The programme goes back continuously to the 1940's. It's very well known in the UK. Unfortunately they only have occasional fragments for the early programmes,

The programme goes back continuously to the 1940's. It's very well known in the UK. Unfortunately they only have occasional fragments for the early programmes, but for instance I just found clips from the Dave Brubeck and Alfred Hitchcock episodes, from 1959: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009y7kb http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009y7kb http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009y7js http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009y7js Hitchcock mentions his upcoming production, a 'rather gentle horror picture' called Psycho!