Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Appointment at Eleven
TV Flash files “Appointment at Eleven” as hour 156 of 268 in the TV Flash guide — Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962) on CBS/NBC, season 5, episode 3, aired 1959-10-11, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S05E03: listed hour 156 of 268 in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents guide, hour 3 of 38 in season 5. It aired 1959-10-11 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “The Crystal Trench” (S05E02). Next is “Coyote Moon” (S05E04).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
David Logan lives at home with his mother and he's still upset that his father left them many years before. He is haunted by an event when he was twelve years old and he came home to find his father with a blue-eyed blond. He tells his mother he has an appointment at 11:00 so he skips dinner and heads to a bar. There he meets a girl and repeats several times that something big is going to happen at 11:00. He gets into a fight with a sailor in the bar and tells him the same and then again with a patron in an Irish pub, now saying someone is going to die at the prescribed hour. When the 11 o'clock news come on the air, you learn the full story.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Appointment at Eleven sit in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents guide?
S05E03 is listed hour 156 of 268 — hour 3 of 38 in season 5, season 5 episode 3.
When did Alfred Hitchcock Presents S05E03 air?
Appointment at Eleven aired 1959-10-11 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…