbury believes he can get a good deal on some real estate because a murder occurred in the home. But he hasn't dealt with Sadie Grimes the owner who refuses to lower the price because of an emotional attachment.
Director: Don Taylor | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Emhardt, Jeanette Nolan, James Drury
Votes: 898
23.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
Lamb to the Slaughter
(1958)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
After Mary Maloney's police chief husband is murdered, the police investigate but have a hard time figuring out the murder weapon.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Barbara Bel Geddes, Harold J. Stone, Allan Lane
Votes: 1,270
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Written by Roald Dahl
24.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
Post Mortem
(1958)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
A wife refuses to let her husband squander away the money from a 133,000-dollar sweepstakes ticket inherited from her first dead spouse, so he plans on killing her.
Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Steve Forrest, Joanna Moore, James Gregory
Votes: 593
25.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
Dip in the Pool
(1958)
TV-14 | 26 min | Drama, Mystery
William Botibol is a compulsive gambler. While on a cruise he enters a betting pool to guess the number of miles the ship will travel in the course of 24 hours. William thinks he has figured out a way to guarantee he will win the bet.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Keenan Wynn, Fay Wray, Philip Bourneuf
Votes: 535
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Based on a short story by Roald Dahl
Starring: Fay Wray
26.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
Little White Frock
(1958)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
Colin Bragner is an elderly actor who invites both playwright Adam Longsworth and his wife over to dinner. During dinner, Colin talks about a long-lost love. The tale deeply affects both ... See full summary »
Director: Herschel Daugherty | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Herbert Marshall, Julie Adams, Tom Helmore
Votes: 573
27.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
Poison
(1958)
TV-14 | 26 min | Drama, Mystery
Harry Pope is lying in bed and discovers that there is a sleeping snake on his stomach.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Wendell Corey, James Donald, Arnold Moss
Votes: 600
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Based on a short story by Roald Dahl
28.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
The Crooked Road
(1958)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
A couple driving through a rural location discover that the police and judge of the town of Robertsville are more intent on extorting money from them than being honest servants of the people.
Director: Paul Henreid | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Richard Kiley, Walter Matthau, Patricia Breslin
Votes: 745
Starring: Walter Matthau
29.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
Man with a Problem
(1958)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
Karen Adams' infidelity drives her husband Carl to attempt suicide by jumping from a high window ledge at a hotel. Can police officer Barrett stop him?
Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Gary Merrill, Peter Mark Richman, Elizabeth Montgomery
Votes: 750
30.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
Out There - Darkness
(1959)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
Miss Fox is a rich old widow who falsely identifies one of the building's employees as the guy who robbed her, and later she wants to help him but it may be too late.
Director: Paul Henreid | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Bette Davis, James Congdon, Frank Albertson
Votes: 929
Starring: Bette Davis
31.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
The Last Dark Step
(1959)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
Brad Taylor is a real-estate entrepreneur who is engaged to Janice Wright. Unbeknownst to her, Brad is still seeing an old flame, Leslie Lenox, a writer. Leslie doesn't take to Brad's ... See full summary »
Director: Herschel Daugherty | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Horton, Fay Spain, Joyce Meadows
Votes: 575
32.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
The Diamond Necklace
(1959)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
A jewelry firm casts out the last of a family who've been employees for 117 years, and the company won't hire the last of the line because she's a woman. Faithful service goes unrewarded ... See full summary »
Director: Herschel Daugherty | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Claude Rains, Betsy von Furstenberg, Alan Hewitt
Votes: 645
Starring: Claude Rains
33.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
Arthur
(1959)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
When his pretty ex-fiancee returns from another failed relationship, a chicken farmer, not wanting anything to do with her, decides to eliminate her.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Laurence Harvey, Hazel Court, Robert Douglas
Votes: 681
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
34.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
Road Hog
(1959)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
A very rude traveling salesman forces a truck off the road, causing a delay in emergency care for an injured young man, who dies.
Director: Stuart Rosenberg | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Raymond Massey, Robert Emhardt, Ray Teal
Votes: 724
Starring: Raymond Massey
35.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
Specialty of the House
(1959)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
Mr. Laffler invites Mr. Costain to join him for dinner at a private club that he describes as a very special experience. To his disappointment, Laffler is informed that the house specialty,... See full summary »
Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Morley, Kenneth Haigh, George Keymas
Votes: 706
36.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
Man from the South
(1960)
TV-14 | 26 min | Drama, Mystery
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.
Director: Norman Lloyd | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Steve McQueen, Peter Lorre, Neile Adams
Votes: 1,234
Based on a short story by Roald Dahl
Starring: Steve McQueen, Peter Lorre
Remaked in "Four Rooms" (1995)
37.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
Escape to Sonoita
(1960)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
Two kidnappers think they have made their escape when they hijack a tanker in the dry desert, leaving the occupants and a female victim behind to die.
Director: Stuart Rosenberg | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Burt Reynolds, Murray Hamilton, Venetia Stevenson
Votes: 628
Starring: Burt Reynolds
38.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat
(1960)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
Twice a month, Mrs. Bixby travels to Baltimore to visit an elderly aunt, her only living relative. Or so she tells her dentist-husband. In fact, she visits the Colonel, her rich lover. ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Audrey Meadows, Les Tremayne, Stephen Chase
Votes: 596
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Based on a short story by Roald Dahl
39.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
The Landlady
(1961)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
Billy Weaver's just moved to a small English village, and sees an advert for a room. The landlady's quite pleasant. He's perplexed when she later mentions two others are also staying; he's ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Henreid | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Dean Stockwell, Patricia Collinge, Laurie Main
Votes: 438
Based on a short story by Roald Dahl
40.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
The Horseplayer
(1961)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
Father Amion discovers that the large amounts of money turning up on the collection plate come from a grateful horse player who has hit a winning streak.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Claude Rains, Ed Gardner, Percy Helton
Votes: 586
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Claude Rains
41.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
Incident in a Small Jail
(1961)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
A suspected serial killer is put in a jail house with a salesman, while a lynch mob waits outside.
Director: Norman Lloyd | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, John Fiedler, Richard Jaeckel, Ronald Nicholas
Votes: 587
42.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
The Pearl Necklace
(1961)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
A rich old man proposes to his secretary. Claiming poor health, he says she will inherit $11 million. She says no but her fiancé convinces her, figuring to marry a rich wife. On each anniversary for 25 years, the old man gives her a pearl.
Director: Don Weis | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Hazel Court, Ernest Truex, Jack Cassidy
Votes: 544
43.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
Bang! You're Dead
(1961)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
A 5-year-old boy finds his uncle's revolver, partially loads it with bullets, and plays with it in public, unaware of its deadly power.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Stephen Dunne, Biff Elliot, Lucy Prentis
Votes: 797
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
44.
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962–1965)
Episode:
I Saw the Whole Thing
(1962)
TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
There are five witnesses for a hit-and-run accident at an intersection who all say the car did not stop at the stop sign, but are they all wrong?
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, John Forsythe, Kent Smith, Evans Evans
Votes: 655
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: John Forsythe
45.
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962–1965)
Episode:
A Home Away from Home
(1963)
TV-PG | 51 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A patient at a mental hospital kills the head doctor and takes over, replacing the staff with fellow patients. Things get complicated when the niece of the real doctor makes an unexpected visit.
Director: Herschel Daugherty | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Ray Milland, Claire Griswold, Mary LaRoche
Votes: 560
Written by Robert Bloch Starring: Ray Milland
46.
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962–1965)
Episode:
Nothing Ever Happens in Linvale
(1963)
TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A sheriff investigates the disappearance of the wife of a man who has been acting suspiciously.
Director: Herschel Daugherty | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Gary Merrill, Phyllis Thaxter, Fess Parker
Votes: 559
47.
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962–1965)
Episode:
The Magic Shop
(1964)
TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
After a little boy vanishes in a magic shop, he comes back later with supernatural powers and evil intentions.
Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Leslie Nielsen, Peggy McCay, John Megna
Votes: 507
Twilight Zone-like episode
Based on a short story by H.G. Wells
Starring: Leslie Nielsen
48.
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962–1965)
Episode:
The Jar
(1964)
TV-PG | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Charlie Hill is mesmerized by a strange jar at a carnival sideshow. He buys it from the owner, but his wife Thedy Sue is frightened and wants it thrown out. The townspeople come from miles to see it and Charlie becomes a local celebrity.
Director: Norman Lloyd | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Pat Buttram, Collin Wilcox Paxton, William Marshall
Votes: 772
Based on a short story by Ray Bradbury
49.
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962–1965)
Episode:
Final Escape
(1964)
TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A convict at a state prison work camp plans a clever escape with the help of the aging, alcoholic fellow prisoner who's in charge of making coffins and burying the camp's deceased.
Director: William Witney | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Stephen McNally, Robert Keith, Edd Byrnes
Votes: 527
50.
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962–1965)
Episode:
Bed of Roses
(1964)
TV-PG | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A married man finds his beautiful mistress murdered and flees without reporting it, only to become the victim of blackmail.
Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Patrick O'Neal, Kathie Browne, Torin Thatcher
Votes: 426
51.
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962–1965)
Episode:
Return of Verge Likens
(1964)
TV-PG | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
After his father is murdered by a politician who gets away with it, a young man becomes determined to get revenge.
Director: Arnold Laven | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Peter Fonda, Robert Emhardt, George Lindsey
Votes: 483
Starring: Peter Fonda
52.
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962–1965)
Episode:
Lonely Place
(1964)
TV-PG | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A poor, loving, farmer's wife discovers just how evil a hired drifter is, and how much of a coward her husband is too.
Director: Harvey Hart | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Teresa Wright, Pat Buttram, Bruce Dern
Votes: 518
Starring: Bruce Dern
53.
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962–1965)
Episode:
Consider Her Ways
(1964)
TV-PG | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A woman awakens in a dystopian society formed after the extinction of all men where women are sorted at birth into one of four social castes - Workers, Mothers (incubators), Servitors and Doctors. She rebels against being just a mother.
Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Barbara Barrie, Gladys Cooper, Robert H. Harris
Votes: 445
Twilight Zone-like episode
54.
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962–1965)
Episode:
Where the Woodbine Twineth
(1965)
TV-PG | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
After Eva Snyder becomes an orphan, she comes to live with the elderly Mississippi riverboat Captain King Snyder and his old-maid daughter Nell. While the Captain is piloting his boat, Nell... See full summary »
Director: Alf Kjellin | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Margaret Leighton, Carl Benton Reid, Juanita Moore
Votes: 529
55.
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962–1965)
Episode:
An Unlocked Window
(1965)
TV-PG | 49 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A serial killer is in the area where some private nurses have locked themselves in a large house, except for one basement window.
Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Dana Wynter, T.C. Jones, Louise Latham
Votes: 922
56. Prescription: Murder (1968 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A psychiatrist uses a patient he is having an affair with to help him kill his wife, but his perfect alibi may come apart at the hands of a seemingly befuddled LAPD lieutenant.
Director: Richard Irving | Stars: Peter Falk, Gene Barry, Katherine Justice, William Windom
Votes: 5,538
57.
Columbo (1971–2003)
Episode:
Murder by the Book
(1971)
TV-PG | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When one member of a mystery writing team wants to break from his less talented partner, he becomes the victim in a real-life murder mystery.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Peter Falk, Jack Cassidy, Rosemary Forsyth, Martin Milner
Votes: 5,230
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Feature Lenght
58.
Columbo (1971–2003)
Episode:
Death Lends a Hand
(1971)
TV-PG | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Columbo matches his skills against Brimmer, a former cop turned private investigator with a quick temper who tries to blackmail a client's wife. When she refuses, he accidentally kills her and it's up to Columbo to nail him.
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski | Stars: Peter Falk, Robert Culp, Pat Crowley, Ray Milland
Votes: 3,759
Feature Lenght
59.
Columbo (1971–2003)
Episode:
A Stitch in Crime
(1973)
Not Rated | 74 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A surgeon has an ingenious plan for murdering his partner in a research project, but a nurse catches onto the scheme.
Director: Hy Averback | Stars: Peter Falk, Leonard Nimoy, Anne Francis, Nita Talbot
Votes: 3,298
Feature Lenght
Guest star: Leonard Nimoy
60.
Columbo (1971–2003)
Episode:
Any Old Port in a Storm
(1973)
TV-PG | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A wine connisseur kills his half- brother to prevent him selling the family winery to a merchant company so he can pay off his gambling debts.
Director: Leo Penn | Stars: Peter Falk, Donald Pleasence, Joyce Jillson, Gary Conway
Votes: 3,740
Feature Lenght
Guest star: Donald Pleasence
61.
Columbo (1971–2003)
Episode:
Swan Song
(1974)
TV-PG | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A gospel singer wants to be rid of his zealous wife. But a murder made to look like an airplane accident does not fool the wily Lt. Columbo.
Director: Nicholas Colasanto | Stars: Peter Falk, Johnny Cash, Ida Lupino, John Dehner
Votes: 3,290
Feature Lenght
Guest star: Johnny Cash
62.
Columbo (1971–2003)
Episode:
A Friend in Deed
(1974)
TV-PG | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A police commissioner provides a false alibi for a wife killer, but then expects an alibi in return.
Director: Ben Gazzara | Stars: Peter Falk, Richard Kiley, Rosemary Murphy, Michael McGuire
Votes: 2,860
Feature Lenght
63.
Columbo (1971–2003)
Episode:
Negative Reaction
(1974)
Unrated | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A photographer murders his wife and blames her death on a bungled kidnapping. But Lt. Columbo has an even sharper eye than the Pulitzer Prize winner.
Director: Alf Kjellin | Stars: Peter Falk, Dick Van Dyke, Don Gordon, Larry Storch
Votes: 2,941
Feature Lenght
Guest Star: Dick Van Dyke
64.
Columbo (1971–2003)
Episode:
By Dawn's Early Light
(1974)
TV-PG | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The commandant of a military academy murders the chairman of the board, who wants to oust him. Lt. Columbo takes up residence in the barracks to expose the killer.
Director: Harvey Hart | Stars: Peter Falk, Patrick McGoohan, Burr DeBenning, Madeleine Sherwood
Votes: 2,879
Feature Lenght
65.
Columbo (1971–2003)
Episode:
Forgotten Lady
(1975)
TV-PG | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A faded dance star of film and stage murders her husband and makes it look like a suicide; Lt. Columbo doubts her seemingly perfect alibi.
Director: Harvey Hart | Stars: Peter Falk, Janet Leigh, Maurice Evans, Sam Jaffe
Votes: 3,058
Feature Lenght
Guest Star: Janet Leigh
66.
Columbo (1971–2003)
Episode:
Now You See Him
(1976)
TV-PG | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A stage illusionist kills his employer and makes it look like a contract killing; it's up to Lt. Columbo to trick the master trickster.
Director: Harvey Hart | Stars: Peter Falk, Jack Cassidy, Bob Dishy, Nehemiah Persoff
Votes: 2,907
Feature Lenght
67.
Columbo (1971–2003)
Episode:
Try and Catch Me
(1977)
TV-PG | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A mystery writer suspects her niece's husband of murdering her, and she exacts revenge by asphyxiating him in her house safe.
Director: James Frawley | Stars: Peter Falk, Ruth Gordon, Mariette Hartley, G.D. Spradlin
Votes: 3,020
Feature Lenght
68.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1984–1985)
Episode:
A Scandal in Bohemia
(1984)
TV-PG | 54 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Sherlock Holmes finds himself evenly matched when he is employed by the King of Bohemia to retrieve an indiscreet photograph from the American actress and singer, Irene Adler.
Director: Paul Annett | Stars: Jeremy Brett, David Burke, Gayle Hunnicutt, Wolf Kahler
Votes: 1,506
69.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1984–1985)
Episode:
The Dancing Men
(1984)
TV-PG | 54 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A gentleman is baffled when the childish drawings of little dancing men terrify his American wife. Sherlock Holmes soon discovers why.
Director: John Bruce | Stars: Jeremy Brett, David Burke, Tenniel Evans, Betsy Brantley
Votes: 1,358
70.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1984–1985)
Episode:
The Naval Treaty
(1984)
TV-PG | 54 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An unknown thief steals an important naval treaty from a Foreign Office clerk; Sherlock Holmes sets out to find it.
Director: Alan Grint | Stars: Jeremy Brett, David Burke, David Gwillim, Gareth Thomas
Votes: 1,201
71.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1984–1985)
Episode:
The Solitary Cyclist
(1984)
TV-PG | 54 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A strange man on a bicycle follows a young music teacher as she bicycles on a lonely road to and from the city.
Director: Paul Annett | Stars: Jeremy Brett, David Burke, Barbara Wilshere, John Castle
Votes: 1,226
72.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1984–1985)
Episode:
The Crooked Man
(1984)
TV-PG | 54 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Col. Barclay is found dead and his wife is arrested for the murder, but Holmes is convinced a missing door key will reveal the true killer.
Director: Alan Grint | Stars: Jeremy Brett, David Burke, Norman Jones, Lisa Daniely
Votes: 1,172
73.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1984–1985)
Episode:
The Speckled Band
(1984)
TV-PG | 55 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A young woman asks for Holmes' help when her ill-tempered stepfather moves her into the same room where her sister died under mysterious circumstances.
Director: John Bruce | Stars: Jeremy Brett, David Burke, Jeremy Kemp, Rosalyn Landor
Votes: 1,255
74.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1984–1985)
Episode:
The Blue Carbuncle
(1984)
TV-PG | 54 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When the Countess of Morcar's priceless blue carbuncle is stolen, a reformed thief is charged with the crime.
Director: David Carson | Stars: Jeremy Brett, David Burke, Rosalind Knight, Ros Simmons
Votes: 1,153
75.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1984–1985)
Episode:
The Copper Beeches
(1985)
TV-PG | 52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Violet Hunter has been offered the role of governess at an estate in Hampshire but the employer insists that for the role she will be obliged to cut her hair short. Her perturbation at this causes her to seek Sherlock Holmes's advice.
Director: Paul Annett | Stars: Jeremy Brett, David Burke, Joss Ackland, Natasha Richardson
Votes: 1,118
76.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1984–1985)
Episode:
The Greek Interpreter
(1985)
TV-PG | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An unsavory gang kidnaps a Greek interpreter and forces him to relate their demands to an abductee who knows only the Greek tongue.
Director: Alan Grint | Stars: Jeremy Brett, David Burke, Charles Gray, Alkis Kritikos
Votes: 1,068
77.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1984–1985)
Episode:
The Norwood Builder
(1985)
TV-PG | 52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When a notorious retired builder is found dead, his recently-named heir is the prime suspect.
Director: Ken Grieve | Stars: Jeremy Brett, David Burke, Rosalie Crutchley, Colin Jeavons
Votes: 1,042
78.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1984–1985)
Episode:
The Resident Patient
(1985)
TV-PG | 51 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Sherlock Holmes is contacted by Dr Trevelyan whose medical practice was set up and paid for by Mr Blessington who lives on the premises. Of late Mr Blessington has had spells of intense anxiety. Dr Trevelyan fears for his health and life.
Director: David Carson | Stars: Jeremy Brett, David Burke, Nicholas Clay, Patrick Newell
Votes: 1,011
79.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1984–1985)
Episode:
The Red Headed League
(1985)
TV-PG | 53 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
What seems at first to be a harmless prank played upon a red-headed man is soon revealed to be much more: a sinister scheme devised by the Napoleon of Crime.
Director: John Bruce | Stars: Jeremy Brett, David Burke, Roger Hammond, Tim McInnerny
Votes: 1,160
80.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1984–1985)
Episode:
The Final Problem
(1985)
TV-PG | 51 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Holmes and Watson travel to Europe to escape Moriarty's vengeance.
Director: Alan Grint | Stars: Jeremy Brett, David Burke, Eric Porter, Rosalie Williams
Votes: 1,135
81. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1988 TV Movie)
Unrated | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When the latest heir to the Baskerville estate seems to be threatened by a family curse, only the master detective, Sherlock Holmes, can find out the truth.
Director: Brian Mills | Stars: Jeremy Brett, Edward Hardwicke, Raymond Adamson, Alastair Duncan
Votes: 5,849
82.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
The Adventure of the Clapham Cook
(1989)
TV-14 | 51 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Poirot probes the disappearance of a wealthy woman's cook, and soon uncovers an elaborate plot to hide an ever darker crime.
Director: Edward Bennett | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran
Votes: 2,452
83.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
The Dream
(1989)
TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A famous pie manufacturer tells Poirot that he has dreamt of his own suicide, then dies under the same circumstances he dreamt about the very next day.
Director: Edward Bennett | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran
Votes: 1,757
84.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
Peril at End House
(1990)
TV-14 | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
While Poirot is staying at an exclusive Cornish resort, he meets a beautiful heiress whose life is in danger.
Director: Renny Rye | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Polly Walker
Votes: 2,294
Feature Lenght
85.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim
(1990)
TV-14 | 52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Poirot wagers Chief Inspector Japp that he can solve the mystery of a missing banker without leaving his flat.
Director: Andrew Grieve | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran
Votes: 1,661
86.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
(1990)
TV-14 | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Hastings renews his friendship with Poirot and involves him in the mysterious poisoning of the mistress of a manor house married to a man twenty years her junior.
Director: Ross Devenish | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Beatie Edney
Votes: 2,315
Feature Lenght
87.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
How Does Your Garden Grow?
(1991)
TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
At a flower show, an older woman in a wheelchair approaches Poirot, gives him an empty seed packet, and asks him to visit her the next day. When Poirot arrives the next day, the woman is dead, murdered with poison.
Director: Brian Farnham | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran
Votes: 1,523
88.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
Wasps' Nest
(1991)
TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Poirot realizes that a murder is being plotted, and with the help of Hastings' latest hobby, he sets out to prevent it.
Director: Brian Farnham | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran
Votes: 1,512
89.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
The ABC Murders
(1992)
Not Rated | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Poirot receives taunting letters from a serial killer who appears to choose his victims and crime scenes alphabetically.
Director: Andrew Grieve | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Donald Sumpter
Votes: 2,781
Feature Lenght
90.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
Death in the Clouds
(1992)
TV-14 | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
While Poirot sleeps on an airplane flight from Paris to London, a notorious French moneylender is murdered with a poisoned dart.
Director: Stephen Whittaker | Stars: David Suchet, Philip Jackson, Sarah Woodward, Shaun Scott
Votes: 2,045
Feature Lenght
91.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb
(1993)
TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Shortly after opening an ancient Egyptian tomb, members of an English-American museum expedition start dropping off like flies. Can it truly be the Pharaoh's curse? Poirot travels to Egypt to unravel the mystery.
Director: Peter Barber-Fleming | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Pauline Moran, Rolf Saxon
Votes: 1,507
92.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
The Yellow Iris
(1993)
TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A man celebrates the two-year anniversary of his wife's sudden death by cyanide while in Argentina - a death which Poirot himself had witnessed, but could not solve at the time.
Director: Peter Barber-Fleming | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Pauline Moran, David Troughton
Votes: 1,518
93.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
The Chocolate Box
(1993)
TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
While in Belgium, Poirot relates to Chief Inspector Japp a case from his early days in the Belgian police force that nearly eluded the brilliance of his 'little grey cells.'
Director: Ken Grieve | Stars: David Suchet, Philip Jackson, Rosalie Crutchley, Anna Chancellor
Votes: 1,715
94.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
Dead Man's Mirror
(1993)
TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An obnoxious man who outbid Poirot at an auction for an antique mirror is murdered after seeking Poirot's assistance to look into the dealings of his business associate.
Director: Brian Farnham | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Iain Cuthbertson
Votes: 1,363
95.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
Hercule Poirot's Christmas
(1994)
TV-14 | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The tyrannical patriarch of a dysfunctional but wealthy family summons his adult children for a Christmas reunion, but prior to the holiday his throat is slashed apparently by one of them.
Director: Edward Bennett | Stars: David Suchet, Philip Jackson, Vernon Dobtcheff, Simon Roberts
Votes: 2,582
Feature Lenght
96.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
Murder on the Links
(1996)
TV-14 | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
While Poirot and Hastings are holidaying in France, a businessman tells Poirot that his life is in danger. The next day he is found stabbed to death on a nearby golf course.
Director: Andrew Grieve | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Diane Fletcher, Damien Thomas
Votes: 2,081
Feature Lenght
97.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
Dumb Witness
(1996)
TV-14 | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An elderly woman confides to Poirot that she fears one of her relatives is trying to kill her for her money. He persuades her to disinherit her heirs, but she is murdered anyway.
Director: Edward Bennett | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Ann Morrish, Patrick Ryecart
Votes: 2,087
Feature Lenght
98.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
(2000)
TV-14 | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Poirot comes out of retirement when his industrialist friend is brutally murdered a short while after a local widow who was suspected of killing her husband commits suicide.
Director: Andrew Grieve | Stars: David Suchet, Philip Jackson, Oliver Ford Davies, Malcolm Terris
Votes: 2,456
Feature Lenght
99.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
Lord Edgware Dies
(2000)
TV-14 | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A beautiful actress becomes the prime suspect in the murder of her tyrannical husband - except that she has a cast-iron alibi for the night of the crime.
Director: Brian Farnham | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran
Votes: 2,204
Feature Lenght
100.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
Evil Under the Sun
(2001)
TV-14 | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Poirot's rehabilitative health retreat on an island resort becomes an even more stimulating mental exercise when a flirtatious film star is found strangled on a nearby beach.
Director: Brian Farnham | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran
Votes: 2,684
Feature Lenght
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