Disasterpiece Theatre was a comedy television program that aired in the early 1980s on XETV,[1] a station in Tijuana, Mexico, owned by Mexican media company Grupo Televisa, which broadcasts in English across the border to neighboring San Diego, California.
[2] The show's title is both a play on the PBS anthology program Masterpiece Theatre and a reference to the low-budget, campy science fiction and horror films that were lampooned each week.
Among the films shown were Shriek of the Mutilated, Monster on Campus, The Thing That Couldn't Die, The Mummy's Hand, Born to Speed, Big Boy Rides Again, First Spaceship on Venus, and Curse of the Undead.
Comments would be written as subtitles during the movie; for example, in Track of the Moonbeast a character says, "I'm somewhat of an...(laughs) an adventurer," and the word "IDIOT" appeared on screen during the pause in the middle of the sentence.
In 1980 Sal U. Lloyd and The Other Guy hosted the first (and only) Disasterpiece Film Festival at the Ken Theatre in San Diego where "Robot Monster" and "Plan 9 From Outer Space" were shown to a capacity house.
He was murdered in 2021 while attempting to evict a transient living on family owned property in the rural Lyons Valley area of Eastern San Diego County.