![]() Being a good cop, Jory tries to get the goods legally, but witnesses are too scared. Cop Jory's out to avenge murder of his cop son, Brown, by gang of punks employed by racketeer Tierney. The John Wayne Movie That Katharine Ross Called "t.Pretty good crime drama, helped along by two 40's tough guys, Jory & Tierney, plus sneering punk, Richard Jaeckel.Overall I'd give the AHP show ***** stars, and the AHH *** stars. I did not enjoy watching that show as much, although there were definitely a few good ones such as The Open Window, The Jar, and The Magic Shop. I beleive there were about 265 episodes of AHP, plus around 100 episodes of the Alfred Hitchcock Hour. ![]() There are plenty of others that I could name which are also deserving of being mentioned, but I'll let my list end with one more entitled Post Mortem so that others can name of few of their own favorites and thus add to what has already been presented. Blanchard's Secret (which was directed by Alfred Hitchcock), Road Hog, Escape To Sonoita (Starring Burt Reynolds), Hitch Hike (Featuring a very young and beautiful Susan Pleshette), The Crooked Road (starring Walter Matthau), and lastly one that none else seems to think highly of except me, Don't Interupt (Featuring a young Cloris Leachman). Starting with Breakdown (starring Joseph Cotton), And So Died Riabuchinska (starring Claude Reins and Charles Bronson), Crackpot, Mrs. Here are a few memorable episodes that I have seen over the years and which were not mentioned by anyone. It was not consistently good as what Rod Serling weekly delivered, but when Alfred Hitchcock Presents was in top form it was every bit as great. Along with the Twighlight Zone, AHP was the best anthology series ever shown on T.V. ![]() back in the 1960's when I was a kid in grade school, then again in the 80's on KOFY Channel 20 in San Francisco, and more recently Hulu has the first four seasons available for viewing pleasure, if you don't mind sitting through their commericals. I have always enjoyed the show Alfred Hitchcock Presents. However, The Twilight Zone episode was actually a short French feature filmed two years before its broadcast on Twilight Zone. It's interesting to note that both Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone featured adaptations of Ambrose Bierce's An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. Honorable Mentions: Breakdown (a Hitch-directed episode with Joseph Cotten as a man paralyzed in his car ), One More Mile to Go (a man with a corpse in his car trunk), and Victim Four (a Paul Henreid-directed episode about a woman whose bad headaches are really bad). Mumy's success as Will Robinson on Lost in Space has obscured his finest TV work, as in this episode and the "It's a Good Life" episode of The Twilight Zone. ![]() Bang! You're Dead - Hitchcock directed this wonderfully tense episode about a young boy (Billy Mumy) who mistakes a real gun for a toy pistol and spends the day playing with it. It's ultimately a very sad story of two lonely people.ĥ. This beautifully written teleplay (by Stirling Silliphant) provided underused actor Tom Conway (George Sanders' brother) with his last good role. After they begin exchanging letters, he agrees to meet her-with disastrous results. The Glass Eye - Director Robert Stevens won an Emmy for this haunting tale of a middle-aged woman (Jessica Tandy) who falls in love from afar with a ventriloquist she has never met. In a long-running series featuring a number of memorable twist endings, "Revenge" features perhaps the most potent one. When the police investigation goes nowhere, the couple seek their justice and go looking for the assailant. A distraught woman (Vera Miles) tells her husband she has been assaulted. Revenge - The very first episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents raised the bar very high. A suspenseful, well-acted classic featuring another one of Dahl's trademark twists.ģ. But if the lighter fares to produce a flame just once, he loses a finger. If he can, he wins Lorre's snazzy convertible. Man from the South - Based on another Roald Dahl story, this episode stars Steve McQueen as a young man who bets a wealthy oddball (Peter Lorre) that he can light his lighter ten times in a row. It was one of only 17 episodes (of the total 268) directed by Hitchcock.Ģ. This darkly amusing tale, written by Roald Dahl, works to perfection-right down to the killer punch line. She then calmly calls the police to report that her husband was murdered by an intruder. Lamb to the Slaughter - When a meek housewife ( Barbara Bel Geddes) learns that her cheating husband is leaving her, she whacks him-fatally-with a frozen leg of lamb. The list below includes only the 268 half-hour episodes.ġ. It ran from 1955 to 1962 in a half-hour format and then from 1962 to 1965 as The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. In terms of longevity, Alfred Hitchcock Presents was the most successful American television anthology series.
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