Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Beta Delta Gamma
TV Flash files “Beta Delta Gamma” as hour 235 of 268 in the TV Flash guide — Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962) on CBS/NBC, season 7, episode 6, aired 1961-11-14, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S07E06: listed hour 235 of 268 in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents guide, hour 6 of 39 in season 7. It aired 1961-11-14 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Keep Me Company” (S07E05). Next is “You Can't Be a Little Girl All Your Life” (S07E07).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Mark and Alan are frat boys. During a party at a beachfront frat house, Mark challenges Alan to a drinking contest. Alan drinks a full pitcher of beer, but Mark refuses to do the same. Alan becomes angry, but he and Mark eventually pass out. Alan's frat brothers decide to play a joke on him by injecting Mark with a substance to make him appear dead. They place a bloody weapon in Alan's hand, hoping that when he wakes up he'll think he killed Mark. The pranks goes off according to plan until Alan decides to cover up the "murder". When the prank is revealed to him, they desperately race to help Mark - but will they be able to?
Viewer FAQ
Where does Beta Delta Gamma sit in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents guide?
S07E06 is listed hour 235 of 268 — hour 6 of 39 in season 7, season 7 episode 6.
When did Alfred Hitchcock Presents S07E06 air?
Beta Delta Gamma aired 1961-11-14 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…