MY THREE SONS - "The Ghost Next Door" Season 03, Episode 06 (1962)

Tonight's Saturday Night Halloween Special is an episode of "My Three Sons," circa 1962!

This is a great shot of the original cast with from left to right, William (Fred) Frawley as Grandpa Bub, Tim (Spin) Considine as Mike Douglas, Stanley ( X-15, Attack Of The 60 Foot Centerfold) Livingston as Chip Douglas, Fred (The Shaggy Dog, The Absent Minded Professor) MacMurray as Dad Steve Douglas, and  Don (He was actually a musician, and was in a 60's band called Yellow Balloon) Grady as Robbie Douglas!!!

"My Three Sons" was on for 12 seasons! This episode called "The Ghost Next Door" was from season 03, episode 06 that aired on October 25, 1962!!!
The theme song was written by the hyper talented Frank De Vol, who was credited a lot of the time strictly as DeVol, and who, among a hoard of other things, composed the music for the two killer classics, "What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?," and "Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte!"

The house next door to the Douglas house has been vacant for 10 years, when suddenly this woman shows up! When she bends over, Bub immediately takes a fancy to her, but once you start talking to her, you can't shut her up!

Well, you can see why Bub was so hot to trot! 

Loie (The Reluctant Astronaut) Bridge has the role of new neighbor Abbie Pearson!

After the introductions, and Abbie won't shut up, Mike and Robbie have other things they immediately need to do!

Chip is over at his pal Sudsy's house getting ready to go out Trick or Treating!

Olive (The Hearse) Dunbar has the reoccurring role of Sudsy's Mom, Mrs. Ruth Pfeiffer!!

Ricky Allen as Sudsy is a strange little guy to and try and find information about! I can't find his birth date anywhere, and although he only looks about 10 or 12 here at best, IMDB has him in TV shows going back to 1957, so he must have been acting since he was 5 or 6, and then after 39 episodes of "My Three Sons," he retired from acting forever!

The boys look like a couple of Martians in these Halloween costumes!

Chip and Sudsy try to sneak up and scare Steve, but since they had already announced their presence in the room, it turns out kind of anticlimactic!

TRICK OR TREAT!!!

Chip and Sudsy don't know that Mrs. Pearson moved in next door, and since the house has been vacant since Chip was born, they freak out when they see a light moving around!

It was Olive Dunbar who was in the TV series "Big John, Little John" as Bertha Bottomly, but I think it would have been a more appropriate role for Loie Bridge!

Chip and Sudsy make a pact, and decide to go check it out for themselves!

What they see shakes them down to their boots! 

It's a witch with horns!!!

Exit, stage left!!!!

HALLOWEEN BAG O' 8mm HORROR MOVIE BOX ART EYE CANDY!

For a nice early bag o' candy, eye candy, I gots a batch of 13 very cool 8mm movie box art to chew on! Happy Halloween to all, and to all... Almond Joy!

What's fun about 8mm box art is that there's usually a kitsch factor going on. With FRANKENSTEIN CONQUERS THE WORLD, he rolled the seven wonders of the world into one!

Here, the MYSTERIOUS DR. SATAN tries to conquer the world with a death-dealing robot...

I used to have two 8mm movies we liked to watch, TARANTULA! was one of them. And, it destroys everything in its path!!

With this title, DOOM OF DRACULA, they changed the name for the mini movie. Obviously, it was taken from HOUSE OF DRACULA.

In TROG, from a million years back, horror explodes into today!.. With Joan Crawford.

Hammer's HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN uses great colors in this example of box art, nice!

I'm not sure of which movie KING KONG BATTLES THE MONSTERS comes from, I guess you'd have to buy this title to know from where it came!

This HOUSE OF WAX either uses the wrong art, or, the movie is actually NIGHTMARE IN WAX starring Cameron Mitchell... Roll the dice!

Edgar Allen Poe's MASTER OF HORROR is a fine example of kitschy art, bold and brash!

RODAN The Flying Monster was the other 8mm movie I used to have. Both titles I had are lost, left at an ex-girlfiend's house in the late sixties...

SHADOW OF THE WEREWOLF wins the Kitsch Award for this batch of box art! Again, I have no idea which movie this really is. My guess is that it's one of the many Euro flicks starring Paul Naschy.

THE TRIAL OF FRANKENSTEIN is, of course, a mini flicker taken from THE GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN.

THE WOMAN IN THE COFFIN is my favorite piece of box art in this pile. What the Hell movie is this from?!! Great titillating artwork!!

So, we're back tomorrow where we'll continue with our HALLOWEEN COUNTDOWN!!

THE PEPSI - UNIVERSAL MONSTERS HALLOWEEN CONNECTION (1990's)

Welcome to the fifth day of The Halloween Countdown!"  You know what that means, right? You have to drink a fifth of something, so you might as well mix it with Pepsi!

(Personally, I can't drink the stuff any more, or, well, actually nobody should be drinking it, but I sure drank a lot of it back in the day!)

Universal and Pepsi had some kind of cool agreement! These images are all from my personal collection that I'm trying to sell on eBay this week! I just wish I had a complete set!

The first super classic Frankenstein image I used was from 1991, but by 1995, it had turned into this totally cartoonish version of Frankie with more emphasis on Pepsi, and less on the monster!

Time for The Mummy to cash in on this deal, cause he's thirsty too!

And that makes me think.....and that's usually trouble....but...Let's face it, after The Phantom of the Opera, Dracula, Frankenstein, Godzilla, The Wolf Man, The Mummy, Dr. Jekyll, The Creature From The Black Lagoon, and Alien, there has not been one continuing monster story that has been worth a shit! There's been plenty of slashers, Freddie, Mike Meyers, Texas Chainsaw etc., but real monsters have been for the most part abandoned!!

This last image is basically the same as the first image, but not so classic anymore with Frankie as a pool shark! Check out all his pals in the background....The Wolf Man, The Bride Of Frankenstein, Dracula, The Creature, and The Mummy, sending you greetings and Halloween salutations!!

The HALLOWEEN Movies

How smart was John Carpenter for using the term HALLOWEEN for a horror movie series!!!.. Very, I'm sure! So, here are the many flicks spawned by this title, just for our Halloween Countdown.

The original HALLOWEEN came out in 1978. The story starts on Halloween night in 1963, six year old Michael Myers has stabbed his sister to death. After being in a mental hospital for 15 years, he escapes and returns to Haddonfield to kill. Stars Jaime Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasence.

HALLOWEEN II came out in 1981, this time, while the Sheriff and Dr. Loomis (Pleasence) hunt for Michael Myers, a traumatized Laurie (Curtis) is rushed to the hospital and our serial killer isn't far behind her... BOO-WAH!!

HALLOWEEN III: Season Of The Witch hit the screens in 1982. This is my favorite movie in the series! It's so whacked out it's great. The story's about an apparent murder-suicide in a hospital emergency room that leads to an investigation which reveals a plot by an insane toy maker to kill off as many people as possible during Halloween using an ancient Celtic ritual involving a stolen boulder from Stonehenge and Halloween masks!.. Love it!! I admit it, I never saw any other movies in the series after this one!

In HALLOWEEN 4: The Return Of Michael Meyers from 1988, ten years after his original massacre, Michael Myers awakens and returns to Haddonfield to kill his seven year old niece on Halloween! But, can Dr. Loomis stop him this time?... You tell me!

Then, in 1989, our masked killer returns in HALLOWEEN 5: The Revenge Of Michael Meyers. It's one year later and Michael freakin' returns again on October 31st. Lurking and stalking around as usual, Michael has a plan to lure victims out of the children's hospital and there's a big confrontation at the Myers' house!

HALLOWEEN 6: The Curse Of Michael Myers came out in 1995, in this one, it's six years after he last terrorized the people in Haddonfield and Michael returns in pursuit of his niece again, who has escaped with her newborn child. Michael and a mysterious cult have sinister plans for them!!

Jaime Lee returns in HALLOWEEN H20: 20 Years Later, out in 1998. Laurie, now the dean of a Northern California private school with an assumed name, must battle the maniac one last time and the life of her own son hangs in the balance!.. You know, the glossy poster image simply loses me, it just looks, like, not scary! Give me the gritty posters every time.

HALLOWEEN: Resurrection plopped its ass down in 2002, another glossy poster image, yuck! Anyway, three years after he last terrorized his sister, Michael Myers confronts her again, before traveling to Haddonfield to deal with the cast and crew of a reality show which is being broadcast from his old home!

Believe it or not, since then, two more movies were produced! There's another HALLOWEEN from 2007 and HALLOWEEN II from 2009! Good luck with those!!

We're back Wednesday with more Halloween Countdown, be there or be a square, dude!!

HALLOWEEN SAFETY (1977)

It's the first day of October, 2016, so let's get this Halloween Countdown thing started with a public service announcement from 1977 called:

 HALLOWEEN SAFETY!

SO, this witch's costume is totally unsafe for a variety of reasons!

#01 - If you trip and fall down because your vision is obscured by some stupid mask, and you get hit by a car going 45 miles an hour.................

.............You're most likely going to spill all your candy out into the street, and that would be a real tragedy of Shakespearean proportions !

#02 - Don't carry around sharp objects, and if your costume requires something like a sword, well, then go ahead and saw it in half because getting poked in the eye with a blunt object is so much better than getting poked with a sharp object!

Her Mom hemmed up her dress so she wouldn't trip on it, and they ditched the mask so she will have full vision, but her costume is still not safe, because it is dark and hard to see after the sun goes down!

So why not have a costume that is bright and cheery with reflector tape wrapped all around it, even if it doesn't make sense any more, it's going to be a lot safer!!

#03 - Eat a big healthy meal like pizza before you head out into the night so you don't gorge yourself on all that free candy you're gonna get and end up getting sick!

Grab as much candy as you can, because you never know how much of it you're going to have to throw away because it is either poisoned or has razor blades in it!!

But always be polite and say thank-you even if you're given arsenic, oysters, or parsnips!

#04 - Have your Mom inspect each and every piece of candy, and toss out anything questionable! You might only end up with a couple of candy corns, but that's all right, it's better than dying!

#05 - Cut into all fruit and vegetables to make sure there's no broken glass or any other sharp objects inside, and make sure and wash them too in case somebody has put rat poison on them!

Now, get out there, and have a good time!!!