Thursday 14 September 2017

790 Alfred Hitchcock Presents


First  viewed : 6  January  1987

Alfred  Hitchcock  Presents  was  a  re-boot  of  an  American  TV  classic  from  the  fifties  and  early  sixties   whereby  the  great  film  director  would  play  on  his  reputation  as  the  master  of  suspense  with  a  campy  monologue  and  epilogue  bookending  a  short  drama. Hitchcock  himself  only  directed  a  handful  of  them  but  it  was  an  extremely  popular  series.

Twenty  years  after  it  finished , NBC  decided  to  revive  it  with  re-filmed  versions  of   previous  episodes  and  some  entirely  new  stories. Of  course  Hitchcock  had  been  dead  for  five  years  by  then  but  they  colorised   his  contributions  and  re-used  them, fitting  the  most  apposite    they  could  find  to  the  new  stories  and  hoping  for  the  best.  It  ran  for  four  years.

ITV  ( or  at  least  Granada )  broadcast  it  very  late  at  night  and  the  only  one  I  recall  watching  is  The  Creeper  ( one  of  the  re-filmed  stories )   because  it  starred  Karen  Allen. She  played  Jackie  Foster, a  paranoid  yuppie  woman  who  is  plagued  by  a  stalker  and  ends  up  garotted  by  someone  she  actually  does  trust.

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