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The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Season 1

198522 episodes7.5/10 (8 votes)

About this season

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985 to 1986, and on the USA Network from 1987 to 1989. The series is an updated re-imagining of the classic 1955 series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

Episodes (22)

Revenge
E1

1. Revenge

10.0

Aired 29 September 1985

A professor spurns the legal system to seek revenge on the man who raped his wife.

Night Fever
E2

2. Night Fever

8.0

Aired 3 November 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.

Wake Me When I'm Dead
E3

3. Wake Me When I'm Dead

8.0

Aired 20 October 1985

Trial of a woman who killed her husband while hypnotically transported to a past life.

Final Escape
E4

4. Final Escape

7.0

Aired 27 October 1985

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

The Night Caller
E5

5. The Night Caller

Aired 5 November 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.

Method Actor
E6

6. Method Actor

7.0

Aired 10 November 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.

The Human Interest Story
E7

7. The Human Interest Story

5.0

Aired 17 November 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.

Breakdown
E8

8. Breakdown

8.0

Aired 1 December 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.

Prisoners
E9

9. Prisoners

Aired 8 December 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".

Gigolo
E10

10. Gigolo

Aired 15 December 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.

The Gloating Place
E11

11. The Gloating Place

Aired 5 January 1986

A withdrawn teenager is fascinated with the instant celebrity of a murdered classmate and fakes an assault on herself.

The Right Kind of Medicine
E12

12. The Right Kind of Medicine

Aired 12 January 1986

A bank robber is wounded in a shoot-out, then forced to endure an excruciating wait for a painkiller at the pharmacy.

Beast In View
E13

13. Beast In View

Aired 19 January 1986

A psychiatrist is terrorized by menacing phone calls and the killing of her dog following her marriage to one of her patients.

A Very Happy Ending
E14

14. A Very Happy Ending

Aired 16 February 1986

A poor little rich boy who's deaf witnesses a murder, then blackmails the hit man into doing a job for him.

The Canary Sedan
E15

15. The Canary Sedan

Aired 1 March 1986

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

Enough Rope For Two
E16

16. Enough Rope For Two

Aired 9 March 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.

The Creeper
E17

17. The Creeper

Aired 16 March 1986

A fashion designer is terrified that she may be the next target of the creeper who may have the keys to her appartment.

Happy Birthday
E18

18. Happy Birthday

Aired 23 March 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.

The Jar
E19

19. The Jar

Aired 6 April 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.

Deadly Honeymoon
E20

20. Deadly Honeymoon

Aired 13 April 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.

Four O'Clock
E21

21. Four O'Clock

Aired 4 May 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.

Road Hog
E22

22. Road Hog

Aired 11 May 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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