One thing I just love about the internet, you can find almost any information.
http://www.crazedfanboy.com/creaturefeature/index.html
Creature Feature used to show horror movies from the original Universal films of the 30/40s up through the Hammer films of the 60/70s which a bunch of 50's sci-fi and Godzilla stuff for good measure.
Some of my earliest memories are staying up late with my Dad to watch these films as a kid. In addition to the usual Sat. double feature in FL they showed the same films the Friday night before starting around 11:30pm and winding things up around 2am. We started this ritual around 1975 when I was just 7 years old (thankfully they weren't too scary) and continued until my teens.
It was a wonderful way to spend part of my formative years. The list makes me kinda sad because it's been a couple years now since I lost my father and everything simply reminds me what a big part of my life he was. But at the same time I can vividly recall watching each film with him (usually seeing that film for the very first time - no surprise that the original Universal horror films remain my favorites). Even the cheesy American Pictures International films were a lot of fun.
The news would be over and we'd have the buttered popcorn and cokes ready to go. Sometimes a late night pizza delivery. I was usually camped out on the floor in front of the set with my pillow and blanket. Sometimes I saw both films, sometimes I woke up Saturday morning in the living room just in time for cartoons.
In any case, if you are a fan of classic horror, it's a great list.
CREATURE FEATURE - Shows hosted by Dr. Paul Bearer WTOG Channel 44
9/7/73 - Sat. 2p(?)
"The Mummy's Tomb"
"Most Dangerous Man Alive"
Creature Feature premiere featuring DPB (?)
9/15/73 - Sat. 2p-4p
"The Deadly Mantis"
9/22/73 - Sat. 2p-4p
"Earth vs. the Flying Saucers"
9/29/73 - Sat. 2p-4p
"Invasion of the Body Snatchers"
10/6/73 - Sat. 2p-4p
"Tarantula"
10/13/73 - Sat. 2p-4p
"The Creature Walks Among Us"
10/20/73 - Sat. 2p-4p
"Son of Frankenstein"
10/27/73 - Sat. 2p-4p
"It Came from Outer Space"
11/3/73 - Sat. 2p-4p
"Son of Dracula"
11/10/73 - Sat. 2p-4p
"20 Million Miles to Earth"
11/17/73 - Sat. 2p-4p
"Revenge of the Creature"
11/24/73 - Sat. 2p-4p
"The Strange Door"
12/1/73 - Sat. 2p-4p
"The Witch's Curse"
12/8/73 - Sat. 2p-4p
"The Invisible Ray" (Karloff/Lugosi)
12/15/73 - Sat. 2p-4p
"The Brain" (1962 or 1965)
12/22/73 - Sat. 2p-4p
"Horror Chamber of Dr. Faustus"
12/29/73 - Sat. 2p-4p
"The Gamma People"
1/5/74 - Sat. 2p-4p
"The H Man"
1/12/74 - Sat. 2p-4p
"The Invisible Man Returns"
1/19/74 - Sat. 2p-4p
"The Black Torment"
1/26/74 - Sat. 2p-4p
"The Monolith Monsters"
2/2/74 - Sat. 2p-4p
"Monster on the Campus"
2/9/74 - Sat. 2p-4p
"Voyage Into Space"
2/16/74 - Sat. 2p-4p
"Circus of Horrors"
2/23/74 - Sat. 2p-4p
"Destroy All Monsters" "Don't Bother" (odd St. Petersburg Times "TV Dial" comment)
3/2/74 - Sat. 2p-4p
"Battle Beyond the Sun"
3/9/74 - Sat. 2p-4p
"The Man Who Reclaimed His Head"
3/16/74 - Sat. 2p-4p
"Curucu, Beast of the Amazon" "Fearful" (odd St. Petersburg Times "TV Dial" comment)
9/7/74 - Sat. 2p-5p
"The Mummy's Tomb"
"The Most Dangerous Man Alive" (1961)
Creature Feature begins featuring two movies
1/3/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Billy the Kid vs. Dracula" (1966; John Carradine)
"Jungle Woman" (1944)
Not "Jungle Woman" again!
1/10/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Angry Red Planet" (1959)
"Monster on the Campus" (1958)
Outstanding double-feature. "Angry..." is a colorful sci-fi classic which I saw again recently on FLIX. "Monster on the Campus" was a movie I never saw on Crea-Fea, but rather on AMC. Loved that giant dragonfly!
- Andy
1/17/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter" (1966)
"The Thing that Couldn't Die" (Karloff, 1958)
Another great double-bill. I've re-watched both films recently. "The Thing..." haunted me for years. I was terrified by "Sir Francis Drake's" mesmerizing evil eyes stare!
- Andy
1/17/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Flying Saucer" (1965; Italy)
"Pillow of Death" (Last entry in Universal's
"Inner Sanctum" series starring Lon
Chaney Jr.; 1945)
1/31/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Mothra" (1962; Japan)
"She-Wolf of London" (1946)
Yet another great double-bill. Japanese Monster Movies were always a treat.
- Andy
2/7/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Atom Age Vampire" (1961; Italy/France)
"The Mummy's Curse" (1944)
Lon Chaney Jr., I thought, was a great Mummy. For some reason Universal switched the setting from previous "Mummy" sequels from New England to Louisiana. I always wondered why the Mummy walked with a limp arm - and was then able to pick up Princess Ananka with both arms! Is it just me, or did the cultish Egyptian priests call their region "Arkham"?
- Andy
2/14/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Island of Terror" (1967; Peter Cushing)
"The Mole People" (1956)
Can't beat these films. "Island..." was a truly terrifying picture for the '60s. The amoeba-like creatures were frightening! Great shock ending too! Happy Valentine's Day!
- Andy
2/21/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Tomb of Ligea" (1965; V. Price/Dir. Roger Corman)
"The Gorgon" (1964; Hammer; Christopher Lee)
2/28/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"I, Monster" (1972; Christopher Lee)
"The Tingler" (1959; V. Price/Dir. William Castle)
3/6/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"The Invisible Man Returns" (1940; V. Price)
"The Monolith Monsters" (1957)
3/13/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Mission Stardust" (1968; Italy/Spain/W. Germany/Monaco)
"The Mad Doctor of Market Street" (1942; Lionel Atwill)
Monaco?
3/20/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Beyond the Time Barrier" (1960)
"Curse of the Undead" (1959)
DPB performs "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park"!
3/27/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"The Invisible Agent" (1942; Peter Lorre)
"Invisible Creature" (1960; England)
4/3/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"It Came from Outer Space" (1953; Richard Carlson)
"The Day the Earth Froze" (1964)
4/10/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"The Black Castle" (1953; Karloff)
"The Leech Woman" (1960)
4/17/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Attack of the Monsters" (1969)
"Curucu, Beast of the Amazon" (1956; Beverly Garland)
"Attack..." aka "Gamera vs. Guiron"
4/24/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Curse of the Demon" (1957; Dana Andrews)
"The Gamma People" (1956)
"The Gamma People" is one of my late-night favorites!
- Andy
5/1/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Rodan, the Flying Monster" (1957)
"Konga" (1961; Michael Gough)
A cut rate, guy-in-a-suit, rip-off of King Kong, but still lots of fun!
- Ed Tucker
5/8/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Island of the Burning Doomed" (1967; Lee/Cushing)
"Voodoo Island" (1957; Karloff)
5/15/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"House of Frankenstein" (1944; Karloff)
"Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman" (1943)
Great Universal double-bill!
5/22/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"The Conqueror Worm" (1968; V. Price)
"Terror in the Crypt" (1963, Christopher Lee; Spain/Italy)
5/29/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"The Blancheville Monster" (1962; Spain/Italy)
"The Spider Woman Strikes Back" (1944; Rondo Hatton)
6/5/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"The Invisible Man" (1933, Claude Rains)
"The Invisible Agent" (1942, Peter Lorre)
An Invisibility Double-Feature!
6/12/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"The Mummy's Tomb" (1942, Lon Chaney Jr.)
"The Most Dangerous Man Alive" (1961)
6/19/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"The Black Cat" (1941, Bela Lugosi, Basil Rathbone)
"Yongary, Monster from the Deep" (1967)
Note "The Black Cat" was not the '34 Karloff/Lugosi classic. "Yongary" was a fun, all-color South Korean giant monster movie!
6/26/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Dinosaurus" (1960)
"Werewolf of London" (1935, Henry Hull)
"Dinosaurus" was one of my all-time favorite fantasy films. WOL was one of the original films to feature a werewolf, pre-dating Lon Chaney Jr.'s "The Wolfman" by six years.
- Andy
7/3/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Black Friday" (1940, Karloff/Lugosi)
"The 27th Day" (1957)
7/10/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"The Ghost of Frankenstein" (1942; Chaney Jr., Lugosi)
"Son of Dracula" (1943, Lon Chaney Jr.)
Very solid double-bill
7/17/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1956)
"Return of the Giant Majin" (1966)
I loved the giant "Majin" series. "Majin" was a giant walking stone statue that terrorized Samurai-era Japan.
- Andy
These were true torture for me as a kid. I loved the Japanese monster aspect of the films, but you had to sit through an hour of boring story line waiting for the statue to finally get pissed off enough to start stomping stuff!
- Ed Tucker
7/24/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Plan 9 from Outer Space" (1959; Lugosi, Vampira)
"Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1932)
Ed Wood! Aw-right!!!!!
7/31/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Revenge of the Creature" (1955, John Agar)
"The Man Who Cried Wolf" (1937)
Note TMWCW was a crime drama, not a horror film. DPB complained about how crime dramas and European "giallos" were broadcast on CF, tricking kids into thinking they were horror films because of their horror-esque titles
8/7/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Son of Frankenstein" (1939; Karloff, Lugosi)
"The Raven" (1935; Karloff, Lugosi)
8/14/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Terror of the Tongs" (1961 - Hammer, Christopher Lee)
"The Mummy" (the 1932 Karloff classic)
No! Not "Terror of the Tongs"!!! AAARRRGGGGHHHH!!!!!!
8/21/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Billy the Kid vs. Dracula" (1966; Lon Chaney Jr. )
"The Frozen Ghost" (1945, Lon Chaney Jr.)
8/28/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Valley of the Dragons" (1961 )
"The Wolf Man" (1941, Lon Chaney Jr., Claude Rains)
"Valley/Dragons": There was something I found really cool about this film as a kid and years later when I discovered it was based on Jules Verne’s "Off On a Comet". I understood why.
- Ed Tucker