Does This Program go to Parma??-Ghoulardifest 2010

October 23, 1965 -6:30 PM listing for "The Ernie Anderson Special"-Some skits were taken out of this special and shown during the Friday/Saturday Night Show over the years, but the entire special has never been rebroadcast.


July 1961-Ernie's Place-TV Guide Ad for the premiere of Anderson's Morning Movie Show

Classic Manners "Big Ghoulardi" Ad..

November 21, 1992-First "Ghoulardi Night" (Part One) on Big Chuck and Lil John..Chuck visits Ernie Anderson out in Hollywood and Lil John hosts from Cleveland..All 3 parts of the show (minus movie) are on our Facebook Page..

"Hey Group"

Time for yet another Ghoulardifest..(Number VI). This year being held at the UAW Hall in..Parma! (cue polka music) 5615 Chevrolet Blvd. October 22-23-24 2010. Guests include:

Hoolihan (Bob Wells)-He will be presented with a Cleveland Association of Broadcasters "Legend" award..
Big Chuck
Lil John
Art Lofredo
Mary Ann Winkowski returns-Her stories provided the basis for CBS' Ghost Whisperer Series

The Cast of "The Dead Matter" Film that Chuck, Mike Olszewski and Al Pawlowski of SportsTime Ohio appeared in-Including:
Jason Carter
Barry Van Camp
Donna Williams
Producer Gary Jones..

The DVD of "The Dead Matter" Will be available for sale, as well as a new "Best Of" Big Chuck and Lil John Volume 5-First "Live" Project Chuck and John have done since their retirement in 2007..

Also:
Big Chuck and Lil John Halloween PJ Party Saturday, Oct. 23 8-11:30..A Newly found Hoolihan and Big Chuck Show will be shown during this time-Hooli, Chuck and John will be there of course, with the "Dead Matters" Cast and Son of Ghoul..Admission to the PJ Party is $10.00 food will be provided at reasonable cost..

The Ernie Anderson/Tim Conway "Are We On" Video will be shown during Ghoulardifest VI..This was taped at Bowling Green State University in 1965..

There will be a "Movie Room" with Showings of:
Ernie Anderson Tribute Show
Ghoulardi PBS Special
BC/LJ Halloween Special
Best of Ghoulardi Shock Theater
Dead Matters Movie (Q and A with Cast following)
And more..

TICKET INFORMATION

Adults: $15.00 per day
3 day pass still only $30.00
Children up to 12 years old FREE (When accompanied by an adult)

($2.00 OFF on one day or $5.00 OFF on 3 day)

Providing Entertainment will be Take II and The Soul Men Blues Brothers Tribute..

I hope to be able to make it one day during the fest, but Fans of The Cleveland Horror Host Tradition and Classic Local TV need to be here..It is a great time and Hoolihan. Chuck and John are class acts..You will have fun..

Ghoulardifest VI link with more information

http://www.theghoulardifest.com/Home_Page.php

bigchuckandliljohn.com thread for Ghoulardifest VI-The complete Movie Room Schedule

http://www.bigchuckandliljohn.com/forums/index.php?topic=4212.msg47998#msg47998

Andrea Carroll..Now Dr. Andrea Hill..

Here is the lovely Miss Andrea Carroll..Her real name was Andrea Lee DeCapite..She made many appearances on "The Gene Carroll Show" as a teenager..Photo courtesy Neil Zurcher's NE Ohio TV Memories..

In doing the blog over the last 3 and a half years, I am amazed at finding out stuff I didnt know about Cleveland TV..Andrea DeCapite was a young lady who grew up in Cleveland..She made a name for herself as a teen through many appearances on the Gene Carroll Show on WEWS in the early 1960's. In appreciation of the Break Gene gave her, she took the stage name "Andrea Carroll"..She had several local hit songs, including "Please Don't talk to the Lifeguard" and "Why am I so Shy?".The reason I bring this up now is that along with the Picture on Neil Zurcher's page, EX-WGAR Newsman Eric Braun tells of a link to a website that updates Andrea Carroll, now Dr. Andrea Hill, who owns a Drama School with her husband,Lyle B. Hill in Burbank, California.

Here's a link to the blog page by Chuck Benjamin.."Andrea Carroll..Pop Princess to P.H.D" that updates where Ms. Hill is now, along with lots of nice feedback.. Thanks Eric for sharing this

http://cbenjamin.wordpress.com/2008/03/08/andrea-carroll-pop-princess-to-phd/

Original Picture page with comments-Neil Zurcher's NE Ohio TV Memories:

http://neohiotvmemories.wordpress.com/2010/07/24/a-scrapbook-of-cleveland-television-memories/unknown-young-lady-d/

Also wanted to mention..Because of some spam comments recently, I've had to start moderating comments..If you commented on a post, it may take me a few days to see it, which delays them being published..

September 1954..Here She Is...

Early "Dragnet" reruns were shown in 1954 on WNBK-3 under the title "Badge 714"..Dragnet was the first off network series to be widely syndicated around the country.



Ad For WFMJ-TV 21's new transmitter/antenna tower..WFMJ had very recently moved from Channel 73 to 21



Review of NBC's
"Your Show of Shows" summer replacement, "Saturday Night Review" with a Young Eddie Albert, who hosted most weeks (Though George Gobel and Csesar Romero hosted the show this particular week in late July 1954)




Ad for "The Brighter Day" one of CBS' afternoon soaps, carried by WXEL..WXEL carried several of the afternoon soaps from CBS, as WEWS elected to fill the time locally..Of course, by March 2, 1955 all the CBS soaps and other programming would permanently move to WXEL in the first Cleveland Network Swap, which would be undone in 1994, as WJW would become FOX.. Notice a young Hal Holbrook in this ad, before he became famous in Films, Broadway and Television.





TV Guide ad for the first telecast of the Miss America Pageant on ABC-TV (Ch. 8,27 and 49) Hosting were John Daly and Bess Myerson (Miss America 1945)

Today, we'll look at September 11-17, 1954..The fall TV season was about to gear up for the networks and local stations.Several highlights...

Myrus the Mentalist was featured Mondays at 9:30 PM on WXEL-8

Hey, Mulligan with Mickey Rooney had just premiered Saturdays at 8PM on NBC

Dotty Mack Show was featured Saturdays at 7:30 on WAKR-ABC 49

Miss America Pageant-First telecast 10:30-Midnight Saturday Sept. 11 on channels 8, 27 and 49

"Color Spectacular" Satins and Spurs with Betty Hutton Sunday 7:30-9 on Channels 3, 21..The reviews of the day were not kind to Miss Hutton, unfortunately.

WKBN-27 Noon Show with Stu Wilson premiered Monday, Sept. 13

WEWS-5 Dinner Platter with Bob Dale Monday-Friday 5:45-6:30

Medic-Richard Boone Premiered Monday at 9 on NBC 3, 21

ABC News-John Daly Monday-Friday 7:15 ABC WAKR-49

Humbard Family Sunday Night 8PM WAKR-49

Ohio Story Sunday afternoon 4:50 WXEL 8

My Favorite Husband-Saturdays 9:30 WEWS-5 CBS

Lassie Sunday 3:30 WEWS-5 CBS..Premiere Episode

Listings:
TV Guide Lake Erie Edition

Saturday, Sept. 11, 1954

WNBK-3 NBC

9AM Early Bird Theater-Tales Of Robin Hood
10AM Cartoon Time
10:30 Fun Wagon-Glenn Rowell
11:30 Movie-Western
12:30 Mr. Wizard
1PM One O Clock Playhouse-John Halifax, Gentleman
1:45 Canadian Football
4:30 Movie-To Be Announced
6PM Cisco Kid
6:30 Western Film
7PM Files Of Jeffrey Jones
7:30 Ethel and Albert
8PM Mickey Rooney Show (Hey Mulligan)
8:30 Amateur Hour-Last Show
9PM Saturday Review-Eddie Albert, Alan Young
10:30 Your Hit Parade-Polly Bergen-RETURN
11PM News-Tom Field
11:05 Home Theater-Obsessed
12:15 Theater-Invisible Killer

WEWS-5 CBS

9:25 News
9:30 Winky Dink and You
10AM Early Show-Penal Code
11AM Captain Midnight
11:30 Abbott and Costello
Noon Big Top-Jack Sterling
1PM Lone Ranger
1:30 Uncle Johnny Coons
2PM Bandstand (No relation to the Dick Clark Show)
3PM Movie-TBA
4PM Joe Palooka
4:30 Out Of This World-Cleve. Museum of Natural History
5PM Ramar
5:30 Contest Carnival
6PM Polka Time
6:30 Big Picture
7PM Travel Film
7:30 Beat The Clock
8PM Stage Show-Dorseys with Phil Foster and Jerry Colonna
9PM Two For The Money
9:30 My Favorite Husband-RETURN
10PM That's My Boy
10:30 Theater
11PM Playhouse-the Man Who Lost Himself
12:30 News

WXEL-8 ABC/DuMont

9:15 First Reel
9:30 Comedy Carnival
10AM Smilin Ed-ABC
10:30 Space Patrol-ABC
11AM Merry Go-Round-Walt Kay
Noon Saturday "Night" Show-American Empire
1PM Act Two-Dangerous Love
3PM Saturday Matinee-Alimony Madness
5PM Main Event-Wrestling-Wild Red Barry/Freddie Blassie
6PM TBA
6:45 News/Sports
7PM Big Picture
7:30 American Barn Dance-DuMont
8PM Football '54-College Football Preview-ABC
9PM Boxing-Cincinnati-ABC
9:45 Fight Talk-Bob Cooke-ABC
10PM The Stranger-DuMont
10:30 Miss America Pageant-ABC
Midnight-Movie-TBA

WFMJ-21 NBC Youngstown

1PM Movie Party-Dude Ranger
2PM Movie Party-Wrecking Crew
3PM Dairy Hop
4PM Golden West-Tumbledown Ranch In Arizona
5PM Wrestling
6PM News
6:15 Industry On Parade
6:30 Roundup Time-Come On, Cowboy
7:30 Ethel and Albert
8PM Mickey Rooney Show (Hey Mulligan)
8:30 Amateur Hour-Last Show
9PM Saturday Review-Eddie Albert, Alan Young
10:30 Your Hit Parade-Polly Bergen-RETURN
11PM Skyline Theater-General Spanky (Spanky McFarland)
Midnight News

WKBN-27 CBS/ABC/DuMont Youngstown

10:30 Winky Dink and You
11AM Western Theater
11:30 Panorama
Noon Big Top
1PM Movies-TBA
5PM Panorama
5:30 Hopalong Cassidy
6:30 News This Week
6:45 Sports-Don Gardner
6:55 Weather
7PM Panorama
7:30 Beat The Clock
8PM Stage Show-Dorseys with Phil Foster and Jerry Colonna
9PM Two For The Money
9:30 Pepsi-Cola Playhouse-ABC
10PM That's My Boy
10:30 Miss America Pageant-ABC
Midnight-News

WAKR-49 ABC Akron

5PM Bar 49 Theater:(1) Ghost Rider (2) Rolling Home To Texas
7PM Wings Over The World
7:30 Dotty Mack
8PM Football '54-College Football Preview
9PM Boxing-Cincinnati-ABC
9:45 Fight Talk-Bob Cooke
10PM TBA
10:30 Miss America Pageant

New Link:Tampa's "Big 13"

"Big 13" Logo used by WTVT for a number of years. WTVT has been Fox affiliated since 1994 and Fox owned and operated since 1997..For a time, WTVT and WJW-8 Cleveland were co-owned..from the Gillett/New World days of the mid 1980's till WJW was sold to Local TV, LLC in 2008..


1955-56:From John Carroll Archives through Neil Zurcher's TV Memories Blog..A really nice picture of Captain Penny (Ron Penfound), Uncle Leslie (Linn Sheldon) Texas Jim (Jim Breslin) and Mary Ellen Sussex (Fun Farm)..visiting a little girl in the hospital..Mrs. Sussex moved on to The Tampa, Florida area in 1957..Hosting children's shows on WTVT-13..

Good evening all:
Introducing a brand new link to our readers..An extensive Historical Website for WTVT-13 in Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida..Created by Mike Clark, who worked at WTVT from 1972-77. Clark has also been instrumental in keeping retired WTVT employees connected with each other through reunions, and helping to save some vintage WTVT Material. The website concentrates on the CBS years from 1955-94, when just as in Cleveland, several longtime Market Icons were on, such as Weatherman Roy Leep, Newsman Hugh Smith, singer Ernie Lee and Children's hostess Mary Ellen Sussex..Mrs. Sussex, a Toledo native began her TV Career at WSPD Toledo in 1952 with a show called "Fun Farm", which moved to WEWS Channel 5 in 1955-56..Mary Ellen hosted various Kid shows on WTVT from 1957-64, where she was a very beloved personality..

Included in the website are some video, Old newsletters and pictures presented in a fun way by Mr. Clark..Well worth checking out..

Link:
http://www.big13.net/

WXEL-9 Opening-November/December 1949

Update:Am in the process of putting all the WXEL Pictures on a seperate blog..Have the first 10 up now..Should have the others up before the end of the week..
http://wxel1949photos.blogspot.com/

Vintage WXEL 1949 Photo Page


Good looking copy of the WXEL Test Pattern..

Exterior of WXEL Building at Pleasant Valley and State Roads in Parma

WXEL-TV Dedication Plaque

Cleveland Indians Pitching Coach Mel Harder with WXEL sportscaster Gail Egan..Howard Hoffman and Russell Spires observe. Notice what appears to be a ceramic "Little Ajax" on the piano.

Empire Coil Executive Robert Harris, DuMont Comedian Morey Amsterdam and WXEL's Howard Hoffman..


Here's "Little Ajax" a papier mache elephant that was to have been the station's mascot. The Late Howard Hoffman said in a 1999 interview that the mascot never really caught on with the viewers and was quitely dropped..





Radio/TV Editors from the 3 Cleveland Newspapers..

Early Staff Dinner:Consulting Engineer Ben Adler Tommy Mayer (assuming Herbert Mayer's Son), Chief Engineer Thomas Friedman, Station Manager Franklin Snyder, Program Director Russell Spiers, Sandra and Herbert Mayer..




Hello:
A good friend (Richard Warner)recently acquired a Number of Black and White Still Photographs of WXEL Channel 9's Opening ceremonies and some other occasions around the same time..While sharing a few of them here, I am going to try to make a new page with all the thumbnails so that anyone can view them all at their leisure..

WXEL was the third Television Station in Cleveland..Built by Herbert Mayer's Empire Coil Company. WXEL went on the air officially December 19, 1949. Among the pictures are several of special guest Morey Amsterdam, who hosted a show on the DuMont Network,of which WXEL was a primary affiliate..WXEL also carried ABC, and as we will see in a bit, a surprising number of CBS Shows, though WEWS-5 was considered primarily a CBS affiliate..

Along with the pictures, Mr. Warner sent along what looks like a WXEL schedule mailing or a newsletter dated February 18-24, 1951..Here are a few sample schedules from that newsletter.

Sunday Feb. 18, 1951

11AM Test Pattern/Tone

Noon Ranger Joe-ABC

12:15 Chester The Pup-ABC

12:30 Old Fashioned Revival Hour-ABC

1PM On Trial-ABC

1:30 TBA

2PM Sunday Matinee-I Married A Witch/Short Subjects

4PM Musical Manor-Alan Freed

4:30 Hobby Lane-Rena/Bob Ledyard

5PM Facts We Face-CBS

5:30 People's Platform-CBS

6PM Billy Rose Show-ABC

6:30 Mr. I Magination-CBS

7PM You Asked For It-Art Baker-DuMont

7:30 Showtime USA-ABC

8PM Once Upon A Time-DuMont

8:30 Armed Forces Hour-DuMont

9PM Youth On The March-ABC

9:30 Famous Jury Trials-DuMont

10PM Hands of Mystery-DuMont

10:30 What's My Line?-CBS

11PM Week In Review-CBS

11:15 Telenews Weekly

11:40 Sign-Off

Monday Feb. 19, 1951

10AM Test Pattern/Tone

12:30 Preview Corner

12:35 News Tape and Music (sounds like AP/UPI News with music overlay)

12:45 Telenews-Bob Rowley

1PM Village Fair

2PM Alice Weston

2:30 Darts For Dollars-Rena/Bob Ledyard

3PM Impromptu-Alan Freed/Grant Wilson

3:30 Fashion Magic-CBS

4PM Homemakers Exchange-CBS

4:30 Vanity Fair-CBS

5PM Lucky Pup-CBS

5:15 ChuckWagon Playhouse-CBS

6PM Small Fry Club-DuMont

6:30 Tom Corbett Space Cadet-ABC

6:45 Evening News

7PM Captain Video-DuMont

7:30 Hollywood Screen Test-ABC

8PM Can You Top This-ABC

8:30 Man Abour Town-Sid Andorn-From The Bronze Room of The Hotel Cleveland

9PM The College Bowl-ABC (Variety series starring Chico Marx)

9:30 Wrestling-New York (Dennis James)-DuMont

11PM News Briefs

11:05 Sports-Clay Dopp

11:15 Nite-Owl Theatre

12:40 Sign-Off

Saturday, Feb. 24, 1951

9AM Test Pattern/Tone

10AM Chuckles 5 Bar Ranch "Stagecoach Outlaws"

11AM Kousin Kay's Red Goose Merry Go Round

Noon The Big Top-CBS

1PM Polka Penthouse

1:30 Test Pattern/Tone

5:30 The Note Box

6PM Beulah-ABC

6:30 Manpower Headlines

6:45 Jimmy Dudley's Sports Digest

7PM Beat The Clock-CBS

7:30 Stu Erwin Show-ABC

8PM Paul Whiteman's TV Teen Club-ABC

8:30 Madison Sqare Garden-DuMont

11:15 Wrestling From Chicago-Jack Brickhouse-DuMont

12:40 Sign-Off

Grateful thanks to Richard Warner for sharing the pictures/etc..And for being such a good friend of the Blog..

Neil Zurcher-Tales from The Road

Neil Zurcher, longtime WJW-TV reporter..He also has had a Vintage Cleveland TV Pictures website for a couple of years, which is in our links..


Cover of Neil's Latest Book..


Location of the Grocery/Gas Station in Henrietta Townshp, Ohio where Neil spent much of his time as a boy..


One of the many stunts Neil tried..What he doesnt know is that the rope is slowly unraveling..

Many of the News Staff of WJW-TV 8 circa 1969..Mostly Photographers, but including Neil Zurcher, Dick Goddard and Reporter Pete Cary..

Today I want to review the newest book by Neil Zurcher, "Tales From The Road", published by Gray and Company.

Neil spent more than 40 years at WJW-TV 8 as first a freelance photojournalist, then as an Investigative/Breaking News Reporter, making his name as the originator of the "One Tank Trips" segment of NewsCenter 8, then Fox 8 News from 1979-2004.

The Book is at first a memoir, telling of Neil's formative years living in Henrietta, Ohio..A small village in Lorain County west of Elyria..Reminds me of my growing up in East Sparta, South of Canton. Neil writes with great affection of his parents, who owned a small grocery/gas station in Henrietta Township..He relates some of his escapades, such as trying to drive a car before he is old enough..And trying to copy a locally well-known daredevil stunt driver, which didnt turn out too well..He also tells of trying out for the "Gene Carroll Show" in the 1950's (He didnt make it)..Living in small-town Ohio, he developed his desire to travel and see new things at a early age...Once out of high school, his early media days were at the Oblerlin Newspaper and at WEOL-AM 930 Elyria/Lorain as a Newscaster/reporter..The bulk of the book is mostly "Stories From The Road"..Stories he worked on as a reporter, places and people he met in Ohio and surrounding States..Written in a conversational style that takes himself not too seriously and makes you feel as if you are there with him. I truly enjoyed the Book..a great read..

A Local angle (to me anyway) is that the Nash Metropolitan that Neil Zurcher drove on the One Tank Trips for so many years is now on display at the Canton Classic Car Museum in downtown Canton, Ohio..

Link to a sample chapter..

http://www.grayco.com/cleveland/books/10645/sampleChapter.shtml




Another Brief Note..As of now, I am going to put a permanent link to Gray and Co. Publishers Website..Should have done so long ago..

Speculative Fun-Classic TV 8 channel

Various WJW Logos over the years..Top:1962

Middle:1966 Bottom 1965.


Thought i'd go into something completely different..Since WJW-TV 8 has only one Digital channel currently, I thought it would be fun to "suggest" a second digital channel-A Classic TV 8 Channel, that would be used for some live simulcasts and relays of Fox 8 News, as well as "Classic" shows from the WJW-TV archives, even something different than the normal...Actual movies and syndicated/CBS originals from the bygone days of channel 8..Show the Big Chuck/Lil John DVD's as specials, etc..

Note:All speculative, I fully realize you have rights issues that may keep anything close to this from happening, but this is all purely for fun..



Monday-Friday

5AM Fox 8 Morning News (Live simulcast)

10AM Robin Swoboda (Live Simulcast)

11AM Movie

1PM Fox 8 News at Noon (Tape Delay)

2PM Adventure Road Classics=At least 2-3 times a week depending on what's out there-Maybe an Hour drama from the 60's the other 2-3 days

3PM Movie

5PM Robin Swoboda (repeat)

6PM Hawaiian Eye/77 Sunset Strip/Surfside 6

7PM Fox 8 News at 6 Tape Delay

8PM PM Magazine Classics

8:30 Leave It To Beaver/Beverly Hillbillies. etc..

9PM NewsCenter 8/City Camera Classics-complete newscasts..Any they can find from as far back as possible..

10PM One Tank Trip Classics

10:30 Just The Skits

11PM Fox 8 News at 10 (Tape Delay)

Midnight-3AM Monday-Thurs.-Repeat 8-11

3-5AM Monday-Thursday Movie

Friday Only
Midnight Big Chuck Lil John Classics-Chuck and John host new show, only with the movies THEY want to show and the classic skits..Hoolihan needs to make appearances on this.
2-5AM Repeat 8-11 (Friday Only)

Saturday/Sunday

5AM Movie
7AM Movie
9AM Looney Tunes
10AM Woodrow (1997 Revival)
11AM Just The Skits
11:30 One Tank Trip Classics
Noon Gunsmoke

1PM Marshal Dillon

1:30 Green Acres

2PM Beverly Hillbillies

2:30 Petticoat Junction

3PM Movie

5PM Marcus Welby

6PM NewsCenter8/City Camera Classics

7PM Fox 8 News
8PM Cinema 8 Weekend
10PM Fox 8 News
11PM Warner Brothers Dramas (Sunset Strip, Hawaiian Eye, etc)
Midnight Rawhide
1AM Have Gun Will Travel
1:30 Wanted Dead or Alive
2AM Gunsmoke
3AM Movie

Also special programs over the years..

Any CBS/Syndicated show originally ran on TV 8..

I know the idea is out there..Doubt there'd be enough of some shows to do a full series..