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It's From Surf to Turf Tonight- When the Gill Man Hits Land and "The Creature Walks Among Us!"

I just wanted to leave a brief message- today, the 16th, is the anniversary of my first appearance on TV as Sven- when I premiered as "Son of Svengoolie" on WFLD in 1979! The movie was "In the Year 2889"- and the print ads for the show did NOT feature a name- "Creature Feature's new host", they called me. the reason? Well...

Here's the background- after the WFLD management decided they wanted me to be the host- they didn't want me to look just like Jerry's Svengoolie (which I did in my pilot shoot)-so I changed from green hair, mustache and goatee to brown. Then, after we shot some test footage, they decided that the didn't like the vampire hippie look, feeling it was outdated....

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