Again the anthology series hosted by the Master of Suspense but it had ninety-four episodes and three seasons. But that is enough. As it is the same "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" but only expanded thirty minutes longer.As it shows whodunits as well as before they were stars like Robert Redford. Really a great show and a great way of humor by Hitchcock.If you noticed that he dressed in a suit for Alfred Hitchcock Presents but in the Hour thing, he dressed up in a tuxedo. As he really looked sharp in it. Not that I would mind the suit thing. But still, you can't go wrong with Hitch in a tuxedo.Still a lot of people did not like the hour that much. But still, it is great though not better than the half-hour shows. Which tidy up things. Hour is much more acting and a lot of character development it seems.

First of all, Alfred Hitchcock's introduction, station brake and wrap up monologues are worth the price of watching those commercials alone — which regularly were humorously ridiculed by Hitchcock himself. Watching these shows these many years later is therapy for the lightening fast world of the 21st century. Lots of husbands killing wives and wives killing husbands. And of course, then, nobody could get away with anything — if not in the story itself then in the ending wrap up by Hitchcock.AND, it was an era when REAL ACTORS were on TV — not the pretty face empty nothing's on TV today. Living in impossible apartments and working in impossible work places and performing impossible plots.

Alfred Hitchock Presents ran half-hour shows, which stuck strictly to whodunits. The Alfred Hitchock hour tended more toward one-hour dramas with twist endings. As usual, each episode boasted a pageant of stars. Stories were not as tightly knit. Some episodes were laconic. This was television's last attempt at the Playhouse 90s, Alcoa/Goodyear TV Playhouses, the Loretta Young Shows and Kraft Mystery Theatres. It was the last of an age of television, which story lines lasted an entire hour, rather than being broken up into various story lines and woven subplots. Here were the the last of the great playwrights, in their eleventh hour, just before Fred Silverman turned television into tedium.

For Alfred Hitchcock's centennial, Encore has been showing old reruns of the Alfred Hitchcock Hour tv show. I really have been enjoying them. Especially seeing Tony Randall and Jayne Mansfield, who co-starred together in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, to team up again! I have only seen 4 but I am begging for more.:-)