Comments on: Good evening. I am Sivad, your monster of cerermonies

By: Pam

Pam — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 02:40:14 +0000

I was so happy to come across your post and the comments. I was also a big fan of Sivad as I grew up in Memphis and West Memphis. His shows were the highlight of our week. I was told he lived in our neighborhood in West Memphis and I had a chance to trick or treat at his home. However, I was too afraid to go up to the door.

By: Observer

Observer — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:59:00 +0000

WTBAL, last year I got Poltergeist on DVD and watched it with my then 16-year-old son, who’d heard of the movie but didn’t have a clue about it. The clown under the bed scene really got him (he’s always been scared of clowns, which is apparently a fairly common phobia). It was fun watching a movie from 1982 give him the heebie jeebies. More recently we got The Exorcist, which he also thought was pretty intense. You’ve got to get movies like that on DVD and watch then uncut and uninterrupted by commercials. Last year, just so he’d have a clue, I got some Laurel & Hardy videos for my other son to watch. His only prior knowledge of Laurel & Hardy was from Blazin’ Saddles (“… a laurel and hardy handshake …”). It’s a lot of fun sharing that kind of stuff with your kids.

By: WantedToBeALawyer

WantedToBeALawyer — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:17:08 +0000

Observer, last year I got my seventeen year old son to watch a few episodes of “The Twilight Zone”. He loved it. It helped that a couple of days later “The Family Guy” made a refence to one of the episodes we had watched. My son was proud of himself by getting this (obscure for 17 yo) reference to an old TV show. I was proud to have given my son an exposure to high culture. Next week, its “Hogan’s Heroes”.

By: WantedToBeALawyer

WantedToBeALawyer — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:48:02 +0000

Down here in Jackson, we had “Scartisha” and the Saturday Night Horror Movie. Good times.

By: Observer

Observer — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:15:29 +0000

WHAT does it say about our current society that the memories of those of us who were small — I was 10 in ’67 — when Sivad was on are memories of being frightened and scared and sleeping with the lights on but today’s 10-year-old would find neither Sivad or any of his movies scary in any degree. When the theme music would start I’d go hide, it frightened me so. I think a lot of things were better in the old days.

By: Judge Mental

Judge Mental — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:17:41 +0000

Who could forget Sivad? I forgot all the forgettable movies he emceed, but one can’t forget Sivad.

By: BoynamedSioux

BoynamedSioux — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:16:54 +0000

that scene was shot in Overton Park vd, and I too have very fond memories of watching Sivad. I remember the show running on late afternoons on Saturday as well. One I think I remember was “D-Day on Mars”, as well as several of the 30′s era horror movies. I wish we could get DVDs of the show and movies. Anyone?

By: Jane

Jane — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:49:14 +0000

I’m told that late night line up with Morgus the Magnificent included Mission Imposable and the Rat Patrol along with Perry Mason.

I do recall Gun smoke the Wild wild west and all in the family though.

By: billdees

billdees — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:36:02 +0000

There are 30,800 Google hits for Morgus the Magnificent, a fixture for more than 40 years on New Orleans late night Saturday TV. A latter day sample: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-tPQhbz5l4

By: Dragoman

Dragoman — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:36:54 +0000

Thanks for posting, NMC. There was a similar character in the Baton Rouge market in the mid-60s, Count Macabre, who had an afternoon show. (I lived in Natchez, and we would pick up WBRZ, Channel 2.) Anyway, it was a similar format, but I don’t remember the production values being very high, certainly not as good as Sivad’s in his introduction there.