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In real life she was Karen Scioli, a South Philadelphia born actress and homemaker who weekly donned a push-up bra, slinky black dress, feather boa, false eyelashes and a mole on her right cheek to become the female vampiress.
Other regulars on the program were Stella's canopied-bed called "Beda Lugosi" which talked and vibrated; Skeeves the Butler (Bill Brown) who left the show and was replaced by Hives the Butler (Bob Billbrough); Cousin Mel (Glenn Davish), who was nerdy and was told everyone (in a tribute to a character on
The Dick Van Dyke Show played by Richard Deacon) to "Shut up, Mel." Davish (who was in the movie Mannequin withAndrew McCarthy ,Kim Catrall andEstelle Getty ) also played a whacked out mad scientist named Dr. Schuylkill (a play off the Schuylkill River and theSchuylkill Expressway ) and voiced a faceless dungeon monster named Iggy who ate anybody Stella didn't like as well as a portrait that gave sarcastic responses to whatever Stella was wise-cracking about. Two other actresses - Donna Ryan, who played the whacked out psychic "Madame Tofutti" and Kathy Robinson - were regulars on the show.Saturday Night Dead was produced by KYW-TV and often featured the talent from their local news production, Eyewitness News, including Howard Joffe.
The Duke Ellington Orchestra's recording of "The Mooche" was used as the show's theme song.
Featured Films
* directed by
Noriaki Yuasa
*Night Fright directed byJames A. Sullivan
*Shivers (a/k/a "They Came From Within") directed byDavid Cronenberg (shown in a "Christmas in July " episode)
*The Tomb of Ligeia directed byRoger Corman
*Zombies of Sugar Hill directed byPaul Maslansky
*Zombie Lake directed byJean Rollin
*Bluebeard
*Dracula vs. Frankenstein, directed byAl Atkinson References
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