Alfred Hitchcock credited as playing...
Self - Host
- [introduction - Hitchcock is in a circus]
- Self - Host: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to what we modestly call "The Greatest Show on Earth". Becoming an animal trainer is not difficult at all. Anyone who has raised children already possesses the proper humility. Our star performer, Gordon, will now jump from this stool to this one. I think you will appreciate his performance more when you realize that Gordon is a flea. He's getting ready. By the way, Gordon is the one in the blue trunks.
- [cut to Gordon making his jump]
- Self - Host: There he goes. Well done. As for those trunks, he can pick them up when he returns. Now for a riddle: What has no legs, is a bit thick, definitely does not fly and is one minute long? Here is the answer.
- [afterword]
- Self - Host: So much for life and death under the big top. By the way, the police finally caught up with Vern Byers, but not before he had done in Otis Jones. My final appearance in a moment. But first, to convince the cynical that Gordon does exist, he will now jump through this hoop.
- [Gordon attempts to jump through the hoop, but fails]
- Self - Host: This always happens. I must remember to use thinner paper, but, as Gordon would say, that's show business, which reminds me: you have seen the show. Now we give you the business.
- [commercial]
- Self - Host: Good evening. Good to have you ring side again. Gordon was miffed as a result of the accident with the hoop and has disappeared. He first changed into street clothes, however, so he will be much more difficult to find. He's wearing a dark-gray flannel suit, pearl-gray felt hat, a blue necktie and three pairs of suede shoes.
- [scratches his arm]
- Self - Host: Now, until next week at this same time, good night.