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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!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 4 - Final Escape
    8.0/10(343 votes)

    S1:E4

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

    Director:Thomas Carter
    Writers:Randall Hood, Tom Cannan, Charles Grant Craig

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  2. The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 2 - Night Fever
    7.2/10(209 votes)

    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.

    Director:Jeff Kanew
    Writers:Jeff Kanew, Clark Howard, Stephen Kronish

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  3. The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 8 - Breakdown
    7.0/10(196 votes)

    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.

    Director:Richard Pearce
    Writers:Alfonse Ruggiero, Louis Pollock

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  4. The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 6 - Method Actor
    6.9/10(173 votes)

    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.

    Directors:Burt Reynolds, Max Franklin
    Writers:Bill Kerby, Max Franklin

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  5. The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 21 - Four O'Clock
    6.8/10(143 votes)

    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.

    Directors:Cornell Woolrich, Andrew Mirisch
    Writers:Cornell Woolrich, Steve Bello

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  6. The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 1 - Revenge
    6.7/10(179 votes)

    S1:E1

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

    Directors:Don Medford, R.E. Young
    Writers:Randall Hood, Tom Cannan, David Stenn, Charles Grant Craig

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  7. The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 14 - A Very Happy Ending
    6.7/10(158 votes)

    S1:E14

    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

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  8. The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 22 - Road Hog
    6.7/10(134 votes)

    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.

    Director:Mario DiLeo
    Writers:Charles Grant Craig, Steve Bello, Stephen Kronish, Harold R. Daniels

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  9. The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 9 - Prisoners
    6.6/10(149 votes)

    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".

    Director:Christopher Crowe
    Writer:John Byrum

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  10. The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 16 - Enough Rope For Two
    6.6/10(145 votes)

    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.

    Directors:David Chase, Clark Howard
    Writers:David Chase, Clark Howard

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  11. The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 3 - Wake Me When I'm Dead
    6.5/10(153 votes)

    S1:E3

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

    Director:Frank Pierson
    Writers:Buck Henry, Irving Elman, Lawrence Treat

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  12. The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 7 - The Human Interest Story
    6.5/10(150 votes)

    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.

    Directors:Fredric Brown, Larry Gross
    Writer:Karen Harris

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  13. The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 17 - The Creeper
    6.5/10(147 votes)

    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.

    Directors:Christopher Crowe, Joseph Ruscoll
    Writers:James P. Cavanagh, Joseph Ruscoll, Steve Bello, Stephen Kronish

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  14. The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 18 - Happy Birthday
    6.5/10(142 votes)

    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.

    Director:Randy Roberts
    Writer:Frisco Miller

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  15. The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 5 - The Night Caller
    6.4/10(164 votes)

    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.

    Directors:John Byrum, Gabrielle Upton
    Writers:John Byrum, Gabrielle Upton

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  16. The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 11 - The Gloating Place
    6.4/10(143 votes)

    S1:E11

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

    Directors:Robert Bloch, Christopher Leitch
    Writers:Jim Beaver, Robert Bloch, David Stenn

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  17. The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 13 - Beast In View
    6.4/10(132 votes)

    S1:E13

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

    Directors:Michael Toshiyuki Uno, Margaret Millar
    Writers:Margaret Millar, Robert Glass

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  18. The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 19 - The Jar
    6.3/10(309 votes)

    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.

    Director:Tim Burton
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 12 - The Right Kind of Medicine
    6.1/10(135 votes)

    S1:E12

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

    Directors:Jerrold Freedman, Michael Braverman, Henry Slesar
    Writers:Jerrold Freedman, Michael Braverman

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  20. The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 20 - Deadly Honeymoon
    6.1/10(125 votes)

    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.

    Directors:Don Medford, Henry Slesar
    Writers:Henry Slesar, Stephen Kronish

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  21. The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 10 - Gigolo
    5.9/10(172 votes)

    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.

    Directors:Thomas Carter, Arthur Williams
    Writers:Steve De Jarnatt, Arthur Williams

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  22. The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 15 - The Canary Sedan
    5.4/10(142 votes)

    S1:E15

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

    Directors:Joan Tewkesbury, Ann Bridge
    Writers:Joan Tewkesbury, Ann Bridge

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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 8.0/10 from 343 votes. Directed by Thomas Carter and written by Randall Hood, Tom Cannan, Charles Grant Craig, it aired on October 27, 1985. This episode is rated 0.8 points higher than the second-best, "Night Fever".