Monday, June 30, 2014

Halloween is Grinch Night

Halloween is Grinch Night is a 1977 Halloween musical TV special and prequel to How the Grinch Stole Christmas!. It won the 1977 Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program. It premiered on ABC on October 29, 1977.

In this special, the evil Grinch who stole Christmas is back to steal Halloween! When the sour-sweet wind starts blowing again, the Whos in Whoville retreat to their homes because they know the Grinch will soon be a'prowlin'. It's Grinch Night and young Eukariah Who has to make a trip to the Euphemism when the wind blows him away to a confrontation with the gruesome Grinch. Eukariah decides that Grinch must be stopped from terrorizing the Whoville, so he faces his fears and confronts the Grinch and his spooks in the surreal imaginary filled with numerous monsters. In the end, the Whos celebrate the little Who's courage in preventing the Grinch releasing the Paraphernalia Wagon's full horrors on their town and up in the mountains the Grinch, who is hauling the wagon home himself, hoping that one day there will be another Grinch Night when the Sour-Sweet Wind blows once more.

The special features the voices of Hans Conried as the Grinch and the narrator. Gary Shapiro as Eukariah Who. Hal Smith as Josiah. Irene Tedrow as Mariah. Jack DeLeon as Sergeant Samuel McPherson. Thurl Ravenscroft as the singing monsters. And Henry Gibson as Max in the singing part of "What Am I Doing Here?"

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