DETROIT HAD THE COOLEST TV SHOWS IN THE 1960S!

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Just sent this photo to a friend of mine from Detroit. We grew up with these guys on tv everyday here in Metro Detroit.  Every morning it was Soupy Sales and then when he left for NYC we fell in love with Johnny Ginger!

Johnny Ginger!

What a show! He was the only actor on the show (he made more $ that way) and he had really funny and smart skits with our favorite cartoons. Johnny didn't play down to kids and we appreciated that! See Johnny Ginger's page here

Sir Graves Ghastly and Bill Kennedy (At the Movies Host)

As a kid we all watched Bill Kennedy at the Movies and we thought he might be a wee bit tipsy...we thought he was funny because of that assumption.

But we kids universally adored Sir Graves Ghastly! I have never met any Detroiter who didn't like Sir Graves...

Soupy Sales was the King!! I still watch Soupy on Youtube whenever I need to hang with Soup, white Fang, and Pookie!!

READ ABOUT MILKY THE CLOWN AND TWIN PINES DAIRY HERE

Comedian and pie-throwing television personality Soupy Sales was the popular host of such shows as Lunch with Soupy Sales and the Soupy Sales Show.

Soupy Sales (Do the Mouse!)

Jerry Booth as Jingles in Boofland!

The Friendly Giant (Canada)

Mr Dress Up (Canada)

Rita Bell and Carol Duvall

If we stayed home from school we got to see Rita Bell's Prize Movie. She had old time movies with callers who called in and answered a trivia question to win prizes. Kind of boring but hey it's all we had back then!

Carol Duvall had a little 10 min show on crafting. She went on to have a big show on HGTV. I loved her and watched intently as she made cool things out cloth and construction paper.

All about the Ghoul

The Ghoul (official web page) is a legendary late night horror movie host. This is the official successor of Ghoulardi. Your wacky turn blue King and Leader of Cleveland Late Night

Here is some fun us kids who won't grow up!  DETROIT KIDS TV SHOWS WEBPAGE

 

NEW GIFT: KIMMER'S AUTOGRAPHED GHOUL POSTER!!

Received my  GHOUL autographed poster!! LOVE THIS!!! Event organizer Bill Miller sent me this from the Ghoul show at Brownie's on the Lake...I just have to go out there next year and meet THE GHOUL!!! Thanks so much!!! STAY SICK & SCRATCH GLASS xk

VISIT THE GHOUL'S WEB PAGE HERE

☆☆THE GHOUL INVADES THE MOTOR CITY OCT 17 2015☆☆

The Ghoul invades The Motor City on Saturday October 17th from 2 to 4 PM at Screamers Costumes on Gratiot in Clinton Township and at Brownies on the Lake in Saint Clair Shores that evening at 8 pm. The World as we know it will never be the same.

READ MORE ABOUT THE GHOUL ON RK

"stay sick, turn blue, climb walls, scratch glass...but most importantly of all, do it while you can, but don't get caught".....BYE!

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THE GHOUL STARRING IN A BENEFIT FOR WOUNDED WARRIORS!!

The Ghoul returns to scare his way onto the Nautical Mile on Saturday, October 18th! Featuring the spooktacular guest MC Doug Podell. NO COVER and the festivities begin at 8PM...

INFORMATION AND DIRECTIONS

This event is especially wonderful as it is a fundraiser for the, "Wounded Warriors Project", a great time for a great cause, a chance to give back to those who gave so much for us!

DIG THIS CRAZY SHOW! THE GHOUL WITH DOUG PODELL TOMORROW NIGHT

SPECIAL GUEST MC: "THE DOC OF ROCK" DOUG PODELL

The Nautical Mile Yacht Club in Conjunction with Brownies on The Lake presents: Brownies Halloween Bash with THE GHOUL. For more information on this event please contact the Nautical Mile Yacht Club via their Facebook Page. Or contact Brownies direct at: (586) 445-8080

GHOUL POWER STAY SICK TURN BLUE SCRATCH GLASS!

THE GHOUL aka Ron Swede Interview

The Ghoul Show was the brain-child of Cleveland-born actor Ron Sweed. The late-night horror movie and comedy sketch show ran for various blocks of seasons from 1971 through 2004, primarily in Detroit and Cleveland.

In 1970, Sweed approached fellow Cleveland actor Ernie Anderson with a proposal to revive Anderson's 1960's character, "Ghoulardi." Anderson was not interested, but gave Sweed his blessing to revive the character on his own. With that blessing, Sweed took "The Ghoul" to Cleveland's Kaiser Broadcasting station WKBF-TV in 1971. Though it started as a tribute to Ghoulardi, Sweed soon developed his own unique, energetic style and original eye-catching gags. 

The Ghoul Froggy and Bojangles

A few years later, Kaiser's Detroit-based station WKBD also picked up The Ghoul Show. Known for Sweed's zany, intentionally-adolescent humor (particularly surrounding his abuse of a rubber frog named "Froggy," a penchant for blowing up things with firecrackers, and catch phrases like "zingy-zingy," "Overdey!" and "stay sick, turn blue"), late night monster movies were a unique experience for Cleveland and Detroit viewers in the 1970s. 

"Shooting from no-budget studio sets, the Ghoul inserted his own dialogue and sound effects over insufferably bad B movies, blew up food, model cars and figurines with firecrackers, and produced strangely compelling, culturally relevant skits and parodies. 

The show was destructive and childish enough for little kids, subversive and timely enough for young adults." Later in the 1970s, Kaiser Broadcasting syndicated The Ghoul Show to Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Los Angeles, but the program never reached the popularity and viewership it enjoyed in Detroit and Cleveland. Sweed has since been on and off the air in Cleveland and Detroit for over three decades, at times even branching out into radio and the internet. 

The Ghoul Wiki

stay sick, turn blue, climb walls, scratch glass...but most importantly of all, do it while you can, but don't get caught.....BYE!