EPISODE · Jul 13, 2020 · 47 MIN
The Halloween That Almost Wasn’t
from Advent Calendar House · host Mike Westfall
🎃 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. **** 📼 Commercials: McDonald’s Scared Silly (1986) starring Ronald McDonald and the Chicken McNuggets. Weird Christmas. **** “The Halloween That Almost Wasn’t” © 1979 Concepts Unlimited. Full show notes with links at adventcalendar.house. #s4 #1970s #halloween
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🎃 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. **** 📼 Commercials: McDonald’s Scared Silly (1986) starring Ronald McDonald and the Chicken McNuggets. Weird Christmas. **** “The Halloween That Almost Wasn’t” © 1979 Concepts Unlimited. Full show notes with links at adventcalendar.house. #s4 #1970s #halloween
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