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Information
- CBS (Later NBC) Television Program produced from 1955–1962
- What Dahl Did: contributed several stories and teleplays for the show
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- Episode 106 (Season 3, No. 28): “Lamb to the Slaughter”
- Originally aired on April 13, 1958
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- Episode 113 (Season 3, No. 35): “Dip in the Pool”
- Originally aired on June 1, 1958
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- Episode 118 (Season 4, No. 1): “Poison”
- Originally aired on October 5, 1958
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- Episode 168 (Season 5, No. 15): “Man From the South”
- Originally aired on January 3, 1960
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- Episode 192 (Season 6, No. 1): “Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel’s Coat”
- Originally aired on September 27, 1960
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- Episode 210 (Season 6, No. 19): “The Landlady”
- Originally aired on February 21, 1961
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Description
This series was hosted by noted filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock and welcomed viewers to stories of terror, horror, suspense and twisted endings. The stories would often appear to end with evil triumphant – in strict violation of the television code of ethics. This situation was always resolved following the last commercial, when Hitchcock would return to explain what silly mistake or chance occurrence had finally done the villain in. When the show was expanded to an hour in the fall of 1962, the title was changed to The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.
Several of Roald Dahl’s stories were adapted for this program, many directed by Hitchcock himself. “Lamb to the Slaughter” is undoubtedly the most famous and well-remembered.
