Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series)

Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat (1960)

Alfred Hitchcock: Self - Host

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• [introduction] 

  Alfred Hitchcock - Host : Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to a new season of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents". As has been our custom, we shall present homey stories of an unusual nature. We shall continue to give the little man, or woman, his due. When crime is occasionally dealt with, it will be crime as practiced by ordinary people, like the fellow next door. I think that by spring, a large number of you will be thinking of moving. There is one aspect of this program which has changed. If you have tuned in to hear me make snide remarks about an innocent sponsor, you are doomed to disappointment. I am proud to say I have resolved my antagonisms and have become completely sponsor-oriented. I have met our new sponsor and find him to be agreeable, charming, witty, honest, sincere, intelligent, dependable, trustworthy, loyal, brave, clean and reverent. Tonight's show is entitled "Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat". But first, unfortunately, we have one of those...

  [notices the halo that appeared above him disappear, then changes his mood] 

  Alfred Hitchcock - Host : But first, fortunately, we have one of those intelligent, amusing, dignified, provocative, brilliantly conceived but painfully short commercials.

• [afterword] 

  Alfred Hitchcock - Host : My honeymoon with the sponsor lasted just as long as the first commercial. As for my present mood, will it outlast the final commercial? You shall see in a moment.

  [commercial break] 

  Alfred Hitchcock - Host : At least my sponsor doesn't seem to be taking any action as a result of my attitude. Until next week, good night.