Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Special Delivery
TV Flash files “Special Delivery” as hour 163 of 268 in the TV Flash guide — Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962) on CBS/NBC, season 5, episode 10, aired 1959-11-29, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S05E10: listed hour 163 of 268 in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents guide, hour 10 of 38 in season 5. It aired 1959-11-29 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Dead Weight” (S05E09). Next is “Road Hog” (S05E11).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Tommy Fortnum is an eleven year old boy who recieves a special delivery package from a house of novelties. It contains mushrooms. Tommy's dad, Hugh begins to worry about the mushroom when people in his neighborhood start disappearing. He believes the Earth is being invaded by Martians and that the mushroom are being used to take people over. Later, Hugh goes down into his basement. He sees the mushroom growing everywhere. His son offers him a mushroom sandwich. His father overcome, decides to have a bite.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Special Delivery sit in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents guide?
S05E10 is listed hour 163 of 268 — hour 10 of 38 in season 5, season 5 episode 10.
When did Alfred Hitchcock Presents S05E10 air?
Special Delivery aired 1959-11-29 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…