The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 1

First aired: 9/29/1985 22 episodes

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Episodes

1. Revenge

Aired: 9/29/1985

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

2. Night Fever

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.

3. Wake Me When I'm Dead

Aired: 10/20/1985

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

4. Final Escape

Aired: 10/27/1985

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

5. The Night Caller

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.

6. Method Actor

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.

7. The Human Interest Story

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.

8. Breakdown

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.

9. Prisoners

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".

10. Gigolo

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.

11. The Gloating Place

Aired: 1/5/1986

A withdrawn teenager is fascinated with the instant celebrity of a murdered classmate and fakes an assault on herself.

12. The Right Kind of Medicine

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.

13. Beast In View

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.

14. A Very Happy Ending

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.

15. The Canary Sedan

Aired: 3/1/1986

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

16. Enough Rope For Two

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.

17. The Creeper

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.

18. Happy Birthday

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.

19. The Jar

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.

20. Deadly Honeymoon

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.

21. Four O'Clock

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.

22. Road Hog

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.