Bruce Vilanch on The Paul Lynde Halloween Special
Feast of Fun: Gay Talk Show
Fausto Fernós
4.4 • 834 Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Today comedy writer Bruce Vilanch, best known for writing for the Oscars and for his appearance on Hollywood Squares joins us to talk about being a head writer for the Paul Lynde Halloween Special.
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| 1:01.7 | One of the most wonderfully strange shows ever broadcast on television is the Paul Lynn Halloween special. |
| 1:12.2 | This musical variety show featuring a campy highway pile-up of the top stars of the day, |
| 1:17.6 | with Margaret Hamilton reprising her role as The Wicked Witch from the Wizard of Oz aired only once on ABC in 1976. |
| 1:27.8 | This candy, corny showcase also includes Billy Hayes as Witchy Pooh, Florence Henderson from |
| 1:34.4 | the Brady Bunch, Tim Conway from the Carol Burnett Show, Ross Pinky Tuscadero from Happy Days, Betty |
| 1:41.5 | White from the Mary Tyler Moore Show, Billy Barty, Donnie and Marie Osmond, |
| 1:46.8 | and making their primetime TV debut the rock band Kiss. |
| 1:51.7 | In the Center Square, once again, is Paul Lind, one of Hollywood's most assertic gay men, |
| 1:56.8 | whose double entendre's delighted audiences on the game show Hollywood Squares. |
| 2:01.5 | How did this TV special ever get made? |
| 2:04.5 | Today, comedy writer Bruce Valanche, best known for writing for the Oscars and for his own appearance on Hollywood Squares, |
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