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The Best Episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 5

Every episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 5!

The Best Episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 5

A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

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  1. Background image for Arthur
    7.4/10(763 votes)

    #1 - Arthur

    S5:E1

    When his former fiancee turns up missing, chicken farmer Arthur obligingly lets the police search his ranch, despite the fact that they seem to suspect him of her murder.

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    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for The Crystal Trench
    6.8/10(747 votes)

    #2 - The Crystal Trench

    S5:E2

    Dangerous secrets are revealed when a devoted widow travels to the glacier in Switzerland where her husband's body has been preserved since his deadly fall forty years earlier.

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  3. Background image for Appointment at Eleven
    5.5/10(576 votes)

    #3 - Appointment at Eleven

    S5:E3

    A 17-year-old causes havoc at a bar and alarms everyone around him when he talks hysterically about how he'll be "born again" when someone else dies at eleven o'clock.

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  4. Background image for Coyote Moon
    7.6/10(662 votes)

    #4 - Coyote Moon

    S5:E4

    John Piltkin picks up three hitchhikers who rob him. After he spots them in a diner, he exacts his revenge. He steals a car and picks the hitchhikers up. Concealing his face in shadows, he then pretends the car has stalled and walks off to get help. The hitchhickers are then arrested in the stolen car.

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  5. Background image for No Pain
    7.3/10(574 votes)

    #5 - No Pain

    S5:E5

    Nothing is as it seems when a polio victim in an iron lung suspects his wife of becoming attracted to a new neighbor and wonders if she's planning to get rid of him for good.

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    Director:Norman Lloyd
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for Anniversary Gift
    7.1/10(530 votes)

    #6 - Anniversary Gift

    S5:E6

    Sick of his wife's menagerie of strange and high-maintenance animals, a frazzled husband decides to get her the perfect present - a highly poisonous coral snake.

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    Director:Norman Lloyd
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Dry Run
    7.8/10(671 votes)

    #7 - Dry Run

    S5:E7

    An aspiring hitman takes on a risky assignment to kill a rival gangster but then finds himself easily conned by his target in a treacherous game of cat and mouse.

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  9. Background image for The Blessington Method
    7.0/10(521 votes)

    #8 - The Blessington Method

    S5:E8

    Troubled by the responsibility of his aging mother in law, a man takes advantage of a society that specializes in "taking care of" elderly relatives and then soon finds out that he may be in for a similar fate.

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  10. Background image for Dead Weight
    7.4/10(565 votes)

    #9 - Dead Weight

    S5:E9

    Lovers' Lane becomes a dark and deadly destination when an ad executive and his former girlfriend are attacked by a young thug, and his efforts to protect them quickly go from heroic to something much more criminal.

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  11. Background image for Special Delivery
    6.7/10(581 votes)

    #10 - Special Delivery

    S5:E10

    After his neighbor warns him about suspicious disappearances around them, a man wonders if the vanishings have anything to do with a delivery to his young son.

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    Director:Norman Lloyd
  12. Background image for Road Hog
    8.2/10(820 votes)

    #11 - Road Hog

    S5:E11

    When a traffic delay prevents a dying boy from reaching the hospital in time, his bereaved father and brothers swear revenge on the salesman who hogged the road when a life was on the line.

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  13. Background image for Specialty of the House
    8.1/10(801 votes)

    #12 - Specialty of the House

    S5:E12

    A successful businessman finally gets his greatest wish to see inside the kitchen of his favorite dining club, but has he just ordered his final meal as well?

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    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
    7.0/10(633 votes)

    #13 - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

    S5:E13

    Moments before he's set to swing from the end of a Union rope, a Southern supporter reflects on the sabotage attempt that brought him there and sees a possibility for freedom.

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    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for Graduating Class
    6.4/10(595 votes)

    #14 - Graduating Class

    S5:E14

    A teacher's interest in the one student who seems to care about her lessons turns tragic when she and a kindly neighbor follow the girl to a man's apartment.

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  16. Background image for Man from the South
    8.5/10(1.4k votes)

    #15 - Man from the South

    S5:E15

    A down-on-his-luck gambler bets his hand (literally) for a convertible, but the game is stopped by a person with an even larger interest in the outcome.

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    Director:Norman Lloyd
    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for The Ikon of Elijah
    6.8/10(491 votes)

    #16 - The Ikon of Elijah

    S5:E16

    An antiques dealer takes refuge in a tucked away monastery with the goal of seizing a priceless manuscript, but his greed will extend his stay at the holy place for much longer than he ever imagined.

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    Director:Paul Almond
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for The Cure
    6.8/10(482 votes)

    #17 - The Cure

    S5:E17

    Some important things get lost in translation when a South American oil explorer agrees to have his loyal native assistant take his murderous wife to a head shrinker for her health.

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  19. Background image for Backward, Turn Backward
    6.0/10(538 votes)

    #18 - Backward, Turn Backward

    S5:E18

    A middle aged plumber is suspected of bludgeoning to death the father of his 19-year-old love interest, but the Sheriff can't figure out how the man could have done the crime and been caring for his baby grandson at the same time.

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  20. Background image for Not the Running Type
    7.3/10(509 votes)

    #19 - Not the Running Type

    S5:E19

    After twelve years in prison for stealing $200,000 from his investment firm employers, Milton Potter calmly returns all the money he embezzled and pursues some very unique post-prison retirement plans.

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    Director:Arthur Hiller
    Writer:Jerry Sohl
  21. Background image for The Day of the Bullet
    7.1/10(579 votes)

    #20 - The Day of the Bullet

    S5:E20

    When Clete Vine, a successful businessman, reads about a gangster's violent death, he recalls how he and a childhood friend were profoundly affected by an event that began with their innocent admiration of an elegant car.

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  22. Background image for Hitch Hike
    7.0/10(530 votes)

    #21 - Hitch Hike

    S5:E21

    A righteous and hypocritical civic leader on a road trip accepts mechanical help from a young man who then asks for a lift, soon afterwards he reveals he's recently been released from reform school.

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  23. Background image for Across the Threshold
    7.2/10(491 votes)

    #22 - Across the Threshold

    S5:E22

    When his over-bearing mother mentions missing her dead husband, a selfish bachelor is happy to arrange the reunion and enlists his actress girlfriend to help by posing as a clairvoyant.

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    Director:Arthur Hiller
    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for Craig's Will
    6.6/10(499 votes)

    #23 - Craig's Will

    S5:E23

    It's one lucky dog who is named the beneficiary of his deceased master's estate, but he then becomes the target of murderous plots concocted by the humans in his life.

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    Director:Gene Reynolds
  25. Background image for Madame Mystery
    6.0/10(533 votes)

    #24 - Madame Mystery

    S5:E24

    A ruthlessly ambitious Hollywood publicist capitalizes on the drowning death of an actress, but his hopes for success sink like a stone when he learns that she's still alive.

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    Director:John Brahm
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for The Little Man Who Was There
    7.3/10(538 votes)

    #25 - The Little Man Who Was There

    S5:E25

    The patrons in a copper town saloon initially scoff at the mysterious, small man who barges in, but soon find themselves handing over their valuables when he takes on two strapping brothers.

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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"Arthur" is the best rated episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" season 5. It scored 7.4/10 based on 763 votes. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/27/1959. This episode is rated 0.6 points higher than the second-best, "The Crystal Trench".