Festival of Family Classics - "Jack O'Lantern" (Complete Broadcast, 10/11/1993) 📺 🎃
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- Here's the complete broadcast of a repeat of the Festival of Family Classics (no, not that Family Classics) episode "Jack O'Lantern," as presented here over WPWR Channel 50.
Originally aired as part of this 1972-73 syndicated series on October 29th 1972 (S01E06), and produced by Rankin/Bass, this tells the story of a leprechaun who, for the winter, turned into a pumpkin seed as a form of hibernation, but awakes around Halloween as Mr. Jack O'Lantern and uses his pumpkin shell to scare away Zelda the Witch and Archibald the Warlock.
Some of the voices in this installment may sound familiar, as the likes of Bernard Cowan, Peg Dixon and Paul Soles also provided voices for the 1967-70 Spider-Man animated series. Also scored by Maury Laws whose name was practically synonymous with Rankin/Bass. Character design was by Paul Coker, Jr., who would later become one of MAD magazine's stable of artists among their "usual gang of idiots."
Unlike in past years where this would have been off a crummy, many-times-used and washed-out looking 16mm film print, the slightly-better quality here suggests it came off a 1" Type C tape (to which a 35mm print had been transferred by the then-syndicator) as was standard in the industry by this time, if not a 3/4" Umatic tape which some TV stations used to broadcast old shows in this period.
Includes:
Ending credits for "The Halloween Tree" (with voiceover promo for Roseanne, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and the coming show by Carol Gallagher - who has a rapid-fire delivery on that station ID - hoo-boy!)
Station ID / promo for Yogi Bear
Episode preview, followed by Festival of Family Classics opening titles (voiceover by Bernard Cowan) and Act I
Commercials for:
Fisher-Price 3-in-1 Tournament Table (for playing pool a.k.a. billiards a.k.a. 'snooker', table tennis a.k.a. 'ping pong', and hockey)
Twix candy bars (with professor doing convoluted explanation in class)
Peter Francis Geraci for Bankruptcy ((Info)) ((Tapes)) (Question - ((do)) ((the)) ((parentheses)) ((mean)) ((anything)) ((?))
American Airlines Maintenance Academy
Act II
Commercials for:
Nerf Master Blaster
Nerf Bow & Arrow
Starburst Fruit Chews - "The Juice Is Loose" (not for another 8 months or so, actually)
Promo for Garfield & Friends (with the voice of Lorenzo Music as everybody's favorite fat cat) (ending voiceover by Carol Gallagher)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Auto Mutations - by Playmates
Fuddrucker's - "World's Greatest Hamburgers"
Cookie Crisp cereal (featuring the Keystone cop type character and dog - the former wizard mascot having retired by this time)
Act III
Commercials for:
Barbie Lamborghini "Power Wheels" - from Mattel
The Bots Master (promo)
AA All Risk Insurance
Lisa Frank - "You Gotta Have It!" (posted separately here: • Lisa Frank - "You Gott... )
Minnesota Fabrics - Columbus Day Sale (for October 11th and 12th)
Act IV, followed by ending credits and Rankin/Bass ending bumper
Station ID / promo for Sonic the Hedgehog (voiceover by ??)
This aired on local Chicago TV on Monday, October 11th 1993 from 1:30pm to 2:00pm.
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I miss the late 80s and early 90s. Simpler times.
We all do.
Same! 😢
Not really...
Nope. You were just aware of less.
Parts of it were good, but recall a lot of suffering being a large portion of it.
Carol Gallagher is now one of the announcers on MeTV and Me TV FM 87.7
I thought I recognized her voice! Thanks! 😊
I was fully prepared for her to tell me it was Engelbert Humperdinck's birthday.
I believe that “Festival of Family Classics” is one of the animated series from the producers of the holiday specials, and it’s also one of the most forgotten animated series that Universal hasn’t got the rights to this and other pre-1974 Rankin/Bass series and specials. There were many home video releases of the series where it features episodes which were made by Starmaker in the late 1980’s, and I hope Universal might consider release the complete series on physical media, and streaming on Peacock in the future.
I didn't even know Festival of Family Classics existed until this video popped up in my recommendations.
Golden Books, now part of Penguin Random House, once owned the pre 1974 Rankin-Bass library.
Rankin-Bass & TopCraft
Although this episode credits it to "Mushi Studios".
@@ChristopherSobieniak Mushi? after they were revived in 1977?
@@primusvsunicron1 I assume they were living on fumes after the mid 60's. TopCraft began in '72 but who knows, perhaps R-B was too used to working with Mushi before they forgot this new studio took over their outsourcing.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topcraft
I enjoyed watching this. Thanks! 🎃
The voice of Michael sounds like Billie Mae Richards.
The voice of Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer in the various Rankin/ Bass holiday specials.
Jack O' Lantern is magically delicious.
Ta-ta-tee-tee-toe-toe
The TNG episode that's promoted over the credits is "Identity Crisis." First aired on Channel 50 in March of 1991. It features a cameo from legendary LA DJs Mark Thompson and Brian Phelps. They do not play themselves, unfortunately.
Thanks, Mr. Hart! Always enjoy seeing you chime in. 😊
Mark and Brian got their start in my hometown of Birmingham AL. They became superstars practically overnight, and it was so amazing to see them go national. ❤
Wow, the commercial bumps for this special are way too short.
Didn't want to put too much effort into a 20 year old property then.
Yeah seems like they faded into them half cut off - maybe trying to cram more commercials in?
@@FuzzyMemoriesTV I've always hated that.
Recall near 10 minutes of commercials, five minutes of showtime pending on what was being aired here in Canada with what little access we had via the bunny ears antennas or on unit the rooftop pending on what rental property we were living in. Radio was the other option for entertainment, news, sports...on occasion friends homes were where we learned of any shows featured on cable t.v.
VCR's eventually became affordable to rent with videos, but back then for our family at least...$500 to buy a luxury such as a video cassette player or groceries for the month, well...food and other bills were kinda more important. $4.50 an hour was my mothers wages..Dad eventually got lucky getting into the trades and began to earn $15 an hour. However not long after becoming more successful, them month long field work sessions away from the family took their toll on the parents relationship and " the big D" not meaning Dallas.
Did not have a colour T.V. in the family
till 1986...
Often think how life would be now if there were these devices in those times..😅. Seems like much of science fiction of them days became reality, or pretty darn close. Not sure what to expect in these modern times beyond retirement age. Hard times like the grandparents went through mixed with abundance for but a few as it seems once more into the breach with world wars.
Still, have faith that it will not fully develop into a dystopian theater for all on this earth..however, it does appear many are living each day in such a scenerio whom do not deserve it...
Helps to have access to such content and remember those times huddled up with the family in front of 12" black and white T.V. on a sunday afternoon or weekday when all the school plus work was done, and watch them old shows for an hour or two before the 10 oclock news came on and it was time for bed.
I've never seen this special before and it's really good I enjoyed it
Now WPWR is known as "FOX Chicago Plus"
Qué recuerdos de infancia, de niños veíamos estos cuentos animados. Saludos desde 🇨🇱
@Fuzzy
The voiceover in the promos sounds a lot like Carol Gallagher.
so I just saw the thumbnail for this video, and wanted to comment by saying how funny, but impressive it looked.
if you just left the Garfield character in the image, and left out the others, it almost looks like it would've been something of a crossover.
I mean, yes, Garfield is not really a Rankin Bass character, but having him in that image with Jack and those Kids makes it look like something that could have happened.
My idea was that Garfield, a fellow round-headed, orange-faced guy would be wondering who the heck does this pumpkin jamoke think he is? 😄
@@FuzzyMemoriesTV - I'm with you . . .
Rankin & Bass are the best
I don't remember this one but it looks like the sane artist that did The Night Before Christmas. Love that one too!
0:15 The announcer lady suddenly became John Moschitta Jr with how fast she said that!
29:55 is the Rankin/Bass logo (TV Shape variant) with Tomorrow Entertainment byline, but it got cut off halfway in before the logo completes where it went straight to the “Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog” promo. What a bummer! I found this one which is the same completed logo where it doesn’t cut off. th-cam.com/video/ozx0NRyGjrQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=lKTDZvzwM4xUQqZR
The music on that bumper to me sounded like a cousin to the opening fanfare that opened many a Thames TV show (such as, say, Benny Hill).
Happy Early Halloween 👻👻👻
Sucks my own kids won't experience watching cartoons before school and you didn't need cable for that.
Groovy track
Now, the $64,000 question: Since the V/O prior to this show was I.D.'d as Carol Gallagher, can anyone say for certain which Chicago station, if any, originally aired this "Festival Of Family Classics" series in 1972-73? It would be most ironic if it were WGN . . . given that *other* show, hosted by Frazier Thomas . . .
WGN aired this program Saturday May 31st 1975 & Saturday August 23 1975 under the umbrella title Family Theater.
@@phantom6226 - Ah, thank you. I can see why WGN would have changed the title. Like I said, ironic.
You almost got it rankin bass could never try to stop us all the logo, but this is so expensive
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About the end credits at the beginning of the video, are they taken from Hanna-Barbera's animated telefilm adaptation of Ray Bradbury's novel "The Halloween Tree"?
Yes, it's in the video description. End credits had to be snipped but we kept a little bit so the "Coming Next" voiceover could be heard.
5:25 Peter Francis Geraci
The beloved Saint.
Halloween
My school had this on VHS back in kindargarden