SHOCK THEATER
LAUREL, GHOULARDI, AND HARDY
MASTERPIECE THEATER
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ERNIE ANDERSON - "GHOULARDI"

Ernest Earle Anderson was the horror host "Ghoulardi" on WJW Channel 8 Cleveland Ohio between 1963-1966 and WSPD-TV Channel 13 (Toledo, Ohio) during 1963; hosting 4 different shows between the 2 stations. "SHOCK THEATER" "Shock Theater" was a hosted horror movie show with Ernest Earle Anderson as "Ghoulardi" on WJW Channel 8 in Cleveland Ohio, screening on Friday evenings at 11:20pm from 18 January 1963 until November 1966. Portrait of "Ghoulardi" by Dave Dunlap. "MASTERPIECE THEATER" "Masterpiece Theater" was a hosted thriller and suspense movie show with Ernest Earle Anderson as "Ghoulardi" on WJW Channel 8 in Cleveland Ohio, screening on Saturday evenings at 6:00pm from 13 April 1963 until November 1966. "LAUREL, GHOULARDI, AND HARDY" "Laurel, Ghoulardi, and Hardy" was a hosted comedy movie show featuring classic Laurel & Hardy films with Ernest Earle Anderson as "Ghoulardi" on WJW Channel 8 in Cleveland Ohio, screening weekdays evenings at 5:00pm until 5:30pm from 15 July 1963 until 9 December 1963. "?" The name of the show is not known, possibly "Ghoulardi", judging from the newspaper advertisements. It was a hosted show (possibly featuring classic Laurel & Hardy films) with Ernest Earle Anderson as "Ghoulardi" on WSPD-TV Channel 13 in Toledo, Ohio, screening weekday afternoons at 4:00pm until 4:30pm from 11 December 1963 until 9 December 1963. From IMDB: Ernie Anderson was born Ernest Earle Anderson on November 12, 1923 in Lynn, Massachusetts. He began working in radio at Burlington, Vermont's WSKI-AM in 1946. He met Tim Conway at WHK-AM in Cleveland and began writing with him. They were hired by Cleveland's WJW-TV in 1961 where they created "Ernie's Place", a daytime show of movies and comedy sketches. He created the beatnik character Ghoulardi for himself, wearing a lab coat, fright wig, fake goatee beard and mustache and became popular introducing WJW-TV's Friday night horror movie show Shock Theater (1963). Rose Marie, best known as Sally Rogers on The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961), recommended him to Steve Allen who recruited him for his own show. Ernie had many run-ins with his management in Cleveland and moved to California full time in 1966. He appeared in two episodes of Conway's television series Rango (1967) and then formed a comedy act with his old friend. He was hired as "the voice of ABC" in the late 1970s where he continued to work well into the 1980s. He also did the voiceover for the previews of current episodes during the first three seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987). Ernie Anderson died at age 73 of cancer in Los Angeles, California on February 6, 1997.

Portrait of "Ghoulardi" by Bradley Beard. "Ghoulardi" - biography (taken from Bradley Beard's Facebook page)" This horror host was the brain child of Ernie Anderson and Tim Conway. Today I honor a true legend; I give you the beatnik hipster known as Ghoulardi. He hosted Shock Theatre at WJW-TV in Cleveland, Ohio which ran for just three short years, from January 13, 1963 to December 16, 1966. The show was so popular that a wave of Ghoulardi-mania swept through Cleveland. At its peak, the show captured 70% of the late night audience. Ghoulardi's on-stage and off-stage antics were legendary; he was known for detonating objects with explosives sent in by fans on the air. The Ghoulardi All-stars baseball team hosted as many as 100 charity contests per year which attracted thousands of fans and generated an estimated $250,000. In the words of the great Ghouldari, "This movie is so bad you should just go to bed."A suggestion I think I'll take. Goodnight. In 2005, Timm McCoy ventured to retunr "Ghoulardi". For more information use the below link: In 2011, Ernie Anderson - "Ghoulardi" of "Shock Theater", was inducted into "The Official Horror Host Hall of Fame". In 2011, Tim Conway for original writer for Ghoulardi - "Shock Theater", was inducted into "The Official Horror Host Hall of Fame" - Behind the Screams Induction The following are some clips from the show: "Shock Theater" - Ghoulardi from The Professor's Scary Clips on Vimeo.

LINKS

Internet Movie Data Base "Shock Theater"	Rotten Ink "Ghoulardi"	Internet Movie Data Base "Ernie Anderson"
Facebook: Bradley Beard - Horror Host Artist "Ghoulardi"	Nuking The Cat "Ghoulardi & His Legacy in Cleveland Television"	E-gors Chamber of TV Horror Hosts "Ghoulardi"
	Facebook: Dunlap Art "Horror Host Artwork"

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