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Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Complete Season 1
3 discs

Alfred Hitchcock - The Masterpiece Collection
14 films, digitally re-mastered
36-page collectible book
15 discs, velvet packaging

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Complete Season 1
Complete 2nd Season
Complete Season Three

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Alfred Hitchcock Hour
(1962 - 1965)

10/2/55 - 11/6/1965
CBS, NBC, CBS
30 minutes and 1 hour

Black and White - 265 episodes

Alfred Hitchcock Cast

Alfred Hitchcock - host

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Good Evening, Ladies and Gentleman

Alfred Hitchock

Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock Theme Song

The Funeral March of a Marionette by Eounod

Alfred Hitchcock Quotes

"Television has brought murder back into the home - where it belongs"

"There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it."

"I didn't say actors are cattle. What I said was, actors should be treated like cattle."

"When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary."'

Alfred Hitchcock Premiere Collection (Lifeboat / Spellbound / Notorious / The Paradine Case / Sabotage / Young and Innocent / Rebecca / The Lodger)

The Alfred Hitchcock Collection [DVD]

Alfred Hitchcock Presents:
Signatures In Suspense
(Film Score Anthology)
TV and Movie Themes

External Links
TV Guide's Alfred Hitchcock Presents Page, with TV Listings, Photos, Videos, Exclusive News and More.

Alfred Hitchcock Tidbits

The critically acclaimed director had three decades of film experience to bring to his television venture. Although he only directed about 20 of the more than 100 original shows, his stamp was on every story.

Who can forget the camera showing him in silhouette? The story goes that this profile sketch is from a Christmas card designed by Hitchcock when he was in England.

Then he'd give you a teaser about tonight's episode, take a little shot at the sponsor, and the chills would begin. (The monologues were written by James Allardice.)

Evil did very well in Hitchcock stories. But he had network moral codes to get past, so he'd come on after the story had ended with that clipped British accent of his and add a postscript which allowed good to triumph.

The show moved from CBS to NBC in 1960 where it remained for two years until CBS brought it back. Renamed The Alfred Hitchcock Hour the show was now an hour format. Unbelieveably, it went back to NBC as a hour show in 1964, but that was the last season.

Alfred Hitchcock never won an Oscar for directing though he did receive the Irving Thalberg Award in 1967.

Now for the truly bizarre. NBC revived the "Alfred Hitchcock Hour" in 1985 with all new episodes. And there he was, every week, now in color. FIve years after his death.

Passings

Alfred Hitchcock died in 1980 of renal failure.

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