Halloween Month continues with this look at another horror host of the past.
DR. SCAR – This Movie Host was played by Jack Jacobson and hosted TWO shows at once on KGUN-TV Channel 9 in Tucson, Arizona. He hosted Big 9 Chiller on Saturday nights at 10:30 pm from 1962-1977 and Science Fiction Theater on Sunday nights at 9 or 10pm from 1965-1980.
Jack Jacobson was an 8-year-old supporting cast member on radio’s Uncle Bob Pierce & Company in 1929. At age 18 he started doing comedy at nightclubs in New York City and in 1942 enlisted in the Army Air Corps. As World War Two went on, Jack and fellow servicemen formed the entertainer troupe called The Sky Blazers.
After the war, Jacobson worked at various radio and television stations in the U.S. In 1962 he was hired as Program and Promotions Manager by Tucson’s KGUN-TV. Joining the Movie Host bandwagon that other tv stations across America had been running for several years, he personally played the mad scientist “kindly and loveable” Dr. Scar on KGUN’s Big 9 Chiller on Saturday nights. Continue reading
