I edited this opening HHOF (not Hockey Hall Of Fame...) in 1971. Took us over 24 hours because it was long before digital, just shortly after razor and marker. We had 34 frames of lightening to re-edit and try to simulate live time electrical storm action. I did go home for a shower and then returned to finish it. Vincent Price, to this day four decades later stands as my all-time greatest influence and absolutely favourite actor.

John Bradford, who worked on the show, remembers working with Vincent: “Of the hundreds of celebrities I’ve met in the biz, Vincent Price will always be my favourite, as a result of this show. We shot about four hundred bits with him over a four day session. He accepted the gig because he loved kids and saw the innovation in this vehicle. He allegedly worked for around $13,000 in total when that was commonly his daily appearance rate. He would read the script to himself, put his head down for a few seconds and do a single take read on-camera. Next! At one point the crew was exausted by his pace and he suddenly disappeared. Everyone thought he MUST have gone to collapse somewhere. He had hailed a cab, gone to the local beer store and brought a couple of two-fours into the station. We all sat cross-legged in the studio and listened to his stories of Hollywood and Cecil B. DeMille. The next break we took, he had his picture taken with each crew member in the make-up room. One of the guys blew them up to 8x10’s that night and he wrote a personal note to each of us on it. Mine still hangs proudly in my office.” - John Bradford, 1998

I used to wake up at 5am every saturday to watch this. It scared the absolute crap out of me, especially the librarian. But i loved it.

one of the best shows on Saturday mornings back in the day

Oh and yes we re-edited the hour long series into half-hour for the NYC market. the NYC Police sent a thankyou letter because the Wolfman bit and Igor singing took the druggies off the streets for half an hour at 4:30 daily. True!

Fifty years later and there's still no one else who could have done this.

I was unreasonably happy when I realized I could see this on the Net!

Yep, Land of the lost.....H.R. Pufnstuf, Story Theatre, the original Spiderman and Hilarious House of Frightenstein! I grew up in a time when shows didn't sell toys through the show, they where wacky, insane, on a budget and magic......R.I.P Billy!

Classic Vincent Price. I noticed he keeps his eyes wide open without blinking. I loved how he turns the last word "Frightenstein" from a frightened tone to a devilish laugh. This aired in the early 1970's on KCOP (now My13) in Los Angeles when I was in pre-school. I always liked the Wolfman segments where Igor and the Wolfman green-screen danced to the current pop songs of the day.

Legend has it that during the months these episodes filmed the cast stayed in a rented house together and it was a massive drunkest. It's 1970-71 with a bunch of actors and comedians all working together.

Usually a lot of programs I watched as a child I don't find funny now, but I still find a lot of this show amusing.. I wish they would bring these out on DVD..... Thanks for posting these...

I had no idea this went beyond Hamilton, Ontario. That's great.

I remembered watching this show when I was a child. The one thing I remembered it was on WNEW TV 5 NY, and it was a half an hour, and it had a laugh track. Does anyone else remember?

I would rush home from school so I could get back in time to watch the whole episode every day.

I grew up on this, great memories!! Halloween was never so cool!!

Favourite character was Dr. Julius Sumner-Miller. Kids show and here he is explaining advanced university-level physics concepts.

This show certainly had a grip on all of us who were lucky to be there when it originally aired. Now, thanks to you, I can rekindle fond memories of so many great characters that Billy Van did. So entertaining, so frightfully good. Thanks again for making these available in the here and now !!!! Watched it on CHCH T.V. 11 Hamilton, Ontario Best regards :)

This is DEFINITLY the Prime Example of a Show, if Produced Within The U.S., it Would Have Shy Rocketed!! But, Came From Canadian and the Hammer City Of Hamilton From the Local Station Of CHCH!! FANTASTIC!!

I agree debauchery. Vincent Price was a caring and humble man, nothing like most Hollywood high profile actors today. I miss him and his work. I'm glad I found this, it brought back great memories. And to think this opening, made by such a good guy, used to scare the hell out of me as a little kid!!

Talented guy Billy Van ,if he had been American he would have been a star I think .

I would get up at 5 or 6 in the morning back in the early 80's to see this and other shows from before I was born. Love this stuff and I miss those days.

Wow talk about bringing me back 35 plus years ago...

I have been racking my brain for years trying to remember the name of this show i am so glad i found it!!! It was on in the US when i was a kid in the late 70's early 80's!!!! I loved this show sooo much!!

Luv'd seeing Vincent and his rhymes each and every morning (o.0) Awesome show! Luv the little green vamp as well!

So loved this show when I was a kid.I feel so old now LOL.My favorite out of all of them is I have 2 favorites 1st is Grizelda my all time favorite witch.She's so funny and second is the Wolfman.Miss this show so much.

Back in the days.. 😆 love that show

This played in San Diego County in 1974 or 75. I used to love to watch it.

This was such a good show. And brings back so much memories. It's been over 25 years since I watched this show. Another classic much like G.I. Joe and Transformers. They should do a show like this again. But then again, nobody will be like Billy Van. He was the best. Portraying 10 characters to perfection. Just awesome stuff. He should've been on SNL or something. I guess perhaps who could follow in his footsteps are people like Mike Myers, Will Farrel, Ben Stiller, etc.

I grew up with this song as a young 10 year old my favourite was the Wolfman I watched him Faithfully to hear the latest songs the top songs of the day a lot of good memories as a child

Wow. I found it here after all these years. This show started my love for food coloring and dry ice.

This series was and is my favorite as a child. Now, I have the boxed set, to re-live the excitement.

Great memories. Thanks for posting. Every episode I had always hoped that "The Count" would revive the monster and see him get up off his gurney.

Very kitschy show but definitely unique and I've come to appreciate it more and more as the years go by and watch it it re-runs Billy Van playing 8 characters is true genius .....

This used to be on at 4p.m. weekdays in the U.S. I watched it all the time.Anything with Vincent Price rules!

One of my best childhood memories is waking up extra early to watch this show!!!

Great show as a kid back in the 70's. I remember catching this show on Channel 38 in Boston (75/76 era). You could only catch it on school days off or vacations, because It would be on around 8:30 - 9:00, after main morning cartoons. I'll have to scan through episodes to confirm, but I can recall in many episodes, that the professor would do a segment explaining about different about small animals, and after the segment, Igor would ask his master if he could keep it. And a loud thunderous clap would echo, and Igor would come back all sad, telling the professor he couldn't. And who could ever forget the Wolfman dancing on the screen to the songs he played.

Favorite show from my childhood. It was on right before Spiderman & his Amazing Friends which was also cool... but not as cool as this. Loved it!

Grisly goons from every tomb, are closing in to seal your doom...

It was both terrifying and hilarious at the same time!

Watch it in buffalo ,it seems like a dream it was so long ago.thank you to all you who made it work.

Fans of Vintage Toronto are enjoying this clip.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Thank you for sharing this!

I saw this show once on CH17 WPHL back in the summer of 1974. Then when CH61 Wilmington,DE came on the air in July of 86, they aired it aswell.

Love and have always loved this show!!!!

Grew up watching the reruns on Show Case back in the 90's. I remember that they used to play the Wolfman dance sequences before they were removed for the various copyrights over the songs. My favourite sketches was without a doubt Grizelda The Ghastly Gourmet

A shoutout to Billy Van. There is actually a small Billy Van museum in my Hamilton east end community with props from this show.

Hoo, I was lucky I got all the shows on ol VHS! Bobby was great loved Dr. Pet Vet and the librarian.

To this day, I have no idea how a small TV station out of Hamilton, Ont. ever managed to get Vincent Price - a very substantial movie star - to work on this show. It was made on, like, a $10 budget. They made the best of it. Billy Van was brilliant.

Here I am getting older this was my very first TV show I was allowed to watch when I was about 3 years old now it's 2018 learned all about what this world's about and how to Enlighten myself and I can actually think some of the creativity of this show for opening my mind

this show was next level. billy van was a genius too few people were able to enjoy.

I can't believe that this is on yt. I remembered this from my childhood in the NYC market. The title and opening narration became a sort of personal urban legend for me. It really was a show!

How could you not remember this show? Even Your Parents remember it.

Yeah I recalled seeing this on TV in the NYC area...it was the line "perhaps the count will find a way to make his monster work today" that sent me searching for wtf this show was...weird that it's the only thing I remember...

I remember this show. Very strange. Met Vincent Price many years ago when he spoke at our college.

Bobby Van played the numerous characters. The show was shot in Hamilton,Canada. Vincent Price did all his work in a few short days.

OMG....t his was my favourite growing up. Loved it!

I away thought how unsettling it was that the camera panned from right to left over the scene leading up to the castle. Such a simple thing, and obviously intentional just to add to the weirdness of it all.

I remember this show! I used to love it!

He's reading the dialogue from a teleprompter...my childhood illusions are shattered :P

All of Vincent Price's segments were shot in one day. Then edited through the all the episodes. CHCH was also the place where The Red Green Show started, and thy were funding partners to the early SCTV years

This show rocked,, glad to get devsShowed it to 12 yr old son, he loved it, just like I didCFPL TV London On and CHCH in HamiltonShot me back almost 40 yearsWish they made shows like this now, Billy Van was a genius

I loved this show! It payed to be Canadian kid back then.

I remember watching this in the U.S. circa 1974 or so. My favorite was Grizelda.

a great actor, watched his movies and i enjoyed them. he has that voice that is excellent for all movies. Charlie Muller Jr

Brings back memories !

thanks for posting this part of my childhood.

I watched this on canadian t v when I was a kid living in niagara falls n.y.

Thanks for posting this part of my childhood.

This was soooo good!!

Best kids show ever!

It took me awhile to find this.I used to watch this ,after school, when it was in syndication more than 40 years ago.

Dear God I wish I knew about this show back in the day

Q: Why didn't Vincent Price win the award for decorative hedge trimming? A: He never made it out of Scissorhands! *Buh dum ts*... RIP Vincent, you charming, charming devil. Your Nocturnal comrade: Michael "The Stranger"

WOR TV in the 70s and 80s, ran this too. WOR was NYC!

I wonder if John Landis referenced this for Michael Jackson's "Thriller"?

This came on the air in Los Angeles for only one year in 1975 on KCOP Channel 13.

I woke up early to watch this as a kid😎

It was syndicated here in the US. It was even on NYC tv too.

This show introduced me to Sly Stone and Three Dog Night as an 8 year old

Man this show used to scare the fuck out of me as a kid.

He bursts out laughing just as he says "count frightenstein" because he just realized what he said " welcome to where the sun won't shine" meaning somebody's asshole.😄😆

Never heard of this show ❤

It's sooooo sweet that the Space Channel is airing these old episodes here in Canada. Even if it is just to fill the Canadian content quota.

Even though he was a horror icon, Price must have been a stand up guy

Thank you! I never get up early enough to actually watch this. :)

The entire budget for the show must've just gone towards Vincent Price to do the intro!👍🤣🇺🇸🙏

I always laugh remembering the time Igor reminded the count that he was owed 600 years of back pay.

Yay, the Hammer.

Welcome to where the sun WONT shine.

Best show growing up

I used to watch this as a kid...in fear. I knew at the time that the show was called The HILARIOUS House of Frigtenstein, but I would just watch with wide eyes and an expressionless face, since all of the 60's and 70's pop culture references went over my head, and I didn't find anything scary about the witch, or The Librarian, or....well, any of it.

I remembered when it came to Los Angeles Television back in 1975.

AT age six this was the word awesome

I used to wake up early to watch this show hehe, my mom thought I was weird, but you can't change things you can't change hehe.

He didn't BLINK once.

I remember watching this on WSNS in Chicago.

I still watch it on Space at 3am when I cannot sleep :D Like I did this morning :D

Cinemassacre's Monster Madness brought me here.

best. show. ever. hello childhood, i missed you.