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class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">American TV host, voice actor, and recording artist (1918–2016)</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output 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U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Other names</th><td class="infobox-data nickname">John Zacherley</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data">University of Pennsylvania (B.A., English Literature, 1940) <sup id="cite_ref-TPG_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TPG-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Years active</th><td class="infobox-data">1954–2015</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><b>Career</b></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Show</th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="/wiki/Shock_Theater" title="Shock Theater">Shock Theater</a></i> (1957–58)<br /><i>Zacherley at Large</i> (1959–60)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Station(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/WCAU-TV" class="mw-redirect" title="WCAU-TV">WCAU-TV</a> (1957–58)<br /><a href="/wiki/WABC-TV" title="WABC-TV">WABC-TV</a> (1958–60)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Style</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Horror_host" title="Horror host">Horror host</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">United States</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>John Zacherle</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'z' in 'zoom'">z</span><span title="/æ/: 'a' in 'bad'">æ</span><span title="'k' in 'kind'">k</span><span title="/ər/: 'er' in 'letter'">ər</span><span title="'l' in 'lie'">l</span><span title="/iː/: 'ee' in 'fleece'">iː</span></span>/</a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key"><i title="English pronunciation respelling"><span style="font-size:90%">ZAK</span>-ər-lee</i></a>; sometimes credited as <b>John Zacherley</b>; September 26, 1918 – October 27, 2016) was an American television host, radio personality, singer, and voice actor. He was best known for his long career as a television <a href="/wiki/Horror_host" title="Horror host">horror host</a>, often broadcasting horror films in Philadelphia and New York City in the 1950s and 1960s.<sup id="cite_ref-obit_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-obit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Best known for his character of "Roland/Zacherley", he also did voice work for films, and recorded the top ten novelty <a href="/wiki/Rock_and_roll" title="Rock and roll">rock and roll</a> song "<a href="/w/index.php?title=Dinner_With_Drac&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dinner With Drac (page does not exist)">Dinner With Drac</a>" in 1958.<sup id="cite_ref-watsonbook_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-watsonbook-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also edited two collections of horror stories, <i>Zacherley's Vulture Stew</i> and <i>Zacherley's Midnight Snacks</i>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Zacherle&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Zacherle was born in <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Larkin50_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Larkin50-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1954, he gained his first television role at <a href="/wiki/WCAU-TV" class="mw-redirect" title="WCAU-TV">WCAU-TV</a> in Philadelphia, where he was hired as an actor playing several roles (one was an undertaker) in <i><a href="/wiki/Action_in_the_Afternoon" title="Action in the Afternoon">Action in the Afternoon</a></i>, a <a href="/wiki/Western_(genre)" title="Western (genre)">Western</a> produced by the station and aired in the New York City market.<sup id="cite_ref-Larkin50_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Larkin50-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Three years later, he was hired as the host of WCAU's <i><a href="/wiki/Shock_Theater" title="Shock Theater">Shock Theater</a></i>, which debuted on October 7, 1957.<sup id="cite_ref-Larkin50_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Larkin50-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> it was so popular that when Zacherle asked for three human hairs to make a pillow, he received 23,000 replies.<sup id="cite_ref-life19580526_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-life19580526-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He was a close colleague of Philadelphia broadcaster <a href="/wiki/Dick_Clark" title="Dick Clark">Dick Clark</a>, and sometimes filled in for Clark on road touring shows of Clark's <i><a href="/wiki/American_Bandstand" title="American Bandstand">American Bandstand</a></i> in the 1960s. Clark reportedly gave Zacherle his nickname of "The Cool <a href="/wiki/Ghoul" title="Ghoul">Ghoul</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-Larkin50_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Larkin50-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1958, partly with the assistance and backing of Clark, Zacherle cut <i><a href="/wiki/Dinner_with_Drac" title="Dinner with Drac">Dinner with Drac</a></i> for <a href="/wiki/Cameo-Parkway_Records" title="Cameo-Parkway Records">Cameo Records</a>, backed by <a href="/wiki/Dave_Appell" title="Dave Appell">Dave Appell</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Larkin50_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Larkin50-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At first, Clark thought the recording – in which Zacherle recites humorously grisly <a href="/wiki/Limerick_(poetry)" title="Limerick (poetry)">limericks</a> to rock and roll accompaniment – was too gory to play on <i>Bandstand</i>, and made Zacherle return to the studio to cut a second tamer version. Eventually both versions were released simultaneously as backsides on the same 45, and the record broke the top ten nationally.<sup id="cite_ref-Larkin50_4-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Larkin50-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Zacherle later released several <a href="/wiki/LP_(format)" class="mw-redirect" title="LP (format)">LPs</a> mixing horror <a href="/wiki/Sound_effect" title="Sound effect">sound effects</a> with novelty songs.<sup id="cite_ref-Larkin50_4-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Larkin50-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Move_to_New_York">Move to New York</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Zacherle&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Move to New York"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The purchase of WCAU by <a href="/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a> in 1958 prompted Zacherle to leave Philadelphia for <a href="/wiki/WABC-TV" title="WABC-TV">WABC-TV</a> in New York, where the station added a "y" to the end of his name in the credits.<sup id="cite_ref-Larkin50_4-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Larkin50-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Zacherley.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7d/Zacherley.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="300" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="300" /></a><figcaption>Zacherle in the 1960s</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1963, he hosted <a href="/wiki/Animated_cartoon" class="mw-redirect" title="Animated cartoon">animated cartoons</a>, as well as <i><a href="/wiki/Chiller_Theatre_(New_York)" class="mw-redirect" title="Chiller Theatre (New York)">Chiller Theatre</a></i> on <a href="/wiki/WPIX-TV" class="mw-redirect" title="WPIX-TV">WPIX-TV</a>. </p><p>In 1965, he hosted a <a href="/wiki/Teenager" class="mw-redirect" title="Teenager">teenage</a> dance show for three years at WNJU-TV in <a href="/wiki/Newark,_New_Jersey" title="Newark, New Jersey">Newark</a> called <i>Disc-O-Teen</i>, hosting the show in full costume and using the teenage show participants in his skits. </p><p>In December 1968, Zacherle moved to <a href="/wiki/Radio" title="Radio">radio</a> as the morning host for progressive rock <a href="/wiki/WNEW-FM" title="WNEW-FM">WNEW-FM</a>. In the summer of 1969, he became the station night broadcaster (10 pm–2 AM); in June 1971, he switched his show to <a href="/wiki/WPLJ-FM" class="mw-redirect" title="WPLJ-FM">WPLJ-FM</a>, where he stayed for ten years. </p><p>On February 14, 1970, he appeared at <a href="/wiki/Fillmore_East" title="Fillmore East">Fillmore East</a> music hall in New York City to introduce the <a href="/wiki/Grateful_Dead" title="Grateful Dead">Grateful Dead</a>; his introduction can be heard on the album <i><a href="/wiki/Dick%27s_Picks_Volume_4" title="Dick's Picks Volume 4">Dick's Picks Volume 4</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1980s_and_beyond">1980s and beyond</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Zacherle&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 1980s and beyond"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the early 1980s, he played a <a href="/wiki/Wizard_(fantasy)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wizard (fantasy)">wizard</a> on <i><a href="/wiki/Captain_Kangaroo" title="Captain Kangaroo">Captain Kangaroo</a></i>, appearing without his Roland/Zacherley costume and make-up. He continued to perform in character at <a href="/wiki/Halloween" title="Halloween">Halloween</a> broadcasts in New York and Philadelphia in the 1980s and 1990s, once narrating <a href="/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe" title="Edgar Allan Poe">Edgar Allan Poe</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Raven" title="The Raven">The Raven</a></i> while backed up by the <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Orchestra" title="Philadelphia Orchestra">Philadelphia Orchestra</a>. </p><p>In 1983, he portrayed himself in the feature length horror comedy <i><a href="/wiki/Geek_Maggot_Bingo" title="Geek Maggot Bingo">Geek Maggot Bingo</a></i> produced and directed by <a href="/wiki/Nick_Zedd" title="Nick Zedd">Nick Zedd</a> in sequences shot in Zacherle's apartment on the Upper West Side. </p><p>In 1985, he hosted a special for Newark, New Jersey music video station WWHT U68 entitled "The Thirteenth Hour". </p><p>In 1986, he hosted a <a href="/wiki/Direct-to-video" title="Direct-to-video">direct-to-video</a> program called <i>Horrible Horror</i>, where he performed Zacherley monologues in between clips from <a href="/wiki/Public_domain" title="Public domain">public domain</a> sci-fi and horror films. </p><p>In 1988, he struck up a friendship with <a href="/wiki/B-movie" class="mw-redirect" title="B-movie">B-movie</a> horror director <a href="/wiki/Frank_Henenlotter" title="Frank Henenlotter">Frank Henenlotter</a>. He voiced the puppet "Aylmer", a <a href="/wiki/Slug" title="Slug">slug</a>-like drug-dealing and <a href="/wiki/Brain" title="Brain">brain</a>-eating <a href="/wiki/Parasite" class="mw-redirect" title="Parasite">parasite</a>, one of the lead characters in Henenlotter's 1988 horror-comedy film <i><a href="/wiki/Brain_Damage_(movie)" class="mw-redirect" title="Brain Damage (movie)">Brain Damage</a></i>, and made a cameo in his 1990 comedy <i><a href="/wiki/Frankenhooker" title="Frankenhooker">Frankenhooker</a></i>, appropriately playing a TV <a href="/wiki/Weather_forecasting" title="Weather forecasting">weatherman</a> who specializes in forecasts for <a href="/wiki/Mad_scientists" class="mw-redirect" title="Mad scientists">mad scientists</a>. </p><p>In late 1992, Zacherle joined the staff of "K-Rock", <a href="/wiki/WINS-FM" title="WINS-FM">WXRK</a>, at a time when the roster included other free-form radio DJs including <a href="/wiki/Pete_Fornatale" title="Pete Fornatale">Pete Fornatale</a>, Jimmy Fink, <a href="/wiki/Vin_Scelsa" title="Vin Scelsa">Vin Scelsa</a> (with whom he'd worked at WPLJ) and <a href="/wiki/Meg_Griffin_(DJ)" title="Meg Griffin (DJ)">Meg Griffin</a>. For the next four years he hosted a Saturday morning show called "Spirit Of The Sixties". He departed in January 1996 when the station switched to an alternative rock format and hired all new jocks. </p><p>In 2010, Zacherle starred in the documentary, <i>The Aurora Monsters: The Model Craze That Gripped the World</i>. The film was written and produced by Dennis Vincent and Cortlandt Hull, owner of the <a href="/wiki/Witch%27s_Dungeon_Classic_Movie_Museum" title="Witch's Dungeon Classic Movie Museum">Witch's Dungeon Classic Movie Museum</a> in <a href="/wiki/Bristol,_Connecticut" title="Bristol, Connecticut">Bristol, Connecticut</a>. The documentary includes a number of short pieces featuring Zacherly and his puppet co-host Gorgo, of Bill Diamond Productions. The film went on to win a <a href="/wiki/Victorian_Undead#Rondo_Hatton_Classic_Horror_Awards" title="Victorian Undead">Rondo award</a>. </p><p>Zacherle continued to make appearances at conventions through 2015, and his collectibles, including model kits, T-shirts, and posters, continue to sell. The book <i>Goodnight, Whatever You Are</i> by Richard Scrivani, chronicling the life and times of The Cool Ghoul, debuted at the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Chiller_Theatre_Expo&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Chiller Theatre Expo (page does not exist)">Chiller Theatre Expo</a> in <a href="/wiki/Secaucus,_New_Jersey" title="Secaucus, New Jersey">Secaucus, New Jersey</a>, in October 2006. Scrivani and Tom Weaver followed it up with the scrapbook-style "The Z Files: Treasures from Zacherley's Archives" in 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The comic book anthology, <i>Zacherley's Midnite Terrors</i> (created by <a href="/wiki/Joseph_M._Monks" title="Joseph M. Monks">Joseph M. Monks</a>, and featuring top artists like <a href="/wiki/Basil_Gogos" title="Basil Gogos">Basil Gogos</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ken_Kelly_(artist)" title="Ken Kelly (artist)">Ken Kelly</a>, <a href="/wiki/William_Stout" title="William Stout">William Stout</a> and Mike Koneful), was created solely as a tribute to "Zach". Three issues were published, and Zacherley acted in a commercial to promote them. </p><p>Zacherle continued to make occasional on-air appearances, usually around Halloween, including a two-hour show at <a href="/wiki/WCBS-FM" title="WCBS-FM">WCBS-FM</a> with Ron Parker on October 31, 2007. (By this point, the 89-year-old was one of the very few people left in radio that was older than the medium itself.) Zacherley and <a href="/wiki/Chiller_Theatre_(New_York)" class="mw-redirect" title="Chiller Theatre (New York)">Chiller Theatre</a> returned to the WPIX airwaves on October 25, 2008, for a special showing of the 1955 <a href="/wiki/Universal_Pictures" title="Universal Pictures">Universal Pictures</a> <a href="/wiki/Science_fiction" title="Science fiction">science fiction</a> classic <i><a href="/wiki/Tarantula_(film)" title="Tarantula (film)">Tarantula!</a></i>. </p><p>The Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia inducted Zacherle into their Hall of Fame in 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He died on October 27, 2016, at his home in <a href="/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a> at the age of 98.<sup id="cite_ref-hollywoodreporter_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hollywoodreporter-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-obit_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-obit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Zacherle&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He was the uncle of <i><a href="/wiki/My_Little_Pony" title="My Little Pony">My Little Pony</a></i> creator <a href="/wiki/Bonnie_Zacherle" title="Bonnie Zacherle">Bonnie Zacherle</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-hollywoodreporter_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hollywoodreporter-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Partial_Zacherley_at_Large_episode_guide">Partial <i>Zacherley at Large</i> episode guide</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Zacherle&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Partial Zacherley at Large episode guide"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Channel 9's resident film historian <a href="/wiki/Chris_Steinbrunner" title="Chris Steinbrunner">Chris Steinbrunner</a> compiled a listing of all Zacherley's shows from their start to New Year's 1960: </p> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders wikiepisodetable" style="width:100%"><tbody><tr style="color:white;text-align:center"><th scope="col" style="background:#575757;width:5%;color:white"><abbr title="Number">No.</abbr></th><th scope="col" style="background:#575757;color:white">Title</th><th scope="col" style="background:#575757;color:white">Original air date</th></tr><tr class="vevent module-episode-list-row" style="text-align:center;background:inherit;color:inherit"><th scope="row" rowspan="1" id="ep1" style="text-align:center">1</th><td class="summary" rowspan="1" style="text-align:left">"<i><a href="/wiki/Zombies_on_Broadway" title="Zombies on Broadway">Zombies on Broadway</a></i> <small>(1945, B&W, <a href="/wiki/RKO_Radio_Pictures" class="mw-redirect" title="RKO Radio Pictures">RKO</a>, USA)</small>"</td><td style="text-align:center">October 9, 1959<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1959-10-09</span>)</span></td></tr><tr class="expand-child"><td class="description" colspan="4" style="border-bottom:solid 3px #575757"> <div class="shortSummaryText" style="max-width:90vw;position:sticky;left:0.2em"> <p><b>Segments:</b> Zacherley stumbled down into the crypt under Times Square and decides to make his home at Channel 9. </p> <b>The film:</b> Two comics head for the tropics to find a real zombie for their night club act.</div></td></tr> <tr class="vevent module-episode-list-row" style="text-align:center;background:inherit;color:inherit"><th scope="row" rowspan="1" id="ep2" style="text-align:center">2</th><td class="summary" rowspan="1" style="text-align:left">"<i><a href="/wiki/Before_Dawn_(film)" title="Before Dawn (film)">Before Dawn</a></i>"</td><td style="text-align:center">October 16, 1959<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1959-10-16</span>)</span></td></tr><tr class="expand-child"><td class="description" colspan="4" style="border-bottom:solid 3px #575757"> <div class="shortSummaryText" style="max-width:90vw;position:sticky;left:0.2em"> <p>Zacherley anxiously awaits the arrival of his wife Isobel, mailed in a packing-case from his old channel. </p> The Film: Warner Oland, Dorothy Wilson, Stu Erwin. A girl with strange psychic powers senses murder and a hidden treasure in an old house. (RKO)</div></td></tr> <tr class="vevent module-episode-list-row" style="text-align:center;background:inherit;color:inherit"><th scope="row" rowspan="1" id="ep3" style="text-align:center">3</th><td class="summary" rowspan="1" style="text-align:left">"<i><a href="/wiki/You%27ll_Find_Out" title="You'll Find Out">You'll Find Out</a></i>"</td><td style="text-align:center">October 23, 1959<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1959-10-23</span>)</span></td></tr><tr class="expand-child"><td class="description" colspan="4" style="border-bottom:solid 3px #575757"> <div class="shortSummaryText" style="max-width:90vw;position:sticky;left:0.2em"> <p>Using Isobel as a trance medium, Zacherley communicates with the beyond...and some very active ectoplasm. </p> The Film: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Peter Lorre, Dennis O'Keefe, Kay Kyser, Ginny Simms - A trio of phony spiritualists try to murder a rich old woman and her niece during a seance. (RKO)</div></td></tr> <tr class="vevent module-episode-list-row" style="text-align:center;background:inherit;color:inherit"><th scope="row" rowspan="1" id="ep4" style="text-align:center">4</th><td class="summary" rowspan="1" style="text-align:left">"<i><a href="/wiki/The_Return_of_the_Vampire" title="The Return of the Vampire">Return Of The Vampire</a></i>"</td><td style="text-align:center">October 30, 1959<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1959-10-30</span>)</span></td></tr><tr class="expand-child"><td class="description" colspan="4" style="border-bottom:solid 3px #575757"> <div class="shortSummaryText" style="max-width:90vw;position:sticky;left:0.2em"> <p>Zacherley celebrates that holiday of holidays, All Hallows Eve, with a special radio address by Count Dracula in Transylvania. A pumpkin explodes. </p> The Film: Bela Lugosi, Nina Foch, Frieda Inescort - A vampire comes back from the dead to revenge himself upon an aristocratic family. (Col.)</div></td></tr> <tr class="vevent module-episode-list-row" style="text-align:center;background:inherit;color:inherit"><th scope="row" rowspan="1" id="ep5" style="text-align:center">5</th><td class="summary" rowspan="1" style="text-align:left">"<i><a href="/wiki/Murder_on_a_Honeymoon" title="Murder on a Honeymoon">Murder on a Honeymoon</a></i>"</td><td style="text-align:center">November 6, 1959<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1959-11-06</span>)</span></td></tr><tr class="expand-child"><td class="description" colspan="4" style="border-bottom:solid 3px #575757"> <div class="shortSummaryText" style="max-width:90vw;position:sticky;left:0.2em"> <p>Zacherley decides to put together a brain for the Cardiff Giant, but over-activates the parts. </p> The Film: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Lola Lane - A spinster decides to solve the murder that interrupts her vacation. (RKO)</div></td></tr> <tr class="vevent module-episode-list-row" style="text-align:center;background:inherit;color:inherit"><th scope="row" rowspan="1" id="ep6" style="text-align:center">6</th><td class="summary" rowspan="1" style="text-align:left">"<i><a href="/wiki/Red_Morning" title="Red Morning">Red Morning</a></i>"</td><td style="text-align:center">November 13, 1959<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1959-11-13</span>)</span></td></tr><tr class="expand-child"><td class="description" colspan="4" style="border-bottom:solid 3px #575757"> <div class="shortSummaryText" style="max-width:90vw;position:sticky;left:0.2em"> <p>Zacherley experiments with a new head-shrinking formula on four volunteer apes; it backfires and an ever-expanding mass of hair threatens to fill the crypt. </p> The Film: Steffi Duna, Regis Toomey - A girl finds adventure, romance and headhunters in the South Seas. (RKO)</div></td></tr> <tr class="vevent module-episode-list-row" style="text-align:center;background:inherit;color:inherit"><th scope="row" rowspan="1" id="ep7" style="text-align:center">7</th><td class="summary" rowspan="1" style="text-align:left">"<i><a href="/wiki/Cry_of_the_Werewolf" title="Cry of the Werewolf">Cry of the Werewolf</a></i>"</td><td style="text-align:center">November 20, 1959<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1959-11-20</span>)</span></td></tr><tr class="expand-child"><td class="description" colspan="4" style="border-bottom:solid 3px #575757"> <div class="shortSummaryText" style="max-width:90vw;position:sticky;left:0.2em"> <p>Zacherley campaigns to be chosen leader of the Transylvania gypsies, and is miffed when Isobel is selected Queen of the tribe instead. </p> The Film: Nina Foch, Stephen Crane, Osa Massan. A beautiful gypsy girl turns into a wolf and kills to protect her mother's secret. (Col.)</div></td></tr> <tr class="vevent module-episode-list-row" style="text-align:center;background:inherit;color:inherit"><th scope="row" rowspan="1" id="ep8" style="text-align:center">8</th><td class="summary" rowspan="1" style="text-align:left">"<i><a href="/wiki/Bluebeard_(1944_film)" title="Bluebeard (1944 film)">Bluebeard</a></i>"</td><td style="text-align:center">November 27, 1959<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1959-11-27</span>)</span></td></tr><tr class="expand-child"><td class="description" colspan="4" style="border-bottom:solid 3px #575757"> <div class="shortSummaryText" style="max-width:90vw;position:sticky;left:0.2em"> <p>Zacherley tries to force Isobel to abdicate from gypsy royalty by means of a love potion. When that fails, explosions follow. </p> The Film: John Carradine, Jean Parker, Nils Asther - The police of Paris are baffled by a series of mysterious murders. (C&C)</div></td></tr> <tr class="vevent module-episode-list-row" style="text-align:center;background:inherit;color:inherit"><th scope="row" rowspan="1" id="ep9" style="text-align:center">9</th><td class="summary" rowspan="1" style="text-align:left">"<i><a href="/wiki/One_Body_Too_Many" title="One Body Too Many">One Body Too Many</a></i>"</td><td style="text-align:center">December 4, 1959<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1959-12-04</span>)</span></td></tr><tr class="expand-child"><td class="description" colspan="4" style="border-bottom:solid 3px #575757"> <div class="shortSummaryText" style="max-width:90vw;position:sticky;left:0.2em"> <p>Zacherley builds a telescope just in time to do battle with some spores from outer space. </p> The Film: Jack Haley, Jean Parker, Bela Lugosi - An insurance salesman finds himself trapped in a very eccentric household. (Par)</div></td></tr> <tr class="vevent module-episode-list-row" style="text-align:center;background:inherit;color:inherit"><th scope="row" rowspan="1" id="ep10" style="text-align:center">10</th><td class="summary" rowspan="1" style="text-align:left">"<i><a href="/wiki/The_Mask_of_Diijon" title="The Mask of Diijon">The Mask of Diijon</a></i>"</td><td style="text-align:center">December 11, 1959<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1959-12-11</span>)</span></td></tr><tr class="expand-child"><td class="description" colspan="4" style="border-bottom:solid 3px #575757"> <div class="shortSummaryText" style="max-width:90vw;position:sticky;left:0.2em"> <p>Zacherley puts on a magic show, climaxing it by sawing Isobel in half. </p> The Film: Eric von Stroheim, Jeanne Bates - A once-famous stage magician dabbles in hypnotism and the dark occult. (C&C)</div></td></tr> <tr class="vevent module-episode-list-row" style="text-align:center;background:inherit;color:inherit"><th scope="row" rowspan="1" id="ep11" style="text-align:center">11</th><td class="summary" rowspan="1" style="text-align:left">"<i><a href="/wiki/The_Woman_Who_Came_Back" title="The Woman Who Came Back">The Woman Who Came Back</a></i>"</td><td style="text-align:center">December 18, 1959<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1959-12-18</span>)</span></td></tr><tr class="expand-child"><td class="description" colspan="4" style="border-bottom:solid 3px #575757"> <div class="shortSummaryText" style="max-width:90vw;position:sticky;left:0.2em"> <p>Zacherley reminisces about prehistoric times with a pasty-faced Glob that dates far, far back. </p> The Film: John Loder, Nancy Kelly, Otto Kruger - The inhabitants of a New England town persecute a bewildered young woman as a witch. (C&C)</div></td></tr> <tr class="vevent module-episode-list-row" style="text-align:center;background:inherit;color:inherit"><th scope="row" rowspan="1" id="ep12" style="text-align:center">12</th><td class="summary" rowspan="1" style="text-align:left">"<i><a href="/wiki/Avalanche_(1946_film)" title="Avalanche (1946 film)">Avalanche</a></i>"</td><td style="text-align:center">December 26, 1959<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1959-12-26</span>)</span></td></tr><tr class="expand-child"><td class="description" colspan="4" style="border-bottom:solid 3px #575757"> <div class="shortSummaryText" style="max-width:90vw;position:sticky;left:0.2em"> <p>Zacherley welcomes his always-failing son Gasport home from Transylvania University for the Christmas holidays and opens some rather unusual gifts. </p> The Film: Bruce Cabot, Veda Ann Borg, Roscoe Karns - Federal agents investigate murder at a snowbound mountain lodge. (C&C)</div></td></tr></tbody></table><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237879425">.mw-parser-output .wikiepisodetable tr.vevent,.mw-parser-output .wikiepisodetable tr.vevent th{text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .wikiepisodetable .summary{text-align:left}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .module-episode-list-row small[style]{color:#d5d584!important;background:#333;padding:8px}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .wikiepisodetable span[style^="color"]{color:inherit!important;border-bottom:dotted 1px}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .module-episode-list-row small[style]{color:#d5d584!important;background:#333;padding:8px}html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .wikiepisodetable span[style^="color"]{color:inherit!important;border-bottom:dotted 1px}}</style> <p>These shows were later syndicated to <a href="/wiki/KCAL-TV" title="KCAL-TV">KHJ-TV</a>, the RKO General station in Los Angeles. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Short_story_collections">Short story collections</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Zacherle&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Short story collections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Zacherle edited two short story collections for Ballantine Books in 1960. Listed here are their contents. </p> <table cellspacing="10" style="background-color:transparent;"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top"> <ul><li><i>Zacherley's Vulture Stew</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/L._Ron_Hubbard" title="L. Ron Hubbard">L. Ron Hubbard</a>, "He Didn't Like Cats"</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mindret_Lord&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mindret Lord (page does not exist)">Mindret Lord</a>, "Dr. Jacobus Meliflore's Last Patient"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manly_Wade_Wellman" title="Manly Wade Wellman">Manly Wade Wellman</a>, "The Devil Is Not Mocked"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donald_A._Wollheim" title="Donald A. Wollheim">Donald A. Wollheim</a>, "Bones"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_R._Tanner" title="Charles R. Tanner">Charles R. Tanner</a>, "Out of the Jar"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._E._van_Vogt" title="A. E. van Vogt">A. E. van Vogt</a>, "The Witch"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Boucher" title="Anthony Boucher">Anthony Boucher</a>, "They Bite"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/E._Everett_Evans" title="E. Everett Evans">E. Everett Evans</a>, "The Shed"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Blish" title="James Blish">James Blish</a>, "There Shall Be No Darkness"</li></ul></li></ul> </td> <td valign="top"> <ul><li><i>Zacherley's Midnight Snacks</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Matheson" title="Richard Matheson">Richard Matheson</a>, "Sorry, Right Number"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerome_Bixby" title="Jerome Bixby">Jerome Bixby</a> and <a href="/wiki/Joe_Dean" title="Joe Dean">Joe Dean</a>, "Share Alike"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theodore_Sturgeon" title="Theodore Sturgeon">Theodore Sturgeon</a>, "Talent"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wallace_West" title="Wallace West">Wallace West</a>, "Listen, Children, Listen"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_F._Temple" title="William F. Temple">William F. Temple</a>, "The Whispering Gallery"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Moore_Williams" title="Robert Moore Williams">Robert Moore Williams</a>, "The Piping Death"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._E._Van_Vogt" class="mw-redirect" title="A. E. Van Vogt">A. E. Van Vogt</a>, "The Ghost"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_James" title="Philip James">Philip James</a>, "Carillon of Skulls"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Kuttner" title="Henry Kuttner">Henry Kuttner</a>, "Pile of Trouble"</li></ul></li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Discography">Discography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Zacherle&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Discography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Albums">Albums</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Zacherle&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Albums"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Spook Along with Zacherley</i> (Elektra: EKL-190) 1960</li> <li><i>Monster Mash</i> (12 songs) (Parkway LP P-7018) 1962</li> <li><i>Scary Tales</i> (Parkway LP P-7023) 1963</li> <li><i>Monster Mash</i> (10 songs; partial re-issue of Parkway album) (Wyncote LP W-9050) 1964</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Singles">Singles</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Zacherle&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Singles"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>"Igor"/"<i><a href="/wiki/Dinner_with_Drac" title="Dinner with Drac">Dinner with Drac</a></i>" (Cameo 130-1)</li> <li>"Dinner with Drac Pt.1"/"Pt.2" (Cameo 130-2)</li> <li>"Eighty-Two Tombstones"/"Lunch with Mother Goose" (Cameo 139)</li> <li>"Hurry Burry Baby"/"Dinner With Drac" (Parkway 853)</li> <li>"I Was a Teenage Cave Man"/"Dummy Doll" (Cameo 145)</li> <li>"Surfboard 109"/"Clementine" (Parkway 885)</li> <li>"Scary Tales from Mother Goose"/"Monster Monkey" (Parkway 888)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="CDs">CDs</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Zacherle&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: CDs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Twist Collection</i> (OOZ 617) 2001</li> <li><i>Monster Mash</i>/<i>Scary Tales</i> (ACE CDCHD 1294) 2010</li> <li><i>Monster Mash Party</i> (Transylvania 4-5709)</li> <li><i>Dinner With Zach</i> (Transylvania 6-5000)</li> <li><i>Spook Along with Zacherley</i> (Collector's Choice Music)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Zacherle&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Maila_Nurmi" title="Maila Nurmi">Vampira</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cassandra_Peterson" title="Cassandra Peterson">Elvira, Mistress of the Dark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dr._Gangrene" title="Dr. Gangrene">Dr. Gangrene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morgus_the_Magnificent" title="Morgus the Magnificent">Morgus the Magnificent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dr._Shock" title="Dr. Shock">Dr. Shock</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Zacherle&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-TPG-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-TPG_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://thepenngazette.com/remembering-the-cool-ghoul/">"Remembering the Cool Ghoul"</a>, <i>The Pennsylvania Gazette</i>, December 21, 2016. 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