Abbott and Costello Meet the Creature From the Black Lagoon – from the Colgate Comedy Hour, Bud and Lou do a haunted house routine. And they literally meet The Creature from the Black Lagoon — for roughly.2 seconds.
Review
For those who don’t know, Abbott and Costello Meet the Creature From the Black Lagoon is not a movie. It’s simply a sketch on The Colgate Comedy Hour, where Bud Abbott & Lou Costello are guests. They’re supposedly visiting the prop department to borrow some items for their appearance on the Colgate Comedy Hour. In fact, the person working at the prop department is played by Bud’s nephew. While there, they do several haunted house routine bits, such as the moving candlestick. Of course, Bud is out of the room, and nobody else sees them.
After some funny comedy, the Frankenstein monster comes out, frightening Bud — who runs away through a prop wall! And Lou’s laughing — until the Creature from the Black Lagoon appears, ending the sketch.
Product Description
We all remember when Abbott and Costello met Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, Dracula, the Invisible Man, The Mummy and even Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. But do you remember when Abbott and Costello met The Creature? Yes, it really did happen, not on the big screen but on live television. On Sunday, February 21, 1954 Abbott and Costello hosted NBC’s Colgate Comedy Hour. In a live comedy sketch, devised to promote Universal’s newest monster, America witnessed the brief but memorable meeting of Abbott and Costello and the Creature from the Black Lagoon. Ben Chapman plays “The Creature” and Glenn Strange as “The Frankenstein Monster”. Also starring Norman Abbott (nephew of Bud Abbott). BONUS: Trailers for Abbott and Costello’s monster films and Creature from the Black Lagoon films. NOTE: THIS IS NOT A COMPILATION OR A FULL LENGTH MOVIE, THIS IS A TV SHOW.
Gene Wesson hosts with guests Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, skater Sonja Henie, comic/singer Keefe Brasselle, with Carolyn Jones, Joyce Jameson, Michael Ross, Will J. White, Jud Conlon Singers, Norman Abbott, Glen Stangle, and announcer Hal Sawyer.
- Wesson and Brasselle perform dueling impressions
- a sketch depicts a mob-run coffee shop
- Abbott and Costello encounter the Frankenstein Monster and the Gill Man in the Universal Studios’ prop room
Cast of characters
- Sonja Henie (Sun Valley Serenade) … Self
- Bud Abbott (Africa Screams) … Self – Comic Actor
- Lou Costello (The Abbott and Costello Show) … Self – Comic Actor
- Keefe Brasselle (Skirts Ahoy) … Self – Singer
- The Jud Conlon Singers (Disney Sing-Along Songs: From Hercules) … Themselves – Singers
- Gene Wesson … Self – Host
- Norman Abbott (The Jack Benny Program – director) – prop man at the studio
- Carolyn Jones (The Addams Family) … Hazel
- Joyce Jameson (The Comedy of Terrors) … Speakeasy Singer
- Michael Ross (The Red Skelton Show) … (as Mike Ross)
- Will J. White (Westworld (1973))
Additional cast
- Hal Sawyer … Self – Announcer
- Ben Chapman (Creature from the Black Lagoon) … The Gill Man (uncredited)
- Angie Dickinson (Rio Bravo) … Commercial Model (uncredited)
- Ed Herlihy (The King of Comedy) … Pitchman for Colgate Tooth Paste (uncredited)
- Glenn Strange (House of Frankenstein ) … Frankenstein’s Monster (uncredited)