The World Beyond

[Billy A. Anderson]

On another thread, we got into Parker Anderson's new book, The World Beyond, and his auio recordings of the intros and bumpers of that series of SF-Horrof films showin on an Arizona TV station for decades.

Below is a link to a slide show with Parker's audio recordings.

[Billy A. Anderson]

Here's a link to a Facebook page on the World Beyond, started by Logan, Blackwell, whose list of dates and titles of showings of films on The World Beyond in its near 24 year run, formed the basis of Parker's Listings where he gives his reviews of the films shown, as well as such details as to whether the films were first run or re-runs, made for TV movies, and whether some of the films really belonged on an SFantasy-Horror film show.


www.facebook.com/The-World-Beyond-Kpho-Tribute-171986133007005/

[Deeky]

Here's a link to a Facebook page on Jennifer Connelly's eyebrows:

www.facebook.com/Jennifer-Connellys-Eyebrows-226369454093213/

[Billy A. Anderson]

Deeky, that was a great post, and I did check out the link, altho I was not logged in at Facebook.

Your response brings back fond memories of my posting to another message board that I had received a letter from Wilum Pugmire, and your response that you had received a letter from some person I didn't know.

And, Johnny joined (or was he still calling himself Rumi at that time?), and said no one is named Wilum.

But, the result is that both you and Jonny and probably others were greatly rewarded by being introduced to Wilum.

So, maybe you, Webmaster Deeky, will be rewarded by being introduced to The World Beyond.

So far I wouldn't say my rewards have not been all that great, but as my theme song goes, "Don't Stop Believin," and if I keep up my studies of The World Beyond I might eventually find the rewards well worth my time and effort.

As far as you yourself, Webmaster Deeky, is concerned, you may never find any rewards from my links to The World Beyond.

But maybe someone else here on the board might be rewarded.

As Johnny Wadd, played by John C. Holmes said, in the final narration of the Penguin Productions video, The Return of Johnny Wadd:

"It's a crap shoot."

[Billy A. Anderson]

OK, ZAQBers, the non-alphabetical listings plus the A-D listings of the total of 446 film titles covered on Parker's book, The World Beyond.


Non-Alphabetical

THE 4D MAN (1959)

12 TO THE MOON (1960)

20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH (1957)

THE 27th DAY (1957)

A

ABBOTT AND COSTELLO GO TO MARS (1953)

ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (1953)

ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (1948)

ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET THE INVISIBLE MAN (1951)

ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET THE KILLER, BORIS KARLOFF (1949)

ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET THE MUMMY (1955)

THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES (1971)

THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN OF THE HIMALAYAS (1957)

THE ALIEN FACTOR (1977)

ALLTHE KIND STRANGERS TVM (1974)

THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN (1957)

THE AMAZING TRANSPARENT MAN (1959)

ANDROID (1982)

THE ANGRY RED PLANET (1959)

ASLYUM (1972)

ASSIGNMENT: OUTER SPACE (1962)

THE ASTOUNDING SHE-MONSTER (1957)

THE ASTRO-ZOMBIES (1969)

AT THE EARTH'S CORE (1976)

THE ATOMIC MAN (1956)

ATOMIC RULERS OF THE WORLD (1964)

THE ATOMIC SUBMARINE (1959)

ATRAGON (1963)

ATTACK FROM SPACE (1964)

ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN (1958)

ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS (1957)

ATTACK OF THE MONSTERS (1968)

ATTACK OF THE MUSHROOM PEOPLE (1963)

ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE (1958)

ATTACK OF THE ROBOTS (1962)

B

BAD RONALD TVM (1974)

BARON BLOOD (1972)

THE BAT PEOPLE (1974)

BATTLE BENEATH THE EARTH (1968)

BATTLE BEYOND THE SUN (1962)

BATTLE FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES (1973)

BATTLE IN OUTER SPACE (1960)

BATTLE OF THE WORLDS (1961)

BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS (1953)

THE BEAST MUST DIE (1974)

THE BEAST OF HOLLOW MOUNTAIN (1956)

THE BEAST WITH A MILLION EYES (1955)

THE BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS (1946)

BEDLAM (1946)

THE BEES (1978)

THE BEGINNING OF THE END (1957)

BELA LUGOSI MEETS A BROOKLYN GORILLA (1952)

BEN (1972)

BEYOND THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE TVM (1975)

BEYOND THE TIME BARRIER (1959)

BILLY THE KID VS DRACULA (1966)

THE BLACK CAT (1934)

BLACK FRIDAY (1940)

THE BLACK SCORPION (1957)

THE BLACK SLEEP (1956)

THE BLOB (1958)

BLOOD FROM THE MUMMY'S TOMB (1971)

THE BODY SNATCHER (1945)

THE BOY WHO CRIED WEREWOLF (1973)

THE BRAIN EATERS (1958)

THE BRAIN FROM PLANET AROUS (1957)

THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935)

BRIDE OF THE GORILLA (1951)

C

CALTIKI, THE IMMORTAL MONSTER (1960)

CARNIVAL OF SOULS (1962)

CASTLE OF BLOOD (1963)

CASTLE OF TERROR (1963)

CASTLE OF THE LIVING DEAD (1963)

THE CAT CREATURE TVM (1973)

CAT PEOPLE (1942)

THE COLOSSUS OF NEW YORK (1958)

COMEDY OF TERRORS (1964)

THE CONQUEROR WORM (1968)

CONQUEST OF SPACE (1955)

CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (1972)

THE COSMIC MONSTERS (1958)

COUNT YORGA, VAMPIRE (1970)

COUNTDOWN (1968)

CRASH! (1977)

THE CRAWLING EYE (1958)

CREATION OF THE HUMANOIDS (1962)

THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON (1954)

CREATURE FROM THE HAUNTED SEA (1961)

CREATURE OF DESTRUCTION (1967)

THE CREATURE WALKS AMONG US (1956)

CREATURE WITH THE ATOM BRAIN (1955)

CREATURE WITH THE BLUE HAND (1967)

THE CREEPING FLESH (1973)

THE CREEPING TERROR (1964)

THE CREEPING UNKNOWN (1955)

THE CREMATORS (1972)

THE CRIMSON CULT (1968)

CRY OF THE BANSHEE (1970)

CRYPT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1973)

CULT OF THE COBRA (1955)

THE CURSE OF DRACULA (1958)

CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE (1944)

CURSE OF THE FACELESS MAN (1958)

CURSE OF THE FLY (1966)

CURSE OF THE MUMMY'S TOMB (1964)

CURSE OF THE SWAMP CREATURE (1966)

THE CYCLOPS (1957)

D

DAGORA, THE SPACE MONSTER (1964)

DALEKS-INVASION EARTH 2150 A.D. (1966)

DARK STAR (1974)

THE DARK (1979)

DAUGHTER OF DR.JEKYLL (1957)

THE DAY THE EARTH FROZE (1959)

THE DAY THE EARTH MOVED TVM (1974)

THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (1951)

THE DAY THE SKY EXPLODED(1958)

THE DAY THE WORLD ENDED (1956)

THE DEAD DON'T DIE TVM (1975)

DEAD OF NIGHT TVM (1977)

DEATH AT LOVE HOUSE TVM (1976)

DEATHSPORT (1978)

THE DEMON PLANET (1965)

DESTINATION MOON (1950)

DESTROY ALL MONSTERS (1968)

DESTROY ALL PLANETS (1968)

THE DEVIL'S DAUGHTER TVM (1973)

THE DEVIL'S RAIN (1975)

DIARY OF A MADMAN (1963)

DIE, MONSTER, DIE! (1965)

DINOSAURUS! (1960)

DOCTOR BLOOD'S COFFIN (1961)

DOCTOR X (1932)

DONOVAN'S BRAIN (1953)

DONT BE AFRAID OF THE DARK TVM (1973)

DR. GOLDFOOT AND THE BIKINI MACHINE (1966)

DR. PHIBES RISES AGAIN (1972)

DR. TERROR'S HOUSE OF HORRORS (1965)

DR. WHO AND THE DALEKS (1965)

DRACULA (1931)

DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN (1971)

DRACULA'S DAUGHTER (1936)

THE DUNWICH HORROR (1970)

[Billy A. Anderson]

E-L

E

EARTH VS THE FLYING SAUCERS (1956)

THE ELECTRONIC MONSTER (1957)

EMPIRE OF THE ANTS (1977)

EQUINOX (1971)

THE EVIL BRAIN FROM OUTER SPACE (1964)

THE EYE CREATURES (1965)

EYES BEHIND THE STARS (1972)

F

FABULOUS BARON MUNCHAUSEN (1961)

THE FABULOUS WORLD OF JULES VERNE (1958)

FACE OF FIRE (1959)

FACE OF MARBLE (1946)

FANTASTIC INVASION OF PLANET EARTH 1966)

THE FINAL WAR (1960)

FIRE MONSTERS AGAINST THE SON OF HERCULES (1962)

FIRST MAN INTO SPACE (1959)

FIRST SPACESHIP ON VENUS (1962)

THE FLY (1958)

THE FLYING SAUCER (1964)

THE FOG (1980)

FOOD OF THE GODS (1976)

FOUR SIDED TRIANGLE (1953)

FRANCIS IN THE HAUNTED HOUSE(1956)

FRANKENSTEIN 1970 (1958)

FRANKENSTEIN (1931)

FRANKENSTEIN CONQUERS THE WORLD (1966)

FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE SPACE MONSTER (1965)

FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLF MAN (1943)

FRANKENSTEIN'S BLOODY TERROR (1968)

FRIGHT (1971)

FROGS (1972)

FROM HELL IT CAME (1957)

FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON (1958)

G

GAMERA VS. MONSTER X (1970)

GAMERA-SUPER MONSTER (1980)

THE GAMMA PEOPLE (1956)

GARGOYLES TVM (1972)

GENESIS II TVM (1973)

GHIDRA, THE THREE-HEADED MONSTER (1965)

GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN (1942)

GHOSTS ON THE LOOSE (1943)

GHOSTS THAT STILL WALK (1977)

THE GIANT BEHEMOTH (1959)

THE GIANT GILA MONSTER(1959)

THE GIANT OF METROPOLIS (1962)

THE GIANT SPIDER INVASION (1975)

GIGANTIS, THE FIRE MONSTER (1959)

GODZILLA, KING OF THE MONSTERS (1956)

GODZILLA ON MONSTER ISLAND (1972)

GODZILLA VS THE SEA MONSTER (1967)

GODZILLA VS. MEGALON (1973)

GODZILLA VS. THE COSMIC MONSTER (1974)

GODZILLA VS. THE SMOG MONSTER (1972)

GODZILLA VS. THE THING (1964)

GODZILLA'S REVENGE (1967)

GOG (1954)

GOOD AGAINST EVIL TVM (1977)

GORGO (1961)

THE GORGON (1964)

GORILLA AT LARGE (1954)

THE GREEN SLIME (1969)

H

HANDS OF A STRANGER (1962)

THE HAND (1960)

THE HAUNTED PALACE (1963)

HAUNTS OF THE VERY RICH TVM (1972)

THE H-MAN (1959)

HORROR AT 37,000 FEET TVM (1973)

HORROR HOUSE (1969)

HORROR ISLAND (1941)

HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1944)

HOUSE OF USHER (1960)

HOUSE OF WAX (1963)

HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL (1959)

THE HOUSE THAT WOULD NOT DIE 1970)

THE HUMAN DUPLICATORS (1965)

THE HUMAN MONSTER (1939)

HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP (1980)

THE HYPNOTIC EYE (1960)

I

I BURY THE LIVING (1958)

I MARRIED A MONSTER FROM OUTER SPACE (1958)

I, MONSTER (1971)

I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (1943)

THE IMMORTAL TVM (1969)

IN THE YEAR 2889 (1967)

THE INCREDIBLE MELTING MAN (1977)

THE INCREDIBLE PETRIFIED WORLD (1958)

THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN (1957)

THE INCREDIBLE TWO-HEADED TRANSPLANT (1971)

THE INDESTRUCTABLE MAN (1956)

INVADERS FROM MARS (1953)

INVADERS FROM SPACE (1964)

INVASION (1964)

INVASION FROM INNER EARTH (1972)

INVASION OF THE NEPTUNE MEN 1964)

INVASION OF THE STAR CREATURES (1961)

THE INVISIBLE CREATURE (1960)

INVISIBLE INVADERS (1959)

THE INVISIBLE MAN (1933)

THE INVISIBLE MAN RETURNS (1940)

THE INVISIBLE MAN'S REVENGE (1944)

ISLE OF THE DEAD (1945)

IT CAME FROM BENETH THE SEA (1955)

IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE (1953)

IT CONQUERED THE WORLD (1956)

IT! THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE (1959)

IT'S ALIVE! (1968)

J

JENNIFER, THE SNAKE GODDESS (1978)

JOURNEY TO THE SEVENTH PLANET (1961)

THE JUNGLE (1952)

K

KILLER BEES TVM (1974)

KILLER GRIZZLY 1976)

THE KILLER SHREWS (1959)

KILLERS FROM SPACE (1954)

KING KONG VS. GODZILLA (1963)

KONG ISLAND (1978)

KONGA (1961)

KUNG FU TVM (1972)

L

LADY FRANKENSTEIN (1973)

THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT (1975)

THE LAST BRIDE OF SALEM TVM (1974)

LEGEND OF BOGGY CREEK (1976)

THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE (1973)

LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1960)

LOCUSTS (1974)

THE LODGER (1944)

THE LOST BATALLION (1962)

THE LOST CITY OF ATLANTIS (1977)

THE LOST CONTINENT (1951)

THE LOST MISSILE (1958)

THE LOST WORLD (1960)

THE LOVE WAR TVM (1970)

THE LUCIFER COMPLEX (1978)

[Billy A. Anderson]

M-Q


M

MACABRE (1958)

THE MAD GENIUS (1931)

MADHOUSE (1974)

THE MAGIC SERPENT (1966)

THE MAGIC VOYAGE OF SINBAD (1962)

THE MAGNETIC MONSTER (1953)

MAN-EATER OF HYDRA (1966)

THE MAN FROM PLANET X (1951)

MAN IN OUTER SPACE (1961)

THE MAN WHO COULD CHEAT DEATH (1959)

MAN WITH THE SYNTHETIC BRAIN (1969)

THE MAN WITHOUT A BODY (1957)

THE MANSTER (1959)

MARK OF THE VAMPIRE (1935)

MARK OF THE VAMPIRE (1957)

THE MASK OF FU MANCHU (1932)

MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH (1964)

MASTER OF THE WORLD (1961)

MEXICAN SPITFIRE SEES A GHOST

MISSILE TO THE MOON (1959)

MONSTER FROM THE SURF (1965)

THE MONSTER THAT CHALLENGED THE WORLD (1957)

MONSTER ZERO (1968)

MOON OF THE WOLF TVM (1972)

THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN ALIVE (1961)

MR. SARDONICUS (1961)

THE MUMMY (1932)

THE MUMMY'S HAND (1940)

MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE (1971)

MUTINY IN OUTER SPACE (1964)

THE MYSTERIANS (1957)

MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM (1933)

N

THE NAVY VS. THE NIGHT MONSTERS (1966)

THE NEANDERTHAL MAN (1953)

NIGHT CREATURE (1978)

NIGHT KEY (1937)

NIGHT MONSTER (1942)

NIGHT OF THE BLOOD BEAST (1958)

NIGHT OF THE BLOOD MONSTER (1972)

NIGHT OF THE COBRA WOMAN (1972)

NIGHT SLAVES TVM (1970)

THE NIGHT STALKER TVM (1972)

NIGHT STAR, GODDESSOF ELECTRA (1965)

THE NIGHT STRANGLER (1973)

NIGHT TIDE (1961)

NO SURVIVORS, PLEASE (1963)

NOT OF THIS EARTH (1957)

O

THE OBLONG BOX (1969)

OLD DRACULA (1975)

THE OMEGANS (1968)

ONE MILLION B.C. (1940)

P

PANIC ON THE 5:22 TVM (1974)

PARTS: THE CLONUS HORROR (1979)

THE PEOPLE THAT TIME FORGOT (1977)

THE PEOPLE TVM (1972)

PHANTOM FROM SPACE (1953)

PHANTOM OF THE RUE MORGUE (1954)

THE PHANTOM PLANET (1961)

THE PHAROAH'S CURSE (1957)

PHASE IV (1974)

THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM (1961)

PLAGUE (1978)

PLANET EARTH TVM (1974)

PLANET OF BLOOD (1966)

PLANET ON THE PROWL (1965)

PLANETS AGAINST US (1961)

PORT SINISTER (1952)

THE PREMATURE BURIAL (1962)

PRINCE OF SPACE (1962)

THE PSYCHIC (1979)

Q

QUEEN OF OUTER SPACE (1958)

QUEST FOR LOVE (1971)

[Billy A. Anderson]

R-Z

R

RACE WITH THE DEVIL (1975)

THE RAVEN (1963)

RED PLANET MARS (1952)

REPTILICUS (1962)

RETURN OF GIANT MAJIN (1966)

RETURN OF THE FLY (1959)

RETURN OF THE GIANT MONSTERS

REVENGE OF THE CREATURE (1955)

RIDERS TO THE STARS (1954)

ROCKETSHIP X-M (1950)

RODAN (1956)

S

SATELLITE IN THE SKY (1956)

SCREAM OF THE WOLF (1974)

SCREAMERS (1981)

THE SHE CREATURE (1956)

THE SKULL (1965)

SLAUGHTER OF THE VAMPIRES (1962)

SNOW CREATURE (1954)

SNOWBEAST TVM (1977)

SOMETHING EVIL TVM (1972)

SON OF BLOB (1972)

SON OF DR JEKYLL (1951)

SON OF DRACULA (1943)

SON OF GODZILLA (1968)

SON OF KONG (1933)

SON OF SINBAD (1955)

SPACE MONSTER (1964)

SPACEWAYS (1953)

THE SPELL TVM (1977)

THE SPIDER (1958)

SPOOKS RUN WILD (1941)

SQUIRM (1976)

SSSSSSS (1973)

STAR PILOT (1967)

STARSHIP INVASIONS (1977)

THE STRANGER TVM (1973)

THE STRANGLER (1964)

SUPERARGO (1968)

T

TALES OF TERROR (1962)

TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE (1959)

TENTACLES (1977)

TERROR BENEATH THE SEA (1965)

TERROR FROM THE YEAR 5000 (1958)

TERROR IN THE WAX MUSEUM (1973)

TERROR OF MECHAGODZILLA (1978)

THE TERROR (1963)

THE TERRORNAUTS (1967)

THEM! (1954)

THEY CAME FROM BEYOND SPACE (1967)

THE THING (1951)

THE THREE STOOGES IN ORBIT (1962)

THE THREE STOOGES MEET HERCULES (1961)

TIME TRAVELLERS TVM (1976)

THE TOMB OF LIGEIA (1964)

TRILOGY OF TERROR TVM (1975)

THE TWO FACES OF DR JEKYLL (1960)

U

THE UNCANNY (1977)

THE THE UNDEAD (1957)

THE UNDERWATER CITY (1962)

THE UNEARTHLY (1957)

THE UNEARTHLY STRANGER (1963)

UNKNOWN WORLD (1951)

UP FROM THE DEPTHS (1979)

V

VALLEY OF THE DRAGONS (1961)

VAMPIRE CIRCUS (1972)

THE VAMPIRE (1957)

VARAN, THE UNBELIEVABLE (1958)

VENUS AGAINST THE SON OF HERCULES (1963)

THE VIKING WOMEN AND THE SEA SERPENT (1958)

VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED (1960)

VILLAGE OF THE GIANTS

VISIT TO A SMALL PLANET (1960)

VOODOO ISLAND (1957)

VOODOO MAN (1944)

VOODOO WOMAN (1957)

VOYAGE TO THE END OF THE UNIVESE (1964)

W

WAR GODS OF THE DEEP (1965)

WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST (1958)

WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS (1967)

WAR OF THE SATELLITES (1958)

WARNING FROM SPACE (1963?)

THE WEREWOLF (1956)

WESTWORLD (1973)

WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE (1951)

WHERE TIME BEGAN (1978)

WHO SLEW AUNTIE ROO? (1972)

WILD, WILD PLANET (1965)

THE WOLF MAN (1941)

THE WOMAN EATER (1959)

WOMEN OF THE PREHISTORIC PLANET (1965)

WONDER WOMAN TVM (1974)

WORLD WITHOUT END (1956)

X

X-15 (1961)

X-THE MAN WITH THE X-RAY EYES (1963)

X-THE UNKNOWN (1956)

Y

YOG-MONSTER FROM SPACE (1971)

YONGARY, MONSTER FROM THE DEEP (1968)

YOU'LL FIND OUT (1940)

Z

ZOMBIES OF MORA TAU (1957)

THE ZOMBIES OF SUGAR HILL (1974)

ZOMBIES ON BROADWAY (1945)

ZOTZ ! (1962)

[Dr. Kobb]

Thanks, Billy!  Parker's voice is just right for that sort of thing.  Weird how they used Santana's "Black Magic Woman" for the theme music behind his recordings.  

[Billy A. Anderson]

Yes, I had also noted the use of "Black Magic Woman," and probably noted it somewhere in a post.

Glad you liked the videos / audios.

[Billy A. Anderson]

Last post to ZAQB for awhile, then off to other message boards, then back to ZAQB.

One issue that all of these types of shows, Such as The World Beyond, in Arizona, Shock Theater all over the USA, (any other countries?) Out Of This World in Charleston SC, and countless others all over everywhere, is that some or all of these film packages included films that some SFantasy-Horror fans might not consider films of those genres.

A good case in point was Night Key with Boris Karloff, about A kindly inventor played by Boris Karloff, who invents a burglar alarm and the invention is stolen.  Parker feels that the World Beyond programmers showed the film because Boris Karloff was in it, and I'm sure no one would disagree.  And, that is obviously why it was included in the original Shock Theater package.

But, genre fans are at variance on whether Night Key should have been included in lists of SFantasy films.  Walt Lee, in his reference guide to fantastic films includes Night Key as an SFilm.  Not a "Border" SFilm, but simply an SFilm.

The Climax is another film shown on TV horror movie programs, like Out of This World, and Walt Lee also includes it in his main list as fantasy-horror, since the Karloff character keeps his deceased wife's body, uses hypnosis on a woman he falls and love, with because he believes she is the reincarnation of his deceased wife, and plans to kill her when she refuses his love.

I think that Tap Roots, another Karloffilm from Universal in the 1940s was also shown on Out of This World, but I don't think it had any SFantasy-Horror elements, as far as I know.  But, it did have Karloff in it.

Michael Weldon, in his Psychotrnic Film Encyclopedia, includes both of these Karloffilms, But, Walt Lee does not include it, even on his exclusions list.

Green Hell, directed by James Whale, is included in Michael Weldon's Psychotronic Encyclopedia, but Walt Lee put it on his exculsions list.

Kung Fu, the pilot film for the TV series of that name with David Carrdine, was shown on the World Beyond, and Parker does not consideer it to have the genre content to be shown on that program.

Also the same with The Lost Battalion, which ran on The World Beyond.  

While Kung Fu had at least one re-run, I don't know if Lost Battalion and Night Key were re-run on the World Beyond or not.  I have not gotten into compiling a list of re-runs and don't yet know if I will, depending on how this thread develops.

[Dr. Kobb]

Yeah, I've noticed that among various playlists and double-features and so on throughout the years.  Not so much in recent times, but back in the day, you'd get two films with little in relation as a double-feature.  I always figured it came down to copyrights/ownership or something having to do with the business end of things in those cases.  Even in our relatively podunk burgh's "The Big Show", you'd get a nice sampling of sci-fi and horror, and then something utterly unlike those genres.  At least it exposed me to more film genres than I might otherwise have bothered watching. 

[Billy A. Anderson]

The final episode of The World Beyond was on June 25, 1988, and the film was Destroy All Monsters.

Parker did happen to be watching it, and remembers "it was highly unusual that when it ended, Stu Tracy's traditional announcement of what would be shown next week did not appear. I hoped it was a fluke; it was not."

Parker says that KPHO never gave any explanation of why the show was cancelled, but he goes into his own explanation much like that given by Robert Laughlin in the CHFB thread Vintage tv horror ads . . . .

"Most local stations stopped showing hosted horror programs in the early 80s. The contributing factors, in no particular order of importance, are: the advent of infomercials, the advent of VCRs and video rental shops, increasing cost of showing non-public domain films, changing viewer tastes (loss of interest in black-and-white movies and increasing preference for sf instead of horror), and lack of new product suitable for TV viewing (new horror movies were too long and had too much sex and violence)."

The "lack of new product suitable for TV viewing" is something that Parker does note in his book. In fact, I might make a list of those films that Parker considered "inappropriate" for the kind of juvenile audience that watched The World Beyond.

Parker considers Humanoids From the Deep to be "one of the most inappropriate movies to ever be shown on The World Beyond."

I think I might go a bit deeper into this topic as this thread progresses.

[Dr. Kobb]

Dec 29, 2018 23:26:07 GMT -5 Billy A. Anderson said:

The final episode of The World Beyond was on June 25, 1988, and the film was Destroy All Monsters.

Parker did happen to be watching it, and remembers "it was highly unusual that when it ended, Stu Tracy's traditional announcement of what would be shown next week did not appear. I hoped it was a fluke; it was not."

Parker says that KPHO never gave any explanation of why the show was cancelled, but he goes into his own explanation much like that given by Robert Laughlin in the CHFB thread Vintage tv horror ads . . . .

"Most local stations stopped showing hosted horror programs in the early 80s. The contributing factors, in no particular order of importance, are: the advent of infomercials, the advent of VCRs and video rental shops, increasing cost of showing non-public domain films, changing viewer tastes (loss of interest in black-and-white movies and increasing preference for sf instead of horror), and lack of new product suitable for TV viewing (new horror movies were too long and had too much sex and violence)."

The "lack of new product suitable for TV viewing" is something that Parker does note in his book. In fact, I might make a list of those films that Parker considered "inappropriate" for the kind of juvenile audience that watched The World Beyond.

Parker considers Humanoids From the Deep to be "one of the most inappropriate movies to ever be shown on The World Beyond."

I think I might go a bit deeper into this topic as this thread progresses.

Yeah, it sounds like Parker nailed down a number of reasons for the decline of those sorts of local hosted shows.  It's ironic but kind of touching that nowadays there are literally scores of horror hosts continuing the tradition, either through their local public-access channels, or online.  There's a whole "Horror Host Network" out there, paying homage to the originals.

[Billy A. Anderson]

Dr. Kobb said:

It's ironic but kind of touching that nowadays there are literally scores of horror hosts continuing the tradition, either through their local public-access channels, or online. There's a whole "Horror Host Network" out there, paying homage to the originals.

I suppose they must show public domain films, rather than risk Big Trouble with the Monopolizers like TCM.