PECULIAR PLAYHOUSE

PAT CASHMAN - "PROFESSOR JASPER FARNDARK"

"Peculiar Playhouse" was a hosted horror movie show with Pat Cashman as "Professor Jasper Farndark", screened on KTVB Channel 7, in Boise, Idaho, USA, from 1978 till 1979. "Peculiar Playhouse" featured the absolutely lousiest movies that they could find, such as "The Beast of Yucca Flats", and "Zombies from Outer Space". Pat would take a snippet of each movie and record a new soundtrack as their weekly promotions, using absurd words and premises into the clips. Pat would shoot field pieces outside of the studio. he also experimented with odd things, such as one week they aired the entire episode on an angle, so that people at home could watch the show while lying on their sides. Another week, the show was completely upside down so they could welcome in their Australian audience. As Boise is in the Mountain time zone, the show aired at midnight---following Saturday Night Live. Special guests included the Invisible Man. As Pat shook what he thought was his hand, Pat asked him if there was anything that people might find surprising about him. He replied, "Yes, well some people are surprised to learn that I'm actually nearly seven feet tall." Pat withdrew his hand quickly, with the implication that he was shaking something other than his hand. Another show had the Incredible Shrinking Man as the guest. After talking to the tiny man for awhile, Pat brought on his next guest, who unfortunately did not notice the Shrinking Man on the chair, and sat right on him. After a few months on the air, the station manager decided the show was a silly waste of time, even though Pat insisted that the show was developing a cult following. So the show went off the air for about a month or so. Then the ratings came in. Peculiar Playhouse was shown to have better than a 90 share. So, the show got the green light to resume, and did until Pat departed KTVB for a job at KING in Seattle in early 1979. The idea was to continue airing the show after Pat left, but it did not happen. Many thanks to Pat Cashman for the above information. PAT CASHMAN From Pat Cashman's web page: Pat Cashman has never been able to hold a job. As a result - for nearly four decades, he's not only been a TV and radio host - but also an author, standup comic, TV weatherman, newspaper columnist, magazine essayist, sports reporter, voice talent in radio and TV commercials (Northwest and national.) His character voices are heard in countless cartoons and video games (including the worldwide most popular Super Smash Brothers Brawl - as well as being a TV and film writer, director and producer. He is the recipient of more than two dozen Emmys - plus numerous marketing and advertising awards, including Clios, Addys, Best in the West, Tellys, Irises, Gabriels and Soundies (voice talent). Additionally - for several years - he was a featured performer, writer, director, producer and editor on the sketch comedy TV show "Almost Live". The hit show ran (for 15 seasons) on Seattle's KING TV, but also for two seasons on Comedy Central - and was twice syndicated worldwide. Subsequently, he co-created and starred in another sketch show The [206] (later retitled Up Late NW), airing throughout the Northwest in Seattle, Portland, Spokane, Eugene, and Medford. Cashman was a performer and writer for the legendary Disney/PBS legendary show Bill Nye the Science Guy - as well as the show's announcer. He's also been featured in several motion pictures and TV shows, including National Geographic's Amazing Planet, PBS's Biz Kids, CBS's Say What? and Fox's Haywire – as well as featured on the Disney Channel and HBO. He has also been front and center in numerous regional stage productions - including the male lead in the Fifth Avenue Theatre's Hello, Dolly! - plus Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Tartuffe, Lil' Abner, and multiple live radio stage dramas. Cashman also is an enormously popular keynote speaker for hundreds of national and Northwest corporate events, medical conferences, business meetings, holiday parties - and gatherings as varied as birthday parties, memorial services, bar mitzvahs and weddings. He often serves as auctioneer and emcee for scores of fundraisers for medical research organizations, guilds, theatre groups, universities, high schools and grade schools, arts groups – and countless other charities. His style is characterized by energetic, humor-charged auctioneering - along with unique audience engagement, good humor and empathy. There are no known clips from the show:

LINKS

Internet Movie Data Base "Peculiar Playhouse"		Internet Movie Data Base "Pat Cashman"
E-gors Chamber of TV Horror Hosts "Professor Jasper Farndark"		Pat Cashman (Web Page) "Pat Cashman"

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