Shock Theater (1959)

"Shock Theater" was a hosted horror movie show with Jerry Sandford as "Ronald" screening at 11:30pm on Friday nights for WVEC Channel 13, Norfolk-Hampton, Virginia. The show ran from 13 November 1959 to 1964 ending its weekly run. Halloween specials continued through till 1968. In the early years, Ronald was assisted by Maurice played by Frank Van, who wore a ghoulish mask. Other regulars included "The Cool Ghoul," wearing a beret, with a goatee, un-dead hip cat with a beatnik sensibility; and a lovely woman named Vicki McKee. Movies shown included "Son Of Dracula", "Bride Of Frankenstein", "The Wolf Man", "Beast With A Million Eyes", "Trauma", "From Hell It Came", "King Kong, "Son Of Kong", "The Thing That Couldn't Die" and "Beast With a Million Eyes".