It's a great tradition to uphold - these kind of horror host programs go way back, and its high time some local flavor programming was resurrected, as it were. Way up in Bangor, Maine, we had Eddie Driscoll on WLBZ - TV, who, for thirty-five years, was a one-man gang of local programming, from Kid's shows, local commercial content and hosting Dialing for Dollars to Hosting "Weird," a fantastic late night horror movie show. He played a variety of characters on this and other late programs, but basically, as the torch bearers of today's late night movie shows do, he enlivened a lot of marginal horror movies with his fifteen to twenty minutes of horror humor and incredibly inventive (on a low budget) skits. This man once not only held his own with a visiting Milton Berle, but blew his doors off in an impromptu "laugh-off." His Crandall, a kind of Zacherly -cum- martian character was priceless. If you want to know or see more about this local legend, just find the WLBZ website, they are currently carrying several clips featuring Eddie who, sadly, is now an Alzheimer's sufferer. Kudos to you, Penny Dreadful, and Garou, and Von Bulow, and all the others who are doing their best to save this unique television tradition. Long May You Run!
Petofi
