Episode Guide
Shopping for Death
Series: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
A 30-minute anthology episode from Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Season 1, Episode 18.
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Synopsis
Retired insurance salesmen Mr. Fox (Robert H. Harris) and Mr. Shaw (John Qualen) are of the theory that the hotter the temperature, the more likely people are to commit murder. Upon making the acquaintance of the nagging Mrs. Shrike (Jo Van Fleet), Mr. Fox and Mr. Shaw are convinced that she is doomed to die at the hands of her henpecked husband (Mike Ross), and thus attempt to save her from this fate. The results are a bit surprising, not to mention slightly surreal. "Shopping for Death" is the first of several Alfred Hitchcock Presents episodes based on the works of Ray Bradbury; in this case, the source material is Bradbury's short story "Touched by Fire.".
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Total Content Density: 37 hours 30 minutes (75 episodes)
Intensity Rating: Relaxed Watch - Easy viewing. Perfect for casual watches.
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Episodes (75)
- S01E01 - Revenge
- S01E10 - The Case of Mr. Pelham
- S01E11 - Guilty Witness
- S01E12 - Santa Claus and the 10th Avenue Kid
- S01E13 - The Cheney Vase
- S01E14 - A Bullet for Baldwin
- S01E15 - The Big Switch
- S01E16 - You Got to Have Luck
- S01E17 - The Older Sister
- S01E18 - Shopping for Death Viewing
- S01E19 - The Derelicts
- S01E02 - Premonition
- S01E20 - And So Died Riabouchinska
- S01E21 - Safe Conduct
- S01E22 - Place of Shadows
- S01E23 - Back for Christmas
- S01E24 - The Perfect Murder
- S01E25 - There Was an Old Woman
- S01E26 - Whodunit
- S01E28 - Portrait of Jocelyn
- S01E29 - The Orderly World of Mr. Appleby
- S01E03 - Triggers in Leash
- S01E30 - Never Again
- S01E31 - The Gentleman From America
- S01E32 - The Babysitter
- S01E33 - The Belfry
- S01E34 - The Hidden Thing
- S01E35 - The Legacy
- S01E36 - Mink
- S01E37 - Decoy
- S01E38 - The Creeper
- S01E39 - Momentum
- S01E05 - Into Thin Air
- S01E06 - Salvage
- S01E07 - Breakdown
- S01E08 - Our Cook's a Treasure
- S01E09 - The Long Shot
- S02E01 - Wet Saturday
- S02E10 - Jonathan
- S02E11 - The Better Bargain
- S02E12 - The Rose Garden
- S02E13 - Mr. Blanchard's Secret
- S02E14 - John Brown's Body
- S02E15 - Crackpot
- S02E16 - Nightmare in 4-D
- S02E17 - My Brother, Richard
- S02E18 - The Manacled
- S02E19 - A Bottle of Wine
- S02E02 - Fog Closing In
- S02E20 - Malice Domestic
- S02E21 - Number 22
- S02E22 - The End of Indian Summer
- S02E23 - One for the Road
- S02E24 - The Cream of the Jest
- S02E25 - I Killed the Count
- S02E26 - I Killed the Count
- S02E27 - I Killed the Count
- S02E28 - One More Mile to Go
- S02E29 - Vicious Circle
- S02E03 - De Mortuis
- S02E30 - The Three Dreams of Mr. Findlater
- S02E31 - The Night the World Ended
- S02E32 - The Hands of Mr. Ottermole
- S02E33 - A Man Greatly Beloved
- S02E34 - Martha Mason, Movie Star
- S02E35 - The West Warlock Time Capsule
- S02E37 - The Indestructible Mr. Weems
- S02E38 - A Little Sleep
- S02E39 - The Dangerous People
- S02E04 - Kill With Kindness
- S02E05 - None Are So Blind
- S02E06 - Toby
- S02E07 - Alibi Me
- S02E08 - Conversation Over a Corpse
- S02E09 - Crack of Doom
