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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 622 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".

  • Poison
    7.2/10622 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

  • Don't Interrupt
    6.1/10632 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

  • The Jokester
    7.2/10455 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

  • The Crooked Road
    8.1/10796 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

  • The $2,000,000 Defense
    7.0/10521 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

  • Design for Loving
    7.1/10555 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

  • Man with a Problem
    8.2/10797 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

  • Safety for the Witness
    6.4/10504 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

  • Murder Me Twice
    7.2/10551 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

  • Tea Time
    7.2/10528 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

  • And the Desert Shall Blossom
    6.9/10526 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

  • Mrs. Herman and Mrs. Fenimore
    7.2/10541 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

  • Six People, No Music
    6.4/10523 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

  • The Morning After
    7.4/10546 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

  • A Personal Matter
    6.5/10493 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

  • Out There - Darkness
    7.5/10968 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

  • Total Loss
    6.9/10508 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

  • The Last Dark Step
    7.8/10608 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

  • The Morning of the Bride
    7.1/10540 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

  • The Diamond Necklace
    8.0/10681 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

  • Relative Value
    7.5/10549 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

  • The Right Price
    7.0/10484 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

  • I'll Take Care of You
    7.0/10507 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

  • The Avon Emeralds
    6.5/10509 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

  • The Kind Waitress
    7.3/10559 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