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He had nothing against television, and the financial advantages if the series turned out well would be considerable.

So Wasserman went to Hitch with the idea. Could he do it? Would he do it? Would it work if he did? To all of which Wasserman answered, practically, that it would do no harm to ask, and to test the market in the usual way with preliminary research. Wasserman suddenly said, ‘We ought to put Hitch on the air.’ Exactly how he did not know, but Hitch’s name, his reputation and his eccentric personality seemed to make him a natural. And in 1955 Wasserman did some very effective talking.Īt a managerial conference the question of new television shows for the company to produce came up. In the process of accretion, the agency which represented him had been incorporated into MCA, and so from 1945 he was represented in all his business dealings by MCA and in particular by Lew Wasserman, the head of MCA, who became one of his closest personal friends. Not so MCA… The heads of MCA had early seen the potential of television and got more and more involved on the production side - and at the same time Hitch was deeply involved with them. Hollywood was still burying its head in the sand, trying to shrug off the competition of television and pretend it did not exist… But as yet few of the majors had had the sense to see that the thing to do, if you couldn’t beat them, was to join them.

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It is difficult now to reconstruct how revolutionary it was, back in those relatively early days of television, for a front-rank, top-class movie director to involve himself in any way with this trashy, despised medium. “ The Trouble with Harry’s importance was eclipsed by the début, on October 02, 1955, of a new television series, Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Perhaps the film’s failure at the box office was due to the simple fact that viewers had gotten their Hitchcock fix while remaining on their sofas. Alfred Hitchcock Presents premiered on CBS on October 02, 1955. Can anyone guess what occurred between those two dates? … You guessed it. After the film premiered in Barre Vermont on September 30, 1955, it was given a general release a few days later on October 03, 1955. The television series fell right on the heels of the film, and their productions overlapped. One has to wonder if the tonal similarities between Alfred Hitchcock’s The Trouble with Harry (1955) and Alfred Hitchcock Presents are coincidental. I am a slave to MCA.” -Alfred Hitchcock (The Los Angeles Times ) “I am entering television because I am the tip of a tendril. Notes: This series is not yet available on the Blu-ray format. Main Audio: 2.0 English Mono Dolby Digital Release Date: J(Seasons One – Four), Aug(Seasons Five – Seven), & Ap(The Complete Series)

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