Witch's Night Out (1978)

Directed by

John Leach

Genre

family film

Country

Canada

Runtime

28 min

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A friendly witch stirs up mischief in a small town on Halloween night. The story follows locals as they encounter magical pranks and learn a lesson about embracing the holiday spirit.

whimsicalplayfullightheartedgentlecozycharmingspooky-funnostalgic

What happens

Witch's Night Out is a Canadian animated television Halloween special that premiered on NBC October 27, 1978. Produced in a Toronto studio, it was the sequel to the 1974 special The Gift of Winter with the vocal talents from Dan Aykroyd and Valri Bromfield. It featured the voices of Fiona Reid as Nicely and Catherine O'Hara as Malicious, with Gilda Radner as the titular witch. Like the earlier special, Witch's Night Out was produced on 35mm film by Jonathan Rogers (formerly known as John Leach) and Jean Rankin for NBC. It later aired on the Disney Channel every year from 1983 to the late 1990s. This cartoon film was released on videotape on August 5, 1986 by Family Home Entertainment and PPI Entertainment in the late 1990s. The film was resurrected once again by the original creator Jonathan Rogers and Animation Director Jimmy Cross (with his Uncle Porkchop Productions animation studio) and together with a new remastered film they formed Cross/Rogers and released it to Mill Creek Entertainment and This TV Network and in 2016 for both Hulu and Shout TV. Mill Creek Entertainment released this cartoon along with ten more classic Halloween-themed cartoons on DVD September 16, 2014. Its predecessor The Gift of Winter had its own DVD release a month later from that same company. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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