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Nightmare Theater of [[Salt Lake City]] began at 10:35pm on September 28, [https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/details?id=28685043] on KCPX Channel 4 [[KTVX]] with a showing of [[Attack of the 50 Foot Woman]]. The show was broadcast for two decades, making it one of Utah's most popular and longest running shows. Originally just "Nightmare," "Theater" was not added until 1963. Initially, spelling of theater was inconsistent, with both "theatre" and "theater" being used. "Theater" became the preferred spelling. Nightmare Theater was not the first late night horror program in Salt Lake City. In 1958-59 Roderick, played by Jack Whittaker,<ref>{{Cite news |date=March 28, 1959 |title=Roderick, Host of Shock advertisement |url=https://www.sltrib.com |archive-url=https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/details?id=28931381&facet_paper=%22Salt+Lake+Tribune%22&date_tdt=%5B1958-01-01T00%3A00%3A00Z+TO+1959-12-31T00%3A00%3A00Z%5D&q=%28Roderick+AND+shock+AND+theater%29 |work=Salt Lake City Tribune |pages=22}}</ref> hosted [[Shock Theater]], a show broadcasting classic Universal monster movies supplied by a popular nationwide syndication package. Nightmare Theater did not have a host, except for a short period in 1973. Very little documentation aside from newspaper ads is known to exist, except a few photographs of the opening credits, some audio recordings of the introduction, and memorabilia saved by Ron Ross, who would do the introductory voiceover starting in 1965.