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Joe Karlosi	TV GUIDE MONSTERS: Yesterday and Today	Lead	[-]
(06/29/09 4:44 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	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 '50s... they'd be on at all times of the day, morning -- afternoon -- night -- late night. Some people here have felt that the programming is better in the Modern Era (say '90s - '00s) than in the '60s - '70s. What have been your experiences? Last Edited By: Joe Karlosi 06/30/09 2:29 PM. Edited 5 times.
Joe Karlosi		#1	[-]
(06/29/09 4:46 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I did a Google search and came across some NY TV Guide listings from Bill Pissott, a fan who belongs to the AV MANIACS forum, and who I used to talk to online in past years (I think he's even a member of CHFB but hasn't posted in awhile). So here are his postings that I am borrowing off AV MANIACS (and bear in mind - this is programming for ONE DAY!): OK, from the Saturday, May 22, 1971 Guide comes the following: 12PM Channel 5. "The Boogie Men Will Get You" (1942) A string of corpses are kept in the wine cellar of a colonial inn which houses a demented professor who is trying to create a "superman". Boris Karloff. (90 min.) BTW, the above movie is listed in the Guide as a "Melodrama". 8:30PM Channel 5. "The Black Sleep" (1956) A mad scientist forces a doctor to assist in some strange experiments. Basil Rathbone, Akim Tamiroff, Lon Chaney, John Carradine, Bela Lugosi, Herbert Rudley, Patricia Blake, Tor Johnson. (90 min.) Another "Melodrama". 8:30PM Channel 11. "Gorgo" (C) (English; 1961) It might not have been a good idea to bring that live prehistoric monster to London - it has a parent that's coming after it. Bill Travers, William Sylvester, Vincent Winter. (90 min. ) More "Melodrama". 9:30PM Channel 7. "Konga" (C) (English; 1960) A scientist conducts experiments to increase the size and strength of a chimpanzee. Michael Gough, Margo Johns, Jess Conrad, Claire Gordon, Austin Trevor, Jack Watson. (90 min. ) Still more "Melodrama". 11PM Channel 5. "The Bride Of Frankenstein" (1935) James Whale's exciting sequel to the 1931 classic features top-notch acting, photography, sets and direction. Boris Karloff, Colin Clive. (90 min. ) This one listed as a "Thriller". 11PM Channel 9. DOUBLE FEATURE (2hrs., 30 min. ) 1 - "Dead Man's Eyes" (1944) A blind artist is accused of murdering his benefactor for the man's eyes, which he knows have been willed to him. Lon Chaney Jr., Jean Parker, Paul Kelly. 2 - "Calling Dr. Death" (1943) A prominent neurologist 's malicious wife plots to destroy their marriage. Lon Chaney Jr., Ramsay Ames. Both films listed as "Melodrama". *11:30PM Channel 11 - "The Crawling Eye" (English; 1958) In a radioactive cloud lies a tentacled monster, awaiting it's victims. Forrest Tucker, Laurence Payne, Jennifer Jayne. (90 min. ) And still more "Melodrama". This is a pretty good example of why we as kids back in the day looked forward to Saturday's so much Note the mostly 90 minute time slots and also note that back in '71, the TV Guide did not denote programs that were in black and white like they would eventually do with a (BW). Instead, they make no notation alongside black and white programs but instead, signified those that were in color. Thus the (C) in some of the movie information.
Joe Karlosi		#2	[-]
(06/29/09 4:48 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	More... From Saturday, February 22, 1975: 9:30AM Channel 9 - "It Came From Outer Space" (BW) (1953) All about a spaceship and it's weird crew crashing near an Arizona desert town. Richard Carlsom, Barbara Rush. (90 min. ) This listed as "Science Fiction". 10:30AM Channel 11 - "Konga" (English; 1961) A serum-injected chimpanzee goes ape in London. Michael Gough, Margo Johns. (90 min. ) Listed as "Thriller". 3PM Channel 11 - "Snow Devils" (Italian; 1965) Imaginative mixture of interplanetary adventure and Abominable Snowman thriller. Jack Stuart. (2 hrs. ) Listed as "Science Fiction" 11:30PM Channel 7 - "Night Of The Living Dead" (BW) (1968) Shocker about a plague of zombies loose in Pennsylvania. Johnny: Russell Streiner. (2 hrs. ) Listed as "Thriller". 12 Midnight Channel 11 - "Horrors Of The Black Museum" (English; 1959) A mad journalist uses his hypnotized assistant for a series of horrible murders. Michael Gough. (90 min. ) Listed as "Thriller". 1AM Channel 5 - "Sound Of Horror" (BW) (Spanish; 1965) Fantastic yarn about a monster hatched from a long-buried brontosaurus egg found in a Greek cave. Pete: James Philbrook. Maria: Soledad Miranda. (2 hrs., 15 min. ) Listed as "Thriller". 1AM Channel 9 - "Horror Island" (BW) (1941) On a treasure hunt, a boatload of passengers find murder on a deserted Florida key. Bill: Dick Foran. Wendy: Peggy Moran. (60 min. ) Listed as "Thriller" though I know for a fact that in years past it was listed as "Melodrama". 1:30AM Channel 7 - "A Reflection Of Fear" (1973) An old mansion is the moody setting for murder when a father (Robert Shaw) returns to the family he deserted ten years earlier. (1 hr., 50 min. ) Listed as "Thriller". *5AM Channel 2 - "The Colossus Of New York" (BW) (1958) The brain of a deceased scientist is encased in steel, where it continues to function - dangerously. Henry: John Baragrey. William: Otto Kruger. (1 hr., 25 min. ) Listed as "Science Fiction".
Joe Karlosi		#3	[-]
(06/29/09 4:49 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	MORE... From Saturday, November 10, 1973. 9:30AM Channel 5 - "Target Earth" (BW) (1954) Following a robot invasion from Venus, four survivors discuss their plight at length. Richard Denning, Kathleen Crowley. (90 min. ) Listed as "Science Fiction". 12PM Channel 5 - "The Magnetic Monster" (BW) (1953) Scientists attempt to destroy a dangerous radioactive substance. Richard Carlson. (90 min. ) Listed as "Science Fiction". 1PM Channel 9 - "Atom Age Vampire" (BW) (Italian; 1960) A professor (Alberto Lupo) turns killer in an effort to restore the face of a scarred dancer (Susanne Loret). (90 min. ) Listed as "Thriller". 3PM Channel 11 - "Reptilicus" (Danish; 1961) Prehistoric monster comes to life and rampages in Copenhagen. Fair effects, the rest is smorgasbord. Carl Ottosen, Ann Smyrner. (90 min. ) Listed as "Thriller". 8:30PM Channel 11 - "Dracula Vs. Frankenstein" (1971) Lurid, low-budget flick about rejuvenation experiments. Dr. Frankenstein: J. Carrol Naish. Groton: Lon Chaney. Dracula: Zandor Vorkov. Rico: Russ Tamblyn. Martin: Jim Davis. (90 min. ) Listed as "Thriller". 11:30PM Channel 9 - "Tomb Of The Living Dead" (1969) A massive search is on for the murderous chlorophyll monster of Blood Island. (2 hrs. ) Listed as "Thriller". 12AM Channel 11 - "The 10th Victim" (Italian; 1965) In a future age of legalized homicide, a woman hopes to achieve status and wealth by slaying her tenth victim. Marcello Mastroianni, Ursula Andress, Elsa Martinelli. (90 min. ) Listed as "Science Fiction". 1AM Channel 5 - "Cauldron Of Blood" (Spanish; 1968) Grisly tale of murder and mayhem about a blind sculptor and his sadistic wife. Boris Karloff, Viveca Lindfors, Jean-Pierre Aumont. (2 hrs., 15 min. ) Listed as "Thriller". *1:30AM Channel 7 - "How Awful About Allan" (1970) Suspense tale about a near-blind man who thinks someone wants to kill him. Anthony Perkins, Julie Harris. Olive: Joan Hackett. Eric: Trent Dolan. Harold: Billy Bowles. (1 hr., 25 min. ) Listed as "Thriller". As you can see, another FUN Saturday from the old days. Note the massive use of the 90 minute time slot
Joe Karlosi		#4	[-]
(06/29/09 4:50 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Here's a Halloween schedule: This is from the Saturday 10/31/70 TV Guide. 10:30AM Channel 9 - "The Witch's Curse" (C) (Italian; 1960) The legendary Maciste enters hell to remove the curse a sorceress has cast over a small town in Scotland. Kirk Morris, Helene Chanel. (90 min. ) Listed as "Adventure"??? 12PM Channel 5 - "The Ghost Of Frankenstein" (1942) A man plans to replace the criminal brain in a monster's head with the brain of an educated man. Lon Chaney Jr., Sir Cedric Hardwicke. (90 min. ) Listed as "Melodrama". 2:30PM Channel 9 - "Mighty Joe Young" (1949) A giant gorilla is brought to Hollywood to perform in a night club. Terry Moore, Ben Johnson. (90 min. ) Listed as "Adventure". 4PM Channel 9 - "Fear No Evil" (C) (1969) Made-for-tv suspense yarn about diabolical possession and the mystery shrouding a grotesque antique mirror. Lois Jourdan, Lynda Day. (2 hrs. ) Listed as "Thriller". 8:30PM Channel 5 - "Frankenstein" (1932) A young scientist has fashioned a human body and is conducting experiments to see if he can make it come to life. His fiancee and his friends try to stop him, but to no avail. From the novel by Mary Shelley. Frankenstein: Colin Clive. The Monster: Boris Karloff. Elizabeth: Mae Clarke. Victor: John Boles. Dr. Waldman: Edward Von Sloan. (90 min. ) Listed as "Melodrama". Note the year listed as 1932. 8:30PM Channel 11 - "The Crawling Eye" (English; 1958) In a radioactive cloud lies a tentacled monster, awaiting it's victims. Forrest Tucker, Laurence Payne, Jennifer Jayne. (90 min. ) Listed as "Melodrama" 12AM - "Mania" (1960) Two ghouls provide Dr. Robert Knox with cadavers for his experiments. Peter Cushing, June Laverick. (90 min. ) Listed as "Melodrama". 1AM Channel 4 - "The Brides Of Dracula" (C) (English; 1960) Crazed coachmen, thrashing bats and pallid lady vampires in another reincarnation of Transylvania's hero. Peter Cushing, David Peel, Martita Hunt. (1 hr., 25 min. ) Listed as "Melodrama". 1:45AM Channel 2 - "The Giant Behemoth" (1959) A gargantuan prehistoric monster rises from the depths of the ocean and invades the coast. Gene Evans, Andre Morell. (1 hr., 40 min. ) Listed as "Science Fiction". 1:50AM Channel 7 - "Trauma" (1962) Shocked into amnesia when she witnesses the murder of her aunt, a girl (Lorrie Richards) attempts to recall the incident years later. John Conte. (1 hr., 40 min. ) Listed as "Mystery".
Reegs		#5	[-]
(06/30/09 6:44 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I was a Monster Kid living on Long Island in the '60s, and occassionally I'd get Ch. 8 (Bridgeport?) out of Connecticut if the wind was blowing the right way and the tide was out. On more than one Saturday night I'd get to select from even more monster kid treasures.
GhostofChaneysLiver		#6	[-]
(06/30/09 3:57 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Reegs wrote: I was a Monster Kid living on Long Island in the '60s, and occassionally I'd get Ch. 8 (Bridgeport?) out of Connecticut if the wind was blowing the right way and the tide was out. On more than one Saturday night I'd get to select from even more monster kid treasures. LOL!! Same here, but mostly it would be a ghostly shadow that would fade in and out just to tuant me. I grew up on LI in the 60s and 70s and yeah, Saturdays were GOLD if you were a monster kid. By the 70s a lot of the Universal oldies shifted over from Channel 5 (WNEW) to Channel 9 (WOW) and they started airing them on weekday afternoons! Cromwell
Rick		#7	[-]
(06/30/09 4:05 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Growing up in Southern Indiana, the TV viewing options were extremely limited. I used to go to the local library every week and go through the weekly TV listings in the Sunday NY Times. Just masochistic, I guess. Occasionally I'd even make lists of the horror films New Yorkers were able to see. It was painful, but somehow hopeful as well. After all, if New York showed all these movies ("DEATH RAY OF DR. MABUSE ?? are you kiddin' me?!") maybe someday I'd get to see 'em too. And, eventually, I did. As far as TV Guide goes...my weekly search through those pages was a fingers-crossed highlight of my week. I'd mark everything that was--or might be--horror, s-f, or fantasy-related. There were never a lot. The worst--and I recall it all too well--was the week that only ONE genre film turned up anywhere in the mag. It was BACK FROM THE DEAD and it showed on a station that we couldn't pick up. It was so traumatic that I can still remember which TV Guide it was. I don't know the date, but the cover was a close-up of Cara Williams from "Pete and Gladys." She was a lovely woman, but I hated the sight of her from then on.
TomWeaver999		#8	[-]
(06/30/09 4:21 PM) Vazec Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	"The tri-state area" (NY, NJ, CT) in the late '60s and right through the '70s was Heaven on Earth for young Monster Kids. Mostly thanks to Channel 9 (but just about all the other stations were also "in there pitching"), there were dozens of horror/sci-fi oldies on TV every week of my young life. I felt sorry for Monster Kids in other parts of the country because regularly I'd read in monster mags and fanzines that monster movies that were on NY TV every couple of months for my entire life were "possibly lost films" and "never on television." (In those days, a writer would have to be a real knucklehead to write that. Just because a movie was in a TV package that hadn't been bought by any of the four or five stations in their neck of the woods, they'd assume it wasn't running ANYwhere. Quite a leap!)
TomWeaver999		#9	[-]
(06/30/09 5:47 PM) Vazec Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	A CHFB lurker e-mails me: << LOL!! Same here, but mostly it would be a ghostly shadow that would fade in and out just to taunt me. << No! IT was WTNH Channel 8 from New Haven CT, and it drove me BONKERS in that I could often pick up the SOUND but no picture! Therefore I first LISTENED to the opening 15 minutes of BRIDE and SON OF FRANKENSTEIN in the mid-60s before I caught them on Ch. 4's FESTIVAL OF THRILLERS (1966, Sat night 1am into Sunday morning, then in 1967 stupidly moved to Sunday night 1am -- a school night -- which of course killed it off). For years I even had an audio tape I made of NIGHT OF TERROR of "The Big Picture", as Channel 8 called their Saturday movie, using Leroy Anderson's "Sandpaper Ballet" as signature music (to this day I can't hear "Sandpaper" without thinking of the Main Title to NIGHT OF TERROR) In 1965-66, Channel 3 out of Hartford CT picked up the U-I 50s package a good 3 -6 months before WCBS-2 in NYC, and so we went CRAZY seeing things THE CREATURE, IT CAME FROM O.S, DEADLY MANTIS, PHANTOM OF THE OPERA listed in our NY-Metro TV Guide playing on this station we could not get (and being a fringe station, it was indicated by a black numeral in a WHITE TV box in our guide!) and which would not play for weeks or MONTHS on NY TV. I actually made my family drive me to my grandparents to see PHANTOM! It didn't hit NY TV until a good 6 months later. <<
FrozenGhost		#10	[-]
(06/30/09 6:34 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	TomWeaver999 wrote: "The tri-state area" (NY, NJ, CT) in the late '60s and right through the '70s was Heaven on Earth for young Monster Kids. Mostly thanks to Channel 9 (but just about all the other stations were also "in there pitching"), there were dozens of horror/sci-fi oldies on TV every week of my young life. We had the Real Heaven on Earth back in the early/middle 60s. We lived in Northeast Jersey which meant we had easy access to the New York stations including Channel 9. But in the summertime we headed for the Jersey shore every weekend which meant we were able to pick up the Philadelphia stations in addition to the NYC line-up. Channel 6's Double Chiller Theater was God's gift to Monster Kids, two monster flicks in a row! The entire Shock package, all the American Internationals of the 50s and early 60s (except for the Poe films), all the RKOs of the 30s/40s (including the Kongs), a few stray Warner Brothers horrors of the 30s, a nice helping of the 50s Allied Artists and Columbias horror films. It was totally unreal. And they didn't skip a frame of the movie unlike New York's Channel 9 butchers.And when Double Chiller signed off after midnight, the fun would continue with Hollywood's Finest. Which invariably showed yet another vintage horror movie. Truly mind boggling.
Wich2		#11	[-]
(06/30/09 7:19 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	And poor those of us in N. Ohio, much akin to Rick's S. Indiana - ... would get one - or two, if lucky! - Late Night monster films a weekend, from Toledo or Ft. Wayne... ... for a year - or two, if very lucky! - untill the format changed... ... and - if VERY lucky! - a '50's Giant Bug film on the 4:30 movie, once a week or so ... ... and - if DELIRIOUSLY lucky! - and the atmosphere was bounclng rarely, and you went outside and twisted the antenna just right - THE GHOUL, from Detroit! Good on youse guys on The Coasts - but please to remember, the vast majority of the country is Flyover Land! -Craig
Mongo		#12	[-]
(06/30/09 7:52 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Joe Karlosi wrote: 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 '50s... they'd be on at all times of the day, morning -- afternoon -- night -- late night. Some people here have felt that the programming is better in the Modern Era (say '90s - '00s) than in the '60s - '70s. What have been your experiences? Joe, as a MONSTER KID growing up in the 60s I would have to say that you would have to include the early and mid 60s as well. CHILLER THEATRE made it's debut on WPIX in the early 60s and was hosted by none other then ZACHERLY. WWOR had SUPERNATURAL THEATRE as well as monster/horror themes on the MILLION DOLLAR movie. I don't recall any weekly monster show on WNEW, but there were a host of movie programs that I'm sure featured horror/sci fi films. And then there were the LATE SHOWS on CBS, NBC, and ABC. Basically, what I'm tring to say is that the seeds for the late 60s early 70s Monster movie craze on NYC Television were planted in the early to mid 60s.
TomWeaver999		#13	[-]
(06/30/09 8:11 PM) Vazec Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	The first time I picked up a Philadelphia channel that I shouldn't have been able to pick up, it was the middle of the night and they were showing IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA, which I'd never seen full-length before -- there were about ten minutes that were new to me. So of course I then began staying up late for the sole purpose of waiting for the NYC channels to sign off so that the Philly station would show up. And from then on, I got nuthin' but movies like THE POWER AND THE PRIZE with Robert Taylor and a lot of other mind-numbing MGM 1950s bores.
GaryP11111	Two from 1973	#14	[-]
(06/30/09 9:51 PM) Burgomaster Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I've got some TV guides aound here from the '50, '60s and '70s. At hand I have two from the Louisville - Lexington area of Kentucky, one from the week of January 27, 1973 and one from February 10, 1973. Here's what I found (typically, I've been very surprised by the amount of genre TV in any given week back in the day). Jan 27-Feb 2, 1973: Movies: Saturday The Mad Ghoul Jungle Woman The Ghost of Frankenstein Black Friday Black Sunday Sunday The Creeping Unknown The Mummy's Hand The Night Walker Moon Zero Two Monday She ('65) Tuesday Baffled! (TV movie about ESP w/ Leonard Nimoy) A Cold Night's Death (sci-fi film) The House That Screamed Wednesday Picture Mommy Dead Friday The Innocents Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Terror By Night TV shows: Saturday Star Trek Boris Karloff presents Thriller ("What Beckoning Ghost?") The Munsters UFO Boris Karloff presents Thriller ("Dark Legacy") Boris Karloff presents Thriller ("The Lethal Ladies") Twilight Zone Twilight Zone Sunday Voyage To The Bottom of the Sea Monday Lost in Space Addams Family Boris Karloff presents Thriller ("Guillotine") Alfred Hitchcock Tuesday Lost in Space Addams Family Boris Karloff presents Thriller ("The Premature Burial") Alfred Hitchcock Wednesday Lost in Space Addams Family Boris Karloff presents Thriller ("Waxworks") Alfred Hitchcock Thursday Lost in Space Addams Family Boris Karloff presents Thriller ("The Closed Cabinet") Alfred Hitchcock Friday Lost in Space Addams Family Circle of Fear (60 min TV Show. Night of the Toad -- about a coven of devil-worshippers) Boris Karloff presents Thriller ("Masquerade") Alfred Hitchcock Feb 10 - 16, 1973: Movies: Saturday Charlie Chan at Treasure Island Tarzan, The Apeman Frankenstein ('31) Beauty and the Beast ('46) Dracula ('31) The Andromeda Strain (TV Premiere -- I remember this because I had a bad earache at the time of the showing. ) Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? The Deadly Bees The Man Who Could Cheat Death Sunday Jack and the Beanstalk (A&C) Battle Beyond the Sun Teror Beneath the Sea Frankenstein Created Woman Tuesday Queen of Outer Space Fear no Evil (Louis Jourdan) The Horror at 37,000 Feet (Shatner) The Suicide Club (TV movie) Wednesday Beauty and the Beast ('46) Screaming Skull (TV movie David McCallum) Thursday Dragonwyck And The Bones Came Together (TV movie) Friday The House That Wouldn't Die Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror TV shows: Saturday Star Trek Boris Karloff presents Thriller ("The Twisted Image") The Munsters UFO Boris Karloff presents Thriller ("The Grim Reaper") Boris Karloff presents Thriller ("The Storm") Twilight Zone Twilight Zone Monday Lost in Space Addams Family Boris Karloff presents Thriller ("Worse Than Murder") Alfred Hitchcock Tuesday Lost in Space Addams Family Boris Karloff presents Thriller ("Man in the Middle") Alfred Hitchcock Wednesday Lost in Space Addams Family Boris Karloff presents Thriller ("Mark of the Hand") Alfred Hitchcock Thursday Lost in Space Addams Family Boris Karloff presents Thriller ("Rose's Last Summer") Alfred Hitchcock Friday Lost in Space Addams Family Circle of Fear (60 min TV Show. John and Patty Duke Astin as a couple haunted by horror film monsters in a deserted movie studio. WILLIAM CASTLE makes a cameo appearance!) Boris Karloff presents Thriller ("The Watcher") Alfred Hitchcock There were other shows that I suppose I could have added to the list , like the sea-serpent episode of Wild, Wild West and a fantasy film or two. GARY L. PRANGE "Sic gorgiamus allos subjectos nunc." Check out my YouTube Video of the Week! (updated 4-27-09)
GaryP11111	Two from 1958	#15	[-]
(06/30/09 9:55 PM) Burgomaster Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	These two issues of TV Guide are interesting because they each contain an article (with photos) about the horror host phenomenon. But what is most evident is the other cultural phenomenon - The Western. It permeates every crevice of the first schedule and still dominates the second even though the detective drama (after the debut of the new fall line-up) is starting to challenge the western for supremacy. March 29-April 4, 1958 Pittsburgh, PA (and covering eastern Ohio and Wheeling, W. Virginia) MOVIES Saturday The Undying Monster Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ('41) Sunday The Body Snatcher The Man Fom Planet X Wednesday The Brute Man The Human Monster Thursday The Chinese Ring (Chan) Four-Sided Triangle Friday Pillow of Death The Brighton Strangler TV SHOWS Sunday Alfred Hitchcock ("Bull in a China Shop") Tuesday Alfred Hitchcock ("Bull in a China Shop") December 6-12, 1958 Omaha and Lincoln, Nebraska; Sioux City, Iowa and Sioux Falls, SD Slim pickin's for the horror buff. MOVIES Saturday She-Wolf of London (this 10:15pm time slot was hosted by "Gregore," one of the horror hosts spotlighted nationally in this issue of TV Guide). Monday The Unseen (gothic mystery) TV SHOWS Sunday Alfred Hitchcock ("Murder Me Twice") Monday Alfred Hitchcock ("Murder Me Twice") GARY L. PRANGE "Sic gorgiamus allos subjectos nunc." Check out my YouTube Video of the Week! (updated 4-27-09)
Spoiler II		#16	[-]
(07/01/09 3:18 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Joe Karlosi wrote: *11:30PM Channel 7 - "Night Of The Living Dead" (BW) (1968) Shocker about a plague of zombies loose in Pennsylvania. Johnny: Russell Streiner. (2 hrs. ) Listed as "Thriller". Gotta love those old TV guide style film descriptions. This one makes NIGHT sound like it has the most mundane and regional apocalypse ever captured on film. I also like how the one actor they list is (A) not one of the main characters and (B) totally uncredited in the actual film haha. I was always a fan of those short,out of patience synopsis that double as reviews some local newspapers TV listings would throw at you. Something along the lines of "Giant grasshoppers attack Chicago.Don't bother".
Spoiler II		#17	[-]
(07/01/09 3:22 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Joe Karlosi wrote: *2:30PM Channel 9 - "Mighty Joe Young" (1949) A giant gorilla is brought to Hollywood to perform in a night club. Terry Moore, Ben Johnson. (90 min. ) Haha based on this description,i would have possibly skipped MIGHTY JOE altogether. "Who the hell wants to see a giant ape do a ventriloquist act for 90 minutes?"
Joe Karlosi		#18	[-]
(07/01/09 5:56 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Mongo wrote: Joe, as a MONSTER KID growing up in the 60s I would have to say that you would have to include the early and mid 60s as well. CHILLER THEATRE made it's debut on WPIX in the early 60s and was hosted by none other then ZACHERLY. WWOR had SUPERNATURAL THEATRE as well as monster/horror themes on the MILLION DOLLAR movie. I don't recall any weekly monster show on WNEW, but there were a host of movie programs that I'm sure featured horror/sci fi films. And then there were the LATE SHOWS on CBS, NBC, and ABC. Basically, what I'm tring to say is that the seeds for the late 60s early 70s Monster movie craze on NYC Television were planted in the early to mid 60s. Oh, definitely! But the only reason I didn't include the early to mid '60s in my summary was because I was born in 1962, and for me, I couldn't speak from first-hand knowledge there (I didn't start seeing TV monster movies until 1968 or 1969, I'd estimate). But one thing I am learning here with this thread is that it could very well be that those of us living in the NY/NJ area may have been specially priviliged. Maybe that's why some other older Monster Kids did not see it the same way, and why they actually feel that there were more treasures from the Modern Cable Era.
Reegs		#19	[-]
(07/01/09 6:23 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Joe Karlosi wrote: Mongo wrote: Joe, as a MONSTER KID growing up in the 60s I would have to say that you would have to include the early and mid 60s as well. CHILLER THEATRE made it's debut on WPIX in the early 60s and was hosted by none other then ZACHERLY. WWOR had SUPERNATURAL THEATRE as well as monster/horror themes on the MILLION DOLLAR movie. I don't recall any weekly monster show on WNEW, but there were a host of movie programs that I'm sure featured horror/sci fi films. And then there were the LATE SHOWS on CBS, NBC, and ABC. Basically, what I'm tring to say is that the seeds for the late 60s early 70s Monster movie craze on NYC Television were planted in the early to mid 60s. Oh, definitely! But the only reason I didn't include the early to mid '60s in my summary was because I was born in 1962, and for me, I couldn't speak from first-hand knowledge there (I didn't start seeing TV monster movies until 1968 or 1969, I'd estimate). But one thing I am learning here with this thread is that it could very well be that those of us living in the NY/NJ area may have been specially priviliged. Maybe that's why some other older Monster Kids did not see it the same way, and why they actually feel that there were more treasures from the Modern Cable Era. Born in '52, so I get to include the early and middle part of the decade (plus the "Monster Cycle" that played at the drive-ins during the mid to late '50s). Have to admit, growing up in the tri-state area back then must have spoiled me. I'd be happy if just one of the cable companies (are you listening, TCM?) would have a Creature Feature/Chiller Theater/Fright Night/Chillers From Science Fiction etc. etc. night. BTW - if the TV Guide synopsis for a flick started with "lurid" you just had to see it.
TomWeaver999		#20	[-]
(07/01/09 12:03 PM) Vazec Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	<< one thing I am learning here with this thread is that it could very well be that those of us living in the NY/NJ area may have been specially priviliged. << Absolutely. And it's part of the reason why I've always had a "pfffft!" attitude toward the "If there hadn't been an FM, kids wouldn't have been introduced to these movies and there'd BE no fandom today" mindset. All you had to do back then to be introduced to this stuff was turn on the TV at just about any hour of the day or night. Turn the dial a click or two and you'd be introduced to it again. Every day in school, there'd be a lot of talk about the stuff that had been on the afternoon and night before (the movies, TWILIGHT ZONE and OUTER LIMITS reruns, on and on). I don't know if FM was ever mentioned once; I think I was the only one who looked at it (up to around age 13 or 14, anyway).

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