Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series)

Flight to the East (1958)

Alfred Hitchcock: Self - Host

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• [introduction] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : [Hitchcock is in his usual suit with a long white scarf around his neck, being buffeted by strong winds as he pilots a magic carpet that sputters audibly; he turns to the audience]  Good evening, earthlings. Now you housewives know what to do with your rugs when the moths get in them.

  [camera moves in to show the 'control wheel' Hitchcock is holding which looks like a fan made out of bent wire] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : Put the moths to work. After all, if you can't lick them, join them. This could be the transportation of the future. I'm certain the day is not far off when the two-carpet family will be quite common. No special launching platform is needed. The well-waxed hallway of your home will do.

  [Hitchcock grimaces as he tries to look down] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : 10,000 feet up, and yet I could swear I saw a billboard.

  [gestures below] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : Over there.

• [afterword] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : [Hitchcock is brushing himself off, no longer piloting the magic carpet]  I shall certainly never try that again. I learned too late that it was a three-stage carpet and I was the first stage. I did manage to take some pictures which I shall show you now. Here is how the Earth people look to a Martian.

  [commercial break] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : As you can see, the Martians have a rather distorted picture of our world.

  [to the sound of a slide whistle, Hitchcock's magic carpet drops on him and he barely catches it] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : It looks as though our flying carpet is falling earthward and disintegrating into throw rugs. This concludes tonight's space adventure. Next week, we shall be back with more fiction, scientific or otherwise. Until then, good night and a happy international geophysical year to all of you.