Wow. Everyone's seen the grinch on Christmas, but nobody's seen him on halloween. A hidden gem indeed.

@bigwillietheb

9 ай бұрын

I actualy saw this when I was 5 years old back in 1979 , haven't seen it since until now

@retroguy9494

8 ай бұрын

@@bigwillietheb But it first came out in 1977.

@wendyderamus9606

8 ай бұрын

Mom taped it off the Disney Channel in the 80s, but all my vhs tapes have significantly degraded. I'm so happy to find this and I was born in 1979, the year of this broadcast. It's fun to see the commercials as well.

@retroguy9494

8 ай бұрын

@@wendyderamus9606 They've degraded eh? I should start checking MINE. I must have over 200 VHS tapes from the 80's and '90's. Most of them I taped myself off the TV.

@Tertullian1971

8 ай бұрын

This one slid into obscurity, but lots of people saw it back then, and it was rerun for several years. It also won the award for best children's program of 1977, edging out another classic, the Fat Albert Halloween Special.

I had NO IDEA this existed! And for once, I'm NOT bothered by the commercials. You really pulled this one out of a time capsule! Thanks for posting this!😊

@bradjames891

Жыл бұрын

True historians never are :)

@loveinspired7

Жыл бұрын

@@bradjames891 💗💗💗💗💗💗

@anthonychihuahua

Жыл бұрын

Truth be told, I fast forwarded TO the commercials, to catch all the ol' nostalgia 📺👀

@amywatts3306

Жыл бұрын

I also adore this and this is the first I've ever heard of it. (7nov 2022). I also dig the commercials...for once. I swear I was born too late

@fanaticat1

9 ай бұрын

I had no idea this existed, either, but here I am, October 1, 2023, totally getting into the Halloween "spirit"! 😆👍

I'm 51 and never seen this before, I love it. Classic TV at it's best.

@markr8755

8 ай бұрын

I was 12 when this came out. I remember it but it was in the back behind all the stuff I forgot about...

@Sachkigal143

8 ай бұрын

Hey I'm 51 too. I've never seen or heard of this

I love how you left in the original commercial, such a perfect window on a time gone by

@ericmoody3944

2 жыл бұрын

That is why I love watching these old programs, the commercials are a snapshot into the past....

@starmnsixty1209

Жыл бұрын

So true. And my thanks too👍

@sherryceltic9856

Жыл бұрын

I admit we enjoyed the commercials as much as the show. The good ole days were indeed good.

@reginaldforthright805

8 ай бұрын

No its actually really misleading since you can no longer get the items. In fact maybe the channel should be sued for false advertising.

Wow. The husband and I are huge fans of the Grinch's Christmas special, yet somehow neither one of us had ever seen, much less heard of, this! Neat.

@tracyanne1548

2 жыл бұрын

Me either!

@chanbara8683

2 жыл бұрын

Me either...hah...lol

@siobhansweeney7376

2 жыл бұрын

Ni yo tampoco,y me gusta. me neither, I like it.

@S-no3yy

2 жыл бұрын

My 1st time time seeing this & I watched a lot of tv !

@Snobert99

2 жыл бұрын

I'm just now learning about the Halloween variation of the Grinch cartoon myself in spite of growing up with The Grinch Who Stole Christmas.

If only they would bring back these fun shows on Halloween

Always felt sorry for Max the dog🥺🐾

@culpit

Жыл бұрын

I wonder why Max decided to go back to The Grinch in the Christmas special?

@Vox-Multis

Жыл бұрын

@@culpit I was wondering this as well. In fact it's kind of something I've thought about since I first saw this as a kid. Either this takes place before "How the Grinch Stole Christmas", in which case case Max somehow ended up back with the Grinch (by Max's own choice or not), or it takes place afterward, and the Grinch's heart shriveled back down to three sizes too small sometime after the events of that story. Kind of a downer either way.

@Matrixpandagamer

Жыл бұрын

​@@culpit Maybe the Grinch kidnapped him 😨

@mssingh6612

Жыл бұрын

Me 2

@Kojow7

Жыл бұрын

I wonder where Max is now.

I was 11 at the time...probably was watching this program, since we only had 3 networks at the time. LOL in a day, the WHOLE family would watch tv TOGETHER.

@mysticakhenaton1701

2 жыл бұрын

and MAN, I am Nostalgic for all those old commercials.

@wintersnow4413

2 жыл бұрын

Hey, remember McDonald’s gift certificates, and the Halloween happy meal buckets?

@mysticakhenaton1701

2 жыл бұрын

@@wintersnow4413 YES SIR, or Miss LOL...the GOOD old day's

@michaelgorman9843

2 жыл бұрын

Even the commicals are good!😁

The first tradition as an adult was to revisit this gem every year. I loved it as a kid and still do as an adult💕

Did anyone else get excited when he told max to get the paraphernalia wagon??

@switchemcee3775

2 күн бұрын

Def lol’d

I can’t believe this one flew under my radar. It’s no Christmas Grinch but after the billionth time , this is a great fresh change of pace. Thanks for sharing!

@shirleynitka5030

2 жыл бұрын

my kids watched it when it first aired. I also bought the video somewhere.

@catloverd3671

2 жыл бұрын

Totally missed this one, too. 👀

@tq644

2 жыл бұрын

My 3 yo loves this. Knows 90% of it by heart including the orchestration! Hilarious. I think the guy who played this grinch is fantastic.

@starmnsixty1209

Жыл бұрын

Afraid I have to say it wasn't very good to be blunt. The commercials are great!

@edreid7872

Жыл бұрын

My same thought.. Must've been after I discovered the opposite sex...

I loved when Max found ownership with the boy!!! What a fantastic ending. Thanks for this.

@retroguy9494

8 ай бұрын

We prefer the term 'pet parent' rather than 'ownership.' Max is a living thing. He's not a car!

I’m 59 years old and I’ve never seen this before thank you for putting it on I enjoyed it immensely appreciate your time and effort

@garymckee448

2 жыл бұрын

Same here 😊

@The1NightBaker

Жыл бұрын

I'm 62 and never seen it.

@gwenmloveskpopcecmore

Жыл бұрын

@@The1NightBaker it’s because it’s not as popular unfortunately

@eddiewrightjr5698

Жыл бұрын

wow to me this is pretty awesome I'm 66 years old and I have never seen this one before keep up the good work my daddy always said you never get too old to learn God Rest his soul thank you so much

@gwenmloveskpopcecmore

Жыл бұрын

@@eddiewrightjr5698 yeah it came out in 77 but it wasn’t too popular

I never knew this existed. It's a shame this never became a Halloween tradition on TV, the way the Christmas one did. Thanks for sharing,really enjoyed watching it. Even the old commercials were fun to see after so many years.

@apexone5502

2 жыл бұрын

Probably because, over time, the networks started slowly phasing out Halloween cartoon specials while continuing with Christmas cartoon specials.

Just watched this for the first time and they did NOT need to go as hard on the score as they did. This earned the Emmy if you’re asking me.

@coolmanchu29

Жыл бұрын

Greetings from Memedroid! I'll leave a reply. Didn't know this existed.

@CalebBurnsGamesDotCom

Жыл бұрын

@@coolmanchu29 Very cool! Glad to see you here.

@kurlykayla9013

Жыл бұрын

That grinch is gonna get ya song slaps hard

@user-jo9ql6iy4u

8 ай бұрын

That last song is a broadway rip-off I’m sure. What song is it

@TheCorrectViews

8 ай бұрын

I replayed the sad dog song before I even saw this comment.

I bought How The Grinch Stole Christmas on Apple TV and this was included with it. I never watched it until the other day. Totally trippy and my kids loved it.

Poor Max! His song is so heartbreaking😢

@jodifoster9820

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah it really is, and the fact that dogs can have depression is super upsetting lol I know it’s just a show but it hits the feels 😢

This movie was in 1977, born without the net, now it's getting nuts with high tech. Thank you for posting this for everyone. I have so many tapes from the first VHS my brother bought. He recorded endlessly. I keep finding some great ones, and I love watching the commercials.

@FuzzyMemoriesTV

2 жыл бұрын

Joanne - we can help with transferring them to digital. (the right way). Let’s make sure the recordings are saved. Email: tapes@fuzzy.tv

@v.l.dozier-talton5645

8 ай бұрын

No wonder why I never seen this I was born in 1977...

1979. I was in the 9th grade. I love the old commercials. 😉✌️❤️🦋😎

lol I knew this cartoon existed. I'm surprised so many didn't. It was shown on CBS like other Holiday cartoons. Raggedy Ann and Andy also had a Halloween special as well as Peanuts, Bugs Bunny, The Berenstain Bears, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Fat Albert, Winnie the Pooh, and Garfield. I looked forward to the Holiday cartoons every year!

@supme7558

5 ай бұрын

I just think people didnt tie it to Halloween

How did I miss this when I was a kid. I didn't know that they made this special.

Please, Hollywood! Make a feature length version of this TV special!!

So many childhood memories. We had this on VHS. I still own that VHS. My little brother and I watched this over and over. I still quote it to this day.

@helgmelia84

Жыл бұрын

It’s a wonderful night for eyebrows

@Old_Goth_Lady

8 ай бұрын

Same! We watched this every year. My mother had taped it off TV for my brothers and I. This and The Halloween Tree she had on a VHS for us. I found the Halloween Tree on DVD a few years back and have been looking for this for ages.

I remember this as a child in the late seventies

I love Hans Conried as the voice of the Grinch. He was 60 when he did this, but his voice is unmistakable. When I was a boy, I never cared for Dr. Seuss much as I was a Peanuts fanatic. But now that I'm getting to be an old man, I have a new appreciation for his work. I think my favorite is The Lorax.

Thanks for allowing me to transcend the years for a little while.

Somehow, I remember this after all these years. I'm 35, and I think I last saw this when I was like... 5? The internet can be a beautiful thing...

@grace7701

Жыл бұрын

I'm almost 46 and thought I watched it all growing up but never seen this or knew it existed. Weird

I like how the commercials are still hear, really is a time capsule!

I love this especially since it came from my childhood and it has vintage commercials! Thanks for the trip back to the 70’s!

To this day, I still wonder what would happen if Grinch and his paraphernalia wagon managed to make his way to Whoville without any interruptions.

@culpit

Жыл бұрын

That giant wheel monster chasing everyone in town.

@CharlietheWarlock

8 ай бұрын

Everybody gets high it ain't called the paraphernalia wagon for nothing

They were fortunate to get Hans Conried to participate in this. The actor had a long history of voice-over work and spent years as a character actor on radio, TV and in films. Lucky to have this memory of him. Of course I have found out a number of things about Hans Conried from listening to Sirius-XM's Radio Classics and I've retained some of what I've heard over these past eighteen years.

@Regal99

2 жыл бұрын

The Rankin Bass version of The Hobbit was my introduction to his work.

@TralfazConstruction

2 жыл бұрын

@@Regal99 Now that's one I have yet to see. I'll look for it here. It was a cartoon, Hoppity Hooper, back in the '60s when I first remember hearing his distinctive voice.

@starmnsixty1209

Жыл бұрын

Conried was great, but nobody could replace Karloff.

@paisleydunbar7218

8 ай бұрын

Hans Conried? I think i can picture him as the guest actor on the Monkees who hated the Monkees. I believe he said "Fuck, i hate these kids". Astonishing for a show to add an outtake or a blooper where the guest star swears and confesses to hating the lead actors of the show he's on.

@starlaw3320

8 ай бұрын

Hans Conried is in The Phantom Tollbooth too. Such a great movie if you haven't seen it. Still a favorite from my childhood, just like this.

9:33-10:33 The song that the Grinch’s dog Max is singing in his head as he’s pulling the wagon down the mountain is very sad 😢 if you think about it part of it is him wishing he could go back to being a puppy and the other is how his family member that he really loved wouldn’t care for him if they could see what he’d become it’s truly heartbreaking 💔 just thinking about it makes me want to cry 😭

@caroldefender4144

2 жыл бұрын

It reminds me of Memory from Cats.

@3katfox

Жыл бұрын

Right??? I'm watching this for the first time ever and I don't think I'll be watching it again after this. Max didn't seem so absolutely miserable in the Christmas special, this is just gut wrenching 😢 💔

@culpit

Жыл бұрын

I wonder if after Max went to live with Euchariah, The Grinch got himself another dog named Max for the Christmas special?

How could I not know of this IM a Grinch fanantic lol!!!

Wow! Great to see an early broadcast with ads.

Oh the memories from the 80's 🙃 Good times were had. After them good times spending all day outside running around playing hide & go seek riding bikes jumping over garbage cans on our huffys with no helmets & drinking out of the water hose we had specials like this on TV @ night to put us to bed. Those were the days.

Toys and games come and go, but Halloween is Grinch Night is forever. I first saw the special when I was a kid, and I had it on videotape. I hope that I can get it on DVD!!

Never knew this existed.

My interest has been flowing on this for a while… This is WELL worth the watch!

Thank you so much for sharing this classic with all of us….I watched this as a child in the 80’s and it is so nostalgic every time I see it and this version takes me back to a time when life was so much happier and not so chaotic.

I'm watching this exactly 45 years to the day that it originally aired on T.V. 🎃💕

I watched this as a kid and my family doesn't remember it AT ALL. I was starting to believe I was going crazy, but no, Grinch at Halloween is a legit thing!! Very interesting plot, but its still cool to see!

I have vague memories of this. Thanks for posting. I'm feeling so nostalgic I want to cry. This brings back fond early memories.

Years ago, I had a VHS tape with this and a bunch of other kid-friendly Halloween material, like safety PSA's involving a talking pumpkin. I don't remember ever getting to the end of it, possibly because I was either too scared or too bored.

Wow 😳 the kids watching this when they get older will be surprised they televised this to everyone w the language ...really good to watch wish they had more of the Halloween by Dr Seuss never knew he made this even

Oh wow, how did I missed this one from all these years? Thank you for featuring this one.

Thank you so much for this. They really never aired this much on television. Too bad it's really good.

@lightenddragon100

2 жыл бұрын

I remember this on I think it was tbs around. Halloween time

@shirleynitka5030

2 жыл бұрын

we watched it every year. Even bought the tape or dvd

@lightenddragon100

2 жыл бұрын

@@shirleynitka5030 yeah we did too. we didn't know that it was out on DVD lol.

@debbiebrown4420

2 жыл бұрын

I also once saw The Cat in the Hat Teaches the Grinch a Lesson. It was good, too.

@lightenddragon100

2 жыл бұрын

@@debbiebrown4420 never seen that lol is it like Halloween is grinch night?

Wow. I'm surprised this never gets aired at Halloween. I've never seen this on DVD either. Too bad.

@NJ_Dsneybuf

2 жыл бұрын

WB's "Ultimate Edition" DVD of Chuck Jones' _How The Grinch Stole Christmas!_ has it.

@spacewurm

2 жыл бұрын

@@NJ_Dsneybuf thanks for the info!

@MusicMan32K

2 жыл бұрын

It's a bonus on the Green Eggs and Ham DVD

@NJ_Dsneybuf

2 жыл бұрын

@@MusicMan32K WB removed it from the _Green Eggs and Ham_ DVD when they started selling it.

I remember watching this with my son in the early 2010s! He was a huge Dr Seuss fan, and we had a load of the DVDs. This was on one of them. We watched them all on repeat. Good stuff! I love the commercials on this version. So nostalgic. :)

At this moment in time I am within a couple of months of turning 20 (no more teenager!), the very first Star Trek movie is less than a year away from hitting theaters and a friend bought the first home VCR I ever saw (RCA VHS). A week after this show aired I suffered the worst broken heart of my life. Small wonder I have no memory of this Halloween special.

I watched this every Halloween when I was ages 0-3. Then it disappeared. I never forgot it though. I am so glad to have finally found it 14 years later.

Honestly never knew Grinchy Poo had a Halloween special?!?! It's pretty good, but still love the Grinch Who Stole Christmas!!! Thank you for uploading this!

Literally felt like I was sitting in front of my television as a kid all over again. Commercials and all. Made me emo. This was awesome.

I used to have this on Sing-Along VHS back in the 90s, and I still love watching this special! 🎃👻💚

@sammerz50

2 жыл бұрын

The sing-along VHS was released by CBS Video, distributed by Fox Video (later 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment) in the mid-90s.

David H. DePatie, one of the producers. He passed away on September 23, 2021, at the age of 91. He also worked in the animation divisions of MGM. He started DFE films (Pink Panther, The Inspector, Mr. Jaws, The Aardvark, and the Ant, and Ratfink.) and Looney tunes/Merrie Melodies. He SOLD DFE Films in 1981 to Marvel Productions (Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends).

@Musicradio77Network

2 жыл бұрын

David DePatie was the last surviving founder of the studio has died last month. Fritz Freling, his co-founder and former WB animator also died back in 1995. Now both them are all gone.

@matthwe3468

2 жыл бұрын

I didn't know David died. Thanks for filling us in.

@tamaraclaw

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the update

@Poever

2 жыл бұрын

Wow I didn’t know he was still alive this long. He helped make the worst Looney Tunes shorts

@matthwe3468

2 жыл бұрын

@@Poever To be fair, they had very very tight budgets so while yes they were arguably terrible shorts there was nothing they could have done at the time.

I remember watching this one all the time as a little kid. The music and visual always creeped me out, and I thought it was so unnerving. But they were also so incredibly captivating in an unsettling way. It was like a car crash, I just couldn't looks way from it.

@ReubenToussaint-lk9fs

8 ай бұрын

So... How old are you now?

Must've been a prequel to the Christmas one. :)

6:06 it's a wonderful night for eyebrows 6:09 it's a wonderful night for teeth 6:13 it's a wonderful night for Grinch night

@pricemoore2022

9 ай бұрын

6:17 their troubles will now commence

@omegaflowey9932

9 ай бұрын

23:51 J I B B O O

Never saw this Grinch Halloween cartoon before. Thanks so much for sharing. It is so awesome!

I’m surprised how few people have heard about this or seen this.

Two thumbs up! Never knew it existed and the old commercials add just the right touch. Thanks! 😊👍❤👍

Love this.

OMG, it is nice to know that The Grinch got started a lot earlier than Christmas with his shenanigans! I am so glad I stumbled upon this hidden gem! I never knew about this before. Another Christmas gift delivered early. ❤🎉😊🎃

Ah....., the classics. Those were the days. When movies and t.v. were movies and t.v.

@katherinehunter9526

2 жыл бұрын

Bwahahah! Exactly! Plus we all were tuned into the same show's, it wasn't so divided!

OMG I've never heard of this, but I just saw Joe Raposo's name in the opening credits so I already know I'll love the music! Followed up with DePatie and Freleng... I'm stoked :) Thank you for this.

I don't remember ever seeing this on Halloween or any other time. it was a new vintage for me.

Commercials remind me of my childhood

Seen the Christmas 🎄 version dozens of times ; never heard of this one 😳 though ! Thanks KZread 😊

He told Max to get the paraphernalia whacker....lol what...that Grinch is a menace!!!

@jaysonklein6018

15 сағат бұрын

Wagon

Wow, i had never seen this before. I'm surprised and honestly thinking this definitely deserves a live action

Though not as famous as the Christmas one (which was produced by Chuck Jones) this one did well enough to win an Emmy. Hans Conried replaced the late Boris Karloff. Thurl Ravenscroft, best known as the voice of Tony the Tiger, sang in both cartoons.

It feels like I'm back in the 70's. Even though I was born in the 80's lol

okay im 45 and this is my first time seeing this tonight and even hearing of this🤷‍♂️👍

Fun fact: the Hakken Kraks that appear at 5:16 would later appear on Dr. Seuss's final best selling book Oh, the Places You'll Go! When I read the book and saw this when I was a child, I always knew they were the same ones.

Awesome didn't even know this existed......thx

I am 59 years old and have never seen this! When we were growing up we waited anxiously for these holiday cartoons 😮

I watched the whole thing straight through...even the commercials...VERY nostalgic...such a simpler time its crazy this could easily entertain kids (and interested adults) back then but would never fly today.

I must have missed this one in my youth.

Wow!😮 I remember this classic gem from my childhood! I still love this.❤️❤️❤️❤️ Thank you so much for making my day complete☺️

My granddaughter just showed me this & It brought back my years of being a kid again. It was shown the night before & the night of Halloween, I believe it came on at 8 pm but it only ran for a few years then they decided to take it off TV & don't know why it was rather a good show to watch. The kid's that came from the 70's had the Best of Everything.❤❤❤❤❤❤

had this taped off tv when i was a kid. great childhood memories

Referring to the outhouse as "the euphemism" also happens in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf". "Spook's Tour" refers to Cook's Tours, a travel company that began in the Victorian era, and went belly-up a few years ago.

This was during the time that the soap opera "The Edge of Night"(which was also on ABC) was doing their "Mansion of the Damned" storyline starring the great KIm Hunter as Nola Madison.

@jwlundgren

2 жыл бұрын

wow

Oh my gosh! I watched this with our kids. Forgot all about it. Fun days.

This was a treat not a trick🎃. I really enjoyed this. Max has a home that someone lo💙es him.🥰

"It's a wonderful night for eyebrows"

I didn't know about this one. Thank you for posting on here.

I remember so many scenes from this! I don't think I got a Halloween vibe out of this as a kid but watched it anyway because it was animated. The trippy modernist part is still pretty nuts! I remember all of the commercials even the we'll be right back part. I could recite the Merlin commercial and I grew up in Canada watching this! Lol

Man I remember watching this on VHS

Wow! I haven't seen this Haunted Who Ville cartoon since I was a kid! Nothing beats these animated classic cartoons!

Man.......this show AND the commercials take me back to 6th grade and good times as a kid. Thank you for posting this!

What the heck!! Where was I in 1979 and missed this!! The commercials are awesome I remember everyone

Unreal, that never caught this in childhood or until now. It was enjoyable

Thank you for including the commercials it’s 100% enhanced my viewing experience.

@Duck_Dodgers

9 ай бұрын

Live or Pixar would ruin it

First time seeing this. How fun and very cool! 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚

At first I wanted to cry because the last time I saw the Grinch was with my Mommy in the hospital last year. She passed away this May, so I'm having a really hard time thinking of the first Holidays without her. Then when I realized it was a different show & Halloween, it warmed my heart a bit. Can't wait to see this for the very first time. Wish Mommy could watch it with me, but in my heart she is 💚💚💚

This was broadcast on my 6th birthday. We lived in the country and only got CBS and PBS. I have a vague memory of some of these ads and actually got a Merlin Christmas of 1981, but by then Atari was all the rage. I remember still being happy to get Merlin though.

I love this one. The Paraphernalia Wagon scene is just spooky enough to stay with you for a while. Also, that poor flower...

@Misfit_Kitten

2 жыл бұрын

Also, we loved our Merlin. The smaller one they came out with a few years back just wasn't the same.

Thank you for uploading this. I didn't know about this one!

I have been searching for this for YEARS. On DVD, streaming, heck I’d have accepted a VHS. I’ve been trying to show it to my husband bc I have such fond memories of Ukariah and Jedidiah and Mariah and the sour sweet wind oh man I’m so excited. Thank you so much for sharing this! 🖤🧡

I remember seeing this on the Disney Channel way back when. Nice to see a recording of one of the ABC rebroadcasts.

@mcpeanutful

2 жыл бұрын

It originally aired on ABC, and later on the Disney Channel.