I have long wanted more information to bolster my memories. Here's what I can add: There is a picture of Dr. Igor out there somewhere. I lost my copy of it, but Gene King made a personal appearance during the Christmas season one year at Thriftown (located on the site of the present Jewel-Osco in Moline). He signed autograghs on a small (2"x1" maybe) white fold-out card. The front cover was his photograph (in character); inside he signed his name. Also available were white Dr. Igor sweatshirts with his image sketched on the front. The line of kids to see ol' Doc Igor (I can still do an impression of his vocal mannerisms) was greater than that for Santa Claus, also appearing on that occasion. Can anybody pin down the run of his (2) shows? The attached photograph of my friend Dave Thompson wearing the sweatshirt bears a processing date of Apr 1967. This may have been taken after the show was gone, but might also be contemporaneous. I also remember a spin-off show that ran briefly on Sunday nights at 10:30 that featured another character host and offered up old science fiction movies. I think the host may have been an alien scientist type with a big head. The Jungle Jay show had a sidekick character named Bigfoot Barney and, yes, I also remember the "plotline" where a feud was established between Igor and Jungle Jay --with King playing the Igor character stalking the Jay set. Naturally the two characters could not appear on screen at the same time, so I believe Bigfoot had to represent the Jungle Jay faction during the crossover.

He was married twice. He had three children with his first wife. He and my mother, his second wife Pearl, had six children.

After we left Moline, we went to Denver. He was on KWGN Channel 2 with Dr. Igor and Jungle Jay. He played Dr. Igor in Tucson Arizona in the early 70's. The name of the show on channel 11 KZAZ in Tucson was "Dr. Igor's Reign of Terror." At the beginning of the "Dr. Igor's Reign of Terror" show in Arizona, all of the characters on the show were viewed coming out of a casket, one by one. Sort of like those clowns at the circus that all come out of the tiny car.

I am not sure if either of the other two stations may have some film or not. My little sister should have some publicity shots that I gave her several years ago, and I believe I have a fan club card stashed away that has his Dr. Igor character.

My dad was an only child and actually wanted to have a dozen kids when he grew up. He ended up with 9. He had a very difficult childhood. It is truly amazing that my dad developed such an incredible sense of humor. He was so very good at making people laugh.

I have several photos of my dad. I have one from Old Tucson from an appearance where he as Dr. Igor and "Uncle Bob" had a shootout. Inevitably, my fathers pants fell revealing boxer shorts with little red hearts on them.

When he had his show on in Tucson, Ron Quinn, who did the make up on the original Planet of the Apes made some character heads for my dad.

In Denver and in Arizona, Greg Chancellor played the character "Plasma". Greg and my dad were friends for a great many years. Greg gave the eulogy at my dad's funeral in 1977. Greg also wrote speeches for a governor in Colorado. Joe Bassett played the part of Harry Wolfbane (a werewolf type character). I am not sure who played these parts in Moline, but will confirm with my mother.

I was very young (3 years old or so) when we lived in Illinois. It is truly heartwarming to know that many people still remember my father. He was an outstanding man.

I have many many memories of his show. We had tapes of his show, but they were destroyed as we had left them in our garage and they did not weather well. It is refreshing to know that there is someone out there who remembers him as well. He was a wonderful father, actor, singer, broadcaster, comedian and all around entertainer.

-Rhonda Sword

I have such terrific memories of Gene and his family and his show. My father was on for a short time as "Mortimer Mystic" a head hunter type of character. I was on once as a delivery person delivering a brand new product at the time in Tucson called Dr. Pepper.

That was my 1 and only time on TV. If any of the King kids read this I would love to hear from them as it's been 30 yrs or better since I have seen any of them.

Thank you for this great web site.

The whole family loved Dr. Igor, and later, the Acri Creature Feature ("Eat a cookie and spit up").

Fond memories of my childhood in Iowa.

Don Doerres

I was working for KZAZ in Tucson in the 70's as a technical director (operated the video side of the control room) and had the opportunity to work with Gene. What a super guy!!

I remember one show, we decided to keep the video rolling when the scene ended but didn't tell Dr. Igor. When Gene (Dr. Igor) came out from behind a curtain, he was joking in his 'regular' voice about how the scene went. Then when we told him over the studio intercom that the tape was still rolling, he then went back to his Dr. Igor voice and the camera zoomed in on his face. It was priceless to see his expression. We all laughed on tape. He reviewed the video later that day and it aired that weekend, uncut and unedited. One of many great shows!!

We had a great time with Gene and I will always remember him. I wish there were pictures and videos of the show but back then we used 2" video tape and never saved any of them.

By the way, Danny Thomas and Monty Hall owned the station at that time. I never had a chance to meet them but we still had a lot of fun back then.

I just wanted to share these momories of Gene. May he rest-in-peace.

I loved that show!!! If so he lived in Northglenn, Co for a while. My best friend and I would walk by his house just to see if we could see him...