Creature Features (WNEW)

Creature Features
Title for WNEW Channel 5's Creature Features
Genre	Horror
Presented by	Lou Steele
Country of origin	United States
Production
Location(s)	New York City Metro Area
Running time	2 hours
Release
Original network	WNEW
Chronology
Related shows	Chiller Theatre, Fright Night

Creature Features a classic horror film show broadcast in the New York Metropolitan Area, on WNEW, Channel 5 (Metromedia Broadcasting). It was hosted by Lou Steele (The Creep), who became familiar to Channel 5 viewers for starting off the 10 o'clock News by asking: "It's 10 p.m.; do you know where your children are?"

Creature Features first aired from July to August 1969 on a test run, and was found to be a hit. The movies broadcast were taken from the classic horror movies of the 1930s and 1940s, the horror and science-fiction films of the 1950s, British horror films of the 1960s, and the Japanese "giant monster" movies of the 1960s, and early 1970s. It was continued on the air from November 1969 to August 1973, but was cancelled due to poor ratings and competition from WPIX's Chiller Theatre.

Creature Features normally showed classic Universal Horror, like Dracula, Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, The Mummy, plus many Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi films and others.

They also aired all the movies produced and distributed by American International Pictures. This included all the Roger Corman B-movies of the 1950s and 1960s like The Raven, and The Terror, plus most of the Japanese "monster movies" produced by Toho Studios, and Daiei Motion Picture Company (famous for their Godzilla and Gamera movies).