YMMV / Alfred Hitchcock Presents

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• Complete Monster: "Specialty of the House": Ms. Sbirro is the owner of the luxurious Sbirro's restaurant. Famed for her "specialty of the house", the incredible lamb, Sbirro is in truth cooking patrons into the meal. When Harry Laffler finds himself invited to the kitchen, Sbirro locks him in with her cleaver-armed chef and gleefully adds Laffler's picture to many other "absent friends" before adding she believes she can promise the specialty will be available the following week.
• Harsher in Hindsight: In "Design for Loving," the robot replica or marionette version of Charles Braling (whom he has just murdered) says to his neighbor "These are strange times in which strange machines with even stranger functions are moving into our lives and taking over."
• Heartwarming Moments: "Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid" has a recent parolee take a job as a Mall Santa. He hates the job, and his parole officer has no faith in him. He catches a troubled kid who wants to be a pilot try to steal a toy airplane from the store. He warns him he can't be a pilot with a criminal record and agrees to get him the plane if he doesn't steal again. The parolee steals the plane from the store since his officer took his money to the bank. Right as he's about to be sent back to jail for stealing the plane, the parole officer comes in. Turns out the bank closed before she could make it and claims he intended to pay for it, there was just a miscommunication and they agree to drop the charges provided he pay for the plane. He does, and the parole officer believes her client has truly changed.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Robert Loggia starred in one episode with an actress named Pilar Seurat. Seurat's son became the producer Dean Devlin, who produced Independence Day which included Loggia in the cast.
  • In "The Hatbox", Professor Jarvis denies murdering his wife by listing out why certain methods are impossible for him. His final example is of hydrofluoric acid, which he describes as ineffective because it would melt through a bathtub.
• Hollywood Homely:
  • In "Behind the Locked Door", Bonnie (Lynn Loring) says that her parents thought she wasn't beautiful, but her new husband says he thinks she is. After she dies, he looks at a picture of her and says she really was "plain as paper." Viewers might disagree.
  • In "Night Fever", the quite attractive Colleen Dewhurst plays a nurse who is considered hopelessly plain by everyone, including herself.
• Jerkass Woobie: Aunt Nell from "Where the Woodbine Twineth" who loves her six-year-old niece Eva but is too stern and old fashioned to connect with her with tragic consequences.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • The "Good evening" opening with Hitchcock's profile has been parodied countless times.
  • The theme song is also pretty popular amongst cs188 followers due to its usage in several of his poops.
• Narm: The scene in "The Belfry" where the killer breaks into the classroom and writes "I'll git you to" [sic] on the chalkboard.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Quite a number of actors who would become distinguished later on had acted in episodes of the original 1955-1965 series. Just a few to mention include Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Burt Reynolds, James Coburn, Martin Landau, and John Cassavetes.
  • "A Matter of Murder" pits Darren McGavin against Telly Savalas. That's right, it's Kolchak versus Kojak!
  • Yannick Bisson of Murdoch Mysteries fame appears in the episode “Twisted Sisters”.
• Values Resonance: The very first episode "Revenge" brilliantly encapsulated both the harm of a False Rape Accusation (even in a case of mistaken identity), and the dangers of going the Vigilante Man route.

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