I got into Alfred Hitchcock Presents in my early teenage years when it was on Nick at Night, that music soothes my soul, when I'm down I can put it on and drift back to 1988 and forget everything.
I like the theme too, but after working on the video for a few days straight, it's stuck in my head. I almost expect Alfred to pop out behind a corner somewhere, but thank goodness for re-runs or we would have missed out on some great shows.
It was Hitchcock's TV Contract with Universal that allowed Psycho to be made. Paramount, the studio Hitchcock was making movie for, turned the project down. and wouldn't finance it. So it was filmed on the Alfred Hitchcock Presents soundstages with the TV crew during the 1959 Christmas hiatus. Paramount reluctantly agreed to distribute the film, as they did have a contract of their own with AH. This is also why Psycho was black and white film after he had made so many films in Technicolor. He was using the TV series black and white film stock.
In the mid 80s, USA Network had a programming block called "Saturday Nightmares. It had a two-hour monster movie, two half-hour episodes of "Tales from the Darkside," and an hour-long episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents." Now that was a full evening of entertainment!
I believe Dick York also was in an episode of the twilight zone called a penny for your thoughts. He buys a newspaper and throws a coin into the newspaper stands, and it stands on edge, and as long as it was its edge, she was able to read minds. That was a pretty cool episode.
I always remember the episode of ST where Captain Kirk beats Khan, a man of incredible strength who just bent a phaser into a pretzel , to unconsciousness with a light piece of plastic.
Surprisingly themes of science fiction have their origins in classical stories or have been adapted from dramatic talesis from Shakespeare or many Grims Fairy tales and often other sources like real-world experiences. There is another tv series which you haven't mentioned Outer Limits and a UK series Tales Of The Uninspected of which use many themes from Hichcocks libraries and a famous author. Curious question is some of those stories were written by the same author or did Hichcock have a hand in those series under another name? William Shatner appeared on many different tales in those shows but one story always comes to mind the one on a plane with gremlins in odd thing is he repeated this in a Hichcock episode but it was time travel involved or gremlins or aliens? Vulcans my guess? Because Leonard Nimoy also appeared in that episode. One other thing I recall from Twilight Zone an episode where a story in that series ends only to sort of continues in Outer Limits basically with the cast from the other series involved? It also highlights in movies sometimes especially movies about time travelling or movies about TV series on similar events.
I appreciate that. Maybe voice work on one of my cartoons someday. Still spending most of my time doing classic TV commentary, but animated stories is something I want to get going successfully on my other channel.
I'm not sure what this show is, but at the start of it a women is driving through a real bad storm and winds up time traveling to the future, it turns out that she meets her sons wife and family, she commits suicide back in her own time, and realizes she sees she missed out on her family in the future. I believe she kept time traveling a few times visiting them in the future not knowing the family was hers until at or near the end she saw a picture of herself in their home. If anyone has an idea what show this is please let me know.
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I'm not sure what this show is, but at the start of it a women is driving through a real bad storm and winds up time traveling to the future, it turns out that she meets her sons wife and family, she commits suicide back in her own time, and realizes she sees she missed out on her family in the future. I believe she kept time traveling a few times visiting them in the future not knowing the family was hers until at or near the end she saw a picture of herself in their home. If anyone has an idea what show this is please let me know. I'm not sure if it was the night gallery, the twilight zone, the outer limits or some other.
There was also a show contemporary with The Twilight Zone called One Step Beyond, but it was from the U.K., so you would probably know from the accents. It was syndicated in the U.S.
@@simonagree4070 The show I'm talking about is a show from the US, I have looked everywhere and on ROKU, I am trying to remember who the main actress was to look it up that way, but no luck yet. It reminds me of a Twilight Zone episode but it is not one of them.
