First airing on December 7, 1957, Shock Theatre ran all the Universal horror classics--Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, etc. This doesn't sound like much now, but consider: These were the first times these movies had aired on TV. Period.
Before then, you had to go to your neighborhood movie theater to see them on the big screen--no DVDs/Blu-rays, no cable channels, no streaming services--so getting to see them on the small screen at home was a pretty big deal, even if you had to stay up past your normal bedtime to do it.
Marvin was, by all accounts, a whacky character, wearing thick pop-bottle glasses, a black turtleneck with a matching sportscoat and is described on his Wikipedia page as "a demented beatnik."
Sadly, no footage of Bennett as Marvin exists. We only have descriptions from viewers and from Bennett's wife, Joy, who played "Dear" on the show, constantly being tortured by Marvin, but never showing her face until the very last episode in 1959.
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