Jerry g bishop biography for kids
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In a more than year career as radio and TV host, Jerry G. Bishop won three Emmys and toured with the Beatles, but he may be best remembered as the original Svengoolie.
Mr. Bishop hosted “Screaming Yellow Theater,” a horror-film show on WFLD-Ch. 32 from to , as the coffin-dwelling hippie with a wacky sense of humor. His character has a devoted following to this day, family and former colleagues said.
“He was making really creative TV on almost no budget,” said Wally Podrazik, curator at Chicago’s Museum of Broadcast Communications. “I’d call Jerry G. Bishop the master of the non sequitur and running gag. Not just as Svengoolie, but as a radio DJ with a superb timing and a sense of unabashed silliness.”
Mr. Bishop wasn’t the first to host a horror-movie show, but he attracted a devoted following, said rik Koz, Mr. Bishop’s co-writer and protege who inherited the Svengoolie role.
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Before Jerry G. Bishop came to San Diego in to co-host KFMB-TV’s morning talk show, “Sun Up San Diego,” he was a radio and TV fixture in Chicago who toured with the Beatles and created something of a cult following with his comedic, coffin-sleeping hippie named Svengoolie. Mr. Bishop, in his character, was inducted into the Horror Host Hall of Fame in
Here, Mr. Bishop won two Emmys in his 12 years as “Sun Up” host, served as grand marshal for a string of parades, and was an in-demand roastmaster and emcee for numerous charity functions. As he was in Chicago, he remained very active with the Easter Seal Society, hosting the annual telethon.
“Jerry G. Bishop was a consummate performer, with an infectious love of life,” said Kathi Diamant, his “Sun Up” co-host for nearly eight years. “It was an adventure working beside him.
“Whether he was conducting a serious interview, chatting up the studio audience, or playing wi
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Hello everyone. Today I will be writing about the 50th anniversary of Screaming Yellow Theater. The movie anthology show debuted on September 18, , on WFLD-TV Channel 32 in Chicago. Creature Features debuted the next day on September 19, , on WGN-TV Channel 9. I will write and create a new video for its 50th anniversary sometime next month.
To be honest, I have only seen Screaming Yellow Theater at least two or three times. When my family and I lived in the Roseland neighborhood of Chicago in the early s, my parents bought their first television set that had UHF channels. As a result, that was the first time I watched TV programs on Channel I watched Creatures Features on Channel 9 frequently.
Screaming Yellow Theater began showing horror and suspense movies. Most of them were low-budget films and some of them were from overseas. The couldn&#;t showcase the classic horror movies from Universal Studios, because Creatures Feature had their movie rights. There was no host in the be