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19 paź 2020 · 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.
Comedy Horror Mystery Sci-Fi Thriller. "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. Star.
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.
The late-night horror movie and comedy sketch show ran for various blocks of seasons from 1971 through 2004, primarily in Detroit and Cleveland. In 1970, Sweed approached fellow Cleveland actor Ernie Anderson with a proposal to revive Anderson's 1960's character, "Ghoulardi."
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.
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.
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.
