The BEST episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985) season 1

Every episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985) season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985) season 1!

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: 9/26/2024Network: NBCStatus: Ended
Breakdown
star
7.12
42 votes

#1 - 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.

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Wake Me When I'm Dead
star
6.98
46 votes

#2 - 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.

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The Canary Sedan
star
6.97
36 votes

#3 - The Canary Sedan

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

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

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The Right Kind of Medicine
star
6.97
35 votes

#4 - 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.

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Night Fever
star
6.96
47 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.

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The Creeper
star
6.95
37 votes

#6 - 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.

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A Very Happy Ending
star
6.92
36 votes

#7 - 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.

Directors: Tom Rickman
Writer: Tom Rickman
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Final Escape
star
6.88
43 votes

#8 - Final Escape

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

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

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Beast In View
star
6.88
34 votes

#9 - 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
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The Gloating Place
star
6.86
37 votes

#10 - 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
Method Actor
star
6.85
39 votes

#11 - 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
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Revenge
star
6.83
54 votes

#12 - 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
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Enough Rope For Two
star
6.83
36 votes

#13 - 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.

Writer: David Chase
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Four O'Clock
star
6.82
34 votes

#14 - 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.

Writer: Steve Bello
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Happy Birthday
star
6.82
33 votes

#15 - 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.

Directors: Randy Roberts
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Deadly Honeymoon
star
6.81
37 votes

#16 - 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.

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Road Hog
star
6.78
37 votes

#17 - 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.

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The Night Caller
star
6.75
40 votes

#18 - 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.

Writer: John Byrum
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The Human Interest Story
star
6.72
40 votes

#19 - 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.

Writer: Karen Harris
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Prisoners
star
6.72
40 votes

#20 - 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"".

Writer: John Byrum
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Gigolo
star
6.68
37 votes

#21 - 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.

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The Jar
star
6.64
36 votes

#22 - 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.

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