Alfred Hitchcock credited as playing...
Self - Host
- [introduction]
- Self - Host: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Do you have the feeling that we are moving ahead too swiftly? That in our quest for fame, for material wealth, we are neglecting some of the old traditions? The old customs from whence we once drew our strength? This, for example.
- [walks over to a contraption]
- Self - Host: This may look like a seesaw built for one, but it is a dunking stool. In Puritan times, if a woman were a scold or a gossip, she was placed here.
- [gestures to the chair]
- Self - Host: The seatbelt was fastened securely and a number of brave men and true proceeded to dunk her in a pond as though she were a donut. It was most invigorating, I'm sure. Unhappily, in modern day, we have no such convenience. Today, if a woman is a gossip, she isn't dunked. She's syndicated. Tonight's story has a connection, however remote, to the proceeding while our sponsor has a connection, however, obviously to the following.
- [afterword]
- Self - Host: I hope you enjoyed our story, "Summer Shade", because that will give you strength to face this next item, after which I'll return.
- [commercial]
- Self - Host: That is all of tonight's entertainment. We shall return next week with more of the same. Now I must hurry off. I'm shooting a picture.
- [walks into photo booth]
- Self - Host: Good night.