SuperHost Farewell Broadcast December 1989

SuperHost (Marty Sullivan)and his final broadcast Dec. 1989 on WUAB in Cleveland Ohio.
We miss ya Supe!!!

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• Superhost
• Mad
• Theatre
• Cleveland
• Ohio

[Enigma100122]

Superhost needs a fan club!

[jethropu]

There is a fan club that's started up on FaceBook...

[PowerSalad]

Trivia: The music (clarinet, chimes, tuba etc.) behind Supe's segments is "Clinkerated Chimes" by Bernie Green and his Stereo MAD-Men from the Musically MAD album on RCA Victor from 1959. (yes, the one with the huge smiling Alfred E Neuman on the cover). Miss ya Supe!!

[jethropu]

Great Info! Thanks!!!

[rukiddinme17]

OMG!!!! I used to watch supe every saturday 4 the karate and godzilla flicks. U r telling your age if you remember superhost

[jethropu]

...Definitely! I'm noticing most folks that visit the site are between 35-50 years of age.

...I'll be 40 in February!

[dtr0005]

WUAB 43.. good show - Saturday afternoon and evening was the best. Now we got 96 channels of nothing but Sh*t to look at..

[memyselfandirene1]

Nothing beat the Cleveland area Friday and Saturday TV line up during the early 70's. Big Chuck and Hoolahan, Superhost and the Ghoul. I moved to Michigan in the late 70's and suprise! The ghoul was there. But his show wasn't nearly as good as the Cleveland show. People up here in Michigan think the Ghoul was a Detroit thing, they have no idea.

I know I am going to get beat up for this but-Sir Graves Ghastley was not funny.

[zestydude87]

ahhh the good ole days...

[usa02]

It was a really sad day at WUAB, "Superhost" ended after 20 years at the station, (although Marty Sullivan remained at the station as a staff announcer until 1993). Around that time, WUAB was sold from Gaylord Broadcasting to Cannell Communications (owned by the late Stephen J. Cannell), not long after that, "Barnaby" (the late Linn Sheldon) ended after a long run in Cleveland television. Now all they play today is crappy shows, sad.

[fhb3isback]

@wsp136 I never saw all of this, because my mother shut the TV off on me because she HATED Superhost (not as much as she HATED The Ghoul and Big Chuck & Lil' Jon). But from what little I saw that day, I had a very STRONG feeling that he was extremely PISSED OFF. They NEVER should have ended that show, because WUAB's weekend programming went straight to hell from that point.

[LeeTHawkins]

@jethropu I'm 33 (three years after you wrote this) and this puts a tear in my eye thinking of how my dad and I would watch Superhost on Saturdays and I got my Three Stooges and Laurel & Hardy and Godzilla education from those shows. I always LOVED The Moronic Woman!!! I never knew how spoiled this area was to have such great artists!

[wsp136]

Was sad watching that, you could tell he was really hurting inside. He was a great man and a good friend on Saturdays.

[bhilcu1]

@dtr0005

YOU'RE RIGHT!

[GRAPHICgrafix]

@jethropu ...Im 46 and have fond memories of Superhost ,The Ghoul and Hoolihan and Big Chuck

[FyreWyngz]

Miss ya, Supe! Truly a shame that the station shut you down like that.

[Dunes]

Man--flashback! Thanks for posting these.