Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Keep Me Company
TV Flash files “Keep Me Company” as hour 234 of 268 in the TV Flash guide — Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962) on CBS/NBC, season 7, episode 5, aired 1961-11-07, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S07E05: listed hour 234 of 268 in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents guide, hour 5 of 39 in season 7. It aired 1961-11-07 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Cop for a Day” (S07E04). Next is “Beta Delta Gamma” (S07E06).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
When her husband Marco tells her that he is working late again with his brother, Julia Reddy is angry. Later when she hears a noise she calls the police. The police think its a false alarm, but she gets an idea. She calls a detective and asks him to search the house. When the detective arrives. She tries to seduce him. Marco arrives, but when he sees the pair he doesn't get jealous. He tries to run away. The detective apprehends Marco and Julie discovers that Marco and his brother have been robbing warehouses at night. Her unwitting trick on her husband has gotten him arrested.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Keep Me Company sit in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents guide?
S07E05 is listed hour 234 of 268 — hour 5 of 39 in season 7, season 7 episode 5.
When did Alfred Hitchcock Presents S07E05 air?
Keep Me Company aired 1961-11-07 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…