"Friday Night Frights" was a hosted horror movie show with Bob Chesson as "Dead Earnest" presenting movies on WTCG-TV, Channel 17 Atlanta, Georgia in the early 1970's.

"Friday Night Frights" was a hosted horror movie show with Bob Chesson as "Dead Earnest" presenting movies on WTCG-TV Channel 17 Atlanta, Georgia in the early 1970's. In the 1980's Bob had been hospitalized at the VA facility in Salisbury, following a head-injury and subsequent stroke. Bob developed pneumonia and died in 1990.—The Professor