Horror host 2014: Grandpa
Real name: Al Lewis
Years active: 1987-1989, TBS
Continuing with our looking at the hosts of cable and
syndication, we have none other Grandpa himself, Al Lewis. Hosting Super Scary Saturday on the Turner
Broadcast System from 1987 to 1989, Lewis slipped into his old Munsters costume one more time and
hammed it while overseeing films that Ted Turner owned.
Unlike many other hosts, who had to make due with either
public domain or whatever selection the station library had, Grandpa hosted
classic horror films and even the Godzilla series. I never watched much of the
show, as my family came a little late to the cable thing, but a best of DVD was
recently released and can be found for fairly cheap.
Al Lewis passed away in 2003.
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