Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985)
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Pilot. Incident in a Small Jail
Community Score
| 9.3 Superb |
When a man stops in a small town to get gas for his car, he runs into trouble when the people of the town think he is responsible for murder.
Director: Joel Oliansky
Guest star: Cynthia Hartley (Young Girl), Ned Beatty (Larry Broome), Lee Ving (Curt Venner), Tony Frank (Noakes), John Shearin (Roker), Arthur Taxier (Skelly), Walter Klenhard (Gas Station Attendant), Richard Lineback (Billy), Gene Ross (Max Spaulding), Jerry Curtin (Mob Member)
Pilot. The Man From the South
First aired: 5/5/1985 Production Code: 60776A 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.
Director: Steve DeJarnatt
Guest star: Steven Bauer (Gambler), John Huston (Carlos/Narrator), Danny De La Paz (Bell Hop), Jack Thibeau (Bronson), Tippi Hedren (Waitress), Kim Novak (Rosa), Melanie Griffith (Girl)
Pilot. Bang! You're Dead
Community Score
| 9.4 Superb |
A little girl wants to play army with the boys, but they tell her she needs to have a gun before she can join them.
Director: Randa Haines
Guest star: Gigi Vorgan (Cashier), Gail Barle (Jiffy Snack Girl), Christina Lange (Darlene), Douglas Emerson (Kid Soldier), Gregory Levinson (Stevie), David Held (Billy), Linda Hoy (Big Brownie), Mark L. Taylor (Darlene's Dad), Kale Browne (Amanda's Dad), Jonathan Goldsmith (Manager), Bianca Rose (Amanda), Gail Youngs (Amanda's Mother), Jonathon Goldsmith (Manager)
Pilot. An Unlocked Window
Community Score
| 6.4 Fair |
A 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.
Director: Fred Walton
Guest star: Nancy Burnett (Nurse), Ross Elliott (Glendon Baker), Helena Kallianiotes (Miss Maria Kyprianov), Owen Bush (Sam Eyles), Bruce Davison (Betty Ames/Baker), Annette O'Toole (Stella)
5. Revenge
Community Score
| 8.7 Great |
A professor spurns the legal system to seek revenge on the man who raped his wife
Director: R.E. Young
Guest star: David Clennon (John Tate), Victoria Ann-Lewis (Receptionist), Dennon Rawles (Male Instructor), Fred Taylor (Biker), Courtenay McWhinney (Bag Lady), Bill Dearth (Mailman), Ángela Moya (Nurse), Beth Miller (Cindy), Frances Lee McCain (Dr. Marianne Campbell), Herbert Jefferson Jr. (Officer), David Clennon (Professor), Linda Purl (Wife), David Clennon (Professor John Tate), Loren Janes (Man), Herbert Jefferson Jr. (Police Officer)
6. Night Fever
Community Score
| 8.7 Great |
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.
Director: Jeff Kanew
Guest star: Christopher Crowe (Surgeon #1), Debi Richter (Kathy), Robert Carradine (Gunman), Lisa Pelikan (Ellen), Basil Hoffman (Dr. Michaels), Jeanne Mori (Physician #1), Richard Foronjy (Martinez), Jerry Boyd (Ambulance Attendant #2), James Saito (Anesthesiologist #1), Tim Cunningham (Phil), Mo Malone (Mary Winters), Lisa Rafel (Emergency Room Nurse), Wendy Oates (Anesthesiologist #2), Ken Foree (Orderly), Roger Aaron Brown (Joe Chandler), Eugene Butler (Detective Greeley), Charles Bazaldua (Ambulance Attendant #1), James David Hinton (Tom)
7. Wake Me When I'm Dead
Community Score
| 9.0 Superb |
Trial of a woman who killed her husband while hypnotically transported to a past life.
Director: Frank Pierson
Guest star: Carolyn Seymour (Carla), George Innes (Charles), Reid Shelton (Daniels), Buck Henry (Prosecutor), Brian Bedford (Stewart Dean), Jennifer Nairn-Smith (Party Guest), Michael J. London (Bailiff), Barry Pearl (Assistant DA), Gill Dennis (Dr. Leon Borofksy), Lillian Lehman (Judge Branca), Barbara Hershey (Jessie Dean)
8. Final Escape
First aired: 10/27/1985A woman serving a life sentence for murder hits upon an airtight escape plan
Director: Thomas Carter
Guest star: Anne Seymour (Esther), Linden Chiles (Judge), Davis Roberts (Doc), Jerry Hardin (Warden), Patrice Donnelly (Shirley), George DiCenzo, Season Hubley (Woman), Eugene Lee (Guard), Patricia Wilson (Trustee)
9. The Night Caller
Community Score
| 7.6 Good |
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.
Director: John Byrum
Guest star: Stephen Davies (Detective Duane Calvin), Tony Bill (Steve), Sandra Bernhard (Karen), Michael O'Keefe (Art Toomey), Linda Fiorentino (Betsy Van Kennon)
10. Method Actor
Community Score
| 8.6 Great |
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.
Director: Burt Reynolds
Guest star: Louis Silvers (Parking Lot Attendant), Leila Hee Olsen (Waitress), Patti Negri (Assistant), Ben Kronen (Max Goodman), Whitney Kershaw (Girl), Bernie Casey (Bernie), Parker Stevenson (Lane Richards), Marilu Henner (Claire), Robby Benson (Ed), Martin Sheen (Paul Dano)
11. The Human Interest Story
Community Score
| 9.1 Superb |
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.
Director: Larry Gross
Guest star: Richard Camphuis (Sheriff #1), Albert Popwell, Barbara Williams (Maggie Verona), John Shea (Brian), Richard Marcus (Levy), James Callahan (Everett), Michael Strasser (Punk #1), Hardy Rawls (Man #2), Grant Owens (Man #1), Rhonda Dotson (Denise), Michael McCabe (Reporter #3), Floyd Foster Jr. (Reporter #2), Wendy Oates (Reporter #1), John Allen (Policeman #1), Gary Carlos Cervantes (Punk #2)
12. Breakdown
Community Score
| 10.0 Perfect |
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.
Director: Richard Pearce
Guest star: Raul Chavero (First Boy), Jose Luis Cuevas (Roberto), Pamela Gual (Secretary), Sebastian Ligarde (Tim), Paco Mauri (White Clad Man), Guillermo Rios (Coroner Assistant), Ramiro Ramirez (Mestizo), Rodrigo Puebla (Indio), Chava Godinez (Old Man), Patrick Welch (Executive), Wally Barron (Doctor), Manuel Ojeda (General Vorteez), Al Israel (Coroner), Stefan Gierasch, Andy Garcia (Alejandro), John Heard (Businessman)
13. Prisoners
Community Score
| 10.0 Perfect |
Ironically, it's an escaped convict who brings a sense of liberation to a housewife: she insists on going with him as his "hostage".
Director: Christopher Crowe
Guest star: Chris Kriesa (S.W.A.T. Member), Walter Klenhard (Prison Guard), Doug Hale (TV Reporter), Larry McCormick (TV Anchorman), Steve Eastin (Police Captain), Cristina Raines (Julie Randall), Yaphet Kotto (Convict)
14. Gigolo
Community Score
| 9.7 Superb |
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.
Director: Thomas Carter
Guest star: Tina Challey (Molly), Billy Ray Sharkey (Man), Virginia Capers (Ruth), Brad Davis (Arthur), Sandy Dennis (Wife)
15. The Gloating Place
Community Score
| 6.8 Fair |
A withdrawn teenager is fascinated with the instant celebrity of a murdered classmate and fakes an assault on herself.
Director: Christopher Leitch
Guest star: Amy Sherman-Palladino (Female Student #1), Stephen Macht (Carl Caniso), Lance Slaughter (Male Student #1), Kristy Swanson (Female Student #2), Michael Zand (Teacher), Bill Gratton (Detective #1), Bill Calvert (Peter Lake), Nicholas Hormann (Bruce Lommis), Christie Houser (Debbie), Cindy Pickett (Marcia Lommis), Isabelle Walker (Teenager)
16. The Right Kind of Medicine
Community Score
| 10.0 Perfect |
A bank robber is wounded in a shoot-out, then forced to endure an excruciating wait for a painkiller at the pharmacy.
Director: Jerrold Freedman
Guest star: Jill Hill (Stewardess), Greg Finley (Sergeant Henry Monroe), Lyle Talbot (Flecher), Pamela Dunlap (Mrs. Farbor), Panchito Gomez (Vernon), Robert Prosky (Dr. Vogel), Michael C. Gwynne (Hollingshead), Jack Thibeau (Joe Pugh), Vaughn Armstrong (Marine), Ruben Moreno (Hispanic Man), Maura Soden (Teller), Rif Hutton (Policeman #1)
17. Beast In View
Community Score
| 10.0 Perfect |
A psychiatrist is terrorized by menacing phone calls and the killing of her dog following her marriage to one of her patients.
Director: Michael Toshiyuki Uno
Guest star: Janet Eilber (Psychiatrist), Charles Stevenson (Minister), Gerald Berns (Colin), Michele Marsh (Woman in Bookstore), Mark Harris (Bookstore Manager), Joseph Ruskin (Mr. X), Tom Atkins, Cliff Potts (Roger Harden)
18. A Very Happy Ending
Community Score
| 10.0 Perfect |
A poor little rich boy who's deaf witnesses a murder, then blackmails the hit man into doing a job for him.
Director: Tom Rickman
Guest star: Michael Reed (Boyfriend), Mel Harris (Girlfriend), Danny Dayton (Buzzy Carelli), Sydne Squire (Stewardess), Blackie Dammett (Doug), Myrna White (Martha), John Aprea (Fisher), Joaquin Phoenix (Rich Boy), Robert Loggia (Charley), Mercer Helms (Magician), Ron Jarvis (Clown)
19. The Canary Sedan
Community Score
| 5.5 Mediocre |
A woman goes to Hong Kong to be with her husband.
Director: Joan Tewkesbury
Guest star: Michael Paul Chan (Denning), Ping Wu (Victor), Beulah Quo (Herbalist), Arsenio "Sonny" Trinidad (Feng Shui Man), Adelle Lutz, Peter Haskell (Tom), Kathleen Quinlan
20. Enough Rope For Two
Community Score
| 10.0 Perfect |
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.
Director: David Chase
Guest star: Jonathon Hugger (Gas Station Counterman), Charles Howerton (Highway Patrolman), Timothy Daly (Scott), Darlanne Fluegel (Zoe), Jeff Fahey (Ray Lee)
21. The Creeper
Community Score
| 10.0 Perfect |
A fashion designer is terrified that she may be the next target of the creeper who may have the keys to her apartment.
Director: Christopher Crowe
Guest star: Karen Allen (Fashion Designer), Sonny Klein (Hot Dog Vender), John Hayden (Cashier), Tom Noga (Policeman #1), Kellyn Plasschaert (Receptionist), Frank Sheppard (Black Man), S.A. Griffin (Policeman #2), Fred Taylor (Seedy Guy), Jack F. Crowe (Biker Mechanic), Sam Vlahos (Locksmith), Susan Peretz (Neighbor), Danny De La Paz (Latino), Lori Butler (Carol), Timothy Carhart (Rick), Clyde Kusatsu
22. Happy Birthday
First aired: 3/23/1986The arrest of a newspaper reporter on his birthday for a murder supposedly committed 22 years ago comes as a complete surprise to the accused.
Director: Randy Roberts
Guest star: James Boyce (Football Stud), Carolyn Carradine (Bev), Noel Conlon (Lawyer), Arsenio Hall (Cleavon), Sandy Ignon (Hartenstein), Nana Visitor (Doris), Sam Hennings (Patrolman), Bruce Gray (Pearson), Lee De Broux (Plainclothesman), Lane Smith (Reporter)
23. The Jar
First aired: 4/6/1986An artist's years of failure are behind after he finds a jar which holds mysterious contents and entrances to those who view it.
Director: Tim Burton
Guest star: Jeffrey Steven Kramer (Guest #1), Lori Lively (Frail Woman), Leah Kates (Person #2), Roy Fegan (Person #1), Nathan LeGrand (Male Fashion Victim), Susan Moore (Female Fashion Victim), Regina Richardson (Female Art Type), Peter D. Risch (Happy Kaufmann), Eileen Barnett (Texan's Wife), Sunshine Parker (Texan), Paul Werner (Nazi), Paul Bartel, Stephen Shellen (Garson), Laraine Newman (Periwinkle), Fiona Lewis (Erica), Griffin Dunne (Knoll)
24. Deadly Honeymoon
Community Score
| 10.0 Perfect |
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.
Director: Don Medford
Guest star: Arturo Bonilla (Parking Attendant), David Clover (Policeman #1), Helen Powell Nemir (Chief Resident), Jerry Boyd (Doorman), Lester C. Fletcher (Furniture Salesman), Nicolas Coster (Phil), Alan Fudge (Wells), David Dukes (Dr. Tom Rigby), Victoria Tennant (Bride)
25. Four O'Clock
Community Score
| 10.0 Perfect |
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.
Director: Andrew Mirisch
Guest star: James Ingersoll (Policeman #1), Ernie Lively (Policeman #2), Robert Dryer (Thief #1), Nicholas Pryor (Ryan), Raymond Singer, Ellen Tobie (Karen), Joe Colligan (Gas Man), Michael Yama (Japanese Gardener), Kenneth McMillan (Judge), Grant Owens (Defense Attorney), Buzz Borelli (Paramedic), Dennis Stewart (Thief #2)
26. Road Hog
Community Score
| 8.8 Great |
What can't go around comes around for a road-hogging salesman who won't allow a truck bound for the hospital to pass.
Director: Mario Di Leo
Guest star: Doug Savant (Joey Medwick), Robert Covarrubias (Orderly), Vernon Weddle (Old Wildcatter), Vincent Barbour (Tom Medwick), Ronny Cox (Sam Medwick), Ed Hooks (Gas Station Attendant), Burt Young (Salesman), David Cowgill (Mike Medwick), Lee Bryant (Phyllis), Dennis Robertson (E.R. Doctor), Jeff Tyler (Young Wildcatter)
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