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GEORGE BYRAM - "?"

The above poster is AI generated, based on available information. George Byram hosted a horror movie show on Thursday nights at 10:00pm on KBTV-TV, Channel 9 Denver, Colorado in the late 1950's for a year or so. Byram would roam catacombs filled with madmen and monsters. He also has made himself disappear bit by bit and, while headless delivered commercials. The name of the show is unknown. As it showed the Shock package, it may have been "Shock". It is also unknown whether Byram hosted the show under his own name or under a character name and persona. GEORGE BYRAM George Byram was an American radio and television announcer and personality associated with KBTV-TV, Channel 9, in Denver, Colorado, during the 1950s. He joined the announcing staff of KBTV in 1956 after working in broadcasting in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Byram became particularly notable in 1958 as the host of KBTV's Thursday-night horror movie presentation, associated with the Screen Gems Shock! package. The program aired at 10:00 p.m. and featured Byram in elaborate locally produced horror sequences between the films and commercial breaks. Rather than simply introducing the movies, Byram participated in macabre comedy and special-effects routines created by the station. He wandered through simulated catacombs inhabited by madmen and monsters, appeared to disappear piece by piece and, in one memorable effect, delivered commercials while apparently headless. These sequences made Byram part of the first nationwide generation of local television horror hosts created following the release of the Screen Gems horror-film package to television stations in the late 1950s. Byram was also employed by KBTV as a general television personality rather than exclusively as a horror host. In June 1958 he was assigned with Fred Leo to co-host KBTV's televised coverage of the Central City, Colorado, opening-day festivities. The broadcast included local events, demonstrations and interviews with performers and other celebrities. Byram was also scheduled with Arlyne Lampshire to describe the evening festivities surrounding the opening of the Central City Opera season. Although relatively little documentation of Byram's later career has surfaced, surviving contemporary television and broadcasting records establish his place among Denver's early local television personalities and among the pioneering horror-movie hosts of American television. Below is a trailer for "Calling Dr. Death " that was possibly shown on "Shock".

LINKS

Internet Movie Data Base "George Byram"

E-gor's Chamber of TV Horror Hosts "George Byram"

Internet Movie Data Base "Shock"

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