"Count Scary" was a hosted series of horror movies specials with Tom Ryan as "County Scary" presenting movies on WDIV-TV Detroit, Michigan from July 1982.

"Count Scary" was a hosted series of horror movies specials with Tom Ryan as "County Scary" presenting movies on WDIV-TV Detroit, Michigan from July 1982. There were nine specials that Tom Ryan hosted. "Count Scary,s" alter ego was Val Scary, was also played by Ryan. From the Detroit Kids Show website: "In 1982 WDIV obtained the broadcast rights for the 1954 3-D movie Gorilla At Large. Program manager Alan Frank approached producer/writer Tom De Lisle to come up with a vehicle to showcase the film. Both De Lisle and Ryan were fans of the Canadian sketch comedy show SCTV, especially Joe Flaherty as the bumbling horror movie host Count Floyd. They decided to do a takeoff of Flaherty's vampire character and name him Count Scary, after Count Floyd's tag line, "Oooh, that's scary!" Wendy's distributed the 3-D glasses needed to view the film. The special was the biggest TV hit of the summer, earning a 49 share, with 50% of the viewing audience tuning in".—The Professor