The Pleasures of Old-Time Television

Tonight's episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, "Anyone for Murder?"

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour airs locally on KDOC-TV, followed by The Twilight Zone. "Anyone for Murder?" starred a couple of Twilight Zone alumni as well as a young Richard Dawson. This was 1964, a year before Hogan's Heroes and well before Family Feud.

A previous episode had Barney Martin, better known to most of us as Morty Seinfeld.

But most exciting for me was "Murder Case" (1964), featuring not only the husband and wife team of John Cassavettes and Gena Rowlands but also John Banner as the Dutch customs man who foils their scheme. This was a year before Banner was to become a bit better known as Sgt. Schultz, who never foiled a thing in Hogan's Heroes.