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"Supe's On!" was a hosted short film show with Marty Sullivan as "Superhost" on WUAB-TV, Channel 43 Cleveland from 1969 until 1988, running on Saturdays between 12:00 noon until 1:00pm. The show was a warm up for the movie show - "Mad Theater" (1969-1987) which ran from 1:00pm until 4:00pm, also hosted by "Superhost" and was incorporated into "Supe's On!" in 1987. In 1988, "Supe's On!" was reformatted as "Supe's On with the Three Stooges!", hosted by "Superhost"; ending in December 1989. Marty Sullivan played mild mannered "Henry Brookersteen" who was able to transform into "Superhost" in a baggy Superman outfit.
From Wikipedia: Superhost greeted fans with his famous "Hello, dere" (pronounced "dare") and followed with sketches like: "The Moronic Woman" (a parody of The Bionic Woman) "Caboose Supe" (a Boxcar Willie takeoff) "Fat Whitman" (a spoof of Slim Whitman). His most famous sketch was a music video based on the popular trucker song "Convoy". He was also known for referring to the movies as "flicks" as in "Let's get back to da flick." After "Supe's On!, he would host an afternoon of films under the "Mad Theater" banner. Generally two films were shown, going from 1:00 to 4:00 pm. The movies would be old horror films like "Frankenstein" or Japanese monster movies such as "Godzilla". As the 1980's went along, with WCW Worldwide Wrestling and other more contemporary syndicated weekend programming becoming available, the show began getting trimmed down for time. First to the "Supe's On!" hour (11:30am to 12:30pm) plus one movie (12:30 to 2 pm) in 1985, then in 1987, the entire show was shortened to one hour under the "Supe's On!" banner, with "Superhost" appearing during commercial breaks during one episode each of "The Munsters" and "Batman" from 11:00am to 12:00 noon.
From 1988 until its finale in December 1989, the show was then changed to an hour of "Three Stooges" shorts (with a cartoon thrown in), and "Superhost" appearing during commercial breaks, all under the "Supe's On with the Three Stooges!" banner from 11am to 12:00 noon (then towards the end moved to 1:00pm to 2:00pm).
"Superhost" - biography (taken from Bradley Beard's Facebook page)"
The following are some clips from the show:
Supe's On!, Mad Theater, Supe's On with the Three Stooges! hosted by Superhost (clips) from The Professor on Vimeo. |
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