The Bad Guy Wins: Some stories ended this way, but in such cases Hitchcock would usually spare the finer feelings of the Moral Guardians and the show's sponsors by telling the audience in his closing remarks that of course the bad guy was brought to justice later on.Ax-Crazy: Ironically, in "The Older Sister", the episode about Lizzie Borden, it is not Lizzie who fits this trope but her sister Emma.Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: The point of "Guest for Breakfast" was to demonstrate this when a husband and wife, initially hating each other's guts, act on instinct to save each other from a murderous intruder.Somehow (the father theorizes that they're from space), the mushrooms can take over anyone who consumes them and are using this method to mount an invasion. Assimilation Plot: "Special Delivery" involves the neighborhood boys sending away for mushrooms that they can grow in the basement for profit.Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: In the episode "Incident in a Small Jail", Leon Gorwald is arrested for jaywalking when it turns out he actually is responsible and not caught for several murders.Antagonistic Offspring: "Father and Son" features one - a lazy, dishonest son with a Never My Fault attitude.A similar situation occurs in the Hitchcock-directed episode "Breakdown", where a man suffers a car accident and is rendered almost completely paralyzed.In "The Long Silence" a woman is paralyzed, unable to speak.Amoral Attorney: "Your Witness" features one, who gets his comeuppance in the end.However, the marionette (who tells him that marionettes are "far more sensitive" than anyone realizes) falls in love with Lydia and murders Charles. Is a Crapshoot: In "Design for Loving," Charles Braling purchases a robot replica of himself or "marionette" so he can take off for Rio without his neglected wife Lydia being any the wiser. Affectionate Parody: Hitchcock parodies his own Rear Window with "Mr Blanchard's Secret".Adaptational Karma: Adaptations of short stories featuring a Karma Houdini are usually given this treatment in Hitchcock's closing monologue.Unfamiliar with guns, she accidentally shoots him dead. Accidental Murder: In "O Youth and Beauty!", an obsessed husband who wants to do a hurdling routine gives his wife a gun to use as the starting gun.Absurdly High-Stakes Game: In "Man From the South" (1950s and 1980s versions), a young gambler accepts a bet that he can't light his cigarette lighter ten times in a row if he loses the bet, he'll lose a finger.Other episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour provide examples of: The following stories used as episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour have their own trope pages: 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.
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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. A Genre Anthology television series produced and hosted by the famed English thriller director Alfred Hitchcock.
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