Who else remembers Chiller Theatre?

Maybe they still show it, I don't know, you can't get New York channels in NC. But it was a mainstay on Saturday night. Great movies like The Crawling Eye. But the weirdest thing was the creepy animated hand that came up out of the ground. It had six fingers!

 

We had Nightmare Theater here with Dr. Cadaverino and his headless sidekick, who also did the puppet Albert The Alley Cat on the weather/news.



I don't think there's any video of him. Sad.

 

I do!

 

Nice!

 

Oh, my my....I found a video of the good doctor!! This was near the end of his show, now in color and different stage than the early days.

 

And let's not forget the Monster Chiller Horror Theater, featuring 3D House of Stewardesses...

 

Hey, somebody else from Milwaukee. I grew up with Dr. Cadaverino, and to this day consider
it one of the greatest "chiller host" shows from that era in the country. Jack DuBlon was somewhat of a
legend here in Milwaukee, and it's amazing he could be Cadaverino AND Albert The Alley Cat at the
same station. His nasty attitude playing the Doc was hilarious, especially when he opened the fan mail
and gifts, would make some derogatory remark, and then throw the gift into the garbage can!
Jack's no longer with us, and like you said, there doesn't seem to be any video of him on the net,
which is criminal. I would love to see reruns of those sixties/early seventies shows at least one more time.

 

Chiller Theater, a forgotten, now remembered childhood memory.

Thanks for the memory.

 

I remember Chiller Theater with Bill Cardille out of Pittsburgh, PA. We watched the show huddled around tiny portable tv with a rabbit ears fuzzy picture located in the upstairs hallway of the "Pearl Palace" (a 4 br, 1 bath, 2 story dump a block from WVU where anywhere from 4 to 8 people lived, partied and attended an occasional class).

Chilly Billy was also the infamous host off Studio Wrestling, various other "movie" shows, and teen dance shows (but he never achieved the popularity of Myron Cope's competing "Polka Party" dance shoe. He had cameos in both the original (as a broadcaster) and remake (as a Sherif) of "Night Of The Living Dead" and fathered the female lead in Romero's "Day Of The Dead".

 

I grew up in the Bay Area with Bob Wilkins and Creature Features. Man I loved that show.

 

A local channel, I believe it was WNEP channel 16, had "Uncle Ted's Ghoul School" which was along the same lines. Who Uncle Ted was, I have no idea, but the show was very lame, and he was a (very) amateur magician, so he entertained us with prestidigitiation during movie breaks. Another local show was Hatchy Milatchy.

 

We had the Ghoul and Sir Graves Ghastly as well as a Chiller or Thriller ? theater that played the middle section of Led Zeppelins whole lota love during their logo
While showing clips of B movie horror like Children shouldn't play with dead things ( I love that movie) run through a video synthesizer.
That's what i can remember. I miss them days.

 

I sure do. I grew up with CHILLER on channel 11 and CREATURE FEATURES on channel 5.

 

*Raises hand*
Channel 11 baby!

 

Pittsburgh's "Chilly Billy" has died at 87.

Bill Cardille, longtime Pittsburgh TV host, dies at age 87 »

 

They had something called "Chiller Theater" in the mid to late 1960's that played on one of the Fresno, CA stations we watched. A lot of those films scared the Hell out of me. But I always watched it every Friday night.

 

Original Chiller Theatre opening.

 

I grew up watching Chiller Theatre and "Chilly Billy" Cardille on Saturday nights in Pittsburgh. He could be really corny at times but it was fun watching. (I miss those days... )

 

In Syracuse we had Monster Movie Matinee on Saturday afternoons. Man, such simpler times. Sigh...

 

We had "Creature Feature" coming out of WSIL in Carbondale, IL in the mid 70's. Caught many a Hammer, Universal and Euro horror.

 

The hand was the best part.