"The Deadly Ernest Horror Show" was a hosted horror movie show with Jack Hardy as "Deadly Ernest", on Friday nights from around 11:30pm, on SKY Channel (UK) from around 1985 until 1991.

"The Deadly Ernest Horror Show" was a hosted horror movie show with Jack Hardy as "Deadly Ernest", on Friday nights from around 11:30pm, on SKY Channel (UK) from around 1985 until 1991. "Deadly Ernest" was assisted by "Scarlett Aorta". The original actress who played "Scarlett Aorta" is not known; but in 1989, Jilly Johnson joined the show as the new "Scarlett Aorta". It has been suggested that Jim Bywater had also played "Deadly Ernest", but there is no evidence to support this.—The Professor