#the paul lynde halloween special

[silverstarfoxx]

KISS + The Paul Lynde Halloween Special

[gameraboy2]

The Paul Lynde Halloween Special (1976)

[jedivoodoochile]

The Paul Lynde Halloween Special 1976.

[retropopcult]

1976

[gargledmesh]

Made a trailer for my 2022 Halloween Mix which is now on sale physically here! https://gargledmesh.storenvy.com/

[rock-and-roll-hell]

October 19, 20, and 21, 1976

The Paul Lynde Halloween Special

ABC Studios - Hollywood, California

📸 Richard Creamer, Barry Levine and Brad Elterman

Oct. 19, 1976 - KISS rehearse (not taped) the songs to be performed on the show and run through the skit with Paul Lynde.

Oct. 20, 1976 - "Detroit Rock City" performance is taped.

Oct. 21, 1976 - "Beth", "King of the Night Time World", skit with Paul Lynde and final "credit" dance scene are taped.

[thedepartmentofdiscoveries]

[guns-n-jovi]

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[flapperdame16]

I'm 2 degrees from Margaret Hamilton!

[bitter69uk]

Staying in tonight? Want some festive viewing? I recommend grisly low-budget slasher flick New Year’s Evil (1980). Tagline: “Don’t dare make new year’s resolutions … unless you plan to live!” In Los Angeles, glamorous hardboiled celebrity DJ and television’s first lady of rock’n’roll Blaze Sullivan (Roz Kelly) is hosting “Hollywood Hotline”, a live televised coast-to-coast New Year’s Eve countdown. Viewers are encouraged to phone in to vote for their favourite New Wave song of the year - but one of the callers is a misogynistic serial killer calling himself “Evil”, who threatens to murder a “naughty girl” as each time zone hits midnight – culminating with Blaze herself! What distinguishes New Year’s Evil is its focus on the punk subculture. Considering it was filmed in LA in 1980, the mind boggles at the actual bands the filmmakers could have feasibly utilized for the musical sequences: X, The Screamers, the Germs, the Zeros, The Weirdos! The presence of any of these would make New Year’s Evil a valuable time capsule. But no – we see only two appalling ersatz punk bands (nonentities Shadow and Made in Japan), and at tedious length. The film’s received wisdom about how punk rockers behave (they are troublemakers with piercings and Mohawks who mosh and stick their tongues out a lot) is unintentionally hilarious. New Year’s Evil also fails to clarify why hardened young hardcore punk fans are so rabidly enthusiastic about sequin-clad middle-aged Blaze. Is it because she exhorts things like “It’s time to spin out and boil your hair!” and “drop a ‘lude and relax, huh?” while wielding a feather boa? Which brings us to Roz Kelly. In her brief heyday, she was best known for portraying Pinky Tuscadero, Fonzie’s tough cookie girlfriend in seventies sitcom Happy Days. Her screen presence was certainly … um … distinctive. Whether playing Pinky, Anthony Franciosa’s brassy secretary Flaps (yes – Flaps!) in Curse of the Black Widow (1977), cavorting in Paul Lynde’s infamous 1976 Halloween special or indeed here as Blaze, Kelly is consistently abrasive, brittle and borderline hostile. Her bizarre acting choices are perhaps the scariest aspect of New Year’s Evil! Watch it free on YouTube.

[loveherallican-blog]

KISS - Paul Lynde Halloween Special- Detroit Rock City

[silverstarfoxx]

Margaret Hamilton and Gene Simmons on set for The Paul Lynde Halloween Special, 1976

[beggars-opera]

Me as a child: It’s Halloween season, I must watch graphic horror movies to seem more adult

Me as an adult: It’s Halloween season, I must get drunk and watch the Paul Lynde Halloween Special

[jedivoodoochile]

Its almost time for The Paul Lynde Halloween Special 1976.

[rjcity1]

My first time in LA, Paul picked me up at the airport. “Wanna go to a party?”

He took me to Zsa Zsa Gabor’s husband’s birthday party. They lived in the house where they just filmed the HBO Liberace movie, the pool still had piano keys around it and an L in the middle.

It was a kitsch field of dreams. Sid Krofft, Beverly D’Angelo, Allee Willis, Buzz Aldrin’s ex-wife and the puppet Madame.

Every room had gold-framed portraits of Zsa Zsa. The was a velvet-roped smoking section. We had soft pretzels and European meats.

That night, he took me to a tribute concert to Lance Loud (of The Mumps & An American Family).

Holly Woodlawn, Cherry Vanilla, Maria McKee, Rob Zabrecky, Ann Magnuson - people so mythically cool that I couldn’t believe they existed in real life.

We finished the evening by having frozen yogurt popsicles and watching the Paul Lynde Halloween Special. Could not ask for a better day.

[vintage-halloween]

Paul Lynde Halloween Special ~ with Kiss