"Saturday Theater" was a hosted horror movie show with C.J. "Tiny" Thompson on Saturday nights on WSLS Channel 10 Roanoke, Virginia from 6 February 1963 until February 1965.

"Saturday Theater" was a hosted horror movie show with C.J. "Tiny" Thompson on Saturday nights on WSLS Channel 10 Roanoke, Virginia from 6 February 1963 until February 1965. Saturday Theater featured more recent horror fare such as the Vincent Price film "The Bat," and 1950's science fiction films. The show's host, C.J. "Tiny" Thompson, carried out his hosting duties atop a stool in a dark studio with a single light shining on him and his co-host, a Mynah bird named "Midnight." The latter, originally appearing on another WSLS presentation, Klub Kwiz with Hayden Huddleston, was eliminated from that show after repeating on air some rather colorful phrasing he heard backstage on a regular basis. Mynah birds were often on local TV shows because they would occasionally contribute comments out of the blue. It broke the monotony, for back in those days, live, unscripted interaction was seen as normal.—The Professor