Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985)

Season 1

TV-PG

Updated remakes of classic stories from Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962), originally produced by the Master of Suspense. His original opening bits are colorized for re-use here.

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22 Episodes

Revenge
E1
RevengeA professor spurns the legal system to seek revenge on the man who raped his wife.
Night Fever
E2
Night FeverA 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
Wake Me When I'm DeadTo prove his case, a skeptical prosecutor agrees that a female murder suspect, who claims that, when she killed her husband, she was in fact possessed by one of the people she was in her previous lives, be hypnotized again.
Final Escape
E4
Final EscapeA woman serving a life sentence for murder hits upon an airtight escape plan.
The Night Caller
E5
The Night CallerA young divorcée, who's just moves in into a new building, must deal with a creepy ogler from the apartment across hers who may or may not be the stalker who's driving her insane with his obscene phone calls.
Method Actor
E6
Method ActorPaul 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
The Human Interest StoryA man claiming to be from another solar system warns of an imminent alien invasion via television. A female journalist tracks him down and agrees to go with him on a car ride to see the proof that he's telling the truth.
Breakdown
E8
BreakdownAfter 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
PrisonersIronically, 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
GigoloA 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
The Gloating PlaceA withdrawn teenager is fascinated with the instant celebrity of a murdered classmate and fakes an assault on herself.
The Right Kind of Medicine
E12
The Right Kind of MedicineA 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
Beast In ViewA 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
A Very Happy EndingA 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
The Canary SedanA wife travels to Hong Kong to join her businessman husband only to become haunted by the friendly spirit of his late Chinese lover. Since he still hasn't gotten over her, her spirit must help the wife win him back to join the afterlife.
Enough Rope For Two
E16
Enough Rope For TwoA 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
The CreeperA 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
Happy BirthdayA man's quiet 50th birthday is interrupted when he is arrested for a murder from 22 years before. Dumbfounded, he tries to convince the detectives who are transporting him to the station of his innocence.
The Jar
E19
The JarAn 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
Deadly HoneymoonFollowing 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
Four O'ClockA corrupt judge thinks his wife is having an affair, though she denies it. He then decides to do away with her by using something he learned in court, which is basically setting a bomb in their house to go off at a certain time he thinks his wife will be there. But two burglars knock him out and tie and gag him. So when he sees that the time he set the thing to go off is approaching he freaks out.
Road Hog
E22
Road HogAn obnoxious, self-centered, oblivious road hog, Ed Fratus, prevents a man from getting his injured son to a hospital in time to save his life. A couple of months later, Fratus returns to the same area. He's in for a surprise.