![]() ![]() She was an instant hit, appearing less than two months later on The Red Skelton Hour doing a comedy routine with Bela Lugosi and Lon Chaney, Jr. In April 1954, aspiring actress Maila Nurmi debuted on KABC, channel 7 in Los Angeles, in the guise of Vampira, combining horror, humor and sex appeal while presenting celluloid screamers of varying quality on a weekly basis, kickstarting a hot trend in the relatively young medium of black-and-white television. Happy Halloween.52 weeks a year! For a time in the 1950s (and again in the '80s), Americans didn't have to wait until October to experience the joyfully spine-chilling autumn holiday in many cities, they could regularly follow the antics of a frightful TV host broadcasting close to home and catch a vintage monster flick as part of the ritual. ![]()
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