L'hora d'Alfred Hitchcock (títol original en anglès, Alfred Hitchcock Presents) és una sèrie de televisió estatunidenca de 268 episodis de 26 minuts, en blanc i negre, creada per Alfred Hitchcock i difosa entre el 2 d'octubre de 1955 i el 26 de juny de 1962 a la xarxa CBS (d'octubre de 1955 a setembre de 1960) i després a la xarxa NBC (de setembre de 1960 a juny de 1962).
Argument Immortalitzada per la silueta d'Alfred Hitchcock apareixent a la pantalla amb el so de La Marxa Fúnebre per a una marioneta de Charles Gounod, aquesta sèrie és de fet una antologia de petites històries negres, amb final sovint inesperat.
Al començament de cada episodi i abans de fer-ne la presentació, sempre tenyit d'humor negre, Alfred Hitchcock saludava els telespectadors amb un sever «Bona nit». Tornava a l'epíleg per exposar la seva moral de la història.
Nombrosos directors van participar en aquesta sèrie, sobretot Robert Altman, Sydney Pollack, Robert Stevenson, Ida Lupino, Don Taylor, Arthur Hiller… i Alfred Hitchcock que en va realitzar ell mateix disset i un altre a la sèrie The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.
Repartiment Nombrosos actors han figurat al repartiment de la sèrie, entre els quals : Barbara Bel Geddes Charles Bronson John Cassavetes James Coburn Joseph Cotten Bette Davis Robert Duvall Tom Ewell Peter Falk John Forsythe Vinton Hayworth Peter Lorre Steve McQueen Walter Matthau Elizabeth Montgomery Roger Moore Kim Novak Vincent Price Robert Redford Burt Reynolds William Shatner Martin Sheen Robert Vaughn Dick York
Premis Premi Emmy 1956: Millor muntatge per a l'episodi Breakdown Premi Emmy 1957: Millor guió de James P. Cavanagh per a l'episodi Fog Closing In Premi Emmy 1958: Millor director per Robert Stevens per a l'episodi The Glass Eye Premi Globus d'Or 1958: Millor sèrie Episodis Temporada 1 (1955 - 1956) Revenge Premonition Triggers in Leash Don't Come Back Alive Into Thin Air Salvage Breakdown Our Cook's a Treasure The Long Shoot The Case of Mr. Pelham Guilty Witness Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid The Cheney Vase A Bullet for Baldwin The Big Switch You Got to Have Luck The Older Sister Shopping for Death The Derelicts And So Died Riabouchinska Safe Conduct Place of Shadows Back for Christmas The Perfect Murder There Was an Old Woman Whodunit Help Wanted Portrait of Jocelyn The Orderly World of Mr. Appleby Never Again The Gentleman from America The Baby Sitter The Belfry The Hidden Thing The Legacy Mink Decoy The Creeper Momentum
Temporada 2 (1956 - 1957) Wet Saturday Fog Closing In De Mortuis Kill with Kindness None Are so Blind Toby Alibi Me Conversation over a Corpse Crack of Doom Jonathan The Better Bargain The Rose Garden Mr. Blanchard's Secret John Brown's Body Crackpot Nightmare in 4-D My Brother, Richard The Manacled A Bottle of Wine Malice Domestic Number Twenty-Two The End of Indian Summer One for the Road The Cream of the Jest I Killed the Count (part. 1/3) I Killed the Count (part. 2/3) I Killed the Count (part. 3/3) One More Mile to Go Vicious Circle The Three Dreams of Mr. Findlater The Night the World Ended The Hands of Mr. Ottermole A Man Greatly Beloved Martha Mason, Movie Star The West Warlock Time Capsule Father and Son The Indestructable Mr. Weems A Little Sleep The Dangerous People
Temporada 3 (1957 - 1958) The Glass Eye Mail Order Prophet The Perfect Crime Heart of Gold The Silent Witness Reward to Finder Enough Rope for Two The Last Request The Young One The Diplomatic Corpse The Deadly Miss Paisley’s Cat Night of the Execution The Percentage Together Sylvia The Motive Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty The Equalizer On the Nose Guest for Breakfast The Return of the Hero The Right Kind of the House The Foghorn Flight to the East Bull in a China Shop Disappearing Trick Lamb to the Slaughter Fatal Figures Death Sentence The Festive Season Listen, Listen...! Post Mortem The Crocodile Case Dip in the Pool The Safe Place The Canary Sedan The Impromptu Murder Little White Frock
Temporada 4 (1958 - 1959) Poison Don't Interrupt The Jokester The Crooked Road The $2,000,000 Defense Design for Loving Man with a Problem Safety for the Witness Murder Me Twice Tea Time And the Desert Shall Blossom Mrs. Herman and Mrs. Fenimore Six People, No Music The Morning After A Personal Matter Out There - Darkness Total Loss The Last Dark Step The Morning of the Bride The Diamond Necklace Relative Value The Right Price I'll Take Care of You The Avon Emeralds The Kind Waitress Cheap Is Cheap The Waxwork The Impossible Dream Banquo’s Chair A Night with the Boys Your Witness Human Interest Story The Dusty Drawer A True Account (Curtains for Me) Touché Invitation to an Accident
Temporada 5 (1959 - 1960) Arthur The Crystal Trench Appointement at Eleven Coyote Moon No Pain Anniversary Gift Dry Run The Blessington Method Dead Weight Special Delivery Road Hog Specialty of the House An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge Graduation Class Man from the South The Ikon of Elijah The Cure Backward, Turn Backward Not the Running Type The Day of the Bullet Hitch Hike Across the Threshold Craig's Will Madame Mystery The Little Man Who Was There Mother, May I Go Out to Swim? The Cuckoo Clock Forty Detectives Later The Hero Insomnia I Can Take Care of Myself One Grave Too Many Party Line Cell 227 The Schartz-Metterklume Method Letter of Credit Escape to Sonoita Hooked
Temporada 6 (1960 - 1961) Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat The Doubful Doctor Very Moral Theft The Contest for Aaron Gold The Five-Forty-Eight Pen Pal Outlaw in Town O Youth and Beauty! The Money Sybilla The Man with Two Faces The Baby-Blue Expression The Man Who Found the Money The Changing Heart Summer Shade A Crime for Mothers The Last Escape The Greatest Monster of Them All The Landlady The Throwback The Kiss-Off The Horseplayer Incident in a Small Jail A Woman's Help Museum Piece Coming, Mama Deathmate Gratitude The Pearl Necklace You Can't Trust a Man The Gloating Place Self Defense A Secret Life Servant Problem Coming Home Final Arrangements Make My Death Bed Ambition
Temporada 7 (1961 - 1962) The Hatbox Bang! You're Dead! Maria Cop for a Day Keep Me Company Beta Delta Gamma You Can't Be a Little Girl All Your Life The Old Pro I Spy Services Rendered The Right Kind of Medicine A Jury of Her Peers The Silk Petticoat Bad Actor The Door Without Key The Case of M.J.H. The Faith of Aaron Menefee The Woman Who Wanted to Live Strange Miracle The Test Burglar Proof The Big Score Profit-Sharing Plan Apex The Last Remains Ten O'Clock Tiger Act of Faith The Kerry Blue The Matched Pearl What Frightened You, Fred? Most Likely to Succeed Victim Four The Opportunity The Twelve Hour Caper The Children of Alda Nuova First Class Honeymoon The Big Kick Where Beauty Lies The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Episodis dirigits per Alfred Hitchcock Revenge, 1955 Breakdown, 1955 The Case of Mr. Pelham, 1955 Back for Christmas, 1956 Wet Saturday, 1956 Mr. Blanchard's Secret, 1956 One More Mile to Go, 1957 The Perfect Crime, 1957 Lamb to the Slaughter, 1958 Dip in the Pool, 1958 Poison, 1958 Banquo's Chair, 1959 Arthur, 1959 The Crystal Trench, 1959 Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat, 1960 The Horseplayer, 1961 Bang! You're Dead!, 1961 I Saw the Whole Thing, 1962 (corresponent a la sèrie The Alfred Hitchcock Hour) Comentaris La sèrie va donar a llum una revista de notícies literàries anomenada 'Alfred Hitchcock's Magazine, publicada per H.S.D. Publication Inc. Tanmateix, Hitchcock no estava en absolut implicat en la selecció literària de la revista, es va conformar a escriure'n un editorial cada mes. Aquesta revista existeix encara però va ser recomprada pel grup Dell Magazine el 1997. Després, el títol de la revista es va modificar en Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. És avui una de les més antigues revistes del gènere.
Referències
Enllaços externs L'informe i l'emissió ràdio consagrats a Alfred Hitchcock Presents a Aux frontières des Séries A la Universal
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