Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Safe Place
TV Flash files “The Safe Place” as hour 114 of 268 in the TV Flash guide — Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962) on CBS/NBC, season 3, episode 36, aired 1958-06-08, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E36: listed hour 114 of 268 in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents guide, hour 36 of 39 in season 3. It aired 1958-06-08 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “A Dip in the Pool” (S03E35). Next is “The Canary Sedan” (S03E37).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
George Piper is a bank teller and gambler. One day, a gambler named Victor arrives at the bank and makes a large withdrawl. Later, George visits Victor and kills him. He takes Victor's money and hides it in a secret place in his teller's cash drawer at the bank. The police question George, but clear him of any wrongdoing. George's boss, however, fires him. He demands the key to the crash drawer where George hid the money in order to give it to George's replacement.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Safe Place sit in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents guide?
S03E36 is listed hour 114 of 268 — hour 36 of 39 in season 3, season 3 episode 36.
When did Alfred Hitchcock Presents S03E36 air?
The Safe Place aired 1958-06-08 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…