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The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

★ 7.2/10•1985•30m•TV-PG•Drama•Mystery•Crime
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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.

StatusEnded
Runtime30m
LanguageEN
First Air DateSep 29, 1985

Episodes

Episode 1 - RevengeE1

Revenge

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

Sep 29, 1985

Episode 2 - Night FeverE2

Night Fever

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.

Nov 3, 1985

Episode 3 - Wake Me When I'm DeadE3

Wake Me When I'm Dead

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

Oct 20, 1985

Episode 4 - Final EscapeE4

Final Escape

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

Oct 27, 1985

Episode 5 - The Night CallerE5

The Night Caller

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.

Nov 5, 1985

Episode 6 - Method ActorE6

Method Actor

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.

Nov 10, 1985

Episode 7 - The Human Interest StoryE7

The Human Interest Story

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.

Nov 17, 1985

Episode 8 - BreakdownE8

Breakdown

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.

Dec 1, 1985

Episode 9 - PrisonersE9

Prisoners

Ironically, it's an escaped convict who brings a sense of liberation to a housewife: she insists on going with him as his "hostage".

Dec 8, 1985

Episode 10 - GigoloE10

Gigolo

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.

Dec 15, 1985

Episode 11 - The Gloating PlaceE11

The Gloating Place

A withdrawn teenager is fascinated with the instant celebrity of a murdered classmate and fakes an assault on herself.

Jan 5, 1986

Episode 12 - The Right Kind of MedicineE12

The Right Kind of Medicine

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

Jan 12, 1986

Episode 13 - Beast In ViewE13

Beast In View

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

Jan 19, 1986

Episode 14 - A Very Happy EndingE14

A Very Happy Ending

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

Feb 16, 1986

Episode 15 - The Canary SedanE15

The Canary Sedan

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

Mar 1, 1986

Episode 16 - Enough Rope For TwoE16

Enough Rope For Two

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.

Mar 9, 1986

Episode 17 - The CreeperE17

The Creeper

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

Mar 16, 1986

Episode 18 - Happy BirthdayE18

Happy Birthday

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.

Mar 23, 1986

Episode 19 - The JarE19

The Jar

An artist's years of failure are behind after he finds a jar which holds mysterious contents and entrances to those who view it.

Apr 6, 1986

Episode 20 - Deadly HoneymoonE20

Deadly Honeymoon

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.

Apr 13, 1986

Episode 21 - Four O'ClockE21

Four O'Clock

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.

May 4, 1986

Episode 22 - Road HogE22

Road Hog

What can't go around comes around for a road-hogging salesman who won't allow a truck bound for the hospital to pass.

May 11, 1986

Actors

Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock

Self - Host (archive footage)

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The Crow Girl
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Police Story
The Twilight Zone
Steal
The Chelsea Detective
Magpie Murders
Jack Irish
Dalziel and Pascoe
Carl Weber's The Family Business
Hill Street Blues

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