Okay, the title is a little misleading. But "mix DVD" doesn't have the same ring.
About 20 years ago, back when DVD burners were still standard computer hardware, I made my own two-disc compilation of some of my favorite Halloween TV episodes. Most of the episodes were ones my family had recorded off television onto VHS, and I converted them to digital video. I should add that this was probably a year or two before YouTube even existed.
The first disc contains full episodes while the second is a mix of full episodes with various Halloween-themed segments from other programs.
Disc 1 (menu music: Theme from Disney's Haunted Mansion)
- Three Stooges: "If a Body Meets a Body"
- Bewitched: "Safe and Sane Halloween"
- Brady Bunch: "To Move or Not to Move"
- Brady Bunch: "The Slumber Caper"
- Brady Bunch: "Fright Night"
- Happy Days: "Haunted"
- Happy Days: "The Evil Eye"
Disc 2 (menu music: "The Skeleton Dance")
- Little House on the Prairie: "The Monster of Walnut Grove"
- That's Incredible: Haunted Castle in New Jersey
- That's Incredible: Haunted Toys R Us
- Eye on L.A.: "Halloween 3-D"
- Jack White at the Old Margo Theater
- Saturday Night Live: Halloween with Matt Foley
- Our Gang: "Shivering Spooks"
- Mickey Mouse: "Haunted House"
- Silly Symphonies: "The Skeleton Dance"
- 1984 McDonald's Commercial
- 1985 Vincent Price Commercial
- McDonald's Commercial: "Scared Silly"
- Brady Bunch: "Out of This World"
- Brady Bunch: "Two Petes in a Pod"
In its own way, my amateur DVD compilation helped inspire this blog, The Ghosts of Halloweens Past, which I initiated several years later with posts about many of these same programs. I appreciate the low-fi quality to the VHS transfer, and the fact that I can watch these programs on a TV screen and not have to be connected online. Makes the experience a little more old-school, like when mixtapes were a thing.
What would be on your Halloween DVD compilation?
