Derek Royle "Confessions of a Sex Maniac" (1974). He appeared in a children's TV comedy series, "Hogg's Back" (1975) as Doctor Hogg, an eccentric general practitioner (GP); in 2016 this series has appeared on Talking Pictures TV. Royle acted with Wendy Richard and Pat Coombs over two series. (Hog's Back is an area in Surrey in Britain.) Royle played an unfortunate guest in a "Fawlty Towers" episode, "The Kipper and the Corpse", wherein he played the eponymous corpse. He also was the second actor to portray Monsieur Ernest LeClerc in the sixth series of "'Allo 'Allo!", and had a supporting role in
The Corpse Vanishes was questioned by Joel if there was anything positive from the movie, he short circuits. The MST3K episode is available in the collectors volume 16. Bela Lugosi also starred in another 1942 horror film, "Bowery at Midnight". In a scene in that film outside a cinema, an advertising poster for "The Corpse Vanishes" outside the cinema doors features Lugosi's image and name. "The Corpse Vanishes" was featured in episode #105 of "Mystery Science Theater 3000" along with Chapter 3 of "Radar Men from the Moon", a Commando Cody serial. The episode debuted in December 1989 on the Comedy Channel. "MST3K"