Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Fog Closing In
TV Flash files “Fog Closing In” as hour 41 of 268 in the TV Flash guide — Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962) on CBS/NBC, season 2, episode 2, aired 1956-10-07, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E02: listed hour 41 of 268 in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents guide, hour 2 of 39 in season 2. It aired 1956-10-07 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Wet Saturday” (S02E01). Next is “De Mortuis” (S02E03).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Mary Summers does not want to stay home alone when her husband Arthur goes away on business. She asks that her family be allowed to stay with her. Arthur refuses. While he is away, an escaped mental patient breaks into the house. Surprisingly, the patient gets along with Mary. She is not afraid of him. She tells him about a dream she has had where someone follows her up the stairs. When the police arrive, the mental patient escapes. After the the police leave, Mary hears someone coming up the stairs just like in her dream. She find's Arthur's pistol as the door opens. At the door is Arthur. He came home early when he heard about the escape at the asylum. Though she knows it is her husband, Mary shoots him. She then calls her family and tells them she is coming home.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Fog Closing In sit in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents guide?
S02E02 is listed hour 41 of 268 — hour 2 of 39 in season 2, season 2 episode 2.
When did Alfred Hitchcock Presents S02E02 air?
Fog Closing In aired 1956-10-07 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.
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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…