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VIRGINIA CREEPERS PRESENTS
HAZEL WITCH


 
Hazel Witch appeared a few months after Ghoulda (Geri Chronowit Roberts) left WRVA's Shock! Theater in 1959 to get married.  For a few weeks, there was a fill in named "Destiny," who was not very compelling and then a period without a host until Anna Inge stepped up to plate and created a very different, very wild, over the top character.
 

Whereas Ghoulda had been understated and dark, Hazel billed herself as the "Last of the Red Hot Mamas," claiming a long line of iconoclastic witches in her family tree.  She had a butler named Jeeves and a son named Franklin who appeared on the set with her, and she frequently drove around in a 1913 Ford provided by a local dealership for the show and appearances.

Of course, for personal transportation, she was a modern witch and had traded in her broom for a vacuum cleaner.

 

With oddly garish makeup and outlandish custom-made hats from Thalheimers (including a New Year's Eve hat that included a live mouse), she would cackle and throw out her catch phrase, "Hi precious!" with and exaggerated wink to people everywhere.  According to Anna, as the show caught on, she would commonly find herself out on a date and people would come up to her and say, "Hi precious!"

She did a tremendous number of personal appearances from ball games to restaurants to store openings.  Her autograph was very much in demand and the station kept her incredibly busy.  She attributes a good deal of the success to the engagement with the community and it was common for her to come on at night and begin with commentary about the day's news before launching into what had been planned.

Initially, they just did an intro for the film, but soon they began working on elaborate skits in between segments of the movies.  She scripted her own shows and brought on guests like the mayor of Richmond and her own mother who removed her teeth on camera and scolded her for abandoning the broom. 

Her shows were taped week to week (though no footage is known to survive), and included an opening that featured her flying over the city on the vacuum.  She also tried to make some connection to the movie each weekend, claiming most of the subjects of the films were former boyfriends.

In the end, the show exhausted Anna.  She was the producer and director of women's show as well and like many people at the time, she did many jobs as needed.  However, as a woman, she was getting paid exactly half of her male counterparts and she found it was wearing her down beyond the compensation.

In 1961, she moved to Dayton, Ohio, to live with relatives while she saved enough money to move back to New York to return to musical comedy.  However, there she met Gordon Jump of (WKRP in Cincinnati fame) and moved to California where she lives today.

 

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