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It's Classic Cretins and Creatures Tonight- When "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein"!

Tonight on MeTV-we've brought back a 1930s classic that has not aired in a while- featuring Universal's two top horror stars of the era- as Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff show their Poe-tential in "The Raven"!

Though the credits say it was “suggested” by the famous poem by Edgar Allan Poe, it only has minimal connections to that poem. You see, Bela is Dr. Vollin-a retired doctor who's obsessed with Edgar Allan Poe- so much so that he even has a sort of basement museum featuring various hideous torture devices from Poe’s stories ( I guess everybody has to have a hobby). Though retired and mainly doing research, he is approached by an old friend, Judge Thatcher, to operate on his da...

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