Friday Fright Night - Opening

Here's part of the opening to KCTV 5's Friday Fright Night, a local Kansas City late night horror movie show from the 1980's, with the host Hugh Bowen laughing and that famous disembodied skull.

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[stoolet]

Dude Im from St. Joseph Mo and Im 34 now and I have searched and searched for this to find nothing . Thank you !!! That laugh scared the shit out of me . Do you have any more?

[BladeBraxton]

Hey there. I've got some more Crematia and FFN stuff. It might be a while trying to uncover it, but check back in a few months. Glad you enjoyed it!

[tbc913]

Man, I've been looking for a clip of this forever!! I remember..The Dukes @ 7, flip to channel 4 for Knight Rider @ 8, go play for an hour and a half during Falcon Crest and the news and then...FRIDAY FRIGHT NIGHT! God I'm getting old.

[BladeBraxton]

Playing with He-man and Transformers figures during Falcon Crest and the news...sounds like you stole my Friday night gameplan. ;)

[eromacque]

All that's missing is Ray Adams goofily hawking his Toyotas. He practically sponsored Friday Fright Night by himself.

[BladeBraxton]

I should post some oldschool Ray Adams commercials. :)

[barlytone01]

Holy cow i remember seeing this on Friday nights when I was a kid. My dad wud watch while i covered my eyes until it was over. From Lawrence. Haha

[kcdw73]

we need more of these!

[splitlogboy913]

@Sunshine42977 hell yeah. im from kansas city and i remember channel 5 on friday night and i will never. EVER forget the hair standing on my body when i heard that laugh and the spinning skill at the beginning. oh my god. tv aint what it used to be. creature feature and friday fright night and elvira... those were that days oh and freddy's nightmares and tdont forget waking up after the national anthem to hear the theme from tales from the darkside. what a way to wake up...

[dejaw390]

huh welcome to the eighties na mean

[Sunshine42977]

@stoolet Yo, this post is cracking me the hell up because I'm 34 as well and I promise I tensed up when I heard that laugh at the end just like when I was a kid! Scared the shit outta me too! LMAO!!! And when the skull would rotate and the music. Jacked me up. Real talk.

[misplacedkansan]

@TyrantsAREhere I wish TV stations would run night-time programming like this now, instead of those blasted info-mercials, So many good memories of FFN,

Also, KSNF-16 in Joplin used to broadcast horror movies on Saturday nights, during the early-mid '70s. Back then, the original 1967 call letters were KUHI, changing to KTVJ in 1974. The show was named Dimension 16 and ran similar movies as FFN. At the end of the Dimension 16 intro, the creepy voice would say, "Are you ready?"

[TyrantsAREhere]

@misplacedkansan Pleasanton KS here. Used to watch this when I was allowed to stay up late.

[38yofrmut]

Oh my god! I lived in eastern Kansas and Kansas City in the late 80's and this always freaked me out! Especially the screen slowly clearing (like a ghost) and the skull staring straight at you! And the KCTV announcer laughing made it more scary!

[Skulldini]

It needed a better voice over ! THAT one just doesn't work !

[misplacedkansan]

I remember in 1981, the last time I ever started to watch "Friday Fright Night". I lived in Fort Scott, KS, and KCMO (now KCTV5) broke in with the horrifying news of the Hyatt Regency disaster. I don't ever remember seeing the show aired after that event. Friday night would never be the same.