The BEST episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents season 5
Every episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents season 5!
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 - Road Hog
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/6/1959
When a traffic delay prevents a dying boy from reaching the hospital in time, his bereaved father and brothers swear revenge on the salesman who hogged the road when a life was on the line.
#2 - Man from the South
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/3/1960
A down-on-his-luck gambler bets his hand (literally) for a convertible, but the game is stopped by a person with an even larger interest in the outcome.
#3 - The Little Man Who Was There
Season 5 - Episode 25 - Aired 4/3/1960
The patrons in a copper town saloon initially scoff at the mysterious, small man who barges in, but soon find themselves handing over their valuables when he takes on two strapping brothers.
#4 - Specialty of the House
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/13/1959
A successful businessman finally gets his greatest wish to see inside the kitchen of his favorite dining club, but has he just ordered his final meal as well?
#5 - Forty Detectives Later
Season 5 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/24/1960
The forty-first private eye hired by a man to find his wife's killer follows the clues to a suspect, and then realizes that the case is more complex than he had realized.
#6 - The Day of the Bullet
Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/14/1960
When Clete Vine, a successful businessman, reads about a gangster's violent death, he recalls how he and a childhood friend were profoundly affected by an event that began with their innocent admiration of an elegant car.
#7 - Arthur
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/27/1959
When his former fiancee turns up missing, chicken farmer Arthur obligingly lets the police search his ranch, despite the fact that they seem to suspect him of her murder.
#8 - Hooked
Season 5 - Episode 38 - Aired 9/25/1960
Believing that financial reasons prevent him from leaving his wife, an unhappily married man and the woman he really loves hatch a scheme that they believe will solve all their problems.
#9 - Mother, May I Go Out to Swim?
Season 5 - Episode 26 - Aired 4/10/1960
What begins as a mother-son vacation soon becomes a trip to agony when he falls in love with a girl who is determined to share his affections ... and will do anything to get rid of her nemesis.
#10 - Not the Running Type
Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/7/1960
After twelve years in prison for stealing $200,000 from his investment firm employers, Milton Potter calmly returns all the money he embezzled and pursues some very unique post-prison retirement plans.
#11 - Anniversary Gift
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/1/1959
Sick of his wife's menagerie of strange and high-maintenance animals, a frazzled husband decides to get her the perfect present - a highly poisonous coral snake.
#12 - The Crystal Trench
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/4/1959
Dangerous secrets are revealed when a devoted widow travels to the glacier in Switzerland where her husband's body has been preserved since his deadly fall forty years earlier.
#13 - Dry Run
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/8/1959
An aspiring hitman takes on a risky assignment to kill a rival gangster but then finds himself easily conned by his target in a treacherous game of cat and mouse.
#14 - Escape to Sonoita
Season 5 - Episode 37 - Aired 6/26/1960
A pair of truck drivers stranded in the Arizona desert find themselves at the mercy of two kidnappers who are heading to the border ... and determined to take the last of the drinking water with them.
#15 - No Pain
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/1959
Nothing is as it seems when a polio victim in an iron lung suspects his wife of becoming attracted to a new neighbor and wonders if she's planning to get rid of him for good.
#16 - Craig's Will
Season 5 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/6/1960
It's one lucky dog who is named the beneficiary of his deceased master's estate, but he then becomes the target of murderous plots concocted by the humans in his life.
#17 - The Ikon of Elijah
Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/10/1960
An antiques dealer takes refuge in a tucked away monastery with the goal of seizing a priceless manuscript, but his greed will extend his stay at the holy place for much longer than he ever imagined.
#18 - The Blessington Method
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/15/1959
Troubled by the responsibility of his aging mother in law, a man takes advantage of a society that specializes in "taking care of" elderly relatives and then soon finds out that he may be in for a similar fate.
#19 - Coyote Moon
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/1959
A wily professor gets his revenge when he spots the hitchhikers who robbed him of all his valuables and decides to take them on the ride of their lives.
#20 - The Schartz-Metterklume Method
Season 5 - Episode 35 - Aired 6/12/1960
An unconventional governess disrupts a conservative household with her radical ideas about interior design, wines, art and - especially - children and their education.
#21 - Dead Weight
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/22/1959
Lovers' Lane becomes a dark and deadly destination when an ad executive and his former girlfriend are attacked by a young thug, and his efforts to protect them quickly go from heroic to something much more criminal.
#22 - Madame Mystery
Season 5 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/27/1960
A ruthlessly ambitious Hollywood publicist capitalizes on the drowning death of an actress, but his hopes for success sink like a stone when he learns that she's still alive.
#23 - Hitch Hike
Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/21/1960
A righteous and hypocritical civic leader on a road trip accepts mechanical help from a young man who then asks for a lift, soon afterwards he reveals he's recently been released from reform school.
#24 - Letter of Credit
Season 5 - Episode 36 - Aired 6/19/1960
When he goes to a bank to transfer money, a man writing a book on the subject of unsolved crimes has no idea that he will find information about the $500,000 robbery he is chronicling ... or does he?
#25 - One Grave Too Many
Season 5 - Episode 32 - Aired 5/22/1960
Chronic unemployment makes a poor husband desperate enough to steal from a man he believes is dead, but he soon regrets the decision when he sees that the lifted wallet contains more than just cash.