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As in its first season on CBS, season two of the suspense anthology Alfred Hitchcock Presents opens with an episode directed by Hitchcock himself: "Wet Saturday, starring Sir Cedric Hardwicke as an aristocrat who tries to cover up a murder committed by his wastrelly son by framing someone else for the crime. Too busy with his movie career to contribute much more to the series beyond his weekly opening and closing appearances, Hitch directed only one other second-season effort: "One More Mile to Go, a virtually wordless tour de force for star David Wayne as a middle-class murderer who encounters unexpected difficulty trying to hide his wife's corpse from an overly friendly highway patrolman. Also in keeping with a precedent set in season one, most of the best season-two episodes are the handiwork of director Robert Stevens. Case in point: the three-part "I Killed the Count, adapted by Francis Cockrell from a story by Alec Coppel, who would later collaborate on the script for Hitchcock's 1958 movie classic Vertigo. And, likewise as in the previous season, several young, up-and-coming actors were showcased in the second-season endeavors, such as Inger Stevens ("My Brother Richard"), Rip Torn ("Number Twenty-Two"), and Vic Morrow and Barbara Cook ("A Little Sleep"). Leaping to sixth place in the overall TV ratings during its sophomore season, Alfred Hitchcock Presents also earned its first Emmy award, bestowed upon James P. Cavanaugh's script for the episode "Fog Closes In." Hal Erickson

Product Details

• UPC: 025192872921
• Source: UNIVERSAL STUDIOS
• Region Code: 1
• Aspect Ratio: Pre-1954 Standard (1.33.1)
• Presentation: B&W
• Language: English
• Time: 16:52:00
• Sales Rank: 324

This set contains DVDs which may be available separately:

• Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Wet Saturday
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Fog Closing In
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents: De Mortuis
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Kill With Kindness
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents: None Are So Blind
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Toby
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Alibi Me
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Conversation Over a Corpse
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Crack of Doom
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Jonathan
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents: A Better Bargain
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Rose Garden
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Mr. Blanchard's Secret
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents: John Brown's Body
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Crackpot
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Nightmare in 4-D
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents: My Brother Richard
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Manacled
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Bottle of Wine
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Malice Domestic
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Number Twenty-Two
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The End of Indian Summer
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents: One for the Road
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Cream of the Jest
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents: I Killed the Count, Part 1
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents: I Killed the Count, Part 2
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents: I Killed the Count, Part 3
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents: One More Mile to Go
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Vicious Circle
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Three Dreams of Mr. Findlater
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Night the World Ended
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Hands of Mr. Ottermole
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents: A Man Greatly Beloved
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Martha Mason, Movie Star
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The West Warlock Time Capsule
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Father and Son
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Indestructable Mr. Weems
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents: A Little Sleep
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Dangerous People

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