Alfred Hitchcock Presents -- one of the best anthology series ever!
This 1958 episode directed by Hitchcock himself, “Lamb to the Slaughter” is classic.
Barbara Bel Geddes -- later “Miss Ellie” on “Dallas” stars.
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One of the best Alfred Hitchcock Presents ever!
@ BatGuano:
It certainly was one of the most memorable.
I’m more an Outer Limits kind of guy
@ BatGuano:
I know, I’ve seen them all.
@ Speranza:
Didn’t they give the repeats on Channel 11 or was it 9?
savage wrote:
Outer Limits was pure science fiction. Alfred Hitchcok Presents was more suspense/mystery.
@ Speranza:
Indeed!
Goood eeeevening
Rodan wrote:
They used to show AHP on I believe USA back in the early 1990′s. NBC redid AHP but it was in color but they used Hitch’s original intros. AHP and Twilight Zone should always be in black and white.
@ savage:
intro:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CtjhWhw2I8
Barbara Bel Geddes was actually rather attractive (in her day).
My absolutely very favorite episode!!!
Carolina Girl wrote:
High Five!
Another good one (which I will post next week) was “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”
Also, after the intro, Hitch would segue into the commercial break with a witty put down of the sponsor…
@ BatGuano:
You barely notice the dialogue and action swirling around you, so concentrated are you on the dining table.
Carolina Girl wrote:
If someone were totally unfamiliar with Hitchcock, this episode would explain his genius.
Carolina Girl wrote:
I think his sponsors loved that.
Speranza wrote:
They did. They understood Alfred and his ratings.
@ Speranza:
When you gave me the head’s up that there would be a thread on Hitch tonight, I was HOPING that it was concerning this episode.
@ BatGuano:
Hitch and O Henry were the perfectors of the surprise ending The other one I loved was the one where the poor man is in an accident and everyone believes he’s dead, and you can hear his thought process as he tries to communicate that his conscious.
i guess i am going to have to break out the hitch box set i got for christmas two years ago and start watching…
And after reading my ridiculous grammatical construction of my last post, I’m wondering if I’M conscious…
@ Carolina Girl:
A Hitch box set???
I’m available for adoption.
Hitch and The Twilight Zone were required viewing in my house when I was a kid. Chiller Channel was showing them in the wee hours but now they’ve switched to endless reruns of Twin Peaks, which was interesting the first time, since it combined the paranormal with mystery, but on the fifth viewing, not so much.
@ Carolina Girl:
Joseph Cotton was the actor in that episode and someone notices a tear!
Carolina Girl wrote:
my bro got it for me, he’s big on hitch…i got him the marx brother’s box…
Barbara Bel Geddes was one of the many blondes featured in the work of Alfred Hitchcock. She was terrific in Vertigo with James Stewart and Kim Novak. Her father was Norman Bel Geddes one of the greatest Art Deco-Industrial designers of the 20th century.
Great choice!
@ BatGuano:
The incredible guest stars that wanted to work with Hitch on a TV show (when TV was still held in low esteem by many in Hollywood) was remarkable. Every episode was GOLD. Now look what we have. Blow it up, bad acting, no plots and contrived dialogue.
Carolina Girl wrote:
What we have now seems to be at least 12 versions of Law & Order, CSI, etc.
@ vagabond trader:
My favorite Hitch movie – the only one that comes close after that is Rope. I’ve been so many the places featured in Vertigo – the apartment building at the top of Nob Hill, Ernies, the graveyard at Mission Dolores, the Palace of the Legion of Honor, the Aquatic Park. Living in San Francisco had SOME advantages
@ vagabond trader:
Thanks. Hopefully tomorrow night will be Westerns Night with a classic episode of _____.
@ Carolina Girl:
Did you ever see “Frenzy”?
Carolina Girl wrote:
Well that is quite a coincidence. Tomorrow night will be a Western.
SanFranciscoZionist who stalked us tonight while calling us “stalkers” is invited to come over.
If I could start one channel for cable, it would be a REAL classic TV channel – reruns of Hitch, GE Theater, Have Gun Will Travel, Hawaiian Eye. Oh, and that one that had Gene Barry as a millionaire that solved mysteries. Great guest stars on that one, too.
Nick at Night started out like that but abandoned it for more modern shows. Pity.
Carolina Girl wrote:
No comparison. I was lucky enough to see Alfred Hitchcock, Twilight zone etc., first run. My expectations over the the last 30 years are zero.
@ Speranza:
No, I keep missing it. Is that the one with Joan Crawford or is it Joan Fontaine?
Probably Olivia deHavilland (ha!)
Carolina Girl wrote:
Every time I see Three’s Company or One Day at a Time, I cringe.
Carolina Girl wrote:
heck no. It was a film from 1972.
@ Carolina Girl:
How exciting! I wonder if the locations appear much different than they did when Vertigo was filmed. Shadow of a Doubt was one of my faves,there are so many.
@ BatGuano:
One of the few new shows that I actually like is “Leverage” because it’s a group of thieves that run cons on bad guys and always has that great surprise ending.
I read that as a short story, years ago……I did not know Hitchcock had made it into a movie…..
http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lamb.html
little OT…night all
more bombings in russia
@ Carolina Girl:
You must have seen Hawaiian Eye years after it was first run. I remember having a crush on Cricket Blake at the age of seven.
coldwarrior wrote:
Yes the muzzies are relentless in their blood lust.
@ Speranza:
Was that with Michael Caine as the serial killer in London?
@ vagabond trader:
Actually, with the exception of Ernie’s, everything is as it was. Of course, Carlotta’s grave isn’t real Sadly, Ernie’s closed in the early 80′s but it was THE place in S.F. to get a steak. If you ever find your way out here, I’ll give you the tour. If anyone can get me the intersection where Scotty’s apartment was, I’ll see if that’s still there, too.
vagabond trader wrote:
No it had Jon FInch in it and an actor who did look like Michael Caine.
@ Carolina Girl:
Burkes Law! Wow, haven’t seen that in years.
Thanks for the invite.
@ BatGuano:
My dad called me Cricket because of my curly blonde hair. Sadly, I never had looks that matched Connie Stevens. Yep – we watched Hawaiian Eye as an offering in the afternoon on one of the UHF channels, if I recall correctly.
VT and CG
FRENZY
@ Speranza:
I should check to see if Netflix has it for “watch now!”
vagabond trader wrote:
Gene Barry died a few weeks ago.
@ vagabond trader:
Never missed Burke’s Law when it was on.
Oh, and The Defenders, Perry Mason and The Millioniare! And that one with Sebastian Cabot – Checkmate or something like that.
@ Speranza:
Thats the one.Pretty shocking for those days. Not Michael Caine,well,it was the early 70s!
Carolina Girl wrote:
You would really enjoy it. Great flcik with great London locations.
Since This Friday is Good Friday, has anyone seen this terrific 1980 British Organized Crime thriller flick with Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren called The Long GOod Friday? A young Pierce Brosnan had a small role in it as an IRA killer.
@ Speranza:
Bat Masterson was another favorite of mine That and Maverick.
vagabond trader wrote:
Quite concur. It really was a fine little gem of a thriller.
Carolina Girl wrote:
Have Gun Will Travel, Rawhide, Cheyenne, Wagon Train, Gunsmoke
@ Speranza:
It’s one that’s on my “to see” list. I think it was nominated for an Oscar and IIRC, Hoskins got a best actor nomination as well.
We were all watching the same tv shows at the same time. Like,man,its cosmic!
Speranza wrote:
He was Bat Masterson before Burks’s law. The Christmas I was six I got a Bat Masterson outfit. It included a cane which I used on my older brothers. Sorry to hear is dead.
Carolina Girl wrote:
Robert Reed aka Mr. Mike Brady was in that show “The Defenders”.
BatGuano wrote:
He lived a long life (was around 90 years old).
The only Hitch movie that was a disappointment to me was “Rebecca.” I loved the DuMaurier book and the way they changed the ending was a crime. I think Hitch had to change the circumstances of Rebecca’s death because the Hollywood censors didn’t like that Maxim killed her and essentially got away with it, so they changed it to her falling instead and hitting her head, rather than Maxim’s giving her a well-deserved shot in the gut.
Carolina Girl wrote:
lmao
@ Speranza:
I remember him in that.I think E.G. Marshall was a regular too.
Did anybody else like the Equalier with Robert Woodward?
I thought that it was a smart program with really good scripts.
Carolina Girl wrote:
It is a terrific film Pay very close attention to the first 15 minutes as it is a montage of events that will come together in the end. Bob Hoskins performance was outstanding and Helen Mirren plays a sexy moll (his girl friend) with brains. The ending was absolutely fantastic. Hoskins best role playing mobster “Harold Shand” who wants to go straight (from being the head of the biggest crime family in London) to being a respectable businessman. However he faces treachery along the way.
And 77 Sunset Strip, Route 66.
I never heard of most of these.Where was I/ I think Hitchcock was RUDE.He wrote his scripts too long for his thirty minutes and just cut the damm thing off.
RIX wrote:
That was Edward Woodward who died late last year. Yes I enjoyed that show a lot.
@ RIX:
Great show. Robert Woodward could read the PHONE BOOK for an hour and I’d tune in to listen to him do it. GREAT show. Probably explains why I like Leverage so much.
Grimcargo wrote:
Hitch did not write the shows. He gave the introductions and endings but only directed 20 episodes.
Carolina Girl wrote:
Secret Agent
BatGuano wrote:
yes E.G Marshall and Rober Reed played a father/son team of lawyers.
It was a great show. “Odds against you, call the Equalizer”
@ Speranza:
Always watched it with my Dad.
@ Speranza:
The Prisoner. Which was the “Lost” of its day. But better acting. And scripts.
RIX wrote:
Do you go back far enough to remember Broderick Crawford in ‘Highway Patrol’? Then forward to Jack Lord in Hawaii 5-0?
Ten- Fowah to Bookem Danno. Almost identical characters.
Listen guys I am going to split soon. Please watch the episode if you get the chance. Hopefully tomorrow nightt I will post another class TV show.
PIMF – classic
@ Speranza:
I actually had a few drinks with Reed in South Pasadena. That was one bitter dude.
@ Speranza:
nite.
I did read or hear a story claiming Hitch was quite the misogynist.Anyone?
Perry Mason was the reason I became a legal assistant in the first place – I wanted to be Della Street. Of course, the job I do and the job she did were two different things. I have never gotten to hide a witness in a seedy motel under an assumed name and our investigator doesn’t look a thing like Paul Drake.
@ savage:
Bitter about what, Sav? BTW, nice photo in the threads the other day.
Carolina Girl wrote:
Nick Adams as Johnny Yuma… The Rebel
Carolina Girl wrote:
The Prisoner was actually a sequel to Secret Agent because in one episode they call number 7 “Drake”, John Drake was Secret Agent Man.
@ Carolina Girl:
LOL!
Poteen wrote:
In an episode of Seinfeld, George says “I’m just a rebel” and Jerry says “No, Johnny Yuma was a Rebel”
vagabond trader wrote:
I have a vague recollection of something like that. Tippi Hedren loved working with him, but said he oould be very hard on the actresses.
savage wrote:
yeah he felt that Brady Bunch was beneath him (he was a classically trained actor) but hey it gave him a salary for 5 season plus whatever money he made in residuals and he did give that role a lot of dignity. He was also a closeted gay.
vagabond trader wrote:
Makes sense. He was ugly enough that most women hated him.
@ Speranza:
That big, giant, ominous white ball……
@ Carolina Girl:
Maybe that was it and I conflated her recollection to assume the worst. Must’ve been during my brief stint as a womens libber wannabe.
Carolina Girl wrote:
So was Otto Preminger. He humiliated Tom Tryon on the set of The Cardinal in front of his parents.
Speranza wrote:
Whoa! Talk about a generation gap. I saw my first Seinfeld last year, because my remote battery went dead and I was too lazy to get off the couch.
vagabond trader wrote:
I did too. I also saw it in 1986 when it was broguht back on the UHS channels. Great theme song.
@ Poteen:
Money and power have a strange way of making one attractive?
@ Speranza:
I’d have to agree after the Defenders, which was superb, to go to The Brady Bunch, yeah, I can see where you’d be be pissed that this was the drivel Hollywood was churning out in the early 70′s. Gar-BAGE for the most part. I don’t know that I can recall a single great show from the early 70′s that wasn’t preceeded with the words “Masterpiece Theater”
Carolina Girl wrote:
Especially when it comes from Hollywood. Vancouver, OTOH, is another matter IMHO.
Poteen wrote:
A TV critic said at the time “Give Seinfeld credit for making a joke that maybe 15% of his audience would understand”.
@ Speranza:
That and Hawaii Five-0 were two of the best!
@ Speranza:
And then he did Galactica 1980. Ugh.
@ vagabond trader:
VT – we’re the real “women’s libbers” – we just DO; we don’t whine.
Carolina Girl wrote:
Reed thought Brady Bunch would be for only one season. He did though give the role a lotof dignity. I did like The Bob Newhart Show, All in the Family, and of course Kung Fu – all from the early 1970′s.
Highway Patrol doesn’t ring a bell, but definitely Hawaii Five-O.
@ Carolina Girl:
CG,did you watch the Poldark series on Masterpiece Theater in the 70s? Just bought the first season and it is still great.
@ Carolina Girl:
Heh! High five sistah!
vagabond trader wrote:
In its early years I used to watch with my mom and sister “Marcus Welby, M.D.” which wasn’t bad.
@ Speranza:
That happens to Dennis Miller a lot, too. Flyboy doesn’t like Dennis Miller only because he says “she’s over there laughing hysterically at him and 90% of the time I have no idea what about.”
OK, how about the Avengers with Dianna Rigg, with Patrick somebody?
@ vagabond trader:
Robin Ellis and Sngrahad Rees. I LOVED Them!
There was a show on for only two seasons 1967-69 with Jack Warden, Robert Hooks, and Frank Converse called “N.Y.P.D.” (not NYPD Blues) which was pretty good. I saw a young Al Pacino along with Jill Clayburgh together in one episode.
@ Carolina Girl:
Robert Reed was bitter about everyone thinking he was Mike Brady and he never got any roles.
And he was gay, might have been another reason he was pissed off all the time
vagabond trader wrote:
Story of my life.
@ Poteen:
Highway Patrol was one of my earliest television recollections. Never thought of the similarity between Crawford and Lord but you are right!
RIX wrote:
Oh man that was terrific. The story lines at times were hard to figure out but the chemistry between John Steed and Mrs. Emma Peel was great.
@ RIX:
Patrick MacNee. Loved Mrs. Peel and those jumpsuits. Angelia Jolie got nothin’ on our Emma!
@ Speranza:
Whoa,I remember that one and it was a good show.
savage wrote:
I suspect that was it. He eventually died of AIDS related causes.
Speranza wrote:
Don’t know if I should feel special or just ancient.
Poteen wrote:
Well Jerry was born in 1954 so he is from our time!
@ savage:
So,he was gay but not very happy?
vagabond trader wrote:
It sure was. Produced by David Susskind. Anyway my love I am off to bed. Hopefully another TV show for tomorrow (this is becoming fun).
Route 66
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLUYf6cekMA
Good night all.
@ vagabond trader:
He was always crabby at the bar.
Seinfeld never held that great an appeal for me as a “must see”, but I did watch regularly and of course, The Soup Nazi was classic.
@ Carolina Girl:
Finally released it on DVD. Got the old man to watch it and he enjoyed it also. The second season comes out in September. Can’t wait.
Carolina Girl wrote:
Those leather jump suits, that dark Auburn hair, and 6′ of womanhood!!
vagabond trader wrote:
I used to work with a guy who had a small part in a 5-0 episode.
He said that Jack Lord used to stand on platforms to make him look taller. He said he was 6″ taller than Lord. My coworker was at best 5′ 8″.
@ Speranza:
Night,sweet 60s teevee dreams!
These younguns don’t know what they missed!
Carolina Girl wrote:
The last four seasons really were outstanding.
Yeah, that’s a good assessment. The program just worked.
vagabond trader wrote:
Quite concur!
@ Speranza:
I can still remember my very favorite episode of that show — “The Winged Avenger.” CAW CAW!
@ RIX:
Another classic. I so wanted Emmas clothes. You guys, a whole other story.
Carolina Girl wrote:
Mine was one in which Mrs Peel played the Goddess of Sin in a tight black bodice. I was a teenaged boy bursting with hormones when I first saw that one.
Tell it, tell it , testify, Emma Peel was smokin.
Question, she was Mrs. Peel, where was Mr. Peel?
Oh man, I’ve got to head off to bed myself. How do you New Yorkers stay up so late??
I’ll see you all in the a.m when I get to work. Hey, and if anyone sees mickthemick tonight or the near future, ask him to get my email address from “m,” would you?
Smooches, netizens. Can’t wait to see what new Nazi flags Snowball finds tonight……
Speranza wrote:
Never thought I’d say it but I miss BW TV. Late at night with no ambient noise (find that nowadays) your imagination works better.
@ Poteen:
Too funny. I heard he had teh short man syndrome.The quiff,always perfect. A bunch of us used to get together on Tuesday night to watch. Hawaiian shirts were required.
@ Speranza:
I hit up Irish Rose!
The Irish Rose burns away
You and Josephine get a hat tip!
RIX wrote:
Right where she told him to be.
True, it was all perspective. She became a Bond Girl, didn’t she?
@ Speranza:
I LOATHED Seinfeld. What a bunch of frakkin’ idiots!
Speranza wrote:
Don’t forget the Theme Song was sung by Johnny Cash.
Rodan wrote:
Oh man I just noticed that Poteen mentioned it on the previous thread. As they say in the South, “my, my, my” – Carolina Girl knows what that means.
I don’t think that they ever actually dealt with Mr. Peel.
@ Rodan:
I wonder who she was….
Macker wrote:
Don;t ever talk to me! (just kidding).
@ Bunk X:
I buy enhanced cable strictly for the Encore Western channel.
The Rebel hasn’t shown up there yet but Maverick and Paladin are mainstays.
@ RIX:
I don’t think that they ever actually dealt with Mr. Peel.
@ Rodan:
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAH!
That does sound right. Emma & Steed had that vibe goin on.
vagabond trader wrote:
Mr. Peel is mentioned in Diana Rigg’;s last episode. He was lost some where and was found on an island. Believe it or not he was referred to as “Peter Peel found, wife Emma Awaits his return” in a newspaper on the show.
Good night. Everyboy have a good evening.
@ RIX:
Nite RIX!
@ Speranza:
Don’t remember that one.
So they tied it up. Peter Peel? Hmmmmm
@ RIX:
Sounds like an ‘elective’ procedure.
Reluctantly I must turn in. Had a rough day in the dentist chair and found out he11care is already taking hold.My insurance,which pays a fraction of dental,is now “discouraging” preventative care.Nice.Real nice,guess sooner than later I’ll be looking for dead sister teeth.
Nite!
I’ve never seen that Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode before. Pretty funny!
Speranza wrote:
Is that anything like “mmm mmm mmm”?
Poteen wrote:
I refuse to pay for TV. I am a rebel.
Oy. As in yikes. This is downright cringeworthy embarrassing:
@ Bunk X:
I was like that once. Then I got a bootleg satellite box. Then the satellite folks figured out how to remotely nuke my box.
Then I got fuckin’ tired of network TV.
40 years ago I got 5 or 6 channels for free.
Now I pay for 200 channels so I can watch 5 or 6.
snork wrote:
Who the hell was that mental midget? Guam’s gonna tip over? Pheeew.
In the 1990′s I was working on a project for NHRA that included sound abatement walls. There was a councilman who had no concept of acoustics and kept asking, “Where does the sound go? It’s gotta go somewhere!”
Idiots.
@ Poteen:
There’s very little that I want to watch on TV that I can’t track down on the internet, and we can still rent DVD movies, legally, so far.
Bunk X wrote:
US congressman Hank Johnson, (D)-GA
Where do they find such people???
@ snork:
I don’t know but I just decided I’m going to buy a reloader.
Jeez, I’m at the last thread slapping SpaceJesus and everyone is over here.
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@ Macker:
She was the Belle of Belfast City! Yeeeeeehaaaaaaa!
Supposedly there is a version of this tune with the Chieftans and Brak from Space Ghost but I can’t seem to find it on youtube so we’ll just have to stick with Sham Rock and Kristy MacColl.
@ Speranza:
I sure do! Secret Scarlet O’Hara language developed ‘mongst us Belles!
RIX wrote:
Actually they did. He was “found” to be in South America and that’s when Diana left the show and they replaced him with that dreadful woman “Tara” and the show was never the same…..
Congressman Phil Hare (Dummycrap-IL) to constituents about the Obamacare bill: “I don’t worry about the Constitution on this to be honest…”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IosVnGgkI9A