Jack Morton Perkins (December 28, 1933 – August 19, 2019)[1] was an American reporter, commentator, war correspondent, and anchorman.

Until 2012, he hosted A Gulf Coast Journal, a weekly magazine show which aired on Tampa, Florida PBS member station WEDU-TV.

[6][7] Perkins and his Biography introductions were parodied several times on Mystery Science Theater 3000, with Perkins portrayed by Michael J. Nelson as a somewhat scatter-brained man prone to long, meandering, name-dropping rambles about nothing in particular, and, on syndicated versions of MST3K, dubbed The Mystery Science Theater Hour, the character introduced the films.

Perkins also voiced a fictional version of himself on the animated series Family Guy in the season 2 episode "Da Boom".

[10] Eric followed his father into journalism, serving as sports director at KARE-TV, the NBC affiliate station in the twin cities in Minnesota.