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Every Hitchcock-directed episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents* reviewed and ranked for some reason




*and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Good evening.

Watching and ranking every film Alfred Hitchcock directed (as I did last year) is all well and good, but it does leave you in the depressing position of not having any Alfred Hitchcock films left to watch. Fortunately Hitch predicted that this fate might befall me, so he kindly directed eighteen shorter films to help ease my withdrawal symptoms,

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