At least, if you were lucky enough to live in Cleveland in the mid-60s. The Ghoulardi show aired Friday nights and again Saturday afternoon. It was a great way to catch all the horror and sci-fi flicks that were made. I mean, where else were you going to get the chance to eventually catch all of Jon Agar's flicks? Ghoulardi was a certified phenomenon by '65. Merchandise was everywhere, from t-shirts and sweat shirts to special drinks at the Manners Big Boy restaurant. I remember the Ghoulardi shake, served in a plastic mug with Ghoulardi's face on it, drunk through a licquorice straw. One of the classic bits on the show was blowing up model kits. The movie would fade out and up would come a close-up of, say, a battleship with a fuse sticking out of a smokestack. A hand would come in with a lit match and light the fuse. The fuse would burn down, the ship would explode, and cut to a commercial.... Ghoulardi also did the first music video I ever saw, a dramatization of the Royal Guardsmen's pop hit, "Snoopy versus the Red Baron."
When Ernie Anderson's buddy Tim Conway made it semi-big in Hollywood, Ernie decided to follow him westward. He eventually made it big as an announcer for ABC. Any time you heard a voiceover, chances were it was Ernie's golden voice.