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.  ****  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.