The Paul Lynde Halloween Special

Suck it, fuckwads!!

Did this happen before or after the Helen Lawson Christmas Special?

Where's a balcony when you need one?

Such a great talent!

And I don't care what anyone says, would have loved to have spent an evening at a bar/drinking party with Paul Lynde.

This is so bad it's good. Can't wait to watch it this year, along with Mary's Incredible Dream!

Is this the one with the Rhinestone Trucker skit? FLA-MING.

R4 You would NOT have wanted to spend any time around Mr. Lynde drinking.

OP none of what you've said sounds bad! Cheesy with bad plot lines and awful disco songs?! Could you have written a more riveting advertisement for this??

I smile just seeing Paul Linde's name.

Who's that, dear @ r9?

The ultimate fun Halloween viewing party would be watching:

Paul's special

MTM's "Mary's Incredible Dream"

and

Bea Arthur's special w/Rock Hudson

Was there any actual proof that Paul was gay?

R12 = Dora Dumfucke, ingenue

OP you forgot to mention the musical performances by KISS, including an especially earnest, heartfelt "Beth"!

R12

R4

Unless things have changed hit the Townhouse any night of the week and you'll find more than a few bitter old queens hitting the sauce that make PL look like Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.

Heck over the years I'v worked with and or known socially more than a few Northeast and UK queens who put PL in the shade far as nasty drunks are concerned.

R13 reminds me of when Norm Macdonald went ballistic on Twitter saying that Behind the Candelabra was libelous because Liberace never admitted he was gay, therefore he wasn't gay.

Let us not forget this gem.

The Paul Lynde special commits the worst sin of all: it's boring

A corn-saturated explosion of diarrhea, naturally.

But KISS was fabulous as ever. I'd rather watch their performances here than KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park!

KISS was fantastic on the special. I was in heaven because the Wicked Witch of the West and Witchiepoo introduce them.

It was my first exposure to KISS and I was hooked.

And what the everloving fuck was this all about?

I loved it! Watched it on my phone late one Halloween night in a hotel room on Catalina Island. Hey, it's a memory.

Wow. KISS has superpowers

A fun read about Kiss if they were always on your periphery and you wonder, "What was all that about?"

I scored a copy of this about 17 years ago, pre-YouTube and threw a Halloween party centered around showing it to my guests. I would show stuff like Goldie & Liza, The Brady Bunch Variety Hour, Battle of the Network Stars, and ONJ's and The Carpenters' specials, so I thought the Paul Lynde special would be a huge success.

It laid there like a rank fart and nearly everyone got up and walked away from the TV before it was halfway over. I wound up shutting it off to save face. It is NOT good. It's not so bad that it's good. It's just bad.

It has its campy charms.

No. It. Doesn't.

Oh good grief....it was fun...a product of it's time...brought back goofy memories of the 70's. TV was such a comforting pastime.

Sid and Marty Krofft were involved (and were also producers of the Brady Bunch variety specials). Why they were hired all the time throughout the late 60’s and 70’s is beyond my comprehension. They were flat out weird. Drugs must have been available in copious amounts.

I remember watching this as a young kid with my 70-something grandma, who loved Hollywood Squares Paul Lynde. When KISS appeared she went completely bananas. She thought they were Satan-incarnated.

Sid & Marty Krofft actually had nothing to do with the Paul Lynde special.

I can appreciate 1970s camp, such as those mentioned above like Goldie & Liza, The Brady Bunch Variety Hour, Battle of the Network Stars, and The Carpenters' specials, but this special was bland and boring, completely safe except for the inexplicable appearance of Kiss, but since i was never into them, they bored me as well.

Forget about Sid & Marty Krofft- How the fuck did Bruce Vilanch get so much writing work? He is a HORRIBLE joke writer. How does he even have a career?

Funny you should mention that, r26.

Carrie Fisher used to say that she would throw on THE STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL at the end of long parties to clear the guests out ON PURPOSE!

They had to sign off on the use of Witchie-Poo in the show.

That's not the same as having been involved in the show.