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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#5 - The Older Sister
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/22/1956
A reporter discovers the truth about the infamous Lizzie Borden murder case.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#16 - 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.
#17 - 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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#23 - 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.
#24 - The Creeper
Season 1 - Episode 38 - Aired 6/17/1956
A serial killer known as "the strangler" terrorizes a New York neighborhood.
#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.