A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
The best episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" season 1 is "Revenge", rated 7.3/10 from 2454 user votes. It was directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by Francis M. Cockrell. "Revenge" aired on 10/2/1955 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Premonition".
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
A famous pianist returns to his home town to find the man who murdered his father.
Director: Robert Stevens
Writer: N/A
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
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
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
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
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
A man fears that the new cook he's hired is actually a murderess.
Director: Robert Stevens
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
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
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
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
While working as a department store 'Santa Claus', a paroled convict tries to help a troubled boy.
Director: Don Weis
Writer: Marian B. Cockrell
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
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
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
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
A reporter discovers the truth about the infamous Lizzie Borden murder case.
Director: Robert Stevens
Writer: N/A
Two retired insurance salesmen confront an aggressive, hostile woman in hopes of saving her from a disaster.
Director: Robert Stevens
Writer: Ray Bradbury
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
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
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
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
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
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
Dishonest Frank and Lorna Bramwell visit the home of wealthy, eccentric Monica Laughton, with the intention of robbing her.
Director: Robert Stevenson
Writer: Francis M. Cockrell, Marian B. Cockrell