- Worked his way up from the mailroom at a Chicago advertising agency to become a copywriter, then headed to California in 1963. That same year he started working in TV at Sacramento's KCRA in 1963 and became a commercial writer and producer.
- To calm his on-air nerves, he purchased a House of Windsor cigar, the cheapest and largest of the lot, and rocked slowly in a yellow rocking chair.
- The original deadpan, bespectacled, cigar-holding horror host of San Francisco's "Creature Features" from 1971 to 1979. In later years he continued to receive attention appearing at conventions such as WonderCon, and starring in "Watch Horror Films, Keep America Strong," a documentary about KTVU's Creature Features show.
- Later went incognito and hosted the afternoon sci-fi showcase "Captain Cosmic" with his robot sidekick 2T2 from 1977-1980 that specialized in Japanese sci-fi serials.
- The only son of seven children born to an Indiana steelworker, he and wife Sally had two children, Rob and Nancy.
- The heart of every show was the intermission. For 20 minutes, Creature Features was a talk show, and Bob was the Johnny Carson of a strange set. There was no telling what was going to happen. You might have seen a mini-horror film in Super 8 made by a kindergarten class, an interview with actors like Jimmy Stewart, Buster Crabbe, or Olivia De Haviland.
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