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The Best Episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 5

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 5 Episode 1 - Arthur
    7.4/10(814 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.

    Director:Alfred Hitchcock
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 5 Episode 2 - The Crystal Trench
    6.8/10(797 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.

    Director:Alfred Hitchcock
    Writer:Stirling Silliphant

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  3. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 5 Episode 3 - Appointment at Eleven
    5.4/10(617 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.

    Director:Robert Stevens
    Writer:Evan Hunter

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  4. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 5 Episode 4 - Coyote Moon
    7.6/10(703 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.

    Director:Herschel Daugherty
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 5 Episode 5 - No Pain
    7.3/10(608 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.

    Director:Norman Lloyd
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 5 Episode 6 - Anniversary Gift
    7.1/10(565 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.

    Director:Norman Lloyd
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 5 Episode 7 - Dry Run
    7.8/10(723 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.

    Director:John Brahm
    Writer:Bill S. Ballinger

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  8. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 5 Episode 8 - The Blessington Method
    7.1/10(562 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.

    Director:Herschel Daugherty
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 5 Episode 9 - Dead Weight
    7.4/10(603 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.

    Director:Stuart Rosenberg
    Writer:Jerry Sohl

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  10. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 5 Episode 10 - Special Delivery
    6.7/10(631 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.

    Director:Norman Lloyd
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  11. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 5 Episode 11 - Road Hog
    8.2/10(879 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.

    Director:Stuart Rosenberg
    Writer:Bill S. Ballinger

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  12. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 5 Episode 12 - Specialty of the House
    8.1/10(861 votes)

    #12 - Specialty of the House

    S5:E12

    Mr. Laffler introduces his colleague Mr. Costain to Spirro's, an exclusive gentleman's club, but to their disappointment, the house specialty, a lamb dish, is not being served that day.

    Director:Robert Stevens
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 5 Episode 13 - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
    7.0/10(676 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.

    Director:Robert Stevenson
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 5 Episode 14 - Graduating Class
    6.3/10(631 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.

    Director:Herschel Daugherty
    Writer:Stirling Silliphant

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  15. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 5 Episode 15 - Man from the South
    8.5/10(1465 votes)

    #15 - Man from the South

    S5:E15

    In a Las Vegas casino, an unpleasant little man hopes to use a young man's wish to impress the young woman he has just met to pressure the young fellow into accepting a macabre bet.

    Director:Norman Lloyd
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 5 Episode 16 - The Ikon of Elijah
    6.8/10(525 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.

    Director:Paul Almond
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 5 Episode 17 - The Cure
    6.8/10(519 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.

    Director:Herschel Daugherty
    Writer:Michael Pertwee

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  18. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 5 Episode 18 - Backward, Turn Backward
    6.0/10(573 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.

    Director:Stuart Rosenberg
    Writer:Charles Beaumont

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  19. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 5 Episode 19 - Not the Running Type
    7.4/10(545 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.

    Director:Arthur Hiller
    Writer:Jerry Sohl

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  20. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 5 Episode 20 - The Day of the Bullet
    7.2/10(614 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.

    Director:Norman Lloyd
    Writer:Bill S. Ballinger

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  21. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 5 Episode 21 - Hitch Hike
    7.0/10(568 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.

    Director:Paul Henreid
    Writer:Bernard C. Schoenfeld

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  22. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 5 Episode 22 - Across the Threshold
    7.2/10(524 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.

    Director:Arthur Hiller
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 5 Episode 23 - Craig's Will
    6.6/10(536 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.

    Director:Gene Reynolds
    Writer:Burt Styler

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  24. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 5 Episode 24 - Madame Mystery
    6.0/10(569 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.

    Director:John Brahm
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 5 Episode 25 - The Little Man Who Was There
    7.3/10(573 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.

    Director:George Stevens Jr.
    Writers:Gordon Russell, Larry Ward

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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 814 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".