Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Old Pro
TV Flash files “The Old Pro” as hour 237 of 268 in the TV Flash guide — Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962) on CBS/NBC, season 7, episode 8, aired 1961-11-28, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S07E08: listed hour 237 of 268 in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents guide, hour 8 of 39 in season 7. It aired 1961-11-28 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “You Can't Be a Little Girl All Your Life” (S07E07). Next is “I Spy” (S07E09).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Loretta Burns is under the mistaken impression that her husband Frank is really a former engineer. Frank is actually a retired hit man. When a man threatens to tell Loretta about Frank's past, Frank kills him and his partner. Hearing the news Frank's ex-boss insists that Frank return to work. He tell Frank that if he doesn't his wife may end up getting rubbed out.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Old Pro sit in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents guide?
S07E08 is listed hour 237 of 268 — hour 8 of 39 in season 7, season 7 episode 8.
When did Alfred Hitchcock Presents S07E08 air?
The Old Pro aired 1961-11-28 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.
Filed against
- 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…