I Killed the Count (Alfred Hitchcock Presents)

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| episode = 25-27

| director = Robert Stevens

| writer = Francis M. Cockrell

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| airdate = {{Start date|1957|03|17}}-{{End date|1957|03|31}}

| length = 30 mins

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I Killed the Count is a 1957 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. It was adapted from the play of the same name by Alec Coppel.{{cite web |first=Hal |last=Erickson |url=http://www.allmovie.com/work/i-killed-the-count-96036 |title=I Killed the Count (1939) - | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related |website=AllMovie |access-date=2015-10-19}}

Alec Coppel had worked on the scripts for a number of Hitchcock films including To Catch a Thief and Vertigo. The adaptation was told over three episodes, the only serialised story in the history of the show.{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/alfredhitchcockl0000mcgi/page/542/mode/2up? |page=542 |title=Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light |last=McGilligan |first=Patrick |author-link=Patrick McGilligan (biographer) |year=2003 |isbn=9780062028648 |publisher=HarperCollins}} This made it effectively a feature-length movie for television.{{cite book |title=The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to The Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific |last=Bianculli |first=David |author-link=David Bianculli |year=2016 |page=498 |publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |isbn=9780385540285}}