It was a great time. I grew up in Albany, Missouri, a small town about 100 miles north of K.C. and I used to look forward to watching Shock Theater every week. Interestingly, when we put Channel 29 on the air a couple of years ago, my original program plan was to buy a bunch of the old horror movies and get a host to recreate the Shock Theater I had loved as a kid. However, there were simply too many other things that needed to be accomplished and I never got around to getting it together. I did interview Johnny Dare, the radio DJ, about hosting it.

Ah, for the good old days!

Thanks,

 Pat

 I found this site while net surfing this evening. Grew up in Kansas City and well remember Gregory Grave and Penny Dreadful.  The former show was introduced to me by a friend of the family one saturday night and we watched Man Made Monster. Both sows were pretty hammy and I seem to recall we used to talk about the funny stuff the next week at school.
The thing that was always strange to me was Channel 9 never showing titles to these films.  Both Channel 4 and 9 were notorious for cutting films to meet the running time of the show.

Jim Hollis

 I ran across your website last week and enjoyed it very much--I'm very much "into" the horror host phenomena.

 Recently, I acquired a vintage TV Guide for the week of December 6-12, 1958. On pages 26-27 is an article about midwestern horror hosts.  Though the article is a generic one about the then-new phenomena, accompanying the article are contemporary photos of the personalities in and out of character. Two of the hosts depicted are Marilyn the Witch and Gregory Graves.

 The in-character photos are nothing new to you or those who enjoy your website.  However, I do not recall seeing the TV Guide photos of Marilyn and Gregory without makeup on your site and thought you might like scans of both. The scan of Harvey Brunswick (aka Gregory Graves) is 13 K and attached to this e-mail.  (The TV Guide caption is Harvey Brunswick -- Gregory Grave on Shock!, KMBC-TV, Kansas City, Mo."  The scan of Marilyn the Witch (29 K) will be attached to a second e-mail to you.  Interestingly, the TV Guide caption identifies her as >>Dolores<< Denny; it reads "Dolores Denny appears as Marilyn the Witch on The Witching Hour over KCMO-TV, Kansas City, Mo."  I hope the scans are useful to you.

Sincerely,

Gary L. Prange
Springfield, Illinois