Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series)

Toby (1956)

Alfred Hitchcock: Self - Host

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : [Hitchcock looks down as steam rises]  "Double, double, toil and trouble. Fire burn and cauldron bubble."

  [the camera pulls back to reveal he's heating a baby bottle then pours a few drops on his wrist] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : I don't know why people do this. It's not at all good for the cuffs. Takes the starch out of them. I wonder if it does that to babies? Of course, that must be the idea. As you shall soon see, tonight's play bears a relation to the foregoing, however slight. It is a tragical, comical, historical, pastoral, musical mystery entitled "Toby." "Toby" takes place in New York in 1910. And on your television screen in just a moment.

• [last lines] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : "When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning or in rain? When the hurly-burly's done, when the battle's lost and won? Well, that will be ere the set of sun." Well, in other words, next week. Good night, coz.