The Alfred Hitchcock Hour intro

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[doublereedgeek]

It's a bassoon quartet! AMAZING!

[skullmask5]

gooood evening! i remember watchung this with my dad and spinning around in a recliner saying this over and over again! thanks for the upload!

[RavenHouseMystery]

Great intro to the "extra large" Alfred Hitchcock Presents. There will never be another Hitchcock, he was one of a kind.:-)

[AliJalal93]

MASTERPIECE!

[Nevermind51]

Love this video!

[MaDrEaMeR17]

Damn, this guy makes a common greeting 20x more epic!

[JubalCalif]

@MaDrEaMeR17

I second that emotion! The late great Mr Hitchcock's droll intros were often the BEST part of his show! Though I liked the half hour version MUCH better than the hour version (I can say the SAME in regards to the late great Rod Serling & his classic "Twilight Zone" series). Happy New Year to one & all !!! :-)

[CRFreshPrince]

i am the only one who thinks of fresh prince when i hear "good eevening"? :P

[theshadow1932]

@CRFreshPrince I always flash on "The doodlebug", from 'Lost In Space'!

Norm

[BodaciousWickerman]

@CRFreshPrince Haha me too. Saw that episode just the other day.

[kkgirl300]

if anyone notice the house at the beginning of this video is the house that Norman bates lived in from the alfred hitchcock movie Psycho

[SnugglySara]

I used to have nightmares that the creepy caricature was chasing me! Man, that thing terrified the shit out of me as a tot!

[vividwatch47]

The version of "Funeral March Of A Marionette" was arranged by Hitchcock's master composer Bernard Herrmann, which was used for the show's final two seasons.

[Juliaflo]

50th Anniversary of Psycho.

Truly a standard-bearer in motion pictures.

[SnugglySara]

Now this always bugged the crap out of me! I felt as though that butt ugly drawing was chasing me!

[TheMadVideoer]

Good even-ning, Sir Alfred Hitchcock!

[Bestmanme08]

This series discussed in great new bio (All About Jeffrey Hunter) at amazon!

[M0Nk3yB34n3dJ3Nk1n5]

Good Eeevening, I am............THE MASTER OF SUSPENSE!!!!

[Cader1dris]

he's a bit like the Tim Burton of the 20th Century lol

[skullknap]

Their style of filmmaking is entirely different.

[Cader1dris]

i mean that they have the same spooky atmosphere to their movies...i admire both, i wasnt trying to offend anyone!

[TheMadVideoer]

No...

He's WAY better!

[copifo]

Fantastic.

[zappazoey]

GOOD EEEVENING!!!

[nerfmerc]

its too bad this great man is dead

[nobiggie90]

hey I have this theme as an mp3. if you want it leave me your e-mail address in a private message and I will gladly send it to you.

It includes the 'Good Evening.' lol

[m0rph0blue]

What a brilliant mind Hitchcock!

[wesinalabama]

personally i thought the hour-long shows were "padded", dull, and not nearly the quality if show that the half-hour ones were. Remember when Boris Karloff was also hired to host something called Boris Karloff Theatre?

[Juliaflo]

Boris Karloff (ne William Henry Pratt) hosted Thriller.

[cjk1000000]

This has always been one of my favorite shows! And I'm only 16! Frickin creepiest theme ever!

-CJK

[Outstep31]

He all ways sounded pissed

[Staszu13]

(channeling Hitch) Of course, part of the reason for that was the commercials. I always thought them a most tedious waste of time. And speak of the devil, he he comes now....(go to commercial)

[packingten]

Heres some trivia by someone who knows about this subject. Friday night was scare night and ALL night television when there were only a handful of channels. Twilight Zone came on at 8 pm,I think before Alfed Hitchcock at 9 pm, then at ten some other creepsho came on, then in indy We had a fright show on Fri Sammy Terry little kids were in bed, or most,I LOVED Friday nights My Dad and ME always watched scary movies miss my Father and all of my heroes like Alfred Hitchcock and Rod Sterling

[watha2020]

To me, this has always been THE Hitchcock intro. I remember it so well from my childhood. It used to scare the crap out of me, but I'd still sneak and watch the show, even after my mother ordered me not to because it kept me awake at night! This is also a wonderful woodwinds adaptation of the Gounod music...was it orchestrated by Bernard Herrmann, Hitch's favorite composer? It sounds like it. I've always thought that Gounod himself would have wished he'd thought of doing it that way.

[venusian1]

I love this very surreal intro to The Hitchcock Hour.  The watch and eyes are a direct reference to Salvador Dali.

[jkeyes59]

when I was a kid, around 5-6 in 1965, my sister was about 15, and she would watch reruns of this on tv in northen n.j...I would hear this music and RUN..for some reason it scared the crap outta me!!

[freestuffffff]

I prefered the visual simplicity of the original opening and the full orchestra version of Gounod's music.

[AlbinoFrog]

Long live a great man.

[deathswitness]

haha yes long live...even if he is dead..

nice pick of words :P

[wahoo76]

Was this title done by UPA? Seems good enough to have been. (They animated "The Telltale Heart" and "The Twilight Zone" open.)

[vividwatch47]

Oh yes, and they also did the nonanimated prologue to "The Vikings"., and "The Twilight Zone" also had an opening with a line that ran across a white background that was used for two episodes (it's on "The After Hours").

[fromthesidelines]

The original episodes of Hitch's anthology series (1955-'65) were filmed and shown in black & white, 'DJK'. It wsn't until 1985 that some of his introductions were "colorized" for the new "HITCHCOCK" series MCA/Universal produced for three seasons {two in syndication}.

[JPPT1974]

Love Hitch in that tux!

[fromthesidelines]

The final season opening on NBC (1964-'65), with Hitch wearing a "tux" during his introduction.

[DJKhrome]

Wait a minute...didn't "Hitch" end his run in Living Color?

[luludeuva]

GREAT¡¡¡¡

[drunkenpeter99]

I was wondering what this looked like.

[JPPT1974]

Want to see more of this! Thanks!