CHEAP THRILLS THEATRE

MIKE WARD

"Cheap Thrills Theatre" was a hosted horror movie show with Mike Ward presenting movies on Saturday nights at Midnight on SNCAT cable Channel 16 Reno, Nevada from 2 May 1997 until 3 July 2010. The show originally aired on Friday nights at 11:00 pm. The show ran for 662 episodes over a 14 year period. From the show's web page (no longer active): "Cheap Thrills Theatre" was unleashed upon an unsuspecting Reno, NV television audience in May of 1997, and has been an unrelenting juggernaut of political incorrectness ever since. As Reno's original horror and exploitation movie host, Mike Ward is proud to expose himself and these films to you. Whether you like horror, science fiction, exploitation, or sexploitation films, you will find something you may enjoy on "Cheap Thrills Theatre". You will not, however, find any big budget, mainstream Hollywood crap that clogs the theaters and television these days. Let's return to the drive-in trash of yesteryear. Stay Cheap!!. "Cheap Thrills Theatre" has been a part of Reno television since Friday, May 2nd, 1997. I started showing these films to fill a void left by the crappy programming on current television. It seems as if television would like you to think these types of films never existed. From E-gor's Chamber of TV Horror Hosts web page: Mike ward grew up watching "Creature Features" with Bob Wilkins, and later John Stanley, from both the Oakland and Sacramento stations. He was hooked the first time Bob showed Night of the Living Dead in 1973. He knew he had found the genre I loved! Thanks, Bob!. Portrait of "Mike Ward" by Dave Dunlap. In 2017, Anderson Helms launch a new "Cheap Thrills Theatre" base on the concept of Mike Ward's Show". For more information on Anderson Helm's "Cheap Thrills Theatre", use the below link: There are no known clips from the show:

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