{"id":25095,"date":"2014-08-13T07:02:50","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T11:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=25095"},"modified":"2016-10-23T16:50:59","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T20:50:59","slug":"august-13-1899-the-master-of-suspense-was-born-in-london-like-you-i-loved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=25095","title":{"rendered":"August 13, 1899&#8230;The Master Of Suspense Was Born In London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August 13, 1899&#8230;The Master Of Suspense Was Born In London<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M9kiLlJujgI\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M9kiLlJujgI<\/a><br \/>\nLike you, I loved his movies, but his television show, &#8216;Alfred Hitchcock Presents&#8217; is my favorite of all his creations.<\/p>\n<p>On October 2, 1955, &#8216;Alfred Hitchcock Presents&#8217; debuted on CBS. This was the half hour show that aired weekly at 9:30 on Sunday nights from 1955 to 1960, The show moved to NBC and to Tuesday at 8:30 from 1960 to 1962.<\/p>\n<p>As you would expect, the ratings were good and sponsors wanted more which brought about &#8216;The Alfred Hitchcock Hour&#8217;, which lasted for three more seasons, from September 1962 to June 1965, adding another 93 episodes to the 268 already produced for &#8216;Alfred Hitchcock Presents&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Below we see Hitch on the set of &#8216;Rear Window&#8217;. By the way, in case you have ever wondered what the music was that always played in the famous opening title shot of the drawing and silhouette, it was Charles Gounod&#8217;s &#8220;Funeral March of a Marionette&#8221;. You can see that at the head of Season 1, Episode 13 at the link above. Enjoy and share! &#8211; Bobby Ellerbee<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/715495541821331\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/August-13-1899...The-Master-Of-Suspense-Was-Born-In-London-Like-you-I-loved\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/715503958487156\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 13, 1899&#8230;The Master Of Suspense Was Born In London https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M9kiLlJujgI Like you, I loved his movies, but his television show, &#8216;Alfred Hitchcock Presents&#8217; is my favorite of all his creations. On October 2, 1955, &#8216;Alfred Hitchcock Presents&#8217; debuted on CBS. This was the half hour show that aired weekly at 9:30 on Sunday nights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}