Svengoolie - A green-haired hippie vampire costumed in bellbottoms, headband and sunglasses who hosted the Friday night horror show Screaming Yellow Theater on WFLD-TV Channel 23 in Chicago from 1970-73. Played by Jerry G. Bishop, the Svengoolie character was popular with many viewers but he was canceled after only three years. In 1979, however, Rich Koz, a fan and contributor of comedy materials for the original Svengoolie program resurrected the character on WFLD-TV as Son of Svengoolie. The new character was a pasty-faced hipster vampire who sported a goatee, mustache, silk scarf, top hat, tuxedo jacket, a halo of dark curly hair and dark circles around his eyes that accentuated his white complexion. Speaking in a Transylvanian accent, (a la the original Svengoolie) the Son of Svengoolie welcomed his viewers into his dungeon abode to watch the "worst" in horror and sci-fi movies. Other characters on the program included Doug Scharf as Doug Graves, a cigar-smoking piano player in sunglasses; Durwood, a ventriloquist's dummy (first seen on the original Svengoolie show), and Zallman T. Tombstone, Jr., the ghost of a loudmouth used car salesman who haunted Son of Sven (Sven killed him in a freak auto accident while living in Transylvania). Before the end of each show, the Son of Sven was guaranteed to have performed commercial parodies, reedited scene from that night's movie for comic effect and been clobbered over the head with a rubber chicken. The Son of Svengoolie program left the air in 1986. For a time in 1983, the program was syndicated to the cities of Boston, Detroit, Philadelphia and San Francisco. In 1995 Svengoolie hosted a Saturday afternoon horror feature on station WCIU-TV in Chicago.