The Halloween That Almost Wasn’t
🎃 It’s the 13th of July, so it’s time for the Advent Calendar House to unearth one of our favorite Halloween haunts. Tommy Coombs flies in to talk 1979’s “The Halloween That Almost Wasn’t,” starring an exceptionally great Judd Hirsch as Count Dracula. **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: This was renamed for its VHS release as “The Night Dracula Saved the World,” except no, he doesn’t. Lyndhurst Mansion. Bach’s “Toccata and Fugue in D minor” was never in a Dracula movie. Wildwood, New Jersey’s Castle Dracula. Jack Riley (Warren the Werewolf) in commercials for Country Crock spread. **** 📼 Commercial:McDonald’s Scared Silly (1986) starring Ronald McDonald and the Chicken McNuggets. **** “The Halloween That Almost Wasn’t” © 1979 Concepts Unlimited. Full show notes with links at adventcalendar.house.
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