Alfred Hitchcock Presents
No Pain
TV Flash files “No Pain” as hour 158 of 268 in the TV Flash guide — Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962) on CBS/NBC, season 5, episode 5, aired 1959-10-25, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S05E05: listed hour 158 of 268 in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents guide, hour 5 of 38 in season 5. It aired 1959-10-25 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Coyote Moon” (S05E04). Next is “Anniversary Gift” (S05E06).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Just at a point when he has everything to live for, wealthy Dave Rainey is stricken down with polio. Now confined to an iron lung, Rainey obsesses over the possibility that his wife, Cindy, plans to kill him. When Cindy falls for a handsome stranger named Arnold Barrett, it would appear that Rainey's fears are about to be realized -- but as we all know, appearances on Alfred Hitchcock Presents have a habit of being deceiving.
Viewer FAQ
Where does No Pain sit in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents guide?
S05E05 is listed hour 158 of 268 — hour 5 of 38 in season 5, season 5 episode 5.
When did Alfred Hitchcock Presents S05E05 air?
No Pain aired 1959-10-25 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…