House of Jitters

 Strange things are afoot at the House of Jitters!  We have unearthed Audio Recordings of the Acri Creature Feature in its earliest days, 1971 and 1972, specifically, and we unearthed them from the back of my closet, to be even more specific.

Uploaded to Archive.org for preservation of its early TV history, the audio (only) recordings are most likely the largest collections of its kind.  Young super fan Dave Epland taped the program on his tape player and saved them over the years.  A few fellow fans had them professionally transferred in the early 2000s. I've notated below the audio track listings as they appear on Archive.org. Click to hear the  Acri Creature Feature Audio Recordings on Archive!

Click above link to visit!  The following is the contents of the tracks at the link, including elusive titles and dates of the movies played on The Acri Creature Feature!

Acri Creature Feature Audio tracks and titles as uploaded to Archive.org:

Track #1 – The Inn on Dartmoor

Track #2 – August 1^st, 1971 – Curse of the Undead (16’18” creeps Mike Baker and brother)

Track #3 – August 14^th, 1971 – Abbott & Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Naming of fiend “woof”man character, that was eventually named Beauregard.)

Track #4 ___? Missed intro; September 4^th, 1971 – The Beast with 5 Fingers!

Track #5 – September 11^th, 1971 – Dr. X; at 13’:55” = September 18^th, 1971 – Dracula vs. Billy the Kid

Track #6 – September 25^th, 1971 – Tarantula (Bertie appearance at 4:55, “Mr. A” “Acri coffee”)

Track #7, ___? My Son, the Vampire. 

At 17:35, November 27^th, 1971 – Corridors of Blood (“Horror”) Thanksgiving show.

Track #8 – December 4^th, 1971 – Hercules Against the Moon Men (By golly! “Beauregard and Vincent playing checkers…just lost.” 5’15’ “Presenting Vincent Hedges and his performing fleas!” 9’00” – “Beauregard is here!” and the Monster Club of Bettendorf, Iowa – Jim Martins, Curt Just, John Simko, Scott Szyczewski);

December 11^th, 1971 – Revenge of the Creature (27’00” – creeps Les Littlefield, Dave Marty, Dave Bullock, Dave Ronk for their film w/ Vincent and Beauregard)

Track #9 – December 18^th, 1971 – (movie? Revenge/Creature?) (“400 letters” 11’00” Beauregard, creep Kenny Williams

14’05” – January 1^st, 1972 – Abbott & Costello Meet the Killer (24’44” – “You’re the fellow Link we’ve heard so much about!” – “Happy New Year, Bertie!”

Track #10 – January 8^th, 1972 – The Leech Woman (10’10” – Bill Keebler?)

At 15’48” – January 15, 1972 – Fiend Without a Face (“What do you give the doctor who has everything?  A Nurse, who can caddy!”)

Track #11 – ___Fiend? – “Bertie, get well!” 3’00” – (Svengoolie clip) (creeps John Weiss, Brian Boderson)

January 27^th, 1972 – The Creature Walks Among Us;

at 23’08” – February 5^th, 1972 – The Skull;

23’:35” – February 13^th, 1972 – The Man They Couldn’t Hang

Track #12 – February 19^th, 1972 – Colossus of New York; (creeps Tim Williamson and Jeremy Hurner?)

March 4^th, 1972 – Behind the Mask (in Moline) and Creature of the Walking Dead (in Peoria, WEEK-TV) March 11^th, 1972 – Monster on the Campus (in Moline) and The Crawling Hand (in Peoria)

Track #13 – March 18^th, 1972 – Honeymoon of Horror (“radio DJ mention of Vincent Hedges; “Irish coffee here, I think it’s just about put me away.” St. Patricks’ Day/night show.

March 25^th, 1972 – Slaughter of the Vampires (in Moline) and Killers from Space (in Peoria). (creep Abraham Hantz)

April 8^th, 1972 – Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors (in Moline) and Man Beast (in Peoria). (“next week Monolith Monsters.”)

Track #14 – April 15^th, 1972 – The Monolith Monsters (Svengoolie scaremail from 04/14 at 2’30”) (creep was Marvin Wise).

April 22^nd, 1972 – The Creature with the Atom Brain (28’40” good poem by creep Tim Potter.)

Track #15 – April 29^th, 1972 – Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb (in Moline) and Phantom from Space (in Peoria) (Peoria and Moline show together “one happy family;” 9’30” “Ghastly Gourmet” skit from “old Vincent and Emmit rerun” – as noted on tape by Dave Epland.

May 6^th, 1972 – The Black Room (in Moline) and Robot Monster (in Peoria) (Epland comments, “old Vincent and Emmit rerun”)

May 13^th, 1972 – 4-D Man (in Moline) and The Vampire Bat (in Peoria) (“Sunday is Mother’s Day”)

Track #16 – at 8’56” - May 20^th, 1972 – Return of Dr. X (in Moline) and Untamed Women (in Peoria) (creep John Jester/Jesper made a diorama with Phantom, mummy, forgotten prisoner)

(Missing June 26^th, but they played The Snow Creature and Cry of the Werewolf)

June 3^rd, 1972 – The Electronic Monster (another host fills in for Chuck Acri, 25’00” Where’s Chuck Acri? Says Creature Feature summer vacation, next week no commercials, the Best of Creature Feature.

Track #17 – July 10^th, 1972 – Cult of the Cobra (14’14” – w/ Froggy Gremlin twanger section) (creep was Dave Bell of Fairfield, Iowa).

May 1^st, 1972 – The Mummy (visit by TKEs and Creature creators Don Raymond and Bill Flannery; drunk!)

Track #18 – (May 13^th intro?) – Son of Dracula (11’10” Froggy G.; 13’20” – June 12^th, 1972 – (w/ Froggy, Don & Bill)