Shock Theatre Chicago Style: WBKB-TV’s Late Night Horror by Donald F. Glut

March 3, 2017 by admin

By Donald F. Glut

From December 1957 via October 1959, Chicago television audience have been held in thrall by way of “Marvin,” the ghoulishly hilarious host of WBKB-TV’s late-night horror movie sequence Shock Theatre. Marvin and his girlfriend “Dear” (her face ever hidden from the digital camera) brought millions of Chicagoland kids to such vintage common chillers as Frankenstein, Dracula and The Wolf Man. This historical past of Shock Theatre specializes in the sequence and its author, Marvin himself—in genuine lifestyles, the multi-talented Terry Bennett, whose spouse pleasure performed “Dear.” Terry’s son Kerry Bennett presents an affectionate foreword, whereas celebrated horror host count number Gore De Vol (Dick Dyszel) offers the afterword. incorporated are dozens of pictures and classic commercial reproductions, in addition to appendices that includes a resume of Terry Bennett’s occupation and a listing of flicks telecast in the course of his two-year Shock Theatre run.

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