c3k Posted September 7, 2007 Share Posted September 7, 2007 ...was to have 1:1 modelling, BUT with the ability to x10 scale units, similar to CMBO/BB/AK. That way, I could have a single U.S. squad made up men 60' tall stomping through a town like Godzilla! That's all I wanted... Thanks, Ken 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVulture Posted September 7, 2007 Share Posted September 7, 2007 Would they be able to shoot sonic rays out of their mouths too? Or lasers from their eyes? Or whatever it was Godzilla used to do... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewood Posted September 7, 2007 Share Posted September 7, 2007 Where are the sharks with frikken laser beams? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battlefront.com Posted September 8, 2007 Share Posted September 8, 2007 As a fan of Godzilla, I can sympathaize! You folks from the Boston area may remember Creature Double Feature on Saturdays. Such memories! Steve 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewood Posted September 8, 2007 Share Posted September 8, 2007 Ch. 56, we got it in Maine too. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffsmith Posted September 8, 2007 Share Posted September 8, 2007 Creature Double Feature in Boston Beginning in 1972 a station in the Kaiser Broadcasting (later Field Communications) chain, WKBG (Channel 56; WLVI after the Boston Globe sold their share back to Kaiser in 1975) aired its collection of Godzilla movies - one per week at 4 pm on Saturday under the title, The 4 O'Clock Movie. They cycled through their collection twice, noticing that the broadcasts were especially popular with youngsters. Then, they started showing the film at midnight, calling it Creature Feature. The ratings became so popular that the show was moved to noon to increase its ratings. However, it was in direct competition with WCVB-TV's Candlepin Bowling and was moved to the 2 pm time slot. Its popularity grew and they tweaked the title to Creature Double Feature and changed its start time to 1 pm. The show quickly became a staple of the station's Saturday programming schedule during the '70s and early '80s. Although the exact date of the final show is currently unknown, it seems to have petered out sometime in 1983. To this day WLVI staffers report that they still receive more e-mail and phone calls about Creature Double Feature than anything else. In 2006, channel 56's Steve Ratner was quoted in the Boston Globe as saying "I'm amazed at the following the show continues to have. It's just insane how many people come up to us and ask after the Creature Double Feature. Every day we get e-mails from people all over the country." However, the station is unlikely to revive the show on their own since that timeslot is usually used now for infomercials, from which the station makes a considerable amount of income. In June 2006, The Boston Herald reported that Boston-area car dealership owner Ernie Boch, Jr. would be bringing the show back to WLVI - at its original timeslot - on an occasional basis. The first program of the new series aired on June 24, 2006. The two films shown on this occasion were Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster and The Giant Gila Monster. Boch himself hosted the show in full makeup as The Ghoul, though the original show never had a host - only announcers. A second episode aired on October 28, 2006, featuring 1973's Horror Express followed by the original 1968 Night of the Living Dead. The show's original announcers were reportedly Ron Dwyer and Tom Evans. During most of its run, however, the show's announcer was Dale Dorman, a Boston radio personality at WRKO who also frequently did voice work for 56's children's programming. Although Dorman's voice was perfect for this kind of work, it was never well-suited to an afternoon of horror movies. The intro/outro music used for Creature Double Feature throughout its run was Emerson, Lake & Palmer's "Toccata" from Brain Salad Surgery. WLVI has kept the song as the theme of the 2006 revival. It is not yet known if current WLVI owners Sunbeam Television will continue to air the revival. Ahh remember it well 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewood Posted September 8, 2007 Share Posted September 8, 2007 Wow...Uncle Dale (which is what he was known as locally). He also was a DJ on the local KISS108 radio station. Sherman, set the way back machine. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mord Posted September 8, 2007 Share Posted September 8, 2007 Originally posted by Battlefront.com: As a fan of Godzilla, I can sympathaize! You folks from the Boston area may remember Creature Double Feature on Saturdays. Such memories! Steve Originally posted by thewood: Ch. 56, we got it in Maine too. HOLY CRAP! Yep! They used part an ELP song from Brain Salad Surgery....DEEDEEDEEDEEDUMDUMDUMDUM DEEDEEDEEDEEDUMDUMDUMDUM. Watched that every Saturday! EDITED: Nice Article Jeff! Brings back many memories. EDITED AGAIN: I also liked watching The Movie Loft on Channel 38. Mord. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffsmith Posted September 8, 2007 Share Posted September 8, 2007 Blasts fom the (Boston)TV Past 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mord Posted September 8, 2007 Share Posted September 8, 2007 This is pretty good. Note Johnny Sacko's Flying Robot! Mord. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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