From E-gor's Chamber of TV Horror Hosts website: "An out-take from Count Zappula's Horror House appeared on one of Dick Clark's very early Blooper shows".
From E-gor's Chamber of TV Horror Hosts website: "When we finished the show at one in the morning or so, the Count was usually pretty tired and would drive home before changing out of his costume and makeup. Don drove a large Jeep Cherokee-type vehicle with dark, tinted windows, and one night he was pulled over by a police officer. He waited until the officer was next to the driver's window before he hit the button to roll the window down. When he became visible he flicked his tongue like a cobra and said "Good Evening" in his best vampire voice, and the officer "nearly crapped his pants," according to Don".
From E-gor's Chamber of TV Horror Hosts website: "The Count's dog "Igor" (Don's dog "Lover"), a very small terrier, also usually appeared with the Count, sometimes wearing a tiny cape".
From E-gor's Chamber of TV Horror Hosts website: "Don also played another character once in a while, when he felt that Count Zappula was getting stale. The character's name was Doctor Maniac. Maybe one show in ten or twenty. Doctor Maniac usually appeared standing behind a "laboratory desk" with colored liquids and dry ice in various breakers and test tubes. He wore a "fright wig" and a green lab coat".
From E-gor's Chamber of TV Horror Hosts website: "The name of the program was "Count Zappula's Horror House", and it aired on Channel 29, WGTU-TV Traverse City, Michigan, and WGTU's "repeater" station, WGTQ-TV Channel 8, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. It was also on a low-power repeater, Channel 55 in Alpena, Michigan. Basically, the program was seen in northern lower Michigan and the eastern third of Michigan's upper peninsula. The program aired Saturday nights at 11:30 pm until whenever we got done. The station signed off after the Zappula program, so we had a flexible time period".