I recently asked Marissa who her local TV horror host in Philadelphia was and she didn't know. You know, the Elvira-type person who would introduce a terrible movie for the local station, usually airing around Saturday at midnight.
Mine was Toulouse No-Neck from Shock Theater, pictured above. He was actually on Saturday afternoons in Milwaukee. I didn't think there was any video of him online until I found this amazing article about how the band Badfinger was trapped in Milwaukee for months in 1982. They were reduced to playing Shock Theater and you can see No-Neck introduce the band and then join them at the end to sing "Come and Get It".
As that article says:
We couldn’t quite believe what was happening... We didn’t know what this show was or what the tone was until we saw the guy in full makeup. We didn’t know that Toulouse No-Neck was going to jump on stage to sing "Come and Get It" with us, or that there’d be dancing girls.
So I looked up Philadelphia's 80's horror host and it was Stella, the maneater from Manayunk on Saturday Night Dead.
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