After college, Deming freelanced for a number of area stations and also landed an announcing job in West Palm Beach, FL before returning to his native Cleveland in the 1940s.

The new medium of television greatly interested Deming, and he broke in via Cleveland NBC affiliate KYW-TV as an afternoon movie host in 1949.

Shortly after Woodrow began taping, TV2 approached Lawson about filling a Saturday afternoon horror movie slot, and Sir Graves Big Show (as it was originally called) was born.

Brainstorming with his long-time wife, Mary Rita, Deming eventually came up with a tongue-in-cheek vampire character "Sir Graves Ghastly" to be the lead on the show.

The Glob's main role was to lip sync silly parody songs, such as "I Wanna Bite Your Hand" and "Ghoul Days."

The explosion of televised sports in the early 1980s, particularly college football, caused Sir Graves to go into hiatus after the November 6, 1982, program (featuring the film Corridors of Blood).

But his popularity in those markets never quite reached that of the Detroit audience (and many in neighboring Canada that could pick up the WJBK signal), where his "evil" laugh and catch phrases like "Happy Haunting" are remembered by an entire generation of both kids and adults.