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.
BEST EPISODES OF ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS SERIES
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 (Ralph Meeker) 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 Dahl story, this episode stars Steve McQueen as a young man who bets a wealthy oddball (Peter Lorre) that he can light his lighter 10 times in a row.
It was one of only 17 episodes (of the total 268) directed by Alfred Hitchcock.Ģ. This darkly amusing tale, written by Roald Dahl, works to perfection–right down to the killer punchline. 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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