"Nightmare Theatre" was a hosted horror movie series with Joe Towey as "The Count" for the most part screening double features on Fridays at 11:30 PM from 25 September 1964 to 1975 for KIRO-TV, Channel 7, Seattle, Washington. The Count did not appear in front of the camera until Halloween of 1968 but left the show some unknown date in 1975. The series continued without a host until 13 October 1978. After the series was canceled in 1978, Joe Twoey returned as "The Count" one last time for a Halloween special in 1979.