'Twas the Nights Before Halloween
As we near Halloween, I figured it would be nice to join the Kuklapolitans as they too get ready for the holiday. And appropriately so -- because this is broadcast of Kukla, Fran and Ollie went on the air October 28, 1949...73 years ago tonight.
It's a low-key affair, not overly funny but with a lot of charm and a couple of songs, as Beulah Witch gets ready for a bunch of her fellow alums from Witch Normal to arrive in Chicago for a Halloween convention. One other thing I like -- the episode opens with Beulah Witch doing some preparation work along with Cecil Bill, my favorite character who is lunatic (speaking a "ta-toi-toi-toi" language unintelligible to anyone but other Kuklapolitans) and only appears on the show on rare occasions, and generally briefly. Happily, this is one of those brief times.
And happily, too, upcoming in a few days we'll have their Halloween episode.
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