Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat
TV Flash files “Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat” as a desk essential hour — Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962) on CBS/NBC, season 6, episode 1, aired 1960-09-27, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S06E01: listed hour 192 of 268 in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents guide, first listed hour of season 6. It aired 1960-09-27 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Hooked” (S05E38). Next is “The Doubtful Doctor” (S06E02).
Essential hour: “Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat”. Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat — named literary hour, the persona still introducing crime like a dinner anecdote.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Mrs. Bixby is having an affair with the Colonel. When he decides to stop seeing her, he gives her a gift: an expensive mink coat. Mrs. Bixby, however, does not want her husband to know where she got the coat. She pawns it and tells the pawnbroker not to write a description of the item on the pawn ticket. She then tells her husband that she found the ticket. She tells him to turn it in and see what it is. She stops by her husband's officer expecting him to give her back the mink coat. Instead, he gives her a cheap mink neckpiece. As she leaves, she sees her husband's secretary dressed in the Colonel's mink coat.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat sit in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents guide?
S06E01 is listed hour 192 of 268 — first listed hour of season 6, season 6 episode 1.
When did Alfred Hitchcock Presents S06E01 air?
Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat aired 1960-09-27 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…