In 2020, Eminem collaborated with the Alfred Hitchcock estate to create a Concept Album themed around the show, and a spin-off instrumental album Hitchcock made inspired by it - Music To Be Murdered By. Oh, and if there's time, we'll also try to squeeze in a story between them."Ī Revival, The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents, ran from 1985 to 1989 it featured new stories (and some newly-filmed remakes of old episodes) introduced by recycled (and colorized) footage of Hitchcock. Notably for the time, Hitchcock would openly mock the concept of commercials (as opposed to the actual products themselves) in his remarks with statements such as "Join us next week as we present another fine selection of exciting and informative commercials. Writers who scripted episodes of (or had stories adapted for) the series include Ambrose Bierce, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Fredric Brown, Roald Dahl, Avram Davidson, Harlan Ellison, Evan Hunter, Don Marquis, Richard Matheson, A. It originally aired from 1955 to 1962 (half-hour episodes) and 1962 to 1965 (hour-long episodes, as The Alfred Hitchcock Hour), bouncing between CBS and NBC for a total of ten seasons comprising 268 half-hour episodes and 93 hour-long episodes (of which 17 were directed by Hitchcock himself).Įach episode was a self-contained mystery or thriller story, with Hitchcock appearing before and after to make opening and closing remarks. Postal stamps honoring early television pioneers only attests to the show’s staying power and classic status.A Genre Anthology television series produced and hosted by the famed English thriller director Alfred Hitchcock. The fact that Time magazine recognized the series in its list of “The 100 Best TV Shows Of All-TIME” and was included in a lineup of U.S. With consistently high ratings all throughout its original run, AHP soon became one of the most syndicated of the classic television shows, ranking amongst I Love Lucy and The Twilight Zone for its frequent amount of re-runs. The show’s last episode aired on June 26, 1962… but its legacy was far from over. Hitch didn’t make any cameos in the story segments of the episodes as was his habit for his films… the only time he makes an appearance is as a picture on a magazine’s front cover in Dip in the Pool. Pelham and Lamb to the Slaughter earned the Master of Suspense two Emmy nominations.īut it was director Robert Stevens who took home the award for season three’s first episode The Glass Eye. This aspect of the series no doubt contributed to the public’s fascination and constant viewership.Īlthough Hitchcock opened and closed each episode, he only actually directed 17 episodes. Some of the actors involved included Robert Duvall, Charles Bronson, Barbara Steele, Vera Miles, Bette Davis, Vincent Price, Fay Wray, Dick van Dyke, Cloris Leachman, Angie Dickinson, Steve McQueen, Burt Reynolds, Peter Lorre, and even Alfred’s own daughter Patricia. The show also had massive star power behind it, treasured veterans and rising stars alike appearing in Hitch’s tales of mystery and murder. Though the same creative team from Presents stayed with the Hour series and all of the combined 363 episodes (270 from Presents, 93 from Hour) were produced and shot at Universal Studios in California, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour is typically seen as being a separate entity from its former incarnation. In 1962 the series adopted a longer 50-minute format and changed its name to the more fitting The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. Who can forget the morbidly whimsical sound of Charles Gounod’s Funeral March for a Marionette, as Hitchcock’s shadow slowly fills the lines of his famous caricature? The opening sequence of the show itself has been imbedded within the consciousness of popular culture at large. Having already thrilled audiences with a good three decades of suspenseful filmmaking, Alfred Hitchcock turned his attentions to television and on OctoAlfred Hitchcock Presents premiered to home viewers everywhere.Ĭontaining individual stories concerned mostly with criminal acts and other dastardly goings-on, the show was a guaranteed means of fans getting their fix of Hitchcock’s trademark tension within a 25-minute time span in between sponsor commercials (which Hitch so brilliantly and balefully poked fun at during most of his opening monologues).
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