"Shock Theater" was a host horror movie show with Mike Curtis as "Count Basil" screened live every Friday night for 12 weeks during the summer of 1974 on Cable Channel 6 Jackson, Tennessee.

"Shock Theater" was a host horror movie show with Mike Curtis as "Count Basil" screened live every Friday night for 12 weeks during the summer of 1974 on Cable Channel 6 Jackson, Tennessee. Roger Hughes played "Clod Turndirt", the co-host but left after three episodes. Curtis' cat Booner took over as co-host, having its own director chair. The show's setting was at Basil and Turndirt Mortuary. Other characters included Zack played by the camera operator wearing a green mask and Great Uncle Polar. The show only ran for 12 weeks, as the station only had 12 horror movies available.—The Professor