Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Not the Running Type
TV Flash files “Not the Running Type” as hour 172 of 268 in the TV Flash guide — Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962) on CBS/NBC, season 5, episode 19, aired 1960-02-07, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S05E19: listed hour 172 of 268 in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents guide, hour 19 of 38 in season 5. It aired 1960-02-07 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Backward, Turn Backward” (S05E18). Next is “The Day of the Bullet” (S05E20).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Milton Potter steals twenty thousand dollars from the firm where he works. He then turns himself in. He, however, does not return the money. Twelve years later he is released from jail. Suprisingly, he returns the money and goes on a cruise. He had kept the money in banks and wants to live the rest of his life on the interested it earned while he was in Prison.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Not the Running Type sit in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents guide?
S05E19 is listed hour 172 of 268 — hour 19 of 38 in season 5, season 5 episode 19.
When did Alfred Hitchcock Presents S05E19 air?
Not the Running Type aired 1960-02-07 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…