SHOCK SPEAKS!
Updated November 25, 2009
We've just uncovered an audio cassette of a TWO taped interview with SHOCK ARMSTRONG and his MOTHER! These two interviews with Paul Reynolds and the lady who played MRS. SHOCK will be transferred to digital format and made available FREE on this site in January 1st, 2010! We're very excited to have finally located these lost tapes and hope that other SHOCK fans will get a kick out of hearing from Mr. Reynolds himself how the legacy of SHOCK THEATRE unfolded!
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This site exists to celebrate my childhood hero, SHOCK ARMSTRONG, late night TV Horror Host from Channel 13 in Tampa, Fla. (1964-67).
As I update the site in the future I will provide a link to the only known existing footage of SHOCK in action and also an audio clip, SHOCK SPEAKS, from an interview I conducted with the late, great Paul Reynolds.
In the meantime here are a few photos of Shock from my own collection (autographed no less!), one of kids protesting the Channel 13 after SHOCK THEATER was cancelled (they did, in fact, bring it back), a photo of myself, some bored chick and Horror Host MT GRAVES (Charlie Baxter) from his old TV show on Channel 51 in Dania, Fla. (1972), and finally a rare still of my old pal, Bob Goldberg as COUNT WARLOCK out of Miami.
The things I most remember about SHOCK THEATRE was the creepy opening as the camera moved towards an old house, finally peeking into the window where Shock lay in his coffin, asleep with an alarm clock wired to his electrodes.
He slept with a hideously stitched-up "Lamby-Pie", fought constantly with Mr. Wilson, the neighbor you never saw, but heard plenty of, and of course, his nagging mother, who also never made a real appearence, although they did once have a contest for kids to send in drawings of what they thought his mother looked like.
The movies were strictly of the Universal variety and this is where I saw the classics. The package also included boarder-line films like the INNER SANCTUM series and MURDER IN THE BLUE ROOM, which might well be considered horror films anyway.