Elvira, also known as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark is a character created and performed by Cassandra Peterson, The Elvira character originated in a valley girl character she portrayed on stage during her time with the improv group The Groundlings. Elvira has appeared in dozens of movies, tv shows, video games, cartoons, and music videos over the years. This page is primarily concerned with her appearances in live-action narrative television outside of her own projects.

Crossovers

(Note: Elvira appears (in what may be original footage) in an Elvira’s Movie Macabre style TV show in the Thirtysomething episode “Fathers and Lovers”. This really is a borderline type B or C appearance but I didn’t feel it quite rose to the level of “metafiction” or “blurred reality”.

Cassandra Peterson is in the Nash Bridges episode “Sniper” as a character who looks and acts like Elvira called “Frankie” and the acting credit even goes to Elvira rather than Peterson. It is however technically not an in-universe appearance of the Elvira character.

Elvira’s appearance in The Goldbergs is honestly probably the closest to being described as a “celebrity” appearance of Cassandra Peterson as Elvira rather than some form of the character Elvira existing in the show’s reality. A borderline case.)

Specials & TV Movies

(Note: I am unsure of Elvira’s role in Last of the Great Survivors as I was unable to find a copy.)

Cartoon Crossovers & Follow Ups

Elvira is the narrator of the animated movie The Ketchup Vampires and it’s sequel The Ketchup Vampires II

The Elvira character appears in the animated movies Scooby-Doo: Return to Zombie Island and Happy Halloween, Scooby Doo.