# Halloween TV Episodes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [October 24, 2023, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-tv-episodes/991984 "2023-10-24T01:28:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tarataratara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Tarataratara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarataratara)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-tv-episodes/991984/1 "2023-10-24T01:28:54Z")
I’m thoroughly enjoying the Halloween episodes of Bob’s Burgers. I haven’t watched the show before - think I’ll start - but these are really fun. The Simpson;s Halloween episodes are classic. Modern Family has a few. Buffy. Everybody Hates Chris. What favorites am I missing? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-tv-episodes/991984/2 "2023-10-24T01:34:10Z")
Addams Family had one with Don Rickles. Star Trek even had one with a witch and a giant cat. Roseanne had a lot of Halloween episodes. They were often good. The Simpsons Treehouses of Horror are a from good to great. Community has the Zombie Halloween party, it was awesome. They had another good one at Pierce’s Mansion. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-tv-episodes/991984/3 "2023-10-24T01:39:02Z")
Gravity Falls took place over a summer, but they still managed to have a fake Halloween episode called Summerween, a summer version of Halloween. It’s fun. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-tv-episodes/991984/4 "2023-10-24T01:39:15Z")
Community: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Q1dLBCs_86s/maxresdefault.jpg "Community - Zombie attack! [S2E06 - Epidemiology]") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1dLBCs_86s) Charlie Brown: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/i1AxyNhJX4A/hqdefault.jpg "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown - Clip") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1AxyNhJX4A) ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-tv-episodes/991984/5 "2023-10-24T01:42:23Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Roseanne had a lot of Halloween episodes. They were often good. And The Conners continued the tradition. Home Improvement The Season 4 episode “Home” from the X-Files is supposed to be the most Halloweeney of all the episodes. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-tv-episodes/991984/6 "2023-10-24T01:43:03Z")
I know of, “Halloween is Grinch Night,” but I can’t make myself watch it. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-tv-episodes/991984/7 "2023-10-24T02:15:07Z")
The original **Quantum Leap** had a creepy Halloween episode ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-tv-episodes/991984/8 "2023-10-24T02:33:49Z")
_Alien Nation_ the Fox-TV series in '89-'90 had a Halloween episode called “Night of the Screams.” Apparently the human pagan festival happened to coincide with “the third equinox”, the time of Tagdot, the Taker of Hands… ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-tv-episodes/991984/9 "2023-10-24T02:44:27Z")
The sitcom **The Middle** had eight Halloween episodes in their nine seasons. The are very creatively (not!) named _Halloween I_ through _Halloween VIII_. They were among my favorite episodes of the series ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-tv-episodes/991984/10 "2023-10-24T12:41:17Z")
I recently did a binge watch of Brooklyn 99 on Peacock. They did an annual ‘Halloween Heist’ episode. It began with a bet between Andy Samberg’s character Jake and Captain Holt over who was a better detective, and took the form of the Captain locking away an award of his, and Jake would use tricks and subterfuge to try to ‘heist’ it. It grew to involve the entire precinct, and became a very complex annual episode over the seasons, with comedy take-offs on a number of movie heist tropes: layers of fake-outs and twists, broken and crossed alliances, crawling through ducts, etc. etc. It seems that, in their part of Brooklyn, they had much less crime to deal with, and much more downtime than one would think 😁 ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-tv-episodes/991984/11 "2023-10-24T16:15:34Z")
I recently watched a retrospective on the “Family Matters” Halloween episodes.Apparently the first “Stevil” episode (where Steve Urkel has an evil ventriloquist doll after him) is actually pretty scary for a sitcom. [Youtube Retrospective](https://youtu.be/uDFhTOnVGpM?si=F_xtyX2v9MKc9ayj) ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-tv-episodes/991984/12 "2023-10-24T17:38:21Z")
I was going to mention the **The X-Files** episode with Ed Asner and Lily Tomlin as ghosts, but I now think that it may have been a Christmas episode rather than Halloween. ---
**Author:** ![ZamboniAce1000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/f19dbf/32.png) [@ZamboniAce1000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZamboniAce1000)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-tv-episodes/991984/13 "2023-10-24T23:45:24Z")
Buffy the Vampire Slayer had some good Halloween episode, including one called “Halloween” when the people were turned into their costumes. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2023, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-tv-episodes/991984/14 "2023-10-25T00:19:42Z")
It wasn’t a Halloween episode per se, but I think The Monstrous Monkee Mash (S2E18) should qualify. > _Davy has been put under the spell of Lorelei, or to be precise, her magic necklace. Her uncle, a Transylvanian Count, wants to turn Davy into a vampire. When the other Monkees arrive looking for their missing mate from Manchester, Peter’s mind is singled out to be put inside a monster and Micky to become a wolf man. Mike manages to escape the vampire’s clutches by dressing up in a mummy’s smelly old wrappings._ ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2023, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-tv-episodes/991984/15 "2023-10-25T01:00:06Z")
I vaguely recall _Night Court_ having interesting Halloween episodes. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2023, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-tv-episodes/991984/16 "2023-10-25T01:16:22Z")
_Freaks and Geeks_ had a decent Halloween episode, complete with Joe Flaherty’s character in a vampire costume (get it?).