John Zacherley.
February 6th, 2007
Alan and I are old.
Not too old mind you (though that, of course, is what we think) but old enough that we find it amusing to pay homage to John Zacherley (though Wikipedia has it spelled with his birth spelling).
We know of Zach (we don’t really know him, even though we called for permission to use his name in the cartoon) because he was the originator of some of the most enduring horror/comedy gags in television, first in Philadelphia, then in New York on Channel 9’s, then Channel 11’s Chiller Theatre. That was enough to get him into 6 Monsters but for New Yorker’s our age he capped that with being one of the hippest, and oldest, progressive radio DJs in the city (really).
Next up: the voice of Buck, Chuck McCann.
–Fred
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On March 18th, 2007 at 12:00 am
Fred:
You aren’t that Old!
I remember John also when he did Chiller theater and loved the way he used to interuppt the olf B movies with his One liners at some of the supposedly “scariest” parts.
One I recall was “King Kong” where you see the Ape climbing the Empire State Building and then Zach cuts in with
“Knock off the Acrobatics, you big monkey!”