7.3/102,481 votes#1 - Revenge
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/2/1955
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.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Francis M. Cockrell
7.4/101,798 votes#2 - Premonition
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/9/1955
A famous pianist returns to his home town to find the man who murdered his father.
Director: Robert Stevens
Writer: N/A
6.8/101,591 votes#3 - Triggers in Leash
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/16/1955
A cook tries everything she can think of to end a dispute between two gunmen who have sworn to kill each other.
Director: Don Medford
Writer: N/A
7.2/101,508 votes#4 - Don't Come Back Alive
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/23/1955
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.
Director: Robert Stevenson
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
6.8/101,491 votes#5 - Into Thin Air
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/30/1955
When a young woman leaves her ill mother in a Paris hotel room and comes back later, she finds her mother is missing, and all the hotel's employees deny she and her mother were ever there.
Director: Don Medford
Writer: Marian B. Cockrell
7.1/101,349 votes#6 - Salvage
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/6/1955
Gangster Dan Varrell, just released from prison, goes looking for the woman he holds responsible for his brother's death.
Director: Jus Addiss
Writer: Fred Freiberger
8.1/102,060 votes#7 - Breakdown
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/1955
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.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Francis M. Cockrell
7.4/101,298 votes#8 - Our Cook's a Treasure
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/20/1955
A man fears that the new cook he's hired is actually a murderess.
Director: Robert Stevens
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
7.7/101,265 votes#9 - The Long Shot
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/27/1955
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.
Director: Robert Stevenson
Writer: N/A
7.5/101,478 votes#10 - The Case of Mr. Pelham
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/4/1955
A series of troubling incidents lead Mr. Pelham to believe that he has a double who is deliberately impersonating him.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Francis M. Cockrell
7.4/101,189 votes#11 - Guilty Witness
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/11/1955
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.
Director: Robert Stevens
Writer: N/A
6.7/101,105 votes#12 - Santa Claus and the 10th Avenue Kid
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/18/1955
While working as a department store 'Santa Claus', a paroled convict tries to help a troubled boy.
Director: Don Weis
Writer: Marian B. Cockrell
7.0/101,379 votes#13 - The Cheney Vase
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/25/1955
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.
Director: Robert Stevens
Writer: N/A
7.1/101,096 votes#14 - A Bullet for Baldwin
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/1/1956
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.
Director: Jus Addiss
Writer: Francis M. Cockrell
7.1/101,095 votes#15 - The Big Switch
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/8/1956
Gangster Sam Dunleavy sets up an elaborate alibi so that he can kill his ex-girlfriend Goldie, who left him for another man.
Director: Don Weis
Writer: N/A
7.7/101,224 votes#16 - You Got to Have Luck
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/15/1956
During a massive manhunt for escaped convict Sam Cobbett, Cobbett invades a house where young housewife Mary Schaffner is home alone.
Director: Robert Stevens
Writer: Francis M. Cockrell
6.5/101,039 votes#17 - The Older Sister
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/22/1956
A reporter discovers the truth about the infamous Lizzie Borden murder case.
Director: Robert Stevens
Writer: N/A
6.3/101,061 votes#18 - Shopping for Death
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/29/1956
Two retired insurance salesmen confront an aggressive, hostile woman in hopes of saving her from a disaster.
Director: Robert Stevens
Writer: Ray Bradbury
6.8/10930 votes#19 - The Derelicts
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/5/1956
Inventor Ralph Cowell murders his silent partner Alfred, only to be blackmailed by vagrant Peter Goodfellow, who witnessed the crime.
Director: Robert Stevenson
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
6.9/101,093 votes#20 - And So Died Riabouchinska
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/12/1956
While investigating a murder in a theater, Detective Krovitch uncovers a strange web of tensions revolving around ventriloquist John Fabian and his female dummy.
Director: Robert Stevenson
Writer: Ray Bradbury
6.7/10994 votes#21 - Safe Conduct
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/19/1956
An American journalist meets a soccer star while traveling behind the Iron Curtain, but then is arrested as a suspected smuggler.
Director: Jus Addiss
Writer: N/A
6.3/10880 votes#22 - Place of Shadows
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/26/1956
A young man tries to insinuate his way into a monastery, in order to gain revenge on a thief whom he blames for ruining his life.
Director: Robert Stevens
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
7.6/101,194 votes#23 - Back for Christmas
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/4/1956
Herbert Carpenter plans to murder his wife Hermione, bury her body in the basement, and then leave on a long business trip.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Francis M. Cockrell, John Collier
7.2/10925 votes#24 - The Perfect Murder
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/11/1956
Unscrupulous brothers Paul and Henri Tallendier plan to murder their Aunt Rosalie so that they can get their uncle's inheritance.
Director: Robert Stevens
Writer: N/A
7.2/10935 votes#25 - There Was an Old Woman
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/18/1956
Dishonest Frank and Lorna Bramwell visit the home of wealthy, eccentric Monica Laughton, with the intention of robbing her.
Director: Robert Stevenson
Writer: Marian B. Cockrell, Francis M. Cockrell
The Best Episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1
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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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Revenge" is the best rated episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" season 1. It scored 7.3/10 based on 2481 votes. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by Francis M. Cockrell, it aired on 10/2/1955. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Premonition".