ยป The Hilarious House of Frightenstein
I’m watching American Graffiti, in which Wolfman Jack figures. While googling around for background on the review I ran into an old, very dear friend.
I loved The Hilarious House of Frightenstein when I was a kid. I love The Hilarious House of Frightenstein.
When I was a kid it came on just after the super-early morning Christian children’s programming, at 5:30 or 6:00, and I never missed it. Now that I look back it was probably airing on Toronto time, but I think we got the better deal on the West Coast — when the show came on it was still dark out. [Update: Don sez Ontarikids got it early too!]
I would wake up early for it, get my sugared cereal ready, and then glue myself to the screen. It was on, as I say, right at the beginning of the broadcast day. This, then into whatever the Saturday morning lineup was: The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Scooby Doo, Transformers, GI Joe, more more more!
Man, those were the days. Kids today have it bad. A show about sharing? A show about being nice? Fuck that, I had Vincent Price reading poetry at me while Julius Sumner Miller taught me physics and The Wolfman span psychedelic rock, all under the frame story of an exiled vampire and his friends and servants trying to reanimate a butchered corpse in a haunted castle.
I haven’t thought about The Hilarious House of Frightenstein in years. Now I want complete remastered collector Bluerays.
Badly.
I can, without exaggeration, say that most of my personality comes from this show. It was my third parent.
No, the show was on at some ungodly hour here, too.
I remember when I was quite young, my dad would wake up1 my sister and me when he got up to go to work, probably around 6:15, so we could watch this show. Then we’d go back to sleep for another half an hour when it ended, before we had to get up for school.
I don’t remember much, other than it being cold and dark, and huddling around a small TV in the den, and the science demonstrations and the failed attempts to reanimate the monster.
1 – I don’t think he’d go out of his way to wake us up, so much as we’d hear him and know that it was a good time to come downstairs and watch this show.
Don
17 Sep 09 at 7:59 am
Here’s a clip with one of the restored psychedelic music segments, preceded by a mosquito joke and another segment with The Professor. They’re having trouble clearing copyright on the recordings, so only about 22 of the original 130 episodes are available on DVD.
Fucking copyright, eh?
Jack
17 Sep 09 at 2:54 pm
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