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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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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 to 1989. The series is an updated re-imagining of the

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 1 - Revenge
    6.7/10(167 votes)

    #1 - Revenge

    S1:E1

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

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  2. The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 2 - Night Fever
    7.2/10(198 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. The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 3 - Wake Me When I'm Dead
    6.6/10(140 votes)

    #3 - 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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  4. The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 4 - Final Escape
    8.1/10(327 votes)

    #4 - Final Escape

    S1:E4

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

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  5. The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 5 - The Night Caller
    6.5/10(154 votes)

    #5 - 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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  6. The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 6 - Method Actor
    6.9/10(164 votes)

    #6 - 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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  8. The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 7 - The Human Interest Story
    6.5/10(140 votes)

    #7 - 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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  9. The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 8 - Breakdown
    7.1/10(179 votes)

    #8 - 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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  10. The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 9 - Prisoners
    6.7/10(139 votes)

    #9 - 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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  11. The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 10 - Gigolo
    6.0/10(164 votes)

    #10 - 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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  12. The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 11 - The Gloating Place
    6.5/10(133 votes)

    #11 - 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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  13. The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 12 - The Right Kind of Medicine
    5.8/10(125 votes)

    #12 - 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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  14. The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 13 - Beast In View
    5.9/10(124 votes)

    #13 - 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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  15. The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 14 - A Very Happy Ending
    6.7/10(150 votes)

    #14 - 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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  16. The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 15 - The Canary Sedan
    5.6/10(135 votes)

    #15 - The Canary Sedan

    S1:E15

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

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  17. The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 16 - Enough Rope For Two
    6.8/10(136 votes)

    #16 - 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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  18. The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 17 - The Creeper
    6.5/10(138 votes)

    #17 - 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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  19. The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 18 - Happy Birthday
    6.6/10(134 votes)

    #18 - 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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  20. The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 19 - The Jar
    6.3/10(297 votes)

    #19 - 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.

    Director:Tim Burton
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 20 - Deadly Honeymoon
    6.0/10(117 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. The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 21 - Four O'Clock
    6.8/10(136 votes)

    #21 - 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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  23. The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 22 - Road Hog
    6.3/10(122 votes)

    #22 - 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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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 167 votes. Directed by Don Medford, R.E. Young and written by Tom Cannan, David Stenn, Charles Grant Craig, Randall Hood, it aired on 9/29/1985. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "Night Fever".