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Paul Lynde Halloween Special |  | Actors: Billy Barty, Margaret Hamilton, Billie Hayes, Florence Henderson, KISS
Studio: S'more Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  39 reviews
Sales Rank: 21803
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 60 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: IMEDSMO7022D
UPC: 089353702229
EAN: 0089353702229
ASIN: B000TEUSMC
Theatrical Release Date: 1976
Release Date: October 2, 2007
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Studio: Wea-des Moines Video Release Date: 09/30/2008 Run time: 50 minutes
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 39
Great **Campy** Fun From Uncle (Auntie) Paul! October 25, 2009
Alex Honda (Los Angeles, CA USA)
The PAUL LYNDE HALLOWEEN SPECIAL DVD is a funky little show that aired only once in 1976. Its star Paul Lynde sings, quips and skits his way through this Halloween special and gets help from other celebs like Donny & Marie Osmond, Betty White, the incomparable Billy Hayes (Witchie-Pooh), Margaret Hamilton (the Wicked Witch from The Wizard of Oz (70th Anniversary Two-Disc Special Edition), Florence Henderson (mother on The Brady Bunch - The Complete First Season ), funny men Billy Barty and Tim Conway, and rock group Kiss.
The show isn't the sharpest or best quality that I've seen (as far as shows from this era are concerned) but the producers of this DVD explain why and apologize at the beginning. It's not bad at all just a few lines going through the picture every now and then, but it doesn't really interfere with viewing pleasure.
Lynde is at his campiest best and the Halloween special is filled with skits, singing and dancing, and performances by Kiss and Florence Henderson.
The special features include:
***STILL PHOTO SCRAP BOOK OF LYNDE
***NAME THAT QUIP"---interactive game where you match the right quote to complete the sentence
***AUDIO COMMENTARY BY PETER MARSHALL (HOST OF THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES)--This is audio only of Marshall reminiscing about Lynde and their time together on "The Hollywood Squares." It plays against still images from the popular game show and behind the scenes.
Anyway, this is a real treat for us 70s kids who grew up on these campy variety shows and specials. If you don't like those type of shows then you probably won't like this. But if you do, it's cheap enough to add to your collection. And Paul Lynde was a trailblazer, never trying to be anything he wasn't.
 Great performance by KISS! October 20, 2009
G. Fields (Worcester, MA United States)
Great to see KISS in a gothic-like stage setting on this Halloween special from Oct. 1976. They perform 3 songs with a lot of energy ("Detroit Rock City", "Beth", and "King Of The Night Time World")and Gene Simmons does his fire-breathing act too. Well worth getting if your a fan of KISS!
 Okay, Not Great October 20, 2009
Alyice Edrich
The quality of the video is poor. There was absolutely no attempt at cleaning it up, and towards the end, I forgot I had a DVD when it appeared the tape was about to break.
As for entertainment, it was very cheesy and the overacting really made it worse. It was entertaining only in the fact that it was neat to take a step back in time and see what was. I love Paul Lynde, normally. But the skits were horrific and not very Halloweeny at all. I guess the highlight would be the KISS performance for KISS Fans. But for me, it was Billie Hayes as Witchie Poo. I could have watched her all night.
Fun! October 13, 2009
Todd L. (Orange County, CA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I had heard about this video for years but had never seen it. I finally saw it at a friends Halloween party last year. It was a hoot and I just had to have it. It is so 70's tacky but so much fun!!! I recommend that you get it and share with your friends of a certain age. If you grew up in the 70's then you remember all of the tacky specials like this.
At the time they were so cool but now, cringe worthy! Enjoy!!!
Forget the Halloween candy, pass the cheese! August 21, 2009
S Fullmer (Illinois)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Paul Lynde Halloween Special is a surreal, kitschy hunk of 70's cheese, long thought to be lost for over three decades. Variety show in structure while underpinned with the thinnest of plot lines, it's a virtual text book of trash culture circa 1976: Billy Barty, Tim Conway, Betty White, Florence Henderson (singing "That Old Black Magic" in a dreadful disco number), Roz Kelly (Pinky Tuscadero of "Happy Days), the rock band Kiss, Billie Hayes (as Withchiepoo from "H.R. Pufinstuf"), Margaret Hamilton (gamely reprising her Wicked Witch of the West character), discotheques, line dancing, CB radios, truckers, desert sheiks, neon lights, candy colored sets, canned laughter, rhinestone-studded outfits and probably some shag carpet and olive-colored appliances. All this and Donny and Marie Osmond, too.
Holding it all together (and that's not easy) is the bitter charm of Paul Lynde. His spiky comebacks seem more acerbic on "Hollywood Squares" (blame the writers), but his sarcastic delivery is still dead on and he more or less carries the show. Lynde even gets an opening musical number in the winking "Kids", which sends up bratty children, sentimentality and Halloween altogether. His cackling rapport with pal Margaret Hamilton (one of the few personalities who could stand toe-to-toe with him), is where he truly feels at home and based on his checkered past, suggests a kinship with the Wicked Witch of the West. The cover art more than asserts this notion.
As stated on the package, this may possibly be the Holy Grail for Kiss Kollectors, documenting in entirety their first prime-time appearance on national television. The band hams it's way through three numbers, "Detroit Rock City", "Beth" and "King Of The Nighttime World" and their presence brings much-needed electricity to the proceedings, especially lead singer Paul Stanley, who manages to leap around like Baryshnikov in six-inch platform shoes. The lip syncing, staged destruction and edited songs may turn off hardcore fans, so acquiring this DVD for a rare, albeit contrived, Kiss performance might be for completists only, though I've never met a Kiss fan who wasn't one.
As for the quality of the video, the distributors acknowledge its flaws: The transfer is not up to average DVD standards, but it's not unwatchable either, considering it's probably been stashed in a musty closet next to Dorothy's shoes somewhere in West Hollywood. The extras are generous for such an endeavor: A fun interactive trivia game, a nice photo scrapbook supplied from family and friends and witty quotes. But the real highlight is an interview with "Hollywood Squares" host Peter Marshall, in a candid but G-rated reminiscing on Lynde's life and times.
If you have the right frame of mind, a healthy appreciation of camp and are looking for some trashy fun, you'll enjoy this newly rediscovered piece of 70's memorabilia. For everyone else, well, it just might haunt you.
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