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- From: weekley@helios.phy.ohiou.edu (Don Weekley)
- Newsgroups: oh.general
- Subject: RE: The Ghoul/Ghoulardi (Cleveland)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.045000.2016@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 04:50:00 GMT
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- ------Introduction Deleted-----
-
- > 1) Was the character name described above 'The Ghoul' or 'Ghoulardi'?
- > What was the name of his show?
-
- Ghoulardi came first, he then left for California. The
- Ghoul came later. (He was the one I remember watching.)
-
- > 2) I heard that the original dude left/was fired/was cancelled and a
- > poor imitation followd for a short while... this may explain the 2
- > different names in #1 above. Can anyone clarify this?
-
- Ghoulardi was so popular he had to have a sequel, which
- apparently (according to my mom) didn't match up, but he
- was great just the same (to me at least)
-
- > 3) Was the original guy's name Ernie Anderson? I heard after leaving
- > the show he went to Hollywood and was doing voiceovers for TV shows
- > like Charlies Angels. I thought I saw 'Ernie Anderson' on the
- > credits for "America's Funniest Videos" as the announcer... is this
- > him?
-
- I will have to see if my mom recognizes his voice, to
- find out.
- > 4) What TV station in Cleveland did this run on? (I believe it is now
- > defunct.)
-
- I will find out over Thankgiving or when I talk to the
- 'rents this weekend.
-
-
- > 5) Any dates as to when this stuff was on the air?
-
- Mid-sixties to mid- late- seventies. The switch came in
- the late sixties.
-
- > 6) I heard that viewers frequently sent in the props to be blown up;
- > some already fitted with the 'charges'. Heard a story that one of
- > these viewer contributions turned out to be a hefty one, more like
- > 'ordinance' than a firecracker and it tore up part of the studio.
- > Did this really happen? Is that what got him removed from the air?
-
- It may have seemed that way but I really doubted it.
- Though I could tell they both used some pretty heavy
- stuff. (M80s, cherry bombs etc.)
-
-
- > As I said, my memory is somewhat faded... any corrections, facts, other
- > stories, etc. would be greatly appreciated.
-
- Mine has faded too. (Grad school don'tcha know). I hope
- this helps. I will find out more over Thanksgiving.
-
- I really miss that show. Big Chuck and Hoolihan (Now
- little john! :( ) too. They just don't make them like
- that anymore. Fritx the night owl was the closest and
- now he's off the air. HE was on channel 10 CBS in
- Columbus.
-
- Do you remember the certain ethnic whatever jokes?
- God does latenight TV really stink now.
-
- Don
-
- Bag the .sig read the header!
-
- Thanks-
-
- Lee
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