The Vincent Price Series You've Never Seen
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- čas přidán 27. 07. 2024
- Vincent Price could've been one of the great anthology TV hosts, but his series never made it to the air. We un-earth the un-aired pilot for the latest "Anthology of Anthology TV Shows" video. See what might have been...
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Directed by William Castle AND Otto Preminger; shared the screen with Gene Tierney, Kermit the Frog, Diana Rigg, AND Joe Piscopo; the muse of Roger Corman AND Tim Burton. A legend, a charmer, a connoisseur of art and food, AND a very respectable on-screen kill count!
And Vincent Price is the only non-Brady actor to appear on both THE BRADY BUNCH *and* THE BRADY BUNCH VARIETY HOUR. He lived an amazing life.
Part of his art collection lives on at the aptly named Vincent Price Art Museum at East L.A. College.
Don't forget Adam West!
I was lucky enough to find one of Mr Price's cookbooks at an estate sale and snapped it up despite several pages being somewhat the worse for wear. Found out later that the damage was from a bullet that entered the spine and exited the book between the cover and first page. Seems somehow appropriate for a Vincent Price book. It is now a prized belonging that has offered up several tasty dishes enjoyed by my family despite my very bad impression of Vincent whenever I serve one.
I met him years ago at a party. Some friends of mine saw him at a after a presentation at IU and introduced themselves. They were all in punk bands and Price showed up to their gig. Later on he went to the after party. He was in the corner drinking beer out of a keg with the rest of us. I spoke to him briefly but I was so flabbergasted and intimidated by his presence. I could not get over him hanging around all of these punk rock folks. What a cool person!
Oh my God, thank you for this story. It just makes me love him even more!
I met his daughter Victoria Price years ago during a q and a and she looked so much like her father and she was very nice in person before I saw her I saw Martin Landau too
When Vincent Price died onscreen in Edward Scissorhands, I was absolutely gutted. I wept, openly. When he died in real life less than two years later I was beside myself. I performed in an appearance of the Rocky Horror Picture Show less than a week later we paid tribute to the man. Still miss him.
That's so cool that you paid tribute to him. (He would've been a great Criminologist in that show.) I miss him, too.
"I'm a harmless scientist from New Mexico" is my new pick-up line; I will marry the first human who recognizes it.
LOL!
hahahahaha!!!!!!
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I absolutely ADORE Vincent Price! It's a shame this didn't take off because I would have loved to have seen him play a variety of different characters in an anthology show a la Inside No.9.
Vincent Price recorded on Michael Jackson's Thriller Album for $20,000 instead of taking a percentage of the sales.
It is estimated he would have earned at least $200,000.
That's interesting! Rod Temperton who wrote "Thriller" came up with the speech Price delivers on way to the recording studio. Technically he's playing the "Midnight Man" which was one of the early titles for "Thriller" along with "Starlight". Peggy Lipton, who was married to Quincy Jones at the time, was friends with Vincent Price and suggested he perform the spoken word section.
You need to check out Time Express from 1979. An anthology show with Price and his then-wife, Coral Browne, running a time traveling train. Kind of Fantasy Island-esque.
Yes, I have seen a little of the show. A couple of people have mentioned stuff like FANTASY ISLAND or TIME EXPRESS as anthology shows. I hadn't thought to include those kinds of shows under the anthology title -- but sure, let's use a big tent!
That's sound like an amazing show. And/or a fever dream.
I liked Vincent Price as the host of "The Hilarious House of Frightenstein." :D
I've only seen clips, but I know that show had a long run and friends of mine have a real fondness for it.
Yes! When I think of an unknown Vincent Price tv series, this is the one that comes to mind. Hardly anyone remembers this.
@@heartofalegend As a Canadian, I was raised on the show. :D lol
It played in New York for a while. Loved it. Supposedly he recorded hundreds of one liners over a weekend and they spread them out throughout the series.
Barbara Stanwyk was another star that briefly had her own anthology show too in the early 60s.
Thanks for this wonderful video! I had never heard of this one. What a shame it wasn't picked up. I adore Vincent Price. Lots off horror icons could bring either the terror or the camp. He's the only one who could do both at the same time and make it totally work.
You're so right, that's what made him so unique that he could do both at once.
What a talent. And what a sense of humor!
Really a one of a kind. I can't think of anyone who fits the bill as a modern day Vincent Price.
Boris Karloff hosted show called Thriller that was followed by Thriller comic book he hosted which was quickly replaced by Boris Karloff tales of mystery.
Cool -- I didn't know about the comic book. Was it a Gold Key title? They did so many tv tie-ins.
@@atomicabeIt was. The stories were pretty tame violence wise, but they had good stories and atmosphere. I think Dark Horse did some collections.
Vincent Price scared the crap out of me when I was a kid 😂😂😂
He was scary. Do you remember what you saw him in that scared you? The reveal of HOUSE OF WAX freaked me out.
I'll have to look up his movies to see if I remember which one
This channel is great, I’m so glad I found it. I only wish I’d found it sooner.
Hey, welcome! We're also very glad you found it.
Great stuff. Love your videos, Abe.
thank you kindly!
Karloff also did a show called the veil. That show had a dodgy history. It's on Tubi.
That's right! I forgot about The Veil. I have only seen THRILLER.
Brilliant use of a Mr. Show clip.
Thank you. I love Mr. Show, that sketch is a favorite of mine. (Especially Bob as the country singer C.S. Lewis III)
@@atomicabe Don't mess... with God's America.
He did a mystery show and I remember one on Mary, Queen of Scots. I'd love to see it again!!!
Every Halloween when I play the Thriller video, Vincent Price is very much the iconic narrator. 😊😊
He did the recorders for the Phantom Monor attraction for Disneyland in Paris. ❤
I didn't know that. The guy really kept busy and worked a lot.
And he had a relationship with Disney -- he played the villain in THE GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE. I wonder if he recorded for Disneyland around the same time.
During the early or mid-1960's, in San Francisco Ca, at a Sears Roebuck Store, I met Mr. Price who hosting an Art sales event at the store. He was so nice, polite, kind.
I love hearing these stories. I'm envious.
@@atomicabe I"m 80 and these are all I have that reallyl matter.
More please!💘
Thanks! There's more coming.
I don't know if Beyond Belief counts as an anthology show, but Jonathan Frakes as the host did like to play it up with puns and metaphorical winks to the camera, in a way like how Price did, only more with his Riker swagger attitude.
ooh, great call. Yeah, he's got swagger to burn.
How about a video on Darkroom, the twilight zone esque show with James Coburn? Especially the vampire story with a young Helen Hunt?????
Brava, Marian Seldes!
Yeah, she's really good in this. And holds her own with Vincent Price.
I wasn't even alive when most of these shows you cover came out, but it's still so interesting! Idk why!
Same here. Thanks for saying that. It means a lot!
@@atomicabe You're very welcome! You do a great job covering these shows, very succinct but i can tell you definitelyyyy do your research and enjoy what ya do 😊I'm sold! Haha
Thriller with Boris Karloff was a great show. Also, I love Vincent Price.
Vincent Price went on to host the classic horror anthology movie Escapes.
I actually saw this it aired in Toronto
REALLY? Oh wow. Do you remember when it aired? That's very cool.
@@atomicabe yeah it was on ChCh TV 11 before Tiny Talent Time so maybe 1960 or 61. This station played failed TV shows and old movie serials like Green Horent and Batman
I want to include your show in my Anthology of Anthology of Anthology of TV Shows.
I know a lady who worked in a hotel where he stayed. As he was leaving, he told her he left something for her in his room. She wasn't sure what it would be. Turned out it was a silver dollar. Cool dude.
That story made me nervous. But phew!
A haunted silver dollar.
His wife was an avid antique collector. At times when she would come in for gas driving her huge International Travel All she share her latest finds with us. Very amiable and down to earth lady. (Richards Texaco, Lindley & Ventura Blvd. Tarzana, CA.)
Curiously, the same year he made HALF AN HOUR TO KILL, Price filmed another pilot called COLLECTOR'S ITEM about a pair of art collectors. (It co-starred Peter Lorre)
Nobody mentions a rarely seen, let alone mentioned, televison show entitled. "'Way Out!" It was hosted by Roald Dahl and lasted only fourteen episodes. Very creepy and unusual.
I'm a fan of WAY OUT -- thought I've only seen one episode (the one where Murray Hamilton plays a henpecked husband who is enchanted by a side-show attraction.) The low-budget production and black and white video made it that much more creepy and dream-like. I need to watch more episodes. (Meanwhile I've seen like 6 seasons of Dahl's TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED.)
Way out only lasted around 13 episodes but I remember it coming on after the twilight zone on channel 2 in the LA market. I remember the smoke and hands showing the credits. This was around 1962 I believe.
I know he did some in the 70s radio dramas called the price of fear is pretty good actually and they dance good stories
I'll have to listen to some of those. I heard Vincent Price as Mister Rochester in a radio production of JANE EYRE.
I still think the best one was the man who doesn’t make a scene
Karloff's "Thriller" was on the ratings bubble at the end of the second season. NBC managed to persuade Alfred Hitchcock to move his show from CBS to NBC, and supposedly, Hitchcock insisted that there was only going to be ONE master of mystery on the network. That gave Thriller the final push off the sched.
Now that's what I call hot 1960s anthology TV gossip! Thanks for sharing it.
Very kind, thank you. Glad to have discovered your site. Looking forward to enjoying more from it. @@atomicabe
The ONLY reason I bought the Thriller album was just so I could learn how to imitate Vincent Price's voice.
That's wonderful. Can you still do it?
If you want my Mr. Price. CZcams has The Sant radio show.
Hilarious House of Frightenstein also featured Vincent Price.
Blowing up the moon is a bad idea, pieces of it would hit the earth.
But do it during a full moon, so you get the whole thing.
Love Vince Price
I counted five mentions of the words "icon" or "iconic," which seems to be about average for this kind of video.
Hey I worked for shows on Vh1, so I know all about the dangers of superlative language and hyperbole. But this is Vincent Price we're talking about. The praise is warranted.
I never really realized Orson Wells and HG Wells were different people. How embarrassing...
I'm certain you are not alone.
Vincent Price would have been awesome in this show. Probably just a bit ahead of its time like most classic tv....always classy with a creepiness just under and mostly on the surface
The greatest actor in the history of film.
It's hard to imagine anyone else playing the Vincent Price role in a Vincent Price movie. Without him, the movie might not have gotten made.
The Veil with Karloff and Lon Chaney Jr. In 13 Demon Street.
I remember on the recent Scooby-Doo espsiode of hex girls there was segment n the show. Where they were watching espsiode of Vincent some spooky show of his. N something about him having a lizard face..lol..
Back in those days private phones numbers were generally in local telephone books.
The implication was that is would have been unlisted or non-published and would not have been in the phone book.
Always 150%! 🎭😊
The craziest movie Vincent Price ever did was Dr Goldfoot.
Dr Goldfoot is so much fun. At @9:39 we show a clip from the Dr. Goldfoot tv special. You can look it up, there's an episode of the tv show SHINDIG! that was bought-out as an ad for the movie. And here's the wild part -- the film was originally a musical, but they got cold feet and cut all the songs. So they put all the songs on the episode of SHINDIG!
Yes, I agree, Dr. Goldfoot IS a lot of fun, but price fans need to see 1950's Champaign for Ceasar with Ronald Colman, Vincent is so funny in this overlooked gem.
Vincent price kids show on Saturday morning. The hilarious house of frankenstien
I thought Henry Rollins hosted a horror anthology show on MTV/VH1. It was called "Tales from the B Side" or some such. June allyson and Dick Powell were married. She told him she was pregnant on his radio show. Richard Diamond.
Oh cool, I don't know that one. I watched some of NIGHT VISIONS (the series featured in this video.) There was one episode directed by Tobe Hooper. I hadn't realized June Allyson and Dick Powell were married. That's amazing about the radio announcement!
@@atomicabe It was probably NOT hosted by Rollins. I may be getting 2 if them confused. I do know that there was a show that was like Hitchhiker/Tales from the Crypt that was centered on music business. Found IT: "Strange Frequency" IMDb.
Vincent Price to do the price of fear and they’re pretty good stories. They had some good stories did the lake 70,s he released these radio dramas
I'd argue that there are 4 types of anthology shows...There's the show with the regular cast or a character loosely connected to the story. like The Millionaire or Sweepstakes or Class of 65. And then there are the shows like Love Boat, Fantasy Island or Hotel that have a regular cast who might have some storyline, but it's the guests who have a single episode story.
Both good points. And then you've got a different kind of anthology show like AMERICAN HORROR STORY, FARGO, MIRACLE WORKS or even BLACK ADDER, where each *season* of the show is different. But maybe that's something else.
Good points! @@atomicabe
👀 VP as 👿 in Damn Yankees, wanted autograph, dad said too long & 1/2 way up stairs he came out & was Swamped! 😢
Count Floyd!
We did a video about Sitcom Actors Killed in Horror Movies and I wore my Count Floyd shirt: czcams.com/video/5qLR5o4zLbM/video.htmlsi=_Ohu4jGT_1IA26ul
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FLWright! 🏡
You should never assume.
You're correct, of course. But this is a gamble we were willing to take.
@@atomicabe Bold.
Lol, huge Vincent Price fan, I actually have the Ackerman set of lifel masks of Lugosi, Karloff and Price. I work in the horror film industry, and Horror Hosting.
Vincent also has his visage inked on me, as I met him when I was very young, and he adored my red hair, which helped me not be so subc9nscious about it growing up.
I cried the day he died, but knowing it was coming from his portrayal in Edward Scissorhands put that scene in my mind.
Have you seen Whisper to a Scream?
I also just got a rather rare VHS in mint of Nefertiti: Queen of the Nile. It was a very long search to add to my almost complete collection.
Edsel... 😅
Vince Price was an actor he never killed a real wife.
Pishtosh.
Shows that the thing most needed is good writers because this was BAD.
Ultimately I think anthology stories are a writer's medium. Yes they need good production, direction, editing, performance and lighting. But for a 30-minute program, the story needs to be strong and self-contained.