List of Halloween television specials

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

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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)

The Cartoon Network Minecraft Show

  • "Happy Halloween!" (2016)
  • "Friday the 13th" (2017)
  • "The Monster!" (2017)
  • "The Costume Contest!" (2018)
  • "Flapjack's Halloween" (2019)
  • "Zombie Gumball!" (2020)
  • "The Halloween Heist!" (2020)
  • "The Zombie Apocalypse!" (2021)
  • "Saw" (2022)
  • "Saw II" (2022)
  • "Saw III" (2022)
  • "Frankenstein!" (2022)
  • "Nightmare on Chowder Street" (2022)
  • "Grup's Big Halloween!" (2022)
  • "Scream!" (2023)
  • "Grup's Exorcism" (2023)
  • "Saw IV" (2023)
  • "Child's Play" (2023)
  • "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre!" (2023)
  • "The Monster Mash!" (2023)
  • "Five Nights at Freddy's!" (2023)
  • "It" (2023)
  • "The Halloween Purge" (2023)
  • "Five Nights at Freddy's 2" (2023)
  • "Five Nights at Freddy's 3" (2023)
  • "Five Nights at Freddy's 4" (2023)

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)

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

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)

Power Rangers

Animaniacs

Looney Tunes

Scooby-Doo

American drama

Desperate Housewives

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

ER

Grey's Anatomy

Hart of Dixie

Lassie

Little House on the Prairie

Our House

The Resident

St. Elsewhere

Action

Chuck

The Dukes of Hazzard

The Fall Guy

MacGyver

Walker, Texas Ranger

Crime and mystery

9-1-1

Castle

CHiPs

The Commish

Criminal Minds

CSI (franchise)

The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries

Hawaii Five-0

Law & Order (franchise)

Murder, She Wrote

NCIS (franchise)

The Wild Wild West

Supernatural, fantasy and sci-fi

Amazing Stories

American Horror Story

Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel

Charmed

Charmed (2018)

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

Chucky

Ghost Hunters

see also List of Ghost Hunters episodes#Specials

Ghost Whisperer

Good Witch

The Greatest American Hero

Haunted Lives: True Ghost Stories

Highway to Heaven

Into the Dark

Knight Rider

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman

Night Man

Quantum Leap

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. [4]

Beverly Hills, 90210

Dawson's Creek

Degrassi: The Next Generation

Gossip Girl

Gossip Girl (2021)

One Tree Hill

Pretty Little Liars

Riverdale

Scream

Scream Queens

Comedy-drama

Hart of Dixie

Reality shows

Girls Next Door

The Real Housewives Franchise

Teen and adult sitcoms

8 Simple Rules

Abbott Elementary

According to Jim

The Addams Family

Alice

American Dad!

American Housewife

The Beverly Hillbillies

Bewitched / Tabitha

The Big Bang Theory

Black-ish / Mixed-ish

Bless the Harts

Bob's Burgers

The Boondocks

Boy Meets World / Girl Meets World

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Cheers

The Cleveland Show

Clueless

Community

The Cosby Show

Daria

Dave's World

Dharma & Greg

Dr. Ken

The Drew Carey Show

Duncanville

Ellen

Everybody Hates Chris

Everybody Still Hates Chris

The Facts of Life

Family Guy

Family Matters

Frasier

Fresh Off the Boat

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

Full House / Fuller House

George Lopez

Ghosts

Gilligan's Island

Girlfriends

The Goldbergs / Schooled

Grace Under Fire

The Great North

Growing Pains

Hangin' with Mr. Cooper

Happy Days

Happy Tree Friends

Home Economics

Home Improvement

The Honeymooners/The Jackie Gleason Show

Hope & Faith

How I Met Your Mother

The Hughleys

In the House

The Jamie Foxx Show

The Jersey

King of the Hill

Last Man Standing

Life with Bonnie

Living Single

Malcolm & Eddie

Malcolm in the Middle

Married... with Children

Martin

Melissa & Joey

The Middle

Moesha

Modern Family

The Neighbors

New Girl

Night Court

The Office (U.S.)

One on One

Parks and Recreation

Perfect Strangers

Punky Brewster

Raising Hope

Reba

Robot Chicken

Rodney

Roseanne / The Conners

Roseanne

The Conners

Sabrina the Teenage Witch

The Simpsons

Single Parents

Solar Opposites

South Park

Speechless

Squidbillies

Step by Step

Suburgatory

Suddenly Susan

Superstore

That '70s Show

Two and a Half Men

Two Guys and a Girl

What I Like About You

Will & Grace

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, [6] 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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Tokusatsu

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Others

All Saints (Australian medical drama)

America's Funniest Home Videos

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.) [8] since 2008. [9]

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. [10] [11] [12]

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 aired on NBC on October 30, 1989.

AMC Halloween movie specials

AMC broadcasts many Halloween classics, including the Halloween series, Friday the 13th , Nightmare on Elm Street , and An American Werewolf in London , during the month of October.

See also

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