WGN Channel 9 - Boo! (Complete Broadcast, 10/30/1982) 🎃 📺
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- I decided to have mercy and wait until after Halloween to post this, so as to not ruin anyone's holiday.
Here's the complete Halloween-themed (and long obscure) comedy special which aired on WGN Channel 9, Boo!
The cast of this Canadian-produced special (originally aired over the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on Sunday, October 26th 1980) included Peter Cullen as The Wolf Man, Jack Duffy as Dr. Frankenstein, Ben Gordon as Dracula, Barbara Law as The Countess and Ted Zeigler as the Frankenstein monster, with special guests Dionne Warwick and Rip Taylor.
This hour includes:
"WGN Entertains You" promo for At The Movies for Saturdays at 6:30pm, with Gene Siskel
Atmospheric opening leading to lab where Drac emerges from coffin to announce, "Dead from Television Center in Transylvania, it's Boo!" leading to opening title musical number with Frankie, Dr., Wolf Man, the Mummy and other monsters
Routines in this section include:
- Two men drive a stake through Drac's heart, and after they leave he utters a "these are my friends" aside
- Doctor in lab with Frankie in "you'll never limp again" gag
Sponsor billboard for General Foods International Coffees
Opening titles with cast and guest list, followed by Boo! bumper
Commercial: General Foods International Coffees Suisse Mocha - with a young Lea Thompson as a to-be college student
Commercial: Peter Pan peanut butter
Commercial: Impulse body spray - (C) 1981 Lever Brothers
Commercial: Life cereal (the famous "Mikey" ad)
Boo! bumper
Next segment includes:
- Dr. (singing "People Who Make People") confronted by villagers
- Frankie mirror gag
- Drac shaving (and singing "I've Got Me Under Your Skin") with electric razor powered by Frankie
- Wolf Man mirror gag
Boo! bumper
"WGN Entertains You" promo with Milo Hamilton and John Mengelt for Bulls basketball (Bulls vs. Pistons for Wednesday at 7:00pm) (ending voiceover by Merri Dee)
Commercial: Lincoln Carpeting (voiceover by ??)
Commercial: Starburst Fruit Chews
Commercial: Frogger by Parker Brothers
Boo! bumper
This segment includes Dionne entering castle, greeted by Drac; she performs "Deja Vu"
Boo! bumper
Commercial: Stove Top Stuffing
Commercial: Pepsi-Cola
Commercial: Wrigley's Juicy Fruit gum
Commercial: Post Raisin Grape-Nuts - (1981 Copyright)
Boo! bumper
Spook Easy segment
Drac reads news bulletin about one of Dr.'s transplants
Back at the Spook Easy, Rip Taylor does a routine
Commercial: Daydreams fragrance
Commercial: Sugar Free Breath Savers
Commercial: 99% Caffeine Free Like cola
Political ad for Roland Burris for Comptroller
Boo! bumper
Segments include:
- Wolf Man tending at diner as customers lament death of variety shows
- Monks emerge from retreat and Rip's knees sing "Hello, Dolly!" (with Drac referring to them as "Monksters")
- Dr. performs experiments while singing "Once in a Lifetime"
- Dionne with crystal ball in session with Frankie
- Monks do doo-wop style chant
- Frankie tells Dr. he's "hopelessly in love" with Dionne and wants his help; she emerges to sing "Just The Way You Are"
- Back at dungeon with prisoners
Boo! "Don't Go Away" bumper
Commercial: Peter Pan Peanut Butter
Commercial: Extra Creamy Birds Eye Cool Whip (ending voiceover by Peter Thomas)
Commercial: Accent Seasoning
Promo for At the Movies with reviews of "Jinxed" and other films, for 6:30pm
Boo! bumper
- Dr. sings "Making a Friend"
- Answering machine message from Drac
- Wolf Man in therapy session
- More games from prisoners in dungeon
Boo! bumper
Commercial: Venture video game by Coleco (also posted separately here: • Exidy - Venture (Comme... )
Commercial: Frogger
Commercial: Vectrex Arcade System
Commercial: Kraco Turbo Speakers
Commercial: Life cereal
Boo! bumper
Drac and Countessa conclude with repartee and "If Our Friends Could See Us Now"
End credits
Promo for Family Classics airing of "My Friend Flicka" for Sunday at 3:30pm
This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, October 30th 1982 during the 4:30pm to 5:30pm timeframe.
This footage was donated to The Museum of Classic Chicago Television as part of the Dennis Polkow Collection.
About The Museum of Classic Chicago Television:
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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.
thanks, dingdong
This is Dreadful Dead Scream lore now
Ding Dong has great taste
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!
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?
How beautiful! *An old-fashioned Halloween special I haven’t seen yet!*
I remember this show. I was 7 years old then. Classic 👍🏼
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
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 love this I love this I love this, the show, the commercials, this time period and everything about it. Just like I remember growing up watching Chicagoland tv. I wish I can open a portal and crawl into it back to this day in time and close the portal forever and leave this crazy time we are currently in.
LOL I'd even settle for 1990....just get me out of 2021.
AMEN 🙏 LUVVY AMEN 🙏 🙌 👏 ❤️
So much agree, my friend! 👍🏻 Please get me out of 2023 and all this stress, illness, battling the big C… I just want a week or so vacation in the 80s, followed by a night of trick or treating. 🥰🎃👻
🧡🖤🧡🖤🧡🖤🧡
@bobbillings
I didn't grow up in the 70s, but I agree 1000% on everything you said here. :)
Love the profile pic.
I have that record. :)
@@tperson8347 finally! someone with intelligence and appreciates the quality music of Sesame street disco! lol. unfortunately, it seems that everything that was ever good like music, movies, life, etc was from a different time that still resides in those who have been there, but hopefully gets discovered and appreciated by those who weren't, since they still haven't found quantum time travel wormhole I been hopeful for. Until then the only thing I do like in todays world is youtube since it lets me escape for a little while to a better time.
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
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.
Rest In Peace, Rip Taylor 😔
Marty McFlys mom in the coffee commercial 😂❤
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.
Its like a companion piece to "The Halloween That Almost Wasn't".
Gotta admit, I loved it a lot more than someone as cynical as me should.
Female vampires always get me ❤
I just KNOW someone was scouring the internet for this! Lol
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
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've never experienced this. I think I have a new Halloween tradition. Thanks!
Not gonna lie. The opening theme is dope, and yes Ding Dong brought me here lol
Same
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.
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!
I was wondering if you could look up this other Halloween special from the early 1980s: It was Canadian-produced as well, and the story had this Irish-Canadian teacher named Willie hosting a Halloween party for the local kids, and offered two of his students to go with him on a magical adventure to learn of the history behind the holiday. It involved time-traveling to the 19th century, where they witnessed a magic show performance by Harry Blackstone, and visited a tiny village home to some leprechauns. I cannot recall the title, something like “Magical Halloween Adventure.”
Yes, it was Will Millar of The Irish Rovers, and it was called "Magical Halloween Party with The Rovers". You can view it here:
th-cam.com/video/E7uhXLgST5s/w-d-xo.html
jcice3 Thanks, buddy.
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...
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 can't see Optimus Prime as a werewolf.
9:40 there's Lea Thompson in the coffee commercial.
Thanks....I was like "I know her from somewhere!".
I'VE BEEN TRYING TO FIND THIS FOR YEARS! THANK YOU!
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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Reminds me of the groovy goolies but live action even the puns
Wow thanks have never seen this, love Halloween Specials
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 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.
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
Damn you Phelous for letting me know this exists!
I remember seeing this one Saturday afternoon when I was about eleven!
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.
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.
41:49 Dion Warwick is such a class act and good sport for doing this....
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. 👏👏🤦🏼🤣🤣
🍂🎃🍂ThaNk YoU~First time seeing this. I was born in 1980👻I Love this•
The costumes and sets are great.
I thought I imagined this show. Wow
This is amazing!
I love this channel!! A BIG CHUNK of my childhood memories in one channel!
This is great! Just discovered this. Seems like an awesome treasure in spooky comedy.
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 TH-cam and here it is. Unbelievable, it's like going back in time.
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
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 🙂
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??
A disco themed intro was starting to push things a bit in 1982.
This was originally released in 1980
i was a bit crafty at 12 in a good way ,i would sneek to my tv and very carefuly watch with GLEE IN MY EYES AND A SMALL SNACK OF COURSE
Man this brings back memories.
Thank you! This is great!
BOO!!!!
80s & 90s TV Shows Are The Best 💯 Period
Damn... My first Halloween
This was *AWESOME!* 😎🎃
Amazing show I miss the 80s so much
💛🧡 one of my favorites 🎃👻🕸️🤎🖤
Optimus Prime played the wolfman, that's pretty awesome.
Ahhhh, my first Halloween as a human.
What a spectacular opening song and dance!
They killed it
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.
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.
3:02 😂
Brought to you by General Foods International Coffees...of course!
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.
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.
40 years already! I remembered it being broadcast on ABC(?)
wow this crowd is fuckin PUMPED
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.
Hate to admit it but that opening musical number does look like (but does NOT sound like!) a DEATH SS video!
The opening chords of their theme song is giving me Chicago "Wishing you were here" vibes... 🤔
Love classics
The Dracula would be Luigi in the Super Mario Bros show and I think he was a bartender in the Jeffersons as well. Awesome.
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.
Lea Thompson sighting! 9:50
Optimus??? Peter Cullen is in this??? Wtf.
Wolfimus Prime
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 🤣😬
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!'
Happy Halloween 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃
It feels like they honestly felt the jokes were real knee slappers.
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?
This vampire is Joe Flaherty from SCTV!
no its somebody else...they said his name but i forgot
No it's not
No, the actor's name was Ben Gordon.
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
I used to watch bozo every morning on that channel
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. th-cam.com/video/1WOmvQ6yIOs/w-d-xo.html
ok so was anyone else confused and thought the dracula from this show was count floyd from sctv?
@2:18
Before Family Guy did Starburst only to find out it was acid
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