This is my list of Shows that have done an episode in the style of the original Hitchcock film Rear Window Starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly. This can be an homage, parody or ripoff. These episodes usually involve the protagonist being stuck at home with an injury and quickly evolves into the Window Watcher trope (named after Rear Window). Many find a way to work it into the script that the protagonist has to wear a full leg cast and be in a wheelchair like the original movie. Some scale it down with a removable walking cast or they get creative. Either way they in one way or another witness a major crime after spending way too much time spying on the neighbors. They then have to solve the crime because they do not have much credibility after being stir crazy at home for so long. And of course the murder has cleaned up the scene of the crime which we find out because at some point the “Exploring the evil Lair” trope happens.

When done on TV, this is often a “Bottle” episode (a non canon episode done in one/few sets and as inexpensively as possible with a non-union writer trying to get into the union most seasons have 2 for unions to allow writers to step up) Most shows that have bottle episode have a few seasons under their belt these episodes release the writers and help them reach syndication.

This formula has also been repeated in movies as well! Feel free to shout out any you can think of and I will add them. Many of them have titles that play on other Hitchcock films.

Wild Cards 2x4 Dial A For Alibi
Will Trent 3x5 Breathe With Me
Hudson and Rex 7x2 A Room With A Clue
Raising Hope “Murder, He Hoped”
Mike & Molly
Home Movies
Castle The 100th episode of Castle, “The Lives of Others”
Family Guy “Crimes and Meg’s Demeanor”
Rocko’s Modern Life episode “Ed is Dead: A Thriller!”
White Collar episode “Neighborhood Watch”
The Heathcliff episode “Rear Cat Window”
Get Smart 4x24 Greer Window
The Flintstones 2x4 Alvin Brickrock Presents
The Mathnet episode “View from the Rear Terrace”
Monk “Mr. Yin Presents”
That 70’s Show 3x Halloween episode Too Old To Trick or Treat, Too Young to Die
The Simpsons 6x1 Bart of Darkness
ALF
An episode of British comedy series My Life in Film was a parody of the film

Movies
The Woman in the Window 2021 (Amy Adams, Gary Altman, Anthony Mackie )
Disturbia 2007 (Shia Labeouf, David Morse, Carrie-Anne Moss, Viola Davis, Aaron Yoo)
Body Double 1984 (Melanie Griffith, Craig Wasson, Gregg Henry, Deborah Shelton)
Abominable 2006 (Matt McCoy & Ashley Hartman)
Stalked By My Neighbor 2015 (Lifetime Movie - Kelcie Stranahan)
Kimi 2022 (Zoe Kravitz)
Watcher 2022 (Maika Monroe & Burn Gorman)
Night Watch 1978 (Elizabeth Taylor)
Rear Window 1998 (TV Movie Christopher Reeves Daryl Hannah)

• The Burbs 1989 (Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern Carrie Fischer) This movie gets honorable mention. I love it and it’s a grosse satire modernized for suburbia.