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Post by james on Feb 2, 2009 7:49:46 GMT -5
I'm just young enough to barely remember the Bowery Boys and Abbott and Costello reruns on New York television (on Sundays, I think)?
The Godzilla and King Kong films (and Chiller Theater) are before my time, though (sorry!). As a kid, I did watch a Chiller-type series broadcast on Channel 29 out of Philadelphia - back then you could pick up that network in New York on basic cable. I do have a vague memory of a Chiller-style series run on WPIX for a few weeks back in the late-80's, with a host introducing segments of the movie, Ghoulardi-style, though I think it had a different title.
And congratulations of 50 episodes, guys! I've been listening since the What Made Haddonfield Famous episode. I figured any podcast that reviews every Halloween movie needed to be listened to. ;D
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Post by tombitd on Feb 2, 2009 21:16:58 GMT -5
I do have a vague memory of a Chiller-style series run on WPIX for a few weeks back in the late-80's, with a host introducing segments of the movie, Ghoulardi-style, though I think it had a different title. And congratulations of 50 episodes, guys! I've been listening since the What Made Haddonfield Famous episode. I figured any podcast that reviews every Halloween movie needed to be listened to. ;D Thank you for the congratulations! It still amazes me that we're entering our third year of podcasting. And the show you described was The Doctor Morgus Show. The Doc was a mainstay of New Orleans television going waaaaaay back to the early 60's (a local producer even did a comedy motion picture based around the character, The Wild World of Doctor Morgus; I may be one of the few people north of the Mason/Dixon who saw this thing) whose show was syndicated briefly. The interstissals before and after the adverts usually revolved around some strange science experiment Morgus and his assistant Chopsley (a big guy in an executioner's costume and hood). I actually found the show entertaining for the handful of weeks that PIX picked up.
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Post by james on Feb 3, 2009 12:03:32 GMT -5
And the show you described was The Doctor Morgus Show. The Doc was a mainstay of New Orleans television going waaaaaay back to the early 60's (a local producer even did a comedy motion picture based around the character, The Wild World of Doctor Morgus; I may be one of the few people north of the Mason/Dixon who saw this thing) whose show was syndicated briefly. The interstissals before and after the adverts usually revolved around some strange science experiment Morgus and his assistant Chopsley (a big guy in an executioner's costume and hood). I actually found the show entertaining for the handful of weeks that PIX picked up. Holy crow, that is the show. I couldn't remember the title, but I do remember Chopsley and the science experiments. For years I thought it might have been Zacharle (who did host a previous WPIX show). Thank you!
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Post by Derrick on Feb 3, 2009 16:20:34 GMT -5
James, you are totally amazing in your loyalty to our little podcast. Thank you for your support.
And you're right about the Bowery Boys and Abbott and Costello. The Bowery Boys were on Channel 5 while Abbott and Costello were on Channel 11. Tom is more of an Abbott and Costello fan than I am. I became a Bowery Boys fan through my mother. We would go to church and by the time we got back home, The Bowery Boys would be coming on and my mother wouldn't let anybody touch the TV set while they were on.
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Post by drewshi on Feb 3, 2009 18:53:47 GMT -5
In addition to memories of the Thanksgiving monster movies, A&C, the kung-fu double feature, and the Bowery Boys, there was also Tarzan on Sundays on channel five in New York. In the eighties, five also ran a double feature, two episodes of the live action Spider-Man series in a movie format.
There was also the 4:30 movie on channel seven with a different theme each week. I especially loved Planet of the Apes week and superhero week as they ran the Adam West Batman movie and the Cathy Crosby Wonder Woman one.
Also at Thanksgiving was channel 7's airing of The Man Called Flintstone. If the parade got boring, I'd switch over to that.
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