"Shock Theatre" was a hosted horror movie show with Tom "Doc" Dougall as "Mr. X" presenting movies on WXYZ Channel 7, Detroit, Michigan, on Fridays at 11"30pm from 7 February 1958.

"Shock Theatre" was a hosted horror movie show with Tom "Doc" Dougall as "Mr. X" presenting movies on WXYZ Channel 7, Detroit, Michigan, on Fridays at 11"30pm from 7 February 1958, probably ending the same year.; with the first movie screened being the 1931 "Dracula". Dougall was a classically trained actor who taught English at the Detroit Institute of Technology. Dougall was grimly serious and set a solemn tone for what was to follow.—The Professor