Anyone remember Bob Wilkins and "Creature Features?"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

In the days when everyone didn't have a VCR and DVD players were non-existent, you had to keep an eye on the TV Guide if you wanted to see your favorite "classic" monster flick. The program mixed all of the classic Universal B&W movies (all variants of Frankenstein / Dracula / Wolfman), the Hammer Christoper Lee & Peter Cushing Dracula / Frankenstein films, and a heapin' helpin' of Grade-Z "Golden Turkey" epics. Tuning in to this show was a regular Saturday San Francisco Bay Area ritual for many years...we had the Airplane, The Dead...and Bob Wilkins.

There were no "bots," no "Mike" or "Joel," but Wilkins' intro / outro / between breaks bits were MST3K-calibre:



"Our second film is Monster From the Ocean Floor. This movie is so bad that it was delivered to Channel 2 in a brown paper bag. When we're through showing it tonight, it will be part of a garage sale in Alameda tomorrow."



"Our feature tonight is Target Earth. It's a story about an army of robots from Venus. Of course, Switzerland is known for their watches, and Venus has always been known for their robots."


Wilkins has an "official" Web Site:

http://www.bobwilkins.net/indexpage.htm

He also did time as "Captain Cosmic"...



...who had a robot sidekick, "2T2"...



Here's a July 2001 photo from the Web Site of Wilkins and John Stanley, the guy who followed him on "Creature Features" when he left the show (KTVU Oakland) in 1979. He took the show to Sacramento's Channel 40, where it remained until 1982.