TV Binge Watch (Part 2)

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Took me 10 years to notice that.

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Well known local horror (and other shows) hosts

  1. Svengoolie - Rich Koz
  2. Elvira - Cassandra Peterson
  3. Joe Bob Briggs - John Irving Bloom
  4. Bozo the Clown - Bob Bell
  5. Count Floyd - Joe Flaherty
  6. Sammy Terry - Bob Carter, now his son Mark
  7. Bill Kennedy - Bill Kennedy at the Movies

A Detroit fixture for years

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I never did tumble to it myself. I saw him at a SF/Fantasy convention in Indianapolis and he spoke (in costume) and told stories of how it came to be, and the origin of the name, and how the crew loved to pull pranks on him.

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Well known local horror (and other shows) hosts

  1. Svengoolie - Rich Koz
  2. Elvira - Cassandra Peterson
  3. Joe Bob Briggs - John Irving Bloom
  4. Bozo the Clown - Bob Bell
  5. Count Floyd - Joe Flaherty
  6. Sammy Terry - Bob Carter, now his son Mark
  7. Bill Kennedy - Bill Kennedy at the Movies
  8. Vampira - Maila Nurmi - 1950s - one of the first horror hosts
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Well known local horror (and other shows) hosts

  1. Svengoolie - Rich Koz
  2. Elvira - Cassandra Peterson
  3. Joe Bob Briggs - John Irving Bloom
  4. Bozo the Clown - Bob Bell
  5. Count Floyd - Joe Flaherty
  6. Sammy Terry - Bob Carter, now his son Mark
  7. Bill Kennedy - Bill Kennedy at the Movies
  8. Vampira - Maila Nurmi - 1950s - one of the first horror hosts
  9. Victor Ives - Sinister Cinema
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  1. Svengoolie - Rich Koz
  2. Elvira - Cassandra Peterson
  3. Joe Bob Briggs - John Irving Bloom
  4. Bozo the Clown - Bob Bell
  5. Count Floyd - Joe Flaherty
  6. Sammy Terry - Bob Carter, now his son Mark
  7. Bill Kennedy - Bill Kennedy at the Movies
  8. Vampira - Maila Nurmi - 1950s - one of the first horror hosts
  9. William Cardill, aka “Chilly Billy”-- started out as just a reporter, then started hosting the late night horror-- he is featured as himself in Night of the Living Dead reporting on the situation, which means that NLD took place in Pennsylvania, since that was where Cardill’s station was.
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  1. Svengoolie - Rich Koz
  2. Elvira - Cassandra Peterson
  3. Joe Bob Briggs - John Irving Bloom
  4. Bozo the Clown - Bob Bell
  5. Count Floyd - Joe Flaherty
  6. Sammy Terry - Bob Carter, now his son Mark
  7. Bill Kennedy - Bill Kennedy at the Movies
  8. Vampira - Maila Nurmi - 1950s - one of the first horror hosts
  9. Victor Ives - Sinister Cinema
  10. William Cardill, aka “Chilly Billy”-- started out as just a reporter, then started hosting the late night horror-- he is featured as himself in Night of the Living Dead reporting on the situation, which means that NLD took place in Pennsylvania, since that was where Cardill’s station was.

Housekeeping

Next: Movies you associate with TV, and not the theater

  1. The Wizard of Oz

it was a yearly event on TV my whole childhood, and I didn’t see it in a theater until I saw the 3D version about 10 years ago

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Next: Movies you associate with TV, and not the theater

  1. The Wizard of Oz
  2. A Christmas Story
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Movies you associate with TV, and not the theater

  1. The Wizard of Oz
  2. A Christmas Story
  3. Emil and the Detectives
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Movies you associate with TV, and not the theater

  1. The Wizard of Oz
  2. A Christmas Story
  3. Emil and the Detectives
  4. It’s a Wonderful Life

After the copyright lapsed in 1974, it became a holiday broadcast staple.

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Movies you associate with TV, and not the theater

  1. The Wizard of Oz
  2. A Christmas Story
  3. Emil and the Detectives
  4. It’s a Wonderful Life
  5. Godzilla

Or any other monster movie.

TBH, I don’t think I’ve seen more than a couple dozen movies at a theater in my life, including B movies at a drive-in when I was a kid. I do get that somehow movies like Lawrence of Arabia or Gone with the Wind seem like they belong on a big screen even if you’ve only ever watched them on a TV, but that would be a tiny minority for me.

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Movies you associate with TV, and not the theater

  1. The Wizard of Oz
  2. A Christmas Story
  3. Emil and the Detectives
  4. It’s a Wonderful Life
  5. Godzilla
  6. Lord of the Rings

Same for me, although my number is much higher. I went a lot as a kid and teen, not so much as an adult.

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Movies you associate with TV, and not the theater

  1. The Wizard of Oz
  2. A Christmas Story
  3. Emil and the Detectives
  4. It’s a Wonderful Life
  5. Godzilla
  6. Lord of the Rings
  7. Flying Leathernecks (or any other John Wayne war movie ever made for that matter)
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Movies you associate with TV, and not the theater

  1. The Wizard of Oz
  2. A Christmas Story
  3. Emil and the Detectives
  4. It’s a Wonderful Life
  5. Godzilla
  6. Lord of the Rings
  7. Flying Leathernecks (or any other John Wayne war movie ever made for that matter)
  8. Shawshank Redemption

I’ve haven’t actually seen it from beginning to end but it did play on a loop endlessly on cable at one point.

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Movies you associate with TV, and not the theater

  1. The Wizard of Oz
  2. A Christmas Story
  3. Emil and the Detectives
  4. It’s a Wonderful Life
  5. Godzilla
  6. Lord of the Rings
  7. Flying Leathernecks (or any other John Wayne war movie ever made for that matter)
  8. Shawshank Redemption
  9. Groundhog Day

Now played 24hrs straight on Feb 2. Kinda fitting, dontcha think?

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Movies you associate with TV, and not the theater

  1. The Wizard of Oz
  2. A Christmas Story
  3. Emil and the Detectives
  4. It’s a Wonderful Life
  5. Godzilla
  6. Lord of the Rings
  7. Flying Leathernecks (or any other John Wayne war movie ever made for that matter)
  8. Shawshank Redemption
  9. Groundhog Day
  10. Sleepless in Seattle

It seems to always run on Valentine’s Day.

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Three (or more) generations on TV

  1. Bob Elliott (Bob and Ray); Chris Elliott (Schitt’s Creek); Abbey Elliott (SNL; The Bear)
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Three (or more) generations on TV

  1. Bob Elliott (Bob and Ray); Chris Elliott (Schitt’s Creek); Abbey Elliott (SNL; The Bear)
  2. Ozzie and Harriet Nelson (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet), Ricky Nelson (their son, who was also in that show), Ricky’s daughter Tracy Nelson (Square Pegs)
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Three (or more) generations on TV

  1. Bob Elliott (Bob and Ray); Chris Elliott (Schitt’s Creek); Abbey Elliott (SNL; The Bear)
  2. Ozzie and Harriet Nelson (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet), Ricky Nelson (their son, who was also in that show), Ricky’s daughter Tracy Nelson (Square Pegs)
  3. Rocky Johnson (WWF), Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson (WWF/WWE), Simone “Ava” Johnson (NXT, WWE)
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Would this be 4 generations, as his (maternal) Grandfather was Peter Maivia?