The Halloween That Almost Wasn’t
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Show Notes
🎃 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.
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💬 Topics & Tangents:
This was renamed for its VHS release as “The Night Dracula Saved the World,” except no, he doesn’t.
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.
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📼 Commercials:
McDonald’s Scared Silly (1986) starring Ronald McDonald and the Chicken McNuggets.
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“The Halloween That Almost Wasn’t” © 1979 Concepts Unlimited.
Full show notes with links at adventcalendar.house.