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KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park (1978) (TV) More at IMDbPro »

• Peter Criss was dubbed, because he wouldn't show up to do looping (re-recording lines in post-production).
  
  
• The band was given lines while standing ready for action. They didn't even know how the film would end.
  
  
• The cartoon-style music that appears during fight sequences was added after the production team realized that the film needed a lower certificate to enable younger 'KISS' fans (the majority) to see the film.
  
  
• 'KISS' was asked, and had planned, to write and record all new songs for this film, but couldn't due to time restrictions.
  
  
• All four members of 'KISS' hated the movie and slam it to this day.
  
  
• According to Paul Stanley in VH1's "KISS: Behind The Music", Ace Frehley was starting to become an unreliable member of the band at this point and would often fail to show up during shooting, so Ace's stuntman (an African-American) had to act in some scenes and fill in for Ace on some of the fight scenes. The stuntman's voice was overdubbed to sound like Ace (there are differing versions as to whether Ace or a soundalike did the overdubbing).
  
  
• The movie was inspired by the 'KISS' comic book series published by Marvel Comics. In the comics, they were a band by day and superheroes by night.
  
  
• Ace Frehley's stunt man was black, so in the fight scenes you can see Ace go from being white to black and vice-versa.
  
  
• When this was originally shown on "NBC Saturday Night at the Movies" on 28 October 1978, the opening trailer bumper was announced by New York NBC staff announcer Fred Collins, while Peggy Taylor, one of the network's Burbank-based staff announcers, did commercial and ending bumpers.
  
  
• In a commercial for his 2009 solo release, Anomaly, Ace Frehley brings back his teleportation power and "Ack" gimmicks from the movie.
  
  

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