Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series)

Final Arrangements (1961)

Alfred Hitchcock: Self - Host

Quotes 

• [introduction - Hitchcock is in front of a conveyor belt] 

  Self - Host : Good evening. We decided to utilize assembly line methods in the making of our shows. Mine is the last operation. You will notice one of our productions coming along now.

  [picks up items off table] 

  Self - Host : A sprinkle or so of saccharine. A little pruning. A... One, two commercials, three commercials. I -- here's another one.

  [sprinkles saccharine] 

  Self - Host : I can see this is going to keep me quite busy. In the meantime, suppose you look at one of the finished products.

• [afterword] 

  Self - Host : I would like to make it clear that the appearance of a suicide on our program in no way constitutes an endorsement of this as a solution to life's problems. There are many better means to get out of a difficult situation. Money, for example. And now I shall return in a moment.

  [commercial] 

  Self - Host : That is all for tonight.

  [uses items on table] 

  Self - Host : I wonder if we could leave out commercials now and then.

  [conveyor belt stops] 

  Self - Host : Big Brother never sleeps.

  [conveyor belt resumes] 

  Self - Host : Good night.