Name directors who helmed episodes included Tim Burton, David Chase, Burt Reynolds, Atom Egoyan, Joan Tewkesbury, and Thomas Carter. The new series lasted only one season before NBC cancelled it, but it was then produced for three more years by USA Network (which is now co-owned with NBC under NBCUniversal), and shifted production from Los Angeles to Toronto, where the show's new Canadian producing partner Paragon Motion Pictures was based, along with several budget cuts to the series. The film was a ratings success.Ī new Alfred Hitchcock Presents series debuted in the fall of 1985 and retained the same format as the film – newly filmed stories (a mixture of original works and updated remakes of original series episodes) with colorized introductions by Hitchcock. The segments were "Incident in a Small Jail," adapted and directed by Joel Oliansky, "Man from the South," adapted and directed by Steve De Jarnatt, "Bang! You're Dead!," adapted by Harold Swanton and Christopher Crowe and directed by Randa Haines, and "An Unlocked Window," adapted and directed by Fred Walton. In 1985, NBC aired a new made-for-television film based upon the series, combining newly filmed stories with colorized footage of Alfred Hitchcock from the original series introducing each segment. The series is an updated version of the 1955 eponymous series. 8/10.Alfred Hitchcock Presents, sometimes called The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents, is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985 to 1986 and on the USA Network from 1987 to 1989. Concluding, very well done and close to great. The pacing is always secure without being rushed. It is competently made visually with some interesting shots when the gambling is in action. It certainly made me think twice about attempting it. It is instead very uncompromising, sometimes uncomfortably on the nose but tactfully enough to avoid preachiness or simplistically just saying gambling is bad. Gambling and any form of addiction is no laughing matter, and the episode certainly doesn't treat it as a joke. Really appreciated how "On the Nose" portrayed gambling and addictions, which was very ahead of the time back then with it not usually showing the full horrors of it (psychologically, how addictive it is and what it does to people) to this degree. The script is on the talky side at points, but it is an intelligent script that flows and is suitably uncompromising. Neilson gives one of his most confident directing jobs of the series here and never shows signs of being taxed by the material. Series of unrelated short stories covering elements of crime, horror, drama, and comedy about people of different backgrounds committing murders, suicides, thefts, and other sorts of crime caused by certain motivations, perceived or not. Jan Sterling hits hard in the lead role and Hitchcock's bookending is suitably droll and doesn't jar with the dark subject matter. Actually thought that there was very little wrong with "On the Nose", though the conclusion is a little too early to figure out too soon though the twist is cleverly executed. It may not be on the same level of "Reward to Finder" as far as Neilson's 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents' episodes go, but it is certainly and thankfully no "The Percentage", a lesser effort for the season. Not one of the best episodes of Season 3 or of 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents', but for me it is one of Neilson's better episodes for the series and the much better one of it and "The Equalizer" that came immediately before it. Gambling was a big thing back then and still is a very relevant issue, that is still addressed in film and television but in my mind not enough if it is still a big problem. The main reasons for seeing "On the Nose" were that it was an episode of the inconsistent but very fascinating 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents', that it was the penultimate episode of James Neilson (in his second episode in a row after "The Equalizer", an above average if uneven effort) and above all the subject matter.
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