The Best Episodes of The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1

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 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 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

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 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

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

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: Clark Howard, David Chase

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

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: Charles Grant Craig, Stephen Kronish, Harold R. Daniels, Steve Bello

A withdrawn teenager is fascinated with the instant celebrity of a murdered classmate and fakes an assault on herself.

Director: Robert Bloch, Christopher Leitch

Writer: David Stenn, Robert Bloch, Jim Beaver

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

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: Arthur Williams, Steve De Jarnatt

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

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

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, Michael Braverman, Henry Slesar

Writer: Michael Braverman, Jerrold Freedman

A woman goes to Hong Kong to be with her husband.

Director: Joan Tewkesbury, Ann Bridge

Writer: Ann Bridge, Joan Tewkesbury