Real name: Paul Kawecki
Years active: 1969-1971
And so the strange saga of WPGH-Channel 53 finally ends. In the beginning they had a sarcastic vampire, then a terrible vampire, and now...TARANTULA!
And what a character. They never said what he was, exactly, but he kicked off his tenure on Scream-In by staking Count Von Thirstenburg's coffin.
From there, he forewent to the usual snark and puns and came across as one cool swinger. He also had actual plots in his episode, with the breaks between the movie usually focusing on a story. Not a huge deal now, but pretty innovative for the late 60's/early 70's.
Sadly this level of awesome couldn't be sustained and the show was finally taken off sometime in 1971.
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