The BEST episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985)

Every episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985) ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985)!

Updated remakes of classic stories from the original Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962). His original opening bits are colorized for re-use here.

Last Updated: 3/15/2026Network: NBCStatus: Ended
The Impatient Patient
star
7.64
36 votes

#1 - The Impatient Patient

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/7/1987

A new nurse starts to annoy a terminally ill cancer patient who just wants to be left in peace to die.

Directors: Allan King
Breakdown
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7.09
43 votes

#2 - 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.

Tragedy Tonight!
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6.97
37 votes

#3 - Tragedy Tonight!

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/4/1987

An up and coming young actress tries out her homework from acting school without telling her older sister.

The Specialty of the House
star
6.95
37 votes

#4 - The Specialty of the House

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/21/1987

An arrogant, yet influential, food critic attempts to persuade a reluctant restaurant proprietor to reveal a treasured recipe.

Night Fever
star
6.94
48 votes

#5 - 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.

Final Escape
star
6.93
45 votes

#6 - Final Escape

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/17/1985

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

If the Shoe Fits
star
6.92
39 votes

#7 - If the Shoe Fits

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/14/1987

A jealous man kills his twin brother and tries to assume his identity.

Directors: Allan King
Wake Me When I'm Dead
star
6.91
47 votes

#8 - Wake Me When I'm Dead

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/10/1985

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

Revenge
star
6.91
57 votes

#9 - Revenge

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/27/1985

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

Directors: Don Medford
The Creeper
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6.90
39 votes

#10 - 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.

The Right Kind of Medicine
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6.89
37 votes

#11 - 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.

The Canary Sedan
star
6.89
37 votes

#12 - The Canary Sedan

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 3/1/1986

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

When This Man Dies
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6.89
37 votes

#13 - When This Man Dies

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/14/1987

A couple receive a letter telling them they will get some money when a certain man dies.

Writer: Jeremy Hole
Deathmate
star
6.89
36 votes

#14 - Deathmate

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/18/1987

An older woman attemps to convince her young lover that the only way they can continue their affair is for him to end her husband's life.

Murder Party
star
6.89
36 votes

#15 - Murder Party

Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 5/7/1988

Poison fells a man during his 40th birthday party and a detective must determine which one of his guests did it.

Directors: Allan King
The Gloating Place
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6.87
38 votes

#16 - 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.

Writer: David Stenn
Beast In View
star
6.86
36 votes

#17 - 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.

Writer: Robert Glass
Kandinsky's Vault
star
6.86
35 votes

#18 - Kandinsky's Vault

Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 6/25/1988

A man refuses to sell his old bookstore.

Directors: René Bonnière
Romance Machine
star
6.85
34 votes

#19 - Romance Machine

Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 3/25/1989

Sometime in the future, a brilliant scientist who is not very good with woman creates a cyborg to do the romancing for him.

Directors: René Bonnière
Final Twist
star
6.85
34 votes

#20 - Final Twist

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/28/1987

Three film production house employees who are mistreated by their unscrupulous boss utilize their cinematic skills in divising a murder plot.

Writer: Jim Beaver
Murder in Mind
star
6.85
34 votes

#21 - Murder in Mind

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/28/1989

A writer of mystery stories imagines there are devious things going on at her new neighbor's house.

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Method Actor
star
6.85
40 votes

#22 - 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.

Writer: Bill Kerby
The Big Spin
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6.85
33 votes

#23 - The Big Spin

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/6/1989

A self-centered New York city cab driver tries to pick up a model.

Writer: Maxwell Pitt
My Dear Watson
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6.85
33 votes

#24 - My Dear Watson

Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 4/22/1989

Just after returning from the Orient, Watson is kidnapped and it is up to Sherlock Holmes to find him.

Directors: Jorge Montesi
The Man Who Knew Too Little
star
6.85
33 votes

#25 - The Man Who Knew Too Little

Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 7/8/1989

A man wakes in a hotel room with amnesia and a headache.

Directors: Ray Austin