The Hilarious House of Frightenstein
call HART crazy .. but
For some reason, they replaced my 11:00am and 5:00pm version of Andromeda with The Hilarious House of Frightenstein (check out the website).. on the Space Channel. But, this was a great show that I actually watched during the seventies .. It was Canadian Vaudeville at it’s finest, with Billy Van who played the following characters:
* Bwana Clyde Batty
* The Gorilla
* Grizelda, The Ghastly Gourmet
* The Librarian
* The Maharishi
* The Oracle
* Dr. Pet Vet
* The Singing Soldier
* The Wolfman .. and of course
* Count Frightenstein
Fishka Rais played the Count’s manservant and companion .. Igor - the green-skinned Michelin man lookalike. Vincent Price was also on this show with lots of poetry and stuff. Do you remember Billy Van from the Sonny & Cher Show? Yup. He was on that too.
What I liked about the show, despite that sometimes it was soooooo awful it was a groaner every minute at the old jokes .. sometimes they would have some interesting science experiments and neat and wierd animal segments … If you watch the “Return to Transylvania” video linked below, they mention that the show was probably scripted about 30% and Ad-Lib’ed the rest of the show .. It showed sometimes 
Return To Transylvania
Watch the full movie - 14 minutes, 114 MB by clicking THIS LINK .. it’s a tribute and about the making of the show .. then ..
Enjoy an episode found on YouTube
What do you think?
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