Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Nine strokes of a pen, and then the man himself walks in from the right and stands inside his own outline. A director who had spent thirty years staying behind the camera made his silhouette the most recognisable thing on American television.
Seasons 1–7
Unchanged for seven seasons. Hitchcock drew the caricature himself, and chose Gounod's 'Funeral March of a Marionette' because of what it had done to him in a film he saw in 1927 — a piece of borrowed music now so welded to his profile that most people who hum it have never heard its title.