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The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Overview
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.
Status
Ended
Created By
Alfred Hitchcock
Network
NBC, USA Network
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Episodes
Revenge
A professor spurns the legal system to seek revenge on the man who raped his wife.
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.
Wake Me When I'm Dead
Trial of a woman who killed her husband while hypnotically transported to a past life.
Final Escape
A woman serving a life sentence for murder hits upon an airtight escape plan.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
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.
The Gloating Place
A withdrawn teenager is fascinated with the instant celebrity of a murdered classmate and fakes an assault on herself.
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.
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.
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.
The Canary Sedan
A woman goes to Hong Kong to be with her husband.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Top Cast
Alfred Hitchcock
Self - Host (archive footage)
