[headstamp 2]

“I remember growing up in the area, I would watch channel 5, channel 9, and channel 11. They always had good programming for a kid my age. Channel 11, WPIX always had “The March of the Wooden Soldiers” every Thanksgiving, and a great Abbott & Costello movie every Saturday (or was it Sunday?) at 11:30 am.

This was back when if you got 6 channels off the rabbit ears, you were lucky. :-)”

Remember ‘Chiller Theater” on Saturday nights? Channel 11.

[Nowhere Man]

Remember ‘Chiller Theater” on Saturday nights? Channel 11.

I've seen the clips on Youtube and elsewhere, I think the spooky hand popping out of the ground was cool. BTW, we had our own version of "Chiller Theater" here in Pittsburgh hosted by William "Chilly Billy" Cardille. I think he started broadcasting in the 1950's and he is still on the radio now. BTW< if you see the original 1968 "Night of the Living Dead," "Chilly Billy" is the local Pittsburgh newscaster in the film.

[Lancey Howard]

I have the DVD and still watch ‘March of the Wooden Soldiers’ with my (now grown) kids every Christmas. (Of course, the movie actually takes place in July.) That movie was made in 1934 and I was floored to find that the actor who played the villain, Silas Barnaby, was only 21 when that movie was made! His name was Henry Brandon. He died in 1990 at 77, and he acted right up until 1989. He even once made a guest appearance on a ‘Murder She Wrote’ episode in 1987.