Kids today have no idea who Morton Downey Jr. Was. Seriously, Jerry Springer has taken on the role of being the first trash TV host but there was nothing like Morton when he was on TV. He started his in your face style as a talk show host at KFBK-AM in Sacramento, California. He was fired and replaced by Rush Limbaugh.
The Morton Downey Jr. Show started as a local show on New York's WOR Channel 9 in 1987 and was syndicated for two years. It was a fad, but at the time, he was a big star blowing smoke in people's faces and yelling his catchphrases.
By 1990, he was an actor.
Directed by former stuntman Charlie Picerni, "Television Terror" has Downey as Horton Rivers, a person with a show a lot like the show that the real Downey hosted. He's touring the haunted Ritter House where Ada (Jeannie Epper) killed at least twelve people. Even when warned by an expert in ghosts, Rivers takes his entire crew into the house and pays for it.
Downey would play another character just like this - and just like Morton Downey Jr. - when he was Tony Pope in Predator 2.
This episode is based on "Television Terror!" from The Haunt of Fear #17. It was written and drawn by Harvey Kurtzman. It's different than what is in the show, but as good as this episode is, Kurtzman is so much better.
The Morton Downey Jr. Show started as a local show on New York's WOR Channel 9 in 1987 and was syndicated for two years. It was a fad, but at the time, he was a big star blowing smoke in people's faces and yelling his catchphrases.
By 1990, he was an actor.
Directed by former stuntman Charlie Picerni, "Television Terror" has Downey as Horton Rivers, a person with a show a lot like the show that the real Downey hosted. He's touring the haunted Ritter House where Ada (Jeannie Epper) killed at least twelve people. Even when warned by an expert in ghosts, Rivers takes his entire crew into the house and pays for it.
Downey would play another character just like this - and just like Morton Downey Jr. - when he was Tony Pope in Predator 2.
This episode is based on "Television Terror!" from The Haunt of Fear #17. It was written and drawn by Harvey Kurtzman. It's different than what is in the show, but as good as this episode is, Kurtzman is so much better.