Hitchcock Presents Season 1 Ranked
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- 1955–196230mTV-147.7 (1.2K)TV EpisodeDirectorRobert StevensStarsAlfred HitchcockJohn CassavetesMarisa PavanDuring a massive manhunt for escaped convict Sam Cobbett, Cobbett invades a house where young housewife Mary Schaffner is home alone.Okay episode and then the twist happens and it changes everything!! Girl is deaf the whole time?! Rewatched a few scenes after learning this and sure enough, she’s always looking at him when he speaks. There’s a great scene where he says something and she doesn’t answer, then he says it again looking at her and she answers (reads lips). Something that goes unnoticed but totally clicks when you know the twist. Also. Poor dog!!
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsAlfred HitchcockJoseph CottenRaymond BaileyWilliam 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.Nightmare of an episode. Joseph Cotton is great. Everything comes full circle nicely and this hard businessman definitely learns a lesson.
- DirectorRobert StevensStarsAlfred HitchcockJohn ForsytheCloris LeachmanA man returning to his home town finds his father has died, and suspects his friends are covering up the true details of that death.Great twist! Really enjoyed the mystery of the episode and thought it was vey straight forward. Until it was revealed the lead was the murderer and was actually coming from a mental hospital. Loved Hitchcock closing monologue “We’ll see you in…” *checks watch, realizes it’s not there. “We’ll see you next week.”
- DirectorJustus AddissStarsAlfred HitchcockClaire TrevorJacques BergeracAn American journalist meets a soccer star while traveling behind the Iron Curtain, but then is arrested as a suspected smuggler.Woman is betrayed by who she thought was a new friend, only to find out that he was a friend and he pretended to betray her so they could smuggle vital info out of Germany. When it’s all explained it makes sense. It also still feels a bit too convoluted though. But I liked it enough!
- DirectorRobert StevensonStarsAlfred HitchcockPeter LawfordJohn WilliamsHeavily 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.Con-man obliviously cons a con-man thinking he’s the real man. Fun twist there! Narration is a bit cheesy though. Warm welcome to John Williams though!
- 1955–196230mTV-147.4 (1.3K)TV EpisodeDirectorRobert StevensStarsAlfred HitchcockEverett SloaneBeulah BondiA serial-murderess maid is on the loose in the city. Ralph becomes suspicious of his wife Ethel's housemaid Mrs. Sutton.Solid story with predictable, but welcome twist of the wife actually being the one poisoning his cocoa. There is a scene I couldn’t help but laugh at. The husband is sitting and facing the kitchen speaking to his wife in the chair. He’s talking to her about the maid and how he gets bad vibes. Then they go up to bed and the maid was standing in the kitchen the entire time haha! Loved seeing Beulah Bondi
- 1955–196230mTV-147.2 (1.5K)TV EpisodeDirectorRobert StevensonStarsAlfred HitchcockSidney BlackmerVirginia GreggFrank 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.What’s up with this insurance agent being so annoying?! Just appears out of nowhere throughout the 7 years lol. Solid ending, very unfortunate for Frank and Mildred. Of course he ends up killing her and burying her where they searched 7 years earlier.
- DirectorDon MedfordStarsAlfred HitchcockGene BarryDarren McGavinA cook tries everything she can think of to end a dispute between two gunmen who have sworn to kill each other.The best thing about this episode is when Hitchcock says the two men ended up dying that day from Maggie’s poor cooking. I’m laughing more than expected at his monologues. Episode itself was clever too.
- DirectorDon WeisStarsAlfred HitchcockGeorge MathewsBeverly MichaelsGangster Sam Dunleavy sets up an elaborate alibi so that he can kill his ex-girlfriend Goldie, who left him for another man.Ok episode with a great ending. Main guy always using an alibi to cover for his crimes. Ends with his literal alibi accidentally shooting himself while cleaning a gun and main guy is only person who could’ve done it, therefore he’s blamed.
- 1955–196230mTV-147.5 (1.4K)TV EpisodeDirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsAlfred HitchcockTom EwellRaymond BaileyA series of troubling incidents lead Mr. Pelham to believe that he has a double who is deliberately impersonating him.Cool concept but it doesn’t stick the landing because it never offers us an explanation to Pelham seeing doubles. At least Mirror Image in the TZ acknowledges that this is something to be expected in the TZ. This one just reveals there are 2, but doesn’t expound upon anything. Could’ve been a lot better. Acting is cheesy but overall serviceable.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsAlfred HitchcockRalph MeekerVera MilesWhen Carl Spann's wife Elsa is assaulted by an unknown attacker, he drives his still-incoherent wife around town, hoping she can point him out, so he can kill him.It was fine. Goes to show you can’t stake all your confidence into one answer. In this case it meant an innocent person being killed. The ending was a bit abrupt.
- 1955–196230mTV-146.7 (1.1K)TV EpisodeDirectorDon WeisStarsAlfred HitchcockBarry FitzgeraldVirginia GreggWhile working as a department store 'Santa Claus', a paroled convict tries to help a troubled boy.I don’t really understand the morale of the story? Santa steals a toy for a kid, but does that make stealing alright? He does pay for it in the end, but also did this bratty kid actually deserve the toy to begin with? Plus Santa is dislikable, there’s no positive character development.
- DirectorRobert StevensStarsAlfred HitchcockJoan LorringCarmen MathewsOne year after Lizzie Borden's parents were brutally murdered, reporter Nell Cutts tries to interview Lizzie and her younger sister Emma about the killingsI watched earlier on the day and I already can’t remember the ending. Twist is that little sister actually committed the crime. Nothing really special here.
- DirectorDon MedfordStarsAlfred HitchcockPatricia HitchcockGeoffrey TooneWhen 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.The Lady Vanishes as a TV episode. Pretty ridiculous story - the whole mystery was because they didn’t want Pat to find out her mother had buponic plague. Kinda silly, but some fun. It’s basically Gaslight the episode. Alfred’s shout out to his daughter at the end was very sweet.
- DirectorRobert StevensStarsAlfred HitchcockPatricia CollingeDarren McGavinWhen 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.Clever ending even if it makes no sense. Dad from a Christmas Story is after a valuable vase. Lady finds out his shame and replicates the vase so he doesn’t know which is the real thing. Did she always just have that large supply available?!
- DirectorJustus AddissStarsAlfred HitchcockGene BarryNancy GatesGangster Dan Varrell, just released from prison, goes looking for the woman he holds responsible for his brother's death.Boring with a pretty predictable ending. Guy wants revenge on woman but wants her to die like his brother did (at her doing) so he makes sure she’s happy and loving life, then shoots her.
- 1955–196230mTV-147.1 (1.1K)TV EpisodeDirectorJustus AddissStarsAlfred HitchcockJohn QualenSebastian CabotWhen 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.This Stepp guy is ruthless! Just kills someone whenever he’s fired?? The story is very coincidental and errs more on the unrealistically dumb side.
- DirectorRobert StevensStarsAlfred HitchcockJudith EvelynKathleen MaguireWhen 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.Pretty solid mystery with obvious hints that the wife was behind it all the time. So many suspicious glances from her. Also the husband is so casual about the neighbor wife being violently beaten! Geez!
- DirectorRobert StevensonStarsAlfred HitchcockRobert NewtonPhillip ReedInventor Ralph Cowell murders his silent partner, Alfred Sloane, only to be blackmailed by vagrant Peter Goodfellow who witnessed the crime.Blackmails dude by just moving in with him and his wife? Also not one likable character here, except for the old man who get strangled at the beginning.
- DirectorRobert StevensStarsAlfred HitchcockJo Van FleetRobert H. HarrisTwo retired insurance salesmen confront an aggressive, hostile woman in hopes of saving her from a disaster.Just an angry woman screaming the entire time and the feeling of getting hot from all the humidity and heat talk in this episode. Gave me PTSD to working in a suit in AZ during the summer.
- 1955–196230mTV-146.9 (1.1K)TV EpisodeDirectorRobert StevensonStarsAlfred HitchcockClaude RainsCharles BronsonDetective Krovitch investigates a murder at a run-down vaudeville theater and gets a hot lead from the ventriloquist's dummy.
- DirectorRobert StevensStarsAlfred HitchcockEverett SloaneSean McCloryA young man tries to insinuate his way into a monastery in order to gain revenge on a thief he blames for ruining his life.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsAlfred HitchcockJohn WilliamsIsobel ElsomBefore leaving on a trip to America, a man kills his wife and buries her in the basement. Once in the United States, he receives correspondence. Has he gotten away with his crime?
- DirectorRobert StevensStarsAlfred HitchcockHurd HatfieldMildred NatwickWorried that their Aunt Rosalie doesn't really like them, brothers Paul and Henri set out to get their hands on her fortune any way they can.
- 1955–196230mTV-147.2 (911)TV EpisodeDirectorRobert StevensonStarsAlfred HitchcockEstelle WinwoodCharles BronsonDishonest Frank and Lorna Bramwell visit the home of wealthy, eccentric Monica Laughton, with the intention of robbing her.