"Disney's Halloween Treat" is a 47-minute Halloween-themed clip show which first aired on Walt Disney in 1982 and featured a compilation of Disney animated shorts involving spooky or supernatural themes as well as excerpted segments from Disney feature films. The credits also featured footage from the Haunted Mansion ride. It was narrated by a talking jack o'lantern, which was also used in an educational short to talk about Halloween safety called "Disney's Haunted Halloween". The opening and closing credits feature a colorized version of the 1929 Silly Symphonies short, "The Skeleton Dance", as well as its own theme song, sung in the credits. The lyrics were written by Galen R. Brandt with music by John Debney.
It was shown throughout the 1980s up until the mid-1990s. It was also released on VHS in 1984, but has not been released on any subsequent format since, nor is it available on Disney+.
With the Talents of
- Bobby Driscoll - Peter Pan (archive footage)
- Peggy Lee - Si, Am (archive footage)
Featuring
- Bing Crosby - Narrator (archive footage)
Uncredited
- Hans Conried - Captain Hook (archive footage)
- Hal Douglas - Jack O'lantern
Segments
- Madam Mim - The Sword in the Stone (1963)
- Night on Bald Mountain - Fantasia (1940)
- Clip of Pluto's Sweater (1949)
- Clip of Mickey's Parrot (1938)
- Donald Duck and the Gorilla - Donald Duck, Huey, Dewey, and Louie (1944)
- "Pluto's Judgment" sequence, consisting of three individual Pluto cartoons assembled together
- Captain Hook - Peter Pan (1953)
- Cruella De Vil - 101 Dalmatians (1961)
- The Evil Queen as Old Hag - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
- Si and Am - Lady and the Tramp (1955)
- Headless Horseman - The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)
Trivia
- In 1983, this program would serve as the inspiration for A Disney Halloween, which aired in 1981, and ran on the Disney Channel for many years (it also contained footage of Disney's Greatest Villains). It would open and close with the same theme song as this one, as well as feature the colorized version of "The Skeleton Dance".
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