"Tales of the Black Cat" was a hosted horror / thriller television series by CBS with Bob Dalton that was aired on WTOP-TP, Channel 9 Washington, D.C., in 1953.

"Tales of the Black Cat" was a hosted horror / thriller television series by CBS with Bob Dalton that was aired on WTOP-TP, Channel 9 Washington, D.C., in 1953.. The show would open with Dalton sitting with Thanatopsis, a large black cat, on his lap. Dalton would present episodes of the series.—Paul Gerard Kennedy