The BEST episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents season 1

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

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955-1962) was a mystery and suspense anthology hosted by the master of suspense himself - Alfred Hitchcock. Each episode stands alone, delving into horror, comedy, suspense, and the supernatural.

Last Updated: 10/2/2024Network: NBCStatus: Ended
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You Got to Have Luck
star
8.14
160 votes

#1 - You Got to Have Luck

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/15/1956

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

Directors: Robert Stevens
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The Long Shot
star
8.03
180 votes

#2 - The Long Shot

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/27/1955

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.

Directors: Robert Stevenson
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Our Cook's a Treasure
star
7.76
188 votes

#3 - Our Cook's a Treasure

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/20/1955

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

Directors: Robert Stevens
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Breakdown
star
7.74
212 votes

#4 - Breakdown

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/1955

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.

Directors: Alfred Hitchcock
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The Case of Mr. Pelham
star
7.66
160 votes

#5 - The Case of Mr. Pelham

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/4/1955

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

Directors: Alfred Hitchcock
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The Older Sister
star
7.64
156 votes

#6 - The Older Sister

Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/22/1956

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

Directors: Robert Stevens
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Into Thin Air
star
7.60
182 votes

#7 - Into Thin Air

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/30/1955

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.

Directors: Don Medford
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There Was an Old Woman
star
7.59
148 votes

#8 - There Was an Old Woman

Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/18/1956

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

Directors: Robert Stevenson
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Back for Christmas
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7.59
150 votes

#9 - Back for Christmas

Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/4/1956

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

Directors: Alfred Hitchcock
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Don't Come Back Alive
star
7.59
240 votes

#10 - Don't Come Back Alive

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/23/1955

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.

Directors: Robert Stevenson
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The Cheney Vase
star
7.56
201 votes

#11 - The Cheney Vase

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/25/1955

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.

Directors: Robert Stevens
Writer: Robert Blees
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The Perfect Murder
star
7.55
155 votes

#12 - The Perfect Murder

Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/11/1956

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

Directors: Robert Stevens
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Premonition
star
7.53
272 votes

#13 - Premonition

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/9/1955

A famous pianist returns to his home town to find the man who murdered his father.

Directors: Robert Stevens
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And So Died Riabouchinska
star
7.50
114 votes

#14 - And So Died Riabouchinska

Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/12/1956

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

Directors: Robert Stevenson
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A Bullet for Baldwin
star
7.44
190 votes

#15 - A Bullet for Baldwin

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/1/1956

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.

Directors: Justus Addiss
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Guilty Witness
star
7.38
213 votes

#16 - Guilty Witness

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/11/1955

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.

Directors: Robert Stevens
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The Big Switch
star
7.38
157 votes

#17 - The Big Switch

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/8/1956

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

Directors: Don Weis
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Triggers in Leash
star
7.37
214 votes

#18 - Triggers in Leash

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/16/1955

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

Directors: Don Medford
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Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid
star
7.34
178 votes

#19 - Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/18/1955

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

Directors: Don Weis
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Momentum
star
7.30
105 votes

#20 - Momentum

Season 1 - Episode 39 - Aired 6/24/1956

A man ends up running to the Mexican border after trying to collect money his employer owes him.

Directors: Robert Stevens
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The Derelicts
star
7.30
174 votes

#21 - The Derelicts

Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/5/1956

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

Directors: Robert Stevenson
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The Orderly World of Mr. Appleby
star
7.29
111 votes

#22 - The Orderly World of Mr. Appleby

Season 1 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/15/1956

Antiques dealer Laurence Appleby thinks he has solved his financial problems by killing his wife Lena, but new complications arise in his second marriage.

Directors: James Neilson
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The Creeper
star
7.27
109 votes

#23 - The Creeper

Season 1 - Episode 38 - Aired 6/17/1956

A serial killer known as "the strangler" terrorizes a New York neighborhood.

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Portrait of Jocelyn
star
7.26
113 votes

#24 - Portrait of Jocelyn

Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/8/1956

When Mark Halliday and his new wife unexpectedly see a portrait of Halliday's first wife, it is only the first in a series of disturbing developments.

Directors: Robert Stevens
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Never Again
star
7.23
111 votes

#25 - Never Again

Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/22/1956

Karen Stewart has once again broken her promise not to drink anymore, and now she is in a strange bed, injured, with no memory of what happened the night before.

Directors: Robert Stevens
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