day is considered to be the longest running horror host in history. Today Count Gore de Vol hosts a Creature Feature website horror show. 1973, WTOG-Channel 44 (Tampa/St.Petersburg) Creature Feature was shown from 1973 until 1995 on WTOG Channel 44 in the Tampa Bay Area. Its host was Dick Bennick Sr., performing under the name "Dr. Paul Bearer". The show created a large fan-following, and was recognized as the longest-running Creature Feature in America. The show was canceled after Bennick died following open heart surgery in 1995. In October 2004 Dr. Paul Bearer's long lost nephew; Professor Paul Bearer hosted Creature Feature but only for that month ending in a Halloween triple feature. There were talks to possibly bring the show back again in 2005 but nothing further developed. mid-1970s, WCIX-Channel 6 (Miami/Ft. Lauderdale) Creature Feature originally aired late 1972-early 1973 on Friday nights at 11:30pm out of WCIX-TV channel 6 an independent station broadcasting out of southern Miami-Dade County, Florida. The original host was the laid-back local radio personality Arnie Warren and his even more laid-back beagle Amos. The opening title as well as the segues into commercials was a still of Boris Karloff as the monster from the 1931 Universal film Frankenstein. The next incarnation (1974 or 1975) was with wacky local morning radio host Bwana Johnny this time formatted as a Saturday afternoon children's show with a live audience, new theme song, and opening sequence with the host wandering the streets of downtown Miami filmed in super fast motion. Unlike the previous host's easygoing relaxed style Bwana Johnny would be more active, interrupting and even inserting himself into the film with humorous dialogue to bizarre effect. An even later version of the show did not have a horror host per se, but relied on a voiceover actor to provide the bumpers and rejoins. This version began with a disturbing animated six fingered hand growing out of the ground, reaching toward the sky while "The Entrance into Sogo" from Barbarella played in the background. WCIX's Channel 6 Creature Feature played the classic Universal monster movies of the 1930s, 1940s, and early 1950s in addition to RKO and American international's post atomic bomb films. Later Japanese Toho, British Hammer, and Amicus films were added to the roster. The show went off the air due to WCIX-TV being acquired by the south Florida CBS affiliate WFOR-TV to the dismay of