Watch Order (Release = Chronological)Recommended
0 / 2 watchedOriginal run first, then the revival. Sample freely inside each.
- 1 Alfred Hitchcock Presents Ten seasons, 1955 to 1965. Start with the famous ones.
- 2 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985) Four seasons, 1985 to 1989. New plus remakes.
About Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955 to 1965) runs ten seasons of twist-ending suspense with Hitchcock's droll introductions framing each story, from Lamb to the Slaughter onward. The 1985 revival runs four NBC and USA seasons with new stories plus colorized remakes of originals.
Every episode stands alone across both runs, so sample freely: the original's famous episodes first, then the revival's peaks. The hour-long seventh-season stretch (as The Alfred Hitchcock Hour) is part of the same run, not a spinoff. The revival's pilot film remakes the show's logic for the 1980s. Hitchcock's own directed episodes are the crown within the crown.
Good to know
The original's 268 episodes plus 93 Hour episodes make completism a project: the famous-episode lists exist for a reason. The revival's colorized remakes play oddly next to its originals, so expectations help. Hitchcock directed 17 originals himself, all worth prioritizing. No revival has followed since 1989, so the two runs plus the master's episodes are the set.
