Three Pittsburgh-centric episodes in a row, starting with Tom Savini directing, then John Harrison and now Michael Gornick behind the camera. The director of Creepshow 2, as well as episodes of this show and Monsters, also has the pedigree of being written by George Romero.

Luther Mandrake (Jerrt Stiller) is the kind of burned-out shock jock that horror movies are made about. He starts off mid-rant, late for his show, The Devil’s Advocate, and angry that the cops dared to question him after someone was found dead in his car. Mandrake has the midnight to 4 AM shift, the Art Bell time, the middle of the darkness when only crazy people are listening and even weirder people are calling in. 

Mandrake hasn’t had it easy: his mother died in a plane crash, his father died in a picket line, his wife is in a coma, and his son just died, the victim of a drunk driver. One of his callers — from Pittsburgh — reacts by calling him the devil, all as Mandrake begins to turn into a wolf. Before too long, callers from across time appear, complaining about President Wilson and World War II. That’s because — shudder — he’s become the devil’s advocate for real, broadcasting from hell, as he’d already killed himself in his car, and that’s the body the police found.

Still’s son, Ben, did his own version of this on his Fox show, presenting “Low Budget Tales of Horror.” Jerry would dress as a wolf again in the Monsters episode “One Wolf’s Family.” That brings the Pittsburgh connection full circle, because that one was directed by Jon Thomas, who worked as a sound mixer on many Romero projects.