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Classic Horror Show Intros

May 27th, 2011 by John Wolfe

Paul, an awesome online friend and visitor to SoS sent me an e-mail a few days ago suggesting I look for YT vids of old Saturday morning/night horror TV hosts, specifically one near and dear to his heart, Dr. Shock out of Philadelphia. Having never heard of Dr. Shock, I knew I had to see this!

The following vids all feature classic intros from horror programming during the ’60s and ’70s. Thanks for the great suggestion, Paul!

Up first, a partial Dr. Shock intro (apparently not a lot survives from his film vault):

Source: YT user, themaskdr

Chiller Theater:

Source: YT user, tomscolor

Creature Feature:

Source: YT user, bobwilkins

Fantastic Features:

Source: YT user, sknyrd77

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Retro Halloween Roller Skating

July 16th, 2010 by John Wolfe

Today’s clips combine two favorite past-times from my youth: getting all “Halloweenie” and hangin’ at the roller rink. During the early ’80s, most of us kids from my elementary school gathered at the local rink every Friday night. However, I never attended on Halloween, since that would have made me miss out on being home to see the trick-or-treaters’ reactions to my makeshift home haunts.

When I was six, seven and eight-years old, my Halloween time was divvied up between gathering my own candy and then rushing back to the house to scare the trick-or-treaters who were younger than me… aah, the Halloween circle of life!