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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