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"Friday Night Dead" was a hosted horror movie show with Al Sahley as "Fat Drac" presenting movies on Friday nights on WVAH-TV, Fox Channel 11 Charleston-Huntington, West Virginia in the early 1980s.

From E-gor's Chamber of TV Horror Hosts: "Friday Night Dead featured the talents of veteran radio personality Al Sahley as "Fat Drac, the King of Corpuscular Corpulence. The biggest name in Mountain State monsters!" Sahley was a self-professed "ham" with a talent for vocal characterizations and imitations, who had always wanted to do a Dracula character (white face, fangs, slicked back hair, cape, over-the-top Transylvanian accent). The show's debut was broadcast live but was subsequently taped on Wednesdays to allow time for editing and refinement. Sahley and production manager Steve Utt pulled together the costume and set, which included a plywood backdrop of castle walls and bats and a shipping coffin (a wooden box lined with felt)".—E-gor's Chamber of TV Horror Hosts

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Genres
  • Thriller
  • Comedy
  • Mystery
  • Horror
  • Sci-Fi
Release date Feb 6, 1981
Countries of origin United States
Language English
Filming locations Charleston, West Virginia, USA
Production companies Wvah-Tv

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