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The Best Episodes of The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1

Every episode of The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1!

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985 to 1986, and on the USA Network from 1987...
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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Revenge" is the best rated episode of "The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents" season 1. It scored 6.7/10 based on 141 votes. Directed by Don Medford, R.E. Young and written by David Stenn, Tom Cannan, Randall Hood, Charles Grant Craig, it aired on 9/29/1985. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Night Fever".

  • Revenge
    6.7/10141 votes

    #1 - 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

  • Night Fever
    7.1/10172 votes

    #2 - 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

  • Wake Me When I'm Dead
    6.5/10121 votes

    #3 - 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

  • Final Escape
    8.2/10287 votes

    #4 - 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

  • The Night Caller
    6.5/10135 votes

    #5 - 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

  • Method Actor
    7.0/10141 votes

    #6 - 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

  • The Human Interest Story
    6.1/10119 votes

    #7 - The Human Interest Story

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/17/1985

    A TV reporter looks for the human interest story behind the short-lived takeover of the station's airwaves by a former technician who claims to be an alien with an urgent warning to Earthlings.

    Director: Larry Gross, Fredric Brown

    Writer: Karen Harris

  • Breakdown
    7.0/10146 votes

    #8 - 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

  • Prisoners
    6.4/10121 votes

    #9 - 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

  • Gigolo
    6.0/10144 votes

    #10 - Gigolo

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/15/1985

    A gold digging groom makes short work of his middle-aged wife, but his attempts to round up her jewels are met with opposition from her "children" - an army of cats.

    Director: Thomas Carter, Arthur Williams

    Writer: Arthur Williams, Steve De Jarnatt

  • The Gloating Place
    6.2/10114 votes

    #11 - The Gloating Place

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1/5/1986

    A withdrawn teenager is fascinated with the instant celebrity of a murdered classmate and fakes an assault on herself.

    Director: Robert Bloch, Christopher Leitch

    Writer: David Stenn, Robert Bloch, Jim Beaver

  • The Right Kind of Medicine
    5.7/10103 votes

    #12 - The Right Kind of Medicine

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/12/1986

    A bank robber is wounded in a shoot-out, then forced to endure an excruciating wait for a painkiller at the pharmacy.

    Director: Jerrold Freedman, Michael Braverman, Henry Slesar

    Writer: Michael Braverman, Jerrold Freedman

  • Beast In View
    5.8/10105 votes

    #13 - Beast In View

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/19/1986

    A psychiatrist is terrorized by menacing phone calls and the killing of her dog following her marriage to one of her patients.

    Director: Michael Toshiyuki Uno, Margaret Millar

    Writer: Robert Glass, Margaret Millar

  • A Very Happy Ending
    6.8/10129 votes

    #14 - 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

  • The Canary Sedan
    6.3/10118 votes

    #15 - The Canary Sedan

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 3/1/1986

    A woman goes to Hong Kong to be with her husband.

    Director: Joan Tewkesbury, Ann Bridge

    Writer: Ann Bridge, Joan Tewkesbury

  • Enough Rope For Two
    6.3/10117 votes

    #16 - Enough Rope For Two

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 3/9/1986

    A camping trip for two becomes a flight from murder full of twists and double-crosses when a Harvard-bound law student goes against his better judgement and lets his girl friend bring her "cousin" along.

    Director: David Chase, Clark Howard

    Writer: Clark Howard, David Chase

  • The Creeper
    6.5/10118 votes

    #17 - 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

  • Happy Birthday
    6.3/10114 votes

    #18 - Happy Birthday

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 3/23/1986

    The arrest of a newspaper reporter on his birthday for a murder supposedly committed 22 years ago comes as a complete surprise to the accused.

    Director: Randy Roberts

    Writer: Frisco Miller

  • The Jar
    6.4/10274 votes

    #19 - 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

  • Deadly Honeymoon
    6.0/10103 votes

    #20 - Deadly Honeymoon

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 4/13/1986

    Following a whirlwind courtship, a new bride fears her luck's run out when she learns that her doctor husband has heavy gambling debts and two deceased formor wives who were heavily insured.

    Director: Don Medford, Henry Slesar

    Writer: Henry Slesar, Stephen Kronish

  • Four O'Clock
    6.1/10120 votes

    #21 - Four O'Clock

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/4/1986

    Time is running out for a judge who's surprised, bound and gagged by burglars in his house after rigging a bomb to eliminate his wife and her suspected lover.

    Director: Cornell Woolrich, Andrew Mirisch

    Writer: Cornell Woolrich, Steve Bello

  • Road Hog
    6.3/10109 votes

    #22 - Road Hog

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/11/1986

    What can't go around comes around for a road-hogging salesman who won't allow a truck bound for the hospital to pass.

    Director: Mario DiLeo

    Writer: Charles Grant Craig, Stephen Kronish, Harold R. Daniels, Steve Bello