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In an effort to keep things off topic, there's a lot of informatiom on Grinsley, Seymour, Shrimpenstein and other LA hosts over at www.latvlegends.com This is a GREAT site.
Sep 4 08 12:14 AM
ByronOrlok wrote: No, I don't think KTTV / Channel 11 ever had an actual Horror Host (unless it was "before my time"). They did run sci-fi and monster movies on a program called "Chiller", which was pretty no-frills. The version I remember had a very simple opening, with stock lightning flashes, creepy music and sound fx over a solarized shot-on-video closeup of a monster mask floating in some dark water -- then a monster-gloved hand grabs the face and slowly pushes it under the water -- the solarized ripples in the water become the word "CHILLER". God, hadn't thought about that in years....! Does it ring a bell, O Pink One?
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Sep 4 08 2:27 AM
TimCMurphy wrote: The KCOP host you're thinking of was "Famous Morris", Marshall.
Sep 4 08 2:32 AM
pinkfloyd95209 wrote: Now I am curious, which Los Angeles TV Stations had what Horror/Sci-Fi Movie Packages? I have heard that KTLA-5 had the Classic Universal Horror Movie Collection but which Los Angeles TV Station had the AIP Movies (I Was A Teenage Werewolf, The Amazing Colossal Man, Frogs, Count Yorga Vampire as well as those Corman-Poe Films), the Hammer Films (Horror Of Dracula, X The Unknown, Curse Of The Werewolf), The Amicus Films (Dr. Terror's House Of Horrors, The House That Dripped Blood), The Monogram Poverty Row Films (The Ape Man, Voodoo Man, The Ape), The Allied Artists Films (The Giant Behemoth, Frankenstein 1970, Invasion Of The Body Snatchers), The UA Films (The Curse Of Dracula, The Curse Of The Faceless Man, The Black Sleep) as well as those TOHO Films (Godzilla, Mothra, The H-Man, Destroy All Monsters). Thanks!
Sep 4 08 3:38 AM
Sep 4 08 9:41 AM
Marshall Crist wrote: TimCMurphy wrote: The KCOP host you're thinking of was "Famous Morris", Marshall. Thanks! You know, that name came to me earlier today and I tried doing an internet search, to no avail. I will try again.
Sep 4 08 11:17 AM
Sep 4 08 12:19 PM
TimCMurphy wrote: Marshall Crist wrote: TimCMurphy wrote: The KCOP host you're thinking of was "Famous Morris", Marshall. Thanks! You know, that name came to me earlier today and I tried doing an internet search, to no avail. I will try again. http://myweb.wvnet.edu/e-...tvhorrorhosts/hostsf.html
Sep 4 08 11:29 PM
And good question re: Vampira -- I've often wondered myself which movies she ran on her show (it was WAY before my time, alas).
Sep 5 08 12:03 AM
pinkfloyd95209 wrote: And good question re: Vampira -- I've often wondered myself which movies she ran on her show (it was WAY before my time, alas). I have always wondered? The SHOCK THEATRE package was released to TV Stations in 1958 and VAMPIRA's show on KABC-7 predated that. My guess is that it must have been the Old Monogram and PRC Poverty Row Classics like THE DEVIL BAT, VOODOO MAN, BOWERY AT MIDNIGHT, THE APE, maybe some of Karloff's MR. WONG films? I don't know. I am curious if the LOS ANGELES PUBLIC LIBRARY have TV GUIDE MICROFILM? I know my local Public Library has TV GUIDE MICROFILM of the NORTHERN CALIFORNIA EDITION from 1953-82. I don't know why they don't have any later TV GUIDE on MICROFILM? And back to SHOCK THEATRE, Did KABC-7 have the rights to the SHOCK THEATRE package in 1958? And if so, Who hosted SHOCK THEATRE there if VAMPIRA didn't. Funny thing though, For YEARS, I was always under the impression VAMPIRA was the host of LOS ANGELES's SHOCK THEATRE.
Sep 5 08 8:49 PM
Sep 11 08 12:55 AM
I totally remember WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS running at 8pm every night for the entire week in the 70s. I think they also ran, in the same format, KING KONG (the original), MONSTER ZERO, and later things like the hillbilly drive-in flick PREACHERMAN. If you missed the beginning of the movie on Monday, you could always tune in the next night to catch it!
I loved Famous Morris on Channel 13. He was on around 1975/1976, a pudgy guy who wore a hat with little devil horns sticking out at the top. As E-gor's site notes, he never acknowledged the films he showed, but he was always doing "agent-to-the-stars" schtick, talking on the phone to "Frank" and "Drac," trying to get them work and arguing with them. His show used the "Hurray for Hollywood" song (to open, I think), and in the middle or end he used, as you say, Marshall, War's "Why Can't We Be Friends!" Famous Morris ran lots of Spanish horror like HORROR RISES FROM THE TOMB, NIGHT OF THE SORCERERS, BELL FROM HELL, WITCHES MOUNTAIN, as well as other things from the Avco/Embassy TV package like DEAR DEAD DELILAH, DEATH SMILES ON A MURDERER, and HATCHET FOR THE HONEYMOON. He also ran the Blood Island films (under their TV titles--ISLAND OF LIVING HORROR, TOMB OF THE LIVING DEAD), and other Hemisphere stuff like TOWER OF TERROR (aka ASSAULT w/Suzy Kendall), INN OF THE FRIGHTENED PEOPLE (aka REVENGE w/Joan Collins), and TORTURE CHAMBER OF DOCTOR SADISM. The nudity was cut for TV, but the films were still suggestive and sexy, at least I thought so. You could tell when something was cut ("Whoa, there's a sex scene!") and they retained scenes of Joan Collins, Angelique Pettyjohn, Ewa Aulin, etc. parading around in low cut night gowns, bras, whatever. The films usually ran 11pm Saturday and then repeated 3pm Sunday afternoon. They used to run spots during the week for upcoming shows, with a male announcer saying in a rushed, lurid voice: "Saturday night at 11:00...a beautiful girl, falsely accused of witchcraft seeks a bloody revenge in NIGHT OF THE BLOOD MONSTER!" [then teaser scenes, then] "See the L.A. premiere of NIGHT OF THE BLOOD MONSTER, this Saturday at 11:00 on KCOP, Channel 13...the station that plays favorites!" It used to crack me up--sure, LA premiere, if you say so! Still, every Saturday night, I'd be right there, heating up some egg rolls in the toaster oven and then sitting down to spend a couple hours watching Beverly Hills and John Ashley on Blood Island. What a blast! Getting back to Chiller, wow, thanks for the detailed description of the opening. It's the earliest TV horror program I ever saw. I knew the opening had some sort of image of something sinking or coming out of water, but my memory was faint. I definitely saw THE DISEMBODIED on Chiller. A friend e-mailed me his memories about it: Chiller was on in the early 60s. I don't think it lasted all the way to the late 60s. It was on Channel 11, KTTV. The voice would say: "It's time for...CHILLER! In the coming weeks you'll see such disturbing motion pictures as...The Disembodied...Attack of the Crab Monsters...Monster from Piedras Blancas...Attack of the 50 Foot Woman...Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake...Four Sided Triangle...The Cosmic Man...Frankenstein's Daughter...Daughter of Dr. Jekyll..." Then it would show some scenes from the movie that was coming up for next week. They didn't show Attack of the Mushroom People. I think they ran all Allied Artists titles. They ran Caltiki a lot. That really scared me!
Sep 11 08 8:38 PM
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