Famous authors the likes of Robert Bloch, Charles Beaumont, and (potentially most interestingly) famed children’s author Roald Dahl contributed to the writing team. Many took repeated tours of duty! Big names, from Bette Davis to William Shatner, Vincent Price, Robert Redford, even Peter Lorre, starred in various episodes over the decade’s long run. Between ’62 and ’65, episodes were stretched into hour-long presentations and the series was renamed The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. Boasting an impressive number of episodes (361 in total), some of the finest actors and writers of the era spent time lingering around the series. The series, which premiered in 1955 and lasted for ten seasons until 1965, is nothing to sneeze at. Let’s take a quick look at the series as a whole, shall we? Original title card for the series featuring Alfred’s signature outline One can hardly think of that era of television without conjuring images of Twilight Zoneepisodes, or perhaps The Outer Limits. However, with the focus on those two, primarily Twilight Zone, gems like Alfred Hitchcock Presents sadly get left in the dust bin. The 1950s can be considered the golden age of television anthology series, particularly for the science fiction, horror, and mystery genres. We’re going to look at Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and more specifically, the Ray Bradbury-penned episode, “Special Delivery.”
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