Garfield's Halloween Adventure

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• Garfield's Halloween Adventure is a 1985 American animated television special based on the Garfield comic strip.
• It was originally titled Garfield in Disguise.
• It was directed by Phil Roman and written by Garfield creator Jim Davis.
• It originally aired on CBS on October 30, 1985.
• It is a ghost story with a pirate theme that originally aired near Halloween.
• It often played around Halloween time until the turn of the century.
• It won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program.
• It was the subject of an illustrated children's book adaptation.
• It is the fourth of twelve Garfield television specials made between 1982 and 1991.
• Phil Roman founded his own company, Film Roman, to continue producing the specials.
• Garfield in Disguise was one of the first specials Phil Roman made under his own company, after Garfield in the Rough.
• Jim Davis said he intended the special to begin on a familiar tone and then 'go somewhere that would at least scare 4-year-olds'.
• C. Lindsay Workman was cast as the old man's voice, having previously voiced Garfield's grandfather in Garfield on the Town.
• Producer Lee Mendelson chose Workman while searching for a deep voice.
• The animation was carried out in Indiana.
• Animators sought a 'swirly, cross-dissolve' effect to portray the ghosts and also aimed to give them a glowing effect.
• Workman's character was designed to emphasize his advanced age, with one staff artist urging warts and different-looking eyes.
• Ed Bogas and Desirée Goyette composed the musical score, having previously worked on Garfield television specials.
• By 1999 the special was not regularly broadcast.
• The final airing on CBS was on October 28, 1999.
• The 64-page illustrated book adaptation was published in 1985 by Random House Publishing Group.
• The special was included on the DVD The Garfield Holiday Collection on November 4, 2014.