The Amazing Colossal Man, Them!, Tarantula, The Thing from Another World, It Came from Outer Space, The War of the Worlds, and Forbidden Planet. Air times Creature Features usually aired on Friday or Saturday night, around eight or nine o'clock. In some cities it aired on Saturday afternoons alternating with Kung Fu Theater and/or Bikini Theater. Because it aired after the traditional Saturday morning cartoon time block, it introduced many teenagers to classic monster movies. Later history TV horror shows of this sort became more scarce during the early and mid-1980s, partly because acquiring broadcast rights for these films became considerably more expensive in the new era of cable television. Another reason for the decline of these shows is the change in Friday and Saturday night viewer demographics, as young people are increasingly less likely to stay home on those nights. Broadcast cities (US) Metropolitan Areas These are the major metropolitan areas of the United States in which Creature Features was seen: Northeast New York Metropolitan Area Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area Greater Boston Area Delaware Valley South Louisville North Carolina channel 6 every Friday night at midnight Nashville Tampa Bay Area South Florida New Orleans, LA Midwest Detroit metropolitan area Chicago Metropolitan Area Cape Girardeau, Missouri Saint Louis, Missouri Kansas City Metropolitan Area Omaha Metropolitan Area Quad Cities South Bend Metro Area West Coast San Francisco Bay Area Los Angeles 1968, WQAD-Channel 8 (Quad Cities) Creature Feature was also the name of a horror program broadcast on WQAD-TV in the Quad City area. From 1968 until 1977 it was hosted by a local business man named Chuck Acri, sponsored by Acri's home improvement business. ("Acri" rhymes with "BAKE-ree"). In addition to Acri's signature greeting, "Hi, Chuck Acri here!", and pitches for his company's products, some intermissions featured a comical Dracula imitator called "Vincent Hedges" (played by actor Ken Gibson) along with other actors playing classic movie monsters. The short filmed segments were produced as silent movie skits, underscored by an instrumental version of "The Windmills of Your Mind". Acri marketed and distributed the program from the Quad Cities, including Milan, Illinois, to Cedar Rapids, Iowa (KCRG) to Peoria (WEEK) and Springfield (WICS), Illinois. Acri's Creature Feature may have had the widest distribution of a local, hosted TV horror movie program in the U.S. 1968, WSJV-Channel 28 (South Bend, Indiana) Creature Features was also the name of a horror show which aired