EDITOR’S NOTE: Frankenstein 1970 was first on Chiller Theater on Saturday, October 5, 1963 at 3:00 p.m. It also aired on Sunday, July 12, 1964 and Saturday, May 4, 1968.

Howard W. Koch produced the Academy Awards show on eight occasions. He also made this movie, Jungle Heat and The Girl in Black Stockings with Mamie Van Doren. And along with Telly Savalas, he owned a horse named Telly’s Pop that won some big races.

Things have come full circle, I guess, for Boris Karloff as now instead of playing Frankenstein’s Monster, he’s Baron Victor von Frankenstein. After being abused by the Nazis for not aiding them during World War II. Now he’s back to being a scientist but in need of money, he allows a crew to make a horror movie at his family’s castle.

I have no idea how much money he’s getting paid, because it’s enough to buy an atomic reactor and make a clone of himself that starts killing members of the film, his butler and then absorbs himself.

Mike Lane, who plays the monster, would also play the role in The Monkees and on the TV series Monster Squad.

With a set borrowed from Too Much, Too Soon — the autobiography of Diana Barrymore that has Vampira in it — you can spot the Maltese Falcon as a decoration.