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Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 · TV series · 25 min episodes · 7 seasons
Created by Alfred Hitchcock
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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That's TV water torture (I gave up TV) even for the visionary Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock Presents series.
How about Groundhog Day the movie? That's the premise. You live the same day over and over again until you "awaken"
There was an earlier HN post about this[0] no replies. It links to an article at Huffington Post. [1]
My own take (at pastebin) [2]
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1364702
[1] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-groundhog-day-buddhis_b_162950
[2] https://pastebin.com/raw/kfGNp1ey
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"Alfred Hitchcock Presents" had an episode, "Mail Order Prophet", that was this (66 years ago).
> I think something like Alfred Hitchcock Presents is very watchable today and I often do. You get a little mystery and murder and all within an hour. There were other watchable programs, like Perry Mason or something.
Those tend to be pretty good, I agree. I watch them on Me TV sometimes. (Digital subchannels are what UHF and cable were Back In The Day: Cheap timeslots filled with whatever someone has to hand.) However, they're good writing one episode at a time. These days, you get good writing a season at a time; it allows more characterization, more complex plots, and more flavor. Breaking Bad is a novel-length plot, something TV only did in soap opera form back then. And soap operas have never been accused of having good writing.