Screaming Yellow Theater (Svengoolie) - "Tina McDowall" - The Rhoda Bodashore Song and Bedtime Poem (Closing, 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 closing segment is from Show #60 (according to the clapboard). However, there is no recording date.

In this segment, Svengoolie is inside his upright crypt, playing the ukulele and announcing the close of another edition. He sings a few bars of "The Rhoda Bodashore Song" which was actually "Michael, Row the Boat Ashore" before being pelted with rubber chickens. Then, he says that for next week, Bob Hope, Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley and Evel Knievel have all promised not to appear on the show. Next, he endeavors to read a bedtime poem, but an audio of a smoker going into a shop to speak of his X-rays is played, after which Sven says good night and closes the crypt, the Stan Freberg "good night" audio clip from the first episode of his 1957 radio show is played, and a final announcement about an intended talent transplant onto Durward Kirby for next week.

Directed by Phil Doty.

This aired on local Chicago TV sometime in early 1973.

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