Alfred Hitchcock Presents
You Can't Be a Little Girl All Your Life
TV Flash files “You Can't Be a Little Girl All Your Life” as hour 236 of 268 in the TV Flash guide — Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962) on CBS/NBC, season 7, episode 7, aired 1961-11-21, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S07E07: listed hour 236 of 268 in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents guide, hour 7 of 39 in season 7. It aired 1961-11-21 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Beta Delta Gamma” (S07E06). Next is “The Old Pro” (S07E08).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
While her husband is away, Julie Barton is attacked in her home by an intruder. She doesn't get a good look at him, but manages to fight him off. In the process of fighting she rips one of the intruder's leather gloves. Julie is terrified. When she goes to identify the intruder in a police line up she wears a pair of dark sunglasses. She identifies one of the men and her husband Tom attacks him. Unfortunately Tom breaks his own leg. Later, as the trial progresses, Julie finds shocking new evidence of her attack.
Viewer FAQ
Where does You Can't Be a Little Girl All Your Life sit in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents guide?
S07E07 is listed hour 236 of 268 — hour 7 of 39 in season 7, season 7 episode 7.
When did Alfred Hitchcock Presents S07E07 air?
You Can't Be a Little Girl All Your Life aired 1961-11-21 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…