Vincent Price TV Gold | Playing it for laughs on The Carol Burnett Show (1974)

On the big screen Vincent Price may have been the Merchant of Menace, but when it came to the small screen, the horror movie icon couldn’t resist showing off his comic side in a variety of US TV shows from the 1950s to the 1970s.

His guest stints on The Carol Burnett Show in 1974 are a real hoot, and he gets the play a number of crazy characters in skits alongside Burnett and show regulars Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Lyle Waggoner – and Joan Rivers. My favourite has to be The Walnuts, a spoof on The Waltons. But I also love the way he game for a laugh alongside Burnett’s obnoxious girl scout, Alice. Check them out here.

Vincent Price TV Gold | Trapper John, MD (1982)

In the first of a new strand on my blog, Vincent Price TV Gold, here's a chance to see some of the legendary actor's many TV appearances - from game shows and variety programmes to classic comedies and vintage dramas. If you have one you want to include, do let me know.

This week, it's The Ransom, the seventh episode from the fourth season of the M.A.S.H. spin-off, Trapper John MD, in which a bitter former hospital employee takes Riverside hostage and demands $1million ransom. In this one, Vincent plays a patient called Baxter Garwood.