The Best Episodes of The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Every episode of The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents!
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985 to 1986, and on the USA Network from 1987 to 1989. The series is an updated re-imagining of the classic 1955 series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
Top Episode Ratings Summary
The best episode of "The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents" is "Final Escape", rated 8.2/10 from 285 user votes. It was directed by Thomas Carter and written by Tom Cannan, Randall Hood, Charles Grant Craig. "Final Escape" aired on 10/27/1985 and is rated 0.8 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Hunted (2)".
8.2/10 285 votes#1 - Final Escape
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/27/1985
A woman serving a life sentence for murder hits upon an airtight escape plan.
Director: Thomas Carter
Writer: Tom Cannan, Randall Hood, Charles Grant Craig
7.4/10 97 votes#2 - The Hunted (2)
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 8/6/1988
It turns out that the "businessman" has another use in mind for the room.
Director: Timothy Bond
Writer: Michael Sloan
7.3/10 100 votes#3 - The Hunted (1)
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 7/30/1988
A real estate agent shows an office to a man who she assumes is a businessman.
Director: Timothy Bond
Writer: Michael Sloan
7.1/10 170 votes#4 - Night Fever
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 11/3/1985
A gun man injured from a robbery in which he killed a cop, tries to charm a nurse into helping him escape from hospital custody.
Director: Jeff Kanew
Writer: Jeff Kanew, Clark Howard, Stephen Kronish
7.1/10 139 votes#5 - Method Actor
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/10/1985
Paul Dano is a film star and has been nominated many times, but never won the big one. When a role comes along that spells Oscar, he loses out to Lone Richards, a young hunk Dano calls ""a face for a nine inch TV screen."" Richards naively seeks Dano's advice on how to play the part. Bad move. Dano gives Richards bad advice on purpose and Richards loses the part and Dano gets it. Richards becomes enraged by this and wants revenge.
Director: Burt Reynolds, Max Franklin
Writer: Bill Kerby, Max Franklin
7.1/10 144 votes#6 - Breakdown
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/1/1985
After closing a major drug deal, a ruthless businessman is paralyzed in an auto accident, and presumed dead by all who see him- including the coroner.
Director: Richard Pearce
Writer: Alfonse Ruggiero, Louis Pollock
6.9/10 114 votes#7 - Man on the Edge
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 2/7/1987
A troubled young man threatens to jump from the 28th floor of a hotel as police officers attempt to stop him.
Director: Robert Iscove, Donald Honig
Writer: Jim Beaver
6.8/10 128 votes#8 - A Very Happy Ending
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/16/1986
A poor little rich boy who's deaf witnesses a murder, then blackmails the hit man into doing a job for him.
Director: Thomas Rickman
Writer: Thomas Rickman
6.8/10 108 votes#9 - The Specialty of the House
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 3/21/1987
An arrogant, yet influential, food critic attempts to persuade a reluctant restaurant proprietor to reveal a treasured recipe.
Director: Stanley Ellin, Allan King
Writer: Jonathan Glassner, Stanley Ellin
6.7/10 139 votes#10 - Revenge
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/29/1985
A professor spurns the legal system to seek revenge on the man who raped his wife.
Director: Don Medford, R.E. Young
Writer: David Stenn, Tom Cannan, Randall Hood, Charles Grant Craig
6.7/10 109 votes#11 - The Mole
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 2/21/1987
A psychiatrist tries to convince the police that a man recently released from a mental hospital after 15 years, is still dangerous and capable of murder.
Director: Richard Bugajski
Writer: Rick Berger
6.7/10 129 votes#12 - There Was a Little Girl...
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 7/2/1988
Parents decide that it is time that their spoiled daughter moves out of their house.
Director: Atom Egoyan
Writer: Charles Grant Craig
6.7/10 87 votes#13 - Survival of the Fittest
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 11/19/1988
A writer finds something unexpected when he returns home to his estate.
Director: Allan King
Writer: Michael Sloan
6.7/10 83 votes#14 - For Art's Sake
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 1/21/1989
An established artist taking credit for his wife's work pays for his deceit.
Director: Bill Corcoran
Writer: Linda Chase
6.6/10 87 votes#15 - Kadinsky's Vault
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 6/25/1988
A man refuses to sell his old bookstore.
Director: René Bonnière
Writer: Steven Hollander
6.5/10 120 votes#16 - Wake Me When I'm Dead
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/20/1985
Trial of a woman who killed her husband while hypnotically transported to a past life.
Director: Frank Pierson
Writer: Buck Henry, Irving Elman, Lawrence Treat
6.5/10 134 votes#17 - The Night Caller
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/5/1985
A divorce is driven to drastic retaliatory measures after being the victim of a series of phone calls and constant survillance from a near by appartant.
Director: John Byrum, Gabrielle Upton
Writer: John Byrum, Gabrielle Upton
6.5/10 117 votes#18 - The Creeper
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 3/16/1986
A fashion designer is terrified that she may be the next target of the creeper who may have the keys to her appartment.
Director: Christopher Crowe, Joseph Ruscoll
Writer: Stephen Kronish, Joseph Ruscoll, Steve Bello, James P. Cavanagh
6.5/10 98 votes#19 - Deathmate
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 4/18/1987
An older woman attemps to convince her young lover that the only way they can continue their affair is for him to end her husband's life.
Director: James Causey, Allan King
Writer: Marlene Matthews, James Causey
6.5/10 115 votes#20 - Fogbound
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 10/8/1988
On a foggy night a woman is at home alone with a killer on the loose in the area.
Director: Mark Sobel
Writer: Lee Erwin
6.5/10 109 votes#21 - Diamonds Aren't Forever
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 4/15/1989
Superspy James... drops in on a resort. His mission is to retrieve a statue before the Soviets do. Any one or more of the eccentric guests at the resort may be the Soviet agent(s).
Director: Peter Crane
Writer: Glenn Davis, William Laurin
6.4/10 119 votes#22 - Prisoners
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/8/1985
Ironically, it's an escaped convict who brings a sense of liberation to a housewife: she insists on going with him as his "hostage".
Director: Christopher Crowe, S. R. Ross
Writer: John Byrum
6.4/10 271 votes#23 - The Jar
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 4/6/1986
An artist's years of failure are behind after he finds a jar which holds mysterious contents and entrances to those who view it.
Director: Tim Burton
Writer: N/A
6.4/10 110 votes#24 - The Initiation
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 4/24/1987
When a shy student pledges a Greek House, the fraternity brothers plot a prank against him.
Director: Robert Iscove, Rob Hedden
Writer: Jim Beaver, Rob Hedden
6.4/10 215 votes#25 - The Final Twist
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 3/28/1987
Three film production house employees who are mistreated by their unscrupulous boss utilize their cinematic skills in divising a murder plot.
Director: Atom Egoyan, William Bankier
Writer: Jim Beaver