He has outlasted Comiskey Park, Cabrini-Green and (soon) Mayor Richard Daley, and is as venerable a television institution as the Victory Auto Wreckers commercial. And usually much funnier. Now, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Rich Koz (aka Svengoolie) and Jim Roche make ...

“We put the BOO! in BOOnanza with our movie lineup of fearsome Svengoolie features on MeTV Saturday nights,” said Rich Koz, who plays top-hatted Svengoolie. “We have killer clowns, Abbott & Costello ...

SVENGOOLIE CLASSIC HORROR & SCI-FI MOVIE – "Ghost & Mr. Chicken" (8:00-10:30 pm ET/PT) 1966, Stars Don Knotts, Joan Staley, Liam Redmond. A timid typesetter hasn't a ghost of a chance of becoming a ...

CHICAGO — Svengoolie, also known as Rich Koz, also known as the Son of Svengoolie, also known as the top-hatted cadaver with the goatee and the rubber chickens who introduces monster movies on ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Bill and Wendy are joined by Rich Koz aka ...

There are thrills, chills and laughs galore in Svengoolie’s Saturday Night Horror Classic this week. A greedy family of slightly off-kilter people (to put it mildly) gather to hear the will of their ...

In a more than 40-year career as radio and TV host, Jerry G. Bishop won three Emmys and toured with the Beatles, but he may be best remembered as the original Svengoolie. Mr. Bishop hosted “Screaming ...

Svengoolie doesn’t just wear one hat. Well, yes, it’s true, MeTV’s retro movie host does wear a top hat during his Saturday 8 p.m. show, to go with his tuxedo, satin-lined casket and horror-face cake ...

Meet Svengoolie, the host of Me TV’s eponymous Saturday-night throwback TV show mixing kid-friendly horror/sci-fi movies (just scary enough) with campy shtick. Once upon a time, these types of locally ...