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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 2501 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".

  • Revenge
    7.3/102,501 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

  • Premonition
    7.4/101,814 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

  • Triggers in Leash
    6.8/101,606 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

  • Don't Come Back Alive
    7.2/101,524 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

  • Into Thin Air
    6.8/101,508 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

  • Salvage
    7.1/101,364 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

  • Breakdown
    8.1/102,075 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

  • Our Cook's a Treasure
    7.4/101,316 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

  • The Long Shot
    7.7/101,281 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

  • The Case of Mr. Pelham
    7.4/101,488 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

  • Guilty Witness
    7.4/101,200 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

  • Santa Claus and the 10th Avenue Kid
    6.7/101,115 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

  • The Cheney Vase
    7.0/101,388 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

  • A Bullet for Baldwin
    7.0/101,102 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

  • The Big Switch
    7.1/101,101 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

  • You Got to Have Luck
    7.7/101,231 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

  • The Older Sister
    6.5/101,044 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

  • Shopping for Death
    6.3/101,068 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

  • The Derelicts
    6.8/10935 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

  • And So Died Riabouchinska
    6.9/101,099 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

  • Safe Conduct
    6.7/10997 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

  • Place of Shadows
    6.3/10883 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

  • Back for Christmas
    7.6/101,200 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

  • The Perfect Murder
    7.2/10929 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

  • There Was an Old Woman
    7.2/10941 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