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The Best Episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 1 - Revenge
    7.3/10(2758 votes)

    #1 - Revenge

    S1:E1

    When Carl Spann's wife Elsa is left traumatized after being assaulted by an unknown attacker, he becomes determined to track down the perpetrator and take revenge.

    Director:Alfred Hitchcock
    Writer:Francis M. Cockrell

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  2. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 2 - Premonition
    7.4/10(2003 votes)

    #2 - Premonition

    S1:E2

    A famous pianist returning to his home town finds his father has died, and suspects his friends and family are covering up the true details of that death.

    Director:Robert Stevens
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 3 - Triggers in Leash
    6.8/10(1769 votes)

    #3 - Triggers in Leash

    S1:E3

    A cook tries everything she can think of to end a dispute between two gunmen who have sworn to kill each other.

    Director:Don Medford
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 4 - Don't Come Back Alive
    7.2/10(1682 votes)

    #4 - Don't Come Back Alive

    S1:E4

    Frank Partridge and his wife plot to cheat their life insurance company by having her hide out for 7 years and declared legally dead, but an investigator believes Mr. Partridge has murdered her.

    Director:Robert Stevenson
    Writer:Robert C. Dennis

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  5. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 5 - Into Thin Air
    6.8/10(1676 votes)

    #5 - Into Thin Air

    S1:E5

    When a young woman leaves her ill mother in a Paris hotel room and comes back later, she finds her mother is missing, and all the hotel's employees deny she and her mother were ever there.

    Director:Don Medford
    Writer:Marian B. Cockrell

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  6. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 6 - Salvage
    7.1/10(1494 votes)

    #6 - Salvage

    S1:E6

    Gangster Dan Varrell, just released from prison, goes looking for the woman he holds responsible for his brother's death.

    Director:Jus Addiss
    Writer:Fred Freiberger

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  7. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 7 - Breakdown
    8.0/10(2267 votes)

    #7 - Breakdown

    S1:E7

    William Callew is involved in a bad traffic accident on a rural road, that leaves him so paralyzed he appears lifeless, and when help arrives they think he's really dead.

    Director:Alfred Hitchcock
    Writer:Francis M. Cockrell

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  8. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 8 - Our Cook's a Treasure
    7.4/10(1446 votes)

    #8 - Our Cook's a Treasure

    S1:E8

    A man fears that the new cook he's hired is actually a murderess.

    Director:Robert Stevens
    Writer:Robert C. Dennis

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  9. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 9 - The Long Shot
    7.7/10(1416 votes)

    #9 - The Long Shot

    S1:E9

    Heavily indebted Charlie Raymond is hired to accompany a British visitor on a trip across the USA, and looks for a way to take advantage of his employer.

    Director:Robert Stevenson
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 10 - The Case of Mr. Pelham
    7.4/10(1646 votes)

    #10 - The Case of Mr. Pelham

    S1:E10

    A series of troubling incidents lead Mr. Pelham to believe that he has a double who is deliberately impersonating him.

    Director:Alfred Hitchcock
    Writer:Francis M. Cockrell

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  11. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 11 - Guilty Witness
    7.4/10(1327 votes)

    #11 - Guilty Witness

    S1:E11

    When Mr. and Mrs. Crane hear the Verbers having a violent argument in the apartment just above them, and then Mr. Verber disappears the next day, they can't help suspecting the worst.

    Director:Robert Stevens
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 12 - Santa Claus and the 10th Avenue Kid
    6.7/10(1242 votes)

    #12 - Santa Claus and the 10th Avenue Kid

    S1:E12

    While working as a department store 'Santa Claus', a paroled convict tries to help a troubled boy.

    Director:Don Weis
    Writer:Marian B. Cockrell

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  13. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 13 - The Cheney Vase
    7.0/10(1521 votes)

    #13 - The Cheney Vase

    S1:E13

    When Lyle Endicott is fired from his job at an art museum, he comes up with a plan to take advantage of a trusting invalid whom he befriended at the museum.

    Director:Robert Stevens
    Writer:Robert Blees

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  14. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 14 - A Bullet for Baldwin
    7.1/10(1220 votes)

    #14 - A Bullet for Baldwin

    S1:E14

    When an office worker is fired from his job, he shoots his boss to death, but when he returns to the office his boss is alive, and has no recollection of the incident.

    Director:Jus Addiss
    Writer:Francis M. Cockrell

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  15. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 15 - The Big Switch
    7.1/10(1208 votes)

    #15 - The Big Switch

    S1:E15

    Gangster Sam Dunleavy sets up an elaborate alibi so that he can kill his ex-girlfriend Goldie, who left him for another man.

    Director:Don Weis
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 16 - You Got to Have Luck
    7.7/10(1366 votes)

    #16 - You Got to Have Luck

    S1:E16

    During a massive manhunt for escaped convict Sam Cobbett, Cobbett invades a house where young housewife Mary Schaffner is home alone.

    Director:Robert Stevens
    Writer:Francis M. Cockrell

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  17. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 17 - The Older Sister
    6.5/10(1144 votes)

    #17 - The Older Sister

    S1:E17

    A reporter discovers the truth about the infamous Lizzie Borden murder case.

    Director:Robert Stevens
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 18 - Shopping for Death
    6.3/10(1173 votes)

    #18 - Shopping for Death

    S1:E18

    Two retired insurance salesmen confront an aggressive, hostile woman in hopes of saving her from a disaster.

    Director:Robert Stevens
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  19. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 19 - The Derelicts
    6.8/10(1022 votes)

    #19 - The Derelicts

    S1:E19

    Inventor Ralph Cowell murders his silent partner Alfred, only to be blackmailed by vagrant Peter Goodfellow, who witnessed the crime.

    Director:Robert Stevenson
    Writer:Robert C. Dennis

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  20. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 20 - And So Died Riabouchinska
    6.9/10(1214 votes)

    #20 - And So Died Riabouchinska

    S1:E20

    While investigating a murder in a theater, Detective Krovitch uncovers a strange web of tensions revolving around ventriloquist John Fabian and his female dummy.

    Director:Robert Stevenson
    Writer:Ray Bradbury

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  21. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 21 - Safe Conduct
    6.7/10(1097 votes)

    #21 - Safe Conduct

    S1:E21

    An American journalist meets a soccer star while traveling behind the Iron Curtain, but then is arrested as a suspected smuggler.

    Director:Jus Addiss
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 22 - Place of Shadows
    6.3/10(979 votes)

    #22 - Place of Shadows

    S1:E22

    A young man tries to insinuate his way into a monastery, in order to gain revenge on a thief whom he blames for ruining his life.

    Director:Robert Stevens
    Writer:Robert C. Dennis

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  23. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 23 - Back for Christmas
    7.6/10(1336 votes)

    #23 - Back for Christmas

    S1:E23

    Herbert Carpenter plans to murder his wife Hermione, bury her body in the basement, and then leave on a long business trip.

    Director:Alfred Hitchcock
    Writers:John Collier, Francis M. Cockrell

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  24. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 24 - The Perfect Murder
    7.2/10(1019 votes)

    #24 - The Perfect Murder

    S1:E24

    Unscrupulous brothers Paul and Henri Tallendier plan to murder their Aunt Rosalie so that they can get their uncle's inheritance.

    Director:Robert Stevens
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Episode 25 - There Was an Old Woman
    7.2/10(1035 votes)

    #25 - There Was an Old Woman

    S1:E25

    Dishonest Frank and Lorna Bramwell visit the home of wealthy, eccentric Monica Laughton, with the intention of robbing her.

    Director:Robert Stevenson
    Writers:Marian B. Cockrell, Francis M. Cockrell

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Revenge" is the best rated episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" season 1. It scored 7.3/10 based on 2758 votes. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by Francis M. Cockrell, it aired on 10/2/1955. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Premonition".