Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Cheney Vase
TV Flash files “The Cheney Vase” as hour 13 of 268 in the TV Flash guide — Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962) on CBS/NBC, season 1, episode 13, aired 1955-12-25, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E13: listed hour 13 of 268 in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents guide, hour 13 of 39 in season 1. It aired 1955-12-25 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid” (S01E12). Next is “A Bullet for Baldwin” (S01E14).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Martha Cheney, an elderly invalid, has only one preoccupation in life. She wants to protect a priceless vase that has been in her family for generations. Lyle Endicott, a dishonest ex-museum curator, wants the vase and uses a forged letter to get close to Miss Cheney and the vase.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Cheney Vase sit in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents guide?
S01E13 is listed hour 13 of 268 — hour 13 of 39 in season 1, season 1 episode 13.
When did Alfred Hitchcock Presents S01E13 air?
The Cheney Vase aired 1955-12-25 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.
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- 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…