| Witch's Night Out | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Animated Halloween special |
| Directed by | John Leach |
| Produced by | John Leach |
| Written by | John Leach Isobel Jean Rankin |
| Starring | Gilda Radner Bob Church John Leach Naomi Leach Tony Molesworth Catherine O'Hara Fiona Reid Gerry Salsberg |
| Music by | Peter Rochon |
| Editing by | Sharon Lackie |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
| Original channel | NBC |
| Release date | October 27, 1978 |
Witch's Night Out is an animated television Halloween special that premiered on NBC October 27, 1978, but was shot in a Toronto studio. It was the sequel to the 1974 special The Gift of Winter with the vocal talents from Dan Aykroyd and Vlari 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 by John Leach and Jean Rankin for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It later aired on the Disney Channel every year from 1983 to the late 1990s along with The Halloween That Almost Wasn't, The Worst Witch, The Canterville Ghost, Mr. Boogedy, Bride of Boogedy, Halloween Is Grinch Night, For Better or For Worse: The Good-for-Nothing, Disney's Halloween Treat/A Disney Halloween, Casper's Halloween Special, and Raggedy Ann and Andy in The Pumpkin Who Couldn’t Smile. This cartoon film was released on videotape August 5, 1995 by Family Home Entertainment.
The plot involves a witch who accompanies two children named Small and Tender with their babysitter (Bazooey) to a Halloween party and transforms them into a werewolf, Frankenstein's monster, and a ghost (previously their Halloween costumes). The witch takes them to the Halloween party-in-progress at her house. Other citizens of the town get offended. They try to catch these supernatural beings as a mob. The children and Bazooey spend the night as real eerie creatures but decide they need to become human beings again. A disco song entitled "Witch Magic" was sung in this film.