Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Disappearing Trick
TV Flash files “Disappearing Trick” as hour 105 of 268 in the TV Flash guide — Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962) on CBS/NBC, season 3, episode 27, aired 1958-04-06, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E27: listed hour 105 of 268 in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents guide, hour 27 of 39 in season 3. It aired 1958-04-06 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Bull in a China Shop” (S03E26). Next is “Lamb to the Slaughter” (S03E28).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Walter Richmond is a gullible tennis player with a nose for snooping. He meets a woman named Laura Gild and tries to learn everything about her. His curiosity does not pay off when she and her supposedly dead husband scam him for money.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Disappearing Trick sit in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents guide?
S03E27 is listed hour 105 of 268 — hour 27 of 39 in season 3, season 3 episode 27.
When did Alfred Hitchcock Presents S03E27 air?
Disappearing Trick aired 1958-04-06 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…