I am confused which state that I am in with all the various bumpers and promos. Celebrating my birthday this week and these take me back to better days. Thanks FredFlix, great job!
When I assembled these clips, I didn't take note of the states (if that info was there). For one reason, that would be too much work. Secondly, to me, it doesn't matter so much as the old-time, local graphics and the fun of it all.
It was nice to see some promos from my local NYC area. Good memories! 👍 Wow, Svengoulie's been doing that show for a long time! He was so young in that clip!
I miss "local" stations. Growing up they often had the best programing around. BTW - There were pelanty of "afternoon" movie hosts as well. A collection of THEIR intoriductions woul dbe nice.
You had the Seattle CBS KIRO 7 Nightmare Theater ran from the late 60s to the late 70s but there was a well known character - The Count - that introduced the monster/horror movies and did some skits in between the commercial breaks - it was Joe Tooie who was a station director that did it for fun as a character that he knew in the early days of television. Too bad there was not some clips of this - it was great stuff. I believe there are some buried on You Tube that I have seen. It would have been a really good way to show how local stations promoted their programs.
A great compilation of local TV promos, especially those from Chicago's TV stations. And may add the National Anthem sign-off was a good finish. Thanks for the memories.
FredFlix I just dicovered your channel & i looove this stuff!!! Do you have any station break / intros some KCOP 13 IN L.A, KHJ 9 IN L.A. , OR KTTV 11 IN L.A. ? They ran all our local saturday night "creature feature" horror movies, syndicated cartoon shows and reruns.
We also had Sir Graves Ghastly in metro DC, and Count Gore DeVol on our UHF channel 20, where he also was Captain Twenty with a kids' show in the afternoon.
Here in Buffalo, NY, back in the 60's and 70's, station WKBW channel 7 had weekly movie shows, the ones I recall were 'movie for a sunday afternoon'. 'big show of the week,' ' academy award theater (the intro and closing music was the theme from the movie 'The Bible' and to this day I still get chills hearing it) It's been over 40 years and I would love to see those intros and trailers again. BTW this was wonderful, thanks again ;)
What a hoot! Thanks so much! Reminded me of our San Diego local movie show, Disasterpiece Theatre. It was wonderful. Also, reminded me of Count Floyd from SCTV. I was just going to suggest ending this "month of Fred" with the Sign Off/Star Spangled Banner, but you beat me to it :). Thanks again!
There are a few clips from the show on RU-vid! I was just watching a couple. The humor still holds up. It was about 5-10 years ahead of Mystery Science Theatre.
Oh Okay, that must have been the father. Here's the one I know, I LOVE Svengoolie, I watch him every Saturday Night on MeTV.A LONG time ago, we had WOR TV from New York. My niece used to watch Miss Molly on Romper Room
I miss old local tv. There were local celebrities who always made appearances at fairs, festivals and school events. But my favorites were the “horror flick” shows. They usually had horrible flicks rather than horror, but the fun was watching their skits that often made fun of the movie. These shows are what inspired MST3k. And thanks to ME tv, Svenghoulie still reigns.
I love your videos!! Could you please look out for the opening for "Scream Theater", that appeared Friday nights on WXYZ Channel 7 Detroit, in the late 70's and early 80's???? It was one of the best horror openings I can ever remember.
You know, everyone who grew up in a given city/market thinks THEIR guy (horror movie host, that is) is the be-all, end-all original guy. When I grew up it was Dr. Schock from Philly. But I have an excellent horror movie book called the "Psychotronic Encyclopedia" and in the introduction the author writes that HIS guy--Ghoulardi from Cleveland--was the original and everyone else was an imitator. Others cite Zacherly from NYC. Kinda funny how that plays out. Now, of course, kids today wouldn't know what the F I was talking about...
Since you ended the video with the traditional playing of the National Anthem, I think you should've played the drone tone (or whatever it's called) that's played non-stop until the station would normally start up broadcasting again.
The long "beeeeeeeeeeeeeeep" that aired along with the test card signal? Thank goodness we don't need that anymore, since modern TVs are self-adjusting. I do still remember the days when TV stations shut down for the night, though.
Station sign offs. forgot about them. Now it's 24/7 home shopping/infomercials Speaking of local programming.... Any Sir Graves Ghastly from Detroit fans following FredFix's programming?
Great stuff, Fred! I especially enjoy the promos from the NYC market. Is it my imagination, or is that Dan Ackroyd doing the voice-over for RETRONTARIO's ad for "The Wild, Wild West?"
Except it aired for an Ontario (probably Toronto-area) TV station; RETRONTARIO is just the name of the RU-vid channel that uploaded that clip. Similarly, FuzzyMemories.tv's RU-vid channel is dedicated to Chicago TV from the past, including the awesome Max Headroom broadcast signal interruption from 1987.
I was wondering if you could find any local station promos from KBSCTV channel 52 Corona/ Los Angeles ( now called KVEA -Telemundo 52 ) , KHJ-TV channel 9 Los Angeles ( now called KCAL9 ) , KCOP channel 13 ( now called MyTv13 ), and KTLA channel 5 Los Angeles ( same call sign but now part of the CW network ).
You know why TBS changed their programming to "5 after the hour and the half hour"? so that if you had a VCR and wanted to record from another network, you would miss 5 minuets of your other shows. In short, TBS, wanted to monopolize the recording public for their shows only.
1:18 Who was the host of Monster Rally Movie? I hope he's still alive. I looked forward to this as much as I did for Son of Svengoolie. I was just trying to recall the name of this program and lo and behold the RU-vid algorithm shows me this video from 4 years ago. And what is the name of that theme music?
When u was a kid I would Run around the dining room table with a towel Dropped around my neck And run around the table Watching the adventures of Superman
TV was fun back when local stations actually had local programs with local flavor! Anybody know "DR. Madblood" from Virginia? One of the unsung greats! www.madblood.net/
Here's one for ya: This was a staple in our house every Saturday Night. Saturday Night DEEEEEEEEAAAAAAD! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nTEqzrWXJkM.html
