The Ghoul Channel 61 Cleveland Froggy bits

[froggychannel]

jaha

[osfs3411]

The Ghoul is a cool cat. I interviewed him for a 'zine and he was funny and forthcoming.

[vampstervik]

There are a lot of great tributes done (and clips of the original shows)of Ghoulardi and The Ghoul. Be cool if "The Ghoul" answered the knock on the phone and told knifs how he was born as THE GHOUL? Toads rule ovah froggies like Ghoulardi rules ovah..Be great to see a documentary about the "GODFATHER OF FRIGHT NIGHTS" and HIS Offspring...seems the boom-booms ovah-dey blew up and off da main man, Ernie? Reading the comments seems apparent kids coming up in the mid-70's and forward are knifless.

[theREALonekev]

I remember his fifth anniversary show aired on channel 50 in Detroit in (I think) 1976.

In one skit, he walked sideways onto the set with a toilet seat in front of his face. He stopped in the middle of the set, flipped the cover up and, with his face framed by the seat, screamed. Then he flipped the cover back down and continued walking sideways off the set.

He's putting a DVD together according to the website theghoulDOTcom. I hope he has some clips from that show on the DVD.

[nibbler125]

my dad told me about this at the time i was 14 now my room always smells like smoke

[pyro4561]

count me as one-i grew up with the ghoul-loved his shaky hand when he lit the boom-booms.

[lioncheater]

how many aspiring pyros did this show create?lol

[4thtroika]

How many Froggys you think he's gone through?

[gekovich]

i used to have a plastic froggy back when, it probably

is a collector's find, you thinks?......if i had'nt taken a cherry

bomb and strapped it around it....

[dreadnaught2]

I met the Ghoul at a book signing a few years back. He used to be on WKBD channel 50 on Saturday nights in Detroit.

[Ganavon]

I remember The Ghoul and Froggy back in the 70's from Kaiser Broadcasting. In fact I picked up the signal in Middletown, NJ!

[tophatch]

i mean in detroit

[djcurtisone]

I swear Mr. Bill (Saturday Night Live) got their ideas from this show. Which was first?

[strombeldenbar]

The ghoul was first!!!

Great stuff!

[synthforhire]

Give Dorothy Fuldheim a firecracker for me :-)

Yeah, Channel 61, wouldn't be anywhere else at that time but in front of the tube with Mr. Sweed

[dgill2708]

I sure do miss froggy! He and the Ghoul made a great team. Hope to see them soon.

[dejahthoris]

They shouldnt be killing tht poor innocent froggy ova dey.. I'm calling the ASPCF...

[GBS1043]

Hey,, THE GHOUL BELONGS TO CLEVELAND !!! PARMA IS A MUCH BIGGER DUMP THAN HAMTRAMEC!!

[earthnelson]

It all comes down to chrome balls and white socks per capita. We can settle this objectively. Let's get in an IROC and count 'em up. Pink Flamingos will be the tie breaker.

[mvonwahlde]

What? Parma??? We're talking Amrap, man . . . you dig it???

[dogma789]

boffo socko

[maestro48239]

my mom and dad liked the ghoul also....so i got to stay up and watch, he was a class act...and i still love him to this day, BRING THE GHOUL BACK TO DETROIT!

[Spanglemaker42]

I just realized the reason I stay up so late at night. I started watching The Ghoul! Used to come on 11:30 Sat nights, and I must have been around 7 years old, back in Detroit, it was...

[earthnelson]

Who was the Detroit version? I cannot remember! Lived in in both places as a teen -so you know where I was at 11:30 on Saturday nights...

[tophatch]

i think the ghoul was sat afternoons on channel 50

[meesalikeu]

his original show was on at night in the cleve, but sweed and his ghoul have had more lives than a cat. btw there is still a bar called ghoulardi's outside of cleveland in lorain. they have memorabilia. sweed goes there for ghoul appearances sometimes.

[vampstervik]

The original "GHOULARDI" was the pioneer of ALL horror hosts on TV, beginning in 1963. The restaurant is named after Ghoulardi. The Ghoul worked for Ghoulardi until he left "ARDI" and wasnt thinking Ron was serious but the rest is history. A couple of times Ron got scolded for coming tooooo close to the original...

[vampstervik]

oooops..editing screwed the message up.....until he left for Hollywood and Ron asked Ernie if he could continue the show and Ernie said "NO, drop the "ARDI"

[meesalikeu]

i know all that, but i was obviously referring to this vid, which is of the ghoul's show. btw the bar has plenty of stuff about the ghoul in it as well as ghoulardi.

also, ernie was perfectly fine with sweed becoming the ghoul. now if only sweed remained ok with son of ghoul later on, right? but that too is another story.

[vampstervik]

you OBVIOUSLY miss the point. best defense is an offense. Ernie really couldnt care less about what happened after he left as long as everyone was respectful and had fun. His philosophy "don't worry, man, it will all be fine!" He always landed on his feet. His recoveries were best after the craziest screw-ups! A true enigma.

[stakemyster]

@vampstervik Ernie Anderson was Ghoulardia not the ghoul, the ghoul wa a big fan of ghoulardi's and copied him.