Screaming Yellow Theater (Svengoolie) - "Wilderness Road" (Opening, 1973)

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 opening segment is from Show #59 (according to the clapboard). However, there is no recording date.

In this opening segment, the members of the local Chicago-based rock band Wilderness Road (whose self-titled debut album was issued on Columbia C 31118 in 1972, and the cover of whose second LP, Sold for the Prevention of Disease Only [Reprise MS 2125], was shown; and who was described in the lower-third as a "Greaser-Polka Band") awakens Svengoolie from his upright crypt, upon which he hands each member a rubber chicken. One of the band members introduces the first film as "White Hunter Tom Meets Bruce."

A history of this band can be found on this Wikipedia entry.

Directed by Phil Doty.

"The following prescribed is transcrammed."

This aired on local Chicago TV sometime in early 1973.

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