6.7/10147 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
7.2/10176 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
6.6/10124 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
8.2/10296 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
6.5/10138 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
7.1/10145 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
6.1/10121 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
7.1/10151 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
6.8/10123 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
6.0/10147 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
6.2/10116 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
5.8/10108 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
5.9/10108 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
6.8/10134 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
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
6.3/10121 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
6.4/10121 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
6.4/10119 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
6.4/10276 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
6.0/10105 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
6.1/10121 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
6.3/10111 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
The Best Episodes of The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1
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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 147 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 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "Night Fever".