Thankfully I sought counseling which was literally a blessing from God. Other issues were certainly at work, but I sincerely believe this was the beginning of a depression that stayed with me for several years. I soon got to the point that I simply could not watch those shows, regardless of how much I enjoyed them. (And look what I generally blog about now: even older movies! Aw, well…) I know now that was an extremely unfair assessment, but at the time, that’s how I felt. I figured the only other people watching these shows were retirees. At times I thought, “Here I am, pushing (or beyond) 30, sitting at home watching reruns of a TV show that’s older than I am.” I felt like I was wasting my time on something that was just a step or two short of TV archeology. I’d go out, but those ventures were often disappointing, so I often found it easier to stay put and watch TV. When these shows aired on Nick at Nite, I was single, in my late 20s/early 30s, living and teaching in a small town with few prospects for social interaction of any kind. (A couple of the episodes really stuck with me: one with John Cassavetes as an escaped convict who breaks into a farmhouse, and the other starring John Williams concerning a fake haunting.) I stopped watching because something about the show – which again, had nothing to do with the show itself – nagged at me. The stories were generally strong, the acting good, and the Hitchcock intros and epilogues excellent. The reason I stopped watching had nothing to do with the shows or their content. Initially I was very excited about watching these shows and I saw probably two or three dozen of them and enjoyed them. Welcome to Nickelodeon, or more specifically Nick at Nite, which aired reruns of the show in the early 1990s. Plenty of people older than I was could remember the “leg of lamb” episode and others, but in the days before streaming, the internet, DVDs or even VHS, you just couldn’t see those shows. I remember people talking about Alfred Hitchcock Presents when I was a kid, but in those days access to older TV shows was next to impossible if they weren’t in syndication. But there’s a reason I resisted this show until now. Stranger still that I’ve been a Hitchcock fan since I saw my first Hitchcock feature film ( Spellbound) when I was a kid. It seems odd for someone like me who loves classic TV anthology shows ( The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, etc.) to have seen so few episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955-1962) or The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962-65), but such is the case. Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Season One (1955-56)
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