TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

The Sounds of Lost Zacherle


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TVC 712.1: From January 2013: Phil Gries joins Ed for a special edition of The Sounds of Lost Television honoring John Zacherle, the popular New York TV personality known as The Cool Ghoul. At a time when horror movies were a staple of local late-night television, Zacherley set himself apart from his contemporaries with an array of zany antics that were usually far more entertaining than the films he introduced, including sound effects, props, and cleverly inserting himself into the movie (usually just before the cutaway to a commercial). Topics this segment include Zacherle's start hosting horror movies in Philadelphia (where his on-screen persona was known as "Roland"); how Zacherle adapted his onscreen persona on WABC-TV in New York from an undertaker character he'd played on Action in the Afternoon, a daily Western soap opera that aired on WCAU-TV in Philadelphia in 1953; and Phil's own association with Zacherle, which lasted many years.

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