Anyone remember a commercial for animal card file? "Daddy, does a gorilla snore at night?" was the line the commercial began with.Well, I had a dream mixing in Creature Feature with that animal card file commercial. In my dream they were showing a Channel 56 still ad of the Melkotian ( the channel did this whenever they went to break for commercial). Just then I heard the girl's voice "Daddy, does a gorrilla snore at night?". A fiendish voice then answered " I remember being a vampire! Heee! Heee! Heee!Heee!" Imaginative dream huh!

I used to be able to get METV, and on Saturday nights there was a great "so bad it's good" movies hosted by a guy named Svenghoulie. Has anyone else heard of this guy?

Sure. His movies get talked of every week on here!

More about CDC and CF! After the two opening heads they would show scenes from 'The Beast with Five Fingers' where Peter Lorre gets burned. A scene from the 1954 Godzilla where he blows smoke. They then showed some scenes from a monster movie 'Blood bath' starring beautiful Lori Saunders ( a creature comes out of a giant vat, a girl screams, a vampire walks towards her). Finally they show giant bird-monster claw from some film. Then they would show the two monster heads again. If this was the CF it was the same sequence but with a scene from The Thing' would open up the sequences. The part where the two army men open the door and the Thing is behind and he prevents them from closing it.

I commented on the movie 'Blood bath' before just see my old comments!

Showing the monster bird claw and not also showing the creature it was attached to was scarier to kids probably than showing the creature itself!

For those living outside the US (like myself) what is channel 56?

@Nexus71 said:

For those living outside the US (like myself) what is channel 56?

A local (I don't know where Benton lives though) TV station.

Most people in the US probably had some obscure TV station when they were kids, usually on the UHF band which was channels 14 through 83. Old movies and stuff.

There was a comedy movie somewhat on the subject, called UHF. Maybe look it up sometime.

A pity we didn't have much of those in Europe

The cards I refer to above were Safari Cards.

In Los Angeles, channel 56-1 is METV (Memorable Entertainment Television), which shows only reruns of older tv series. It's the station that introduced me to Twelve O'Clock High and Robert Lansing. The variety of old series they broadcast is amazing!

The sad part is that those channels - Me TV, Retro TV, Antenna TV, etc - cut those old shows so much. There can be entire scenes missing from episodes of Star Trek, for example. When Star Trek was originally made, an "hour" TV episode might be 50-52 minutes, without commercials. Me TV cuts those back to at most 45 minutes, if you're lucky. And it's pretty much impossible to cut 7 minutes from an episode of Star Trek without losing something significant.

H&I - Heroes and Icons - does a much better job. And they will, for example, run the half-hour episodes of Twilight Zone at 36 minutes to allow for "necessary" commercial time without cutting the episodes. Then they run a block of episodes so that the "extra" 6 minutes for each, adds up to another half-hour or hour before they have the next show or movie.

@Knixon said:

The sad part is that those channels - Me TV, Retro TV, Antenna TV, etc - cut those old shows so much. There can be entire scenes missing from episodes of Star Trek, for example. When Star Trek was originally made, an "hour" TV episode might be 50-52 minutes, without commercials. Me TV cuts those back to at most 45 minutes, if you're lucky. And it's pretty much impossible to cut 7 minutes from an episode of Star Trek without losing something significant.

H&I - Heroes and Icons - does a much better job. And they will, for example, run the half-hour episodes of Twilight Zone at 36 minutes to allow for "necessary" commercial time without cutting the episodes. Then they run a block of episodes so that the "extra" 6 minutes for each, adds up to another half-hour or hour before they have the next show or movie.

H & I is the channel that shows all of the Star Trek series.

At least Netflix has the full episodes of TOS,TAS,TNG,DS9,VOY and ENT

Best part was on the night time segment when they showed a frightening negative version of the Melkotian!