The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

30min

Drama

Mystery

Crime

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.

Production Companies

Universal Television

Michael Sloan Productions

Paragon Motion Pictures

Shamley Productions

Universal Television Entertainment

Episodes

Cast

Revenge

1. Revenge

29th Sep 1985

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

Night Fever

2. Night Fever

3rd Nov 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

3. Wake Me When I'm Dead

20th Oct 1985

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

Final Escape

4. Final Escape

27th Oct 1985

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

The Night Caller

5. The Night Caller

5th Nov 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

6. Method Actor

10th Nov 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

7. The Human Interest Story

17th Nov 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

8. Breakdown

1st Dec 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

9. Prisoners

8th Dec 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

10. Gigolo

15th Dec 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

11. The Gloating Place

5th Jan 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

12. The Right Kind of Medicine

12th Jan 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

13. Beast In View

19th Jan 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

14. A Very Happy Ending

16th Feb 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

15. The Canary Sedan

1st Mar 1986

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

Enough Rope For Two

16. Enough Rope For Two

9th Mar 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

17. The Creeper

16th Mar 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

18. Happy Birthday

23rd Mar 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

19. The Jar

6th Apr 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

20. Deadly Honeymoon

13th Apr 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

21. Four O'Clock

4th 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

22. Road Hog

11th 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.

First air date

29th Sep 1985

Last air date

22nd Jul 1989

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Original language

en

Networks