Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 09:51:55 -0500
To: WSFAlist at WSFA.org
From: Candy Madigan <candymadigan at mindspring.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Fwd: Baltimore Horror Host research
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

I got this probably because I am on the webpage as being a hostess, so I'm
forwarding it to the list.

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>Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 20:25:53 -0800 (PST)
>From: Kurt McCoy <sheliakbob at yahoo.com>
>Subject: [WSFA] Baltimore Horror Host research
>To: Candymadigan at mindspring.com
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>Hey Hiya,
>
>   Normally, I try to stick to my side of "The Green
>Line", but this is a legitimate research question that
>I thought would probably be best addressed to the
>WSFA.
>
>  I wrote an article a couple of years ago on Horror
>Host shows in West Virginia.
>
>http://myweb.wvnet.edu/e-gor/pittsburghhorrorhosts/appalachianhosts.html
>
>   One of the Hosts I researched was "Gaylord", played
>by news anchorman Fred Briggs at WSAZ in Huntington.
>Gaylord was the first Horror Host with a show in West
>Virginia and I've spent quite some time tracking down
>what little information I put into the article.
>   Fred Briggs eventually moved to WBFF in Baltimore
>sometime between the mid- 60's and early '70's. While
>he was there, he revived the Gaylord character for a
>show at that station. George Lewis mentioned in an
>interview that he produced the Gaylord show before
>going on to create his own Host show "Ghost Host"
>which ran locally and was later syndicated.
>    Now, finding anything at all about a show broadcast
>in the late '50's is...mostly impossible. Short of
>cruising the senior citizen homes (my next step,
>actually) for folks who remember Gaylord from WSAZ, my
>best bet is to try to find some remnant or memory of
>the later show in Baltimore. WBFF was a bigger
>station, with a bigger budget and a bigger viewing
>audience. There may well be publicity photos or other
>materials still out there from the Gaylord show.
>  I contacted the station directly, of course. Like
>virtually every other television station in the
>country, it's changed owners multiple times since the
>late '60's/'70's and the current owners know nothing
>and care less about some obscure "kid's show" that
>their predecessors may have produced. They barely even
>bothered to give me an email brush off.
>    What I need, if possible, is to see if any of the
>local fans--those who actually grew up in the
>area--have any recollections at all of the Gaylord
>show. Are there any signed photos lurking in someone's
>collection? Does anyone have access to old, old OLD TV
>Guides that might have listings for the show? Anyone
>know anybody that might have worked for WBFF back in
>the day?  Any help at all would be appreciated!
>
>   Television Archaeology!
>
>Thanks!
>
>Kurt
>
>P.S. *twitch* "Back...to...FORMULA?!!"
>   sorry. couldn't help myself. heh.
>    ;)
>
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Candy

P.S. I don't have any pictures yet, but see my new web-site at
www.hourglass-creations.com