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The Best Episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1

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Every episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1!

A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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  1. 8.0/10(2.1k votes)

    #1 - Breakdown

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    S1:E7

    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.

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  2. 7.8/10(1.1k votes)

    #2 - The Creeper

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    S1:E38

    A serial killer known as "the strangler" terrorizes a New York neighborhood.

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    Writer:N/A
  3. 7.7/10(1.3k votes)

    #3 - The Long Shot

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    S1:E9

    Heavily indebted Charlie Raymond is hired to accompany a British visitor on a trip across the USA, and looks for a way to take advantage of his employer.

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  4. 7.7/10(1.3k votes)

    #4 - You Got to Have Luck

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    S1:E16

    During a massive manhunt for escaped convict Sam Cobbett, Cobbett invades a house where young housewife Mary Schaffner is home alone.

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  5. 7.6/10(1.3k votes)

    #5 - Back for Christmas

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    S1:E23

    Herbert Carpenter plans to murder his wife Hermione, bury her body in the basement, and then leave on a long business trip.

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  6. 7.6/10(970 votes)

    #6 - Help Wanted

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    S1:E27

    Mr. Crabtree is grateful to find a new job, until his new employer gives him a most unexpected assignment.

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    Director:N/A
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  8. 7.4/10(1.9k votes)

    #7 - Premonition

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    S1:E2

    A famous pianist returns to his home town to find the man who murdered his father.

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  9. 7.4/10(1.4k votes)

    #8 - Our Cook's a Treasure

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    S1:E8

    A man fears that the new cook he's hired is actually a murderess.

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  10. 7.4/10(1.5k votes)

    #9 - The Case of Mr. Pelham

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    S1:E10

    A series of troubling incidents lead Mr. Pelham to believe that he has a double who is deliberately impersonating him.

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  11. 7.4/10(1.3k votes)

    #10 - Guilty Witness

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    S1:E11

    When Mr. and Mrs. Crane hear the Verbers having a violent argument in the apartment just above them, and then Mr. Verber disappears the next day, they can't help suspecting the worst.

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  12. 7.3/10(2.6k votes)

    #11 - Revenge

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    S1:E1

    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.

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  13. 7.2/10(1.6k votes)

    #12 - Don't Come Back Alive

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    S1:E4

    Frank Partridge and his wife plot to cheat their life insurance company by having her hide out for 7 years and declared legally dead, but an investigator believes Mr. Partridge has murdered her.

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  14. 7.2/10(967 votes)

    #13 - The Perfect Murder

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    S1:E24

    Unscrupulous brothers Paul and Henri Tallendier plan to murder their Aunt Rosalie so that they can get their uncle's inheritance.

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  15. 7.2/10(979 votes)

    #14 - There Was an Old Woman

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    S1:E25

    Dishonest Frank and Lorna Bramwell visit the home of wealthy, eccentric Monica Laughton, with the intention of robbing her.

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  16. 7.2/10(907 votes)

    #15 - The Orderly World of Mr. Appleby

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    S1:E29

    Antiques dealer Laurence Appleby thinks he has solved his financial problems by killing his wife Lena, but new complications arise in his second marriage.

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  17. 7.2/10(940 votes)

    #16 - Never Again

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    S1:E30

    Karen Stewart has once again broken her promise not to drink anymore, and now she is in a strange bed, injured, with no memory of what happened the night before.

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  18. 7.2/10(796 votes)

    #17 - Momentum

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    S1:E39

    A man ends up running to the Mexican border after trying to collect money his employer owes him.

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  19. 7.1/10(1.4k votes)

    #18 - Salvage

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    S1:E6

    Gangster Dan Varrell, just released from prison, goes looking for the woman he holds responsible for his brother's death.

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  20. 7.1/10(1.1k votes)

    #19 - The Big Switch

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    S1:E15

    Gangster Sam Dunleavy sets up an elaborate alibi so that he can kill his ex-girlfriend Goldie, who left him for another man.

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    Director:Don Weis
    Writer:N/A
  21. 7.0/10(1.4k votes)

    #20 - The Cheney Vase

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    S1:E13

    When Lyle Endicott is fired from his job at an art museum, he comes up with a plan to take advantage of a trusting invalid whom he befriended at the museum.

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  22. 7.0/10(1.1k votes)

    #21 - A Bullet for Baldwin

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    S1:E14

    When an office worker is fired from his job, he shoots his boss to death, but when he returns to the office his boss is alive, and has no recollection of the incident.

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  23. 7.0/10(903 votes)

    #22 - Whodunit

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    S1:E26

    Recently deceased mystery writer Alexander Penn Arlington gets permission from the recording angel to relive his last day on earth, so that he can find out who murdered him.

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  24. 7.0/10(966 votes)

    #23 - Portrait of Jocelyn

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    S1:E28

    When Mark Halliday and his new wife unexpectedly see a portrait of Halliday's first wife, it is only the first in a series of disturbing developments.

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  25. 6.9/10(1.1k votes)

    #24 - And So Died Riabouchinska

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    S1:E20

    While investigating a murder in a theater, Detective Krovitch uncovers a strange web of tensions revolving around ventriloquist John Fabian and his female dummy.

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  26. 6.8/10(1.7k votes)

    #25 - Triggers in Leash

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    S1:E3

    A cook tries everything she can think of to end a dispute between two gunmen who have sworn to kill each other.

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    Director:Don Medford
    Writer:N/A

Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Breakdown" is the best rated episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" season 1. It scored 8/10 based on 2131 votes. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by Francis M. Cockrell, it aired on 11/13/1955. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "The Creeper".