After seeing the movie "American Scary" I thought I'd see if there was a user group which talked about such things. :) I am being facetious here: my wife informed me she is co-moderator of an existing group and encouraged me to join. I had no idea...but after seeing the movie was very interested in joining.
My interests tend to bend toward SciFi more than Horror, but there were SciFi hosts, too...and often horror hosts showed SciFi movies...so it is all very similar.
danceswithfish and I lamented the fact that local television (for that matter, local radio) is much more difficult to find...and about the only place for it is community television or public access. But I would be glad to know of the exceptions (news and news-related programming doesn't count--I am talking about live entertainment television).
My fave when I was growing up was
Captain Satellite, which aired on KTVU, channel 2, in Oakland-San Francisco, California (
http://www.tvparty.com/lostSF.html). It was a daytime show offered for the kids primarilly. Mixed in with cartoons the Captain, played by Bob March, also showed NASA films. His set was meant to evoke a circular bridge of a spaceship. To begin the show he drove up and was greeted by a robot which took him up an elevator to the bridge (film clip they used over and over again).
I understand Bob March is now a child psychologist of some sort.
more-- http://www.mikehumbert.com/Captain…Another one was a short experiment by an ad salesman for a Medford, Oregon TV station who had DJ experience (and, in fact, was most familiar to me as the co-host of the Holman-Ward show on a local radio station which played big band music and featured a lot of funny banter). Phil Holman did little bits for the commercial breaks in a late night movie show called Phil's Philms...sometimes did commercials but also got you into the films. Not specifically horror and nothing campy that I remember...but it was done live and Phil definitely got to exercise his droll humor.
Phil is no longer with us. (
http://archive.mailtribune.com/arc…) His son, Marshall Holman, was a bowler on the pro circuit and later became a broadcaster.
BTW, Phil Holman actually appeared in a film:
The Dream Chasers I suppose this could be any Phil Holman, but as it was filmed in Medford and Phil Holman was a legend in the Rogue Valley, who else could it be! He played the pivotal role of "man on a park bench." :)
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