Bobby’s World Halloween Episode!
One of the nice things about running reader suggestions is that we’re getting to see videos that I never would’ve picked myself. Much as I hate to admit it, I live in a pretty tiny bubble!
Here’s a great example: The Night of the Living Pumpkin, a Halloween-themed episode of Bobby’s World from 1990. Just perfect for this place, and I never would’ve thought of it!
The person who pitched this asked to remain nameless. Thank you for the suggestion, Mystery Person!
PS: If you want in on Dino Drac’s Spooky September Funpack, there are only 24 hours left! Also, if you missed it on the main page, I did a taste test of Pepsi’s new Halloween Cola.
Another Sightings Halloween Episode!
Remember last week when we ran that Sightings Halloween episode from ’93? Well, Goat Royale actually supplied a second Halloween episode, too!
Enjoy the Halloween ’94 episode of Sightings, which looks to be loaded with ghost stories.
I wouldn’t normally go back to the same well this soon, but it just felt like the right thing to watch tonight.
The Halloween That Almost Wasn’t!
Here’s another pick from our pal Jugendsehnsucht. (And I can’t believe that I didn’t run this one during last year’s Countdown!)
Get a load of The Halloween That Almost Wasn’t, a spooky TV special from 1979. It’s amazingly cheesy and absolutely worth seeing. Really, if you would willingly turn down the chance to see Judd Hirsch as Dracula, I don’t know what you’re doing on Dino Drac.
This isn’t the kind of special you’d build a party around, but it’s good for a lazy watch over a bag of fun-sized Snickers. Sometimes, that’s enough. Most of the time, actually.
Vincent Price’s Creepy Classics!
Here’s a solid slice of background noise suggested by collectionofcreaks. You can’t go wrong with Vincent Price!
Enjoy this encode of Creepy Classics, a collection of old horror clips narrated cheekily by Mr. Price.
From collectionofcreaks: “In 1987, Hallmark had these videos for sale around Halloween. Vincent Price, clips from classic horror… I watched mine until it no longer played.”
Now that I think about it, I’m certain that I own this on VHS, too. It was kinda like the video version of those “spooky sounds” audio cassettes.
In a world that hadn’t yet developed constant access to this sort of media, tapes like this were a ghoulish godsend.
