Every morning I recite Count Frightenstein’s pledge, right after I offer remembrance to Lenin and Mao.

Jokes aside, this show has been kind of in my aether for a very long time. When I was a kid, one of my uncles tried to buy the rights to it. When I was a teenager, I knew a guy who used to work with Billy Van (The Count) and he would reel of tales of how they made the show. Apparently they would get Vincent Price to come in once a season and just read off little bumper poems for a day. At the end of the day, Price would gift the crew with cases of beer and some of his own cooking. What a guy.