March 24- Thank You- for All Those Cards and Letters and E-Mails…

Let us continue with what wee were doing yesterday- or, at least, what I was doing yesterday- eating dark chocolate marshmallow bunnies. No, no- I mean, going through some of the recent e-mail and feedback from you fine Sven fans at
svengoolie@wciu.com …
I’m always flattered to get messages from various big-time Hollywood people who are in the business, who were and still are Svengoolie fans…like Kevin J. O’Connor, who you saw on our “Mummy” show, writer/producer Steve Kroziere, and writer/director Adam Rifkin, who checks in with us every once in a while, and has always told me that I’d be surprised how many people in the business know about me! Well, I got an e-mail from one Scott Lew, who used to watch me on WFLD- he says he heard we showed a “mediocre movie” (his words, not mine!) that HE MADE a few years ago- “Aberration” –you might recall it- a pretty blonde woman on the lam goes to a remote cabin where deadly mutant lizards have hatched, and ends up battling them! He said that he was said that our show doesn’t run in L.A., and wanted to see how we made of fun of his film!
I recall getting a letter from some guys who wrote another of our flicks- the one with Corey Feldman- “Voodoo”- and also wanted to see how we made sport of their film! You have to be happy when people WANT to see you goof around with their work!
You know how I always get a bunch of requests from people to try to figure out the name of an old horror movie that they vaguely recall? Well, a gentleman named Steve asked for help with this one: it starts with some people- he thinks it was Mark Twain and Edgar Allan Poe!-betting a mercenary that he couldn’t survive  spending a night in a haunted house. He ultimately survives many horrors (he thinks thirteen of them)
But, as he’s leaving the property the haunted house is on- a gate slams shut and pierces his throat! (Sorry if that’s a spoiler, kids) Personally, this rings no bells with me- does it sound familiar to any of you? If so, let me know, so I can pass the information along to Steve…Mark Twain and Poe?!
Finally, Kyle wrote to me, asking what years I was on in his hometown area of Philadelphia! I had to think, going back again to those “Son of Sven” years- and determined that I appeared on WKBS in Philly – a station so poorly run that years later they actually gave up and returned their license to the FCC!-from late 1982 into 1983.I even went there and taped a double feature, that they built an entire huge set for- when we could have taped on our set in Chicago just as easily. By the way, my show appearing on the station did NOT bring about its demise…
That’s it for today-please keep your comments, questions, photos, etc. coming- repeating that address- send to:
svengoolie@wciu.com…