Both programs were broadcast by KHJ-TV Los Angeles, and its sister-station WOR-TV New York City.
He was noted for his style of criticizing the films he presented in an offbeat and funny manner, usually appearing in a small window which would pop up in the corner, tossing a quip, then vanishing again.
His show began with a voice-over introduction by a whiny-voiced, never seen assistant, who proclaimed him "... the Master of the Macabre, the Epitome of Evil, the most sinister man to crawl across the face of the Earth, SEEEEEEEYmooooourrrr!"
Bela Lugosi as Dracula, Elsa Lanchester as the Bride of Frankenstein, Lon Chaney Jr. as The Wolfman and then Boris Karloff as the Frankenstein Monster, which dissolved into a skull from whose empty eye socket flowed wispy dry ice mist.
From there the screen would give way to an incredible array of weekly horror films unlike those offered on any other station of the time.
In early 1979, the station showed more 1970s slasher films and B movies such as: From 1979 until its end in 1987, many famous horror and science-fiction films debuted on Fright Night, like Ben, Halloween, House of Dark Shadows, It's Alive, Night of Dark Shadows, The Deep, The Hills Have Eyes, The Legend of Hell House, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Willard.