![]() ![]() I certainly hope I am proven to be wrong. I think we should be extremely thankful it was released at all in any resolution. As more time passes it becomes more and more unlikely. Waterbury believes he can get a good deal on some real estate because a murder occurred in the home. However Anthologies (Twilight Zone aside), especially from earlier TV have rarely gotten any releases at all, and even rarer in HD. In a Las Vegas casino, an unpleasant little man hopes to use a young mans wish to impress the young woman he has just met to pressure the young fellow into accepting a macabre bet. It was indeed officially authorized by Universal so maybe it would be possible. Yes it is an older format but the show does look very very good on it. Thankfully a complete set did eventually get released in Australia on DVD. In the US they never even finished releasing the series on DVD. Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season Two - Universal (UK, 2007) Amazon (UK) - current price £14.99. Add to the massive undertaking it would be, the fact that it jumped back and forth between CBS and NBC (may or may not play a factor as to the masters), then the sad fact that we still haven't had HD releases on a few of his earlier films yet, and it doesn't look good for an HD release of such a massive series as AHP and AHH. The following official DVD releases contain the episodes from this series of 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents': Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season Two - Universal (USA, 2006) Amazon (USA) - current price 26.59. From what I have found just searching around, there is apparently no HD scans of the 35mm masters as of yet. Sadly I doubt an HD release will ever happen for AHP or AHH. ![]() Really do hope this series gets the Blu-ray upgrade. Haven't yet got used to the slight change in theme tune with the fifth season. He refuses to pay and asks his friend Carl, whos now seeing his ex-wife, to buy the painting. Hes less happy when he learns that his ex-wife Gloria commissioned a portrait of herself for 2500. Well written and witty (including Alfred Hitchcock's opening and closing segments). Edward Gibson is newly divorced and a very happy man. Like with other anthology series, there is the occasional not-so-great episode, but the majority of the AHP episodes I've watched have been very memorable for the right reasons. Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Complete Series AUD 169.95 AUD 149. The repeat run moves onto the fifth season next Monday evening (Sky Arts show double bills of the show on the days it's on). I say "selected", it started off with two or three episodes from each of the first three seasons, but I've watched the majority of the fourth season as I've been enjoying it that much (it finishes it's repeat run on Sky Arts this coming Sunday evening/night, but I've been watching episodes on Sky's On Demand service, which currently has all of the first four seasons on there, as well as the first three episodes of Season 5). Join the legendary “Master of Suspense,” Alfred Hitchcock, in every original episode from all seven seasons of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, the Emmy® Award-winning mystery-suspense series that, in the words of Hitchcock himself, “brought murder back into the home – where it belongs.” Precursor to The Twilight Zone, these classic tales of menace and mayhem are brought together in this 35-disc set, loaded with twists, turns and things that go bump in the night.Since sometime during autumn last year, have been watching selected episodes of anthology series Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Join the master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, as he personally introduces classic tales of menace and mayhem in this long-running and ground-breaking series. ![]()
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