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Alfred Hitchcock Presents: 1x34

The Hidden Thing

Dana Edwards’s fiancee is killed in a hit-and-run car accident. He struggles to remember the car’s license number, but can’t. A man named Hurley approaches him. Hurley says that his son also died in a hit and run car accident. He says he can help Dana remember the the license number. At Hurley’s prodding Dana eventually remembers the number. Hurley, however, was just a nut who never had a son.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season 1 Episode 34
May. 20, 1956