EPISODE
SEASON
Series of unrelated short stories covering elements of crime, horror, drama, and comedy about people of different backgrounds committing murders, suicides, thefts, and other sorts of crime caused by certain motivations, perceived or not.
9 April 1942, Brooklyn, New York, USA
4 February 1935, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
11 January 1904, New York City, New York, USA
14 July 1928, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
27 July 1916, New York City, New York, USA
23 May 1910, Terre Haute, Indiana, USA
18 April 1916, Wisconsin, USA
15 January 1896, York, Australia
29 December 1889, Sioux City, Iowa, USA
14 June 1919, New York City, New York, USA
29 August 1899, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
11 November 1936, Los Angeles, California, USA
15 May 1922, Williamsport, Pennsylvania, USA
29 May 1911, Nebraska, USA
26 October 1914, Los Angeles, California, USA
20 November 1919, Portland, Maine, USA
18 January 1905, Kingston, New York, USA
7 December 1923, Terryville, Connecticut, USA
1932, Massachusetts, USA
4 September 1919, New York City, New York, USA
17 December 1927, Chicago, Illinois, USA
4 October 1899, London, England, UK
8 March 1910, New York City, New York, USA
31 March 1891, Kisvárda, Austria-Hungary [now Kisvárda, Szambolcs-Szatmár, Hungary]
16 April 1904, New Jersey, USA
February 25, 1894 in Poland
1 October 1909, New York City, New York, USA
January 31, 2018
Hitchcock, the master of suspense, brought a brilliantly acted, neatly directed drama to the TV screens for the first in his series, that had everything except an ending.September 26, 2018
Season 1 features actors like Joseph Cotten, Joanne Woodward, John Forsythe, Cloris Leachman, and Claude Rains (as well as a struggling young thespian named Aaron Spelling), but the man in the silhouette steals the show.September 26, 2018
[Hitchcock] directed only a handful of shows... but his personality is stamped on the whole run in the dry, sardonic, mordant introduction.April 14, 2020
Breakdown, with Joseph Cotten is a well-nigh Beckettian vision of doom, shot in grotesque close-ups and with a desperate inner monologue that anticipates the chilling voice at the end of Psycho.September 25, 2018
But the real gem is Breakdown (1955), a minimalist tour de force starring (and narrated by) Joseph Cotten as a businessman paralyzed in a car wreck; it belongs among Hitchcock's neglected masterpieces.September 26, 2018
Even today, the show keeps an amazing mood of suspense, and almost every episode will keep you at the edge of your seat.September 26, 2018
We recommend the viewing of these small prehistoric jewels of the black and white screen. [Full review in Spanish]September 26, 2018
Alfred Hitchcock Presents, as I remember it, is a good show.September 28, 2018
Hitchcock rarely directed, confining himself to inane introductions. But many of the suspense stories-written by such masters as Ray Bradbury and Robert Bloch-are quirky, tight masterpieces.September 26, 2018
This era isn't called the Golden Age of Television for nothing.September 27, 2018
The last thing I expected was addictive entertainment.September 28, 2018
Anti-television at its finest.