Talk:The Hilarious House of Frightenstein

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Iam absolutely loved this show when it aired , although I watched it in the late 70's. I would love to see it again! -a kid from the 70's

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Parts of this article appear to have been lifted, with very little alteration, from the book "TV North" by Peter Kenter (ISBN 1-55285-146-X) Brithgob 22:26, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

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Some of this is out on DVD. http://www.frightenstein.com/ Check Amazon.com also

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I think someone should state HOW they did the show. They'd set up for the Witch segments and Billy would dress up in the Witch character and tape all those segments, then they'd strike the set and build a different segment one and he'd tape all those, and so on.

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It airs now airs on Space: The Imgaination Station. User:Studio60OnTheSunsetStrip

Music copyright

I have noticed this show now plays frequently on the Canadian "Drive-In Classics" channel. However, it appears to have parts cut out of it--for example, I watched it today and most of the "Wolfman" segment (my favourite part of the show), where he plays the funky music to the psychadelic lights with Igor dancing, was cut out. Does anyone know if this is for copyright reasons, or just time-editing? Hiddekel 05:55, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

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It currently airs on "Space" (cable channel) on Shaw Cable at 5:00AM MTS. It also does not include the aforementioned Wolfman dance scenes. I have the same quesion, hence why I added this comment. Anyone know why? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ghall22 (talk • contribs) 10:19, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

I've heard and read, although I don't remember where, that most of the copyrights on the songs in the show had expired a while back. Plus at that time, they probably only held the broadcasting copyrights for television broadcast and not VHS or DVD since those weren't really around yet. Most of the songs were recent hits from the time the show was filmed. tangcameo —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.64.18.181 (talk) 20:22, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

Copyrights in Canada expire at the end of the calendar year 50 years after the original author's death (or death of the last member of a group of authors) or 50 years after publication in the case that it was developed by a corporation. This is generally independent of who owns the copyright, such as a music publisher. Recorded songs have both a writer's copyright and a recording artist's copyright, although they may apply to the same person. Generally to broadcast a recorded song, permission must be obtained from both the writer and the recording artist(s), or their agents or estates.

All the songs in the Wolfman segments were written and recorded in the 1960's and very early 1970's. Many of the original artists are still alive or only recently died. Therefore the copyrights have not yet expired, and the works have not fallen into the public domain. For a copyright on a recorded song to be expired in 2010, the writer and recording artist(s) would have had to die prior to 1960, that is 1959 or earlier. Nutster (talk) 15:57, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

HHof F is also now showing on TVLand

This show is currently being broadcast in Canada on the TVLand network. I never watched it in its original run and only heard about it in the 1990s. Smith & Smith must have borrowed heavily from it for the hotel scenes in their show; it's not so surprising, since they, too, were involved with CHCH. Grandma Roses 11:14, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

13th Son of Dracula?

Does anyone know if Count Frightenstein really is the 13th son of Dracula? If so, where does this information come from? I never heard it before. Thank you. Dory Campbell. ````

From the character bible for the show. This was a pure invention of the creators of the character. Nutster (talk) 16:01, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Doctor Pet-Vet animals?

Where did the animals that appeared on Doctor Pet-Vet come from? Were they loaned from local animal shelters or breeders or what? Nutster (talk) 08:56, 5 October 2021 (UTC)