Countdown to Halloween - The Halloween That Almost Wasn't

Hey Kids, there's another Halloween Special on! Come on and have a seat and get ready for some campy, very dated (it has a disco scene in it) Halloween fun with The Halloween That Almost Wasn't from 1979. I remember the night this first aired because it was on against Mork and Mindy's Halloween episode where Mork turned out to be very sensitive to ghosts and got himself possessed and...wait, this is about the special. Anyway, the Special starred Judd Hirsch as Dracula calling all the monsters together to deal with a rumor that Halloween was cancelled. The monsters include Warren the Werewolf aka Wolf Man of Budapest, the Mummy of Egypt, Frankenstein's Creature (John Schuck who would go on to play Herman in the God Awful Munsters Today), Zabaar the Zombie of Haiti, and the Witch played by Mariette Hartley (and a very WILFy one at that). It turns out that the Witch started the rumor because she hates being called ugly and wants to be Queen of the Monsters, Dracula refuses and hilarity ensues....

Countdown to Halloween - Witch's Night Out

When I was a kid one of my favorite things was the autumn sky as sunset, the feel of the steam heat coming up in the radiators of our old house for the first time that fall and settling down to watch the Halloween Specials that came on in the weeks leading up to the big day. I'm going to try and bring that feeling back from now to Halloween with a few of the specials I like the best.

We'll start with Witch's Night Out, and oddly drawn animated special from 1978 and starring the late Gilda Radner as the titled Witch. I remember thinking how cool it would be to be turned into a werewolf or Frankenstein like the kids in the special...Hell I still do.

Go ahead and watch the show below...I am.





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