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🎄 Trudge back to 1974 as we dig up a rare gem, “The Gift of Winter,” which introduces a colorful cast of characters from Anytown, better known from its Halloween sequel, “Witch’s Night Out!”  🎙️ Chad Young from the Horror Movie BBQ joins the quest for an audience with Old Man Winter alongside pre-“Saturday Night Live” Gilda Radner and Dan Aykroyd.  📺 You can watch “The Gift of Winter” on Tubi.  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  Treatments for a whole Anytown Series, which includes sequel stories for Thanksgiving, New Year’s Eve, and Valentine’s Day.  Whenever Bazooey’s not on screen, all the other characters should be asking, “Where’s Bazooey?”  The special’s true heroes: A couple of gay trees.  Every parade should end at the Rocky steps.  ****  “The Gift of Winter” © 1974 Leach/Rankin Productions.  Find us at adventcalendar.house.  #s1 #1970s #anytown

🎃 The Advent Calendar House presents a dazzling display of magical mischief.  🎙️ Chad Young creeps in to help celebrate the 40th anniversary of “Witch’s Night Out,” an often remembered, then forgotten, then re-remembered Halloween classic from 1978.  📺 You can watch “Witch’s Night Out” on Tubi.  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  WitchsNightOut.com, the official website.  Anytown Series, a planned sequel, and other holiday specials in development.  Toys “R” Us TV commercial from 1980, featuring ”the Big Bird Halloween costume and the Yoda Halloween costume.”  Ghostbusters Fright Features action figures.  Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?  Malicious’s food may or may not have been inspired by Joys of Jell-O.  ****  “Witch’s Night Out” © 1978 Leach/Rankin Productions.  Find us at adventcalendar.house.  #s1 #1970s #halloween #anytown