The Ghoul and Froggy

Froggy's lucky day

[@gregorykingsley6179]

R.I.P Ron "The Ghoul" Sweed. You were a huge part of my growing up in Michigan. Legendary !!

[@donaldhoot6386]

facebook.com/groups/TheGhoul/

[@marioromanza]

Donald Hoot YES! ! ! I remember his very first show in Detroit, Muhammad Ali stopped by and knocked him on his ass! ! ! GO GHOUL OVERDAAAAY! ! !

[@mambeux]

Him dying on April Fool’s Day seemed appropriate

[@johnw8578]

Watched him as a kid in Detroit. Tried so hard to stay up just so I could watch him. Love The Ghoul and Sir Graves Ghastly!

[@toddwilford1870]

There was one more show in the Detroit area can't remember the name of his on Saturdays also around the same time as Sir Graves but on channel 50 that had Frankenstein steering up a big pot as it introduced the movie

[@lowlypeasant]

I just remember trying to endure those horrible, boring movies to get to the great Ghoul parts. He was the best of all time.

[@motorcityquig]

PaulTurbo In his later shows, The Ghoul would overdubb dialogue in the movies. Once there was a bunch of teenagers dancing and he dubbed in polka music. Another time there was a swamp creature in a horrible cheap outfit. When the creature came out of The water, we hear, "Hiya gang, Hiya, Hiya, Hiya...,"

[@BenFarten]

This brings back memories of getting to stay up late on saturday nights with my dad,watching the b-movies with the ghoul. The inserted sound effects were the best! Rock On Ghoul!!! (and you too Froggy!)

[@bpagan7781]

This is one of the reasons I have a warped sense of humor! I watched the Ghoul on WKBD Ch 50 on Sat nights in Flint Mich. I wrecked my older sisters love life by refusing to go to bed and allow her and her boyfriend to make out. Her boyfriend loved the Ghoul too, maybe more than my sister!

[@motorcityquig]

Brad Pagan Your sister must have been pretty pissed. Her boyfriend chose the Ghoul over her? Ron would be proud.

[@CArchivist]

R.I.P. Ron Sweed, you wonderfully beautifully demented man! :-) Ghoul and Froggy forever!

[@strombeldenbar]

Dude....thank you soooo much....this is a page from my childhood!!!!

[@intravenusdemilo974]

I watched this show when I was in the 6th and 7th grade in Columbus. We could only two stations outside the city One in Cleveland and a crappy one in Indy.Loved the show.My friends and I turned our desks in school to Golden Vaults of Golden Gar-bahge!

[@kerrysmith1899]

The Galloping Ghoulmet. Kielbasa and cheese whiz stuffed turkey.

[@SynicalDan]

RIP Ron. Will miss you!

[@jerrycoyne1351]

God Bless you Ghoul, You made being weird cool

[@jimcoleman598]

RIP The Ghoul - I raise a can of cheeze wiz in your honor. Hope the flags are at half staff in Parma today.

[@PhuckHue2]

great show. I was 7 years old drinking coffee so I could stay up to watch the whole show

[@BWKAPPA]

Ch. 61 Saturday Night at 11:30 in Cleveland, Ohio. THOSE WERE THE DAYS! Hoolihan and Big Chuck Friday night at 11:30p.m. Ch. 8.

[@pschroeter1]

Hoolihan the Weatherman.

[@elizabethjordan5755]

Yes!!!Me and my two brothers LIVED for The Ghoul on Saturday nights at 11:30 sharp! After Big Time Wrestling, of course!😄😄😄😄

[@terrywestbrook-lienert2296]

Damn, Ron Sweed was a complete maniac!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@Tazzman225]

I still have my Ghoul Power t-shirts.

[@aaronroffman3987]

So this was Froggy’s eternal punishment for torturing everyone on Andy’s Gang.

[@jscordoba3]

It's funny a lot of people in Detroit that know Froggy from the Ghoul don't realize where he came from

[@gregsmith7833]

R.I.P. Thanks for all the laughs.

[@wordsmi999]

I laughed so hard I was almost in tears. Thanks for bringing this back!

[@Tazzman]

Psychomania! The best movie he ever aired!

[@MrSATCH1967]

Oh yeah miss those days! Kids today have no clue and the sad thing is they will never have a clue about the days past we all enjoyed. I do also wish those days would come back and that kids found enjoyment in that stuff we did.

[@Wolfie66]

Ah, the fine memories of WKBD Detroit weekend late night TV! The Ghoul rules!!

[@MrPolymers]

The guy's name was Ron Sweed and man I remember him well. I would watch the Goul on Channel 61 out of Cleveland on my neighbors then "Alliance Tennarotor". There was no such thing as cable back then in the early 70's. Yes, the movies were corny. But, this was legendary entertainment in a time when children played outside ,a computer was a room full of machines and the word "internet" was not in our vocabulary..

[@dennymcfastlane8530]

God Speed Ron 'Ghoul' Sweed. You will be missed overdey.

[@wolfcarr3507]

I had said it on the Ghouls website an I'll say it here also. When I was on leave from south east Asia, I made sure to watch him. Not only made me laugh uncontrollably but kind of brought normalcy back into my life.

[@harveywallbanger6258]

These days in Detroit we have Svengoolie. Tonight we're watching the black and white movie, Tarantula. Reminds me of the old Ghoul and Froggy days.

[@thsr592]

Svengoolies not bad, watched the ghoul in the 70s in hamtramck,mi, remember sir graves ghastly ?

[@harveywallbanger6258]

No I don't but I was a kid back then.

[@sithlord1051]

I remember good ol' Sir Graves. He just made my Saturdays! I love watching clips of his show here on KZbin. Ah, sweet nostalgia. :)

[@groverrover3961]

LOVED! this show.

[@ozobie832]

I first remember watching this show when i was 12. I lived for this show back in the day! I've tried looking everywhere for a Ghoul T-shirt!!

[@ORIGINALREDY2MIX]

he was here in michigan go to theghoul.com he is cool as shit man

[@harveywallbanger6258]

+OZOBIEUSA1 lol I was 12 also when I first watched him. Good memories. Now I watch Svengoolie. lol

[@motorcityquig]

I still have my Ghoul sweatshirt from 1973. It still fits but for some off reason it is a little tight around the waist.

[@gregoryratnest362]

the ghoul.com has shirts,like the originals

[@Sentimentalgal05]

@@gregoryratnest362 That isn't the website for The Ghoul. I just went there and there is no Ghoul memorabilia. It just tells you to search for ads.

[@Valmtg]

R.I.P. Ghoul. :(

[@rorycraft5453]

Hoolihan and Big Chuck on channel 8 Fridays and the Ghoul on channel 61 on Saturdays. That is what a socially inept teenager like me looked forward to on the weekends. Turn blue! Spencer and Mongolia. “Who stole the kishka? Who stole the kishka? who stole the kishka? Someone put it back!” 🤣

[@lapurta22]

Classic!! Everyone wish Ron the best of luck on his triple bypass surgery.

[@farber2]

I'm from detroit, we loved the ghoul in the 70's. they test marketed the ghoul in about ten cities, only detroit really liked it besides ohio of course.

[@lapurta22]

I didn't know that. I always had the understanding that he was strictly a Detroit/Cleveland phenomenon.

[@meandingo]

This is freaking me out and I love it.

[@Ticklemewicked]

OMGosh~I so remember this clip. Poor Froggy, he always got the short end of the stick. For some reason, at age 44, I still find myself saying Frooogggyy (Frog-gee) hi ya,hi ya,hi ya...and my daughter is like...huh??? He was great~We didn't care what movie was on...we just wanted to see him!! This was a cool trip down memory lane~Thanks~

[@horarwgt]

This is not only sick but a complete reversal of the true Froggy's nature. The real Froggy (on "Andy's Gang") was a deep-voiced wiseacre who always got the best of long-suffering, gravel-voiced Andy Devine.

[@renata777777]

I thought I was the only one who remembered Andy Devine's Froggy! I was only a few years old and I hated Froggy! He scared me to death with his actions and his evil attitude!

[@davidsherman7739]

Being from the East coast, never heard of this show. But, I remember "Andy's Gang" vividly. It's so refreshing to see Froggy finally get his comeuppance!

[@aceshigh130]

In addition bustin' froggy's chops, didn't "The Ghoul" take out after Parma, Ohio, to the point where the mayor of Parma actually complained to the station????Great post.

[@round55]

Thanks for posting this! Voyage To The Bottom of the Barrell!

[@Tazzman]

I met him sometime ago! He is cool too and he showed Psychomania! Like myself, WM grew with Sir Graves, The Ghoul, Son of Svengoolie and maybe someone else I left out!

[@kevinthe1st]

I'm over 40 years old, ...still scratching glass & turning blue.

[@RossJams]

GHOUL POWER ... guy o my of the day !!

[@retAFcop98]

Chanel 20 and 50 in Detroit! Had a Ghoul poster in my room. Saturday night ritual!

[@kurtb8474]

16 years old, small town, Friday nights and The Ghoul. The good old days.... oberday!

[@rclaughlin]

+kurtb8474 Exactly the story of my life when The Ghoul Show played my airwaves. I was 16, living in a small town, and there was the Ghoul to brighten my Friday nights. Sigh...

[@riccampbell]

Late 60's/early 70's growing up in Cleveland - Big Chuck and Hoolihan on Friday nights, the Ghoul on Saturdays. When the family moved to the Boston area in around '73 I was bummin' - till I found out that the Ghoul was syndicated there!!! (Kaiser Broadcasting) Made the transition just a little bit easier. Stay sick!!

[@sewershits]

We need him back in Detroit on Ch 20. Ghoul power rocks.

[@DonnyHooterHoot]

Two years RIP this April 1st. And that ain't no April Fools day joke! RIP King!

[@zbsr]

Ghoul Power now and forever

[@mickberry9991]

What a GREAT SHOW this was. What a time it was to stay up practically all night watching this and having to put Aluminum foil of the rabbit ears just to tune it in.

[@user208351]

Wheres my cheeze whiz? Turn blue scratch glass.......

[@CrimeComunismFagotry]

Frightening contemplations of youth. I grew up in Oakland CA and I still remember the magical summer i which his show was syndicated on KBHK channel 44 in San Francisco and we could enjoy both The Ghoul and Bob Wilkins. I thought he was hysterical the way he tore up Froggy. Of course, the sickest amongst us kids did this shit to our toys in real life but this in no way blunted the novelty of an adult doing this on television.

[@Oldbmwr100rs]

And someone else remembers this was shown in the bay area! Sadly the show didn't last, but i still remember him blowing stuff up with firecrackers, his wine making kit, his christmas special and of course his ongoing war with froggy!

[@FrankenVega]

That was great! Definitely brought back memories. Quality entertainment!

[@MrEdkern]

NOONE LIKE THE GOUL. 10 YEARS AHEAD OF HIS TIME.

[@mikelewis3382]

Ron Sweed - good stuff...

[@kenvelickoff4275]

Yes! pluck your magic twanger, over day froggy, miss my late Friday and Saturday nights!!!!!!!!!

[@brownj2]

Oh man! now I remember what made me so twisted!

[@garrison7888]

It all started with Ghoulardi in Cleveland. He started this character and was the godfather for a late night television. Go to KZbin and type in Ghoulardi and you'll see the man who started it all. Turn blue, Over theyyyyy.

[@brianstone8660]

I remember when I was a kid I was in the 6th grade and me and all my friends would stay up all night and and watch the ghoul he sent me an autographed picture of him and he wrote on the picture hey Scott turn blue the ghoul those were the days there was no such thing as computers we thought calculators we're awesome we had a 12 inch black and white Zenith TV and we go fishing and we go hunting we all would walk down Main Street through the schoolyard We're All or carrying our shotguns and go hunting I sure do miss those days

[@michaelkorenek6047]

This may be the last one when Froggy the Gremlin came back from the dead and now he's forcibly suffers through painful consequences.

[@kyokogodai-ir6hy]

RIP my leader. You were the best.

[@johnnewall7208]

The Ghoul was fun but then I graduated to Martin Mull and Barth Gimble.

[@jackgrattan1447]

+John Newall Both from Cleveland.

[@steveczap]

Every frog has his day.

[@toddwilford1870]

Poor froggy firecrackers and everything couple hammers LOL 😂

[@EndingSummerwithRalph]

I don't think they played this in New York in the 70's, they would just show this clay animation hand and a creepy voice that said Chiller during commercial breaks........ I'd fall asleep so many times, they played some seriously bad films and that was before riffing started. The good old days weren't all that good. I would have loved watching this guy back then. The Chiller opening is posted if you search Chiller you'll see the hand, that was the best part of watching the movie.

[@clairewyndham1971]

I used to drop acid and mesculin..and watch in on Saturday night..I think my jaws still hurt from laughing.. he had the WORST movies ever, but I loved him. Good Thing my kids don't have my Facebook name..

[@motorcityquig]

I use to hit the bong and laugh my ass off watching him. I considered taking acid but was afraid I would flip out at his insanity.

[@brucelafrance5577]

Who didn't?

[@johnnybgood271]

I was watching him when SNL came out...couldn't not watch him. Remember when he got kicked off 43 in Parma, to find him on channel 20. I graduated from NW Ohio I was in Sandusky one time at a store with my mom, checking out and either the ghoul or someone dressed like him was in front of us. I didn't say a word. Just tried to figure out if he was the real deal.....Would still rather watch him then Svenghoulie..chuckle chuckle.

[@robertflowers6621]

"Parma"? Didn't you mean "Amrap"?

[@elizabethjordan5755]

Yay! Sandusky girl here & me & my brothers watched the Ghoul religiously on Saturday nights. Channel 61. Boy, those were the days!

[@Discfiend69]

Fuckin'Great! God,I miss those days...His favorite brand of explosives were Thunder Bombs...

[@dannym454a]

Latent memories restored.

[@jondoe8721]

He taped these shows in Royal Oak on the corner of Rochester Rd. and Woodlawn a buddy was watching him blow up froggy outside one day and made it on the show, good times, You out there Dan H.? Ace

[@toddwilford1870]

Did not know till today he died in 2019 rest in peace RonI remember when your show took the place of creature feature. Waiting all week to watch them shows back then my parents would let me stay up late to see it heck even they're gone now. I would give anything now to go back there if even for a minute

[@PRODUCEDBYKEV]

In 7th & 8th grade The Ghoul was our FIRST topic of discussion EVERY Monday for 2 years.

[@xavierhill6638]

"Ow ow OWWW!!!" 🤣🤣🤣 classic

[@pschroeter1]

I'm so old I remember his predecessor Ghoulardi. Cool it with the boom booms.

[@jacklinonis3719]

RIP Ron Sweed aka The Ghoul..OVADAY!!!

[@stevenrusch6341]

This could easily be the precursor to RackaRacka.

[@jamesnelson1443]

Takes me back to a great era

[@stoughton1]

He blew up Detroit and came back home..to CLEVELAND...

[@kyokogodai-ir6hy]

He used to be here in Detroit, too! Those were the days. Darn SNL!

[@davidviton1065]

You would really f*** froggy up at times just loved it😂😂

[@525Lines]

This guy was brought in to replace the original Sven in the Chicago market and didn't last long.

[@lapurta22]

When was Ron ever in the Chicago market? My understanding is that he was only ever in Cleveland and Detroit because Channels 61 and 50 respectively were both owned by Kaiser Broadcasting.

[@twintone01]

Hey. If you are in the Detroit area, TV20 has a guy named Wolfman Mac on 12 midnight. That is Saturdays. The show is called Nighmare Sinema. Check him out on myspace. He has seen the ghoul, for shore. Has a character called Son of Froggy.

[@MikeLongo]

Loved the Ghoul from Ann Arbor baby!! The movies were so bad and we just watched to see if he would interrupt them with something silly! Zinggy zinggy zinggy?!!

[@motorcityquig]

Mike Longo A friend of mine made an electric Zingy Zingy and sent it to the Ghoul. It was a sign that lit up and flashed the words "Zingy Zingy".Two weeks later, we watched as the Ghoul opened the box containing the electric Zingy Zingy. He then plugged it in but nothing happened. It was a dud.The Ghoul had some unkind words for my friend and tossed the contraption into the garbage can.

[@MikeLongo]

@@motorcityquig That is crazy! Would be hilarious if you could find the tape of that one!!!

[@motorcityquig]

Mike Longo Believe me, I have been all through these Ghoul bits on KZbin hoping to find it but to date have had no luck. I keep my eye out for a all new ones hoping to find the Holy Grail.

[@motorcityquig]

Mike Longo If I ever find it I'll let you know

[@hacksawhaneypresents9548]

Poor Froggy.

[@bradybaylis9216]

I want a buxom blonde Queen Barb (Mrs. Ghoul) jacket!!!!!!!!

[@myredrose1974]

CLEVELAND's VERY OWN............OW OW OW....HIYA HIYA HIYA.......COME BACK!..Gonna miss ya on Halloween at Ghoulard's!!

[@motorcitystevo]

borbert loves the ghoul

[@cyberbeer65]

Priceless!

[@krantz239]

RIP GHOUL

[@oxymomo]

I want a Ghoul jacket!

[@Longeno55]

I remember this! the magic twanger over they

[@Diabolik771]

Children Shouldn't play with Dead Things and Psychomania were classics he would host.

[@MegaJetJaguar]

Poor Froggy!

[@kyokogodai-ir6hy]

Do you mean on tv, these days??? No way! I have never heard of him. I will have to check this guy out!!!!

[@ruthecker399]

i worked for the ron sweed very nice man

[@michaelali7151]

Classic!

[@jayroc86]

Saturday nights on Detroit's channel 50!

[@guitwar71]

I am 5? and The Ghoul was comin on at 3am in the morn back in 7? .Think it was ch.50 detroit.Cool!

[@harveywallbanger6258]

+guitwar71 Yep,,that was when I watched him also. Ch 50.

[@suefreihofer5515]

+Harvey Wallbanger Yep - I watched him on 50 as well - loved him!

[@sithlord1051]

Same here! Ch 50, late at night. It's so nice to know people share the same sweet feelings of nostalgia for something from a time long past.

[@renata777777]

Sounds like he stole much of his material from Ghoulardi! Mocking Parma, turn blue, ova dey, blowing up stuff was all part of his show in the early 60's. He even looked like the Ghoul with his beard.

[@lapurta22]

@@renata777777 He took over from Ghoulardi with his permission. He was even an assistant producer for Ghoulardi's show.

[@joeklimko8339]

Ghoul forever RIP Ghoul

[@jewell49707]

VERY COOL!!!

[@clairewyndham1971]

And remember..Parma is Amrap spelled backwards!! Remember when he would shove firecrackers in model cars and blow them up? Or he would take " last weeks movie" remove it from the reel..put it in a garbage can and torch it?? All the time Camera4 was going in and out.. Cable ruined my life!!

[@daveconleyportfolio5192]

The best was when he suspended a wire across the studio, hooked on a little model Gamera and ignited two model rockets in the back. Ah, memories.

[@cjdavis2684]

With Ron swedes passing froggy is gone as well. I will remember them both from my younger years rest in peace Ron KZbin froggy.

[@jscordoba3]

Froggy had a whole existence before the Ghoul. Look up "froggy Andy's gang". Froggy goes back to the 40s

[@itsonlyatail]

Well, guess this show where my mind was in high school, every weekend…..with friends, back when the drugs were safe 😮😮