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Also known as | The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962–1965) |
Genre | Anthology, mystery, horror[1][2] |
Created by | Alfred Hitchcock |
Presented by | Alfred Hitchcock |
Theme music composer | Charles Gounod |
Opening theme | "Funeral March of a Marionette" by Charles Gounod |
Composer | Stanley Wilson (music supervisor) |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 10 |
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Executive producer | Alfred Hitchcock |
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Editor | Edward W. Williams |
Camera setup | Single-camera |
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Release | October 2, 1955 May 10, 1965 | –
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985) | |
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American television anthology series created, hosted and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, airing on CBS and NBC, alternately, between 1955 and 1965. It features dramas, thrillers, and mysteries. Between 1962 and 1965, it was renamed The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. Hitchcock himself directed only 18 episodes during its run.
By the time the show premiered on October 2, 1955, Hitchcock had been directing films for over three decades. In the 21st century, Time magazine named Alfred Hitchcock Presents as one of "The 100 Best TV Shows of All Time".[3] The Writers Guild of America ranked it #79 on their list of the 101 Best-Written TV Series, tying it with Monty Python's Flying Circus, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Upstairs, Downstairs.[4] In 2021, Rolling Stone ranked it 18th on its list of 30 Best Horror TV Shows of All Time.[2]
A series of literary anthologies with the running title Alfred Hitchcock Presents were issued to capitalize on the success of the television series. One volume, devoted to stories that censors would not allow to be adapted for broadcast, was entitled Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV—though eventually several of the stories collected therein were adapted.
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