{"id":20210,"date":"2013-11-11T06:27:10","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T11:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=20210"},"modified":"2013-10-28T07:07:38","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T12:07:38","slug":"the-elvira-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=20210","title":{"rendered":"The Elvira Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cassandra Peterson&#8217;s alter ego Elvira has never suffered from underexposure, appearing in everything from video games to comic books to calendars; but I had no idea that she nearly had her own sitcom.<\/p>\n<p>In 1993 CBS produced a pilot episode of <i>The Elvira Show<\/i>, which involved two witches (Elvira and Katherine Helmond) moving to Manhattan, Kansas, with their talking cat.  The pilot was never aired, but it&#8217;s available on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>Huh.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"239\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/UDFdviyMWdU?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/UDFdviyMWdU?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"239\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><i>(Hat tip to Pixel Pixie)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cassandra Peterson&#8217;s alter ego Elvira has never suffered from underexposure, appearing in everything from video games to comic books to calendars; but I had no idea that she nearly had her own sitcom. In 1993 CBS produced a pilot episode of The Elvira Show, which involved two witches (Elvira and Katherine Helmond) moving to Manhattan, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-peculiar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20212,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20210\/revisions\/20212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}