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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

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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, Charles Grant Craig, Randall Hood
7.2/10197 votes
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
7.1/10178 votes
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
7.0/10163 votes
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
6.8/10135 votes
Enough Rope For Two
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 3/9/1986
A camping trip for two becomes a flight from murder full of twists and double-crosses when a Harvard-bound law student goes against his better judgement and lets his girl friend bring her "cousin" along.
Director: David Chase, Clark Howard
Writer: David Chase, Clark Howard
6.8/10135 votes
Four O'Clock
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/4/1986
Time is running out for a judge who's surprised, bound and gagged by burglars in his house after rigging a bomb to eliminate his wife and her suspected lover.
Director: Cornell Woolrich, Andrew Mirisch
Writer: Cornell Woolrich, Steve Bello
6.7/10166 votes
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: Tom Cannan, David Stenn, Charles Grant Craig, Randall Hood
6.7/10138 votes
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
Writer: John Byrum
6.7/10149 votes
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
6.6/10139 votes
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, Lawrence Treat, Irving Elman
6.6/10133 votes
Happy Birthday
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 3/23/1986
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
6.5/10153 votes
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
6.5/10139 votes
The Human Interest Story
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/17/1985
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: Fredric Brown, Larry Gross
Writer: Karen Harris
6.5/10132 votes
The Gloating Place
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1/5/1986
A withdrawn teenager is fascinated with the instant celebrity of a murdered classmate and fakes an assault on herself.
Director: Christopher Leitch, Robert Bloch
Writer: Jim Beaver, David Stenn, Robert Bloch
6.5/10137 votes
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: Steve Bello, James P. Cavanagh, Joseph Ruscoll, Stephen Kronish
6.3/10296 votes
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: Unknown
6.2/10121 votes
Road Hog
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/11/1986
What can't go around comes around for a road-hogging salesman who won't allow a truck bound for the hospital to pass.
Director: Mario DiLeo
Writer: Steve Bello, Harold R. Daniels, Charles Grant Craig, Stephen Kronish
6.0/10163 votes
Gigolo
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/15/1985
A gold digging groom makes short work of his middle-aged wife, but his attempts to round up her jewels are met with opposition from her "children" - an army of cats.
Director: Thomas Carter, Arthur Williams
Writer: Steve De Jarnatt, Arthur Williams
6.0/10116 votes
Deadly Honeymoon
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 4/13/1986
Following a whirlwind courtship, a new bride fears her luck's run out when she learns that her doctor husband has heavy gambling debts and two deceased formor wives who were heavily insured.
Director: Don Medford, Henry Slesar
Writer: Henry Slesar, Stephen Kronish
5.9/10123 votes
Beast In View
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/19/1986
A psychiatrist is terrorized by menacing phone calls and the killing of her dog following her marriage to one of her patients.
Director: Michael Toshiyuki Uno, Margaret Millar
Writer: Robert Glass, Margaret Millar
5.7/10124 votes
The Right Kind of Medicine
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/12/1986
A bank robber is wounded in a shoot-out, then forced to endure an excruciating wait for a painkiller at the pharmacy.
Director: Jerrold Freedman, Henry Slesar, Michael Braverman
Writer: Michael Braverman, Jerrold Freedman
5.6/10134 votes
The Canary Sedan
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 3/1/1986
A woman goes to Hong Kong to be with her husband.
Director: Joan Tewkesbury, Ann Bridge
Writer: Joan Tewkesbury, Ann Bridge