The following is from the "J.P. Patches *Northwest Icon*" by Julius Pierpont Patches & Bryan Johnston.

… Chris was asked to carry more than one show. Along with the weekday morning Patches show, Chris also hosted another kiddy show called Mystic Mountain, which aired at 5 p.m.

Ironically, it was Mystic Mountain not JP. Patches that Chris was banking on to break through. On Mystic, Chris played the German accented, slightly Einstein looking Professor Friedel Furter (or as the kids called him, Professor Hot Dog, since they couldn't pronounce Friedel Furter). The Professor's frequent guest was the jive talking BeBop Buzzard (voiced by Cy Flory, a director at the station). Together, the Professor and Be-Bop spent the majority of the time saving the earth from the evil Martian, Boris Blastoff (voiced by Dick Hawkins).

Boris would show up in a little flying saucer, which slid down a piano wire to give it a spacey sound. The saucer would land on a table with a hole in it where a guy under the table would reach up through the saucer with a sock-puppet on his hand. Like any kid's show at the time, Mystic Mountain had a few cartoons sprinkled throughout the show, but the only laughs they generated were because of how terrible they were. Some of them were even silent cartoons, where they would just play music in the background so they wouldn't be so uncomfortably quiet. (lots more on cartoons later …)

Mystic Mountain was the show that Chris had such high hopes for, but sadly Professor Friedelfurter and company didn't last.

After six months, KIRO's owner, Saul Haas, decided that J.P. should air in both the morning and the afternoon, so Mystic Mountain was tossed by the wayside.

Chris was terribly disappointed. He loved doing Professor Friedelfurter. He also knew that the professor was popular with the kids. All the kid show hosts (Stan Boreson, Captain Puget, Brakeman Bill, Wunda Wunda) were at a fund-raiser at the Seattle Center¹ and Chris was backstage meeting them for the first time. Suddenly, from the mass of kids out front, a chant began to fill the air: "We want Hot Dog! We want Hot Dog!" Chris was stunned. At that point he'd only been on the air for a couple of months! Those cheers were a sign of things to come.

¹Actually this was at the Seattle Armory, which would be remodeled for the Seattle World's Fair in 1962. After the fair was over the buildings and the fairground were renamed The Seattle Center.