What follows is an article about Harvey which appeared in the local newspaper in 1992:
"A voice from deep in the past, 'Gregory Grave' was a creature of the days of live TV, fun on the air".
If you watched local television in the late '50s and early '60s, you might remember this greeting: "Good evening, fright fiends." Those words were spoken each Saturday night by Gregory Grave, host of "Shock," a program on KMBC TV-9. The show presented horror movies such as "King Kong" and "Dracula." Grave, dressed in a frightfully funny wig and lots of makeup that made him look older than his 30-some years, was played by Overland Park resident Harvey Brunswick, 69.
At the time, Brunswick was a full-time director and staff announcer for the station, where he worked 20 years. He played Gregory Grave about four years, entertaining fans with corny jokes, sound effects and puppet sidekicks during commercial breaks.
You might remember Cranston Cranium, a skeleton with a moving jaw; Herman the Horrible, a dummy with a frightening mask; or Cynthia Strangler, a mannequin dressed in ragged clothes.
Or how about the large copy of the Mona Lisa, whose eyes moved and who occasionally smoked a cigarette, thanks to a stage hand standing behind the picture.
It was all in fun, Brunswick said. He used his own brand of slapstick humor to introduce each week's film. He often employed political humor and invented stories around theater publicity photos he showed on the air, all innovative comedy techniques for the time, Brunswick said.
"Back then, television was primitive," Brunswick said. "We had to do everything manually." That included doing live commercials. If something went wrong, "Tough," Brunswick said.
In a furniture commercial, he couldn't get a chest drawer open.
During a car commercial, the stage hand doubled over sick and dropped all the cue cards. "So I had to ad lib the rest of the commercial, which was another 4 1/2 minutes," he said.
During one "Shock" program, Brunswick said a flash pot that sends smoke into the air malfunctioned.
"There was too much powder in it and the whole studio filled with smoke," he said. "I couldn't see the camera and the camera couldn't see me."