Posted on 02/13/2013 9:17:27 AM PST by Squawk 8888
Thanks for the ping.
In the DC Metro area, there was Count Gore DeVol with his “Creature Feature”.
And who can forget Dr. Paul Bearer?
Good times...good times.
In Indy, we had Channel 4. During the day we had Cowboy Bob, who we were convinced did the show stoned. In the afternoon it was Popeye & Janie. Janie was perpetually pregnant. My sister’s girl scout Troop appeared on the show and while Janie came off all sugary sweet during the show, my sister said she screamed at them during the commercials. Finally, Saturday night had Sammy Terry, the horror show host. The rumor was that Sammy Terry & Janie were married.
‘we had “The Ghoul” (outta Deeeeeee-troit)
We lived north of Detroit then, and after the local channels had gone off the air, our TV could pick up Detroit channels. I could sneak out of the downstairs bedroom, and watch The Ghoul at midnite. I got the crap scared out of me! The Fly, Blood on Satan’s Claw, 13 Ghosts,etc.
I loved that show, still do.
Billy Van WAS the show. He played most of the characters (Bwana Clyde Batty, Grizelda, the Count and on and on). He passed away a few years ago, but he left a great legacy. I still find that show on satellite and watch it when I can.
Stay sick. Scratch glass. Climb walls. Turn Blue. Do it while you can, but don’t get caught!!! Bye!!
In LA there was show called the Pier 5 Club, with host Tom Hatten. He showed Popeye cartoons and other kid’s cartoons. I was on the show in 1962, right after my fifth birthday. I still have the hat, membership card, faux mini Christmas tree and two decorations I got on the show.
In Hawaii, we had Checkers and Pogo. Every kid in my elementary school watched it daily when they got home from school........until Mom had to change the channel to put on The Merv Griffin Show......I always hated Merv for that reason.
“Life was more fun back in the 1950s and 60s.”
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The 40s were terrific too. We were always “shooting”
the Germans or Japanese.
Toy guns,guns,guns-——all made of metal,no plastic.
And with all that shooting we didn’t become a violent generation.
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You can still find Frightenstein on TV here and there on Saturday morning in some markets, and if you're up early enough.
My favourite segments were always the physics demonstrations by The Professor—Julius Sumner Miller, one of the great TV scientists. He was one of Albert Einstein's students. The most memorable one for me had to do with suction cups—Miller went to great lengths to insist that so-called "suction cups" stuck to things because of the outside air pressure pushing on them, and that if anyone insisted it had to do with suction, he would hunt them to the ends of the earth, or words to that effect. He was the straight man, giving an absolutely earnest physics lecture in the midst of a mad scientist's lab and all the other zaniness going on.
CHCH-TV was also the original home of Red Green. They put out years of classic TV on a shoestring budget.
Here you go Julius Sumner Miller - Atmospheric Pressure
He puts Bill Nye, the "alleged" Science Guy, to shame.
As a matter of fact, I was just watching that a few minutes ago! Same method of delivery, and everything. I was actually quite pleased to (re)discover that Miller didn't talk down to kids or dumb down his vocabulary.
He puts Bill Nye, the "alleged" Science Guy, to shame.
I always preferred Beakman's World, myself. (In fairness to Bill Nye, he was a professional engineer, and he did study for a time under Carl Sagan.)
Do you remember Magnus Pyke, the British science presenter? Now there was a mad scientist if I ever saw one.
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