21 Facts About Creature Features

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Creature Features is a generic title for a genre of horror TV format shows broadcast on local American television stations throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.

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Creature Features was another film package that was released in the early 1960s and added to in the 1970s.

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Creature Features normally showed all the classic Universal Horror movies from the 1930s and 1940s, like Dracula, Frankenstein, and others.

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Creature Features aired many "nuclear monster" and "space alien" science fiction movies.

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Creature Features usually aired on Friday or Saturday night, around eight or nine o'clock.

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Creature Features Feature was the name of a horror program broadcast on WQAD-TV in the Quad City area.

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Creature Features was the name of a horror show which aired on Saturday nights in the South Bend Metro Area on WSJV-TV Channel 28, from 1968 till 1977.

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Creature Features was broadcast in the New York Metropolitan Area, on WNEW, Channel 5 .

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Creature Features first aired from July to August 1969 on a test run, and was found to be a hit.

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Creature Features was introduced into the Chicago metropolitan area on Chicago's WGN Channel 9 in the fall of 1970.

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Creature Features Feature was the name of a show broadcast by WUTV Channel 29 in the Buffalo area.

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12.

Creature Features Feature returned in 2011 as a live theater show within Omaha as Creature Features Feature Live, featuring a reboot of the Dr San Guinary character.

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Creature Features ran on KTVU in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1971 to 1984, hosted by Bob Wilkins, and later by John Stanley, who took over in 1979.

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Creature Double Features was the name of a show broadcast by WKBG Channel 56 in the Greater Boston area.

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Creature Features Feature was the name for a horror show in the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area, broadcast on WDCA Channel 20, from 1973 to 1987.

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Creature Features Feature was shown from 1973 until 1995 on WTOG Channel 44 in the Tampa Bay Area.

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WCIX's Channel 6 Creature Features Feature played the classic Universal monster movies of the 1930s, 1940s, and early 1950s in addition to RKO and American international's post atomic bomb films.

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Creature Features was the name of a horror show which aired on Friday nights at 11:30 P M in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area on KSHB-TV Channel 41 beginning in 1981 through 1990.

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Theme music for the Creature Features Feature was written by KSHB-TV's Creative Services Director, Rob Forsythe.

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20.

Misty Brew's Creature Features Feature aired classic films like Psycho, Swamp Thing, Phantom of the Opera, The Haunting, Theater of Blood, and the yearly Halloween Marathon.

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21.

Creature Features which aired on ATN-7 Channel 7 was hosted by "Vampira" – played by Jill Forster.

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