That was in1955. Born at the end of 1950, so I'm not even sure if we had television yet when Hitchcock began to air!
I seem to rememebr our first tv being a toddler just staring at the black screen.Not sure why rhat is such a vivid memory.I'm a year older than you.
That's funny! I remember seeing a thing that made a hissing noise and had flickering lights, and probably not long afterwards seeing an inside full of narrow tubes and a guy tinkering around with them mysteriously. Also scary was the robot-thing in the basement --- or at least that's what the printed diagram stuck to the side looked like to me. Didn't help that when I pointed at the diagram and asked my mom what that was, she'd answer, "That's what's inside the furnace."
But back to Alfred! I've just now looked into it, and the anthologies that I probably found most unnerving might have been Stories Not for the Nervous, and Stories That Scared Even Me.
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Don't Come Back Alive Synopsis "Frank and his wife Mildred are in need of cash as they are approach retirement. He thinks up a scheme where his wife will disappear for seven years. He will have her declared legally dead so that they can collect her insurance money. They set their plan in motion. A detective who thinks Mildred has been murdered promises to find the body and send Frank to prison. He relentlessly pursues Frank for seven years. Finally, two days before the seven-year time limit is up, Mildred reappears but emerges as a much changed woman. She doesn't want to be with Frank anymore and has only shown up for the money. Her enraged husband kills her. Frank buries her in the rose garden, then the next morning leaves to collect his money. The detective is waiting outside, and offers to hoe Frank's garden as it seems to be in disarray. Frank grimaces as we are left to believe the detective is about to find her body and charge Frank with murder. (TV.com)"