 Welcome to another Canadian edition of Frightfully Forgotten, and today is our last Canadian entry. But to start things off, what are we drinking today? Drag me to Hellis. Today we're going to just bring to you a childhood favorite of ours. Something that's very Canadian. The House of Freightonstein that used to play for years when we were kids. It was filmed in 1971 in Hamilton, Ontario. And they were all filmed at once too. Pretty much one big stretch. It stars Billy Van. He played every single character except for Igor. The hippy Superman. And the mini count. Vincent Price also did this. Even as kids we knew who Vincent Price was, right? Which is one of the biggest reasons why it was so cool. See him opening the show. And then he also closes it out too. Between segments he had to introduce the new segment. And apparently he did all of that in one day. No rehearsals. What a pro. So the show takes place in Castle Freightonstein. And the premise is the count has been banished from Transylvania because he can't get his monster to work. But I've everything to make Bruce you are. The count's watering those flowers. Flowers you're gonna die? Yeah. Igor's coming in from outside. He was in the moat. I was in the moat master. Yeah. What were you doing in the moat? Yeah. And it always ends with some stupid little joke. It's like really bad. Yeah. And they had like that. And they sing the Transylvania theme or whatever. Yeah. Glory, glory, Transylvania. And then the count always has to end off with the truuuude. We then get introduced to all the characters that live in House Freightonstein. Played by Billy Van. The librarian. Yeah. Who's all old and like always full of cobwebs and everything. And what are we gonna read you next? It's always these boring ends. It's like scary. Isn't it? Yeah. Scared yet? Freighton, aren't you? No. Not really. And there's the oracle. The oracle. The giant hat. That super big hat. And crystal balls. He's always breaking all the time. Rolling off the table. Get some stuck in his hand. The horoscope today is Pisces. And if you're a Pisces and he goes off. That's right, Boodoo. Everybody knows Griselda, the Gourmet. Yeah. Reading from those recipe books. No, just throw a little bit of this. The cauldron. Time to taste it. Probably I think the best character out of the whole thing. It's so wacky. It's like you almost think that Billy Van is on drugs when he's doing it. Like Dr. Petfett, who's like one of the more educational parts of the show. Bring in like some sort of animal and talk about the animal. Igor, you can keep the animal if you want, dude. Oh, let me go ask the sloth. You go ask like this mysterious thing in this cage that you never see. Oh, Mr. Sloth, could I keep the pretty little puppy? Mr. Sloth says I can't keep the puppy. Goodbye. Yeah, poor Igor. He can never keep the poor animal. Buona Clyde Batty is another character and he's like that African safari guy or whatever. Always plays like a video from his like destroyed projector. Playing all his shitty stock footage. Again, there's a bit more education from the rest of the show. And at the end he'd always say, and until next time, ooga booga. There's the professor who is not played by Billy Van. He was a real like professor. Everything that he did was so above any child or even maybe adults' heads. He'd explain these things and write out in the chalkboard these equations. You're like, what the fuck is that? Yeah. And he'd do these neat experiments, which are kind of neat. But then he'd try to explain the science behind it. And he'd be like, whoa, the Grammar Slammer, dude. That's another one, right? Big monster. Grammar Slammer. And of course, I think a lot of children who grew up in Canada always look forward to the last segment of the show, which was the Wolfman. Which of course is like kind of a spoof on Wolfman Jack, the famous DJ. Except this guy's literally the Wolfman. I am the Wolfman. It's Champ Time. That shitty, fake record player. You put the needle on like nothing is moving. You get up and start like playing this bat guitar in front of the psychedelic background and you're coming with some maracas or something in a tambourine and start dancing. And they play the whole song, the whole song. And you just sit and watch this weird psychedelic out of left field. And then suddenly the show would just end and Vincent Price would be there. So iconic. Oh yeah. I think every Canadian kid again remembers Vincent Price sitting there in the dark, Brucey in the background. The Caster Lights are growing dim. There's no one left but me and him. But next we meet in Frankenstone. Don't come alone. That's stupid. So if you love zany kid shows and monsters and of course horror movies you have to watch the Hilarious House of Freighton Stein. Just one episode because they're all pretty much the same. It's as zany as you get. And a lot of it was ad-libbed. You can hear camera men laughing in the background as they're ad-libbing stuff and the camera's kind of like shaky sometimes. And it's so like homegrown kind of off the cuff. So it adds to the charm. There's no TV out there like this anymore besides maybe like YouTube. The product of its time. Horror movie lovers as kids you couldn't go wrong with House of Freighton Stein because it was a kid show with all the movie monsters. Which is great. So go to YouTube and look up some Hilarious House of Freighton Stein segments and until next time, keep drinking.