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Description: Here's another segment from Screaming Yellow Theater - the original Svengoolie, which aired on WFLD Channel 32 from 1970-1973. Svengoolie was played by Jerry G. Bishop. By this point, if the clapboard is of any indication, the SYT title had been eschewed in favor of Svengoolie.

This segment (#1-2) is from Show #60 (according to the clapboard). However, there is no recording date.

This segment starts off with Svengoolie on the phone with his Uncle Hymie who kept his money in his socks and had his ankle picked. Afterwards, Sven picks a tune on the ukulele, "You've Got a Fiend" (sung to the tune of the Carole King composition "You've Got a Friend" which was also a #1 hit for James Taylor in 1971), and in the end gets the rubber chicken treatment (and the "Tijuana Taxi" horn).

Directed by Phil Doty.

This aired on local Chicago TV sometime in early 1973.