Halloween season just would not be the same without Svengoolie, and this October, the fan-favorite horror host is back for the fourth year of Svengoolie’s BOO-Nanza on MeTV. The month-long event kicks ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Rich Koz (aka Svengoolie) and Jim Roche make ...

SVENGOOLIE CLASSIC HORROR & SCI-FI MOVIE – "Ghost & Mr. Chicken" (8:00-10:30 pm ET/PT) 1966, Stars Don Knotts, Joan Staley, Liam Redmond. A timid typesetter hasn't a ghost of a chance of becoming a ...

Svengoolie doesn’t just wear one hat. Well, yes, it’s true, MeTV’s retro movie host does wear a top hat during his Saturday 8 p.m. show, to go with his tuxedo, satin-lined casket and horror-face cake ...

He has outlasted Comiskey Park, Cabrini-Green and (soon) Mayor Richard Daley, and is as venerable a television institution as the Victory Auto Wreckers commercial. And usually much funnier. Now, ...

Meet Svengoolie, the host of Me TV’s eponymous Saturday-night throwback TV show mixing kid-friendly horror/sci-fi movies (just scary enough) with campy shtick. Once upon a time, these types of locally ...

October is always the busiest month of the year for Rick Koz, a.k.a. the man-behind-the-makeup for his TV alter-ego Svengoolie, who now ranks as an iconic Chicago TV personality on par with Cubs ...

It’s not always glamorous being a nationally known horror TV host. Just ask Rich Koz, aka MeTV’s kooky horror czar “Svengoolie,” who, in the spirit of Halloween, spoke to The Post about the part he’s ...