8.2/10288 votesLoading...#1 - Final Escape
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/27/1985
A woman serving a life sentence for murder hits upon an airtight escape plan.
Director: Thomas Carter
Writer: Tom Cannan, Randall Hood, Charles Grant Craig
7.4/1098 votesLoading...#2 - The Hunted (2)
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 8/6/1988
It turns out that the "businessman" has another use in mind for the room.
Director: Timothy Bond
Writer: Michael Sloan
7.3/10101 votesLoading...#3 - The Hunted (1)
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 7/30/1988
A real estate agent shows an office to a man who she assumes is a businessman.
Director: Timothy Bond
Writer: Michael Sloan
7.1/10172 votesLoading...#4 - Night Fever
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 11/3/1985
A gun man injured from a robbery in which he killed a cop, tries to charm a nurse into helping him escape from hospital custody.
Director: Jeff Kanew
Writer: Jeff Kanew, Clark Howard, Stephen Kronish
7.0/10141 votesLoading...#5 - Method Actor
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/10/1985
Paul Dano is a film star and has been nominated many times, but never won the big one. When a role comes along that spells Oscar, he loses out to Lone Richards, a young hunk Dano calls ""a face for a nine inch TV screen."" Richards naively seeks Dano's advice on how to play the part. Bad move. Dano gives Richards bad advice on purpose and Richards loses the part and Dano gets it. Richards becomes enraged by this and wants revenge.
Director: Burt Reynolds, Max Franklin
Writer: Bill Kerby, Max Franklin
7.0/10146 votesLoading...#6 - Breakdown
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/1/1985
After closing a major drug deal, a ruthless businessman is paralyzed in an auto accident, and presumed dead by all who see him- including the coroner.
Director: Richard Pearce
Writer: Alfonse Ruggiero, Louis Pollock
6.8/10129 votesLoading...#7 - A Very Happy Ending
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/16/1986
A poor little rich boy who's deaf witnesses a murder, then blackmails the hit man into doing a job for him.
Director: Thomas Rickman
Writer: Thomas Rickman
6.8/10116 votesLoading...#8 - Man on the Edge
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 2/7/1987
A troubled young man threatens to jump from the 28th floor of a hotel as police officers attempt to stop him.
Director: Robert Iscove, Donald Honig
Writer: Jim Beaver
6.8/10109 votesLoading...#9 - The Specialty of the House
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 3/21/1987
An arrogant, yet influential, food critic attempts to persuade a reluctant restaurant proprietor to reveal a treasured recipe.
Director: Stanley Ellin, Allan King
Writer: Jonathan Glassner, Stanley Ellin
6.7/10142 votesLoading...#10 - Revenge
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/29/1985
A professor spurns the legal system to seek revenge on the man who raped his wife.
Director: Don Medford, R.E. Young
Writer: David Stenn, Tom Cannan, Randall Hood, Charles Grant Craig
6.7/10111 votesLoading...#11 - The Mole
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 2/21/1987
A psychiatrist tries to convince the police that a man recently released from a mental hospital after 15 years, is still dangerous and capable of murder.
Director: Richard Bugajski
Writer: Rick Berger
6.7/10130 votesLoading...#12 - There Was a Little Girl...
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 7/2/1988
Parents decide that it is time that their spoiled daughter moves out of their house.
Director: Atom Egoyan
Writer: Charles Grant Craig
6.7/1088 votesLoading...#13 - Survival of the Fittest
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 11/19/1988
A writer finds something unexpected when he returns home to his estate.
Director: Allan King
Writer: Michael Sloan
6.7/1083 votesLoading...#14 - For Art's Sake
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 1/21/1989
An established artist taking credit for his wife's work pays for his deceit.
Director: Bill Corcoran
Writer: Linda Chase
6.6/1087 votesLoading...#15 - Kadinsky's Vault
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 6/25/1988
A man refuses to sell his old bookstore.
Director: René Bonnière
Writer: Steven Hollander
6.5/10121 votesLoading...#16 - Wake Me When I'm Dead
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/20/1985
Trial of a woman who killed her husband while hypnotically transported to a past life.
Director: Frank Pierson
Writer: Buck Henry, Irving Elman, Lawrence Treat
6.5/10135 votesLoading...#17 - The Night Caller
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/5/1985
A divorce is driven to drastic retaliatory measures after being the victim of a series of phone calls and constant survillance from a near by appartant.
Director: John Byrum, Gabrielle Upton
Writer: John Byrum, Gabrielle Upton
6.5/10118 votesLoading...#18 - The Creeper
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 3/16/1986
A fashion designer is terrified that she may be the next target of the creeper who may have the keys to her appartment.
Director: Christopher Crowe, Joseph Ruscoll
Writer: Stephen Kronish, Joseph Ruscoll, Steve Bello, James P. Cavanagh
6.5/1099 votesLoading...#19 - Deathmate
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 4/18/1987
An older woman attemps to convince her young lover that the only way they can continue their affair is for him to end her husband's life.
Director: James Causey, Allan King
Writer: Marlene Matthews, James Causey
6.5/10115 votesLoading...#20 - Fogbound
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 10/8/1988
On a foggy night a woman is at home alone with a killer on the loose in the area.
Director: Mark Sobel
Writer: Lee Erwin
6.5/10109 votesLoading...#21 - Diamonds Aren't Forever
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 4/15/1989
Superspy James... drops in on a resort. His mission is to retrieve a statue before the Soviets do. Any one or more of the eccentric guests at the resort may be the Soviet agent(s).
Director: Peter Crane
Writer: Glenn Davis, William Laurin
6.4/10121 votesLoading...#22 - Prisoners
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/8/1985
Ironically, it's an escaped convict who brings a sense of liberation to a housewife: she insists on going with him as his "hostage".
Director: Christopher Crowe, S. R. Ross
Writer: John Byrum
6.4/10274 votesLoading...#23 - The Jar
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 4/6/1986
An artist's years of failure are behind after he finds a jar which holds mysterious contents and entrances to those who view it.
Director: Tim Burton
Writer: N/A
6.4/10111 votesLoading...#24 - The Initiation
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 4/24/1987
When a shy student pledges a Greek House, the fraternity brothers plot a prank against him.
Director: Robert Iscove, Rob Hedden
Writer: Jim Beaver, Rob Hedden
6.4/10217 votesLoading...#25 - The Final Twist
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 3/28/1987
Three film production house employees who are mistreated by their unscrupulous boss utilize their cinematic skills in divising a murder plot.
Director: Atom Egoyan, William Bankier
Writer: Jim Beaver
The Best Episodes of The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Every episode of The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents!
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Best Episodes Summary
"Final Escape" is the best rated episode of "The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents". It scored 8.2/10 based on 288 votes. Directed by Thomas Carter and written by Tom Cannan, Randall Hood, Charles Grant Craig, it aired on 10/27/1985. This episode scored 0.8 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Hunted (2)".