The world's greatest "talk show". In the 70's, my parents would be asleep. I would wake up, go down hall past my folks room, pass the living and den room, dining room, and make my way to the kitchen. I would pull out the pocket door and close it, ever so slightly. Then I would watch, The Tomorrow Show. I was in my teens. My parents did indeed catch me. But only a few times.
"Alfred Hitchcock Presents" cycles on TV now and then. Hitchcock gives an opening and closing monologue--always witty, even funny. Anything but dully serious.
As both of your comments show / Ben is spewing empty words about too much community. Res, you are on your cellphone right now as we speak so maybe set the phone down…
I have recently become obsessed with Hitchcock's films As much as I love Tippi Hedren as an actress and a beautiful lady, I feel sorry for Hitch for not being able to speak for himself regarding Tippi's accusations (she did attend his AFI Tribute and his funeral after stopped working with Hitch) We ought to listen to evidence on both sides instead of just listening to solely one before judging a person RIP, Hitch
@@intoaruti agree. she has bashed him for years. she was just a loc al model. after her paid contract was up she had the rest of her life. without him we would never know Melanie or Dakota .
The section where Hitchcock is talking about communication, and it being thrown at people from all sides and using the layout of a newspaper changed to large headlines with small print on the front page is a great frame for all these decades later how much more polarizing it is to have near limitless information thrown at you that for the most part you didn't ask for to begin with.
What an intriguing man he was, ask him a silly question you will get answers that make you look more stupid without getting angry or offensive. The trouble with harry was a great film.
I absolutely loved Alfred Hitch, Psycho, North by Northwest, the Birds, Strangers on a train, Vertigo, Frenzy, shadow of a doubt were my favorites he w as an absolute genius.
Wow, a great find. I'm still hoping for a posting of Tomorrow with Snyder interviewing Ray Bolger and Jack Haley together. I vaguely recall seeing it as a kid, and hope it still exists somewhere. I just remember Ray being sweet, but Jack seemed to think Tom was an idiot. That's what I took away from it, and I'd love to see again!
I wonder what that piece of morse code was, just before the commercial break, at around 15:46 or 47? Perhaps some kind of audio cue, as it was just before a snippet of the Psycho score started to play?
Those tones were the alert to stations that an ad break was coming. I remember sometimes seeing a flashing white square dot at the top right corner of the screen that served the same purpose. During a live network transmission the control operator at each station has to be "on his toes" to switch the network feed on and off so that local ads can be run. There is almost no margin for error. Timing has to be precise. Now, of course, there are more modern methods.
I'm surprised Tom didn't mention the famous reason for Hitch's fear of cops. As I child, Hitch did something wrong and his father took him to the police station and asked them to lock him up, which they did. He wasn't in jail for long ( possibly only minutes) but this is the origin of his fear.
The Tomorrow Show was run starting at 1 AM in the eastern and pacific time zones; midnight in central and mountain. So, if you were watching, it was "tomorrow" because the new calendar day begins at midnight. Someone at the network must have thought himself quite clever for coming up with that. One of my favourite announcements came from radio station KSL in Salt Lake City. Its frequency is 1160. In times long gone, you would hear that the time was 11.60 --- thus both midnight and frequency were stated in one simple sentence.
The Tomorrow Show was one of the three of NBC's signature TV talk shows along with The Today Show (mornings, from 1952-present), The Tonight Show (late evenings, 1954-present, whose hosts have been Steve Allen, Jack Parr, Johnny Carson, Jay Leno and Jimmy Fallon among others). For the late-night early early morning crowd was The Tomorrow Show that only ran on TV from 1973 to 1981. It's only host was Tom Snyder and it was a very mellow show for the wee hours of the night after all of the excitement generated by The Tonight Show.
This interview was done was in 1973. Tom was born in 1936. In 1953 he would have been about 17. By definition a person is considered a child until their 18th birthday.
As much as I like Tippi Hedren (a talented actress and a classic beauty), I somehow have a lot of reservations about her accusations of Hitch (it was rather unfair to “tell” people in a memoir long after Hitch was gone, where Hitch could no longer defend himself)
Funny that Kim Novak called Hitch, a perfect gentleman. And she was an even more glamorous blonde beauty than Tippi Hedren. And Hedren went to Hitch's AFI life achievement ceremony, and want to his funeral. I'm calling BS on that story.
Most memoirs contain stories about deceased persons. You don't have to take any one writer's account at face value, but by reading several acoounts of a person who interests me, I hope to get a reasonably good picture of what he or she was like. I think it is established that Hitchcock had a creepy side.
It's easier to throw mud on someone's name and ruin their reputation when they aren't able to defend themselves. Look how many people have been "outed" as being gay or whatever long after they're dead and conveniently can't say anything one way or the other. It's a coward's way of getting back at someone that they didn't have the guts to do while the person was alive. He sexually harassed her yet she went to his funeral and his AFI award ceremony? No one else saw him acting that way that worked with him? Yeah. Tell us another one, lady.
the trouble with this interview is that hitchcock's storytelling is really what's on display here. tom is a great interviewer, but hitchcock's energy just overshadows everyone. and it's very entertaining. but he's also got a rapid quick wit and way with words that really impresses me. the jab at religion went over tom's head or discomforted him, and hitchcock completely redirects the show. tom's fully engrossed by the story and has lost track of what they were talking about by the end of the joke/story, completely lost in the imagery hitchcock created on the spot: 6:31 hitchcock's presence commands attention, it's wild
I don't recall seeing the early Tom Snyder like this. I did enjoy his show and a few others. Today's show are pale imitations. The art of conversation has degraded considerably.
Tom was never very good with asking questions. This last segment the second segment in the show it’s just a total waste. He was known for that type of thing. You’d be sitting there saying if I was talking to this person I’d be asking this and that but tub for some reason just didn’t get it.
The reason why Hitchcock sounds so frightened in this interview is because he remembers what he saw happen to artists in America during the McCarthy years. Their careers were destroyed. It could happen to any artist or anyone.
Gee, I cant believe the black women that fall at my feet atter doing what this video says. Black guys too. Who knew? Yes, just follow it and get all the women you want.
Hitchocck is so prescient. Frances Farrmer was arrested on a charge of driving without her licence (to hand). For some reason she had just grabbed the car keys and left her purse at home. Getting into an altercation with the traffic cop she was hauled into the local police station. And from that point (almost a Hitchcock film) things began to unravel. She ended up in a psychiatric ward and was submitted for electro-shock convulsive therapy. Now frankly imho the scenario stinks of subversion. I personally believe Farmer was set up because of her communist associations. Don`t forget while in high school she had won a trip to the Soviet Union. Etc. Etc. Nonetheless these things CAN happen and from the most innocent starting point.
I hope you give Tom a few more looks. Exactly what you said is what made him so great! I felt off put by him a bit when I use to watch the show live. Then, I couldn't stop watching him. Then, I loved the dude because he was frankly, a bad-ass interviewer. The best IMO.
I hope you say that because you are too young to have seen Snyder a lot when he was alive. He was never the best, but he was good. Late night commercial TV was never supposed to be intense; rather, it needed to be a bit loose. PBS could get away with heavy stuff, but a lot of PBS stations went off the air earlier than affiliates of the big three did. Yes! TV was Not all 24/7 then.
It's ridiculous for him to say that he didn't make whodunits. What is Psycho but waiting til the last to find out it was Norman, not Mrs. Bates, was the one whodunit.
The world's greatest "talk show". In the 70's, my parents would be asleep. I would wake up, go down hall past my folks room, pass the living and den room, dining room, and make my way to the kitchen. I would pull out the pocket door and close it, ever so slightly. Then I would watch, The Tomorrow Show.
I was in my teens. My parents did indeed catch me. But only a few times.
Caught by parent's?... in the 70's!? ☠
@@Mr.Goodkat Yea. You know; A mom and a dad. Parents. And yes...The 70's. You know, after the 60's and before the 80's.
@@mr.c8033 Ah, right....*those* 70's. 🤨
no clue what the other person is on about, but anyway, OP, for us younger crowd, what is a pocket door?
@@Mr.Goodkat Yes. LOL. They weren't IN their 70's. The 1970's. Great freakin' time.
Show episode was 1973; 51 years ago.
First question Snyder asks Hitch is what scares HIM? After all these years of scaring us.
The perfect question. Instead of saving for the last, Tom was so brilliant he knew to kick it off with a bang!
Wonderful to hear Hitchcock. The story about the car breaking down is The Visitor by Roald Dahl.
"Alfred Hitchcock Presents" cycles on TV now and then. Hitchcock gives an opening and closing monologue--always witty, even funny. Anything but dully serious.
Love those!
I never missed this talk show back in the day. I loved Tom Snyder. He had a great sense of humor.
Me too!
There really was only one Alfred Hirchcock, such an interesting and unusual fella.
Great to see & hear Hitchcock.
Strangers on a Train is my favorite.
Great Flick⚡
Huge fan Tom Snyder. What a treat. ❤
He's right about communication. Today there's too much.
The cellphone is the bane of humanity.
As both of your comments show / Ben is spewing empty words about too much community. Res, you are on your cellphone right now as we speak so maybe set the phone down…
I think that Tom Snyder was underrated as an interviewer.
Tom Snyder was the MAN !
I wish he knew that himself but he always questioned
He was the greatest TV interviewer.
Great classic footage. Thanks for sharing.
I have recently become obsessed with Hitchcock's films
As much as I love Tippi Hedren as an actress and a beautiful lady, I feel sorry for Hitch for not being able to speak for himself regarding Tippi's accusations (she did attend his AFI Tribute and his funeral after stopped working with Hitch)
We ought to listen to evidence on both sides instead of just listening to solely one before judging a person
RIP, Hitch
Agree!!
@@intoaruti agree. she has bashed him for years. she was just a loc
al model. after her paid contract was up she had the rest of her life. without him we would never know Melanie or Dakota
.
Quit placing people so high on a pedestal.
They'll only fall on you.
Hear, hear 👏
The section where Hitchcock is talking about communication, and it being thrown at people from all sides and using the layout of a newspaper changed to large headlines with small print on the front page is a great frame for all these decades later how much more polarizing it is to have near limitless information thrown at you that for the most part you didn't ask for to begin with.
What an intriguing man he was, ask him a silly question you will get answers that make you look more stupid without getting angry or offensive.
The trouble with harry was a great film.
I absolutely loved Alfred Hitch, Psycho, North by Northwest, the Birds, Strangers on a train, Vertigo, Frenzy, shadow of a doubt were my favorites he w as an absolute genius.
Wow, a great find. I'm still hoping for a posting of Tomorrow with Snyder interviewing Ray Bolger and Jack Haley together. I vaguely recall seeing it as a kid, and hope it still exists somewhere. I just remember Ray being sweet, but Jack seemed to think Tom was an idiot. That's what I took away from it, and I'd love to see again!
Even then, when a subject starts talking about bad news being propogated for bad news sakes, the interviewer wants to cut to commercial.
Brilliant.
Thanks so much for posting.
I love Closed Captioning. Ingred Bergman became Angry Bird. 😂
His many chins are hypnotic!
thank you!!!
I'm a huge fan of Hitchcock but if I had to listen to his voice and cadence, day in and day out, it would've driven me nuts.
LOL
Not me. It would have been absolutely therapeutic to me. Hypnotic, almost. As calming as Valium.
Alfred Hitchcock age 73 & Tom Snyder age 37
73:37
He's so low-key, I'd love to see how he was on set.
GOOD EVENING
GOOD EEFNING.
I wonder what that piece of morse code was, just before the commercial break, at around 15:46 or 47?
Perhaps some kind of audio cue, as it was just before a snippet of the Psycho score started to play?
Those tones were the alert to stations that an ad break was coming.
I remember sometimes seeing a flashing white square dot
at the top right corner of the screen that served the same purpose.
During a live network transmission the control operator at each station has to be "on his toes"
to switch the network feed on and off so that local ads can be run.
There is almost no margin for error. Timing has to be precise.
Now, of course, there are more modern methods.
@@spacemissing Very interesting, or at least I find it interesting. Thank you for the info!
legend
Fabulous
Gold !
I'm surprised Tom didn't mention the famous reason for Hitch's fear of cops. As I child, Hitch did something wrong and his father took him to the police station and asked them to lock him up, which they did. He wasn't in jail for long ( possibly only minutes) but this is the origin of his fear.
With out being prepared.
Genius
It's now tomorrow here on NBC, what's the meaning of phrase, can anyone please help me with understanding of the latter mentioned sentence?
The Tomorrow Show was run starting at 1 AM in the eastern and pacific time zones;
midnight in central and mountain. So, if you were watching, it was "tomorrow"
because the new calendar day begins at midnight.
Someone at the network must have thought himself quite clever for coming up with that.
One of my favourite announcements came from radio station KSL in Salt Lake City.
Its frequency is 1160. In times long gone, you would hear that the time was 11.60 ---
thus both midnight and frequency were stated in one simple sentence.
The Tomorrow Show was one of the three of NBC's signature TV talk shows along with The Today Show (mornings, from 1952-present), The Tonight Show (late evenings, 1954-present, whose hosts have been Steve Allen, Jack Parr, Johnny Carson, Jay Leno and Jimmy Fallon among others). For the late-night early early morning crowd was The Tomorrow Show that only ran on TV from 1973 to 1981. It's only host was Tom Snyder and it was a very mellow show for the wee hours of the night after all of the excitement generated by The Tonight Show.
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Tom: 20 years ago, when I was a child I went to see a hitcock fil m with my parents.
20 years ago he was a child??? I don’t think so!!😂😂😂😂
This interview was done was in 1973. Tom was born in 1936. In 1953 he would have been about 17. By definition a person is considered a child until their 18th birthday.
I think Rear Window is one of the most brilliant movies ever...
'Today people have comuinication thrown at them from all sides.' 'It really disturbs them.' Wonder what he would say about 2024! 😂
As much as I like Tippi Hedren (a talented actress and a classic beauty), I somehow have a lot of reservations about her accusations of Hitch (it was rather unfair to “tell” people in a memoir long after Hitch was gone, where Hitch could no longer defend himself)
I share your sentiments exactly. To me, it comes across as her trying to regain some of her lost fame by ruining his name.
Funny that Kim Novak called Hitch, a perfect gentleman. And she was an even more glamorous blonde beauty than Tippi Hedren. And Hedren went to Hitch's AFI life achievement ceremony, and want to his funeral.
I'm calling BS on that story.
Most memoirs contain stories about deceased persons. You don't have to take any one writer's account at face value, but by reading several acoounts of a person who interests me, I hope to get a reasonably good picture of what he or she was like. I think it is established that Hitchcock had a creepy side.
It's easier to throw mud on someone's name and ruin their reputation when they aren't able to defend themselves. Look how many people have been "outed" as being gay or whatever long after they're dead and conveniently can't say anything one way or the other. It's a coward's way of getting back at someone that they didn't have the guts to do while the person was alive. He sexually harassed her yet she went to his funeral and his AFI award ceremony? No one else saw him acting that way that worked with him? Yeah. Tell us another one, lady.
@@lonestar6709 Agreed.
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A great show, and when the network noticed how well it was doing, they put it in prime time, changed the format and ruined it.
the trouble with this interview is that hitchcock's storytelling is really what's on display here. tom is a great interviewer, but hitchcock's energy just overshadows everyone. and it's very entertaining. but he's also got a rapid quick wit and way with words that really impresses me. the jab at religion went over tom's head or discomforted him, and hitchcock completely redirects the show. tom's fully engrossed by the story and has lost track of what they were talking about by the end of the joke/story, completely lost in the imagery hitchcock created on the spot: 6:31 hitchcock's presence commands attention, it's wild
What ddid hitchcock think of Texas Chainsaw Massacre?
I thought this was gonna be a comparison of Alfred Hitchcock to Zack Snyder omg 💀 I'm like, Peckinpah or Mann maybe, but Hitch?😂
He talked about TVs. How we talk about smartphones now
I don't recall seeing the early Tom Snyder like this. I did enjoy his show and a few others. Today's show are pale imitations. The art of conversation has degraded considerably.
The Bird's!
I find it very interesting that we see a lot of black men dating white women, but we very rarely see white men dating black women. ?
Tom was never very good with asking questions. This last segment the second segment in the show it’s just a total waste. He was known for that type of thing. You’d be sitting there saying if I was talking to this person I’d be asking this and that but tub for some reason just didn’t get it.
Well, if nothing else he was TV-friendly; pleasant to look at, infectious laugh, nice smile and common-man relatable personality.
And still he was quite successful...
Never good asking questions? He was the freakin' BEST.
@@mr.c8033 sorry. No. Not at all.
The reason why Hitchcock sounds so frightened in this interview is because he remembers what he saw happen to artists in America during the McCarthy years. Their careers were destroyed. It could happen to any artist or anyone.
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Gee, I cant believe the black women that fall at my feet atter doing what this video says. Black guys too. Who knew?
Yes, just follow it and get all the women you want.
🎉😢😮😊
Hitchocck is so prescient. Frances Farrmer was arrested on a charge of driving without her licence (to hand). For some reason she had just grabbed the car keys and left her purse at home. Getting into an altercation with the traffic cop she was hauled into the local police station. And from that point (almost a Hitchcock film) things began to unravel. She ended up in a psychiatric ward and was submitted for electro-shock convulsive therapy. Now frankly imho the scenario stinks of subversion. I personally believe Farmer was set up because of her communist associations. Don`t forget while in high school she had won a trip to the Soviet Union. Etc. Etc. Nonetheless these things CAN happen and from the most innocent starting point.
The interviewer kind of irritated me a little bit
I hope you give Tom a few more looks. Exactly what you said is what made him so great! I felt off put by him a bit when I use to watch the show live. Then, I couldn't stop watching him. Then, I loved the dude because he was frankly, a bad-ass interviewer. The best IMO.
Tom Snyder sucked. Go find the Dick Cavett interviews with Alfred.
Fake intellectual interest.
I hope you say that because you are too young to have seen Snyder a lot when he was alive.
He was never the best, but he was good.
Late night commercial TV was never supposed to be intense; rather, it needed to be a bit loose.
PBS could get away with heavy stuff, but a lot of PBS stations went off the air
earlier than affiliates of the big three did. Yes! TV was Not all 24/7 then.
Dull pointless comment
@@spacemissing in what Universe was he _good_ ?
It's ridiculous for him to say that he didn't make whodunits. What is Psycho but waiting til the last to find out it was Norman, not Mrs. Bates, was the one whodunit.