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Post by Jeff Easley on Nov 10, 2004 19:13:18 GMT -5
I LOVED "Terror in the Night"!Does anyone know the debut and end date?Can anyone recall the opening speech?(Lock the doors...etc.)I wrote channel 27 5-6 years ago but no one knew anything about it.
Wasn't "Thriller 18"opened by an animated figure in a trench coat and sloutch hat who lights a bomb and throws it at the camera? Anyone remember a horror movie series on ch.11 in Louisville hosted by"Peter Gory"?The host did a comic Peter Lorre impression and had a fairly elaborate set.It ran mid to late sixties.
Last and probably least...Did anyone watch "Redcoat Theatre"?Not sure what channel it was on.It was hosted by a deadpan car salesman,who sold junkers during the commercial breaks for $5-10 each!
I hope more info pops up regarding these shows...
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Post by Paul McGrainer on Nov 10, 2004 19:29:06 GMT -5
Nick Clooney was the original host of Terror In The Night. Paul Warnecke took over the job after Nick.
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Post by Sixties TV on Nov 10, 2004 23:26:32 GMT -5
Many of you will remember the Terror In The Night opening that aired in the late 60s to mid 70s with a man in a trench-coat walking in a cemetery at night. The man was John McGarvey who was a newsman on WKYT in Lexington for several years. Today McGarvey works with Kentucky Educational Television in public affairs programming.
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Post by Horror Movie Fan on Nov 14, 2004 18:49:57 GMT -5
What is your favorite Terror In The Night memory? Mine is watching Frankenstein with Boris Karloff on Terror In The Night In The Night in the early 70s. Me, and my babysitter watched. She made popcorn. We started looking out the window. If you looked long enough, you could swear to seeing Frankenstein's face in the dark, just outside our home. Why don't TV station's do this kind of stuff today? All they care about is doing the local news, filling with an infomercial or re-run of Seinfeld. An original thought would be great, like doing a Terror In The Night - showing the classic movies that this generation has never seen. My generation would not have seen these movies if it had not been for Terror In The Night. These were movies made before we were born. They are still creepy today. I have some of the DVDs. Try watching the original Dracula, by yourself, with all the lights out at night. There is very little music in this early sound film which makes it all the more scary. Just the creepy scratchy soundtrack. You know everyone involved in this movie is now dead. If that doesn't scare you, nothing will. THE UNDEAD.
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Post by Horror Host on Feb 11, 2005 11:27:32 GMT -5
I remember much of the opening of Terror In The Night on WKYT in the late 60's and early 70s. This may be a little different than the original opening when the show started in the early 60s.
Terror In The Night Opening
"The night slips it's silent chilling cloak about you...and fears bound by the lease of day attack. Within your heart there is the disbelief - barely felt flutters of uneven beat. The tremor almost unnoticed commands your hand. The hand on the back of your neck.....slowly creeps the chill of the unseen Terror In The Night."
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Post by Terry on Apr 29, 2005 21:57:08 GMT -5
That's awesome Horror Host. Those words to Terror in the Night brought back a lot of memories for me. This is the best website on the Internet. Wonder if Nick Clooney has seen it?
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Post by Jeff Easley on Jan 2, 2006 0:28:26 GMT -5
I watched "Terror in the Night"from the first show("Return of Dracula"with Francis Lederer).I had very little information available to me about the movies,and many were only 5-6 years old at the time.So every title was a totally new experience.Occasionally they would announce next weeks title at the end of the show.If it was an intriguing title,especially one involving Frankenstein,Dracula,etc...Iwould just squirm in anticipation of the next weeks show!In the early years,their movie packages never included the Universal classics,which I was never able to see until I was in college.(How did we live without VCR's!).But that allowed me to see dozens of low rent classics,that would be hard to find later on.
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Post by John Hourigan on Jan 29, 2006 18:29:10 GMT -5
I also remember (it had to be in the early 1970s) a title slide for "Terror in the Night" that showed a Big Ben-type of clock with "Terror in the Night" appearing to the right of the clock.
In the early 1990s, WHAS-TV aired "Memories of Monsters" on Friday nights -- it had no host but it did air the Universal classics. Given the that the heyday of TV monster movie shows was in the 1960s and 1970s, I thought it was pretty cool that WHAS-TV, a network affiliate, would air old monster movies in the early 1990s. Of course, those days are long gone (sigh). . .
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Post by Jason on Feb 7, 2006 1:51:53 GMT -5
Hey, see if this memory rings a bell with anyone. I remember staying up late to watch Terror in the Night on Saturdays. After I had struggled to stay awake, I suddenly got a second wind and couldn't go to sleep. So after the movie, I wanted more. I remember in the early 70's after Terror In The Night, WKYT would show Wrestling! Can you imagine that? Well since it was the only thing on (all other stations had signed off), I watched. It was hilarious. Of course it was very amateurish compared with what you see today. All I remember was the announcer. His name was Buzz and I thought he was the highlight. He was doing this "Ted Baxter" old school announcing. Does anyone else remember this? This was a syndicated program and obviously not produced by Channel 27. So at my house it was Karloff and Lugosi....then it was time for Buzz.
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Post by John Hourigan on Feb 16, 2006 20:15:38 GMT -5
I'm not sure but didn't Terror in the Night create a stir when it aired "Night of the Living Dead" in the 1970s? Or am I mistaken (or confused, which is probably the case!).
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Post by Jason on Feb 17, 2006 13:04:56 GMT -5
A stir, meaning complaints about the graphic flesh eating on TV? Maybe. I missed that one.
When Terror in the Night was in it's heyday, they had a show opening and show close, and of course there was a "monster host." By the mid 1970's, WKYT had stopped playing the open and close and merely put up a slide that said "Terror in the Night." No announcement, no fanfare, just a silent slide used as a bumper in and out of the movie to go to commercials. Yes, everyone knew what the show was by then, but it had sadly evolved into a movie and a slide. No hellos or goodbyes. But at least they were still carrying on the tradition and not selling out and showing info-mercials like they do today.
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Post by Beth on Feb 18, 2006 14:58:23 GMT -5
I used to avoid checking TV Guide to see what was on Terror in the Night and Thriller 18. It was much more fun anticipating what film they would show each week. Then there was the count down on Saturday night....11 PM....11:15....11:30 PM.....The opening comes on....then dissolves into often the Universal film logo of the earth. Then...the classic Universal music followed by the titles....Karloff.....Lugosi....Lon Chaney Jr. Or maybe it would be "The Fly" with Vincent Price. There is some quick channel switching checking what Thriller 18 was showing. Then the decision is made which to watch...Terror in the Night or Thriller 18.
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Post by Tim Reed on Mar 2, 2006 4:15:50 GMT -5
I was just a toddler in Winchester when "Terror in the Night" was on in the early 60s. I vividly remember my older brother trying to frighten me by making me watch the monster head opening to the show every week. I always ended-up running out of the room, screaming at the top of my lungs and crying, and I never saw much more of the show than that.
So, today, after all these years, I discover that my favorite AMC movie host, Nick Clooney, was the floating, smeary head of my childhood nightmares!
Imagine that.
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Post by Steve Adkins on Jul 14, 2006 8:21:17 GMT -5
What movies do you remember watching on Terror in the Night or Thriller 18? What scenes stuck out? Where were you and what was going on in your life at the time? How did the movie effect you?
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Post by Jeff Easley on Aug 4, 2006 23:31:29 GMT -5
I could go for hours on this one.I recall if I was feeling tired before"Terror..."I would take a nap and request that my mom wake me up before she went to bed.On occasion she would let me down.One of these times caused me to miss"The Thing From Another World",I was unfamiliar with the movie,but I complained loudly the next morning.My mom later told me that the mother of a friend told her that her son had seen it and had nightmares for a week,which made me feel worse since most of the "Terror" fare was less than terrifying.Of course,I've seen "The Thing" dozens of times,and it's still a huge favorite.Wow,I can still remember the total disorientation,followed by waves of disappointment,waking up on Sunday morning and realizing I slept through "Terror in the Night"!For a while they ran a double feature,and I can recall waking up at 3 A.M.in my families big red naugahyde recliner with the T.V. test pattern humming on screen.
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