Hitch was what you watched on TV as a kid because there was nothing else on the one or two channels. Yet I really enjoyed ome of his shows.
We enjoyed his TV shows. They ran from 1955 through 1965, so I was probably a lot older than you were at the time, Marie. "Alfred Hitchcock Presents was originally half an hour. The show was later extended to a full hour and retitled The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. Despite what the viewer may be led to believe, Hitchcock only directed 17 of the 268 filmed episodes." He doesn't strike me as a person who would like to be rushed. Probably had to start months in advance for each of his 17. I bet I could do better than guessing at picking them out now.
Well Nancy your just 4 years older is all. Not much but at that age guess it makes a little difference.
I don't remember watching the TV show as a tot, but truly began relishing the thick anthologies found in the library when I was 13. There was one collection that terrified me --- mouth-full-of-teeth under a character's pillow, for example --- which I don't recall the title of, and will now have to spend an hour trying to find...
"A French classical piece became inextricably linked with the British director". "Alfred Hitchcock Presents aired between 1955 and 1965 and featured the director introducing short dramas, thrillers, and mysteries. Its title sequence opened with the camera fading in on a simple caricature of Hitchcock's profile". "For the music, his long-time collaborator, the composer Bernard Herrmann, suggested Charles Gounod's Funeral March of a Marionette. It had been used for an American horror radio show The Witch's Tale, which aired from 1931 to 1938. But Hitchcock reportedly remembered it from a 1927 film Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans". Read More