Alice Cooper later recalled that Vincent Price "was in his element because he had me on a leash... I said, 'Don't be afraid to yank the leash. Make this like one of your movies where I'm just like this little pet of yours that you're showing around!"
Photos exist of Vincent Price seated on a throne, clad in a bulky black widow spider costume, but footage from this sequence didn't make the final cut of the TV special.
In the script, the song "Welcome to My Nightmare" included a sequence where Cooper came down a massive staircase which was lined with 12 statues of children whose eyes followed him as he descended.
Alice Cooper intended to have a trickle of blood seeping from Cold Ethyl's mouth "for effect," but the network's standards and practices department forbid the use of fake blood.
When Vincent Price showed up at the studio to record his vocals for the song "The Black Widow," he shocked onlookers by arriving in a Hawaiian shirt and striped pants. Alice Cooper commented that Price looked "like Ronald McDonald," and there was talk of renaming his character "Jolly MacAmbre, Tour Guide at the Pasadena Palace of Insects."