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Brown's 1950 short story, "The Last Martian", was adapted as "Human Interest Story", a 1959 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. In Spain, his 1961 short story "Nightmare in Yellow" was adapted as El cumpleaños (The Birthday), the 1966 debut episode of Historias para no dormir.
The following is a list of episodes for the American television anthology series Alfred Hitchcock Presents, which was a revival of the original American television anthology series of the same name. The new series lasted only one season on NBC; NBC cancelled it, but it was then produced for three more years by USA Network. A total of 76 ...
He directed 18 episodes of the series, which aired from 1955 to 1965. It became The Alfred Hitchcock Hour in 1962, and NBC broadcast the final episode on 10 May 1965. In the 1980s, a new version of Alfred Hitchcock Presents was produced for television, making use of Hitchcock's original introductions in a colourised form. [174]
Alfred Hitchcock Presents is well known for its title sequence. [5] The camera fades in on a simple line-drawing caricature of Hitchcock's rotund profile (which Hitchcock drew), to the theme music of Charles Gounod's "Funeral March of a Marionette" (suggested by Hitchcock's long-time musical collaborator Bernard Herrmann). [6]
"Man from the South" is a short story by Roald Dahl originally published as "Collector's Item" in Collier's in September 1948. It has been adapted several times for television and film, including a 1960 version that aired as an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and starred Steve McQueen, Neile Adams, and Peter Lorre.
Lamb to the Slaughter" is a 1954 short story by Roald Dahl. It was initially rejected, along with four other stories, by The New Yorker, but was published in Harper's Magazine in September 1953. [1] It was adapted for an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (AHP) that starred Barbara Bel Geddes and Harold J. Stone.
There are ten lists of episodes of the 1955–1962 television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents and the 1962–1965 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, split by season: Alfred Hitchcock Presents season 1, 1955–56; Alfred Hitchcock Presents season 2, 1956–57; Alfred Hitchcock Presents season 3, 1957–58; Alfred Hitchcock Presents season 4, 1958–59
Carl Spann (Meeker) wakes up early for his first day at a new job and makes his wife Elsa (Miles) breakfast. Carl briefly speaks with neighbor Mrs. Fergusen (Bavier) before driving to work, and Mrs. Fergusen offers to take Elsa to market, as Elsa has nothing to do in their new location by the sea, having been given advice by doctors to take a break after having a nervous breakdown.