List of Halloween television specials

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This is a list of Halloween television specials and Halloween-themed television episodes.

Contents

American Halloween-themed TV

Children and family

Cartoon Network/Boomerang/Discovery Family

Adventure Time

  • "Slumber Party Panic" (2010)
  • "The Creeps" (2011)
  • "From Bad to Worse" (2011)
  • "No One Can Hear You" (2011)
  • "Ghost Fly" (2014)
  • "Blank-Eyed Girl" (2016)
Courage the Cowardly Dog
  • "Courage Meets Bigfoot" (1999)
  • "The Demon in the Mattress" (1999)
  • "Night of the Weremole" (1999)
  • "Shirley the Medium" (2000)
  • "King Ramses' Curse" (2000)
  • "Courage Meets the Mummy" (2001)
Regular Show
  • "Terror Tales of the Park" (2011)
  • "Terror Tales of the Park II" (2012)
  • "Terror Tales of the Park III" (2013)
  • "Terror Tales of the Park IV" (2014)
  • "Terror Tales of the Park V" (2015)
  • "Terror Tales of the Park VI" (2016)
Teen Titans Go!
  • "Halloween" (2014)
  • "Scary Figure Dance" (2015)
  • "Halloween vs. Christmas" (2016)
  • "Costume Contest" (2017)
  • "Monster Squad!" (2018)
  • "Witches Brew" (2019)
  • "Ghost with the Most" (2020)
  • "Pepo the Pumpkinman" (2021)
  • "Welcome to Halloween" (2022)
  • "Haunted Tank" (2023)
  • "Not a Halloween Special" (2025)
Total Drama

Disney

Winnie the Pooh

Ultimate Spider-Man
  • Blade (2013)
  • The Howling Commandos (2013)
  • Halloween Night at the Museum (2014)
  • Strange Little Halloween (2016)

Goosebumps

  • The Haunted Mask (1995)
  • Attack of the Jack-O'-Lanterns (1996)
  • The Haunted Mask II (1996)

Nickelodeon/Nicktoons/Nick Jr.

Paw Patrol
  • "Pups and the Ghost Pirate" (2013)
  • "Pups Save a Ghost" / "Pups Save a Show" (2014)
  • "Pups Save a Sniffle" / "Pups and the Ghost Cabin" (2015)
  • "Mission PAW: Royally Spooked" / "Pups Save Monkey-Dinger" (2017)
  • "Pups Save the Trick-or-Treaters" / "Pups Save an Out of Control Mini Patrol" (2018)
  • "Pups and the Werepuppy" / "Pups Save a Sleepwalking Mayor" (2018)
  • "Pups Rescue a Rescuer" / "Pups Save the Phantom of the Frog Pond" (2020)
  • "Pups vs. Ouchy Paws" / "Pups Save a Glow-in-the-Dark Party" (2021)
  • "Pups Stop the Return of Humsquatch" / "Pups Save a Lonely Ghost" (2022)
  • "Pups Save a Haunted Farm" / "Pups Save the Adventure Bay Boogie" (2025)

PJ Masks

  • "Halloween Tricksters" (Season 2, Episode 19) (2018)
  • "Trick or Treat" (Season 5, Episode 22) (2022)

Power Rangers

Animaniacs

  • Animaniacs:
    • (Season 1, Episode 29): Hot, Bothered & Bedeviled / Moon Over Minerva (1993)
    • (Season 1, Episode 30): Draculee, Draculaa / Phranken-Runt (1993)
    • (Season 1, Episode 62): Scare Happy Slappy / Witch One / MacBeth (1994)
  • Animaniacs (2020): (Season 1, Episode 11) Phantomaniacs | Fear and Laughter in Burbank | Bride of Pinky | Things That Go Bump in the Night (2020)
  • Pinky and the Brain : (Season 3, Episode 17) A Pinky and the Brain Halloween (1997)

Looney Tunes

Scooby-Doo

Drama

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

ER

  • ER : "Ghosts" (1996)
  • ER : "Masquerade" (1998)
  • ER : "A Hopeless Wound" (2002)
  • ER : "Haunted" (2008)

Grey's Anatomy

  • "Haunt You Every Day" (2007)
  • "Thriller" (2013)
  • "Flowers Grow Out of My Grave" (2018)
  • "Whistlin' Past the Graveyard" (2019)
  • "Haunted" (2022)

Lassie

  • Lassie : "Trapped" (1958)
  • Lassie : "Wings of the Ghost" (1971)

Little House on the Prairie

Our House

The Resident

St. Elsewhere

Action

Chuck

  • "Chuck Versus the Sandworm" (2007)
  • "Chuck Versus the Aisle of Terror" (2010)

The Dukes of Hazzard

The Fall Guy

MacGyver

Walker, Texas Ranger

  • "Evil in the Night" (1995)
  • "The Children of Halloween" (1998)

Crime and mystery

9-1-1

  • "Haunted" (2018)
  • "Monsters" (2019)
  • "Ghost Stories" (2021)
  • "Masks" (2024)

Bones

  • "Mummy in the Maze" (2007)
  • "The Resurrection in the Remains" (2015)

Castle

CHiPs

  • CHiPs : "Trick or Trick" (1978)
  • CHiPs : "Rock Devil Rock" (1982)

The Commish

Criminal Minds

CSI (franchise)

The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries

Hawaii Five-0

  • Hawaii Five-0 : "Ka Iwi Kapu" ("Sacred Bones") (2011)
  • Hawaii Five-0 : "Mohai" ("Offering") (2012)
  • Hawaii Five-0 : "Kupouli ‘la" ("Broken") (2013)
  • Hawaii Five-0 : "Ho‘oma‘ike" ("Unmasked") (2014)
  • Hawaii Five-0 : "Na Pilikua Nui" ("Monsters") (2015)
  • Hawaii Five-0 : "Ka hale ho‘okauweli" ("House of horrors") (2016)
  • Hawaii Five-0 : "Kama‘oma‘o, ka ‘aina huli hana" ("At Kama'oma'o, the land of activities") (2017)
  • Hawaii Five-0 :" "A‘ohe mea ‘imi a ka maka" ("Nothing more the eyes to search for") (2018)
  • Hawaii Five-0 : "He ‘oi‘o kuhihewa; he kaka ola i ‘ike ‘ia e ka makaula" ("Don't blame ghosts and spirits for one's troubles; a human is responsible") (2019)

Law & Order (franchise)

Murder, She Wrote

NCIS (franchise)

  • NCIS : "Witch Hunt" (2006)
  • NCIS : "Murder 2.0" (2008)
  • NCIS : "Code of Conduct" (2009)
  • NCIS : "Cracked" (2010)
  • NCIS : "Oil & Water" (2013)
  • NCIS : "Parental Guidance Suggested" (2014)
  • NCIS: New Orleans : "Master of Horror" (2014)
  • NCIS : "Viral" (2015)
  • NCIS : "Shell Game" (2016)
  • NCIS : "Beneath the Surface" (2018)

The Wild Wild West

Supernatural, fantasy and sci-fi

Amazing Stories

  • 1985
    • "Ghost Train" (1985)
    • "Mummy, Daddy" (1985)
    • "Boo!" (1986)
    • "Go to the Head of the Class" (1986)
    • "Welcome to My Nightmare" (1986)
  • 2020: "Dynoman and the Volt!" (2020)

American Horror Story

Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel

Charmed

  • "All Halliwell's Eve" (2000)
  • "Kill Billie, Volume 1" (2005)

Charmed (2018)

  • "Sweet Tooth" (2018)
  • "Be Careful What You Witch For" (2019)

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

  • "Chapter 1: October Country" (2018)
  • "Chapter 2: Dark Baptism" (2018)

Chucky

  • "Give Me Something Good to Eat" (2021)
  • "Halloween II" (2022)
  • "Dressed to Kill" (2023)

Ghost Hunters

see also List of Ghost Hunters episodes#Specials
  • "Halloween Special" (2005)
  • "Ghost Hunters Live Stanley Hotel Halloween Special" (2006)
  • "Ghost Hunters Live Waverly Hills Sanatorium Halloween Special" (2007)
  • "Ghost Hunters Live Fort Delaware Halloween Special" (2008)
  • "Ghost Hunters Live Essex County Sanitarium Halloween Special" (2009)
  • "Ghost Hunters Live Buffalo Central Terminal Halloween Special" (2010)
  • "Ghost Hunters Live Pennhurst State School and Hospital Halloween Special" (2011)

Ghost Whisperer

  • "A Grave Matter" (2006)
  • "Weight of What Was" (2007)
  • "Head Over Heels" (2009)

Good Witch

  • "Good Witch Halloween" (2015)
  • "Secrets of Grey House" (2016)
  • "Good Witch Spellbound" (2017)
  • "Tale of Two Hearts" (2018)
  • "Curse from a Rose" (2019)

Goosebumps

The Greatest American Hero

  • "The Beast in Black" (1981)
  • "A Chicken in Every Pot" (1982)
  • "The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" (1982)
  • "The Resurrection of Carlini" (1982)

Haunted Lives: True Ghost Stories

  • "Episode 1" (1991)
  • "Episode 2" (1992)
  • "Episode 3" AKA "Real Ghosts" (1995)

Highway to Heaven

  • "The Devil and Jonathan Smith" (1985)
  • "I Was a Middle Aged Werewolf" (1987)

Into the Dark

  • "The Body" (2018)
  • "Uncanny Annie" (2019)

Knight Rider

  • "Halloween Knight" (1984)
  • "Voodoo Knight" (1986)

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman

  • "When Irish Eyes Are Killing" (1995)
  • "Never on Sunday" (1996)
  • "Ghosts" (1996)

Night Man

Quantum Leap

  • "The Boogieman" (1990)
  • "The Curse of Ptah-Hotep" (1992)
  • '"Blood Moon" (1993)

Smallville

Superboy

Supernatural

Tales from the Darkside

Teen Wolf

Touched by an Angel

Unsolved Mysteries

The Vampire Diaries

Wonder Woman

Teen drama

Freeform

The TV channel Freeform (dating back to when it was known as Fox Family) annually presented their special "13 Nights of Halloween" with specialized Halloween episodes of regularly scheduled programs, as well as specified Halloween specials and movies to play for the 13 nights leading up to October 31. This was expanded to the entire 31 nights of October in 2018. [5]

Beverly Hills, 90210

  • "Halloween" (1991)
  • "Things That Go Bang in the Night" (1994)
  • "Gypsies, Cramps, and Fleas" (1995)
  • "Fearless" (1996)

Dawson's Creek

  • "The Scare" (1998)
  • "Escape from Witch Island" (1999)
  • "Four Scary Stories" (2001)
  • "Living Dead Girl" (2002)

Degrassi: The Next Generation

Gossip Girl

  • "The Handmaiden's Tale" (2007)
  • "How to Succeed in Bassness" (2009)

Gossip Girl (2021)

  • "Hope Sinks" (2021)

One Tree Hill

  • "An Attempt to Tip the Scales" (2005)
  • "Not Afraid" (2010)

Pretty Little Liars

Riverdale

  • "Chapter Sixty-One: Halloween" (2019)
  • "Chapter One Hundred Twenty-Eight: Halloween II" (2023)

Scream

Scream Queens

  • "Haunted House" (2015)
  • "Pumpkin Patch" (2015)
  • "Seven Minutes in Hell" (2015)
  • "Halloween Blues" (2016)

Comedy-drama

  • "Witches of Mass Destruction" (Season 2, Episode 6) (November 1, 2005)
  • "Trick or Treat" (Season 3, Episode 7) (October 31, 2006)

Desperate Housewives

  • "Now I Know, Don't Be Scared" (Season 4, Episode 6) (November 4, 2007)
  • "Excited and Scared" (Season 7, Episode 6) (October 31, 2010)
  • "Witch's Lament" (Season 8, Episode 6) (October 30, 2011)

Hart of Dixie

  • "The Undead & the Unsaid" (Season 1, Episode 6) (November 7, 2011)
  • "Walkin' After Midnight" (Season 2, Episode 5) (October 30, 2012)
  • "Help Me Make It Through the Night" (Season 3, Episode 4) (October 28, 2013)

Reality shows

The Girls Next Door

  • "Ghostbusted" (2005)
  • "Girls Will Be Ghouls" (2006)
  • "Scream Test" (2008)

The Real Housewives Franchise

Teen and adult sitcoms

8 Simple Rules

Abbott Elementary

According to Jim

The Addams Family

Adult Swim
  • Robot Chicken :
    • "The Robot Chicken Walking Dead Special: Look Who's Walking" (2017)
    • "Happy Russian Deathdog Dolloween 2 U" (2021)
  • Squidbillies :
    • "The Tiniest Princess" (2006)
    • "Squash B'Gosh" (2016)
  • Smiling Friends :
    • "A Silly Halloween Special" (2022)
    • "Erm, the Boss Finds Love?" (2024)
  • Tuca and Bertie :
    • "Corpse Week" (2021)

Alice

  • "Alice's Halloween Surprise" (Season 6, Episode 4) (October 25, 1981)
  • "Space Sharples" (Season 9, Episode 2) (October 28, 1984)

American Housewife

  • "Westport Zombies" (Season 1, Episode 3) (October 25, 2016)
  • "Boo-Who?" (Season 2, Episode 3) (October 25, 2017)
  • "Trust Me" (Season 3, Episode 5) (October 24, 2018)
  • "The Maze" (Season 4, Episode 5) (October 25, 2019)

The Beverly Hillbillies

  • "Trick or Treat" (Season 1, Episode 6) (October 31, 1962)
  • "Ghost of Clampett Castle" (Season 7, Episode 5) (October 23, 1968)

Bewitched / Tabitha

  • "The Witches Are Out" (Season 1, Episode 7) (October 29, 1964)
  • "Trick or Treat" (Season 2, Episode 7) (October 28, 1965)
  • "Twitch or Treat" (Season 3, Episode 7) (October 27, 1966)
  • "The Safe and Sane Halloween" (Season 4, Episode 8) (October 26, 1967)
  • "To Trick or Treat or Not to Trick or Treat" (Season 6, Episode 7) (October 30, 1969)
  • Tabitha :
    • "Halloween Show" (Season 1, Episode 2) (November 12, 1977)

The Big Bang Theory / Young Sheldon

  • "The Middle Earth Paradigm" (Season 1, Episode 6) (October 29, 2007)
  • "The Good Guy Fluctuation" (Season 5, Episode 7) (October 27, 2011)
  • "The Holographic Excitation" (Season 6, Episode 5) (October 25, 2012)
  • "The Imitation Perturbation" (Season 12, Episode 6) (October 25, 2018)
  • Young Sheldon :
    • "Seven Deadly Sins and a Small Carl Sagan" (Season 2, Episode 6) (October 25, 2018)

Black-ish / Mixed-ish

  • "The Prank King" (Season 1, Episode 6) (October 29, 2014)
  • "Jacked o' Lantern" (Season 2, Episode 6) (October 28, 2015)
  • "The Purge" (Season 3, Episode 5) (October 26, 2016)
  • "Scarred for Life" (Season 5, Episode 3) (October 30, 2018)
  • "Everybody Blames Raymond" (Season 6, Episode 6) (October 29, 2019)
  • Mixed-ish :
    • "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" (Season 1, Episode 6) (October 29, 2019)

Boy Meets World / Girl Meets World

  • "Boys II Mensa" (Season 1, Episode 6) (October 29, 1993)
  • "Who's Afraid of Cory Wolf?" (Season 2, Episode 6) (October 28, 1994)
  • "The Witches of Pennbrook" (Season 5, Episode 5) (October 31, 1997)
  • "And Then There Was Shawn" (Season 5, Episode 17) (February 27, 1998)
  • Girl Meets World :
    • "Girl Meets World of Terror" (Season 1, Episode 11) (October 2, 2014)
    • "Girl Meets World of Terror 2" (Season 2, Episode 18) (October 2, 2015)
    • "Girl Meets World of Terror 3" (Season 3, Episode 15) (October 14, 2016)

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

  • "Halloween" (Season 1, Episode 6) (October 22, 2013)
  • "Halloween II" (Season 2, Episode 4) (October 19, 2014)
  • "Halloween III" (Season 3, Episode 5) (October 25, 2015)
  • "Halloween IV" (Season 4, Episode 5) (October 18, 2016)
  • "HalloVeen" (Season 5, Episode 4) (October 17, 2017)

Cheers

  • "Fairy Tales Can Come True" (Season 3, Episode 4) (October 25, 1984)
  • "Bar Wars V: the Final Judgement" (Season 10, Episode 7) (October 31, 1991)

Clueless

  • "Making Up Is Hard to Do" (Season 1, Episode 6) (October 25, 1996)
  • "Trick or Treat" (Season 2, Episode 6) (October 28, 1997)
  • "Scream, Murray, Scream!"/"Scream Again, Murray, Scream Again!" (Season 3, Episodes 4-5) (October 27, 1998) (November 3, 1998)

Community

The Cosby Show

  • "Halloween" (Season 2, Episode 6) (October 31, 1985)
  • "Cliff's Mistake" (Season 4, Episode 4) (October 15, 1987)

Dave's World

  • "Lobster Envy" (Season 2, Episode 8) (October 31, 1994)
  • "A Very Barry Pumpkin Show" (Season 4, Episode 7) (November 1, 1996)

Dharma & Greg

  • "A Closet Full of Hell" (Season 2, Episode 6) (October 28, 1998)
  • "The Very Grateful Dead" (Season 3, Episode 6) (October 26, 1999)
  • "Used Karma" (Season 5, Episode 7) (October 30, 2001)

Dr. Ken

  • "Halloween-Aversary" (Season 1, Episode 5) (October 30, 2015)
  • "D.K.'s Korean Ghost Story" (Season 2, Episode 5) (October 21, 2016)

The Drew Carey Show

  • "The Devil, You Say" (Season 2, Episode 5) (October 30, 1996)
  • "Drew Tries to Kill Mimi" (Season 5, Episode 6) (October 27, 1999)
  • "It's Halloween, Dummy" (Season 7, Episode 7) (October 31, 2001)

Ellen

  • "Trick or Treat – Who Cares?" (Season 3, Episode 6) (November 1, 1995)
  • "The Bubble Gum Incident" (Season 4, Episode 6) (October 30, 1996)

Everybody Hates Chris

  • "Everybody Hates Halloween" (Season 1, Episode 6) (October 27, 2005)

The Facts of Life

  • "Fear Strikes Back" (Season 3, Episode 2) (November 4, 1981)
  • "The Halloween Show" (Season 5, Episode 6) (October 26, 1983)

Family Matters

  • "Dog Day Halloween" (Season 2, Episode 6) (October 26, 1990)
  • "Whose Kid Is It Anyway?" (Season 4, Episode 6) (October 30, 1992)
  • "Best Friends" (Season 5, Episode 6) (October 29, 1993)
  • "Dark and Stormy Night" (Season 6, Episode 6) (October 28, 1994)
  • "Stevil" (Season 8, Episode 7) (October 25, 1996)
  • "Stevil II: This Time He's Not Alone" (Season 9, Episode 7) (October 31, 1997)

Frasier

  • "Halloween" (Season 5, Episode 3) (October 28, 1997)
  • "Room Full of Heroes" (Season 9, Episode 6) (October 30, 2001)
  • "Tales from the Crypt" (Season 10, Episode 5) (October 29, 2002)

Fresh Off the Boat

  • "Miracle on Dead Street" (Season 2, Episode 5) (October 27, 2015)
  • "Louisween" (Season 3, Episode 3) (October 25, 2016)
  • "It's a Plastic Pumpkin, Louis Huang" (Season 5, Episode 3) (October 24, 2017)
  • "Working the 'Ween" (Season 6, Episode 5) (October 19, 2018)
  • "Hal-lou-Ween" (Season 7, Episode 5) (October 25, 2019)

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

  • "Someday Your Prince Will Be in Effect" (Season 1, Episode 8-9) (October 29, 1990)
  • "Hex and the Single Guy" (Season 4, Episode 7) (October 25, 1993)

Full House / Fuller House

  • "It's Not My Job" (Season 2, Episode 3) (October 28, 1988)
  • "Divorce Court" (Season 3, Episode 8) (November 17, 1989)
  • Fuller House :
    • "Curse of Tanner Manor" (Season 2, Episode 4) (2016)
    • "Uncle Jesse's Adventures in Babysitting" (2017)

George Lopez

  • "Halloween Cheer" (Season 2, Episode 4) (October 23, 2002)
  • "No One Gets Out Alive" (Season 3, Episode 7) (October 31, 2003)
  • "Leave It to Lopez" (Season 4, Episode 5) (October 26, 2004)
  • "Trick or Treat Me Right" (Season 5, Episode 5) (October 26, 2005)

Ghosts

  • "Halloween" (Season 1, Episode 5) (October 28, 2021)
  • "Halloween 2: The Ghost of Hetty's Past" (Season 2, Episode 5) (October 27, 2022)
  • "Halloween 3: The Guest Who Wouldn't Leave" (Season 4, Episode 3) (October 31, 2024)
  • "Halloween 4: The Mummy" (Season 5, Episode 3) (October 30, 2025)

Gilligan's Island

Girlfriends

  • "The Remains of the Date" (Season 1, Episode 6) (October 30, 2000)
  • "Trick or Truth" (Season 2, Episode 7) (October 29, 2001)

The Goldbergs / Schooled

  • "Who Are You Going to Telephone?" (Season 1, Episode 6) (October 29, 2013)
  • "Family Takes Care of Beverly" (Season 2, Episode 5) (October 29, 2014)
  • "Couples Costume" (Season 3, Episode 6) (October 28, 2015)
  • "Stefan King" (Season 4, Episode 5) (October 26, 2016)
  • "Jackie Likes Star Trek" (Season 5, Episode 6) (November 1, 2017)
  • "Mister Knifey-Hands" (Season 6, Episode 5) (October 24, 2018)
  • "A 100% True Ghost Story" (Season 7, Episode 6) (October 30, 2019)
  • "The Hunt for the Great Albino Pumpkin" (Season 9, Episode 6) (October 27, 2021)
  • "DKNY" (Season 10, Episode 6) (October 26, 2022)
  • Schooled :
    • "Run, Rick, Run" (Season 2, Episode 6) (October 30, 2019)

Grace Under Fire

  • "Grace Under a Wig" (Season 3, Episode 5) (October 18, 1995)
  • "The Ghost and Mrs. Kelly" (Season 4, Episode 6) (October 30, 1996)

Growing Pains

  • "Fool for Love" (Season 4, Episode 1) (October 19, 1988)
  • "Happy Halloween: Part 1 and 2" (Season 6, Episode 7 and 8) (October 31, 1990)

Hangin' with Mr. Cooper

  • "Father Fairest" (Season 2, Episode 6) (October 29, 1993)
  • "Mo' Money" (Season 3, Episode 6) (October 28, 1994)
  • "Halloween" (Season 4, Episode 5) (October 27, 1995)

Happy Days

  • "Haunted" (Season 2, Episode 6) (October 29, 1974)
  • "Fonsillectomy" (Season 5, Episode 6) (October 25, 1977)
  • "The Evil Eye" (Season 6, Episode 9) (October 31, 1978)

Happy Tree Friends

Home Economics

  • "Box of King-Size Candy Bars, $48.99" (Season 2, Episode 6) (October 27, 2021)
  • "Novel Signed by Author, $22.19" (Season 3, Episode 6) (October 26, 2022)

Home Improvement

  • "The Haunting of Taylor House" (Season 2, Episode 6) (October 28, 1992)
  • "Crazy for You" (Season 3, Episode 6) (October 27, 1993)
  • "Borland Ambition" (Season 4, Episode 6) (October 25, 1994)
  • "Let Them Eat Cake" (Season 5, Episode 6) (October 31, 1995)
  • "I Was a Teenage Taylor" (Season 6, Episode 7) (October 29, 1996)
  • "A Night to Dismember" (Season 7, Episode 5) (October 28, 1997)
  • "Bewitched" (Season 8, Episode 6) (October 27, 1998)

The Honeymooners/The Jackie Gleason Show

  • "Halloween Party" (Season 2, Episode 5) (October 31, 1953)
  • "Halloween Party for the Boss" (Season 3, Episode 6) (October 30, 1954)
  • "Curse of the Kramdens" (1966)

Hope & Faith

  • "Hope Has No Faith" (Season 1, Episode 6) (October 31, 2003)
  • "Faith Scare-Field" (Season 2, Episode 5) (October 29, 2004)
  • "The Halloween Party" (Season 3, Episode 6) (October 28, 2005)

How I Met Your Mother

The Hughleys

  • "The Curse of the Coyote Man" (Season 2, Episode 6) (October 29, 1999)
  • "Scary Hughley" (Season 3, Episode 6) (October 30, 2000)
  • "Whatchoo Stalkin' About, Willis?" (Season 4, Episode 8) (October 29, 2001)

In the House

  • "Futile Attraction" (Season 2, Episode 6) (October 23, 1995)
  • "The Curse of Hill House" (Season 3, Episode 8) (October 28, 1996)

The Jamie Foxx Show

  • "Kiss & Tell" (Season 1, Episode 8) (October 30, 1996)
  • "Misery Loves Company" (Season 2, Episode 8) (October 26, 1997)

The Jersey

  • "Halloween" (Season 2, Episode 6) (October 14, 2000)
  • "Halloween 2: The Legend of Henry" (Season 3, Episode 5) (October 27, 2002)

Last Man Standing

  • "Last Halloween Standing" (Season 1, Episode 6) (October 25, 2011)
  • "Haunted House" (Season 3, Episode 5) (October 18, 2013)
  • "School Merger" (Season 4, Episode 5) (October 24, 2014)
  • "Halloween" (Season 5, Episode 6) (October 30, 2015)
  • "Trick or Treat" (Season 6, Episode 5) (October 21, 2016)
  • "Bride of Prankenstein" (Season 7, Episode 4) (October 19, 2018)

Life with Bonnie

  • "A Day in the Life" (Season 1, Episode 7) (October 29, 2002)
  • "The Merry Ole Land of Oz" (Season 2, Episode 6) (October 31, 2003)

Living Single

  • "Trick or Trust" (Season 2, Episode 8) (October 27, 1994)
  • "I've Got You Under My Skin" (Season 4, Episode 7) (October 31, 1996)

Malcolm & Eddie

  • "The Boy Who Cried Werewolf" (Season 1, Episode 8) (October 28, 1996)
  • "Twisted Sisters" (Season 3, Episode 4) (October 26, 1998)

Malcolm in the Middle

  • "Halloween Approximately" (Season 2, Episode 2) (November 8, 2000)
  • "Halloween" (Season 7, Episode 4) (October 28, 2005)

Married... with Children

  • "Take My Wife, Please" (Season 8, Episode 7) (October 25, 1993)
  • "Flight of the Bumblebee" (Season 10, Episode 7) (October 30, 1995)

Martin

  • "The Night He Came Home" (Season 1, Episode 10) (October 29, 1992)
  • "Boo's in the House" (Season 5, Episode 5) (October 31, 1996)

Melissa & Joey

  • "A Fright in the Attic" (Season 1, Episode 11) (October 19, 2010)
  • "Witch Came First" (Season 4, Episode 1) (October 22, 2014)

The Middle

  • "Halloween" (Season 2, Episode 6) (October 27, 2010)
  • "Halloween II" (Season 3, Episode 7) (October 26, 2011)
  • "Halloween III: The Driving" (Season 4, Episode 6) (October 24, 2012)
  • "Halloween IV: The Ghost Story" (Season 5, Episode 5) (October 30, 2013)
  • "Halloween V" (Season 6, Episode 5) (October 29, 2014)
  • "Halloween VI: Tick Tock Death" (Season 7, Episode 6) (October 28, 2015)
  • "Halloween VII: The Heckoning" (Season 8, Episode 3) (October 25, 2016)
  • "Halloween VIII: Orson Murder Mystery" (Season 9, Episode 4) (October 24, 2017)

Moesha

  • "Halloween: Part 1: Kim's Revenge" (Season 3, Episode 9) (October 28, 1997)
  • "The Nutty Moesha" (Season 6, Episode 7) (October 30, 2000)

Modern Family

  • "Halloween" (Season 2, Episode 6) (October 27, 2010)
  • "Open House of Horrors" (Season 4, Episode 5) (October 24, 2012)
  • "Halloween 3: AwesomeLand" (Season 6, Episode 6) (October 29, 2014)
  • "Halloween 4: The Revenge of Rod Skyhook" (Season 8, Episode 5) (October 26, 2016)
  • "It's The Great Pumpkin, Phil Dunphy" (Season 9, Episode 5) (October 25, 2017)
  • "Good Grief" (Season 10, Episode 5) (October 24, 2018)
  • "The Last Halloween" (Season 11, Episode 5) (October 30, 2019)

The Neighbors

  • "Halloween-ween" (Season 1, Episode 5) (October 24, 2012)
  • "Challoweenukah" (Season 2, Episode 5) (October 18, 2013)

New Girl

  • "Halloween" (Season 2, Episode 6) (October 30, 2012)
  • "Keaton" (Season 3, Episode 6) (October 22, 2013)

Night Court

  • "Halloween, Too" (Season 3, Episode 5) (October 31, 1985)
  • "Halloween II: The Return of Leon" (Season 4, Episode 4) (October 30, 1986)
  • "Safe" (Season 5, Episode 5) (October 29, 1987)
  • "Come Back to the Five and Dime, Stephen King, Stephen King" (Season 7, Episode 4) (October 25, 1989)
  • "Death Takes a Halloween" (Season 8, Episode 5) (October 26, 1990)

The Office (U.S.)

One on One

  • "Phantom Menace" (Season 1, Episode 8) (October 29, 2001)
  • "Manic Monday" (Season 4, Episode 6) (October 25, 2004)
  • "Where's My Yemmy?" (Season 5, Episode 6) (October 24, 2005)

Parks and Recreation

  • "Greg Pikitis" (Season 2, Episode 7) (October 29, 2009)
  • "Meet 'n' Greet" (Season 4, Episode 5) (October 27, 2011)
  • "Halloween Surprise" (Season 5, Episode 5) (October 25, 2012)
  • "Recall Vote" (Season 6, Episode 7) (November 14, 2013)

Perfect Strangers

  • "Aliens" (Season 4, Episode 3) (October 28, 1988)
  • "Fright Night" (Season 7, Episode 6) (October 25, 1991)

Punky Brewster

  • "The Perils of Punky (Parts 1 and 2)" (Season 2, Episode 6 and 7) (October 27, 1985)
  • "Love Thy Neighbor" (Season 2, Episode 10) (November 17, 1985)

Raising Hope

  • "Happy Halloween" (Season 1, Episode 5) (October 26, 2010)
  • "Don't Ask, Don't Tell Me What to Do" (Season 3, Episode 5) (October 30, 2012)

Reba

  • "The Ghost and Mrs. H" (Season 3, Episode 8) (October 31, 2003)
  • "Best Lil' Haunted House in Texas" (Season 5, Episode 6) (October 28, 2005)

Rodney

  • "Halloween" (Season 1, Episode 6) (October 26, 2004)
  • "Halloween and Javier" (Season 2, Episode 4) (November 1, 2005)

Roseanne / The Conners

Roseanne

  • "BOO!" (Season 2, Episode 7) (October 31, 1989)
  • "Trick or Treat" (Season 3, Episode 7) (October 30, 1990)
  • "Trick Me Up, Trick Me Down" (Season 4, Episode 6) (October 29, 1991)
  • "Halloween IV" (Season 5, Episode 7) (October 27, 1992)
  • "Halloween V" (Season 6, Episode 6) (October 26, 1993)
  • "Skeleton in the Closet" (Season 7, Episode 6) (October 26, 1994)
  • "Halloween: the Final Chapter" (Season 8, Episode 5) (October 31, 1995)
  • "Satan, Darling" (Season 10, Episode 7) (October 29, 1996)

The Conners

  • "There Won't Be Blood" (Season 1, Episode 3) (October 30, 2018)
  • "Nightmare on Lunch Box Street" (Season 2, Episode 5) (October 29, 2019)
  • "Halloween and the Election vs. The Pandemic" (Season 3, Episode 2) (October 28, 2020)
  • "Peter Pan, The Backup Plan, Adventures in Babysitting, and a River Runs Through It" (Season 4, Episode 5) (October 27, 2021)
  • "Book Bans and Guillotine Hands" (Season 5, Episode 6) (October 26, 2022)

Sabrina the Teenage Witch

  • "A Halloween Story" (Season 1, Episode 5) (October 25, 1996)
  • "A River of Candy Corn Runs Through It" (Season 2, Episode 7) (October 31, 1997)
  • "Good Will Haunting" (Season 3, Episode 6) (October 30, 1998)
  • "The Phantom Menace" (Season 4, Episode 6) (October 29, 1999)
  • "The Halloween Scene" (Season 5, Episode 6) (October 27, 2000)
  • "Murder on the Halloween Express" (Season 6, Episode 6) (October 26, 2001)

Single Parents

  • "Politician, Freemason, Scientist, Humorist and Diplomat, Ben Franklin" (Season 1, Episode 5) (October 24, 2018)
  • "Welcome to Hell, Sickos!" (Season 2, Episode 6) (October 30, 2019)

Speechless

  • "H-A-L-- HALLOWEEN" (Season 1, Episode 5) (October 26, 2016)
  • "N-I-- NIGHTMARES ON D-I-- DIMEO S-STREET" (Season 2, Episode 5) (October 25, 2017)
  • "I-N-- INTO THE W-O-- WOODS" (Season 3, Episode 3) (October 19, 2018)

Step by Step

  • "Something Wild" (Season 4, Episode 6) (October 28, 1994)
  • "Dream Lover" (Season 7, Episode 7) (October 24, 1997)

Suburgatory

  • "Halloween" (Season 1, Episode 5) (October 26, 2011)
  • "The Witch of East Chatswin" (Season 2, Episode 2) (October 24, 2012)

Suddenly Susan

  • "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Susan's Party " (Season 3, Episode 5) (October 26, 1998)
  • "Halloween" (Season 4, Episode 5) (October 18, 1999)

Superstore

  • "Halloween Theft" (Season 2, Episode 7) (October 27, 2016)
  • "Sal's Dead" (Season 3, Episode 5) (October 26, 2017)
  • "Costume Competition" (Season 4, Episode 4) (October 25, 2018)
  • "Trick-or-Treat" (Season 5, Episode 6) (October 31, 2019)

That '70s Show

  • "Halloween" (Season 2, Episode 5) (October 26, 1999)
  • "Too Old to Trick or Treat, Too Young to Die" (Season 3, Episode 4) (October 31, 2000)

Two and a Half Men

  • "Hi, Mr. Horned One" (Season 3, Episode 6) (October 24, 2005)
  • "The Ol' Mexican Spinach" (Season 12, Episode 1) (October 30, 2014)

Two Guys and a Girl

  • "Two Guys, a Girl and a Psycho Halloween" (Season 2, Episode 6) (October 28, 1998)
  • "Halloween 2: Mind Over Body" (Season 3, Episode 6) (October 27, 1999)
  • "Satanic Curses" (Season 4, Episode 4) (October 27, 2000)

What I Like About You

  • "Ghost of a Chance" (Season 3, Episode 7) (October 29, 2004)
  • "Halloween" (Season 4, Episode 6) (October 28, 2005)

Will & Grace

  • "Boo! Humbug" (Season 1, Episode 5) (October 26, 1998)
  • "It's the Gay Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" (Season 5, Episode 5) (October 31, 2002)

Animated Sitcoms

American Dad!

  • "Best Little Horror House in Langley Falls" (Season 6, Episode 3) (November 7, 2010)
  • "Poltergasm" (Season 10, Episode 10) (October 6, 2013)
  • "Steve's Franken Out" (Season 18, Episode 22) (October 25, 2021)
  • "Z.O.I.N.C.S." (Season 20, Episode 15) (October 30, 2023)
  • Beavis and Butt-head :
    • "Bungholio: Lord of the Harvest" a.k.a. "Butt-O-Ween" (Season 6, Episode 1) (October 31, 1995)
  • Big Mouth :
    • "Horrority House" (Season 4, Episode 9) (2020)
  • Bless the Harts :
    • "Cremains of the Day" (Season 1, Episode 4) (October 20, 2019)
    • "Dead Mall" (Season 2, Episode 4) (November 1, 2020)

Bob's Burgers

  • "Full Bars" (Season 3, Episode 2) (October 7, 2012)
  • "Fort Night" (Season 4, Episode 2) (October 6, 2013)
  • "Tina and the Real Ghost" (Season 5, Episode 2) (November 2, 2014)
  • "The Hauntening" (Season 6, Episode 3) (October 18, 2015)
  • "Teen-a Witch" (Season 7, Episode 3) (October 23, 2016)
  • "The Wolf of Wharf Street" (Season 8, Episode 3) (October 22, 2017)
  • "Nightmare on Ocean Avenue Street" (Season 9, Episode 4) (October 21, 2018)
  • "Pig Trouble in Little Tina" (Season 10, Episode 4) (October 20, 2019)
  • "Heartbreak Hotel-oween" (Season 11, Episode 4) (November 1, 2020)
  • "The Pumpkinening" (Season 12, Episode 3) (October 10, 2021)
  • "Apple Gore-chard! (But Not Gory)" (Season 13, Episode 6) (October 30, 2022)
  • "The Twinnening" (Season 16, Episode 3) (October 19, 2025)
  • Daria :
    • "Legends of the Mall" (Season 4, Episode 10) (2000)
  • Downtown:
    • "Trip or Treat" (Season 1, Episode 13) (November 8, 1999)
  • Duncanville :
    • "Witch Day" (Season 1, Episode 4) (2020)
    • "Witch Day 2" (Season 2, Episode 12) (2021)
    • "Witch Day 3" (Season 3, Episode 12) (October 18, 2022)

Family Guy

  • "Halloween on Spooner Street" (Season 9, Episode 4) (November 7, 2010)
  • "Quagmire's Quagmire" (Season 12, Episode 3) (November 3, 2013)
  • "Peternormal Activity" (Season 14, Episode 14) (October 25, 2015)
  • "Must Love Dogs" (Season 20, Episode 3) (October 10, 2021)
  • "Happy Holo-ween" (Season 21, Episode 6) (October 30, 2022)
  • "Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Cheater" (Season 23, Hulu Special) (October 14, 2024)
  • "A Little Fright Music" (Season 24, Hulu Special) (October 6, 2025)

The Great North

  • "The Yawn of the Dead Adventure" (Season 2, Episode 3) (October 10, 2021)
  • "Blood Actually Adventure" (Season 3, Episode 6) (October 30, 2022)
  • Home Movies :
    • "Coffins and Cradles" (Season 3, Episode 13) (2003)

The Simpsons

  • Solar Opposites :
    • "A Sinister Halloween Scary Opposites Solar Special" (Season 3, Television special) (October 3, 2022)
    • "The Hunt for Brown October" (Season 5, Television special) (October 5, 2024)

South Park

Sketch and variety shows

British Halloween-themed TV

Halloween has been celebrated in Scotland and Ireland for centuries, however in England it was eclipsed by Bonfire Night (Guy Fawkes Night) after 1605, [7] hence it is not as big as an occasion there as it is in the United States. British Halloween-themed television programmes therefore were historically few and far between, but have become more frequent in the 21st century.

Children's

Documentaries

Drama

Reality

Shows

Teen and adult sitcoms

Japanese Halloween-themed TV

Anime

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Pretty Cure

To Be Added

Digimon

To Be Added

Jewelpet

Tokusatsu

To Be Added

Others

Adam Ruins Everything

All Saints (Australian medical drama)

America's Funniest Home Videos

At Home with Amy Sedaris

The Canterville Ghost

The Canterville Ghost, based on the novel The Canterville Ghost , is a 1986 made-for-television film starring John Gielgud and Alyssa Milano.

The Halloween Tree

In 1993, Hanna-Barbera produced a made-for-television animated adaptation of Ray Bradbury's classic novel of the same name. Featuring narration by the author himself, the movie explains some of the history of the holiday as experienced via an across-time adventure with a group of trick-or-treating kids. The hand-painted backgrounds, haunting music of John Debney, and Bradbury's narration elevate this to much more than a mere children's Halloween special.

Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho

The Filipino news magazine program on GMA Network titled Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho (KMJS) aired a series of Halloween specials (titled "Gabi ng Lagim" since 2013.) [10] since 2008. [11]

Magandang Gabi... Bayan

The Filipino news magazine program on ABS-CBN titled Magandang Gabi... Bayan (hosted by Noli de Castro) aired a series of Halloween specials from 1988 until 2005. [12] [13] [14]

The Midnight Hour

The Midnight Hour (also known as In the Midnight Hour) is a 1985 comedy/horror television movie which aired on ABC on Friday, November 1, 1985, at 9:00-11:00 PM EST and stars Shari Belafonte-Harper, LeVar Burton, Peter DeLuise, and Dedee Pfeiffer.

Neighbours

Once Upon a Midnight Scary

This 1979 television anthology Halloween special was hosted by Vincent Price. It featured the stories "The Ghost Belonged To Me," "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," and "The House With a Clock In Its Walls."

The Price Is Right

Starting in Season 36 (2007), when Drew Carey began hosting the show, each season of the popular US game show has featured a full Halloween episode, with the host, announcer, models, set, and Showcases decorated for this holiday.

Deal or no Deal UK

In 2013 the British game show hosted a week long Halloween themed week of episodes with every contestant dressed up.

The Wickedest Witch (1989)

This made-for-television film, starring Rue McClanahan as the title character and part of a series of holiday specials featuring Paul Fusco's puppets, aired on NBC on October 30, 1989.

AMC Halloween movie specials

AMC broadcasts many Halloween classics, including movies from the Halloween , Friday the 13th , A Nightmare on Elm Street , Child's Play , Scream and Saw franchises, as well Stephen King adaptations during the month of October.

See also

References

  1. Both of these Magic School Bus episodes were paired together in PBS' 1996 television special: A Magic School Bus Halloween.
  2. Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. p. 302. ISBN   0-8160-3831-7 . Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  3. McCracken, Craig [@CrackMcCraigen] (2 August 2014). "@NeveGraceIrvine The Halloween special is called The Gift 2: The Giftining. It's the sequel to The Gift but airing first" (Tweet) via Twitter.
  4. "Remote Control". Brooklyn Standard Union. Oct 30, 1931. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
  5. Garcia, Kelsey (May 15, 2018). "Freeform Is Airing 31 Nights of Halloween This Year — So, Best Halloween Ever?". PopSugar. Retrieved July 22, 2018.
  6. "Stinkmeaner Strikes Back".
  7. Rogers, Nicholas. Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night. Oxford University Press, 2002. pp. 37–38
  8. The British Television Children's Research Guide, Kaleidoscope Publishing, 1999, reprinted 2009
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  11. "Halloween Special". GMA News . October 31, 2008. Retrieved November 3, 2020.
  12. Anarcon, James Patrick (October 27, 2016). "#THROWBACK: Terrifying memories from Magandang Gabi Bayan Halloween specials". PEP.ph . Retrieved November 3, 2020.
  13. De La Cruz, Christa I. (October 31, 2017). "10 Halloween Things Only Filipinos Would Understand". Spot.ph . Retrieved November 3, 2020.
  14. "'90s kids, this Halloween TV special is back to spook you". Spot.ph . October 26, 2016. Retrieved November 3, 2020.