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Overview of the film industry in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, has become a popular destination for the television and film industry, attracting dozens of film and television productions each year.

Many prominent actors have worked on productions filmed in Hamilton, and the city has positioned itself to attract new productions with a regional tax incentive.

In 2007 the city launched an ad campaign to lure in film studios.

Hamilton has a dedicated office geared towards assisting those in the film and music industry.

Local participation in film industry

See also: List of media outlets in Hamilton, Ontario and List of people from Hamilton, Ontario

Local TV station CHCH introduced Canadians to Smith & Smith, which featured Steve and Morag Smith (the former better known from his stint as Red Green). The Hilarious House of Frightenstein was a Canadian children's television series which was also produced by CHCH in 1971. It was syndicated to television stations across Canada and the United States, and occasionally still appears today in some TV markets. The show's cast included Billy Van, Fishka Rais, Guy Big, Mitch Markowitz, Vincent Price, and Julius Sumner Miller. One hundred and thirty episodes of the series were made in a nine-month span starting in 1971. Don Cherry's Grapevine began airing on CHCH TV in the 1980s and shot on location at CHCH TV's Telecentre on King Street West and then at CHCH's main studio on Jackson Street West. The production then moved (including the original set and bar) to the restaurant Cherry had in town, also called "Don Cherry's Grapevine". The restaurant was on Main Street East. CHCH also produced local broadcasts such as Tiny Talent Time and Party Game.

Power Play was a Canadian television drama series that aired on CTV from 1998 to 2000. The show starred Michael Riley as Brett Parker, a fo

“Another lovely day begins, for ghosts and ghouls with greenish skin. So close your eyes and you will find that you’ve arrived in Frightenstein. Perhaps the Count will find a way to make his monster work to-day. For if he solves this monster-mania, he can return to Transylvania! So welcome where the sun won’t shine, to the castle of Count Frightenstein!”

As we get older, we inevitably start wondering where our love of certain things comes from. We ponder what could have influenced us in the early days of childhood. Every October, I shift into full on horror-mode, both here on the blog and on Twitter. And at some point, I asked myself the question, “Why are you such a fan of horror? Where did that come from? When did it start?”

As it so happens, I actually know the answer to all of those questions. Here, I’ll show you.

That, my friends, is of course the great Vincent Price. And this is the intro to a little-known Canadian children’s sketch comedy program called “The Hilarious House of Frightenstein”. And I’m quite certain that this is where my love of all things creepy, kooky, mysterious and spooky came from. (Also my adoration of Vincent Price, obviously!)

I was so young when I first watched this that when my dad described it to me years later, I didn’t believe that such a show existed. “The Librarian!!!”, he said. “Don’t you remember the Librarian? You loved him when you were little.”

Oh, this explains sooo many things about me.

“The Librarian” was played by Toronto-born actor/comedian Billy Van. In fact, Billy Van played most of the characters on The Hilarious House of Frightenstein: The Librarian, the Count, Grizelda the Ghastly Gourment, Bwana Clyde Batty, Dr. Pet Vet (apparently another favourite of little Wendy), and the Wolfman, to name a few.

The Saturday morning children’s sho

Fifty years ago, one man on one TV show created eight vividly memorable TV characters in every episode: The Librarian; Grizelda, the Ghastly Gourmet; Bwana Clyde Batty, The Oracle, The Count, The Marharishi, the record-spinning Wolfman and Dr. Pet Vet. Then he’d pull on a gorilla suit and fall on his face. The show was The Hilarious House of Frightenstein, and the man was Billy Van.

He was a one-man comedy troupe. I was barely in high school when Frightenstein began airing out of Hamilton, Ontario’s CHCH. It was allegedly a kid’s show and, sure, kids loved it, but it was so damn trippy that their older, pot smoking siblings were into it too.

At the same time, Van was also on TV as part of the “Home Team” along with “Captain” Jack Duffy and Dinah Christie on another ‘CH gem which aired throughout the ‘70s, the charades series Party Game.

Put that in perspective. In an era of only twelve TV channels, if you grew up in the Greater Toronto Area and in other parts of Canada where these shows were syndicated, you could see Billy Van in action, in character and as himself, every weekday for a decade. In a nation which has never really had a star system, Van was a household name by sheer dint of exposure, appearing both in character(s) and as himself.

If you were young and into comedy at the time, you could absolutely trace your DNA back to Billy Van. As Corner Gas creator Brent Butt — who was watching from Saskatchewan — says, Van was “the type of guy that could just steal the show at any moment.” Other Canadians, including Jim Carrey, Scott Thompson from The Kids in the Hall and Mike Myers, were also watching and clearly taking notes.

Van went on to become a key member of the Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour and other U.S.-based variety shows. Before that, he spent much of the ‘60s as a sketch comedy trailblazer on CBC with Nightcap. Yet today he largely forgotten. What happened?

Van’s complicated legacy is addressed in “Who’s The M

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Today’s episode is one of the spookiest of the year…
It’s the story behind one of the wildest, strangest, and most beloved TV shows to ever air on Canadian television.
It only lasted one season, but it was beloved by children and the college crowd alike.
The show was a psychedelic experience of education, and off the wall fun, combined with a horror film icon, Albert Einstein’s friend and one of the most versatile and gifted comedians the Great White North has ever produced.
I’m Craig Baird, this is Canadian History Ehx and today I take you to The Hilarious House of Frightenstein!
That… is horror legend Vincent Price.
Each episode of the Hilarious House of Frightenstein began with his haunting voice reading a poem which continued like this.
“For if he solves this monster-mania, he can return to Transylvania! So welcome where the sun won’t shine, to the castle of Count Frightenstein!”
The episode would then normally go on to show Count Frightenstein’s efforts to revive Brucie J. Monster, a Frankenstein-like monster.
But the story behind Frightenstein begins with Riff Markowitz.
Born in New York City in 1938, he was raised in Toronto where he got bitten by the showbiz bug at an early age.
When he was just 15 years old, he left home to work as a clown for a year.
Then he secured a job as a radio announcer on CJKL in Kirkland Lake, Ontario.
By the late-1960s, he had moved over to CHCH-TV in Hamilton.
There he wanted to produce new TV shows for the station as it made its first foray into syndication.
Much like in 1816 when Mary Shelly, her companions, Percy Shelley and Lord Byron had a competition to see who wrote the best horror story…
To develop his TV show concept, Riff invited creative friends to what he called a brainstorming and spaghetti party at the Windsor Arms Hotel in Toronto.
From his hotel suite the idea for a children’s show emerged.
It would be s