Halloween PSA safety film from 1977

Kids today will never understand how good we had it as kids in the 70s and 80s.

Is this when parents started getting scared about tampered Halloween candy, etc.? For some reason, I thought those fears/urban legends didn't start until much later.

They were putting razor blades in candy and apples in the 80s. My mom and other parents in my town took kids collected candy to the local hospital and they x-rayed it for free.

Born in 1977, loved this!

The candy bars given out these days aren't big enough to fit a razor blade.

I remember rumors of razor blades in apples going back to the '60s.

Video will soon be cancelled and account suspended due to the little boy wearing an Indian costume with feathered headband.

R2 We worried about that stuff back in 1971.

I was always slightly disappointed when my parents DIDN'T find a razor blade in my candy.

Why did you want to cut your mouth open?

Fun memories

“Stay in your own neighborhood when trick or treating, those richie rich snobs don’t like poor white trash like you showing up near their homes.”

“Follow the lead of the little princess!” This video made me Gay!

There needed to be more stranger danger and stay away from Uncle Chester in this video.

This could not be made today as the religious right would have a huge issue with witches costumes.

That's why her mother turns her into a white fairy, r15!

That "girl" looked like a boy.

The mom changed the kid's costume from a witch to a klansman in no time.

The princess looked like she was wearing a Klu Kluck Klan robe. OMG!

R6, R8, thanks. For some reason, I thought that fear originated in the '80s during the satanic panic.

R3, I thought the razor blades in Halloween candy was mainly an urban legend? Like syringes left in payphone coin returns?

R20 there were a few real cases of it happening.

Do kids still trick or treat?

Not really R22

At my house Halloween tricks are my treats!

All that business about razor blades in apples and poisoned candy was urban legend/hysteria.

@ 31:50:

The real cases of candy tampering came from the victims' own families, not random strangers.

Yes, I remember it was mid—1970s or so when there was a new resurgence of tampered Halloween candy panic, maybe made more so by the separate Tylenol bottles tampering that started going on then.

That kid was better off as the little witch instead of the KKK wife.

Agreed.

Just put orange reflective tape on the witch costume if you have to.

That narrator sounds like Selma Diamond. A 3-pack-a-day voice for sure.

Just don't trick-or-treat at Shaye St. John's house.

The Tylenol tampering happened circa 1982, R27.