Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Hero
TV Flash files “The Hero” as hour 182 of 268 in the TV Flash guide — Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962) on CBS/NBC, season 5, episode 29, aired 1960-05-01, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S05E29: listed hour 182 of 268 in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents guide, hour 29 of 38 in season 5. It aired 1960-05-01 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Forty Detectives Later” (S05E28). Next is “Insomnia” (S05E30).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
While traveling on a ship, Richard Musgrave meets a man named Keyser that looks like his former partner, a man he once robbed and left for dead. He talks to Keyser, but Keyser denies that he ever met Musgrave. Later, however, Keyser subtly reveals that he was indeed Musgrave's former partner. Musgrave becomes distraught and jumps overboard in remorse. Keyser jumps after him. He pretends to save him, but drowns him in the ocean. After Keyser is pulled back aboard the ship, he is awarded a medal for attempting to save a man he never met.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Hero sit in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents guide?
S05E29 is listed hour 182 of 268 — hour 29 of 38 in season 5, season 5 episode 29.
When did Alfred Hitchcock Presents S05E29 air?
The Hero aired 1960-05-01 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…