Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Cure
TV Flash files “The Cure” as hour 170 of 268 in the TV Flash guide — Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962) on CBS/NBC, season 5, episode 17, aired 1960-01-24, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S05E17: listed hour 170 of 268 in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents guide, hour 17 of 38 in season 5. It aired 1960-01-24 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “The Ikon of Elijah” (S05E16). Next is “Backward, Turn Backward” (S05E18).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Jeff Jensen searches the Amazon for oil with a middle-aged man and his wife Marie. One night, Jensen is startled to discover Maria holding a knife on him. His servant Luiz stops her before she can do anything. Jeff tells Luiz and his business partner Mike to take her to a head shrinker. Maria likes this idea since she hopes to talk Mike into killing Luiz. Later Luiz returns and reveals that he had been forced to kill Mike. He also adds that everything else went smoothly. He proudly displays Marie's shrunken head.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Cure sit in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents guide?
S05E17 is listed hour 170 of 268 — hour 17 of 38 in season 5, season 5 episode 17.
When did Alfred Hitchcock Presents S05E17 air?
The Cure aired 1960-01-24 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.
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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…