Zacherley on Mike Douglas

[@JoeAzzato]

Rest in peace Zach! You were a big part of my fun childhood. You were very kind when I met you and took a photo which you autographed. Always fun to watch on TV. Thanks!

[@LinaWina]

My parents used to watch him growing up. Thank God they turned us onto to him when we were young! Zacherley is the best!

[@macvoutie]

Zacherley was, for a while, the coolest guy on television.

[@daneavagliano9866]

Loved his shows. My Band played on his show called Disco teen on channel 47 out of Newark. Wish I had a tape of us on his show. 2x I also did a few Bread commercials for him for Fischer bread.R.I.P Zacherley.

[@marybranicki3354]

Thank You for posting.... I just loved Zacherley growing up and and always will 🥰

[@TralfazConstruction]

I find all this now, four years after my fiancée passed away. She always told me of how she watched Zacherley/Roland with her father when she was a little girl. She'd be floored to see all of the Zacherley-centric videos here on KZbin.

[@LazlosPlane]

I met Zach-man in 1965 at the old WPIX studio in NYC. What a sweet man. Great stuff.

[@archtopp1]

The original goul on tv! I used to watch this in the afternoons in the N.Y. metro area.

[@richardbartolo2890]

Thank You Dave for posting that, I wish I would have know Zach was going to be on Mike Douglas's show that day I would have watched it. I used to go to concerts at the Fillmore East in N Y C, And Zacherley would some times greet the crowds of people at the door going into the concert that evening. Would you please post more of that video if you can find the rest of the show. Speaking of talk show hosts, Merv Griffen who is a big producer and had a talk show like Mike Douglas had, Was in a monster movie I think it may have been Murder in the Rue Morgue with Karl Malden. Thanks again nice Job !

[@if6was929]

RIP Zach. Loved the show Chiller Theatre and when he was one of the great DJ's on WNEW FM during the stations best years.

[@johnm6088]

WPLJ.

[@richardbartolo2890]

I think in the 1980's Zacherle was doing local Tri state area New York-New Jersey - Conn, As an "A M Radio" disc jockey. It was some music and some talk. Go ahead Mr Business Man, You cant dress like me !

[@mickeymousebiker1]

One of TV's best show hosts (Mike Douglas) interviewing one of horror's best (Zacherley). It's great to see William Marshall and Frank Gorshin!

[@leslieanthony7342]

I grew up on Long Island, and Zach was my absolute favorite. Couldn't wait to get home and put on the TV. I never thought I'd see him again. I assume he's dead now (I'm 65)and he must have been over 35 at least when I was 10 or so. I would still watch him today if I could!

[@alp-1960]

Alas....

[@gsnfan]

He's dead now.

[@goobergoober5956]

he just died a few months ago

[@AngelRodriguez-ex6sf]

I remember listening to him on 92.3 K-Rock when he was the host of Spirit of The 60's on Saturday Mornings.

[@precisionbrown6829]

Just one of my favorite shows as a kid in the 60’s

[@glittermama]

One of the best things about childhood was watching Zacherley.

[@lastrada52]

RIP John Zacherley. 98 years old! Wow. Great horror show host, great rock disc jockey. Great career, wonderful voice and personality. Great guest on this show too...terrific. John always had great stories to tell when we worked together at WPLJ-FM in New York in the 70's. For those who didn't know this man -- John was a terrific, personable man, always had time for people, loved talking to us. Just didn't have a big ego. Just about everything was made interesting when he spoke to us or recalled a story. Great memory too. The only sad thing is that he lived alone modestly in NYC. He had some good friends who stopped by. I don't even think he had any living relatives that he spoke of.

[@richardbartolo2890]

Boy that is sad about him living alone, Especially since Zach brought a great deal of fun and joy to horror fans and the general public. I have a few memories of Zach, Like meeting him when he was a greeter at the Fillmore But as far as his show the one very clear memory of him was from around 1959, I was at my cousin's house in Brooklyn and we were watching Zacherley at Midnight, And Zach was hanging (Supposedly, some ones guts) on a clothes line he had set up in that small studio of his.

[@lastrada52]

@@richardbartolo2890 - Don't forget his "wife" was in the hamper, Richard. He was actually quite a wonderful man. I knew him briefly when he was a disc jockey at the rock station WPLJ-FM (I worked at ABC during that era). Older than the rest at the station -- but far cooler with that magnificent voice & laugh. One of a kind for sure.

[@gaildrake5940]

I watched him as a child he was the best

[@lakewalker11]

GREAT clip, thanks for posting!

[@jksantors]

Loved Zackerly (known in Philly as Drac) Good Night Whatever you are!

[@AllieJ123]

I had the honor of meeting him a few months ago. God my picture taken with him

[@bejingmao]

dude lived to be 98 !!! f***ing insane! and he did this gig his whole life.

[@andrewgilmore7669]

Rest in peace, Zach.

[@dw438]

John Zacherle, RIP, age 98.

[@DaveHerring524]

Sorry, that is the only clip from Mike Douglas I kept all these years. Maybe someone else has other clips from the show? I had a heck of a time transferring it from old reel-to-reel video tape.

[@Driven2Beers]

I'm really glad that this guy lived such a rich, full, and LOOONG life! What's kinda cool to me is that he died only a few days before Halloween. That would have given his die-hard fans a few days to prepare celebrations of his life on October 31. Zacherle left and indelible influence on late night horror hosts such as WDCA's Count Gore (whom I watched as a kid/teen).

[@Justincase2482]

R.I.P 10-27-2016

[@jinxfarque]

Saw Zack live in the Bradford Theater in Newark as a boy. He judged a Werewolf calling contest. I competed but didn't win. The movie was House on Haunted Hill, which was supposed to have a ghost emerge from the screen. The so-called Ghost was a skeleton on a zip line strung over the audience. When they launched it everybody thew things at it. Pretty cool experience all in all. RIP Zacherley my good fellow.

[@GhoulishGrinMedia]

Rest in peace, Cool Ghoul...

[@marybranicki3354]

Ghoulish Grin Films .... The COOLEST !! Ghoul 🥰

[@drgangrene]

Zacherley rules - greatest horror host of all time!

[@ZOOTSUITBEATNICK1]

Thanks for this...Zak was aces

[@mrlucky777]

R.I.P. Zach.

[@garyunold2610]

GOD BLESS ALL.THEASE PEOPLE.WE WILL.NEVER.SEE THE LIKES OF THEM.AGAIN AMEN

[@marieconnolly3602]

Watched him all the time.😂😂

[@joycemartin8406]

Does anyone know what was in the yellow bag? Surely not Gasport?

[@Outpost7Studios]

Believe it or not, I have the Zacherly / Monster Mash album. ORIGINAL VINYL. Zach was the best- - - Saturdays between a young Vince McMahon and Million Dollar Movie.

[@gayschloffen4680]

Zacherley, that is, to allow better pronunciation of "Zacherle."

[@jackjackson1591]

Who else was on this panel, Vereen, Gorshin, Marshall and who?

[@DaveHerring524]

From the look of the set, I believe it was a horror theme show. The guy puffing on a cigarette I'm pretty sure is Frank Gorshin, who played the Riddler on Batman. The black guy with the deep voice may have been the actor who played Blackula. Not sure who the other 2 guys were. Maybe somebody else knows?

[@richardbartolo2890]

Frank Gorshin also played in a 1950's monster movie.

[@maureenoneill2847]

The family believes she'll call. But her calls Jin jitsu were different by her dojo inclined difference

[@MonsterMenagerie]

Who are all of the other guys that are on the set with Zac?

[@drwatson58]

do you have any other shows you would like to trade for other shows?

[@DaveHerring524]

I have been converting a lot of old video tapes to DVD. Have a few off the air TV shows mostly from the 70s... "On The Rocks" partial episode ""Blizzard of 78" half hour local Boston TV coverage Peter Cook and Dudley Moore on SNL "Hardware Wars" Star Wars spoof Richard Pryor on SNL "Person to Person" with Jack Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe "Land of The Lost" full half hour episode There may be more in my boxes of old VHS tapes. That's it for now.

[@AlongtheFarClimbDown843]

Look: there's Blacula!!!

[@maureenoneill2387]

Beast there's by 4 corners placement 4 heads by co-patriots is standard leopard

[@DaveHerring524]

@LesbianVampireLover Sorry, that was the only part of the program i kept.

[@JohnVKaravitis]

Why the FUCK does the video move in and out like that?

[@bobbo924B]

NO, not an enema. The great New Jersey amoeba! A perfect snack for Isobel! Ah, the old days. And he's still at it!!!

[@gayschloffen4680]

At that point, Zacherly says, "He reminds me of that chubby little writer." I bet he means Truman Capote.…"a long line of Presbyterians." LMAO

[@maxsmodels]

The Cool Ghoul

[@lynncombs]

Wasn't there a Gaylord also on Chiller?

[@maureenoneill2847]

Papa it's trust and will see time's

[@circlesky73]

LOL, "He may be gay- I don't know..."

[@howardstrougo2897]

zack's great, but the frankenstein monster is the chairman of the board...

[@michaelt977]

that is not blacula.

[@BrooklynChivalry]

michael thomas that most certainly IS William "Blacula" Marshall sitting there, across from him next to Frank Gorshin (you can see & hear him clearly at 3:53).

[@robertszvetics210]

michael thomas yes it is

[@birsay123]

What’s with his makeup?

[@KLGChaos]

He was a horror movie host. It was part of his costume.

[@pundar]

holy blacula!

[@PoGirlShines]

Cool, but what the heck is wrong with this film? It's breathing.

[@Soundofsilence-j4d]

WHU HARF ASS EPISODE DO IT RIGHT

[@DarthHater100]

Brain Damage!!

[@WordUnheard]

♫♫ Why are the stars always winking and blinking above What makes a fella start thinking of falling in love It's not the season The reason is plain as the moon It's just Aylmer's tune What makes a lady of 80 go out on the loose Why does a gander meander in search of a goose What puts the kick in a chicken The magic in June It's just Aylmer's tune Listen, listen There's a lot you're liable to be missin' Sing it, swingers Any old way and any old time The hurdy gurdys, the birdies The cop on the beat The candy maker, the baker, the man on the street The city charmer, the farmer, the man in the moon All sing Aylmer's tune♫ ♫

[@andrews527]

Kind of a comedown for Douglas after he and Tony Martin set MLK up for assassination in 1968.