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The Ghoul's Creature Feature: With Ron Sweed. "The Ghoul's Creature Feature" was a hosted horror show with Ron Sweed as "The Ghoul" on Saturdays at 11:30 pm on WKBD-TV, Channel 50 Detroit, Michigan from 1975 until 1976.
8 lut 2019 · The Ghoul Shows. The Ghoul (Ron Sweed) heir to Ghoulardi's (Ernie Anderson) fright wig and Goatee carried on the outrageous Shock Theater Tradition in Cleveland from 1971-1975 on WKBF Channel 61, in the 80's in WCLQ Ch 61, then again in the 1990's on WBNX Channel 55. Also in Detroit on WKBD Ch 50.
I had been groomed on The Ghoul and Sir Graves, but Creature Feature came along when I hit my early teens - perhaps this is why the show is still so fresh in my mind. By the time I had hit 13 or 14, Count Scary had become popular and when I had a drivers liscence - SHOCKTOBER was all the "rage".
7 paź 2019 · Detroit TV station WKBD Channel 50 added the show to their lineup in the early 70's and it soon became the most popular late-night show in the area. And the audience ate it up. Of course, there were some parents out there who wrote letters of complaint.
31 paź 1996 · His Channel 50 show became the most popular of the Kaiser markets and soon moved him and the show to Detroit for a long run. By the late 70s SNL took away a lot of his audience. Here he is in a pitched (& forked) battle with another Detroit TV movie host, Count Scary.
19 paź 2020 · The Ghoul was born, and Kaiser Broadcasting aired the show in Cleveland. In short order, The Ghoul also appeared on Kaiser’s WKBD affiliate in Detroit. He was a smash. A few other cities picked up the show, but Sweed just didn’t click there as he did in Cleveland and Detroit.
A few years later, Kaiser's Detroit-based station WKBD also picked up The Ghoul Show. Known for Sweed's zany, intentionally adolescent humor, late night monster movies were a unique experience for Cleveland and Detroit viewers in the 1970s.
