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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 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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  1. Background image for Final Escape
    8.1/10(310 votes)

    #1 - Final Escape

    S1:E4

    A woman serving a life sentence for murder hits upon an airtight escape plan.

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  2. Background image for Night Fever
    7.2/10(185 votes)

    #2 - Night Fever

    S1:E2

    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.

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  3. Background image for Breakdown
    7.1/10(163 votes)

    #3 - Breakdown

    S1:E8

    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.

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  4. Background image for Method Actor
    7.0/10(153 votes)

    #4 - Method Actor

    S1:E6

    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.

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  5. Background image for Prisoners
    6.8/10(132 votes)

    #5 - Prisoners

    S1:E9

    Ironically, it's an escaped convict who brings a sense of liberation to a housewife: she insists on going with him as his "hostage".

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  6. Background image for A Very Happy Ending
    6.8/10(142 votes)

    #6 - A Very Happy Ending

    S1:E14

    A poor little rich boy who's deaf witnesses a murder, then blackmails the hit man into doing a job for him.

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  8. Background image for Enough Rope For Two
    6.8/10(125 votes)

    #7 - Enough Rope For Two

    S1:E16

    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.

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  9. Background image for Revenge
    6.7/10(155 votes)

    #8 - Revenge

    S1:E1

    A professor spurns the legal system to seek revenge on the man who raped his wife.

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  10. Background image for Four O'Clock
    6.7/10(128 votes)

    #9 - Four O'Clock

    S1:E21

    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.

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  11. Background image for Wake Me When I'm Dead
    6.6/10(132 votes)

    #10 - Wake Me When I'm Dead

    S1:E3

    Trial of a woman who killed her husband while hypnotically transported to a past life.

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  12. Background image for Happy Birthday
    6.6/10(124 votes)

    #11 - Happy Birthday

    S1:E18

    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.

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  13. Background image for The Night Caller
    6.5/10(146 votes)

    #12 - The Night Caller

    S1:E5

    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.

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  14. Background image for The Human Interest Story
    6.5/10(133 votes)

    #13 - The Human Interest Story

    S1:E7

    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.

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    6.5/10(124 votes)

    #14 - The Gloating Place

    S1:E11

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

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  16. Background image for The Creeper
    6.5/10(126 votes)

    #15 - The Creeper

    S1:E17

    A fashion designer is terrified that she may be the next target of the creeper who may have the keys to her appartment.

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  17. Background image for The Jar
    6.3/10(284 votes)

    #16 - The Jar

    S1:E19

    An artist's years of failure are behind after he finds a jar which holds mysterious contents and entrances to those who view it.

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    Director:Tim Burton
    Writer:N/A
  18. Background image for Road Hog
    6.3/10(116 votes)

    #17 - Road Hog

    S1:E22

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

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    6.1/10(157 votes)

    #18 - Gigolo

    S1:E10

    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.

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  20. Background image for Beast In View
    6.0/10(115 votes)

    #19 - Beast In View

    S1:E13

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

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  21. Background image for Deadly Honeymoon
    6.0/10(111 votes)

    #20 - Deadly Honeymoon

    S1:E20

    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.

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  22. Background image for The Right Kind of Medicine
    5.8/10(116 votes)

    #21 - The Right Kind of Medicine

    S1:E12

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

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  23. Background image for The Canary Sedan
    5.6/10(126 votes)

    #22 - The Canary Sedan

    S1:E15

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

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Final Escape" is the best rated episode of "The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents" season 1. It scored 8.1/10 based on 310 votes. Directed by Thomas Carter and written by Tom Cannan, Charles Grant Craig, Randall Hood, it aired on 10/27/1985. This episode is rated 0.9 points higher than the second-best, "Night Fever".