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Stewart), finding a teenage boy (Brandon de Wilde) passed out on the grounds. The plot revolves around a carnival magician, Sadini (played by David J. But the reason they gave, when they told NBC not to air “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” was that it was “too gruesome.”

Maybe this led to Revlon’s mistrust of the show.

Hitchcock famously would mock the sponsors, saying funny asides before each commercial break, usually comparing the dreadful events onscreen to the torture of watching an ad. But Hitchcock’s show was different-it relied on psychological terror, which gave it a compelling nature without anything supernatural or fantastic, it didn’t have the political charge of The Twilight Zone, and, most importantly, it was connected to a famous and applauded film director. The show came in during the peak of the anthology genre’s popularity, then trailed out with the genre specifically, it was part of the sci fi/horror/suspense anthology subgenre, compared to The Twilight Zone and Tales of Tomorrow. On NBC, during the 1961-62 season, it competed with The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis on CBS and Calvin and the Colonel on ABC it was preceded by Laramie and followed by The Dick Powell Show. Although a few other directors appeared throughout the series, Variety was semi-right in that those four men directed the majority of the episodes. Each half-hour gets a different writer and cast while the directorial chores will be split between Hitchcock, Robert Stevens, Paul Henreid, and James Neilson.” This was written at the launch of Season 3, about an episode called “The Glass Eye” featuring future stars Jessica Tandy and William Shatner. Variety described (In 1957) Alfred Hitchcock Presents as “30-minute films with a novel suspense yarn that could keep CBS-TV’s rating ball up for that time period if the follow-uppers maintain similar production and plot line stature. It was the 39th episode of season 7 of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” (a title taken from a Disney short) was supposed to air July 3, 1962, a Tuesday, from 8:30-9 PM.

Alfred hitchcook tv#

Much has been made of “lost episodes” of TV shows, most of them urban legends ( i.e., one visit to Creepy Pasta reveals tell of a Spongebog Squarepants episode featuring Squidward’s suicide and a Seinfeld episode that supposedly foretold 9/11) but a few do genuinely exist.