At first, he called himself Son of Svengoolie, to pay tribute to Bishop but Bishop assured him that he was the new Svengoolie ...

Svengoolie, also known as Rich Koz, also known as the Son of Svengoolie, also known as the top-hatted cadaver with the goatee and the rubber chickens who introduces monster movies on Saturday ...

Rich Koz portrays Svengoolie in an Oct. 1979, advertisement for WFLD-Ch. 32’s “Son of Svengoolie” show. (Chicago Tribune) After its launch, the show won a string of consecutive local Emmy ...

Svengoolie — without the “Son of” prefix — returned to TV on New Year’s Eve, 1994. Since then, he’s never left. Chris Faulkner, who has been the show’s director for 30 years, said ...

The original Svengoolie, Jerry G. Bishop decided that Rich Koz would take over as the iconic character. Koz is known as Son ...

CHICAGO — Svengoolie, also known as Rich Koz, also known as the Son of Svengoolie, also known as the top-hatted cadaver with the goatee and the rubber chickens who introduces monster movies on ...

“We’ll drop the ‘Son of’ and I’ll just be Svengoolie.’ Even at the end of the first run of ‘Sven,’ there were people who wondered who ‘Svengoolie’ was. A lot of people weren ...