Datajunkie has posted an article from an issue of TV Guide from 1958 concerning the burgeoning horror host phenomenon of that era. It never really hit me how popular these shows were.

“In staid Philadelphia, for example, a weirdie named Roland (he has an unseen creature named Igor who devours mailmen) presides at WCAU-TV. Roland has really become a Frankenstein. When he held a reception at the studio, devotees blocked traffic for hours, carried away Roland’s collection of shrunken heads and other trinkets, and threatened, for awhile, to dismantle the studio brick by brick.”

It’s a short but entertaining glimpse into another world, with pictures of the 13, 000 attendees from the above rally and portraits of Miss Tarantula Ghoul, Terry Bennett, Milton Budd and more.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 25th, 2007 at 12:18 pm and is filed under Television. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.