Alfred Hitchcock Presents
A Woman's Help
TV Flash files “A Woman's Help” as hour 215 of 268 in the TV Flash guide — Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962) on CBS/NBC, season 6, episode 24, aired 1961-03-28, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S06E24: listed hour 215 of 268 in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents guide, hour 24 of 38 in season 6. It aired 1961-03-28 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Incident in a Small Jail” (S06E23). Next is “Museum Piece” (S06E25).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Arnold Bourdon has a domineering wife named Elizabeth. When Elizabeth takes ill, she hires a lovely nurse named Joan. Arnold grows close to Joan, but she refuses to continue the affair as long as Arnold is married. The two plot to give Elizabeth a fatal doses of medication. Unfortunately, Elizabeth sees Joan kissing Arnold and fires her. Later Elizabeth hires another nurse. This one is an old woman in her sixties. Arnold asks the new nurse about Liz's medicine. The new nurse tells him that she will give her more medicine that the doctor recommended. Arnold, knowing that the dose will prove fatal, thanks the nurse and in his thanks reveals that she is his mother.
Viewer FAQ
Where does A Woman's Help sit in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents guide?
S06E24 is listed hour 215 of 268 — hour 24 of 38 in season 6, season 6 episode 24.
When did Alfred Hitchcock Presents S06E24 air?
A Woman's Help aired 1961-03-28 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…