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''The Hilarious House of Frightenstein'' was a Canadian children's television series produced by Hamilton, Ontario's independent station CHCH-TV in 1971. It was syndicated to television stations across Canada and the United States and occasionally still appears today in some television markets. In Canada, the series is currently airing on Space, TV Land Canada, and MTV2. A quirky sketch comedy series that included some genuine educational content among the humor, the show's cast included Billy Van, Fishka Rais, Guy Big, Mitch Markowitz, Vincent Price, and Julius Sumner Miller. Van played most of the characters on the show. All 130 episodes were made in a single nine-month span starting in 1971; the scenes with Price and Miller were all filmed within one summer. ==Origins== The production started with Riff Markowitz envisioning the initial concept and then inviting a room full of creative friends to a spaghetti and champagne 'brainstorming' dinner party in his double suite at the Windsor Arms Hotel in Toronto. Markowitz directed the brainstorming session while his assistant Roger John Greco made notes of everything said. Previously CHCH had broadcast two other Markowitz shows: ''The Randy Dandy Show'' for children, starring Rafael Markowitz as Randy Dandy, who sold soda pop and potato chips on the side; and ''The Ed Allen Show'', an exercise program. CHCH approved the production of ''Frightenstein'' to take advantage of their station's new ability to reach into the Toronto market for advertising dollars. Randy Dandy's soda pop venture was later taken up by the Count when he promoted Dracola from the castle to raise money for his ''Brucie'' project. Sid Biby led the station at this time. ''The Hilarious House of Frightenstein'' was one of the most ambitious shows attempted by Canadian producers during this era. Markowitz later began production of an animated cartoon version of the show with animator Al Guest that never got to air. The producers were fortunate enough to get horror icon Vincent Price to star in introductions for the show's various segments. Price was attracted to the project because he wanted to do something for kids. Price filmed all of his segments (around 400) in 4 days for a fee of $13,000. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Hilarious House of Frightenstein」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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