Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Final Arrangements
TV Flash files “Final Arrangements” as hour 227 of 268 in the TV Flash guide — Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962) on CBS/NBC, season 6, episode 36, aired 1961-06-20, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S06E36: listed hour 227 of 268 in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents guide, hour 36 of 38 in season 6. It aired 1961-06-20 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Coming Home” (S06E35). Next is “Make My Death Bed” (S06E37).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Leonard Compson hates living with his hypochondriac and overbearing wife Elsie. He goes to a funeral home and orders a casket. The next day he calls the funeral home and tells them to bring to casket to his house to pick up a body. Leonard then buys some rat poison and goes home. When he gets there his wife berates him. The poisoned milk is drunk. The men from the funeral home arrive and take away the body.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Final Arrangements sit in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents guide?
S06E36 is listed hour 227 of 268 — hour 36 of 38 in season 6, season 6 episode 36.
When did Alfred Hitchcock Presents S06E36 air?
Final Arrangements aired 1961-06-20 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…