Saturday nights in northern Michigan used to belong to a vampire who hosted horror movies, kept a terrier in a tiny cape as his sidekick, and propped a skull named Chauncy on the set for company. His name was Count Zappula, and for nearly twenty years he was one of the most beloved fixtures of local television that nobody outside a few counties ever knew existed.

This episode is one person's firsthand account of growing up in that audience and what it means to go looking for someone who shaped your childhood before the last traces of him disappear entirely.

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SONGS IN THIS EPISODE:

• Green Lung – Lady Lucifer / Free the Witch (EP)

• Deep Purple – Hush / When We Rock, We Rock and When We Roll, We Roll

• Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs – Ground Speed / Foggy Mountain Banjo

• David Bowie –  ...