Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

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0x02 A Talk With Hitchcock

01 January, 1970 9:00 am
This 1964, interview of Alfred Hitchcock was part of the CBC television series Telescope with host-director Fletcher Markle. It was conducted during or immediately after the filming of Marnie and also contains interesting stories and comments from Alfred Hitchcock and his associates Norman Lloyd, Joan Harrison and Bernard Herrmann.

0x03 Fasten Your Seatbelts: The Thrilling Art of Alfred Hitchcock

01 January, 1970 9:00 am
Directors Martin Scorsese, William Friedkin, John Carpenter, Eli Roth, and Guillermo Del Toro discuss the lasting impact of Alfred Hitchcock’s films on cinema.

0x04 Suspicion: Four O' Clock

27 August, 1957 8:00 am
Paul Steppe, a watch repairman, suspects his wife is cheating on him while he tends to his store every afternoon. Consumed with jealousy, he devises a time bomb set to go off at four o' clock - the same time her "lover" pays his daily visit. One day, when his wife is at the market, he sneaks into the house to plant the device. There, Paul is surprised by two burglars, who tie him up and gag him - leaving him at the mercy of his own device ticking away.

0x05 Startime: Incident at a Corner

27 August, 1959 8:00 am
A school crossing guard reprimands the PTA president for careless driving. He is later dismissed from his job on the basis of an anonymous note accusing him of being too friendly with little schoolgirls. His daughter's boyfriend takes up his cause, assuming that the PTA president sent the note out of spite. It turns out that the note was sent by a woman living across the street from the school, who knew the guard from another city, and feared he would expose her past life. Story is told with the same incident repeated from several different viewpoints.

0x06 Psycho Featurette

27 August, 1960 8:00 am
This six minute featurette was used to promote the film Psycho in 1960.

0x07 Monitor: Huw Weldon meets Alfred Hitchcock

27 August, 1964 8:00 am
Huw Wheldon's interview with legendary filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock, from 1964.

0x08 The Dick Cavett Show

27 August, 1972 8:00 am
Dick Cavett spends 90 minutes with legendary film director Alfred Hitchcock in a 1972 interview. Hitch discusses cinema, his life and career, and explains how he pulled off some "ingenious" special effects in his movies. He also discusses actors, screen violence and how he enjoys watching an audience "dipping their toe in the cold water of fear." Included are clips from his films "Psycho," "The Birds" and "Frenzy."

0x09 BBC - Omnibus Part 1 "Hitchcock: It's Only Another Movie"

27 August, 1986 8:00 am
During a career spanning 50 years of film-making, from the silent era into the age of television, Alfred Hitchcock became as famous a public figure as any of his stars. Tonight's programme looks at the first 25 years of an extraordinary and prolific : career, with extracts from his early British films, behind- the-scenes shots of Hitchcock at work, and rare home movie material seen here for the first time on television. His complex personality is explored through interviews with those who knew him and worked most closely with him. Hitchcock himself, characteristically droll, appears in interviews filmed at different stages of his career. Featuring actors James Stewart, Joan Fontaine and Teresa Wright; screenwriters and collaborators Charles Bennett, Rodney Ackland, Albert Whitlock, John Michael Hayes and daughter Patricia Hitchcock.

0x10 BBC - Omnibus Part 2 - "Hitchcock: Sex, Murder and Mayhem"

27 August, 1986 8:00 am
By the late 50s, when he made North by Northwest, Alfred Hitchcock was the best-known film director in the world, celebrated equally for adventure thrillers and for the psychological suspense stories that he had been making since he started directing films in Britain in the 20s. Tonight's Omnibus looks behind the image of the droll clown, which he presented in his television series, and at the achievements, and the problems, of the later years. Drawing on television interviews with Hitchcock, the recollections of colleagues and friends, and scenes from his films; the programme explores his relations with his female stars, the brilliance of his film technique, the difficult role of his scriptwriters, and the ambiguous character of Hitchcock himself, showman, practical joker and film-maker of genius.

0x11 Living Famously

27 August, 2003 8:00 am
In the late 1950s, he became a star in his own right when he presented his series Alfred Hitchcock Presents... for American television. His reputation for taking his audiences on a roller coaster of terror was cemented by his 1960s films, Psycho and The Birds. Hitchcock sought to control the life of his leading lady, Tippi Hedren, resulting in his being outcast from Hollywood, forcing a return to Britain and a gradual and unwelcome descent into obscurity.

0x12 Paul Merton Looks at Alfred Hitchcock

27 August, 2009 8:00 am
Documentary in which Paul Merton explores Alfred Hitchcock's early British films, using clips and archive interviews with Hitchcock and those who worked with him.

0x13 Reputations: Hitch Part 1 - Alfred the Great

27 August, 2009 8:00 am
First episode of a two-part profile on the life and films of Alfred Hitchcock.

0x14 Reputations: Hitch Part 2 - Alfred the Auteur

27 August, 2009 8:00 am
Second episode of a two-part profile on the life and films of Alfred Hitchcock.

0x16 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - I Saw the Whole Thing (1962)

01 January, 1970 9:00 am
There are five witnesses for a hit-and-run accident at an intersection who all say the car did not stop at the stop sign, but are they all wrong?

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