TV GUIDE MONSTERS: Yesterday and Today

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feeds@yuku.com (Rick) — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 20:36:58 GMT

The music in the Carvel ad is the worst.

Hoo, I love that! The old boyfriend that my ex-wife dumped after she met me sang a lot of the jingles for the Carvel ads. Ha!!

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feeds@yuku.com (rvoyttbots) — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:24:44 GMT

The music in the Carvel ad is the worst. I remember Carvel ads and thinking maybe I should try some. When I saw the prices at the market for the cakes, I quickly lost all interest in Carvel.

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feeds@yuku.com (Spoiler II) — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 06:26:37 GMT

TheCreep wrote:

Another guy that come to mind, as far as long running commercials, was the APEX guy. But remember, "now I can't call you, you have to call us..."

This indeed still plays as i have seen it fairly recently. APEX TECH in all its glory. Seems in the 80's that "TV/VCR...

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feeds@yuku.com (Wich2) — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:41:32 GMT

"The older actor was character actor John Williams and he died in 1983."

(See my post previous page, Rvoy!)

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feeds@yuku.com (Joe Karlosi) — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:04:33 GMT

I could be wrong, but it sure seems like the longest-running commercial ever. I distinctly remember thinking precisely that, a looonnnggg time ago!

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feeds@yuku.com (TServo4) — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:54:31 GMT

I'm pretty sure an updated version of that commercial was playing in the NY markets even into the early '90s!

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feeds@yuku.com (rvoyttbots) — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:24:36 GMT

The older actor was character actor John Williams and he died in 1983.

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feeds@yuku.com (TheCreep) — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:33:20 GMT

Ha HA!!! That's the commercial! What a great look back, thanks for that Dr. Spyclops

PhantomXC1 wrote:
I believe that ad holds the record for being the longest-running TV commercial in history. It premiered in the early '70s (probably 1971), and was still running 15 years later!

Yeah, I remember it then too. And at that time I believe they had the option...

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feeds@yuku.com (thebrainfollower) — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:02:37 GMT

All of the (admittedly few) eras I've grown up in had their pros and cons.

In the mid to late 80's when I started I only had 7 channels. Two PBS stations, ABC, NBC, CBS and two UHF stations. PBS occasionally showed the silents, I caught POTO and Nosferatu there as kids. And WLVI showed horror movies every now and then. We'd usually get the later Vincent Price stuff, the Amicus anthologies, pretty much any non Hammer horror color movies made from around 68-82. And the 43...

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feeds@yuku.com (heinlein99) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:12:40 GMT

PhantomXCI wrote:

I believe that ad holds the record for being the longest-running TV commercial in history. It premiered in the early '70s (probably 1971), and was still running 15 years later!

I dunno, I think several TV commercials survived about that long, in one market or another. The Tootsie Pop commercial with Mr. Owl ("How many licks..." went for several years, maybe a decade or more;...

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feeds@yuku.com (PhantomXCI) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:19:26 GMT

I believe that ad holds the record for being the longest-running TV commercial in history. It premiered in the early '70s (probably 1971), and was still running 15 years later!

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feeds@yuku.com (Joe Karlosi) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:54:44 GMT

Now y'see, watching that ad makes me all warm and fuzzy inside. It's interesting that at the actual time the movies were aired, commercials like this were annoying and intrusive. But as you can see today, there are people who are frantically trying to search for old commercials just like this one, and are offering them on YouTube. It's like I always say -- if I had the ability to acquire old tapes of broadcasts like CREATURE FEATURES or CHILLER THEATER, it wouldn't be the...

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feeds@yuku.com (Wich2) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:12:41 GMT

John Williams.

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feeds@yuku.com (Dr Spyclops) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:44:10 GMT

We'll return to "TV GUIDE MONSTERS: Yesterday and Today" after a word from our sponsor...

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feeds@yuku.com (TheCreep) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:47:21 GMT

grgstv338 wrote:
When channel 5 started running their Creature Features showcase in late 1969, Saturday night became the monster movie night. For a while, Chiller Theater on channel 11 and Creature Features on 5 actually ran opposite one another, forcing Monster Kids in that pre-VCR era to choose one over the other. You can bet there was lots of dial-turning (remember dials?) during the...

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feeds@yuku.com (PhantomXCI) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:46:26 GMT
Washington DC also had a wonderful weekend line-up during the late 1970s. Channel 20 was the leader, and ran the AIP library on Saturday afternoons, showing everything from Corman/Price/Poe to Toho to peplum to Bava to obscure British imports. On Saturday nights, Count Gore DeVol ran the Universal package, an ocassional AVCO release, and the world television premiere of NOTLD. Channel 5 was a snooty serious film-lovers channel, but I did tune in for the extremely infrequent showings of MGM...

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feeds@yuku.com (Wich2) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:41:00 GMT
"I can only imagine how disappointed a fledgling Monster Kid would have been back then on certain nights"

Greg, I know that in the mid-'70's, I wasn't too thrilled whe Ft. Wayne's PSYCHOCINEMA stuck me with "The Man Who Reclaimed His Head"!

-Craig

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feeds@yuku.com (Cadaverino) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:03:01 GMT

grgstv338 wrote:
I keep meaning to go back to the start of Shock Theater in 1958 and list what they showed and the order in which it aired
The late and much missed Dick Nitelinger, who posted in this forum, researched the contents and air dates of the Shock package as it played on Milwaukee television in 1958-1959. Link. The 16mm prints...

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feeds@yuku.com (rvoyttbots) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:14:30 GMT
What I liked about the local station in Iowa that showed monster & scifi flics when I was a teen was it continually added new batches of films to the rotation.

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feeds@yuku.com (grgstv338) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:06:59 GMT

"I'm sure you'll recognize this lovely melody, 'A Stranger In Paradise' ".
"But did you know that the original theme is from the Polovtsian Dance No. 2 by Borodin?" You know, I think we actually had those records!

Re the movie listings, I keep meaning to go back to the start...

TV GUIDE MONSTERS: Yesterday and Today

feeds@yuku.com (Joe Karlosi) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:44:50 GMT
Another thread on 'Turner Classic Movies' wound up starting a discussion about whether or not there are/were more vintage horror/sci-fi movies routinely broadcast in Modern Times, or in the Past?

I think it largely hinges on what era you grew up in, and WHERE. As s Monster Kid who grew up in the late '60s and early '70s in the New York area, there seemed to be no end of regular, routine, daily TV broadcasts of many horror/sci-fi films from the '30s to the...