Alfred Hitchcock credited as playing...
Self - Host
- [introduction - Hitchcock is in a trampoline]
- Self - Host: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I'm sure you are wondering what I'm wearing. It's the latest thing, I'm told, called a trampoline. I do not intend to discuss how I arrived here, but I'm open to suggestions for a way to get out. As a costume, it has severe limitations. Fortunately, you won't have to sit there staring at me all evening. We have a story for you. It is called "The Throwback". But first, we have have this one-minute tear in the tapestry of television.
- [afterword]
- Self - Host: That was a pleasantly romantic story. But I was in no mood to enjoy it. My feet are beginning to hurt. Fortunately, my assistants have promised to extract me under cover of the following one-minute entertainment black-out. I shall see you at its conclusion.
- [commercial, after which Hitchcock has been lifted out of the trampoline]
- Self - Host: I appreciate getting out, but I don't think the job called for a heavy construction crane and a crew of four men. One of my assistants is given to large-scale ideas. He was the one who thought of opening this show with a shot of me bouncing merrily on a trampoline. However, he won't be with us when we return next week. We're sending him on location to Devil's Island. Good night.