7.4/10722 votes#1 - Arthur
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/27/1959
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.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: N/A
6.8/10711 votes#2 - The Crystal Trench
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 10/4/1959
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.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
5.4/10539 votes#3 - Appointment at Eleven
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/11/1959
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.
Director: Robert Stevens
Writer: Evan Hunter
7.6/10625 votes#4 - Coyote Moon
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/1959
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.
Director: Herschel Daugherty
Writer: N/A
7.3/10540 votes#5 - No Pain
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/1959
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.
Director: Norman Lloyd
Writer: N/A
7.1/10500 votes#6 - Anniversary Gift
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 11/1/1959
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.
Director: Norman Lloyd
Writer: N/A
7.8/10644 votes#7 - Dry Run
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 11/8/1959
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.
Director: John Brahm
Writer: Bill S. Ballinger
7.0/10495 votes#8 - The Blessington Method
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/15/1959
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.
Director: Herschel Daugherty
Writer: N/A
7.4/10534 votes#9 - Dead Weight
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 11/22/1959
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.
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Writer: Jerry Sohl
6.6/10548 votes#10 - Special Delivery
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 11/29/1959
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.
Director: Norman Lloyd
Writer: Ray Bradbury
8.2/10773 votes#11 - Road Hog
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 12/6/1959
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.
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Writer: Bill S. Ballinger
8.1/10762 votes#12 - Specialty of the House
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 12/13/1959
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?
Director: Robert Stevens
Writer: N/A
7.0/10604 votes#13 - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 12/20/1959
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.
Director: Robert Stevenson
Writer: N/A
6.4/10562 votes#14 - Graduating Class
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 12/27/1959
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.
Director: Herschel Daugherty
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
8.5/101,311 votes#15 - Man from the South
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 1/3/1960
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.
Director: Norman Lloyd
Writer: N/A
6.8/10465 votes#16 - The Ikon of Elijah
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 1/10/1960
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.
Director: Paul Almond
Writer: N/A
6.8/10454 votes#17 - The Cure
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 1/24/1960
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.
Director: Herschel Daugherty
Writer: Michael Pertwee
6.0/10509 votes#18 - Backward, Turn Backward
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 1/31/1960
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.
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Writer: Charles Beaumont
7.3/10485 votes#19 - Not the Running Type
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 2/7/1960
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.
Director: Arthur Hiller
Writer: Jerry Sohl
7.1/10547 votes#20 - The Day of the Bullet
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 2/14/1960
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.
Director: Norman Lloyd
Writer: Bill S. Ballinger
7.0/10496 votes#21 - Hitch Hike
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 2/21/1960
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.
Director: Paul Henreid
Writer: Bernard C. Schoenfeld
7.2/10460 votes#22 - Across the Threshold
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 2/28/1960
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.
Director: Arthur Hiller
Writer: N/A
6.7/10469 votes#23 - Craig's Will
Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 3/6/1960
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.
Director: Gene Reynolds
Writer: Burt Styler
6.0/10507 votes#24 - Madame Mystery
Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 3/27/1960
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.
Director: John Brahm
Writer: N/A
7.3/10513 votes#25 - The Little Man Who Was There
Season 5 Episode 25 - Aired 4/3/1960
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Gordon Russell
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!
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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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 722 votes. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by N/A, it aired on 9/27/1959. This episode is rated 0.6 points higher than the second-best, "The Crystal Trench".