Sivad Fantastic Features WHBQ Memphis Interview At His Home

Interview with Memphis's Sivad at his home

[@TheSheetslitter]

When I was a kid in the early 60's SIVAD was the the guy we waited all week to see! He was the Fantastic in Fantastic Features! He is one of my favorite child hood characters.

[@dwighthargrove8276]

is davis still alive

[@johndoe-ln4oi]

@@dwighthargrove8276 Watson Davis passed away in 2005 at the age of 92. www.findagrave.com/memorial/10954658/watson-davis

[@JackFlemingFan1]

Excellent video! I remember as a kid living in Memphis when my dad was in the Navy in the mid 60's trying to watch Fantastic Features and being scared out of my mind. Thanks for posting this video! R.I.P. Mr. Davis and God bless you and your family.

[@davesuiter]

I was a member of his fan club. Channel 13 sent me an official card which had to be signed in RED!! Fear was stricken into the hearts of baby boomer kids!! Thanks Sivad!

[@MaverickBAS]

That was great! Thanks for posting this interview. I'd never seen Sivad as a " normal person" before I grew up in Memphis and I recall being scared every week by Sivad. That opening sequence with the coffin being pulled out the hearse..the eerie smoke, the scary music, and most of all Sivad...it made the Fantastic Features movies so much better, scary, and enjoyable. I had forgotten what a great evil laugh Sivad had until I saw the last scene in the interview. Haven't heard that in 40+ yrs

[@gjones7777]

thank you for posting this!!!!!!! soooo many good memories of Savad......and he was a really nice man

[@oliverfurr1527]

I'm a. Big fan of sivad and grew up watching Fantastic Features every Saturday night on channel 13 out of Memphis TN

[@donniepitchford5269]

I just watched this again. How great this is!

[@markfostercrtgamer3201]

A friend of mine, that first told me about Sivad, told me that Sivad appeared at the Memphis fair one year and thousands of people came to see him. My friend said his popularity was enormous and the crowds rivaled any Beatles mod.

[@gjones7777]

I remember as a kid riding my bike home are fast as I could on a Saturday night, bursting through the front door and changing the channel to 13 because it was 5:59 and I wasn't going to miss the opening of Fantastic Features !

[@HerbWalker]

Anyone here remember those days in Memphis? I went to Horn Lake Elementary in Horn Lake MS. In 68 & 69 we lived next door to Elvis Cirle "G" Ranch and watched them ride horses out there in the field by that lake with the big white Cross. My Bus stopped at the gate there every morning. Some little girl would come out of Elvis Ranch house and she rode our bus every morning:) Loved SIVAD!!!:)

[@gulfrelay2249]

Herb Walker Tippah Co.,MS. Ripley. SIVAD ROCKS!

[@dwighthargrove8276]

>I met sivad(davis) when he came into my donut shop in Fraser tas_t_o donuts years ago. he is a nice man.

[@BikiniDeathSquad]

Really awesome of you to upload this.

[@steelcastle5616]

Absolutely the scariest guy in Memphis in the 60's! His voice still gives me chills.

[@suzannehoulden5803]

I kid you not, I remember asking to be put to bed at 6pm one Saturday night so that I wouldn't have to watch Fantastic Features that night!!

[@steelcastle5616]

@@suzannehoulden5803 I can believe it!

[@oscarmason3252]

Man those were the good old days for real

[@HerbWalker]

I lived in Memphis in the 1960s when I was a kid and when WHBQ Channel 13 showed FANTASTIC FEATURES, buddy you can BET that I was there watching too. I would sit just as close as a could to my GrandMa Brown on her couch. We watched it with all the lights in the house turned off and MAN was I scared. I wouldn't even get off that couch to go to the bathroom until Sivad went off. Then we HAD to turn ALL the lights on in the house. hahahaha It was said that our home town boy ELVIS even watched it too! Great memories of Sivad. We loved that guy!!!

[@nancysrios]

Herb Walker I remember watching Fantastic Features. I remember The Screaming Skull and I had to sleep with the lights on. I think the music was truly creepy and nothing surpasses it today.

[@flyboysteven9979]

My favorite Independent Sivad movies were The Screaming Skull, From Hell It Came and Caltiki, The Immortal Monster

[@donniepitchford5269]

I really appreciate this video, because it contains some footage I wish was available on DVD. Apparently, someone has a kinescope of an early "Fantastic Features" broadcast of "Cat Girl." I remember viewing that very evening. Also it confirms a memory I had of being five years old, and seeing a super on the screen, and asking my dad what the words said. My dad said, "It says little kids shouldn't be watching." For years I wondered if he was making that up, since the movies often scared me and produced incredible nightmares about giant lizards and floating skulls!! LONG LIVE SIVAD!

[@donnaosborn9853]

I grew up in Memphis watching Fantastic Features all those years it was broadcast. But it was a special treat to see my first cousin, Bill J. in this clip wanting to "catch" his girlfriend Clara. Sivad suggested a "net", a ClaraNet..lol.

[@suzannehoulden5803]

How fun to know that you cousin was part of the Sivad broadcast, and to be able to see it on youtube so many years later! One of Sivad's nephews was a friend of mine for a while. Not as kids, but once we were adults. Ah, the memories!

[@waikikirod]

Thank you... thank you very much

[@NanceeLL]

He looks good here I always loved him

[@suzannehoulden5803]

Reading all the comments below, I see I wasn't the only kid scared out their wits on Saturday nights, LOL! Hard to imagine a show actually being that scary...but to many of us kids, it really was!

[@myamadeus2191]

I loved this as a kid from Arkansas in the 60's ! Long live Sivad. He did it all with a "skeleton" crew

[@gmamagillmore4812]

Either Dick Halley or Trent Wood had a late night show on WMCT with the Columbia Fright Package in the mid fifties. His makeup was holding a flash light under his chin.

[@MikSwagga25]

My mother bought one of his hats at the action auction! He signed the inside.Loved watching him and wow he looks great for 80.

[@yarekim5932]

My Kindergarten Teacher knew Sivad and his wife. We watched from behind the couch every weekend. He scared me to death.

[@michaelcampbell8884]

Growing up in Jackson in the 60's meant being sure to be watching channel 13 to catch Sivad on Fantastic Features. I remember seeing him at a personal appearance at the Malco in Jackson. Great fun!!

[@debbywilkins2239]

Cool video! I watched Fantastic Features as a kid & Sivad scared me 😂😂

[@jackturner5117]

He sounded like a cross between Bela Lugosi and Pat "Mr. Haney" Buttram.

[@wesmatthews2996]

I was a member of his fan club. I sent for a membership card that had to be signed in "red'!

[@peakperformancetrain]

5:45 great punch line !

[@aaaht3810]

Always watched Fantastic Features. He always seemed to have difficulty keeping his vampire teeth in his mouth when he spoke.

[@geofftaylor934]

I was always told that the opening sequence was filmed at the old Chase Mansion...anyone know who owned that place?

[@stanwatson6616]

Filmed behind Brooks Art Gallery in Overton Park

[@alltaken678]

The interviewer is the lovely Kelly Cruise.

[@jerryt7858]

He scared me to death at age 6.

[@cookieman38111]

"Who is interviewing him???

[@phillipinmon4132]

Me and my brother used to mow his yard, back-in-the-day Hollywood 😎