Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Horror Host 2013 Retrospective: Professor Cerberus


Professor Cerberus

Real name: Greg Bransom

Years active: 1973-1975, Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas

 


Moving ahead yet while staying in the past, we find ourselves looking at Professor Cerberus. Curator of the Museum of Horrors on KXAS channel 5. Instead of the standard vampire, Bransom played Professor Cerberus as more like a Victorian scientist, aided and abetted by the standard issued hunchback, Frankenstein Monster, a Wolf Man, and someone named Uncle Creepy, all played by various assistants and writers.

 

Like many other hosts, surviving video footage is nonexistent. The Museum of Horrors seemed to be bounced around the schedule, airing sometimes after Saturday Night Live, but finally ending up on Saturday afternoon. Bransom would continue on Dallas television, especially in the 1980’s, but those tales are for another day.

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