The Best Episodes of The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

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

A real estate agent shows an office to a man who she assumes is a businessman.

Director: Timothy Bond

Writer: Michael Sloan

It turns out that the "businessman" has another use in mind for the room.

Director: Timothy Bond

Writer: Michael Sloan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Parents decide that it is time that their spoiled daughter moves out of their house.

Director: Atom Egoyan

Writer: Charles Grant Craig

An established artist taking credit for his wife's work pays for his deceit.

Director: Bill Corcoran

Writer: Linda Chase

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

A man refuses to sell his old bookstore.

Director: René Bonnière

Writer: Steven Hollander

A writer finds something unexpected when he returns home to his estate.

Director: Allan King

Writer: Michael Sloan

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

A TV reporter looks for the human interest story behind the short-lived takeover of the station's airwaves by a former technician who claims to be an alien with an urgent warning to Earthlings.

Director: Larry Gross, Fredric Brown

Writer: Karen Harris

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

Two nursing home residents agree to try to murder each other so the survivor can live comfortably on the other's insurance funds.

Director: Allan King

Writer: Robert DeLaurentis, Michael Sloan

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

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

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

The arrest of a newspaper reporter on his birthday for a murder supposedly committed 22 years ago comes as a complete surprise to the accused.

Director: Randy Roberts

Writer: Frisco Miller