7.2/10625 votes#1 - Poison
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 10/5/1958
Two partners discover their real feelings for one another when one is bitten by a poisonous snake and it's up to the other to save his life.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: N/A
6.1/10637 votes#2 - Don't Interrupt
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/12/1958
Silence may be golden, but it also proves lethal when a young boy witnesses an escaped mental patient and can't tell anyone about it.
Director: Robert Stevens
Writer: N/A
7.2/10458 votes#3 - The Jokester
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/19/1958
A morgue attendant gets the last laugh when he finally has enough of a man who has been provoking him.
Director: Arthur Hiller
Writer: Bernard C. Schoenfeld
8.1/10800 votes#4 - The Crooked Road
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/26/1958
A joyride in a new convertible is seriously called to a halt as the corrupt public officials in a small town attempt to take advantage of the defenseless drivers.
Director: Paul Henreid
Writer: N/A
7.0/10524 votes#5 - The $2,000,000 Defense
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 11/2/1958
A lawyer gets creative when the man he is defending offers him half of his net worth if he will find a way out of the case.
Director: Norman Lloyd
Writer: N/A
7.1/10559 votes#6 - Design for Loving
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 11/9/1958
A man's marriage seriously malfunctions when he buys a robot to take over his relationship with his demanding wife so he can escape to Rio.
Director: Robert Stevens
Writer: Ray Bradbury
8.2/10802 votes#7 - Man with a Problem
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/16/1958
A man relates the series of events that led him to contemplate suicide to a police officer.
Director: Robert Stevens
Writer: N/A
6.4/10506 votes#8 - Safety for the Witness
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/23/1958
A gunsmith sets his sight on two gangsters who will kill him if he testifies to what they've purchased in court.
Director: Norman Lloyd
Writer: N/A
7.2/10553 votes#9 - Murder Me Twice
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 12/7/1958
When a hypnotist puts a young woman into a trance during a seance, things go wildly out of control and she stabs her husband. But is she really to blame for her actions?
Director: David Swift
Writer: N/A
7.2/10530 votes#10 - Tea Time
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 12/14/1958
It's hard to tell who's the bigger cheater when a wife and her husband's jealous mistress sit down for some lethal negotiating.
Director: Robert Stevens
Writer: Kathleen Hite
6.9/10529 votes#11 - And the Desert Shall Blossom
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 12/21/1958
When two old men need a miracle in order to keep their home, the answer arrives in the unlikely form of a killer on the run from the law.
Director: Arthur Hiller
Writer: N/A
7.2/10546 votes#12 - Mrs. Herman and Mrs. Fenimore
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 12/28/1958
Two women plot to do away with an irascible old man and seize his money, but their plan is foiled when one of them decides she deserves more of the fortune.
Director: Arthur Hiller
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
6.4/10524 votes#13 - Six People, No Music
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 1/4/1959
A funeral parlor owner is put in an awkward position when a deceased client comes back to life and demands a much smaller affair than what was planned for his funeral.
Director: Norman Lloyd
Writer: N/A
7.4/10551 votes#14 - The Morning After
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 1/11/1959
Motherly love knows no bounds when a woman decides to get revenge on the married man who has been dating her daughter.
Director: Herschel Daugherty
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
6.5/10496 votes#15 - A Personal Matter
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 1/18/1959
Two construction engineers are between more than just a rock and a hard place when one of them discovers the other's violent past during an explosive tunnel blast.
Director: Paul Henreid
Writer: N/A
7.5/10974 votes#16 - Out There - Darkness
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 1/25/1959
When a wealthy woman mistakenly accuses her elevator boy of robbing her, his resulting imprisonment will take her to levels of guilt she never expected.
Director: Paul Henreid
Writer: Bernard C. Schoenfeld
6.9/10510 votes#17 - Total Loss
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 2/1/1959
A desperate department store owner foolishly agrees to a scheme to have her store burned down so she can collect the insurance, but the fiery transaction doesn't go down as planned.
Director: Don Taylor
Writer: N/A
7.8/10612 votes#18 - The Last Dark Step
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 2/8/1959
It's murder most foul when a man decides to drown the longtime girlfriend who's been supporting him, but his crime doesn't go unnoticed for very long.
Director: Herschel Daugherty
Writer: N/A
7.1/10543 votes#19 - The Morning of the Bride
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 2/15/1959
A young woman with her eye on marriage wonders why she still hasn't met her boyfriend's mother.
Director: Arthur Hiller
Writer: Kathleen Hite
8.0/10683 votes#20 - The Diamond Necklace
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 2/22/1959
During his last week of work before retirement, the longtime employee of a jewelry store serves an unusual client.
Director: Herschel Daugherty
Writer: N/A
7.5/10553 votes#21 - Relative Value
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 3/1/1959
When John learns that he has been made the beneficiary in his cousin's will, he decides he can't wait for nature to take its course and begins plotting murder.
Director: Paul Almond
Writer: Francis M. Cockrell
7.0/10486 votes#22 - The Right Price
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 3/8/1959
A middle-aged couple, recently wed and constantly bickering, learn how married life can be murder.
Director: Arthur Hiller
Writer: Bernard C. Schoenfeld
7.0/10510 votes#23 - I'll Take Care of You
Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 3/15/1959
A used car salesman with a spendthrift wife concocts a killer deal with his father and two college boys.
Director: Robert Stevens
Writer: N/A
6.5/10514 votes#24 - The Avon Emeralds
Season 4 Episode 24 - Aired 3/22/1959
Nothing is as it seems when a young Scotland Yard inspector follows a widow suspected of smuggling jewelry.
Director: Bretaigne Windust
Writer: N/A
7.3/10560 votes#25 - The Kind Waitress
Season 4 Episode 25 - Aired 3/29/1959
Thelma Tomkins and her deadbeat boyfriend begin poisoning an old and wealthy woman in order to get an inheritance ... but the results are not what they expected.
Director: Paul Henreid
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 4
Every episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 4!
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Season 4 Ratings Summary
"Poison" is the best rated episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" season 4. It scored 7.2/10 based on 625 votes. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by N/A, it aired on 10/5/1958. This episode is rated 1.1 points higher than the second-best, "Don't Interrupt".