“Nite Owl Theatre” ran nightly on WBNS 10 TV in Columbus, OH from 1974 to 1991. Now you can see some of the best bits that earned Fritz the Nite Owl 5 Emmys over his amazing run of 6,205 consecutive broadcasts.
His name is The Phantom and he dwells beneath a shuttered video rental store, constantly searching through the leftover tapes and forgotten treasures no one seems to want anymore. On Saturday, September 10 at 10 pm, his new show will debut exclusively on Beta Max TV.
Calling the guy who originally brought the Universal Frankenstein monster to life a renaissance man may be a bit of a stretch.