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9/4/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Battle in Outer Space" (1960)
"Man-Made Monster" (1941; Lon Chaney Jr., Lionel Atwill)
9/11/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Cult of the Cobra" (1955)
"The Invisible Woman" (1940)
9/18/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Valley of the Dragons" (1961)
"The Strange Door" (Karloff, 1951)
"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
9/25/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"The Bride of Frankenstein" (1935)
"Curse of the Undead" (1959)
10/2/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Battle of the Worlds" (1961; Italy, Claude Rains)
"Terror in the Jungle" (1968)
"Terror in the Jungle" seems like a bit of a rarity. Had to look this one up.
- Andy
10/9/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"The Curse of Bigfoot" (1972)
"The Thing That Couldn't Die" (1958)
I knew this was a dog even as a kid, although I did like the beginning where the archeologists find the American Indian “mummy” buried under the tablet and haul it out. This film had a little bit of everything and a whole lot of nothing! It’s interesting to note that this film ended up on Creature Feature only four years after it was made.
- Ed Tucker
10/16/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"The Curse of Frankenstein" (1957)
"The Mummy's Hand" (1940)
10/23/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Phantom of the Opera" (1962; Hammer, Herbert Lom)
"Night Creatures" (1962)
"Night Creatures" was an interesting horror feature. Loved the skeleton-costumed riders.
- Andy
10/30/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"House of Dracula" (1945)
"Dracula's Daughter" (1936)
11/6/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Dracula, Prince of Darkness" (1966; Hammer, Chris Lee)
"The Curse of Dracula" (1958)
11/13/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Godzilla" (1956; Toho, Dir. Onoshiro Honda, Raymond Burr)
"Godzilla's Revenge" (1969)
Heaven to a little kid watching Crea-Fea!
11/20/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Monster Zero" (1966; Toho, Nick Adams)
"Night Monster" (1942; Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill)
11/27/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed" (1970; P. Cushing)
"Mark of the Vampire" (1957, Kenneth Tobey)
12/4/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"The Magic Serpent" (1966)
"The Invisible Man's Revenge" (1944, John Carradine)
Another highly underrated fantasy film from Toho.
- Ed Tucker
12/11/76 - Sat. 2p-4p
"Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter" (1966) Only one feature this day, followed by college football at 4pm
12/18/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"The Brain that Wouldn't Die" (1959)
"The Man Who Turned to Stone" (Victor Jory)
12/25/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"It Happened on 5th Avenue" (1947)
"Susan Slept Here" (1954)
Crea-Fea pre-empted for a X-Mas special edition show! No wonder I like Halloween more than X-mas...
1/1/77 - Sat. 2p-5p
"It Came from Beneath the Sea" (1955)
"Warning from Space" (1956 or 1968)
Note: The entry reads "Warning from Space" which was a 1956 Japanese film featuring Starfish-shaped aliens. The date given in "TV Dial", however, was 1967, which leads me to believe it could have been a sci-fi film called "Warning from Outer Space" (1967)
1/8/77 - Sat. 2p-5p
"The Creature Walks Among Us" (1956)
"The Strangler" (1963)
This is one of Victor Buono’s best roles ever and seemed very adult to me as a kid.
- Ed Tucker
1/15/77 - Sat. 2p-5p
"12 to the Moon" (1960)
"Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster" (1965)
"Frankenstein..." a camp classic!
1/22/77 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Tarantula" (1955)
"Dance of Death" (1968; Mexico, Boris Karloff)
"The Dance of Death" was one of Boris Karloff's last films. aka "House of Evil". Jack Hill wrote the screenplay.
1/22/77 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Island of the Lost" (1968)
"Jungle Captive" (1945)
2/5/77 - Sat. 2p-5p
"The Raven" (1963; AIP, Price/Karloff/Lorre, Dir. Corman)
"When Worlds Collide" (1951, dir. George Pal)
A fantastic double-feature
2/12/77 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Curse of the Mummy's Tomb" (1964)
"The Giant Claw" (1957)
2/19/77 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Destory All Monsters" (1968, Toho)
"Monster on the Campus" (1958)
DAM rules!
2/26/77 - Sat. 2p-5p
"The Mummy" (1959; Hammer, Lee/Cushing)
"The Mummy's Ghost" (1943, Lon Chaney Jr.)
3/5/77 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Angry Red Planet" (1960)
"Creature from the Black Lagoon" (1954)
3/12/77 - Sat. 2p-5p
"This Island Earth" (1955)
"The Mad Ghoul" (1943)
3/19/77 - Sat. 2p-5p
"The Man Who Could Cheat Death" (1959)
"Beast of Hollow Mountain" (1956; anim. by Willis O' Brian)
3/26/77 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Conquest of Space" (1955, dir. George Pal)
"Journey to the 7th Planet" (1962, John Agar)
Good sci-fi double-bill
4/2/77 - Sat. 2p-5p
"The Man Who Reclaimed His Head" (1934)
"The Black Cat" (1941)
4/9/77 - Sat. 2p-5p
"It! The Terror from Beyond Space" (1958)
"The Phantom Planet" (1962)
"It!..." is a personal favorite of mine. It's very scary, as compared with other sci-fi films of the late '50s and was an influence on "Alien" (1979).
- Andy
4/16/77 - Sat. 2p-5p
"The Invisible Ray" (1936, Karloff/Lugosi)
"The Mole People" (1956, John Agar)
4/23/77 - Sat. 2p-5p
"War of the Gargantuas" (1966, Russ Tamblyn)
"Dead Man's Eyes" (1944, Lon Chaney Jr.)
"War..." was one of the most fun full-color features shown on Crea-Fea (at least to a 10-yr.-old kid), and I believe was a pseudo-sequel to "Frankenstein Conquers the World". Unforgettable!
- Andy
As much as I loved the giant Japanese monsters as a kid, this one actually did scare me. The scenes of the Green Gargantua eating people and then spitting out their clothes were pretty intense. I was also unnerved by the early scene of the fisherman looking down into the water from his boat only to see the Green Gargantua standing on the bottom of the ocean looking up at him! It’s hard to believe this was a sequel to "Frankenstein Conquers the World".
- Ed Tucker
4/30/77 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Women of the Prehistoric Planet" (1966, John Agar)
"Isle of the Dead" (1945; Karloff, dir. Val Lewton)
"Isle..." was a haunting favorite of mine. Note that "Women..." was broadcast on "Fright Theatre" the same night (see the FT database below)
- Andy
5/7/77 - Sat. 2p-5p
"The Mummy's Tomb" (1942)
"The Mummy's Revenge" (1972, Paul Naschy)
A rare excursion into Spanish horror for Crea Fea. A real treat, and a nice break from the B&W Universal classics.
5/14/77 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Bride of the Gorilla" (1951; Raymond Burr, Lon Chaney Jr.)
"Brides of Dracula" (1960; Hammer, Peter Cushing)
"Bride(s)..." double feature! After "Horror of Dracula", Christopher Lee refused to play Count Dracula for a number of years. English actor David Peel filled in. Great film. Directed by Terence Fisher with a script by Jimmy Sangster.
5/21/77 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Navy vs. the Night Monsters" (1966, Billy Gray)
"Bela Lugosi meets a Brooklyn Gorilla" (1952)
I recall at the time, seeing "Navy..." was a pretty exciting, full-color experience. It was scary and action-packed. I remember being surprised seeing Billy Gray ("Bud" in "Father Knows Best") in the cast. He gets his arm ripped off! BLMABG, despite the inane title, was a very fun movie featuring a look-alike Martin/Lewis team.
5/28/77 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Evil of Frankenstein" (1964; Hammer, Peter Cushing) Second feature pre-empted by baseball (Braves vs. Giants)
6/4/77 - Sat. 2p-5p
"The Atomic City" (1952)
"The Mad Magician" (1954, Vincent Price)
6/11/77 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Atom Age Vampire" (1961)
"The Mummy's Curse" (1944, Lon Chaney Jr.)
6/18/77 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Scream of Fear" (1961; Hammer, Susan Strasberg)
"The Leech Woman" (1960)
6/25/77 - Sat. 2p-5p
"The Flying Saucer" (1951; Italy)
"Battle Beyond the Sun" (1963)
7/2/77 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Son of Frankenstein" (1939; Karloff/Lugosi)
No 2nd feature
7/9/77 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Voyage Into Space" (1969)
2nd feature pre-empted for baseball (Braves vs. Giants)
Hi, Ed!
7/16/77 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Konga" (1961; Michael Gough)
"Return of the Giant Majin" (1966, Daiei)
"Konga": cut rate, guy-in-a-suit, rip-off of King Kong, but still lots of fun!
"...Majin": 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
7/23/77 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Terror in the Crypt" (1963, Christopher Lee)
"Creature with the Atom Brain" (1955)
Note the TV Guide mistakes the year of "Terror..." - 1940.
7/30/77 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Night Creatures" (1962, Peter Cushing)
"Revenge of the Creature" (1955)
8/6/77 - Sat. 2p-5p
"First Spaceship on Venus" (1962)
"Beyond the Time Barrier" (1960)
8/13/77 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Voodoo Island" (1957, Karloff)
"Curucu, Beast of the Amazon" (1956)
Augh! Not Curucu!
8/20/77 - Sat. 2p-5p
"The Projected Man" (1967)
"Mission Stardust" (1968; Itlay, aka "4...3...2...1...morte")
8/27/77 - Sat. 2p-5p
"The Gorgon" (1964; Hammer, Christopher Lee)
"The Deadly Mantis" (1957)
9/3/77 - Sat. 2p-5p
"The Invisible Man" (1933)
"The Invisible Man Returns" (1940)
9/10/77 - Sat. 2p-5p
"The Devil's Hand" (1961)
"The Creeping Terror" (1964)
"The Creeping Terror" was a real treat for bad movie fans!
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