Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park

Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park
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Production company	Hanna-Barbera Kiss/Aucoin Productions
Release date	October 28, 1978
Run time	1:34:42
Starring	Peter Criss Ace Frehley Gene Simmons Paul Stanley Anthony Derbe Carmine Caridi Deborah Ryan
Executive producer(s)	Joseph Barbera William M. Aucoin
Producer(s)	Terry Morse, Jr.
Music composed by	Hoyt Curtin
Screenplay by	Jan-Michael Sherman and Don Buday
Director(s)	Gordon Hessler
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Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park, also known as Kiss in the Attack of the Phantoms, is an American live-action musical fantasy TV film. The film was a joint production by Hanna-Barbera Productions and KISS/Aucoin Productions (their single production). It aired on October 28, 1978 on NBC. It was written by Jan-Michael Sherman and Don Buday, and directed by Gordon Hessler.

Kiss, the rock band, use their superpowers (they've apparently always had) to battle a revenge-seeking engineer from destroying an amusement park after being fired.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Gene Simmons	Himself
Peter Criss	Himself
Ace Frehley	Himself
Paul Stanley	Himself
Melissa	Deborah Ryan
Sam Farrell	Terry Lester
Chopper	John Dennis Johnston
Dee	Lisa Jane Persky
Slime	John Lisbon Wood
Calvin Richards	Carmine Caridi
Snede	John Chappell
Guard #1	Brion James
Guard #2	Richard Hein
Abner Devereaux	Anthony Zerbe
Simon	Unavailable
Don Steele	Himself
Lisa Ashton	Unavailable

Organizations

• Kiss
• Kiss Army

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • California
      • Los Angeles County
        • Valencia
          • Magic Mountain

Objects

• Kiss' talismen

Vehicles

• Nothing of importance

Music

The music was composed and conducted by Hoyt Curtin, while the fight sequences had music by Fred Karlin.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: October 28, 1978 on NBC

Errors

• Kiss' connection to the talismen is never explained.
• Hoyt Curtin is misspelled as Hoyt Curtain.
• Despite only being called Dee in the film, the credits refer to her as Dirty Dee.
• The only victim of Abner who is freed is Sam.

Legacy

• The film is used as a major source of inspiration for the 2015 animated direct-to-video film Scooby-Doo! and Kiss: Rock and Roll Mystery, where Kiss have superpowers again (which are revealed to be of alien origin), and this time, also have their own theme park.

In popular culture

• In the Family Guy episode "A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas," the movie is homaged in another similar movie Peter watches called Kiss Saves Santa.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• Not available. 😢

Trailers

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