This sort of got launched on the "first TV magician thread, so I am relocating the continuance here.
I remember:

Kids-California:
Sheriff John
Chucko the Clown
Engineer Bill
Winchell Mahoney Time
Hobo Kelly
Skipper Frank
The Great Zolar
Chuck Jones, The Magic Man
Billy Barty's Bigtop

Kids-SW Ohio:
Skipper Ryle
Uncle Al
Larry Smith's Puppets
Mr. Hop (guy in a rabbit suit)

Horror-California:
Jeepers Creepers (Shock Theatre)
Strange Tales of Science Fiction (disembodied voice)

Horror-SW Ohio/Indianapolis, IN:
The Cool Ghoul (Dick Von Hoehne)
Dr. Creep
Sammy Terry
Garoro (severed head from Bob Shreve's Past Prime Playhouse)

Misc-California:
The Gladiator (sword and sandal flicks)

Misc-SW Ohio:
Bob Shreve (Past Prime Playhouse/All Night Theatre)

Horror-Michigan:
Sir Graves Ghastly

National:
Zacherly
Captain Kangaroo
Bob McAllister (Wonderama)
Max Howard (Max B. Nimble)
Bozo
Sir Cecil Creepe (Phantom of the Opry)
Elvira
Commander USA

National (satire):
Pee Wee Herman (Pee Wee's Playhouse)
Uncle Crock's Block (Chas Nelson Riley)

I should add that SW Ohio also had a non-TV-host horror personality who did some radio stints, but mostly did live shows and local TV talk shows: Count Baltes (Clement Baltes).

Steve

Just confirmed a hunch. The host of the Hercules movie program, "The Gladiator," was Mr. Universe/Mr. Olympia Dave Draper, who also appeared in a lot of 60's beach movies.

http://www.briansdriveintheater.com/davedraper.html

Steve

A good link for Kids' show hosts in LA:

http://www.tvparty.com/lostla.html

and another:

http://kidshow.dcmemories.com/shows.html

and one for Horror Show hosts:

http://myweb.wvnet.edu/~u0e53/horhosts.html

Enjoy.
Steve

From my childhood in Youngstown, Ohio, I remember "Ghoulardi" as a TV horror host. Fun!

Yours,

Paul

Steve,

Thanks for the links! I discover that Ghoulardi was Ernie Anderson, who died February 6, 1997. He was based in Cleveland.

Yours,

Paul

We had Casey Jones, Captain Cookie and Axel and his Dog. Now we have Horror Inc. Mystery Science Theater 3000 started here in the 80's. I have tapes of the original shows. That's all I got for now. P.S. We also had Steve and Sharon, but they were scary for entirely different reasons. Garrison Keillor too.