Monster Movie Matinee Montage.mov

[farrboy2361]

this is the intro to Monster Movie Matinee. You have the wrong music for this show. I remember it very well. This was the music used on channel 18, Monster Movie Matinee. Don't tell me it's not. I know what I am talking about. I watched this for a long time. Chamber 13 had another music theme. This theme should not be used here.

[JoetheArtist2006]

@farrboy2361

Since the clip is from the Chamber 13 broadcast, it is indeed, appropriate.

[Nostaglia2012]

@JoetheArtist2006 OK, I was just not familiar with this version. Thanks. (BTW, new account now, not farrboy2361)

[djnix2403]

I got to go on a field trip to WSYR. I got to see Witte's rings and the model of the mansion. This was the best. His hand stayed withme forever.

[andrewandzack]

I remember watching this up in Canada. Loved the music. It was always a good way to see all the classics. I also vaugely remember Salty Sam.

[JamesFilm123]

I just took a trip back some 40 years watching Monster Movie Matinee while growing up in Mattydale,New York............... the good times watching this as a kid,I still love the Scary Movies today and thanks to MMM. I do remember Salty Sam.... I think

[EdMahoney19]

I remember this as a kid growing up in Syracuse in the 70's. Where did you find this?

[markboccaccio]

joe

send me a quicktime movie of this via email. ill marry it to my version and send it back to you/post on utube

[markboccaccio]

joe this is great. send me the video and ill put my mmm dance version to it and post ion utube-mark

[rancar29]

I always thought the whole country had Monster Movie Matinee....poor people. When the Stefano DiMera character started on Days of our Lives, they kept showing a ring, and I thought the two were just so similar, they must be tied together. Mwahahahahahahahahhahahahhahah

[Judyfan]

Just remembered something else...the man who portrayed Epal also hosted a daily kid's show that featured POPEYE cartoons...he was known as Salty Sam. Anyone from central NY remember this also?

[JoetheArtist2006]

Lape Jr., Willard E.

Sept. 19, 04 Willard E. Lape Jr., 74, of Syracuse, died Sunday,

Sep. 19, 04, after a prolonged illness. Mr. Lape worked at WSYR (Radio

and TV) for many years. As "Salty Sam" he was well known for

his children's shows and charity work. He was also known as TV

personality "Bill Everett", "Epal" from Monster Movie Matinee. In later years he was

a storyteller at schools, libraries, and local events. He did voice

characterizations for Bruce Coville's audio books.

[rancar29]

I'm from the Twin Tiers - Hhds. I remember Salty Sam, Sunday mornings - sorry to say, I found him very boring, compared to the cartoons and action of Saturday morning.

[aussie4me]

@Judyfan not only remember it, use to hangout in Wsyr when both Salty Sam and all this use to be on tv. Use to live behind ShopCity known most of these local stars.Go back when Handcock use to have old control tower(use to watch planes land)near the AFBase.This show and Salty Sam were in the basement of WSYR.

Remember the mayor...L.A.?

[mdb1962]

@Judyfan

besides playing POPEYE i seem to remember them also

playing MR MAGOO.

[Judyfan]

Growing up in Waterloo NY in the 60's and 70's, this show was a huge part of my childhood. My interest in Universal Monsters and 50's sci-fi continues to this day, largely due to this show. Haven't heard the opening theme for decades, but hearing it here takes me back to a great period of my youth. Thanks for sharing!

[earthalien77]

The scariest were the "Jack the Ripper" movies.

[rockchickluvsjesus]

I love that laugh! mwhahaha! Everything about this show gave me the creeps as a kid in Syracuse. Is the haunted house model still around? At the Onondaga Historical Museum perhaps??

[TheSpazz13]

Hi DavidTyler1. This is Vic Trescott from the Outpost. This was my favorite show in Syracuse. Never missed it.

[Gigan62]

I believe the music is from one of the Hammer Films' Dracula movies with Christopher Lee if I recall correctly.

[OutFromUnderLive]

This is the theme from "This Island Earth"

[UnivegaSuperSport]

Growing up in Geneva, NY, this was a Saturday ritual. I'd scare myself silly. The cool thing about being a kid with an imagination was that I couldn't recognize the opening smokey mansion as a miniature set. To me it was real. I was always fascinated by Epal's forehead scar and eyepatch. I think I can even remember taking rings out of my mother's jewelery box and playing Dr. Witty. I later suspected he was played by anchorman Ron Curtis. I might be wrong, but he did have the deep voice for it.

[DavidTyler1]

I did some theater with Alan Milair (Dr. E. Nick Witty) and he's just a fabulous individual. A great guy. That jacket sleeve you see is a smoking jacket his wife gave him. It's a deep red in person. Also - this isn't really the intro to Monster Movie Matinee... Although similar, this was the follow up show on Cable 13. Alan, if you're reading this, Riff still remembers you fondly.

[abaneyone]

This is classic! I grew up in Fayetteville. Epal was the weatherman for channel 3 WSYR before it became WSTM. Thanks for posting these videos!

[DavesWorld56]

I was born and raised in Horseheads. I recall watching Monster Movie Matinee every Saturday afternoon. It's the show that intorduced me to all of the Universal Horror greats, and the 1950's B-Movoes about gian ants, and shrinking men. I only wish I had had the forethought of using my Dad's reel to reel tape recorder to tape the audio from the intro. All of the audio I find online now is pretty bad quality. Anyone have any of it to share? Thanks for this memory.

[billdoor6]

Thank you so much for putting this clip up.

My Dad and I would watch MMM every Sat.

afternoon. My love of horror and the macabre was born watching this show.

[dkfrey]

Where on earth did you come up with that clip? I thought they'd all long since vanished. Wonderful!

[medtech98]

Wow, that music. Dr. Witty's laugh. Such memories.

[ha7ed]

The guy who played the part of "Epal" also played a character named "Salty Sam" on another cartoon show.

[MOSUGOJI]

that was pretty cool. I used to watch monster movie matinee all the time

[mimilini]

Oh my God!!!!!! I was just telling a friend of mine last night about this show! It used to scare me so much when I was little! Thank you thank you thank you for finding it and posting it. Do you have any more of it?

[JoetheArtist2006]

Eventually I will post additional footage,

[mimilini]

Please let me know when you do! You've already brought back such great memories!!!