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Post by Dr Strange on Oct 27, 2016 18:06:40 GMT
I was far too old to be watching it when I was watching it, but - Chorlton & The Wheelies !!!
And it had a witch in it (who was Welsh, lived in a kettle, and was called Fenella) - so that means it definitely is Vault material.
There's a load of episodes on YouTube.
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Post by ripper on Oct 28, 2016 12:27:53 GMT
I was far too old to be watching it when I was watching it, but - Chorlton & The Wheelies !!! And it had a witch in it (who was Welsh, lived in a kettle, and was called Fenella) - so that means it definitely is Vault material. There's a load of episodes on YouTube. It's hard to believe that it has been 40 years since Chorlton first appeared on our screens. Another creepy series for the very young is 'The Trap Door', with most voices being provided by the wonderful and sadly missed Willie Rushton. I can imagine that the various things living beneath that trap door sent a shiver up the spines of its target audience. |
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Post by mcannon on Oct 29, 2016 6:40:27 GMT
I suppose that this topic may be appropriate..... legendary US TV horror host "Zacherley" has passed away at the very respectable age of 98. www.videowatchdog.com/home/home.html While he was obviously best known to American audiences, I'm sure that many of us in other parts of the world had heard of him via various avenues; I know that buried somewhere I have at least one 1960s horror anthology edited by him (supposedly). There goes another little piece of history...... Mark |
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Post by ripper on Oct 29, 2016 9:39:18 GMT
I suppose that this topic may be appropriate..... legendary US TV horror host "Zacherley" has passed away at the very respectable age of 98. www.videowatchdog.com/home/home.htmlView AttachmentWhile he was obviously best known to American audiences, I'm sure that many of us in other parts of the world had heard of him via various avenues; I know that buried somewhere I have at least one 1960s horror anthology edited by him (supposedly). There goes another little piece of history...... Mark That is sad news. I know TV horror hosts have been very popular in the US from back when television was in its infancy. For some reason, they never quite gained the same popularity over here. I noticed from his Wikipedia page that Zacherley also edited a couple of horror anthologies in the 60s |
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Post by dem on Oct 29, 2016 10:28:18 GMT
I suppose that this topic may be appropriate..... legendary US TV horror host "Zacherley" has passed away at the very respectable age of 98. www.videowatchdog.com/home/home.htmlWhile he was obviously best known to American audiences, I'm sure that many of us in other parts of the world had heard of him via various avenues; I know that buried somewhere I have at least one 1960s horror anthology edited by him (supposedly). Mark I want to believe he edited them as they are both neat selections and the ghoulish commentaries are fun. Not sure I ever saw him in action, but Dinner With Drac usually receives a spin in dem household at this time of the year. I think I've a disc of him duetting with his friend and fellow cool ghoul, Boris Pickett, on Monster Mash among my implements of torture.  Richard PowersZacherley(ed.) - Midnight Snacks (Ballatine, March 1960)  Richard PowersZacherley(ed.) - Vulture Stew (Ballatine, August 1960) |
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Post by mcannon on Oct 29, 2016 21:17:14 GMT
[/quote]That is sad news. I know TV horror hosts have been very popular in the US from back when television was in its infancy. For some reason, they never quite gained the same popularity over here. I noticed from his Wikipedia page that Zacherley also edited a couple of horror anthologies in the 60s [/quote] The only Australian "classic" horror host that I know of was Deadly Earnest. I used to occasionally see his show, "Deadly Earnest's Awful Movie", Channel 10 Sydney in the late 1960s; I say "occasionally" because my parents usually wouldn't allow me to stay up late and watch such mind-rotting rubbish... *sigh*....  It wasn't until many years later that I learned that "Deadly Earnest" was some sort of franchise, and that there were other versions in at least three other major cities - Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide:-  Here's an LP by the Sydney Earnest that I picked up in a secondhand shop some time in the late 1970s for $1. It's up to the usual standard of such horror host recordings:  Mark |
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Post by jamesdoig on Oct 30, 2016 8:52:51 GMT
Here's an LP by the Sydney Earnest that I picked up in a secondhand shop some time in the late 1970s for $1. It's up to the usual standard of such horror host recordings: View AttachmentI'm ashamed to say I've never heard of Deadly Earnest, though by the time I started watching horror movies as a kid in mid-70s Perth he'd changed identities and moved interstate. I remember a few all night horrorthons, but can't recall if they were compered - I'd usually fall asleep by the time The Blob came on. The LP looks like a cracker. |
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Post by ripper on Oct 31, 2016 11:16:14 GMT
I suppose that this topic may be appropriate..... legendary US TV horror host "Zacherley" has passed away at the very respectable age of 98. www.videowatchdog.com/home/home.htmlWhile he was obviously best known to American audiences, I'm sure that many of us in other parts of the world had heard of him via various avenues; I know that buried somewhere I have at least one 1960s horror anthology edited by him (supposedly). Mark I want to believe he edited them as they are both neat selections and the ghoulish commentaries are fun. Not sure I ever saw him in action, but Dinner With Drac usually receives a spin in dem household at this time of the year. I think I've a disc of him duetting with his friend and fellow cool ghoul, Boris Pickett, on Monster Mash among my implements of torture. Richard Powers Zacherley(ed.) - Midnight Snacks (Ballatine, March 1960) Richard Powers Zacherley(ed.) - Vulture Stew (Ballatine, August 1960) They do look like interesting selections. Possibly they were edited by someone else and his name used for publicity, but as you say it's nice to think he did the actual story selection. The only UK TV horror hosts I can remember seeing are Richard o'Brien from Mystery Train and the one from the similar Vault of Horror, both shown on BBC2 in the early 90s. There are probably more, but it has always puzzled me why they didn't take off to anywhere near the same extent as in the USA. I don't know but possibly all those small local stations in the USA might be a factor, whereas our broadcasting is more centralised |
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