Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Revenge
TV Flash files “Revenge” as a desk essential hour — Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962) on CBS/NBC, season 1, episode 1, aired 1955-10-02, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E01: listed hour 1 of 268 in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents guide, first listed hour of season 1. It aired 1955-10-02 (30 min). No earlier hour is listed in this guide. Next is “Premonition” (S01E02).
Essential hour: “Revenge”. Revenge opens the silhouette: director as franchise, murder with a wink, Joan Harrison's engine already humming.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Carl Spann decides to get revenge when his wife is attacked by an unknown assailant. Still suffering from a breakdown, she pinpoints the man who she claims attacked her.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Revenge sit in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents guide?
S01E01 is listed hour 1 of 268 — first listed hour of season 1, season 1 episode 1.
When did Alfred Hitchcock Presents S01E01 air?
Revenge aired 1955-10-02 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Where should I start?
Start with Hitch's hosted half-hours rather than assuming he directed the lot. Sample the dry intros and the snap endings; the silhouette is the franchise.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Alfred Hitchcock Presents made the director himself the franchise: silhouette, dry intro, murder with a wink, and closings that sometimes 'corrected' crime to soothe censors. Watch it in 2026 as branded anthology swagger — Joan Harrison's engine, Hitch's persona, and twist endings as moral architecture you can still hum.
Calendar first: CBS, October 2, 1955. Then a later NBC window. Original half-hour run through 1962 — **268 episodes, seven seasons** — before the expansion as *The Alfred Hitchcock Hour* (1962–1965). That is not nostalgia cosplay. That is a branded anthology with a host who was the franchise, a silhouette you could hum, and a weekly drop of murder with a wink. Rex can keep the three-network hymn. This was already a logo, a window, and a closing card that sometimes reversed the crime to soothe Standards & Practices.
Filed against
- Alfred Hitchcock as Host
Alfred Hitchcock made himself the franchise on Alfred Hitchcock Presents — silhouette, dry intro, murder with a wink, closings that sometimes “corrected” crime to soothe censors. Branded anthology swagger, Joan Harrison’s engine, twist…