Years active: Late 1950's to 1974
And we end our 2018 look back at horror hosts with a duel. Same guy and a similar gimmick, but playing two hosts.
In the late 50's viewers of WCKT-TV Channel 7 in Miami could tune in and check out the Dungeon, where M.T. Graves was a prisoner in a sinister dungeon and forced to watch cheap horror films with his puppet Reginald and all at the whims of the unseen warden.
He moved to Ft. Lauderdale sometime in the late 60s and to WKID-TV Channel 51, but for a brief period Baxter slapped on a crash helmet and became Captain M.T. Space, the host of Otherworlds on WCKT-TV Channel 7. I've not seen a lot of Space, but it seemed he was more kid show host than horror host, but he still used all the same props.
And that's it for 2018. A lot of lost hosts, true, but we've seen some hidden gems across our trek of the diode diorama.
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