I remember watching this as a kid in new York city. The monsters would scroll by, and my mother would look at it and say, "omg, what horrible faces." She tried to get me not to watch it. The face that freaked her out the most, was the smoking skull at the end. She turned, and walked away at this point. She's freaked by skeletons, and skulls.
When I was a kid (esp. from in the early 1980s) I use to often stay up late to see these Fright Night films! Most of my favorites where the low budget, schockley films of the late '60s and early '70s such as "Don't Look In the Basement" and "House of Seven Corpses"! I sure would like to see some of this stuff again and earlier this year I have, on some of my over the air broadcast sub-channels!
I would love to have a channel dedicated to the old stuff. I have a hunch there are many of us would tune right in looking for all the good old stuff with lousy props and bad lighting. The stuff that we fell asleep to or just loved as we ate our buttered popcorn. Gma would let me stay up for it. It is interesting how bad some of the stuff was. I recently saw episodes of Dark Shadows. We were on our tummys with hands on chins watching that every 4pm. while my friend's mom ironed. LOVE!
Up until now, I used to thing I was the only person who reminisced about Saturday night TV in 80's. Back in the days before cable, all we had were a handful of channels (at least in Queens, NY where I grew up). I used to try not to fall asleep during the horse racing (I'd always ask my grandmother to wake me up at midnight, just in case I did!), then watching wresting, and of course, Fright Night....my favorite movie they showed was "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things"
There was also Saturday Morning 10 AM Classic Monster Triple Features on Ch. 9 and sci-fi films where I first saw all these movies for the first time!
I remember this intro vividly as my whole entire life as a kid in the 1970's revolved around Ch. 9, Ch. 5, and Ch. 11 for horror movies. Wrestling came on at 12 midnight Sunday morning (technically still Saturday night), and 1 AM came Fright Night. I went to many wrestling shows of the era at MSG. This is the original intro as I remember it.
who else can relate?...im laying on the floor NOT watching horse racing from the meadowlands, telling mom to wake me up for wrestling at midnight...but mom didnt have the heart to wake me, so id sleep through Bob Backlunds MSG promos and wake up JUST IN TIME for this opening at 1am...scared shitless! (but not NEARLY as shitless as when the C-H-I-L-L-E-R hand ascended from the swamp on saturday!!) as archie and edith used to say: those were the days"!!!
Thanks Superjingo,Life is too complicated,no one has time for people anymore,We used to have sleepovers and watch the shows togethr,there was more of a bond of family,make some "Jiffy Pop" have some soda"s,we were happy with it,I really miss those days,Kids today would laugh about our times back then,Now,Families dont know,or they dont give a shit where Their kids are! They are out gettin high,anyways,thanks again Superjingo,Hope to hear from you on hear.
MAN WHAT AN AWSOME ERA.WHAT ADIFFERENT WORLD.WHAT HAPPEN TO US AS A SOCIETY.LOOK AT WHAT SO CALLED TECHNOLOGY HAS DONE TO US. THE QUALITY TIME WE USED TO SPEND WITH FRIENDS AN FAM. WITHOUT A CELLPHONE TO INTERRUP, AMONG OTHER THINGS. AND THEY SAY TECH IS FOR THE BETTER. I NEVER BOUGHT THAT. BUT HERE WE ARE.
@Yanks777Jets75 Yeah man! Some of my best memories were of having all the windows open in the house on a warm night, staying up late with my mom and other assorted relatives, and watching Fright Night and chatting into the wee hours of the morning and just having great fun times in general.
The world's a different place today, so far removed from our precious days of the 80's. I don't know what's happened.
WOR Channel 9. Racing from Roosevelt or Yonkers Raceway then wrestling and then Fright Night. That was my Sat night growing up in Queens, NY. Damn do I miss those days. No stress. Just alot of fun. TV sucks today. Bring back the old horror movies for us older folk. Oh yeah, and those local commercials at 3 a.m. they were good for a laugh too. Come to Lennys Clam Bar on Cross Bay Blvd!
@rjplamf61 That's exactly how I spent my entire childhood and mid-teens! I live in Brooklyn, and, growing up in the early 80's I remember these three programs, which I used to watch RELIGIOUSLY every week.
Actually, if I remember right there was also wrestling on Friday, am I right? So it was a double-header: wrestling on Friday, and Roosevelt/Yonkers Racing, wrestling, and Fright Night on Saturday. The nostalgia is killing me.......I gotta go.
Gonkernater: just checked an old tv guide for Saturday, 3/18/74 and there was an ad for "The Big Preview " movie @6:30pm ; Madigan, starring Richard widmark..
What was the movie showcase on WOR on saturday nights at 6:30-8:00 somewhere in the late 70's i remember they ran a horror movie each week. CAN SOMEBODY TELL ME WHAT WAS THAT MOVIE SHOWCASE!
@gonkernater Was it 'THE BIG PREVIEW'? I wish someone has a video of it, as well as BLOCKBUSTER MOVIE. I remembered those, as well as the MILLION DOLLAR MOVIE (the exact Gone With The Wind version, not the modified version). Can someone send me them to my YouTube, if they have it? Thanks.
contrary to the photos depicted, Fright Night (WOR ch. 9) tended to show many 1970's horror pics, w/ unpleasant themes (the Baby, Deathdream, Blood & Lace, Lemora, the Lady dracula, Etc.) , as well as foreign pics ((the night evelyn came out of the grave, Blood mania,etc.) Channel 9 did show many classic Universal pics in their weekend & afternoon schedule, but not often on Fright Night.
Actually they did. According to Jim Arena's "The Complete Fright Night", the first several years of FN's existence, mainly 1973-1977, showcased old Universal Horror films quite often. After that, they went more towards "Drive-In" fare which was pretty cool :)
maaaaannnn i remember this show on channel 9...there used to be all kinds of wierd ass horror flicks on that. wtf happend to those days man??? all i fuckin see are Infamercials on bullshit n and hair restoration now....it was fun staying up late and catchin some crazy horror flick like 1 am in the mourning lol
@demonkai76 There were some good movies too: "Warlock Moon" "Count Yorga, Vampire" and the sequel, "The Witchmaker", "The Brotherhood Of Satan" and other cool movies that made the cool nights a LOT chillier....add to it the period commercials for the theatrical horror films that were still making the rounds, and there was a capital F in the word Fright.
yeh that was good times when horror was severely raw and in your face. chiller & fright night gave you a reason to wanna stay up and see what new weird ass horror movie was gonna come on. i remember this old horror movie about this hill billy mutant with two heads. one was good n one was bad. cant remember the name but i do remember me feeling sad for the mutant cuz the good head died with the body as a kid lmao...smh
oh wow thanks!....now i think ill have to find that on dvd for my horror collection. mad man mars is hella expensive to get tho. hopefully i can get that movie for the memories
@demonkai76 The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant and The Thing With Two Heads are both available on one DVD over at Amzon for a really cheap price. But yeah, Madman went out of print, and as a result, is hard to get at a reasonable price. However, there is some news about Madman being re-released on DVD by a company called Code Red DVD with some new extras, This new DVD is coming out in a few weeks, on September 28.
awesome. ill definitely order it today as a matter of fact lol. vey good news on mad man this month! thanks for scoop. funny i can get that and this Dead Rising 2 that same day. both are released that same day. funny stuff there :)
@demonkai76 Oh yeah, baby, Dead Rising 2! What always made me laugh about the first one, was that little disclaimer at the bottom, saying that Romero's "Dawn of The Dead" had in no way inspired the game. Uh yeah....not THAT much, LOL ;-)
lol! yeh true i remember that ^_. uh yehh thats why capcom was being sued er somethin by the production team who made that movie a couple years ago? ^_ Cmon the whole mall n zombies concept was a dead ringer smh haha. DR2 almost didnt make it^^ Capcom was lucky
If u havent played DR2 case zero yet you should. It got my gears going to get the damn game now XD. On another note i just remembered that Humanoids from the deep should be out on dvd by now
@demonkai76 Heck, in Dead Rising they even had a store called "Romero's" if I remember right. AND a gun shop (which probabaly gave the politicians a heart attack when they saw the game, lol)
But anyhow, thank God for Youtube. So many great memories are to be found here, and while you can't bring the old days back, you can feel that good (and that young) all over again, if even for just a short time. Fright Night was loads of fun.
?? nah i didnt catch that lil easter egg with the Romero store haha. indeed thank god for youtube cuz i watched The blob from the 1970s that i kept tellin all my friends about when i was a kid. i found the whole movie here. didnt see it since i was like what 8 yrs old? my friends thought i was buggin cuz they only remembered the 1950s one i think and the one from the late 80s. so like some months ago i searched it and found it! lol..Movie is still amusing. poor kitty:( haha
@classicphile Beat me to the punch on that one. if I remember right, "The Incredible Two Headed Transplant" had Ray Milland and Rosie Grier as the two heads. They were always spewing racist comments at each other and fighting with each other and it was kinda funny.
I could have it mixed with "The Thing With Two Heads," though.
@Shawnster65 ""The Incredible Two Headed Transplant" had Ray Milland and Rosie Grier as the two heads"
The Thing with Two Heads is the one with Rosie Grier and Ray Milland. The Incredible Two Headed Transplant stars Bruce Dern, Casey Kasem, Pat Priest (yummy looking in a bikini). In that one, a scientist takes the head of a maniac killer and places it on the body of a huge, but mentally retarded guy (both of them white guys)
@classicphile Ahhhh...ok. Good to have you clear that up for us. I remember seeing both of the movies back in the day, and what a day it was.
I'd LOVE to see Fright Night get back to WOR 9 with the original opening, if even for just 1 weekend (and maybe more if they seem so inclined, lol) and just let the memories come back big time.
Another one I remember seeing on Fright Night is "House Of The Seven Corpses."
I was a BIG fan of this show when I was about 10 years-old. I'd watch it every Friday at 1am on channel 9 in New York. It came on right after wrestling. Did this RELIGIOUSLY for years.
I was just thinking about it...the guy with the hat at the video's opening...we've never been able to find out who he is.
Looking at him, he looks somewhat like a very young Christopher Lee, and his character in a film called "The Hands Of Orlac" where he wore a hat and cloak type character.
I could be wrong though, but I seem remember Lee being that type of characer in the film.
You're right. That "Hat Guy" bugged me, as well. But not as much as the four-eyed monster.
I mean, these are for the most part, studio publicity shots, so someone has to know who they all are?
And you're also right, that does look a bit like a young Christopher Lee. I haven't seen "The Hands Of Orlac", since I was ten, so I'm afraid I can't help. I did find it for sale, if you Google it. Good luck!
@EarlRoesel Oh wow, never heard of that guy. But now I think we got em' all nailed down, lol Took us a few decades but it was worth it. Thanks for the info :-)
Damn all the WOR TV stuff is getting deleted little by little...They just deleted the WOR TV block from '81 which featured the guy from Newark & they deleted the Fright Night bumpers & the commercial blocks!!! That sux!!! Can some1 please repost?
I'm still wondering if anyone would know if the other "Voice of Channel 9," Phil Tonken, did any "Fright Night" intros and/or bumpers on some weeks, especially after 1982.
I remember watching this as a kid in new York city. The monsters would scroll by, and my mother would look at it and say, "omg, what horrible faces." She tried to get me not to watch it. The face that freaked her out the most, was the smoking skull at the end. She turned, and walked away at this point. She's freaked by skeletons, and skulls.
MyFlipNWorld 2 days ago
I use this movie intro on valentines day!
benquicks 2 months ago
When I was a kid (esp. from in the early 1980s) I use to often stay up late to see these Fright Night films! Most of my favorites where the low budget, schockley films of the late '60s and early '70s such as "Don't Look In the Basement" and "House of Seven Corpses"! I sure would like to see some of this stuff again and earlier this year I have, on some of my over the air broadcast sub-channels!
IDiggSocialMedia 3 months ago
I would love to have a channel dedicated to the old stuff. I have a hunch there are many of us would tune right in looking for all the good old stuff with lousy props and bad lighting. The stuff that we fell asleep to or just loved as we ate our buttered popcorn. Gma would let me stay up for it. It is interesting how bad some of the stuff was. I recently saw episodes of Dark Shadows. We were on our tummys with hands on chins watching that every 4pm. while my friend's mom ironed. LOVE!
zeniam2 3 months ago
Up until now, I used to thing I was the only person who reminisced about Saturday night TV in 80's. Back in the days before cable, all we had were a handful of channels (at least in Queens, NY where I grew up). I used to try not to fall asleep during the horse racing (I'd always ask my grandmother to wake me up at midnight, just in case I did!), then watching wresting, and of course, Fright Night....my favorite movie they showed was "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things"
efrainr1974 3 months ago
There was also Saturday Morning 10 AM Classic Monster Triple Features on Ch. 9 and sci-fi films where I first saw all these movies for the first time!
I remember this intro vividly as my whole entire life as a kid in the 1970's revolved around Ch. 9, Ch. 5, and Ch. 11 for horror movies. Wrestling came on at 12 midnight Sunday morning (technically still Saturday night), and 1 AM came Fright Night. I went to many wrestling shows of the era at MSG. This is the original intro as I remember it.
super8m0nsters 4 months ago
who else can relate?...im laying on the floor NOT watching horse racing from the meadowlands, telling mom to wake me up for wrestling at midnight...but mom didnt have the heart to wake me, so id sleep through Bob Backlunds MSG promos and wake up JUST IN TIME for this opening at 1am...scared shitless! (but not NEARLY as shitless as when the C-H-I-L-L-E-R hand ascended from the swamp on saturday!!) as archie and edith used to say: those were the days"!!!
openhandslap 4 months ago
Very true. The very best times. I miss them days. It was the best.
jgi99 4 months ago
Bring this stuff back!!! Saturday Night Dead, Dr. Shock, Roland (a.k.a. Zacherley).
We don't have good horror shows anymore. Fun times.
iangoblin71 7 months ago
james arena has a book coming out on fright night. looking forward to it.
tapthatt2012 7 months ago
Thanks Superjingo,Life is too complicated,no one has time for people anymore,We used to have sleepovers and watch the shows togethr,there was more of a bond of family,make some "Jiffy Pop" have some soda"s,we were happy with it,I really miss those days,Kids today would laugh about our times back then,Now,Families dont know,or they dont give a shit where Their kids are! They are out gettin high,anyways,thanks again Superjingo,Hope to hear from you on hear.
kemalmstf 7 months ago
MAN WHAT AN AWSOME ERA.WHAT ADIFFERENT WORLD.WHAT HAPPEN TO US AS A SOCIETY.LOOK AT WHAT SO CALLED TECHNOLOGY HAS DONE TO US. THE QUALITY TIME WE USED TO SPEND WITH FRIENDS AN FAM. WITHOUT A CELLPHONE TO INTERRUP, AMONG OTHER THINGS. AND THEY SAY TECH IS FOR THE BETTER. I NEVER BOUGHT THAT. BUT HERE WE ARE.
SuperJingo1 7 months ago
Lets bring this back again!!!
michinco 7 months ago
Why don't they show films like they did on Fright Night anymore???
ejdf870 8 months ago
This really bums me out...I'm getting so old! Great post...thanks so much.
KillerMcGinty 9 months ago
@Yanks777Jets75 Yeah man! Some of my best memories were of having all the windows open in the house on a warm night, staying up late with my mom and other assorted relatives, and watching Fright Night and chatting into the wee hours of the morning and just having great fun times in general.
The world's a different place today, so far removed from our precious days of the 80's. I don't know what's happened.
Shawnster65 10 months ago
WOR Channel 9. Racing from Roosevelt or Yonkers Raceway then wrestling and then Fright Night. That was my Sat night growing up in Queens, NY. Damn do I miss those days. No stress. Just alot of fun. TV sucks today. Bring back the old horror movies for us older folk. Oh yeah, and those local commercials at 3 a.m. they were good for a laugh too. Come to Lennys Clam Bar on Cross Bay Blvd!
rjplamf61 11 months ago
@rjplamf61 That's exactly how I spent my entire childhood and mid-teens! I live in Brooklyn, and, growing up in the early 80's I remember these three programs, which I used to watch RELIGIOUSLY every week.
Actually, if I remember right there was also wrestling on Friday, am I right? So it was a double-header: wrestling on Friday, and Roosevelt/Yonkers Racing, wrestling, and Fright Night on Saturday. The nostalgia is killing me.......I gotta go.
ejdf870 8 months ago 2
Gonkernater: just checked an old tv guide for Saturday, 3/18/74 and there was an ad for "The Big Preview " movie @6:30pm ; Madigan, starring Richard widmark..
abcbatman1966 1 year ago
What movie is that from :18-19? (just prior to the wolf man?)
abcbatman1966 1 year ago
What was the movie showcase on WOR on saturday nights at 6:30-8:00 somewhere in the late 70's i remember they ran a horror movie each week. CAN SOMEBODY TELL ME WHAT WAS THAT MOVIE SHOWCASE!
gonkernater 1 year ago
@gonkernater Was it 'THE BIG PREVIEW'? I wish someone has a video of it, as well as BLOCKBUSTER MOVIE. I remembered those, as well as the MILLION DOLLAR MOVIE (the exact Gone With The Wind version, not the modified version). Can someone send me them to my YouTube, if they have it? Thanks.
TheWill2579 1 year ago
@TheWill2579 I wish there wear an eposode guide for THE BIG PREVIEW. I googled it, i didn't find anything!
gonkernater 1 year ago
contrary to the photos depicted, Fright Night (WOR ch. 9) tended to show many 1970's horror pics, w/ unpleasant themes (the Baby, Deathdream, Blood & Lace, Lemora, the Lady dracula, Etc.) , as well as foreign pics ((the night evelyn came out of the grave, Blood mania,etc.) Channel 9 did show many classic Universal pics in their weekend & afternoon schedule, but not often on Fright Night.
abcbatman1966 1 year ago 6
@abcbatman1966
Actually they did. According to Jim Arena's "The Complete Fright Night", the first several years of FN's existence, mainly 1973-1977, showcased old Universal Horror films quite often. After that, they went more towards "Drive-In" fare which was pretty cool :)
FrightNight7387 1 year ago 3
@abcbatman1966 OH YA THAT WAY WHEN WE ALL WERE KIDS AT HEART 12.AM SAT.NIGHTS MISS THE HELL OUT THE 70'S
DUNGEONMASTERSEXPO 1 year ago
I wish someone had the 1985-86 version of this bumper. Not that it was better than this, but it was the one I remember as a kid.
51512601 1 year ago
I use to look forward to Saturday nights on WOR. Just for fright night!
How it made my life worth living:(
PAM2167 1 year ago
maaaaannnn i remember this show on channel 9...there used to be all kinds of wierd ass horror flicks on that. wtf happend to those days man??? all i fuckin see are Infamercials on bullshit n and hair restoration now....it was fun staying up late and catchin some crazy horror flick like 1 am in the mourning lol
demonkai76 1 year ago
@demonkai76 There were some good movies too: "Warlock Moon" "Count Yorga, Vampire" and the sequel, "The Witchmaker", "The Brotherhood Of Satan" and other cool movies that made the cool nights a LOT chillier....add to it the period commercials for the theatrical horror films that were still making the rounds, and there was a capital F in the word Fright.
Shawnster65 1 year ago
@Shawnster65
yeh that was good times when horror was severely raw and in your face. chiller & fright night gave you a reason to wanna stay up and see what new weird ass horror movie was gonna come on. i remember this old horror movie about this hill billy mutant with two heads. one was good n one was bad. cant remember the name but i do remember me feeling sad for the mutant cuz the good head died with the body as a kid lmao...smh
demonkai76 1 year ago
@demonkai76 "i remember this old horror movie about this hill billy mutant with two heads. one was good n one was bad"
The movie you are thinking of is called, The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant (1971). It can be seen in full online at IMDB.
Theres a similar movie called The Thing With Two Heads. (1972)
classicphile 1 year ago
@classicphile
oh wow thanks!....now i think ill have to find that on dvd for my horror collection. mad man mars is hella expensive to get tho. hopefully i can get that movie for the memories
demonkai76 1 year ago
@demonkai76 The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant and The Thing With Two Heads are both available on one DVD over at Amzon for a really cheap price. But yeah, Madman went out of print, and as a result, is hard to get at a reasonable price. However, there is some news about Madman being re-released on DVD by a company called Code Red DVD with some new extras, This new DVD is coming out in a few weeks, on September 28.
classicphile 1 year ago
@classicphile
awesome. ill definitely order it today as a matter of fact lol. vey good news on mad man this month! thanks for scoop. funny i can get that and this Dead Rising 2 that same day. both are released that same day. funny stuff there :)
demonkai76 1 year ago
@demonkai76 Oh yeah, baby, Dead Rising 2! What always made me laugh about the first one, was that little disclaimer at the bottom, saying that Romero's "Dawn of The Dead" had in no way inspired the game. Uh yeah....not THAT much, LOL ;-)
I can't wait to start playing DR2.
Shawnster65 1 year ago
@Shawnster65
lol! yeh true i remember that ^_. uh yehh thats why capcom was being sued er somethin by the production team who made that movie a couple years ago? ^_ Cmon the whole mall n zombies concept was a dead ringer smh haha. DR2 almost didnt make it^^ Capcom was lucky
If u havent played DR2 case zero yet you should. It got my gears going to get the damn game now XD. On another note i just remembered that Humanoids from the deep should be out on dvd by now
demonkai76 1 year ago
@demonkai76 Heck, in Dead Rising they even had a store called "Romero's" if I remember right. AND a gun shop (which probabaly gave the politicians a heart attack when they saw the game, lol)
But anyhow, thank God for Youtube. So many great memories are to be found here, and while you can't bring the old days back, you can feel that good (and that young) all over again, if even for just a short time. Fright Night was loads of fun.
Shawnster65 1 year ago
@Shawnster65
?? nah i didnt catch that lil easter egg with the Romero store haha. indeed thank god for youtube cuz i watched The blob from the 1970s that i kept tellin all my friends about when i was a kid. i found the whole movie here. didnt see it since i was like what 8 yrs old? my friends thought i was buggin cuz they only remembered the 1950s one i think and the one from the late 80s. so like some months ago i searched it and found it! lol..Movie is still amusing. poor kitty:( haha
demonkai76 1 year ago
@demonkai76 Yeah there was an 80's remake of the Blob with Matt Dillon's brother, Kevin. I remember it well-it came out sometime around 1987.
Shawnster65 1 year ago
@classicphile Beat me to the punch on that one. if I remember right, "The Incredible Two Headed Transplant" had Ray Milland and Rosie Grier as the two heads. They were always spewing racist comments at each other and fighting with each other and it was kinda funny.
I could have it mixed with "The Thing With Two Heads," though.
Shawnster65 1 year ago
@Shawnster65 ""The Incredible Two Headed Transplant" had Ray Milland and Rosie Grier as the two heads"
The Thing with Two Heads is the one with Rosie Grier and Ray Milland. The Incredible Two Headed Transplant stars Bruce Dern, Casey Kasem, Pat Priest (yummy looking in a bikini). In that one, a scientist takes the head of a maniac killer and places it on the body of a huge, but mentally retarded guy (both of them white guys)
classicphile 1 year ago
@classicphile Ahhhh...ok. Good to have you clear that up for us. I remember seeing both of the movies back in the day, and what a day it was.
I'd LOVE to see Fright Night get back to WOR 9 with the original opening, if even for just 1 weekend (and maybe more if they seem so inclined, lol) and just let the memories come back big time.
Another one I remember seeing on Fright Night is "House Of The Seven Corpses."
Shawnster65 1 year ago
I was a BIG fan of this show when I was about 10 years-old. I'd watch it every Friday at 1am on channel 9 in New York. It came on right after wrestling. Did this RELIGIOUSLY for years.
ejdf870 1 year ago
just watching this make me cry:-(::::::::::::::::::::::::: because its gone now and it will never come back again. like my youth
PAM2167 1 year ago 2
I remember this would come on right after "Championship Wrestling" on Channel 9 in NYC.
yankeecrankee 1 year ago
My bad... Chiller Theater was on WPIX, Channel 11. Creature Features was on Channel 5.
skeilak 1 year ago
I was just thinking about it...the guy with the hat at the video's opening...we've never been able to find out who he is.
Looking at him, he looks somewhat like a very young Christopher Lee, and his character in a film called "The Hands Of Orlac" where he wore a hat and cloak type character.
I could be wrong though, but I seem remember Lee being that type of characer in the film.
Shawnster65 1 year ago
@Shawnster65
You're right. That "Hat Guy" bugged me, as well. But not as much as the four-eyed monster.
I mean, these are for the most part, studio publicity shots, so someone has to know who they all are?
And you're also right, that does look a bit like a young Christopher Lee. I haven't seen "The Hands Of Orlac", since I was ten, so I'm afraid I can't help. I did find it for sale, if you Google it. Good luck!
skeilak 1 year ago
@Shawnster65 The man in the hat appears to be Foy Van Dolsen as "Panama Pete" in Horror Island (1941).
EarlRoesel 1 year ago
@EarlRoesel Oh wow, never heard of that guy. But now I think we got em' all nailed down, lol Took us a few decades but it was worth it. Thanks for the info :-)
Shawnster65 1 year ago
Fright Night on Channel 9 WOR, and Chiller Theater on Channel 5 WNEW... New York TV, in the heart of Jersey.
Does anyone know from what or where, that four eyed monster at 02:00, came from? That's been bugging me for over 30 years, now.
skeilak 1 year ago
During my early teens, I watched Freight Night after an hour of Championship Wrestling...Made my Saturday night!
4what2fish 2 years ago
sweet!
pickledpigsfeet 2 years ago
I had a dream once- as I explored an old deserted, crumbling moviehouse. Karloff, Chaney, Lugosi, Carradine and Claude Raines appeared before me.
Introducing themselves, they told me it was a reward for my dedication to their movies.
We sat down as a movie opened up with the FN opening, ( The Invisible Man)
and they joked with me and themselves as we discussed the movie and their careers, and at dawn they disappeared.
We agreed to meet again same time next year. Cool huh?
Shawnster65 2 years ago 6
I remember this fondly.
Right up there after Vince McMahon's Superstar Wrestling at 12 midnight.
They showed many of the horror movies of the 60's as well as the newer ones that came out of the theatre.
They also used it to showcase some of the horror movies of the day as they had the commercials and TV spots for them.
Great days man!
Shawnster65 2 years ago 12
Damn all the WOR TV stuff is getting deleted little by little...They just deleted the WOR TV block from '81 which featured the guy from Newark & they deleted the Fright Night bumpers & the commercial blocks!!! That sux!!! Can some1 please repost?
Tarantulisimo 2 years ago
I'm still wondering if anyone would know if the other "Voice of Channel 9," Phil Tonken, did any "Fright Night" intros and/or bumpers on some weeks, especially after 1982.
wmbrown6 2 years ago
I do remember times when there was no voiceover, just that ominous opening :)
FrightNight7387 2 years ago
No Ted Maille (or anybody else, FTM) doing the voiceover. Interesting.
Thanks for posting, FN!
EarlSnohomish 2 years ago