The Very Scary Paul Lynde Halloween Special is Now Available from Netflix

Awhile back I wrote an article that gave a review of what may well be the single scariest Halloween TV special of all time: The Paul Lynde Halloween Special. Okay, to be perfectly honest, I caught that special for my review courtesy of a bootleg version. But now you can spend one of the most frightening hours of your life simply by putting the Paul Lynde Halloween Special into your Netflix queue. Yes, Netflix has Paul Lynde's amazingly campy and totally bizarre tribute to all things spooky available for rental. As of the writing of this article, it is not available for instant viewing on the Roku, but that may change. I do truly hope it will change.

Donny & Marie. Margaret Hamilton as a now very old Wicked Witch of the West. Roz Kelly as Pinky Tuscadero from Happy Days. Florence Henderson in all her 70s Brady Bunch galore. And the topper: KISS singing "Beth." I'm telling you again: You simply do not have the right to say you have lived until you have watched Paul Lynde, the worst kept secretly gay celebrity until Clay Aiken, singing "Disco Baby" along with the rest of the cast. You may know this song as "Disco Lady" but the lyrics were changed...for obvious reasons. There are some TV shows that insinuate themselves in the darkest recesses of the viewer's mind: the Zuni doll section of Trilogy of Terror, the earwig episode of Night Gallery, and the episode of Full House where Bob Saget was put on trial for molesting his daughters. (Okay, sick joke, I know.) If you do put the Paul Lynde Halloween Special into your Netflix queue you need to be forewarned about watching it at your own risk.