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An infamous half-hour segment of Tales of Tomorrow with
Lon Chaney Jr. as the monster.
This version, which was
broadcast live, is notable for the fact that Chaney
believed it to be a dress rehearsal rather than an
actual broadcast, thereby resulting in what appeared to
be bizarre behavior on the air, such as picking up a
chair and waving it menacingly over his head and then
putting it gently back in its place. It has been
suggested that Chaney was also inebriated at the time,
but this has not been confirmed.
Thames Television's (UK) anthology series Mystery and
Imagination ran a somewhat faithful episode based on the
book in 1968. It featured Ian Holm as both Frankenstein
and his creation.
Milton the Monster (1965-1967) was a cartoon character
developed shortly after The Munsters about a
kind-hearted Frankenstein monster who famously "flipped
his lid" (emitted steam like a whale's blowhole) when
angered, and who was constantly nearly kicked out of the
lab by his scheming creator.
Frankenstein in popular culture -
Frankenstein: The True Story
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