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  • Some talk shows have a tradition where the hosts dress up for Halloween, and it usually involves elaborate costumes and themes or skits. They tend to get Emmy nominations in makeup and costume design because of it. In the case of Live with Kelly and Ryan, it's basically a perennial sketch show.
  • Halloween episodes tend to be rare in British series as the occasion is less of a big deal in the United Kingdom, but My Family (often cited as an "American-style" sitcom) did have one - which, for no apparent reason, was released in March.
  • 2point4 Children had "The Lady Vanishes", which is set on Halloween and is focused on Bill believing that vampires live next door to them.
  • 7th Heaven: The first season had a Halloween episode where six of the seven family members actually go out to celebrate Halloween but Mary (a young Jessica Biel) makes a point to stay home alone to eat ice cream, have a bath, and dance around the house (the scene is rather well-known still), stating that "This is the only evening of the year I can have the house for myself!" (given that they are a family of seven (later nine) that also constantly have visitors, that's probably fair). The rest of the episode features An Aesop where younger sister Lucy initially was scared of a disfigured old man but learned that she shouldn't judge people on their appearance, and he actually had a Heart Of Gold. Catherine Hicks, who played the mother in the series, later said that out of all the 11 years of episodes, this was her favorite one.
  • 666 Park Avenue has Episode five, "A Crowd of Demons": The Dorans throw a costume party, which is crashed by both a ghost who tries to kill Jane and someone with a grudge against Gavin.
  • Abbott Elementary: It's Halloween at the titular school in the episode "Candy Zombies". Trope hallmarks include:
    • Everyone dressed up in costumes.
    • The kids trying to get their hands on candy.
    • Mr. Johnson spooking Jacob with a story about a ghost in the basement.
  • The Addams Family had a Halloween episode called "Halloween with the Addams Family", later remade as an episode of The New Addams Family, that had the family unintentionally scare off a pair of crooks who unsuccessfully tried to rob them on Halloween night.
  • American Horror Story made an habit of having seasonal Halloween episodes.
    • American Horror Story: Murder House, has the two-part "Halloween" episode, representing Halloween as the only night of the year when ghosts are allowed to leave the places they haunt.
    • American Horror Story: Asylum has the "Tricks and Treats" episode which depicts an exorcism taking place in Briarcliff the night before Halloween, in an homage to The Exorcist.
    • American Horror Story: Coven has "Fearful Pranks Ensues" and its sequel "Burn, Witch, Burn!" depicting the witch school undergoing a zombie attack during the Halloween night.
    • American Horror Story Freakshow has the two-part "Edward Mordrake" episode, presenting the legendary figure of Edward Mordrake, a ghost visiting freakshow every Halloween night.
    • American Horror Story: Hotel has "Devil's Night" and its sequel "Room Service": the first episode depicts the titular Devil's Night (Halloween's eve) when the ghosts of famous serial killers gather at the Cortez Hotel, while the second has an outbreak of vampirism happen in a school during Halloween.
    • American Horror Story: Apocalypse has "Forbidden Fruit" with an Halloween masquerade ball being held in a post-apocalypse survival outpost, only for supernatural events to wreck havock - it is then followed and concluded after a long series of flashback-episodes, in the finale of the season, "Apocalypse Then".
    • American Horror Story: 1984 has "Rest in Pieces" happening shortly before Halloween.
  • Angel had a company Halloween party for the evil supernatural law firm, analogous to a company Christmas party.
  • Are You Afraid of the Dark? has "The Tale of the Twisted Claw" which featured two boys trick-or-treating at the house of a witch who gives them a magical claw that grants wishes.
  • In the Babylon 5 episode "Day of the Dead", several of the main characters are visited by deceased associates on the Brakiri holiday of that name. It's left ambiguous whether or not this is a genuine supernatural phenomenon, an issue blurred further by the existence in this universe of telepathy (including residual mental "echoes") and techniques of storing and capturing people's essences.
  • Barney Miller had "Werewolf" an episode involving a man who claims to be a werewolf.
  • Beauty and the Beast has an episode which showed Vincent able to walk among normal humans on Halloween, since in Greenwich Village, they think he is only another reveller in the annual Halloween parade.
  • The Benson episode "The Stranger" has the governor's mansion visited by a "Mr. G. Reaper" on a stormy Halloween night.
  • Bewitched, unsurprisingly, had several of these.
  • The Big Bang Theory had a couple of Halloween episodes. The first one had Penny hosting a Halloween party at her apartment and the four guys all dressed up as The Flash and had to change their costumes. The second involved a Halloween party at the Comic Book Store that Raj helped Stuart, the owner, set up.
  • The Bill had a Halloween episode with the cops on stake-out swapping ghost stories from their past careers, each of which could have had a rational explanation, until DS Stanton encountered a definite ghost.
  • Billy the Exterminator: In one episode, Billy and Ricky do a job at a haunted house in New Orleans.
  • In Bones:
    • The episode "Mummy in the Maze," Brennan, Booth, and "Squints" work to solve the murder of a girl left in a Halloween maze while getting ready for a Halloween party. Costumes include the captain of the Titanic, a cow (well, the back end of one), Catwoman, and Cher. Brennan and Booth end up catching the bad guy while dressed as Wonder Woman and a Squint, respectively.
    • "The Resurrection in the Remains" in season 11 was a Halloween crossover with the supernaturally themed Sleepy Hollow. All the magical stuff happens on the Sleepy Hallow end, though, and Booth and Brennan conveniently miss it so their worldview, or at least Brennan’s as Booth already believes in some things, aren’t changed.
  • Boy Meets World:
    • "Boys II Mensa" from Season One, had a Halloween-themed B plot.
    • "Who's Afraid of Cory Wolf?" from Season Two, where Cory thinks he's been bitten by a werewolf.
    • Season Five had two. One was "The Witches of Pennbrook", where Jack dates a girl who claims to be a witch, and serves as a crossover with Sabrina the Teenage Witch. The second was the Slasher Movie-themed "And Then There Was Shawn", where the gang is trapped inside the school with an unknown killer during detention, bloody message and all, but it was luckily All Just a Dream. However, the latter episode aired in February and the former serves as the actual Halloween episode.
  • The Brady Bunch: "Fright Night," from Season 4, is all about ghosts and ghouls and the kids scaring each other. Originally aired in late October 1972, this episode is often rerun on Halloween.
  • Brooklyn Nine-Nine has the Once a Season tradition of the Halloween Heist, where the precinct competes in a planned internal heist for the title of [superlative adjective] Detective Slash Genius. Each one gets Denser and Wackier.
    • "Halloween" in the first season centers on a bet between Captain Holt and Detective Jake Peralta. Peralta scoffs in a briefing that he would make a better criminal than the perps they catch, while Holt believes otherwise. Peralta bets he can steal Holt's Medal of Valor before midnight; the normally straight-laced Holt gives in when Peralta puts up the stipulation he will work the next five weekends with no overtime if he fails to steal it (Holt in turn would do Peralta's paperwork should Jake succeed). Jake wins.
    • Season 2's "Halloween II" establishes that the bet will be an annual thing, with Jake and Holt agreeing to a rematch, this time, Jake has to steal the watch off Holt's wrist. Holt wins with the assistance of the other detectives happily conspiring against Jake.
    • Season 3's "Halloween III" has Jake and Holt agreeing to a rubber match, but in the interest of fair play, choose up teams consisting of the other detectives that they will captain and work with to steal a crown in the interrogation room. Det. Amy Santiago wins after she is left out of the heist due to conflicts of interest as Jake's girlfriend and Holt's favorite mentee.
    • Season 4's "Halloween IV" has a three-way team heist between Team Jake, Team Holt, and Team Amy to retrieve a plaque. Civilian admin Gina Linetti wins in retaliation for being left out of the previous heists as she's not a detective, causing them to change the title to Ultimate Human Slash Genius.
    • Season 5's "HalloVeen" involves every character now working on their own to retrieve a pro wrestling-style championship belt, and ends with Jake proposing to Amy with a different title belt; no one is declared the winner after no one can claim the real belt before midnight.
    • Season 6's "Cinco De Mayo" is a Halloween Heist held in May (as this was B99's first season on NBC, and would run on the network as a midseason series that aired after October). Sgt. Terry Giffords, now a Lieutenant, wins after years of declaring his disinterest in the Heist.
    • Season 7's "Valloweaster" is a Halloween Heist that in-universe spans Halloween, Valentine's Day, and Easter, where each competitor must be handcuffed to another. Det. Rosa Diaz wins all three.
    • The series finale "The Last Day" is a Halloween Heist replicating the first one, but is partly a goodbye for Jake Peralta retiring from the force. Det. Hitchcock wins it and is crowned "The Grand Champion of the Nine-Nine". It's revealed the next year that despite some of the characters having left the precinct, they will continue to return annually for the Heist.
  • In Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Halloween is a holiday for the supernatural, and there's an unspoken rule about vampires and other supernatural terrors keeping to themselves and staying out of trouble for that day, but that doesn't make it any easier for the Scoobies.
    • Season 2 had "Halloween", where the trick-or-treaters in Sunnydale are subjected to a literal case of Becoming the Costume thanks to Giles' former friend, Ethan Rayne. This unfortunately includes Buffy, who chose to dress up as an 18th century lady in an effort to impress Angel, and becomes a Damsel in Distress for the duration of the spell. And just when you think things couldn't get any worse, Spike finds out about Ethan's antics through Drusilla, and comes pretty close to offing Buffy.
    • Season 4 had "Fear, Itself", where someone getting blood on a supposedly fake mystical symbol makes the college Haunted House significantly more lethal, subjecting Xander, Willow, Oz, and Buffy to their current fears. Xander gets rendered invisible to the others (being left behind while the others are at college), a simple tracking spell of Willow's gets way out of hand (getting too far out of her league with the magicks), Oz transforms and accidentally hurts Willow (losing control and hurting those he loves), and Buffy gets stuck fighting a bunch of zombies by herself (being abandoned by those she loves and being alone because she is the Slayer). Also memorable for introducing Anya's fear of bunnies, Giles making a door with a chainsaw, and the five inches tall Gachnar.
    • Season 6 had "All The Way", where Dawn sneaks out to raise hell with her friend Janice and a couple boys, only to discover they're part of a group of vampires trying to rebel against the "Halloween holiday" spirit. Also provides setup for some of the events in "Once More, With Feeling". (Willow using a spell on Tara, Xander and Anya's engagement, Giles's fear that Buffy isn't taking responsibility because of him)
  • On Castle, Rick Castle dresses up as Mal Reynolds during his Halloween episode. His daughter tells him that it's been five years and he should just get it over it. In the same episode, the Body of the Week is found in a graveyard with a stake through his heart.
  • There are two Halloween episodes in Charmed, the first being "All Halliwell's Eve" in season 3 where the sisters get sent back in time to colonial Virginia. Contains three Shout Outs as Phoebe dresses up as Elvira and Piper dresses up as Glinda. Phoebe also cackles while riding a broomstick. Another episode in season 8, "Kill Billie Vol. 1", is set on Halloween but has a separate plot entirely.
  • Cheers
  • Chuck did a Halloween episode ("Chuck vs. The Sandworm") that, among other things, featured Halloween decorations, a Halloween party (with Chuck and Morgan going as a sandworm from Dune), and Morgan's new clothes style being mistaken for a Gordon Gekko outfit.
  • Community had one in each of its first four seasons.
  • Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: In the episode "I Am Ashamed" Rebecca's friends try to convince her to leave her house to come to a screening of Hocus Pocus on a graveyard. Suffering from agoraphobia, she cannot get herself to leave and misses the screening. Later in the evening, when a book flies off the shelf, she thinks her house is haunted by a previous owner who was murdered in it. After her friends come over for a séance they find out that the previous owner died on October 31st so they go to the graveyard to pay their respects to the deceased. The next day, Heather delivers a logical explanation for the "haunting" which Rebecca rejects. Meanwhile, Darryl's ex-wife takes their daughter trick-or-treating while being dressed as a "sexy everything."
  • Criminal Minds:
    • The episode "About Face" is set around Halloween, and featured a villain who killed his victims by cutting their faces off, after terrorizing them a bit with missing persons flyers with their image on them that he'd cover the inside and outside of their houses with.
    • "Devil's Night" has a serial arsonist who always strikes during Halloween festivities.
  • CSI: NY had two:
    • Episode 4.06, "Boo," which aired on Oct 31, 2007, had a possible murder-suicide at the Amityville Horror house and what appeared to be a zombie.
    Corronor Sid Hammerback: He was dead before he was killed, medically that makes him a zombie. Happy Halloween.
    • Episode 8.06, "Get Me Out of Here!" concerned a fraternity prank gone awry on Halloween...a pledge was missing and the pledge master was left for dead in an open grave.
    Det. Jo Danville: Not often you find a body where it actually belongs.
  • The Daily Show with Trevor Noah: Halloween 2016's episode is a variation that focused more on fears focusing on a dystopian future comprised of all the worst case scenarios if Donald Trump won the election ...he did weeks later. While it has tons of Nightmare Fuel there are moments of Black Comedy here and there to be consistent with the tone of the rest of the show.
  • In the last episode of Dead Like Me, on Halloween the Glamours that Reapers use to avoid being recognized by the living don't work, allowing George's sister to recognize her. There's also a Serial Killer.
  • Derry Girls: In Season 3, Episode 6, the gang have miraculously secured tickets to the gig of the century on Halloween night, and the chance to meet their idol, Fatboy Slim. They all dress in angel costumes.
  • Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger had the episode "The Prince of Halloween," notable for being the first Halloween episode in Super Sentai's 40 year history.
  • The Dukes of Hazzard: "The Ghost of the General Lee" and "The Hazzardgate Horror" are two supernatural-themed episodes that were originally aired around Halloween, and are often shown in reruns at that same time of the year.
  • Eerie, Indiana: In "Scariest Home Videos", Simon's younger brother Harley becomes trapped in the television on Hallowe'en.
  • Euphoria: "The Next Episode".
  • Even Stevens had an episode where everyone starts acting weird after getting eye exams. Turns out Ren was brainwashing everyone and turning them into "Renplicates" (The plot is a little reminiscent of Invasion of the Body snatchers.) In the end, Ren is unable to fully make Louis, the only one that she hasn't turned yet, into a Renplicate. This then cuts to Louis telling the story to Beans. Louis tries to convince him that this is not a story and actually happened despite things appearing as if none of the events ever happened.
  • Everybody Loves Raymond has the episode "Halloween Candy", where Ray buys a pack of condoms on Halloween so that he and Debra can have sex after they take the kids trick-or-treating. When they come back, they discover that Frank accidentally gave them all out to the trick-or-treaters thinking that they were chocolate coins. Frank is dressed as Frankenstein's Monster, referring to Peter Boyle's role in Young Frankenstein.
  • Evil (2019), which is creepy to begin with, broadcast an episode on Halloween of its first season actually titled "October 31". The most holiday-themed element is the Bouchard daughters' Halloween party and the masked Creepy Child who infiltrates it.
  • Family Matters did this once every year. In one of the more famous episodes, we meet an evil ventriloqist doll come to life named Steevil. In the final Halloween episode, he returns with a partner named Carlsbad.
  • There are a number of episodes of Frasier set at Halloween, usually focusing on the show's traditional madcap antics wrung though a themed costume party of some kind. A notable party at Niles' apartment where the guests all dress as classic literary characters centers around Roz being pregnant and many overheard conversations that lead to hilarious confusions about the situation.
    • The episode "A Room Full of Heroes" sees Frasier holding a Halloween party where each partygoer comes as their personal "hero" (for instance, Martin comes as Joe DiMaggio, Daphne as Elton John, Roz as Wonder Woman and Niles as his father); Frasier himself dresses as Sigmund Freud, and one of the main jokes revolves around all the children thinking he eats brains.
  • Freaks and Geeks managed to squeeze one of these into its short run. In fact, "Tricks and Treats" was actually the second episode of the series.
  • Friends had a Halloween party featuring Chandler & Ross in the lamest arm wrestling match ever.
  • Game On (2015): In "Trick or Track Meet", Toby and Seth see who can get the most Halloween candy in five minutes.
  • Game Shakers: the episode "Scared Tripless" about Double G pranking his son, and the other kids mercilessly.
  • Ghosts (US): "Halloween" takes place over... well, Halloween, which the Ghosts do not enjoy (since they can't do the fun stuff that the living do on Halloween). The main plot is about everyone dealing with some troublesome children who try to mess up the mansion on that day.
  • Ghost Whisperer's Halloween episode has Melinda investigating a headless horseman.
  • The second season of Glee had one of these, with a Rocky Horror Picture Show theme.
  • The Good Night Show had "A Sweet Goodnight Treat," which ran from 2008 to 2011. In 2011, the broadcast was live and took place on the set of The Sunny Side Up Show since the Good Night Show set either didn't exist or was impractical for live airings.
  • Goosebumps (1995): The aformentioned original series books were adapted into TV episodes, and the "Haunted Mask" episodes actually took place around Halloween.
  • Grimm had the second season episode "La Llorona", featuring the titular spirit abducting children and drowning them, and Monroe borrowing a morningstar from the trailer to use in his decorations.
  • Happy Endings had one entitled "Spooky Endings" where most of the cast went to a huge Halloween bash and the married couple handed out candy to trick-or-treaters in the suburbs... and wind up getting their door stolen.
  • In the Haven episode "Real Estate", there is a Halloween party and then the heroes and some teens all end up trapped in a supposedly haunted house, which turns out to be a man who was turned into a house.
  • Hawaii Five-O had one in the second season, "Ka Iwi Kapu." Five-0 investigates the murders of two college kids out shooting video for a documentary on legendary Hawaiian ghost warriors in an ancient Hawaiian graveyard at midnight on Halloween.
  • Henry Danger has the episode "Jasper Danger" in which Jasper dresses as Kid Danger for Halloween and gets mistaken for the real Kid Danger by a villain and is kidnapped to be used as a ransom against Captain Man.
  • Home Improvement did tons, maybe one every single year, often involving the Taylors throwing a Halloween party, Tim inventing new extra-spooky Halloween decorations, impromptu scary prank competions, etc. Highlights of the series.
  • How I Met Your Mother had "The Slutty Pumpkin" in Season 1, wherein we see Ted's Halloween tradition of going to the same Halloween party every year in hopes of reuniting with a girl he met wearing the costume of the episode's namesake at that party four years prior. Meanwhile, Lily and Marshall try a Halloween double date.
  • iCarly has the episode "iScream on Halloween", which deals with Carly, Sam & Freddie hosting an episode of the eponymous web show from an apartment they believe is haunted. Meanwhile Spencer has to carve the world's biggest pumpkin, but has lost the time to buy candy and has to deal with trick-or-treating kids he is giving random objects to.
  • Inside No. 9 had a special Live Episode to celebrate Halloween, which featured... well... it’s best if you just see it for yourself.
  • It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia had two: the "Rashomon"-Style "Who Got Dee Pregnant?" in season 6, and season 8's "Maureen Ponderosa Wedding Massacre", which is about a wedding gone horribly wrong (the action doesn't actually happen on Halloween but involves a lot of the tropes present in such episodes).
  • Last Man Standing (2011) has had one almost every season. The exception was season 2, which didn't premier until November.
  • The Late Show with Stephen Colbert went all-out on its October 30, 2015 episode; completely redecorating the Ed Sullivan Theater in Halloween fare, Colbert dressing as a vampire for the whole show, and dedicating the whole episode to Halloween-based subjects, including a performance from the satanic metal band Ghost.
    • The October 31, 2016 episode sadly did not go to the same level and was not a full Halloween episode, though it did have a Halloween-themed opening sketch and a special interview with ghost hunters The Ghost Brothers, as well as an acknowledgement and a few Halloween-based jokes in the monologue, which house band Jon Batiste and Stay Human played out with Thriller.
  • The Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode "Masquerade" not only takes place around Halloween (as evidenced by decorations in the background), but the victim was murdered on Halloween night 1992.
  • Little Lunch: In "The Halloween Horror Story", the kids stage a play Melanie wrote about the true meaning of Halloween (which Melanie doesn't actually know), and Rory struggles with his fears about Atticus moving overseas.
  • Lizzie McGuire had one where Kate took control of organising a Halloween dance and insulted Miranda's Day of the Dead traditions, kicking off a plot where evil spirits decided to punish them for it but of course it turns out to be a prank to get back at Kate with Miranda's parents in costume.
  • The Love Boat has "Ship of Ghouls," featuring an illusionist who can induce hallucinations in other people and a costume party that all the characters attend.
  • MacGyver (1985): "The Secret of Parker House". The premiere of season 4, actually aired on Halloween 1988, has an opening scene with kids trick-or-treating, and a plot that involves a somewhat spooky mansion? All checked.
  • Even M*A*S*H was able to take time out from the horrors of war to indulge in some Halloween tomfoolery. In season 11's "Trick or Treatment", the staff don costumes and share ghost stories, unaware that an apparently dead soldier outside is actually clinging to life. Fortunately, Father Mulcahy realizes the mistake just in time and the soldier is rushed into surgery to save him.
  • Malcolm in the Middle had two: the first sees the boys attemptng to keep the classic spirit of Halloween alive after the actual holiday winds up disappointing them by engaging in an elaborate prank, while the other sees Hal becoming paranoid after learning that their house was previously home to a grisly murder while Reese and Dewey face the wrath of an old man they egg while trick-or-treating, leading him to chase them through the entire episode.
  • The third-ever episode of Marry Me (2014): Annie and Jake hold a haunted house in defiance of their building's take charge helicopter parent and get in trouble when a boy refuses to leave; Dennah "eliminates the middleman" in her sexy whatever outfits and opts to "just go as a slut"; Gil and Kay go on an adult trick-or-treat that allows Gil to stalk his ex-wife.
  • Marvel Cinematic Universe:
  • Miami Vice has "Shadow in the Dark," which aired on Halloween of 1986. Crockett turns into The Profiler in order to catch a cat burglar, almost losing his mind in the process.
  • Just like Home Improvement, Roseanne, and the Simpsons, The Middle has annual Halloween episodes starting in its second season, with plots such as Axl and his friends getting stuck offroad when they try to attend a Halloween party, Axl having to recover some kids' stolen candy, and Sue holding a seance.
  • The Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers fought Frankenstein monster in "Life's A Masquerade" and the Pumpkin Rapper in "Trick or Treat" in season one. (Although the former was never actually stated to take place at Halloween, and the latter was an intentional Out of Holiday Episode airing in May.) In the next season, Lord Zedd traps Tommy in a dimension with several monsters in Zedd's Monster Mash.
    • The Power Rangers Operation Overdrive two-parter "Ronny on Empty" is set around Halloween, concluding with a costume party held at the mansion.
    • Power Rangers Samurai has "Party Monsters", an episode where all the previously slain monsters have a Halloween party in the afterlife, discussing their encounters with the Samurai Rangers and how they almost beat them. In short, it was just a Clip Show.
      • Samurai has now had a second: "Trickster Treat". It's is not a clip show, but it uses less original footage than "Party Monsters", and that's not just talking Sentai footage.
    • Power Rangers Megaforce has "Raising Spirits", another clip show where the group goes to a Halloween party. The monster of the week looks in his crystal ball to see the past of the five teenagers with attitude, but keeps seeing the Power Rangers defeating monsters, not realizing that they are one in the same. Also there was a Megaforce Halloween safety PSA.
    • Power Rangers Dino Charge also has a Halloween clip show, "The Ghostest with the Mostest"; one of the Rangers is kidnapped and replaced, but because they were in identical costumes, no one (including the audience) knows who was taken. The clips are used as the Rangers answer questions about their past to prove their identities.
    • Dino Supercharge has "Trick or Trial" where the Rangers are put in a Kangaroo Court with charges pertaining to the monsters they've destroyed.
    • Power Rangers Ninja Steel has "Grave Robber", where the Rangers play a board game of the name by Cosmo's design, facing off against previously destroyed Galaxy Warriors contestants. Instead of being a clip show, the scenario helps to burn through Ninninger fight footage.
    • Super Ninja Steel has Monster Mix-Up where the Rangers have their bodies swapped with Monsters and are taken to the same Kangaroo Court in Dino Supercharge to answer for the crimes the monsters committed.
    • Power Rangers Beast Morphers has "Hypnotic Halloween" where Scrozzle hypnotizes most of the Rangers into thinking they're the Halloween costumes they're wearing, forcing Devon to get them back to normal.
    • Power Rangers Dino Fury has "Old Foes", which is a major Wham Episode as Lord Zedd comes Back from the Dead and stays alive as he disappears after brief No-Sell fights, vowing to return.
  • The Monk episode "Mr. Monk Goes Home Again" has Adrian Monk trying to recover several candy bars that were contaminated with poison (some of which were distributed to trick-or-treaters), which turns out be the work of some man who poisoned his wife and is trying to make her look like the random victim of a serial killer.
  • While it did air 1 day before Halloween Most Extreme Elimination Challenge pitted Real Monsters and Advertising Mascots against each other (At least on the Broadcast version).
  • Mulaney: "Halloween." Featuring a dead man's apartment, plenty of costumes, and a mean boss who likes firing people on Halloween.
  • Murdoch Mysteries
    • "Sir. Sir? Sir!!!", first broadcast 28 October 2018, which is a very non-canon Whole-Plot Reference to Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
    • "Murdoch and the Cursed Caves", first broadcast 28 October 2019, is set on Halloween and has Murdoch dealing with a ton of horror movie tropes as he tries to find out what killed two paranormal investigators. Being canon, this one has a mundane explanation. (And then a Real After All twist.)
    • "I Know What You Did Last Autumn", first broadcast 25 October 2021, is another canon episode set during Halloween, this time with Murdoch finding himself in a Slasher Movie.
  • My So-Called Life managed to fit in a Halloween episode in its only season. Rayanne convinces Angela to dress up in a costume, and to meet up at the high school to do a seance to raise up the spirit of Nicky Driscoll, a kid who, in the 60's, died when he fell off the rafters in the gym. Instead, Rayanne and Brian get trapped in the basement of the school, while Angela somehow finds herself time traveling at the gym to the night Nicky died (though she's unable to save him). Meanwhile, Danielle dresses up as Angela (which freaks her parents out at first), and she and Sharon go out trick-or-treating; also, Graham and Patty are dressed up as a pirate and Rapunzel, and are supposed to go to a Halloween party (thrown by Sharon's mother), but end up having lots of sex instead.
  • My Babysitter's a Vampire has the one where Benny stole the Tunguuk's Mask, a mystical Indian mask that turns the people into whatever they are dressed as.
  • Naturally, Sadie has "Ghouls Just Want to Have Fun", which doubles as a Bizarro Episode as it resembles nothing else in the show's run. Fans still debate if it is supposed to be in continuity or not.
  • NCIS has something of a tradition of these, with "Witch Hunt", "Murder 2.0", "Code of Conduct", "Cracked", "Oil & Water", "Parental Guidance Suggested", "Viral", "Shell Game", and "Beneath the Surface" all having the holiday as a backdrop.
  • Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide had a two part Halloween episode, the first part dealt with the annual party at the school. The second was a dream induced by a sugar crash in which Ned was a vampire who was having trouble passing his "turning into a bat" exam, Cookie was a werewolf looking for a transformation trigger to chase off Franken-Loomer, and Moze was a ghost looking to kill someone because she was the only ghost at school.
  • The New Adventures of Beans Baxter has "A Nightmare on Beans' Street", where Beans and his friends are set upon by a deadly pumpkin sent by UGLI's leader, Mr. Sue, and the Pumpkin Princess.
  • New Girl has two Halloween episodes in the series. In one episode, Jess is working as a zombie in a haunted house and Schmidt is dressed as young Abraham Lincoln to get into Cece's pants. In another episode, they hold a Halloween party at the loft and everyone dresses up.
  • Newhart had a Halloween episode in which all the residents of Stratford (except Dick Loudon, natch) become convinced that an alien invasion is imminent.
  • NewsRadio had one Halloween episode.
  • Nicky, Ricky, Dicky, and Dawn: The episode "Scaredy Dance" is all about the kids' first Halloween dance, a high-school style dance with embarrassing secrets and all.
  • Night Court had several Halloween episodes, including one where resident Jerkass Dan cheerfully "sells his soul" to a man in a devil costume, who then reveals a worrying amount of detailed knowledge about Dan's life and crimes. It turns out it's an elaborate practical joke.
    • There's also one where Harry has a defendant locked up for contempt after he claims to be The Grim Reaper... and people mysteriously stop dying.
  • Nightwatch (2015): S1 E4 and S4 E10 are both set on Halloween.
  • Odd Squad had two in Season 2. "Haunt Squad" had Olympia and Otis investigating claims of a ghost roaming throughout Precinct 13579's Headquarters and scaring agents, while its sister episode "Safe House in the Woods" had Ozlyn, a new recruit of Odd Squad, and Owen being forced to stay at a safe house implied to be owned by Precinct 13579, which gives off vibes of being a Haunted House, while also having to take care of a dangerous odd creature they're transporting to the precinct.
  • The Office (NBC series) has had three episodes set on Halloween. The first episode had Michael having to fire an employee (he had waited until Halloween because firing employee is a scary thought for him). The second had Dwight, Kevin and Creed all dressed as Heath Ledger's version of The Joker. The third had everybody competing in a costume contest to win a coupon book.
  • 100 Things to Do Before High School: The episode "Have the Best Halloween Ever Thing!" was more about a Halloween episode of How the Grinch Stole Christmas!.
  • Parks and Recreation:
    • "Greg Pikitis": While Leslie, Dave and Andy try to stop a high school kid from vandalizing a park, Ann has an awkward Halloween party with her hospital co-workers and the Parks Department staff as guests. The party only comes alive when Tom takes over.
    • "Meet and Greet": Andy and April have a Halloween party, but Ben is passively angry that they didn't consult him. Jerry is made uncomfortable by the behavior between his daughter Millicent and Chris.
    • "Halloween Surprise": Ron and Andy take Diane's daughters trick-or-treating. Leslie and Anne try to scare Tom, but they end up scaring Jerry instead, causing him to have a heart attack.
    • "Recall Vote": Leslie, upset because she lost the recall vote, ruins Halloween for children attending the Parks Department event. She and Ben get drunk and almost get a tattoo. April is depressed because Andy is out of town, and Halloween was always their thing. Chris tries to cheer her up.
  • The Pretender had an episode where Jarod discovered Halloween. At the end of the episode, he goes trick-or-treating dressed as the scariest thing he knows: Mr. Raines.
  • Pretty Little Liars: It's almost a ritual.
    • Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin: Episode Five takes place during Halloween, with Imogen throwing a party to raise the money to keep her mom's house and Mouse trick-or-treating with a stranger she met online while pretending to be his missing daughter.
  • Punky Brewster had a Halloween episode in season two. She was dressed as a 50s girl in a poodle skirt.
  • Pushing Daisies did a Halloween episode in its first season. The plot centered around the cast trying to track down a "ghost", and actually aired on October 31st. The second season episode didn't fall on the same date and wasn't about Halloween, but the show still managed to put its cast in costumes that week.
  • QI has had three: the series D episode "Death", the series G episode "Gothic" and the series H episode "Horrible".
  • Quantum Leap had a surprisingly spooky Mind Screw of a Halloween Episode. Sam jumps into a horror novelist living in Maine (who is totally not Stephen King) to whom really strange and creepy things are happening. Sam is seeing things nobody else does, people are dropping like flies, Al is behaving weirdly and Ziggy can't tell anyone anything. Then things get downright scary and Al goes from just acting strange to flat out evil. After he finally jumps again, Al appears and tells Sam that Ziggy hasn't been able to find or reach Sam since before his last jump and Al hasn't seen him since then either. note 
  • Quantum Leap (2022) had its own Halloween Episode in its first season, "O Ye of Little Faith," which takes place on Halloween 1934, and originally aired on Halloween 2022. Ben leaps into a Catholic priest, and has to apparently perform an exorcism on a young woman named Daisy Gray, to prevent her death six minutes after midnight. However, things get much more complicated when Ben starts seeing demonic apparitions.
  • The first season of Radio Enfer had one, which included the radio crew disguising themselves as each other.
  • "Creepin' It Real" from Raven's Home revolves around the kids thinking their new neighbor is evil.
  • On Reaper, the office that takes back captured souls is closed for the holiday. Also, the Devil hates Halloween because it's too commercialized and has become the one day when people don't believe in him.
  • Reba has one, in which Reba attempted to pull pranks on her family and to get her youngest child to get into the spirit of scaring people on the holiday.
  • Roseanne did one of these in each of its (pre-revival) seasons, a tradition that's extended to its After Show The Conners, though the holiday is not championed to the extent it was when Roseanne was around.
  • Sabrina the Teenage Witch: Each season except the seventh has one.
    • Season 1: Sabrina's cousin Amanda is introduced when Sabrina has to attend a family gathering, and she sends a double to Harvey's Halloween party.
    • Season 2: Sabrina throws a Halloween party of her own with Other Realm termites and talking furniture in the house.
    • Season 3: Sabrina's great aunt gives her a present: a doll that locks down the house and summons monsters to scare Sabrina and her friends
    • Season 4: Sabrina gets attacked by zombies, or so it seems. When they finally get to her, all they do is dance to the tune of Larger Than Life (in what is obviously a parody/reference to Michael Jackson's Thriller music video)
    • Season 5: She throws another party, only this time without her aunts' permission, and it involves Roxie falling for Frankenstein
    • Season 6: Sabrina and her friends end up living a whodunnit murder game
  • Sam & Cat has the episode "#DollSitting", where Sam & Cat are placed in charge of babysitting a mysterious doll which seems to change location every time they see it. Also, Cat is having fun with a spell book and believing she has turned Dice into a monkey.
  • Season two of Scream: The TV Series ended with a two-part Halloween episode where, after the events of the prior two seasons, the surviving cast decide to head to Shallow Grove Island for a vacation. Two of them, Stavo and Noah, take the opportunity to research a local urban legend concerning a local Lizzie Borden-esque murderer named Anna Hobbs — just in time for people to start getting killed again.
  • Scream Queens (2015) had a special Halloween episode for each of its seasons, like its sister-series American Horror Story. Each season also opens up on a flashback to a plot-important death happening on Halloween night.
  • Scrubs had a minor one in Season Two. The main plot was about J.D.'s brother, but the B-story was that some of the staff were in costume, and Cox and Kelso's annoyance at "this, the mother of all non-holidays".
  • SeaQuest DSV first-season episode "Knight of Shadows" (aired 31 Oct 1993) has the crew of the eponymous submarine exploring a 100-year-old sunken liner—a haunted sunken liner...
  • In the Small Wonder episode "Haunted House" (1987), the Lawsons think a ghost has invaded their house after the electricity goes out, so they call a pair of bungling ghost hunters named Dickens and Fenster. No one seems to be aware that an electrified Vicki is responsible.
  • Starsky & Hutch has "The Vampire," in which a serial killer strangles women, then punctures their necks and steals some of their blood. Starsky reads books on vampires and buys garlic necklaces for himself and Hutch, who thinks the whole idea of vampires is ridiculous.
  • Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Catspaw". When Kirk, Spock and McCoy beam down to a planet they encounter witches, a wizard with a black cat familiar and a dungeon with Hollywood Torches and skeletons. Kirk says that it looks like someone is playing an elaborate trick or treat on them. The episode was first broadcast October 27, 1967.
  • Supernatural has "It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester." A man dies from eating candy filled with razor blades, a girl drowns in boiling water while bobbing for apples, and the brothers attempt to stop two witches from raising the demon Samhain before Castiel and Uriel destroy the town.
  • Tales from the Darkside of course had a few usually involving some miser trying to ruin the Holiday for everyone. One ep focused on a debt collector who made a tradition of running a spooky house (basically just things rigged to scare people) and having those that owe him money have their kids go inside and search for the receipts. If they found it, the debts would be cleared. Course the collecter would do his best to scare the kids away before they could. However one particular Halloween, real monsters come to pay a visit and well..you can imagine what happens.
  • According to a newspaper snippet, The Television Ghost's Halloween episode gave the titular ghost "free rein of the visual studios," allowing him to show off some simple special effects and Camera Tricks.
  • That '70s Show's Halloween episode was an Alfred Hitchcock homage.
    • They had another where the gang visits their old and run-down elementary school, with Fez dressed as none other then 1960's Batman.
  • That's So Raven features a Halloween episode where Raven and Chelsea use a wishing spell to get invited to a Halloween party, but backfires and turns them into cows.
  • The Great Christmas Light Fight aired a Halloween special on October 28, 2014. In the episode titled "The Great Halloween Fright Fight", the judges ruled on four Halloween displays with the factors being overall design, Halloween spirit, and creativity.
  • The Thundermans has the episode "Happy Heroween". When a thunderstrom trap the family inside on Halloween night, Collaso entertains the family by telling scary stories.
  • The Twilight Zone (1959) being an anthology series, didn't have a particular traditional Halloween Episode, instead it delivers The Grave, a western Ghost Story about a gun-for-hire who takes on a seemingly easy bet to visit the grave of his recently-deceased rival. Of course, being The Twilight Zone, he gets more than what he bargained for.
  • Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place had three that really ran with the concept:
    • "Two Guys, a Girl and a Psycho Halloween": A psycho killer that looks like Berg is killing off the main characters one-by-one. Turns out to be Mimi in disguise, trying to get her own show... and all the pizza she can eat.
    • "Halloween 2: Mind Over Body": A Mad Scientist switches Pete and Ashley's brains and then Berg and Sharon's. Hilarity Ensues.
    • "The Satanic Curses": Jealous of their status as True Companions, Irene becomes a Wicked Witch with Satanic powers to curse Berg, Pete and Sharon. Berg becomes increasingly deformed, Pete grows Ashley's head on his shoulder and Sharon grows a penis.
  • Ugly Betty had one in its first season, where Betty's idea of celebrating is to dress up as a butterfly for what is supposed to be a costume party at work. Betty shows up in her outfit... only to find out that there is no costume party (it appears Marc made a series of prank e-mails).
  • Ultra Series
    • Ultraman Tiga episode 8, "On Halloween Night", where GUTS investigates strange phenomena related to mass disappearances of children and find a dream-eating alien witch named Gilanbo to be the culprit. It is a typical Halloween episode, with the cast in costumes, kids trick-or-treating, and a Halloween-themed Monster of the Week, except that the series is from Japan, where Halloween was rarely celebrated. The episode specifically mentions that the town in question celebrates it and that it may someday be celebrated all over Japan. They turned out to be correct; the popularity of Halloween in Japan has drastically increased since 1996.
    • Ultraman R/B follows up twenty-two years later in its 17th episode, "Everyone is Friends", where the Minato brothers' sister Asahi encounters a group of aliens organizing what she believes to be a Halloween party (in actuality, a preparation to welcome their leader) and while they do generously let her join the festivities, they don't want any Ultras showing up.
  • The Vampire Diaries episode "Haunted".
  • In a season three episode of Veronica Mars, Logan and Veronica go to a Halloween party dressed as Jack and Meg White of the White Stripes. Their costumes, however, are pretty lame.
  • Walker, Texas Ranger had two throughout the series:
    • Season 4's "Evil in the Night" is set on Halloween, as the Texas Rangers' office is decked out for the holiday, while the majority of the episode has Walker dealing with an evil medicine man that rose from the grave.
    • The second one is Season 7's "The Children of Halloween", where Walker must rescue Alex and several of her charges at the HOPE Center from being sacrificed by devil worshippers. Befitting its nature as a Halloween episode, instead of the normal fonts shown for the Episode Title Card, as well as the end credits, the episode's title and credits are all decked out in the Halloween font.
  • What I Like About You did Halloween episodes in its third and fourth seasons. Interestingly, in the third season, only Holly's circle dressed up, while in the fourth, only Val's circle did.
  • Wheel of Fortune includes Halloween week as one of their recurring themes. The episodes on Halloween week often have fog, thunder and lightning effects, animatronics, and spooky sound effects as part of the usual Scenery Porn.
  • Xena: Warrior Princess had one involving vampire-like Bacchae.
  • Young Sheldon: The events of "Seven Deadly Sins and a Small Carl Sagan" focus on celebrating Halloween, with Sheldon trick-or-treating as Carl Sagan and Mary running a Haunted House attraction.
  • Zoey 101 had one in the second season.

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