Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Bowling for Dollars
When I was a kid, a lot of TV was local-- very local. We had not one or two but THREE local horror movie hosts: Sir Graves Ghastly, Count Scary, and The Ghoul (who was a genuinely unsettling dude).
But what I found really mesmerizing was our local version of Bowling for Dollars, which featured the kind of people you would see at the grocery store in suburban Detroit; well, in fact, they were exactly those people.
The prizes were fabulously low-value. A cassette tape player, a set of retread tires, one frozen pizza... sure, there was the "big money" prize, but what got doled out most often were things that didn't seem like much of a splurge.
I found myself really rooting for the contestants. How could I not?
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You forgot Elvira...
I remember the bowling. Now if you turn on ESPN you find Roof Ball, Cornhole, Marbles and a few other odd games being broadcast.
I remember the bowling. Now if you turn on ESPN you find Roof Ball, Cornhole, Marbles and a few other odd games being broadcast.
In metro Washington, DC, wehad Count Gore Dival (get it?) who was the same guy who played "Captain 20" hosting Ultraman and afternoon cartoons.
I was too young to watch late night TV in Cleveland, but in the afternoons there was Captain Penny (who was a railroad engineer-- so why he was called "Captain," I never knew).
At age 8, as I began 3rd grade, the new commercial UHF channel, WKBF introduced Captain Cleveland, a far more subversive program. It was one of the things I missed when we moved to Virginia 4 months later.
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I was too young to watch late night TV in Cleveland, but in the afternoons there was Captain Penny (who was a railroad engineer-- so why he was called "Captain," I never knew).
At age 8, as I began 3rd grade, the new commercial UHF channel, WKBF introduced Captain Cleveland, a far more subversive program. It was one of the things I missed when we moved to Virginia 4 months later.
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