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19 paź 2020 · By the mid-’80s, The Ghoul had blown up his last pierogi, though he continued to do occasional live performances. Sweed died of a heart attack in 2019. With his slapstick humor and juvenile high jinks, TV personality The Ghoul (real name Ron Sweed) was more foolish than ghoulish.
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 ...
3 kwi 2019 · Ron Sweed, the horror host who became a hit on early 1970s Detroit TV in a haze of firecrackers, absurdist humor and the never-ending torture of his sidekick Froggy, has died in Cleveland at...
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.
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.
"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 Ron Sweed
3 kwi 2019 · Southfield (CBS Detroit) - Detroit Legend, Ron Sweed, aka, "The Ghoul" passed away on Monday at the age of 70. (Credit: WKBD-TV Archive) According to his ex-wife, he recently suffered a...
