The Undertaker and His Pals premiered in Birmingham, Alabama on November 30, 1966. Originally, some gore scenes were created with the insertion of real medical surgery footage. When acquired by Ted V Mikels for a triple bill of the Italian horror movie The Embalmer and his own film The Corpse Grinders, he cut out the majority of the gore scenes and a sequence with Ray Dannis in drag as an old lady. Reported in some sources as approximately 80 minutes in length, Mikels' cut of the film ran a little over an hour. It was released on home video by MTI Home Video and, since then, as part of many public domain DVD sets.
