Alfred Hitchcock Presents1955

[introduction]

Alfred Hitchcock:
Good evening, friends and others. Tonight... Madam, some of our audience are having difficulty in seeing. Would you mind?

[woman in foreground removes her head]

Alfred Hitchcock:
Thank you. On the theory that what was good enough for Shakespeare is good enough for us, we planned to open tonight's play with a maid soliloquizing as she dusts. Unfortunately, tonight happens to be the maid's night out. I'm expecting an important call.

[phone rings]

Alfred Hitchcock:
It must be Scotland Yard calling.

[into phone]

Alfred Hitchcock:
Yes? Thank you. It was. They say I am being watched. That's very gratifying for a television performer. Tonight's play is entitled "Fog Closing In." Fog.

[fog appears]

Alfred Hitchcock:
I don't suppose any of you are familiar with that word. It's an American expression meaning... Well, it's really hard to explain to anyone who hasn't experienced it. The word has no English equivalent. Oh, well, it isn't too important.

[as the fog envelops him]

Alfred Hitchcock:
We'd better go on with the play.