I remember begging my mom to let me stay up to see this on Halloween night when I was a kid. She said no because it came on at 11pm and I had to go to school the next day. So glad I finally got to see it! And the vintage commercials were just a pure BONUS!
I have the same memory. I wanted to watch it so bad, but nope had school the next morning. And as we all know if you missed a show on tv, odds are you'd never see it again. At least we can finally see what we missed oh so long ago.
@@windhammer1237 I didn't have a perfect childhood or parent but one thing was that my Mom never made us go to bed at a certain time. If we were tired the next morning after watching TV that was on us. By the time in my life this show came on I had no interest in it. Maybe if it was '77 or something.
@@darwinblinks I was 9 then so this seemed like I was missing out on something really great. Now looking back with adult eyes I wouldn't have watched it either if I'd been your age then.
I saw it as a child on German television and NEVER forgot the melody and first few lines of the BOO! song. Just wonderful to watch it again after 40 years - I searched for it for a long, long time and thought I would never see it again. Thank you so much for this upload!
@@Adamdavidk1 great question but I don’t even remember at this point. I first watched it 38 years ago and I haven’t lived in NY since I was 9. Sadly we don’t have that VHS anymore
Fuzzy memories indeed. I was 6 or 7 when I saw the opening number and wanted to watch but got dragged off to trick-or-treat because my little brother was going for the first time and couldn't wait.
This is just fantastic and retrolicious. The Swedish carpenter character with the He-Man haircut??! I almost spit my coffee out. The commercials are icing on the cake. I'm so happy this exists.
My mom taped this for me on VHS , probably have it somewhere still , but this is the first time I have seen it posted anywhere and I have been searching for years!!! Thanks!
I remember watching this when I was a kid we never had cable tv so must been played on local television Iv always loved Halloween shows didn’t think I’d ever see it again thanks for posting it
Amazing treasure!! The original commercials are a fantastic bonus experience. Wow. Lea Thompson, pre Back to the Future, hawking coffee... Such a fun time, the 70s and 80s...
I was born 2 years after this came out, I have never seen this, I miss Halloween specials from when I was a kid in the 90s, I always look for something round this time of year, glad I found this. looks like a live action hotel Transylvania lol. OMG the tall vampire slayer with the mustache is LuIgi from THE SUPER MARIO BROS SUPER SHOW!
I love the campy/cheesy side of this but an the guy who plays Frankenstein (not the monster) is like a cartoon come to life! He's total perfect cast! Thank you for this! I've been obsessive watching this Halloween Season!
That's Jack Duffy, of "Party Game", "Bizarre", a cameo on "Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle Show", the voices of Boot, Mr. Bones, and several other characters on "Readalong"; and character roles all over TV and movies.
That sexy female vampire was a precursor to Elvira. And the beautiful redhead at 32:24 is Louise Robey, who later starred on Friday the 13: The Series.
tyvm for posting this remember seeing this when i was like 9 years old and only saw it once!! but of course the internet hadn't been invented yet so there was no way to check and see if this was a real show or did i imagine it??
I NOTICED THAT ALOT OF THESE COMMERCIALS SHOWCASE MOMENTS THAT ARE SPECIAL TO SELL THEIR PRODUCTS WHERE AS TODAYS COMMERCIAL SEPARATE HAVE FROM HAVE NOT
That theme song is amazingly out of sight. 👍🏻 I love old fashioned stage jokes. I have always loved general foods international coffee commercials. 👍🏻 it’s nice to know they’re not lost in time. OMG it’s the Mickey commercial. Ok this is making me feel really young. 😂😃 With the mirror saying Oh give a break, I should’ve seen that coming. 🤣👏👏 Oh god as a child I would’ve seriously loved to have that cap. 🤣 A handy cap?! 🤣👍🏻👏 back gammon.. Front gammon. 👏👏🤦🏼🤣🤣
Wow! This is a true blast from the past. I graduated in 1982 and I would go back in a heartbeat if I could to do it all over again. The only technology we had back then was what we saw in movies, Star Trek, Star Wars, etc. but we were a better off society back then. The 70’s and 80’s were the best years of my life. We had the best TV shows and Specials back then and lived in the last of the best decades in America..it was the party of a life time and we lived it well. We had great shows like, Falcon Crest, Dallas, Knots Landing, Dynasty,The Waltons, Little House on the Prairie, The Six Million dollar man, The Dukes of Harzard, BJ and the Bear, Air Wolf, Battle Star Galactica! Knight Rider and for the first time ever the motion pictures of, Star Wars, Star Trek, Superman, Spider Man, Close Encounters of the third kind, E.T., Poltergeist, Jaws, Friday the 13th, Aliens, (No not the ones being aloud to just walk into our country right now in 2023), Predator and many more… We also celebrated the bicentennial in the 70’s when the entire country celebrated it from Apr 1, 1975 - Jul 4, 1976. It was like the 4th of July every day. It was fantastic!.…it was such a better time to be alive in this county. We never had the problems that are here today. It was unheard of for kids being shot and men walking around dressed as women. It was the last of America and we were lucky to have experienced it.
I agree with everything you said this sexual perversion ideology and all this nonsense these immigrants coming over here from them 8 world countries destroying all of our traditions and Customs it's disgusting
This is hilarious my first time to see this show this was before I had cable and seeing these old commercials brings back a lot of memories and I never knew Rip Taylor and Dionne Warwick was on here good clean halloween fun great jokes
This show feels like a pilot for a variety series that never sold. It was made at the CBC, in Canada, in 1980, so the disco music wasn't as out-of-date as it would be in 1982, when the show aired in Chicago.
Wow! I remember watching this back when I was about 12 years old and I have remembered the line "I tell you what we're gonna DOOOO, we're gonna scare the pants right off of you, BOOO!" has stuck with me for decades. I have looked every few years for this on UA-cam and here it is. Unbelievable, it's like going back in time.
This was originally made in 1980 in Canada, thats why so many people were live there in the audience. This has a 4.5 rating (out of 10, not good, lol). I think the commercials are funnier to watch though, thanks for posting!
This was created and produced by Riff Markowitz, who created and produced "Hilarious House of Frightenstein". Musical Director Ian Bernard was the Musical Director on "Laugh-In", and composed the "Laugh-In" theme tune. Strangely, no writers are credited. Some great Canadian talents here: "Captain" Jack Duffy ("Party Game", "Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle Show", "Bizarre", and the voices of Boot, Mr. Bones, and other characters on "Readalong") Ted Zeigler ("Johnny Jellybean", "Razzle Dazzle", "Sonny & Cher") Peter Cullen ("Razzle Dazzle", "Sonny & Cher", and the voices of Optimus Prime and Eeyore) Ben Gordon (Second City)
I never saw this before but I can't help but think of "Count Floyd" from the Martin Short cartoon "The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley" and may have been the inspiration for the character.
This and The Paul Lynde Halloween Special have a similarity to them. For Boo! The best thing is the Countess and her provocative underliner gown. For The Paul Lynde special the best thing is KISS.
Per the Interwebz, Barbara Law released a disco album in Canada the year before this special (songs of which are here on YT), and then acted in a couple of "erotic thrillers" in the '80s.
58:55 is the 1976 LBS logo which was incomplete, but it abruptly cuts right into a promo to a movie called “My Friend Flicka”. What a bummer! Here is a full completed logo. ua-cam.com/video/1WOmvQ6yIOs/v-deo.html
Age is a silly thing, when young you hate commercials interrupting your show, but then 40 years later the show interrupts the nostalgic commercials you forgot that you once thought would air forever! Loved my Frogger game, but my cousin would hog it when she was around! Where was Count Chocula? It amazes me how everyone remembers the Life commercial wrong, cause most say "Mikey likes everything," but the point is he won't like it, cause he 'hates everything!'
I have a question for those who were there when this was making the rounds: Would anyone from the NYC area remember which of the stations in the Big Apple would have aired this? I'm betting maybe WNEW Channel 5? Also . . . didn't that scene with Dionne as a fortune teller with the crystal ball, seem to foreshadow her involvement with the Psychic Friends Network?
Not everything was actually good, but it's still worth preserving as a look into the past. The old VHS tapes had a habit of un-spooling in the VCR, or maybe breaking eventually.
I have terrible hearing and love the opening musical number but can hardly understand the fuzzy lyrics other than “Boo!” If anyone could translate I’d really appreciate it
A memory I forgot i had. Boo!? I was 2 and the opening number scared me. Scariest part of the whole thing and it ran as the interstitial. And then Deja Vu ... was I in the room when this was on in 1980? But it didn't scare me then? Does anyone else have memories as a baby? Or is it really just me? Or atleast as a toddler?
Ding Dong's Dreadful Dead Scream brought me back (from the dead!). 🦇
You and me both
Same
Ding Dong's vast knowledge of obscure gems like this never ceases to amaze me.
I came from a Julian stream video
This is Dreadful Dead Scream lore now
Ding Dong has great taste
I remember begging my mom to let me stay up to see this on Halloween night when I was a kid. She said no because it came on at 11pm and I had to go to school the next day. So glad I finally got to see it! And the vintage commercials were just a pure BONUS!
I have the same memory. I wanted to watch it so bad, but nope had school the next morning. And as we all know if you missed a show on tv, odds are you'd never see it again. At least we can finally see what we missed oh so long ago.
@@windhammer1237 I didn't have a perfect childhood or parent but one thing was that my Mom never made us go to bed at a certain time. If we were tired the next morning after watching TV that was on us. By the time in my life this show came on I had no interest in it. Maybe if it was '77 or something.
@@darwinblinks I was 9 then so this seemed like I was missing out on something really great. Now looking back with adult eyes I wouldn't have watched it either if I'd been your age then.
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Did it !? Wow ...oh so this wasn't something that came on regularly?
It's like the 70s weren't aware the 80s had begun lol, pure schlock, I love it!
Guess I'm somewhat older than many here. Do let's ease up on the 70s, ok?🙂
@@starmnsixty1209 I love the 70s, it's my favorite decade!
It was made in 1980 in Canada, why the 70s vibe.
Not gonna lie. The opening theme is dope, and yes Ding Dong brought me here lol
Same
I saw it as a child on German television and NEVER forgot the melody and first few lines of the BOO! song. Just wonderful to watch it again after 40 years - I searched for it for a long, long time and thought I would never see it again. Thank you so much for this upload!
I was 6 when this aired on TV, we lived in NY. I LOVED this. We had it on VHS for years and the tape got ruined. I never thought I’d see it again!
What Channel Boo Aired in New York?
@@Adamdavidk1 great question but I don’t even remember at this point. I first watched it 38 years ago and I haven’t lived in NY since I was 9. Sadly we don’t have that VHS anymore
thanks, dingdong
How beautiful! *An old-fashioned Halloween special I haven’t seen yet!*
I remember this show. I was 7 years old then. Classic 👍🏼
This is like a treasure to me. Im so grateful for it. I wish I could go back in time.
They didn't have to go THAT hard on the opening number but I'm so glad they did. lol
Its like a companion piece to "The Halloween That Almost Wasn't".
Fuzzy memories indeed. I was 6 or 7 when I saw the opening number and wanted to watch but got dragged off to trick-or-treat because my little brother was going for the first time and couldn't wait.
This is just fantastic and retrolicious. The Swedish carpenter character with the He-Man haircut??! I almost spit my coffee out. The commercials are icing on the cake. I'm so happy this exists.
My mom taped this for me on VHS , probably have it somewhere still , but this is the first time I have seen it posted anywhere and I have been searching for years!!! Thanks!
I'VE BEEN TRYING TO FIND THIS FOR YEARS! THANK YOU!
I remember watching this when I was a kid we never had cable tv so must been played on local television Iv always loved Halloween shows didn’t think I’d ever see it again thanks for posting it
Amazing treasure!! The original commercials are a fantastic bonus experience. Wow. Lea Thompson, pre Back to the Future, hawking coffee... Such a fun time, the 70s and 80s...
I was born 2 years after this came out, I have never seen this, I miss Halloween specials from when I was a kid in the 90s, I always look for something round this time of year, glad I found this. looks like a live action hotel Transylvania lol. OMG the tall vampire slayer with the mustache is LuIgi from THE SUPER MARIO BROS SUPER SHOW!
That's nothing. The werewolf is none other than Optimus Prime.
@@timepoet77werewolves! Roll out!
Marty McFlys mom in the coffee commercial 😂❤
I've never experienced this. I think I have a new Halloween tradition. Thanks!
41:49 Dion Warwick is such a class act and good sport for doing this....
Gotta admit, I loved it a lot more than someone as cynical as me should.
9:40 there's Lea Thompson in the coffee commercial.
Thanks....I was like "I know her from somewhere!".
Wow thanks have never seen this, love Halloween Specials
I love the campy/cheesy side of this but an the guy who plays Frankenstein (not the monster) is like a cartoon come to life! He's total perfect cast! Thank you for this! I've been obsessive watching this Halloween Season!
That's Jack Duffy, of "Party Game", "Bizarre", a cameo on "Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle Show", the voices of Boot, Mr. Bones, and several other characters on "Readalong"; and character roles all over TV and movies.
O I'm saving this to my watch later list to watch on Halloween night with lots of candy👌👍💖
No your not I said watch it now
Haven’t seen this since I was a kid❤️👌🏽
Me neither.
I love this channel!! A BIG CHUNK of my childhood memories in one channel!
It aired in NYC too I thought it was my immagination that I saw it. Thanks for posting it.. it's so hammy and bad that it's fun. :D
That sexy female vampire was a precursor to Elvira. And the beautiful redhead at 32:24 is Louise Robey, who later starred on Friday the 13: The Series.
Elvira was inspired by Vampira. She sued her over it.
@@sailordude2094 I know that Elvira was based on Vampira. I just meant that Countessa, the character in this 1980 show, was a warmup for her.
Female vampires always get me ❤
I just KNOW someone was scouring the internet for this! Lol
Reminds me of the groovy goolies but live action even the puns
I remember seeing this one Saturday afternoon when I was about eleven!
This is great! Just discovered this. Seems like an awesome treasure in spooky comedy.
tyvm for posting this remember seeing this when i was like 9 years old and only saw it once!! but of course the internet hadn't been invented yet so there was no way to check and see if this was a real show or did i imagine it??
Thank you! This is great!
This is amazing!
I NOTICED THAT ALOT OF THESE COMMERCIALS SHOWCASE MOMENTS THAT ARE SPECIAL TO SELL THEIR PRODUCTS WHERE AS TODAYS COMMERCIAL SEPARATE HAVE FROM HAVE NOT
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That theme song is amazingly out of sight. 👍🏻 I love old fashioned stage jokes.
I have always loved general foods international coffee commercials. 👍🏻 it’s nice to know they’re not lost in time.
OMG it’s the Mickey commercial. Ok this is making me feel really young. 😂😃
With the mirror saying Oh give a break, I should’ve seen that coming. 🤣👏👏
Oh god as a child I would’ve seriously loved to have that cap. 🤣 A handy cap?! 🤣👍🏻👏 back gammon.. Front gammon. 👏👏🤦🏼🤣🤣
Wow! This is a true blast from the past. I graduated in 1982 and I would go back in a heartbeat if I could to do it all over again. The only technology we had back then was what we saw in movies, Star Trek, Star Wars, etc. but we were a better off society back then. The 70’s and 80’s were the best years of my life. We had the best TV shows and Specials back then and lived in the last of the best decades in America..it was the party of a life time and we lived it well. We had great shows like, Falcon Crest, Dallas, Knots Landing, Dynasty,The Waltons, Little House on the Prairie, The Six Million dollar man, The Dukes of Harzard, BJ and the Bear, Air Wolf, Battle Star Galactica! Knight Rider and for the first time ever the motion pictures of, Star Wars, Star Trek, Superman, Spider Man, Close Encounters of the third kind, E.T., Poltergeist, Jaws, Friday the 13th, Aliens, (No not the ones being aloud to just walk into our country right now in 2023), Predator and many more… We also celebrated the bicentennial in the 70’s when the entire country celebrated it from Apr 1, 1975 - Jul 4, 1976. It was like the 4th of July every day. It was fantastic!.…it was such a better time to be alive in this county. We never had the problems that are here today. It was unheard of for kids being shot and men walking around dressed as women. It was the last of America and we were lucky to have experienced it.
I agree with everything you said this sexual perversion ideology and all this nonsense these immigrants coming over here from them 8 world countries destroying all of our traditions and Customs it's disgusting
The costumes and sets are great.
Thank you. I have been looking for this for years. My aunt had a copy of this and I would watch it all the time as a kid. Where did you find it.
What the hell was that? I have to put that in the same category as The Star Wars Holiday Special.
theylied1776 I'm sure there's a few contenders for this, like that Halloween special with Paul Lynde.
Just saw the Paul Lynde Halloween Special!
@@ChristopherSobieniak No. Paul Lynde Halloween Special was Godly compared to this.
@@twikirobot6897 Stand corrected.
Not quite that bad. Pretty close, but not quite 🙂
Damn you Phelous for letting me know this exists!
This is hilarious my first time to see this show this was before I had cable and seeing these old commercials brings back a lot of memories and I never knew Rip Taylor and Dionne Warwick was on here good clean halloween fun great jokes
This show feels like a pilot for a variety series that never sold. It was made at the CBC, in Canada, in 1980, so the disco music wasn't as out-of-date as it would be in 1982, when the show aired in Chicago.
Wow! I remember watching this back when I was about 12 years old and I have remembered the line "I tell you what we're gonna DOOOO, we're gonna scare the pants right off of you, BOOO!" has stuck with me for decades. I have looked every few years for this on UA-cam and here it is. Unbelievable, it's like going back in time.
I thought I imagined this show. Wow
This was originally made in 1980 in Canada, thats why so many people were live there in the audience. This has a 4.5 rating (out of 10, not good, lol). I think the commercials are funnier to watch though, thanks for posting!
I can't see Optimus Prime as a werewolf.
Man this brings back memories.
🍂🎃🍂ThaNk YoU~First time seeing this. I was born in 1980👻I Love this•
💛🧡 one of my favorites 🎃👻🕸️🤎🖤
Amazing show I miss the 80s so much
This was *AWESOME!* 😎🎃
What a spectacular opening song and dance!
This was created and produced by Riff Markowitz, who created and produced "Hilarious House of Frightenstein".
Musical Director Ian Bernard was the Musical Director on "Laugh-In", and composed the "Laugh-In" theme tune.
Strangely, no writers are credited.
Some great Canadian talents here:
"Captain" Jack Duffy ("Party Game", "Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle Show", "Bizarre", and the voices of Boot, Mr. Bones, and other characters on "Readalong")
Ted Zeigler ("Johnny Jellybean", "Razzle Dazzle", "Sonny & Cher")
Peter Cullen ("Razzle Dazzle", "Sonny & Cher", and the voices of Optimus Prime and Eeyore)
Ben Gordon (Second City)
I remember Peter Cullen most as the voice of Venger on the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon.
Thanks for the info. I was looking at IMDB, there is no entry for Boo! as a show. And in Peter Cullen’s credits there is no entry for Boo! either
@@ChrisConnolly-Mr.C-Dives-In somebody needs to correct that if they haven't by now.
@@starmnsixty1209 agree. Imdb is bound to have errors, so so much data to keep.
@@starmnsixty1209 just checked, it is corrected.
A disco themed intro was starting to push things a bit in 1982.
This was originally released in 1980
80s & 90s TV Shows Are The Best 💯 Period
Optimus Prime played the wolfman, that's pretty awesome.
Ahhhh, my first Halloween as a human.
I never saw this before but I can't help but think of "Count Floyd" from the Martin Short cartoon "The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley" and may have been the inspiration for the character.
They killed it
Damn... My first Halloween
Rip Taylor was the only thing missing from the Paul Lynd Halloween special, so he did this?
I'm guessing his sparkly costumes came from his own spectacular wardrobe.
Mylar fringe - the mainstay of many a costume in the 1970s and early 80s.
40 years already! I remembered it being broadcast on ABC(?)
This and The Paul Lynde Halloween Special have a similarity to them. For Boo! The best thing is the Countess and her provocative underliner gown. For The Paul Lynde special the best thing is KISS.
The countess really was seductive 😉
Per the Interwebz, Barbara Law released a disco album in Canada the year before this special (songs of which are here on YT), and then acted in a couple of "erotic thrillers" in the '80s.
Love classics
58:55 is the 1976 LBS logo which was incomplete, but it abruptly cuts right into a promo to a movie called “My Friend Flicka”. What a bummer! Here is a full completed logo. ua-cam.com/video/1WOmvQ6yIOs/v-deo.html
3:02 😂
The opening chords of their theme song is giving me Chicago "Wishing you were here" vibes... 🤔
Brought to you by General Foods International Coffees...of course!
At 5:33 was that Brad Garrett?
No, this show was made in Canada, long before he began performing.
Age is a silly thing, when young you hate commercials interrupting your show, but then 40 years later the show interrupts the nostalgic commercials you forgot that you once thought would air forever!
Loved my Frogger game, but my cousin would hog it when she was around!
Where was Count Chocula?
It amazes me how everyone remembers the Life commercial wrong, cause most say "Mikey likes everything," but the point is he won't like it, cause he 'hates everything!'
ok so was anyone else confused and thought the dracula from this show was count floyd from sctv?
The Dracula would be Luigi in the Super Mario Bros show and I think he was a bartender in the Jeffersons as well. Awesome.
I have a question for those who were there when this was making the rounds: Would anyone from the NYC area remember which of the stations in the Big Apple would have aired this? I'm betting maybe WNEW Channel 5?
Also . . . didn't that scene with Dionne as a fortune teller with the crystal ball, seem to foreshadow her involvement with the Psychic Friends Network?
Yeah, I thought the same thing.
I think it was WOR Channel 9
Someone let a four-year-old write a comedy special and pumped weed smoke all over the audience and you will not convince me otherwise.
Not everything was actually good, but it's still worth preserving as a look into the past.
The old VHS tapes had a habit of un-spooling in the VCR, or maybe breaking eventually.
BOO!!!!
I have terrible hearing and love the opening musical number but can hardly understand the fuzzy lyrics other than “Boo!” If anyone could translate I’d really appreciate it
Lea Thompson sighting! 9:50
Happy Halloween 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃
wow this crowd is fuckin PUMPED
It feels like they honestly felt the jokes were real knee slappers.
Yup! This was the "coked out" early 80's for sure... get a load of that creepy "tweaked out" werewolf bizarre to say the least 🤣😬
Wolfimus Prime
A memory I forgot i had. Boo!? I was 2 and the opening number scared me. Scariest part of the whole thing and it ran as the interstitial.
And then Deja Vu ... was I in the room when this was on in 1980? But it didn't scare me then?
Does anyone else have memories as a baby? Or is it really just me? Or atleast as a toddler?
Ding dong brought me here
Allison and Phelous brought me here.
I have no memory of this, was it shot at WGN or was it national?
Optimus??? Peter Cullen is in this??? Wtf.
51:16...Video Games.
Hate to admit it but that opening musical number does look like (but does NOT sound like!) a DEATH SS video!
These commercials are from 1982? They look about 5 years older.
Back then they showed the same commercials for years. Some of these probably aired until 86 or later.
@@kanetaker56 I was just thinking that. I remember commercials going on for like ten years.
Before Family Guy did Starburst only to find out it was acid
I don't remember this