Sunday Showcase August 30, 1981

Yes, I'm bringing back for a limited time my reviews of The Tennessean Sunday Showcase and we begin our journey with August 30, 1981. I was 14 years old and had probably gone to the first week or so of high school by this date. It was a miserable time to be alive for me in many ways, but as always I found solace in pop culture. There will be a few of the things I loved from this era in this Sunday Showcase and lots of other things I've found interesting so many years later. Hope you get your full entertainment value from this latest installment. Don't bother calling any of the phone numbers listed in the ads though as most are probably no longer valid. 

Foreigner was touring after the release of 4 and would be playing Municipal Auditorium on September 20. Billy Squier opened this tour, but the ad spells his name wrong. Don't Say No had been out since April along with the single "The Stroke", but the song was only hitting the Top Ten locally this week. And it hit with a bullet too at number 3. Maybe that's why his name was spelled correctly on it.

       

Foreigner - Urgent

Billy Squier - The Stroke

"The Stroke" was something to hear coming out of car stereos. It just exploded through the air. I bought the album Don't Say No and it's been a favorite ever since. I listened to it on a very cheap record player that I got when I was very young. It couldn't get super loud, but as the words in "I Need You" go, "when I feel low...my amps they blow." 

The Jacksons would play Municipal Auditorium on August 31. They were touring behind the album Triumph which was their first album since 1971's Maybe Tomorrow to go number 1 on the R&B charts. It hadn't hurt that Michael's Off the Wall had been a massive success upon its release in 1979.

The Jacksons - Can You Feel It

The Jacksons concert was the night after the mighty Van Halen as they would play this very night of August 30, 1981 on their Fair Warning Tour. You would expect an ad in Showcase for this concert, but there's an interesting reason why there was no ad, nor was there any in previous papers for this show. It's a fascinating glimpse into how much money was used to market a concert in 1981. 

Van Halen - Hear About It Later

Johnny Paycheck would play 2 nights at a club called Country Showcase in September. A Google Map search showed that this place is long gone, just like Johnny. 

Spanky's is another club that's no longer around, but it would have been cool to see Doc and Merle Watson one night and then the Wrong Band the next. Cantrell's building is still standing, but that whole side of Broadway is now a nightmare scape to us Generation X survivors. Find me a time machine so I can go back and see R.E.M. play with Jason and the Nashville Scorchers opening. 

The biggest entertainment ad in the Showcase is for a club called Blazing Saddles out on Nolensville Road. I love that it says there would be guest appearances by country music stars and musicians. It's another in a long list of places bulldozed over. 

If hedonistic rock and roll and cheating country songs wasn't your bag you had the upcoming Day of Joy to be held at Hermitage Landing on September 5th. It's billed as a day of stirring Christian song, but it looks to me to be a Benson Records promotion. I really dig that Hermitage Landing logo. 

Let's take a break for a word from our sponsors: Audio Systems and Mr. Gatti's Pizza. 

TV capsule summaries crack me up. The Bad News Bears is one of my favorite movies of all time so I have to snicker at this one. I wouldn't say that Amanda Whurlizer is mean and tough.  

The Bad News Bears trailer

Sherlock Holmes is coming to WPLN. It was a very long running radio show which ran from 1939 to 1950 with Basil Rathbone as the titular detective. 

Time for the TV Starscreen Puzzle by Al Kilgore. This was a weekly feature. Good luck.

A couple of movie ads for films I haven't seen. I need to get on that. Hell Night looks like fun and I thought I was a big fan of Linda Blair. How could have I missed this one.

Hell Night trailer 

Film number 2 is one I honestly don't believe I have ever heard of (and I thought I was a big fan of Walter Matthau too) called First Monday in October. It's a fictional film about the first female Supreme Court justice named Ruth Loomis played by Jill Clayburgh, but was filmed before Sandra Day O'Connor actually became the first. So after her nomination the movie was rushed to the market. Fact trumped fiction which probably hurt the movie at the box office. I couldn't find a trailer, but here's a clip.

First Monday in October clip

Now for the interesting (at least to me), weird, and scandalous. 

First up is the interesting: a Jheri Kurl hairdo sure cost some money. Which led me to muse about Jheri curls. Michael Jackson had one among other celebrities. A guy I went to high school with had one and he used to catch hell about leaving stains on the wall if he leaned on it. This led me down a rabbit hole to discover a dude named Jheri Redding (famous for Redding haircare of course) invented it. It was a way to get "wash and wear" looking  curls that was easier to use than the standard relaxer method. It still involved a lot of work. 

I love the Muppets. I never cared much for Miss Piggy though. Maybe I would have liked Mrs. Piggy.

Hypnotism is weird to me. I like the idea of it, but I'm such a recalcitrant rebel I don't believe I could ever be hypnotized. Hypnosis Center ads were often in the Sunday Showcase.  I found after a cursory Google search that M. C. Radford lived until 2024. His obituary took no note of his hypnosis work, but only noted he was a salesman. He was an interesting guy. He claimed he had told Metro Police where Marcia Trimble's body would be found. 

We end on the scandalous. Nashville has long been regarded as being the buckle of the Bible Belt. It is renowned for its many churches and being a hub of Christian publishing and music. That buckle was a little tarnished though. Take the belt off and find out some folks probably don't have on underwear. Maybe you could have met some of those folk if you had been wild enough to call the number in this ad in 1981. 

Once the Opry moved and the major department stores and movie chains left for the suburbs, downtown Nashville was a bit tawdry. I remember even as late as the early 90's there were still lots of adult bookshops and adult movie places around. Not because I went to them, but because downtown Nashville was so deserted after dark it was a perfect place to ride a skateboard. Now you can't go 2 feet without hitting a drunk bachelorette party. I suppose it's still a bit tawdry and, let's be honest, much more stupid. 

This wraps up this review of the August 30, 1981 Tennessean Sunday Showcase. I'll do my best to have another one up next week. 

Tuesday Tunes Wally's Favorite Albums of 2025 Edition

Most people come out with their best of lists in December, but I'm not like most people. Here's my countdown from 8 to 1 of my favorite albums of 2025. 

8. Snocaps - Snocaps Katie Crutchfield has a musical reunion with her twin sister Allison with M.J. Lenderman and Brad Cook along for the ride. If you were a fan of Katie and Allison's old band P.S. Eliot this album is a must for you. I'm still waiting for the actual physical LP release which doesn't happen until April, but it was issued to streaming services on Halloween last year. What a surprise treat!

Snocaps - "Cherry Hard Candy"

7. Jeff Tweedy - Twilight Override A sprawling 3 LP's or CD's worth of solo material Jeff has been making over the last several years. Much of it is mediative, but never morose. It could have been cut down to a single LP, but I dig the vibe of extra one gets from this album that is a grower and not a shower. 

Jeff Tweedy - "Lou Reed Was My Babysitter"

6. Phoebe Rings - Aseurai It may be because I am a product of the Seventies, but while my first big love was of metal and punk (Kiss and Ramones were so formative for me) I'm still a massive mark for well crafted pop and New Zealander's Phoebe Rings is a delight. I got to see them open for The Beths in November and then was lucky enough to meet them and purchase their first full length record Aseurai which they autographed to me. Wish I had bought one of their lazy disco caps when I had the chance. 

Phoebe Rings - "Get Up"

5. Wednesday - Bleeds You might have thought Wednesday was taking a full fledged turn into country with the initial singe "Elderberry Wine" but Bleeds turned out to be perhaps the most eclectic of the band's career. Karly Hartzman follows her muse wherever it leads. Hardcore screaming punk...you got it. Countrygaze hum and throb...sure thing. Completely strange and weird "Phish Pepsi"...let's go. I'm down for all of it. 

Wednesday - "Townies"

4. Lemonheads - Love Chant 2025 went down as the year of Evan Dando's big comeback. First there was the excellent memoir Rumors of My Demise ghost written by Jim Ruland. It was quite an exhilarating read. The first new album of original Lemonheads material in 19 years came out in October. Love Chant was better than expected, a thrilling return to form for Evan. A successful U.S. tour happened in the fall and winter which was capped off with an appearance on the nationwide The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Then word came that a planed European tour was off. Then the news arrived that Evan was heading into rehab after sending lewd videos to a fan via Twitter/X direct message. It seems like Mr. Dando is really into self sabotage. I hope he finally gets free of the drugs and other demons. 

Lemonheads - "The Key of Victory"

3. Horsegirl - Phonetics On and On Chicago band Horsegirl's first album Versions of Modern Performance  from 2022 was a noisy classic paying homage to Sonic Youth that made me wonder how these young ladies had been exposed to such great music growing up. If you expected more of the same with the new record you might have been disappointed. They flipped the script on the new album. The noise was gone and we get an early Wire type minimalism on what I feel is an even better record. 

Horsegirl - "Switch Over"

1. The Beths - Straight Line Was A Lie Oh, how I love The Beths let me count the ways. You might notice that I skipped number 2. That's because I'm only including my Top 8 and since the 2 albums at the top of my list are in a dead heat they both get number 1. The Beths just keep on putting out great records even with front woman Liz Stokes having some health issues and writer's block. Once again, I got to see them play live and meet with after the show. They are one of the greatest groups ever. 

The Beths - "Metal"

1. Liquid Mike - Hell Is An Airport My old pal D.D. Blank got me into Liquid Mike. Feels like the old days when we would always be sharing the gospel of music amongst ourselves. Liquid Mike hail from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and they are pure rock 'n roll! Short sweet songs with astute creative lyrics with raging guitars. If you are seeking some throwback Nineties crunch updated to today you need this album post haste. 

Liquid Mike - "Groucho Marx"

Tuesday Tunes is finally back!

It's been awhile I know. Never fear though, Wally's here once more to share what's happening in his music world. The latest thing is the younger folks have really embraced the Nineties. We're talking about grunge, indie/alternative, shoegaze, and jangle pop.....all of which really began in the Eighties, but didn't reach its full flowering until the next decade. The best of the new breed are not slavishly copying their elders, but they are taking the best parts and formulating their own spin which makes my tired old ears grin. 

It's almost all newer stuff this time around. I did decide that 2026 should be the year of metal so I have included one metal adjacent song. Heavy metal and punk rock were what got me through high school (perhaps even saved my life as I went through some dark days) and I will never lose my love of it. 

First up is a very new band from the UK who call themselves Tooth. There are several bands with that moniker so I wish them luck with the name. Their tune "Age of Innocence" has a good beat with some driving bright guitars, fitting for a crew that features one of them pulling out Teenage Fanclub's Bandwagonesque album out of a record store bin. "I wonder if it will always be like this...."

Tooth - "Age of Innocence"

Next up is Seko from South Pasadena, California. "Barrel Connector" is a dream-pop jewel of a song with an incredibly cool video. All 3 of their videos available on YouTube were directed by band member Justice Vaughn Ott who is quite the filmmaker to go along with music creation. Lots of Eighties and Nineties musical reference abound in the videos themselves with Dinosaur Jr., The Swirlies, Ride, and Velocity Girl among others featured in their videos. This band has a bright future!

Seko - "Barrel Connector"

Joe Glass provides us with a video he co-directed with Owen Vaughan: "Dust on Your Halo/New Pose." He only has 86 subscribers as of the day I am writing this post so do yourself a favor and go, like, and subscribe at this lo-fi Chicago artist's video! It's really fun. 

Joe Glass - "Dust on Your Halo/New Pose"

Liquid Mike, hailing from the Upper Peninsula (UP) of Michigan is my favorite band in America. I believe Mike Maple wouldn't mind if I referred to him as an acolyte of Guided by Voices. He's almost as prolific as Robert Pollard and he certainly has a brilliant knack for writing memorable melodies. He had shown that with previous band We Should Be Laughing, but he's shortened the tunes with Liquid Mike (you rarely hit the 3 minute mark), yet packs in even catchier and heavier arrangements. They are coming to Nashville to play Jorts Fest in May. I really hope I get a chance to go see them. I'll have more from them next week as I finally get around to posting my Top Eight Albums from last year. 

Liquid Mike - "AT&T"

Here's some new music from an old artist: Steve Diggle's second Buzzcocks album, Attitude Adjustment, post the passing of Pete Shelley came out recently and it's not bad. I was one of those cynical folks thinking he should have stopped using the Buzzcocks name, but I've come around. Give the new album a chance. You might just end up humming the songs all day in your head afterwards which definitely seems apropos considering Diggle was the man who wrote "Harmony in My Head."

Buzzcocks - "Queen of the Scene"

Snail Mail is back with a new song and an album to follow in March. I got to see Snail Mail open for Dinosaur Jr. last summer and I was not disappointed. Lindsey Jordan and band were just fabulous. My takeaways that night: boy, is she tiny in person. Brilliant guitarist and ace song writer too. Most surprising to me was how much fun she had on stage. I've been a fan since the algo on YouTube sent "Thinning" my way 9 years ago and I'm so looking forward to the new album Ricochet which comes out March 27th.

Snail Mail - "Dead End"

Premiering almost at the same time as Snail Mail was a new one from Courtney Barnett called "Site Unseen" featuring another Wally favorite Katie Crutchfield AKA Waxahatchee! It's a teaser for a new album titled Creature of Habit which also comes out on March 27. Courtney is coming to the Ryman on May 5th. I wish I could see her there, but I went to so many concerts last year I'm a bit skint at this point. Maybe I'll get lucky and someone will send a ticket my way haha. 

Courtney Barnett ft. Waxahatchee - "Site Unseen"

We wrap up this installment of Tuesday tunes with an oldie, but goodie from Blue Öyster Cult. "Burnin' for You" was the lead single off of Fire of Unknown Origin which was released in June 1981. It hit number 1 on the mainstream rock chart and also peaked at number 40 on the pop chart. It contains the immortal lyric "time to play B sides" which was most likely written by rock critic Richard Meltzer who co-wrote the tune with Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser. I really dig the song and the video. Come back next week and I'll share songs from my Top 8 albums of 2025. 

Blue Öyster Cult "Burnin' for You"

Sinusitis and the Perils of Growing Old

I felt great last Friday until I didn't. I was on the road to Mule Town on 840 when a sudden feeling of dizziness came over me. Perhaps I was dehydrated. Or maybe I was dying. I just knew I was halfway to where I was going and I didn't want to turn around. I had to concentrate. If I could just get to where I was bound the dizziness would go away. I cranked the AC up. I drank my soda and ate the crumbly Pop Tart I had stowed in the console just in case I got hungry. Figured if I got my blood sugar up normalcy would return. 

I arrived in Mule Town in one piece so I hit Variety Records. I came out with a bunch of Jimmy Martin records, a Stanley Brothers one, and a couple of private pressed random bluegrass records. I also picked up the Brains record I didn't have which was cool. I talked to the guy working the counter about Van Halen....picking up a conversation we'd had since the last time I was in there almost 2 years ago...and some other customer started telling us how he hated David Lee Roth. He informed us "David was a clown. The band got good after Sammy Hagar joined. He could really sing." Oh, it was all I could do to not lay into such an obvious idiot. But I still felt dizzy. 

I walked around the square and visited the local bookstore. I got a book on the disappearing Appalachia in Tennessee. I actually do live in a county that is considered part of Appalachia so I guess I'm an honorary mountain man. The ongoing destruction by developers in Tennessee is running rampant. Better look around today because by tomorrow that field will be filled with houses. I really need a wealthy benefactor to bestow upon me a cabin in the middle of nowhere. 

I made it back home from Mule Town by cutting my trip into segments. The dizziness persisted. I eventually came to a completely non-medical self diagnosis that I have a sinus infection. It's either that or I'm dying. My money is on the sinusitis. It's still making me feel wonky 5 days later and that's par for the course with these things or so the AI overlords tell me. It should be 8-10 days to get over this junk. I've been blessed to able to work from home. However if I've not better by Monday I suppose I will have to see one of the pharmaceutical salesmen once known as doctors. That is really the greatest peril in growing old. Falling into the lap of entities that don't wish to get you better, but just to keep you just sick enough to have to keep seeing them. That's as much a nightmare for me these days as is all of the onceler developers hellbent on creating the slums of tomorrow. Peace out. More posts with cool stuff will come again eventually.

Carboline Not Glue

The blog has been dormant since the Sir Cecil Creape posts due to general all around busyness. We had to go back to the office which means I now have to commute 3 hours a day again. It didn't use to bother me so much before Covid, but now it's quite torturous. I did get a few days off of late, but that was so I could go see Billy Strings play a 3 night stand in Nashville. The first 2 shows were at Bridgestone and the last took place at the Ryman. All 3 night's were incredible, but going to Nashville 3 days in a row was a little tiring. If you've never seen Billy Strings live I highly recommend it. 

Now for the title of this post. It's derived from the Ramones song "Carbona Not Glue" which was taken off the Leave Home album after the company which manufactured Carbona threatened to sue them. At least I think that's the story. My laziness is such today I don't even want to fact check myself. Feel free to comment if you find my story inaccurate. 

This isn't about the Ramones though. Man, I miss those dudes, but we've still got the tunes. This is about my poor bald head. I typically don't think much of it. Sure, I think about getting a wig like Theo Von's sometimes.....that is a wig he's wearing, right, but it's a fleeting thought. What I think I really need is to grow my hair again like the folks in the 1880's must have been doing with the product Carboline. I ran across this ad for it in the July 9, 1881 addition of the Ripley Advertiser which was a newspaper in Ripley, Mississippi. Ripley is where my Mama's side of the family is from. I was looking through it for genealogical purposes, but how could I skip reading the "A Chance For Baldheads" headline. Alas, you can't get Carboline anymore. When I googled it I found an entire website devoted to hair tonics. It is a web version of a book titled Hair Raising Stories by Don Fadely. I've swiped one photo from the site to show a Carboline bottle. That should be fair use in my book since I'm linking to his site. 

Carboline bottle from Hair Raising Stories

Creature Feature 1971-1973 What Did Sir Cecil Creape Show On WSM Channel 4 Nashville? Part Four

Part One can be found here, Part Two is located here, and here is Part Three.  Let's continue the review of what movies and if list which episodes of Thriller were shown during the WSM Channel Four horror movie series Creature Feature which ran on Saturday nights at 10:30PM. The great Sir Cecil Creape hosted these shows and was often the main reason to tune in to the show. This list will have 1973 up to the last Saturday night show. It would get moved to Saturday afternoon once the baseball season ended. I've provided a short synopsis of each entry. If you want more information you can always go to IMDB, google it, or you can buy the forthcoming book by Larry Underwood AKA Dr. Gangrene all about Nashville horror movie hosts and the films they showed. Many of the episodes shown during 1973 featured films previously shown. When this is the case I will note the other air dates and you can refer back to previous posts if you want more information. 

January 6, 1973 "Karloff Special" The Man in Half Moon Street 1944 A scientist has figured out how to prolong his life, but he needs new glands or he will finally die. 

January 13, 1973 "Karloff Special" I Bury the Living 1958 Previously shown on October 30, 1971

January 20, 1973 Preempted by Inaugural Balls coverage

January 27, 1973 "Karloff Special" The Creeping Unknown 1955 Previously shown on October 9, 1971

February 3, 1973 Preempted by UCLA vs USC basketball game

February 10, 1973 "Karloff Special" This episode of Thriller is "The Weird Tailor" 

The Ghost Breakers 1940 Bob Hope in a haunted Cuban castle.

February 17, 1973 "Karloff Special" This episode of Thriller is "Waxworks"

The Horror of Dracula 1958 The first Hammer horror film and one of the best. Christopher Lee as Count Dracula and Peter Cushing as Doctor Van Helsing. 

This episode of Creature Feature would be the second to last one with an episode of Thriller called "Karloff Special" playing before the movie. They would be programmed after the film instead other than the March 17, 1973 airing. I will now list them after the movie and if the episode title is listed I will share it. Many of the movies are ones previously shown. 

February 24, 1973 House of Wax 1953 Vincent Price is a wax museum artist who survives his museum burning down. He continues his craft anew many months later with murder on his mind. 

"Karloff Special" This episode of Thriller was "The Closed Cabinet"

March 3, 1973 Journey to the Center of the Earth 1959 Since this film's runtime is over 2 hours there was no episode of Thriller on this Creature Feature. The movie is based on the Jules Verne novel and the title describes the plot for you. James Mason is great. Pat Boone m'eh.

March 10, 1973 Preempted by the Cerebral Palsy telethon

March 17, 1973 "Karloff Special" This episode of Thriller is "God Grante That She Lye Stille" 

The Last Man on Earth 1964 Previously shown on March 4, 1972 

March 24, 1973 The Man with Nine Lives 1940 A cryogenic cancer cure goes awry. 

"Karloff Special" This episode of Thriller is "A Third for Pinocle" 

March 31, 1973 The Blood Rose 1970 An artist's fiancee burns her face. He becomes obsessed with repairing the damage with the help of an unorthodox plastic surgeon. 

"Karloff Special"

April 7, 1973 The Curse of the Living Corpse 1964 Millionaire's dying wishes are not honored. His relatives all gather at this home. Murders commence.

"Karloff Special" 

Sir Cecil Creape appeared at Capitol Chevrolet on April 14, 1973. 

April 14, 1973 Indestructible Man 1956 Previously aired on June 10, 1972 "Karloff Special"

April 21, 1973 Man with the Synthetic Brain 1967 I'll make an exception about linking to the IMDB page as this movie has one long twisted history with multiple titles. The more common title is Blood of Ghastly Horror. There's a very good explanation at IMDB in the user reviews by kevinolzak. 

"Karloff Special"

April 28, 1973 Vampire Men of Lost Planet 1970 Original title Horror of the Blood Monsters The movie is about the Earth having a vampire plague which came from space. Astronauts are sent to find the source. 

"Karloff Special" 

May 5, 1973 Return of the Fly 1959 The son of Philippe Delambre decides to carry on his his teleportation experiments. What could possibly go wrong? "Karloff Special"

May 12, 1975 Frankenstein 1970 1958 Boris Karloff gets to play a descendant of the original Victor Frankenstein. The Nazi's scarred his face and he's out of money. Here's where the movie becomes meta. He invites an American television company to film at his castle so he can get the funds for an atomic reactor. Then he will create his own monster! "Karloff Special" 

May 19, 1973 House on Haunted Hill 1959 Previously shown on February 26, 1972 

"Karloff Special"

May 26, 1973 The Man They Could Not Hang 1939 A mad scientist is hanged. That was probably a mistake. Terror comes to those who tightened the noose's threads. "Karloff Special"

June 2, 1973 The Uninvited 1944 Gothic sea side mansion sells dirt cheap. A composer and his sister discover why the place was such a steal. Ghosts. It's always ghosts. "Karloff Special"

June 9, 1973 The Beast with Five Fingers 1946 Previously shown on November 20, 1971 and on October 21, 1972 "Karloff Special"

June 16, 1973 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Previously shown on October 2, 1971 and September 16, 1972 "Karloff Special"

June 23, 1973 The Black Sleep 1956 Previously shown on September 25, 1971 and October 28, 1972 "Karloff Special"

June 30, 1973 The Ape 1940 Karloff plays a scientist trying to cure polio. An escaped circus ape is on the loose with murder on its mind. "Karloff Special"

July 7, 1973 The Creeping Unknown 1955 Previously shown on October 9, 1971 and January 27, 1973 "Karloff Special"

July 14, 1973 Gog 1954 Previously shown on November 27, 1971 "Karloff Special"

July 21, 1973 I Bury the Living 1958 Previously shown on October 30, 1971 and January 13, 1973 "Karloff Special"

July 28, 1973 The Curse of Dracula 1958 Theatrical title The Return of Dracula Previously shown on November 13, 1971 "Karloff Special"

August 4, 1973 The Manster 1959 An American journalist can now get twice as many articles done once a Japanese scientist injects him with something that gives him 2 heads. Maybe he'd need more hands. "Karloff Special"

August 11, 1973 The Fly 1958 Previously shown on December 30, 1972 "Karloff Special"

August 18, 1973 The Horror of Dracula 1958 Previously shown on February 17, 1973 "Karloff Special"

August 25, 1973 The Brides of Fu Manchu 1966 Christopher Lee plays Fu Manchu. He kidnaps the daughters of scientists to force them to make a death ray so he can take over the world. "Karloff Special"

September 1, 1973 The Curse of the Living Corpse 1964 Previously shown on April 7, 1973 

"Karloff Special"

September 8, 1973 House of Wax 1953 Previously shown on February 24, 1973 "Karloff Special"

This would end the airing of Creature Feature(s) hosted by Sir Cecil Creape on Saturday nights. WSM Channel 4 decided to show them on Saturday afternoons once the Major League Baseball season ended. I was originally not going to go past the September 8, 1973 date, but I'm having too much fun. The very least I can do is list the days the show ran. Maybe I'll even find out what was shown. Lets's commence with BONUS CONTENT! 

October 20, 1973 Creature Feature 1PM - 2:30PM is announced in the Sunday paper however if you go to the daily guide the World Series is listed. The Oakland A's beat the NewYork Mets 3-1 to tie the series. I suppose that was horrible for the Mets fans. 

October 27, 1973 Creature Feature 1PM - 2:30PM It's back! Finally. It will air in the same time slot until it is canceled. If I know the movie I will list it. 

November 3, 1973 Creature Feature

November 10, 1973 Invisible Invaders 1959 Previously shown on December 4, 1971

November 17, 1973 Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein 1948 Horror comedy at its very best. I watched this every chance I got as a child. This would have a been super special Saturday to get to see the movie run as a Creature Feature. The plot is simple. Dracula wants to put Costello's brain into the Frankenstein monsters. The Wolfman shows up to warn Abbott and Costello. 

November 24, 1973 Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1953 Abbott and Costello are cops in this way on the hunt for Mr. Hyde. Perhaps they'll get some help from Dr. Jekyll. 

December 1, 1973 Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy 1955 Are you my mummy? This marks the end of Creature Feature on Channel 4. Host Sir Cecil Creape would be revived to host The Phantom of the Opry on The Nashville Network (TNN) from 1983 to 1985. 

I hope you've enjoyed this look back at what movies and Thriller "Karloff Special" episodes were shown on Creature Feature(s). Be looking out for Larry Underwood's upcoming book about Nashville horror hosts as I hear it will be a real page turner. Now I'm going to try and watch as many of these movies as I can find. "Good night, sleep tight and don't let the beddy bugs bite." 

Since y'all have been good here's one last midnight movie snack. Your very own Sir Cecil patch.