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The following is a list of Halloween television episodes/specials.

Children's

The Suite Life of Zack & Cody / The Suite Life on Deck

American TV Drama

Desperate Housewives

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

ER

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

Highway to Heaven

Lassie

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

Little House on the Prairie

Our House

St. Elsewhere

Action

Chuck

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

The Dukes of Hazzard

The Fall Guy

MacGyver

Crime/Mystery

CHiPs

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

The Commish

CSI (franchise)

Murder, She Wrote

NCIS

  • NCIS: "Witch Hunt" (2006)
  • NCIS: "Chimera" (2007)
  • NCIS: "Murder 2.0" (2008)
  • NCIS: "Code of Conduct" (2009)
  • NCIS: "Cracked" (2010)

Supernatural/Fantasy/Sci-Fi

Amazing Stories

Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel

Charmed

Ghost Hunters

Haunted Lives: True Ghost Stories

Unsolved Mysteries

The Vampire Diaries

Teen drama

Beverly Hills, 90210

Dawson's Creek

Degrassi: The Next Generation

One Tree Hill

Comedy-drama

Sitcoms

8 Simple Rules

According to Jim

The Addams Family

Alice

  • Alice: "Alice's Halloween Surprise" (1981)
  • Alice: "Space Sharples" (1984)

The Beverly Hillbillies

Bewitched

The Big Bang Theory

Boy Meets World

Cheers

  • Cheers: "Fairy Tales Can Come True" (1984)
  • Cheers: "Diane's Nightmare" (1985)
  • Cheers: "House of Horrors With Formal Dining and Used Brick" (1986)
  • Cheers: "Bar Wars V: the Final Judgement" (1991)

Clueless

Community

The Cosby Show

Dave's World

Dharma & Greg

The Drew Carey Show

Ellen

  • Ellen: "Trick or Treat - Who Cares?" (1995)
  • Ellen: "The Bubble Gum Incident" (1996)

Family Matters

Frasier

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

George Lopez

Growing Pains

Happy Days

The Honeymooners

Home Improvement

How I Met Your Mother

The Hughleys

Life with Bonnie

Malcolm in the Middle

Martin

  • Martin: "The Night He Came Home" (1992)
  • Martin: "Boo's in the House" (1996)

The Middle

Night Court

The Office (US)

Perfect Strangers

Roseanne

Reba (TV series)

  • Reba: "The Ghost and Mrs. H" (2003)
  • Reba: "Best Lil' Haunted House in Texas" (2005)

Rodney

  • Rodney: "Halloween" (2004)
  • Rodney: "Halloween and Javier" (2005)

Sabrina, the Teenage Witch

The Simpsons (Treehouse of Horror)

South Park

Step by Step

That '70s Show

Two Guys and a Girl

What I Like About You

Will and Grace

Sketch Shows

Others

All Saints (Australian medical drama)

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 children's Halloween special.

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.

The Season 36 and 37 episodes featured models in costume during all One Bids and prize presentations (in 2008, models presented cars as police officers and carhops), and monster-themed Showcases. Drew Carey has appeared with fake fangs (2007) and a hatchet (2008), and Rich Fields appeared as Zorro in 2008.

The Season 38 episode featured contestants and the show's host, announcer, and models in costume (traditionally prohibited). The entire set was decorated for the holiday, with many of the set's changes in 2009 playing key roles. A "haunting" arrangement of the show's theme was played during the introductions, Carey introduced by his costume, and Halloween-themed decorations around the set, including appropriate colors replacing the show's usual colors. The new Showcase podiums were covered with tombstones featuring a door that opened to unveil the price (without the prize description screen), with different fonts used for both Grocery Game price cards and the Showcase video screen. Also, the traditional buzzer and losing horns (except in Plinko) were replaced with screams.

The following was how the show's major figures were dressed:

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Season 39's Halloween theme was The Wizard of Oz. The studio was decorated as The Yellow Brick Road (re-named Golden Brick Road for the show, which also included renaming Golden Road as "Golden Brick Road") and The Emerald City.

The following was how this show's major figures were dressed:

Season 40's Halloween theme has been announced, and is scheduled to be taped October 17th, 2011. The show announced the theme will be 1970's Dance Party, in celebration of the show's 40th anniversary. [2]

AMC Halloween Movie Specials

AMC will broadcast many of the Halloween classics including the Halloween (1978 film) series, Friday the 13th (1980 film), Nightmare on Elm Street, and An American Werewolf in London during the week of Halloween.

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