The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985)
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.
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Episode 1 - Revenge
Release Date: 1985-09-29A professor spurns the legal system to seek revenge on the man who raped his wife.
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Episode 2 - Night Fever
Release Date: 1985-11-03A gun man injured from a robbery in which he killed a cop, tries to charm a nurse into helping him escape from hospital custody.
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Episode 3 - Wake Me When I'm Dead
Release Date: 1985-10-20Trial of a woman who killed her husband while hypnotically transported to a past life.
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Episode 4 - Final Escape
Release Date: 1985-10-27A woman serving a life sentence for murder hits upon an airtight escape plan.
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Episode 5 - The Night Caller
Release Date: 1985-11-05A 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.
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Episode 6 - Method Actor
Release Date: 1985-11-10Paul 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.
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Episode 7 - The Human Interest Story
Release Date: 1985-11-17A 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.
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Episode 8 - Breakdown
Release Date: 1985-12-01After 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.
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Episode 9 - Prisoners
Release Date: 1985-12-08Ironically, it's an escaped convict who brings a sense of liberation to a housewife: she insists on going with him as his "hostage".
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Episode 10 - Gigolo
Release Date: 1985-12-15A 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.
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Episode 11 - The Gloating Place
Release Date: 1986-01-05A withdrawn teenager is fascinated with the instant celebrity of a murdered classmate and fakes an assault on herself.
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Episode 12 - The Right Kind of Medicine
Release Date: 1986-01-12A bank robber is wounded in a shoot-out, then forced to endure an excruciating wait for a painkiller at the pharmacy.
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Episode 13 - Beast In View
Release Date: 1986-01-19A psychiatrist is terrorized by menacing phone calls and the killing of her dog following her marriage to one of her patients.
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Episode 14 - A Very Happy Ending
Release Date: 1986-02-16A poor little rich boy who's deaf witnesses a murder, then blackmails the hit man into doing a job for him.
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Episode 15 - The Canary Sedan
Release Date: 1986-03-01A woman goes to Hong Kong to be with her husband.
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Episode 16 - Enough Rope For Two
Release Date: 1986-03-09A 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.
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Episode 17 - The Creeper
Release Date: 1986-03-16A fashion designer is terrified that she may be the next target of the creeper who may have the keys to her appartment.
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Episode 18 - Happy Birthday
Release Date: 1986-03-23The arrest of a newspaper reporter on his birthday for a murder supposedly committed 22 years ago comes as a complete surprise to the accused.
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Episode 19 - The Jar
Release Date: 1986-04-06An artist's years of failure are behind after he finds a jar which holds mysterious contents and entrances to those who view it.
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Episode 20 - Deadly Honeymoon
Release Date: 1986-04-13Following 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.
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Episode 21 - Four O'Clock
Release Date: 1986-05-04Time 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.
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Episode 22 - Road Hog
Release Date: 1986-05-11What can't go around comes around for a road-hogging salesman who won't allow a truck bound for the hospital to pass.
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Episode 23 - The Jar
Release Date: 1986-04-06An artist's years of failure are behind after he finds a jar which holds mysterious contents and entrances to those who view it.
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Episode 24 - Deadly Honeymoon
Release Date: 1986-04-13Following 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.
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Episode 25 - Four O'Clock
Release Date: 1986-05-04Time 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.
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Episode 26 - Road Hog
Release Date: 1986-05-11What can't go around comes around for a road-hogging salesman who won't allow a truck bound for the hospital to pass.
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Episode 101 - Incident in a Small Jail
Release Date: 1985-05-05When a man stops in a small town to get gas for his car, he runs into trouble.
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Episode 102 - Man From the South
Release Date: 1985-05-05A man proposes a weird deal: To win a sports car, a down and out gambler must light his lighter 10 times in a row, or lose his finger.
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Episode 103 - Bang! You're Dead
Release Date: 1985-05-05A little girl wants to play army with the boys, but they tell her she needs to have a gun before she can join them.
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Episode 104 - An Unlocked Window
Release Date: 1985-05-05A nurse decides to stay in a house on a stormy night. The nurse thinks that she is safe in the house but it turns out that there is a killer in the vicinity.