Re: Boston TV memories?

["Lou" <spindoc@channel1.com>]

I can remember seeing Major Mudd make a personal appearance at a local
CB-Jamboree-thing (oh, I'm so embarrassed) in  the summer of '73.  I
remember that he let one of the "kids" there hit him in the face with a
pie...  The crowd roared.  I think he passed away within a year of that.

Does anyone remember the Captain America guy who hosted the Marvel
Superheroes cartoon show, weekday afternoons on Channel 7?  This was
probably late 60s.  He used the slogan, "Face Front," which was taken from
the original Marvel Comics of that time.

-Lou


----- Original Message -----
From: <bacchioc@ici.net>
To: <bri@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 2:36 PM
Subject: Re: Boston TV memories?


> Brian T. Vita wrote:
> >  From the depths of my caffeine soaked brain I recall a Friday or
Saturday
> > night movie host on channel 56 (WKBG days) called the Ghoul.  He did a
> > sci-fi/horror hosting gig.  I recall one show where he blasted himself
> > around the studio on a fire extinguisher.  I think that he also used to
do
> > stuff with Cheez Whiz or something.  Back to my coma.
>
>
> The Ghoul is still around (I think in Detroit) and has a webpage
>
> www.theghoul.com
>
> I vaugely remember his habit of setting off firecrackers in everything
> (messy things such as mashed potatoes) and jumping around on a
Hoppity-Hop.
> At the time he was on 56 I think he was based in Cleveland.
>
>
> I remember seeing Major Mudd at a Waltham Easter Parade in the late '60s,
> along with Rex Trailer  (and still have an old Super 8 film of it), but I
> don't remember any other slogan he used besides IBBY (and the IBBY song is
> starting to fade from memory).  There was another "TV type" there but I
> don't recall who he was (it didn't look like Willie Whistle).
>
> Paul Bacchiocchi
>
>