I’d like to give a hat tip to Sir Graves Ghastly and provide some Detroit horror history for readers of my werewolf book Apex Predator.
In the book one of my characters mentions growing up with an eerie Led Zeppelin themed TV show featuring a horror movie of the week. Readers who are not from Detroit often ask if there really was such a thing – and there was!
From 1967 to November 1982 the horror show Sir Graves Ghastly ran virtually every Saturday afternoon on WJBK Channel 2 in Detroit. By the way, the show’s host (pictured here) was none other than Sir Graves Ghastly himself! Played by actor Lawson Deming (R.I.P. 1913-2007) Sir Graves may be Detroit’s all-time favorite vampire – a man known for hamming it up like no other.
Though Sir Graves Ghastly also ran in Cleveland and Washington D.C. the Detroit market provided it’s strongest ratings. That is until College Football proved to be the vampire’s undoing. When the chance arose to write my novel I couldn’t resist sprinkling it with references to my favorite horror influences – including Sir Graves Ghastly.
March 18, 2022 at 8:19 pm
Your crossing up two shows in your memory –
Sir Graves Ghastly had a show for him on Friday Nights (1130pm) and Channel 50 had “Creature Double Feature” that had the Led Zepplin song.
March 18, 2022 at 9:24 pm
So right!!! Thanks for clearing that up.