Movie legends Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, & Lon Chaney (no longer Jr.) are the special guests for a season 3 episode of Route 66 that happened to air five days before Halloween.
In "Lizard's Leg & Owlet's Wing", the three appear as themselves, and revisit their most famous roles (i.e. Chaney as the Wolf Man, Karloff as the Monster of Frankenstein), and Chaney also appears as one of his father's most famous creations, the Hunchback of Notre Dame, early on. Lorre had tried comedy a year earlier, acting opposite Gertrude Berg in Mrs. G. Goes to College, aka The Gertrude Berg Show. Chaney had filmed a pilot for The Phantom, also in 1961, three years after co-starring in Hawkeye & The Last of The Mohicans, and Karloff had finished a 2 year run on NBC in the anthology series, Thriller.
Comes complete with a teaser for the next episode:
I remember seeing this on cable once. Too bad no one has Route 66 currently on the schedule.
No rating. Just saw only portions, not the whole episode.
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