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.
#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.
#3 - The Canary Sedan
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 3/1/1986
A woman goes to Hong Kong to be with her husband.
#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.
#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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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.
#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.
#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.
#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A withdrawn teenager is fascinated with the instant celebrity of a murdered classmate and fakes an assault on herself.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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"".
#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.
#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.