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Before Channel 15 Hit it Big

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KeithE4

Back in the early 1980s, when KNXV was an independent, they aired a horror movie on Friday nights hosted by "Edmus Scary" (real name Ed Muscari). I'd heard of it, but I had no idea that there's video on YouTube. I've also heard that he got himself into some legal trouble and had to leave town.

Svengoolie he wasn't, but AFAIK, he was the only horror host in Phoenix TV history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGWtkPCmwtY
 
KeithE4 said:
Back in the early 1980s, when KNXV was an independent, they aired a horror movie on Friday nights hosted by "Edmus Scary" (real name Ed Muscari). I'd heard of it, but I had no idea that there's video on YouTube. I've also heard that he got himself into some legal trouble and had to leave town.

Svengoolie he wasn't, but AFAIK, he was the only horror host in Phoenix TV history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGWtkPCmwtY
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I vaguely remember Edmus Scary but I definitely remember when Ch. 15 aired Abbott and Costello Theatre on Sunday mornings. I think the station slogan at the time was..... Comin' On Strong!

I remember watching repeats of The Incredible Hulk that had recently went into syndication at the time. A nationally-syndicated dance show called Dance Fever followed, if memory serves. :)

And of course, ON TV was an early version of a pay-tv network that aired from 7:00 p.m. through 5:00 a.m. the next morning. If you didn't subscribe, you would see huge lines across your screen, and hear limited audio! :eek:


Thanks for the memories Keith!
 
I seem to remember channel 15 as a non-stop movie broadcaster when they first signed on.
 
I only remember watching Wallace & Ladmo & Hot Fudge...I think on KPHO? Does anyone else remember Hot Fudge?
 
KP said:
So...no one remembers "Hot Fudge?"

Anyone?



Bueller?



Bueller?
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:eek:..... no, I can't say that I do. Any hints about it? :)

However, regarding the Wallace & Ladmo show: if one was born and raised in AZ. between 1950 and 1980, you definitely remember it. It's an Arizona cultural touchstone! :cool:
 
KP said:
I found The Hot Fudge Show on Wiki & it was on from 1976-1980, originally hosted by Arte Johnson. It was WEIRD. ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Fudge
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That wasn't a local Phoenix show. It was a syndicated show out of Detroit.

Outside of Wallace and Ladmo, its predecessor Gold Dust Charlie, and Lew King's Rangers on Channel 5, plus the local franchise of Romper Room and Dewey Hopper's Dialing for Dollars movie on 12, and Edmus Scary on 15, there wasn't much local entertainment other than women's shows. Channels 3 and 10 have become invisible in this context. I'm willing to bet they produced their own shows, but there isn't a record of them that I've been able to find.

There was no Bozo show, other than decade-old Boston-based syndicated reruns on Channel 21 at the end of their run as a secular station, that I'm aware of (and the originating station had already lost its license by the time these aired!). I have to believe there was a Three Stooges show, but I have no idea who did it or what channel it aired on.
 
Thanks, Keith, but I didn't say it was a local show. It was syndicated on ABC sister stations & I was wondering if anyone remembered it...I only remember KPHO as a small child.
 
The Media Observer said:
However, regarding the Wallace & Ladmo show: if one was born and raised in AZ. between 1950 and 1980, you definitely remember it. It's an Arizona cultural touchstone! :cool:
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W&L was restricted to those viewers who could receive KPHO from Phoenix and its translators. Southern AZ was SOL except for isolated towns like San Manuel and Oracle which could receive KPHO because they were on the northern side of the Santa Catalina Mountains.
 
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