9.0/103 votes#1 - The Case of Mr. Pelham
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/4/1955
A series of troubling incidents lead Mr. Pelham to believe that he has a double who is deliberately impersonating him.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Francis M. Cockrell
7.5/108 votes#2 - Revenge
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/2/1955
When Carl Spann's wife Elsa is assaulted by an unknown attacker, he drives his still-incoherent wife around town, hoping she can point him out, so he can kill him.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Francis M. Cockrell
7.3/103 votes#3 - Back for Christmas
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/4/1956
Herbert Carpenter plans to murder his wife Hermione, bury her body in the basement, and then leave on a long business trip.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Francis M. Cockrell
7.2/104 votes#4 - Breakdown
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/1955
William Callew is involved in a bad traffic accident on a rural road, that leaves him so paralyzed he appears lifeless, and when help arrives they think he's really dead.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Francis M. Cockrell
7.2/104 votes#5 - I Saw the Whole Thing
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/1962
Michael Barnes is a mystery writer who is accused of causing a fatal car accident. Each eyewitness, however, proves to be unreliable when their testimony is shredded by Barnes who is acting as his own defense attorney. He is exonerated after he shows that each witness only saw what they wanted to see. Ultimately, however, it is revealed that he was not the driver. The driver was his pregnant wife. Barnes arranged to have himself accused because he knew that his wife would not be able to stand the strains of a trial.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Henry Slesar
7.0/102 votes#6 - One More Mile to Go
Season 2 Episode 28 - Aired 4/7/1957
After murdering his shrewish spouse, a man finds that disposing of her body may be the challenge of his life.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: N/A
7.0/101 votes#7 - Banquo's Chair
Season 4 Episode 29 - Aired 5/3/1959
A retired Scotland Yard inspector goes to extreme lengths to prove the guilt of a suspect in an old murder case.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Francis M. Cockrell
7.0/101 votes#8 - The Crystal Trench
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 10/4/1959
Dangerous secrets are revealed when a devoted widow travels to the glacier in Switzerland where her husband's body has been preserved since his deadly fall forty years earlier.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
7.0/101 votes#9 - Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 9/27/1960
A touch of mink for Mr and Mrs Bixby is only part of a story of love grown cold and a hidden passion beneath the surface.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: N/A
7.0/101 votes#10 - The Horse Player
Season 6 Episode 22 - Aired 3/14/1961
On a wing and a prayer, a gambler with a mission thinks he has a hotline to God in praying for a string of successful winners. Convincing a naive minister to play the odds with the parish funds, could this be the race which beats the horse player?
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Henry Slesar
7.0/101 votes#11 - Bang, You're Dead
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 10/17/1961
Young Jackie Chester is ostracized by his fellow playmates because he doesn't own a toy gun like theirs. Upset at being left out, he finds a gun in his Uncle's suitcase - unaware he has a real revolver ... and it's loaded.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: N/A
7.0/103 votes#12 - Incident at a Corner
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 4/5/1960
Vera Miles plays the daughter of a man accused of an unspeakable act. Hitchcock tells a powerful story of the devastating effects of gossip in a small town. Through his most elaborate and ambitious work for television, Hitchcock sensitively shows the cancerous effects, the pain and tension arising from false accusation.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: N/A
6.5/102 votes#13 - Poison
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 10/5/1958
Two partners discover their real feelings for one another when one is bitten by a poisonous snake and it's up to the other to save his life.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: N/A
6.5/102 votes#14 - Arthur
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/27/1959
When his former fiancee turns up missing, chicken farmer Arthur obligingly lets the police search his ranch, despite the fact that they seem to suspect him of her murder.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: N/A
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"The Case of Mr. Pelham" is the best rated episode directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It scored 9/10 based on 3 votes. It was written by Francis M. Cockrell. It aired on 12/4/1955 and is rated 1.5 points higher than their second-best episode, "Revenge".