"Shock Theatre" was a hosted horror movie show with Joe Salazar presenting movies on Monday nights for KTLA Channel 5, Los Angeles, California, USA from 1962-1963.

"Shock Theatre" was a hosted horror movie show with Joe Salazar presenting movies on Monday nights at 8:00pm for KTLA Channel 5 (owned by Gene Autry), Los Angeles, California, USA from 1962-1963. The show screened the Universal package of scary horror and science fiction movies. To start the show, an ambulance would drive onto the set with a coffin inside. Out of the coffin Salazar would emerge to start the show. During the on-air commercials various monsters would appear on the set.—The Professor