![]() ![]() One typical joke started with a close up of a hammer in Paul's hand. ![]() Occasionally, he was accompanied onset with his co-host, a prop spider by the name of Spinjamin Bock (a play on the name Benjamin Spock, voiced by Bennick). He also twisted around some words and names to reflect the horror atmosphere-he frequently called the horror films "horrible old movies", and the city that WTOG's studios were based in "St. His skewed gaze, which Bennick perfected by turning his one artificial eye outward, only contributed to the atmosphere. His usual attire was a long-tailed vintage tuxedo with his hair parted down the middle and slicked straight down the sides, with heavy mascara and greasepaint. The humorous Bearer character was a pun-spewing, bad-joke-telling host who spoke in a gravelly voice with a halting speech pattern. Bennick created the character at WGHP in High Point, North Carolina, for the station's Shock Theater in the mid-to-late 1960s after his previous persona, Count Shockula, proved less than satisfactory. Paul Bearer, who hosted a different classic horror film every Saturday afternoon at 2 pm. The films were hosted by Dick Bennick Sr. Petersburg, Florida, United States, from 1973 to 1995. Paul Bearer Presents, was a TV horror movie series on WTOG in St. Creature Feature, presented in later years as Dr. ![]()
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