History Series / AlfredHitchcockPresents

** Spirro in "Specialty of the House" is one of the few successful villains not to be given AdaptationalKarma in Hitchcock's closing narration - all he says is that he does not endorse her.

A GenreAnthology television series produced and hosted by the famed English thriller director Creator/AlfredHitchcock. It originally aired from 1955 to 1962 (half-hour episodes) and 1962 to 1965 (hour-long episodes, as ''The Alfred Hitchcock Hour''), bouncing between Creator/{{CBS}} and Creator/{{NBC}} for a total of ten seasons comprising 268 half-hour episodes and 93 hour-long episodes (of which 17 were directed by Hitchcock himself).

* SelfDeprecation: One episode begins with Alfred Hitchcock standing on a scale, and when he puts a coin in, the scale reads [[YouAreFat "Will one of you please get off?"]]

* DownerEnding: "A Glass Eye" concerns the brother of the spinster heroine looking through her effects and telling his wife the story of how the only time she fell in love ended badly. She discovered that her crush, a handsome ventriloquist, was actually a dummy, with his dummy being the real ventriloquist. She never deviated from her lonely life again, and he quit the ventriloquism business and became a circus clown, with the brother observing that even the children can tell he's very sad.

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* AbsurdlyHighStakesGame: In "Man From the South" (1950s and 1980s versions), a young gambler accepts a bet to try and light his cigarette lighter ten times in a row. If he wins, he gets a car; if he loses, he gets his little finger chopped off.

* TheBet: In "Man From the South" (1950s and 1980s versions), a young gambler accepts a bet that he can't light his cigarette lighter ten times in a row; if he loses the bet, he'll lose a finger.

* AbsurdlyHighStakesGame: In "Man From the South" (1950s and 1980s versions), a young gambler accepts a bet that he can't light his cigarette lighter ten times in a row; if he loses the bet, he'll lose a finger.

A {{Revival}}, ''The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents'', ran from 1985 to 1989; it featured new stories (and some newly-filmed remakes of old episodes) introduced by recycled (and colorized) footage of Hitchcock.

** "Cheap is Cheap" ends with Hitchcock saying that Gifford was soon caught, but only paid a fine.

* DeathBySex

* {{Doppelganger}}: "The Case of Mr Pelham"

* CorruptHick: ''The Crooked Road'' features three: a DirtyCop, a swindling mechanic, and a HangingJudge all in cahoots to milk out-of-towners for every cent they can get.

GenreAnthology television series produced and hosted by famed thriller director Creator/AlfredHitchcock. The original run was from 1955 to 1962 (half-hour episodes) and 1962 to 1965 (hour-long episodes, as ''The Alfred Hitchcock Hour''), bouncing between Creator/{{CBS}} and Creator/{{NBC}} and totalling 268 half-hour episodes and 93 hour episodes (of which 17 were directed by Hitchcock himself).

Each episode was a self-contained mystery/thriller story, with Hitchcock appearing before and after to make introductory and closing remarks. Writers who either scripted episodes or had stories adapted for the series include Creator/AmbroseBierce, Creator/RayBradbury, Creator/RobertBloch, Creator/RoaldDahl, Creator/AvramDavidson, Creator/HarlanEllison, Creator/EvanHunter, [[Literature/ArchyAndMehitabel Don Marquis]], Creator/RichardMatheson, Creator/AAMilne, Creator/EllisPeters, Creator/DorothyLSayers, and Creator/CornellWoolrich.

* WhamLine: Used during the exchange that ends "Madame Mystery". Jimmy Dolan, a PR man at Goliath Studios, is confronted by Betsey Blake, a bedraggled, middle-aged WhiteDwarfStarlet who was thought to be dead but was [[ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated alive all along]]. Jimmy has engineered a huge publicity campaign around a movie Betsey filmed just before she "died" and he doesn't want anything interfering with it, so [[spoiler:he kills her]], leading his scriptwriter friend Stevie to confront him.

* TwoAliasesOneCharacter: "Annabel"