NEW ORLEANS — Sidney Noel Rideau, who created and starred as the mad scientist Morgus the Magnificent for more than 60 years, becoming a New Orleans icon, has died of natural causes, according to his ...

Dr. Momus Alexander Morgus is a New Orleans original, created by Sidney Noel Rideau, a native New Orleanian who worked in local radio before going on TV in costume as his wacky mad scientist character ...

This week marks 65 years since the first televised experiments of Dr. Momus Alexander Morgus, the fictional scientist and Crescent City icon whose work has entertained generations of TV viewers.

NEW ORLEANS — It’ll be a treat – and no tricks – this Halloween for fans of Dr. Momus Alexander Morgus, as WUPL-TV broadcasts a vintage episode of one of the famed scientist’s televised experiments. A ...

A WDSU-TV fixture who brought thrills and screams to television screens in the New Orleans area has died. Sidney Noel Rideau died of natural causes at the age of 90, according to family members.

Morgus the Magnificent was a mad scientist, a weatherman and a movie host. But most of all Morgus was, and still is, a cultural icon for generations of New Orleanians. Morgus was a fictional crazy ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) – Nobody’s ever been a bigger New Orleans TV star than Morgus the Magnificent. He was on the air from 1959 until 1988. Morgus the Magnificent was the mad scientist who made you feel ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) – Nobody’s ever been a bigger New Orleans TV star than Morgus the Magnificent. He was on the air from 1959 until 1988. Morgus the Magnificent was the mad scientist who made you feel ...

Recently, amid spooky sounds of clanking chains and werewolf howls, an audience ranging in age from young children to those in the winter of their lives, sat in the Orpheum Theater in New Orleans, ...

New Orleans' favorite scientist made his television debut Jan. 3, 1959.Dr. Alexander Morgus, also known as Morgus the Magnificent, first appeared on televisions 60 years ago. "House of Shock" featured ...