Lost Alfred Hitchcock 1973 TV interview found intact, now on YouTube
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Alfred Hitchcock famously directed Psycho and other classic movies, but many of us first knew him as kids, when he hosted a weekly nighttime series of TV stories called Alfred Hitchcock Presents from 1955-65. Sir Alfred died in 1980 -- at 81 -- and I hadn't realized how much I'd missed his British accent, deadpan humor and basset-hound face until I watched Alfred Hitchcock - Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder Fall 1973, Uploaded last week to YouTube, the video's description begins, "Long thought to be lost or destroyed, a complete recording has been found of one of the few hour long interviews of Alfred Hitchcock. ..." Snyder opens the interview by noting that all Alfred Hitchcock's pictures scare people, and asks, "What frightens you? What are you afraid of?" Hitchcock: "Most things. I'm scared of p'licemen. I never drive a car, on the theory that if you don't drive a car you can't get a ticket...." There are six parts. Here's Part 1:
Stuff: Alfred Hitchcock on Wikipedia. 149 episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents can be watched at Hulu. If you remember it, but can't figure out how you got to stay up late to watch it, this may help: "Alfred Hitchcock Presents, 30 minutes long, aired weekly at 9:30 on CBS on Sunday nights from 1955 to 1960, and then at 8:30 on NBC on Tuesday nights from 1960 to 1962." |
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