Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Doubtful Doctor
TV Flash files “The Doubtful Doctor” as hour 193 of 268 in the TV Flash guide — Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962) on CBS/NBC, season 6, episode 2, aired 1960-10-04, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S06E02: listed hour 193 of 268 in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents guide, hour 2 of 38 in season 6. It aired 1960-10-04 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat” (S06E01). Next is “Very Moral Theft” (S06E03).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Ralph Jones tells his psychiatrist of a disturbing episode. He came home from work one day an had a fight with his wife. He then wished that he was single again and was transported back to his bachelor days. Ralph's problem, however, is that when he tried to live his life again everything went wrong. He became depressed and gave all his money to a boy for some baseball cards. He then jumped in the river. Ralph then claims to have awakened back in the present day. The psychiatrist doubts his story until Ralph tells him what he found in his pocket after he woke up in the present day: a pack of baseball cards soaked with water.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Doubtful Doctor sit in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents guide?
S06E02 is listed hour 193 of 268 — hour 2 of 38 in season 6, season 6 episode 2.
When did Alfred Hitchcock Presents S06E02 air?
The Doubtful Doctor aired 1960-10-04 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…