Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Museum Piece
TV Flash files “Museum Piece” as hour 216 of 268 in the TV Flash guide — Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962) on CBS/NBC, season 6, episode 25, aired 1961-04-04, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S06E25: listed hour 216 of 268 in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents guide, hour 25 of 38 in season 6. It aired 1961-04-04 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “A Woman's Help” (S06E24). Next is “Coming, Mama” (S06E26).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Clay Hollister is a museum curator and collector of Indian relics. One day, during a tour, Clay notices a man named Newton Clovis who is fascinated by a skeleton in Clay's collection. Newton wants to analyze the bones. He does so and reveals that the bones are those of a long-missing district attorney. Newton is really a detective and demands the skeleton for further investigation. Clay refuses and kills him. Later, he adds the bones of yet another man to his collection.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Museum Piece sit in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents guide?
S06E25 is listed hour 216 of 268 — hour 25 of 38 in season 6, season 6 episode 25.
When did Alfred Hitchcock Presents S06E25 air?
Museum Piece aired 1961-04-04 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…