Talk:Alfred Hitchcock Presents

message: I just wanted to point out that it's a little inaccurate to say that its airing on this new cable channel will be the first time in a decade. I've seen it on TV, and it wasn't as far back as 1985. Perhaps the first time a major channel/network aired it? I think I watched it on one of the local syndicates. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Macphile (talk • contribs) 20:38, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  TV airings 

message: Here is the line..."One 1961 episode ("The Sorcerer's Apprentice") was not initially broadcast by NBC because the FCC felt that the ending was too gruesome". This is highly unlikely; the Federal Communications Commission does not, to my knowledge, preview or 'screen' television programs or segments, and even if it did, to prohibit the broadcast of any program would involve prior restraint. (please see www.fcc.gov/eb/oip/FAQ.html#TheLaw) I believe this (prior restraint) is prohibited by the Commission's charter. If any such decision was made, it would have been made by the network's Standards and Practices department (read: censors). In the United States we  do not have government agencies screening broadcast programs for content and then deciding whether to allow such programs to air.
148.8.36.206 (talk) 19:41, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe that the decision was made by the network's censors and the show's sponsors.  Thanks.  Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 20:18, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regarding 'Episodes' and the FCC 

message: It's a little hard not to notice that the episodes of season two of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour aired on the same days as the episodes of season five of The Twilight Zone, which begs the question: which show's episodes aired earlier than the other's?Wikipedia's season-five page for The Twilight Zone pages is very forthcoming with its information.  It says, "The fifth and final season of The Twilight Zone aired Fridays at 9:30–10:00 pm (EST) on CBS from September 27, 1963 to June 19, 1964" (source).But, Wikipedia's pages on Alfred Hitchcock Presents/The Alfred Hitchcock Hour are less forthcoming.  Here's what this page says:Alfred Hitchcock Presents, 25 minutes long, aired weekly at 9:30 on CBS on Sunday nights from 1955 to 1960, and then at 8:30 on NBC on Tuesday nights from 1960 to 1962.  It was followed by The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, which lasted for three seasons, September 1962 to June 1965, adding another 93 episodes to the 268 already produced for Alfred Hitchcock Presents.Frustrating, right?  It gives the timeslot for Alfred Hitchcock Presents, but not for The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.And there is no actual page for The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, either.  It just redirects to List of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour episodes, which in turn merely notes that the series was on NBC.So, anybody know in what timeslot the hour-long incarnation of the series aired (particularly the second season)?If so, please improve this page by adding said information.Thanks in advance,allixpeeke (talk) 20:38, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Episode timeslots, as referenced in [[Alfred Hitchcock Presents#Episodes|''Alfred Hitchcock Presents''#Episodes]] 

message: According to https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt600021r0/dsc/ the University of California Los Angeles houses several of the scripts of the series. I'm not sure if this would be helpful for verifying details about the episodes for the purpose of the article but it may be good to know that WhisperToMe (talk) 06:38, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Found locations of scripts for the series