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. 

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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. 

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. 

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📼 Commercials: 

McDonald’s Scared Silly (1986) starring Ronald McDonald and the Chicken McNuggets. 

Weird Christmas. 

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“The Halloween That Almost Wasn’t” © 1979 Concepts Unlimited. 

Full show notes with links at adventcalendar.house. 

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