I remember as a young boy watching the black-and-white "Alfred Hitchcock Presents ... simple nine-stroke line-drawing caricature of the famed movie director's rotund profile.

A rare collection of sketches by Alfred Hitchcock detailing how the legendary director crafted scenes in his films is set to fetch £30,000 at auction. The hundreds of pencil drawings form ...

and expanded to “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour,” from 1962 to 1965. Each episode began with Gounod’s “Funeral March of a Marionette,” then Hitchcock’s profile, followed by his entrance and ...