FOF #2798 – Bruce Vilanch on The Paul Lynde Halloween Special

Feast of Fun: Gay Talk Show

Fausto Fernós

Comedy Interviews, Tv & Film, Comedy, Tv Reviews, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.4 • 831 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

One of the strangest shows ever broadcast on TV is the Paul Lynde Halloween Special. The musical variety show featuring a campy highway pile-up of the top stars of the day with Margaret Hamilton reprising her Wicked Witch from the Izard of Oz aired only once on ABC in 1976.

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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0:00.0	One of the most wonderfully strange shows ever broadcast on television is the Paul Lynn Halloween special.
0:14.8	This musical variety show featuring a campy highway pile-up of the top stars of the day,
0:20.3	with Margaret Hamilton reprising her role as the Wicked Witch from the Wizard of Oz
0:25.8	aired only once on ABC in 1976.
0:30.4	This candy, corny showcase also includes Billy Hayes as Witchy Pooh,
0:36.0	Florence Henderson from the Brady Bunch, Tim Conway from the
0:39.2	Carol Burnett Show, Ross Pinky Tuscadero from Happy Days, Betty White from the Mary Tyler Moore
0:45.8	Show, Billy Barty, Donnie and Marie Osmond, and making their primetime TV debut the rock band
0:53.5	Kiss.
0:58.2	In the Center Square, once again, is Paul Lind, one of Hollywood's most acerbic gay men, whose double entendre's delighted audiences on the game show Hollywood Squares.
1:04.1	How did this TV special ever get made?
1:07.1	Today, comedy writer Bruce Valanche, best known for writing for the Oscars and for his own appearance on Hollywood Squares, joins us to talk about being a head writer for the Paul Lind Halloween special.
1:18.2	I'm Faustafernos.
1:19.6	I'm Mark Fillion.
1:20.7	And this is Feast of Fun.
1:33.0	We will. We wish you a Merry Christmas, We wish you a Merry Christmas, we wish you a Merry Christmas
1:36.6	And a Happy New Year
1:39.6	Deck falls with
1:42.0	Aadies out of holly, ta-la-la-la-la-laTla-la-la-la-la.
1:44.9	La-la.
1:48.7	What's the matter, Margaret?
1:50.7	Jack Frost, nipping at your nose.
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