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Perry Martin continues...
For the first year or so, the programming was strictly single features -- one movie every Saturday night. Eventually, the show's format switched to double features. It also dropped the marching band music for an all-new Creature Features theme song, composed specifically for the series. I always preferred the original music.
After a while, Channel 2 also picked up the Universal horror classics, as well as the major Hammer films and other good stuff -- basically, the same movies Bob was showing on his KTXL show. In fact, I remember one night, in a programming snafu, Wilkins played FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLF MAN on both shows simultaneously.
The marching band music was Neal Hefti's tune Gotham City Municipal Swing Band, from the Batman TV show-inspired album, Hefti In Gotham City.
I dropped the needle on my copy of the album to get this snippet of the Creature Features theme song , which I faded out about where I recall the tune fading out during the Creature Features title sequence. Watch out! The nostalgia-invoking power of this tune is dangerously high! (You can hear the entire tune - direct from Bob's own tape - and other audio rarities, on the Creature Features CD Scott Moon put together, available at BobWilkins.tv.)
Still more Creature Features...
FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLF MAN can be found along with all the rest of Universal's werewolf pictures on Universal's The Wolf Man Legacy Collection.
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