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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.
Later in the 1970s, Kaiser Broadcasting syndicated The Ghoul Show to Detroit, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Los Angeles. [8] It bombed in Chicago—replacing the locally-produced Svengoolie hosted by Jerry G. Bishop —and in Boston, but found success in Detroit at WKBD (channel 50) [ 12 ] and enjoyed varying degrees of ...
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.
2 maj 2002 · From there the show went to WKBG-TV 56 (later WLVI-TV) in Boston, WKBS-TV 48 Boston, KBHK-TV 44 San Francisco. The Ghoul's reached his peak when the show went to WFLD-TV 32 in Chicago, which it bought from Field Enterprises.
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.
I thought I might share some very vivid memories from WKBD's Creature Feature show. I am 31 and finishing my Masters at Wayne State in cinema studies and perhaps might even teach a course on the genre of Horror (as an adjunct) this winter.
30 paź 2010 · A few years later, Kaiser's Detroit-based station WKBD also picked up The Ghoul Show. Known for Sweed's zany, intentionally-adolescent humor (particularly surrounding his abuse of a rubber frog named "Froggy," a penchant for blowing up things with firecrackers, and catch phrases like "zingy-zingy," "Overdey!"
