Young'ins just don't get why this stuff was so amazing. The thought of having only 13 channels and almost all of them going essentially dead after 11:30 EXCEPT for this one guy who kept the night alive and rockin' for us is something you just had to be alive and in the right age group to really appreciate.
In 1978 Detroit we only had three VHF channels plus channel 9 Windsor, Canada. Then we had three UHF channels 62, 56 (PBS) and 20 from Wixom. We only got more channels when basic cable was installed in February 1981. Before that no one had more then the broadcast antenna channels. At 2 AM they played the national anthem, signed off to test pattern or snow like being on an off channel. Me, my brother and our friend met The Ghoul and got his autograph around that time. He was really great. We used to use our older brother's tape recorder to reenact his skits like Frog Cratchit. Times were much simpler.
I thought that the Ghoul's death on April 1st was a cruel April Fool's day joke, but unfortunately that is not the case.....😢 Ron Sweed the Ghoul will NEVER be forgotten! Long Live GHOUL POWER!!!!!!
I never had a clue that the Ghoul had a tie to Westand, Michigan. I grew up and lived there till I was 42 (59 in two days). I got to meet the Ghoul at a Detroit area convention long ago. Still got his autograph somewhere. Miss you Ron! RiP (Rest in Parma).
The Ghoul taught so many of us young kids in Motown about music back then...I mean Personality Crisis by The New York Dolls! Ron Sweed was a national treasure.
@The mysterious Miss X I can't even express to you how much the Ghoul meant to us kids here in Detroit growing up. Me and my brother and our cousins and all the neighborhood kids would never miss his show.Ever! I saw Ron at a local comic book convention here in the 90's doing an autograph signing and you should have seen the crowd around him. I was too nervous to even go up and talk to him.Now of course i wish i would have..
So sad another one of our childhood hero's passed. We don't live long that's for sure. Boom boom!!! They should play repeats on TV on Halloween out of repect for the great Ghoul! RIP Joe, we'll all be together soon 💣💣💣
This is WGPR-62 era stuff!!!! 6th grade!!!!!! The end of the line for the Ghoul in Detoilet for the 1970s....gone after half a season and disappeared by March '78 I think. Devastated. I remember the opening of this episode; the Ghoul kicking over the fake camera all pissed by a bad review in a local paper and Dave Ivy saying "the Ghoul sure is mad"
I met Chuck Gugel in Beaumont Tx. in 1980. It was Ironic as we were both from the Detroit area. I NEVER KNEW Chuck met the Ghoul until now! UNREAL! This vid made my day!
Thank you for posting all the clips, particularly this one featuring good ol' Dave Ivey. Dave had the table next to me at a convention in Cleveland a few years back. I was a big fan of Dave's, for all the artwork and cartoons he'd done on The Ghoul show over the years, and was delighted to find myself at his elbow all weekend. Dave and his wife were both warm and funny, and the hours flew. I pulled him into an horror host presentation, and he told store after story of the show's hardscrabble production. So great to see him here in his prime, dry and strange in his humor, like some kind of rust belt Jonathan Winters. Like Ron, he's missed by family, friends and fans. Thanks again for the post.
I remember when I was young me and my sister watch the gruel every Saturday night, until we grew up and never heard from him again, I didn't even know he had passed away,
@@dstoyano That's all available without Sven, he's part and parcel of the entertainment experience. Like Elvira, I would've never seen a lot of great flicks if I hadn't been a horny little kid and so easily drawn in by her look. Then I found out she was also hilarious and just like MST3K I got to see some pretty good flicks while being amused.
@@ursee1 The Ghoul was from Cleveland. He was an intern with Ghoulardi on WJW TV in Cleveland in the 60s and got the blessing from Ghoulardi (Ernie Anderson, ABC announcer in the 70s) to borrow his schtick as "The Ghoul" on WKBF Channel 61 in Cleveland from 1971-75. When WKBF folded, the Ghoul took his show to other locales including Akron and Detroit. The show was also syndicated in other Kaiser markets like Boston and San Francisco. Ron Sweed is a Cleveland native (I think Garfield Hts suburb).
When My parents went out Saturdays night and we had a babysitter my parents would always tell her do not allow them to watch the ghoul but she was cool and we watched it and had a ball and we promised her to never say a word to my parents about staying up late and enjoying the insanity over day!
speaking of kiss? one of my friends sent in his girlfriends kiss doll to blow up on the air, and the ghoul delivers! got a t-shirt and coffee mug off the website, we even tried the turn blue ghoul brew! to this day whenever my 92 yr old dad gets a 'froggie' in his throat, i say 'does the ghoul do house calls?' holy parma!
This is a show where you never watched what was playing Waiting for the break so you could watch the ghoul And all of his madness.Pluck your magic tranger FROGGY .!
Young'ins just don't get why this stuff was so amazing. The thought of having only 13 channels and almost all of them going essentially dead after 11:30 EXCEPT for this one guy who kept the night alive and rockin' for us is something you just had to be alive and in the right age group to really appreciate.
I saw this exact episode when it originally aired in 6th grade. On the junky b&w "kid's tv" in my brother's room-just let "b&w" sink in too
In 1978 Detroit we only had three VHF channels plus channel 9 Windsor, Canada. Then we had three UHF channels 62, 56 (PBS) and 20 from Wixom. We only got more channels when basic cable was installed in February 1981. Before that no one had more then the broadcast antenna channels. At 2 AM they played the national anthem, signed off to test pattern or snow like being on an off channel.
Me, my brother and our friend met The Ghoul and got his autograph around that time. He was really great. We used to use our older brother's tape recorder to reenact his skits like Frog Cratchit. Times were much simpler.
I thought that the Ghoul's death on April 1st was a cruel April Fool's day joke, but unfortunately that is not the case.....😢 Ron Sweed the Ghoul will NEVER be forgotten! Long Live GHOUL POWER!!!!!!
I never had a clue that the Ghoul had a tie to Westand, Michigan. I grew up and lived there till I was 42 (59 in two days). I got to meet the Ghoul at a Detroit area convention long ago. Still got his autograph somewhere. Miss you Ron! RiP (Rest in Parma).
The Ghoul taught so many of us young kids in Motown about music back then...I mean Personality Crisis by The New York Dolls! Ron Sweed was a national treasure.
@The mysterious Miss X I can't even express to you how much the Ghoul meant to us kids here in Detroit growing up.
Me and my brother and our cousins and all the neighborhood kids would never miss his show.Ever!
I saw Ron at a local comic book convention here in the 90's doing an autograph signing and you should have seen the crowd around him. I was too nervous to even go up and talk to him.Now of course i wish i would have..
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So sad another one of our childhood hero's passed. We don't live long that's for sure. Boom boom!!! They should play repeats on TV on Halloween out of repect for the great Ghoul! RIP Joe, we'll all be together soon 💣💣💣
Marijuana owes so much to this man.
wow, this is recorded off of WGPR-TV Channel 62, I recognize that CG display anywhere
My brother and I used to watch this guy when we lived in Michigan. This guy was great.
Brings back childhood memories.
11:30 pm Saturday night's... good times
This is WGPR-62 era stuff!!!! 6th grade!!!!!! The end of the line for the Ghoul in Detoilet for the 1970s....gone after half a season and disappeared by March '78 I think. Devastated. I remember the opening of this episode; the Ghoul kicking over the fake camera all pissed by a bad review in a local paper and Dave Ivy saying "the Ghoul sure is mad"
I met Chuck Gugel in Beaumont Tx. in 1980. It was Ironic as we were both from the Detroit area. I NEVER KNEW Chuck met the Ghoul until now! UNREAL! This vid made my day!
Thank you for posting all the clips, particularly this one featuring good ol' Dave Ivey. Dave had the table next to me at a convention in Cleveland a few years back. I was a big fan of Dave's, for all the artwork and cartoons he'd done on The Ghoul show over the years, and was delighted to find myself at his elbow all weekend. Dave and his wife were both warm and funny, and the hours flew. I pulled him into an horror host presentation, and he told store after story of the show's hardscrabble production. So great to see him here in his prime, dry and strange in his humor, like some kind of rust belt Jonathan Winters. Like Ron, he's missed by family, friends and fans. Thanks again for the post.
I was at that convention and that was a pleasure.
I still love the ghoul rip Ron sweed
I remember when I was young me and my sister watch the gruel every Saturday night, until we grew up and never heard from him again, I didn't even know he had passed away,
Love to find the ghoul reading his rendition of the night before Christmas
closes the show with the new york dolls!!! MY HERO!!! RIP RONNY!!
I was 18 and this show was the must see show for me and my friends. Poor Froggie.
EXPLOSIVES , GAS and CHEESE WHIZ was cheaper in Detroit then ! Thanks Ghoul ! R,I,P,
How lucky are we that got to experience this stuff? At least Sven is bringing it back for kids now.
Not even close....I only watch Sven for the Universal stuff
@@dstoyano That's all available without Sven, he's part and parcel of the entertainment experience. Like Elvira, I would've never seen a lot of great flicks if I hadn't been a horny little kid and so easily drawn in by her look. Then I found out she was also hilarious and just like MST3K I got to see some pretty good flicks while being amused.
Cleveland Rocks!
I used to watch him on KBHK 44 in San Francisco.
Wait I thought he was from Detroit
Yes, his show was syndication in San Francisco.
@@ursee1 The Ghoul was from Cleveland. He was an intern with Ghoulardi on WJW TV in Cleveland in the 60s and got the blessing from Ghoulardi (Ernie Anderson, ABC announcer in the 70s) to borrow his schtick as "The Ghoul" on WKBF Channel 61 in Cleveland from 1971-75. When WKBF folded, the Ghoul took his show to other locales including Akron and Detroit. The show was also syndicated in other Kaiser markets like Boston and San Francisco. Ron Sweed is a Cleveland native (I think Garfield Hts suburb).
Best memories of my childhood..here
Hazy good memories of watching this during its run in Philly. Trying to find a ghoulumbo skit that had me laughing.
When My parents went out Saturdays night and we had a babysitter my parents would always tell her do not allow them to watch the ghoul but she was cool and we watched it and had a ball and we promised her to never say a word to my parents about staying up late and enjoying the insanity over day!
rip the ghoul😿😿😿😿😿😞🌹🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🎞🎞🎞🎥🎥🎥🎞🎞
The ghoul smoking on TV I never seen a tv host smoke on tv before this is interesting!
You serious? Johnny Carson and Tom Snyder were famous for smoking on screen.
Everyone smoked on tv and buildings until the liberals stopped it in the 90s
Rod Sterling smoked while hosting the Twighlight zone
@@ronnietarnacke5153 It's ignorant of me. But where I grew up in Ierland I never seen TV hosts smoke so that's why I was taken aback
speaking of kiss? one of my friends sent in his girlfriends kiss doll to blow up on the air, and the ghoul delivers! got a t-shirt and coffee mug off the website, we even tried the turn blue ghoul brew! to this day whenever my 92 yr old dad gets a 'froggie' in his throat, i say 'does the ghoul do house calls?' holy parma!
Google? Did he know?
Boom boom!!!!
Did this come on late at night?
Goulardi started this kind of act.
alice cooper did theatrics way before kiss did.
Sean O'Malley is cloned from the Ghoul.
he was better in cleveland why he leave
No he was better in Detroit !
@@garywright7826 He was huge in Detroit!
@@toddalterman6142 and Cleveland before...
Overdey!
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The ghoul was just a cheap reprise of ghoulardi.
This is a show where you never watched what was playing Waiting for the break so you could watch the ghoul And all of his madness.Pluck your magic tranger FROGGY .!