EVILUN, real name Ruth Sprayberry, played Bad Movie Hostess Evilun the Witch Saturday nights at 10:15 for Double Features on KSLA in Shreveport, Louisiana. She hosted the shows Terror on Saturday Nights! and The Witching Hour from September 7th, 1963 to October 2nd, 1965.
Evilun’s sidekick was a witch named Malicea, played by Billie Jardine. Malicea crash-landed her broom in Shreveport and became Evilun’s apprentice.
February 19th, 1965 was when Terror on Saturday Nights! was retitled The Witching Hour for the rest of its run.
One of Evilun’s milestones came on March 14th, 1964 when horror legend Lon Chaney, Jr. was her guest.
She presented two of his schlockier movies – Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman (1943) and The Mummy’s Tomb (1942). Continue reading
