Have a Happy Halloween With Hanna-Barbera on Home Video

 With Halloween coming tomorrow, here's a fun set of print advertisements for Hanna-Barbera's home video offerings that appeared throughout the 1980s. This first one focuses on a Flintstones Halloween video, although a Scooby-Doo title is also advertised. We see Fred and Barney taking on the roles of Frankenstein and Frankenstein's monster respectively, making this probably the most interesting ad from a visual standpoint.

This second ad, dated to 1983, focuses on a trio of VHS releases perfect for Halloween viewing: Winsome Witch, Casper, and...Squiddly Diddly, I guess. You're probably wondering why they didn't toss in a Scooby video for this ad instead of Squiddly. I thought the same thing, but from what I've seen, there wasn't a Scooby-Doo video at all until near the end of the decade. Kind of crazy for how popular the show's always been.

Now, for what's likely the oddest advertisement of the bunch, here's one from '88 that promotes a selection of Hanna-Barbera titles, chief among them Kiss Meets The Phantom of the Park, quite possibly one of the most embarrassing things to come out of both Kiss and Hanna-Barbera. This was one of its only home video releases, as the band has gone to great lengths to distance themselves from this mess. Yes, that means we'll probably never get this as a Blu-Ray from Warner Archive. Tragic, I know. That being said, "a little strange and a lot of fun" isn't a bad description of this movie, though I'd say "a little strange" is a bit of an understatement.