Anyone remember a late night show like this? I saw it on a channel out of Charleston, SC.
This was in the days when you had an antenna on the roof and had to get up to change the channel.
"Out Of This World" was the name of the show. It came on late Saturday night and featured horror/science fiction movies,
such classics as "The Screaming Skull" and "The Last Man on Earth."
At the beginning of the show, a sepulchral voice would say, "Come along as we take you out....of....this...world."
Was this only in Charleston or was it bigger than that?
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...here's a bit of trivia on "The Last Man on Earth" the movie you mentioned. Based on a book by Richard Matheson this story has been made into a movie three times, the first in 1964 with the title you mentioned starring Vincent Price, again in 1971 in "The Omega Man" starring Charlton Heston and again in 2007 in "I Am Legend" starring Will Smith. The name of the original story was "I Am Legend".
His work is excellent. Check him out on IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0558577/?ref_=tt_ov_wr
It starred Count Gore de Vol. I originally wrote that the show was on circa 1969 and 1970, but Wikipedia says it began in 1973.
Dick Dyszel as "Count Gore de Vol"
Count Gore De Vol is a television horror host who originally appeared on Washington, DC's WDCA from 1973 to 1987. Originally named M. T. Graves and played by announcer Dick Dyszel, the character first appeared on the WDCA version of the Bozo the Clown program. When the character got a positive reaction, he was given his own program called Creature Feature. The choice of Gore De Vol as the character's name was either a pun involving the name of acerbic author Gore Vidal or the name of a prominent Washington D.C. funeral home, "De Vol." Gore De Vol became the Washington/Baltimore area's longest running horror host, broadcast every Saturday night on WDCA from March 1973 to May 1987. He returned to the DC airwaves for a one-time special, Countdown with the Count, on New Year's Eve 1999/2000.
Count Gore De Vol's contribution to the American horror host tradition is significant in a number of ways. As Washington D.C.'s horror host throughout most of the 1970s and 1980s, Gore used the platform to satirize national politics from a local perspective. In the era of Watergate and Iran-Contra, Count Gore took frequent shots at the political folly with an ad lib, shoot-from-the-hip style that led local audiences to feel they were part of an Inside the Beltway private joke even when the subject was high profile.
Creature Feature, The Weekly Web Program
