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Anyway, for me, my biggest tradition around this time of year is watching Halloween episodes and specials of TV shows that I've seen. Or, in some cases, I'll even watch Halloween episodes of shows I've never seen, such as Family Guy, this year.

I have a pretty long list, and every year I make sure to watch each and every one of them. Having a DVR works wonders in this case.

And yes, most of the episodes I watch are cartoons. The Spongebob episode is a classic, and there's supposed to be a new one this year.

I'll post my list here later or tomorrow, but for now, what are the Halloween episodes or specials you always try to watch each year? Don't limit it to just episodes, movies and the like count as well. Halloweentown, anyone?

i ALWAYS WATCH ALL OF HALLOWEENS AND TRICK R TREAT. ALSO IT'S A GREAT PUMPKIN CHARLIE BROWN IS A MUST. as far as TV shows I try to catch all the rosanne ones or anything that has a sit com season that includes a Halloween episode

There is a sticky thread at the top of the general halloween section called "This week on Halloween TV" that updates for any and all Halloween specials can be checked out (or post your own!):

This week on Halloween TV

I always end up watching more horror/suspense movies in my collection during the month of October... the classics like Universal Monsters, Freddy, Jason, Michael, some newer stuff (love Monster House and Trick r Treat!), and lots of tv specials - It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, Scooby Doo Mysteries...

We have already started watching our favorites each weekend.....


Great Pumpkin CB

Night of the Headless Horseman

Nightmare Before Xmas

The Corpse Bride

Hocus Pocus

Dark Night of The Scarecrow

Kolchak, the Night Stalker (original tv series)

Who's Afraid of the Dark tv series

Monster House (we save that for our twin nephews at the Halloween party)


We dont like gore

If there's a Halloween episode of a show we watch, I'll be glued to it. Since "Good Luck Charlie" is The Deduction's favorite show, safe bet we'll be catching that episode next week. And many...many....times after that...

The only ones I go out of my way to watch again and again, though, are the HGTV Halloween specials if they bother to show them again ...including the one (Extreme Halloween?) that featured a couple (former?) members of this Forum Family. Lately it's seemed like they do less and less of them, though (and frankly less and less general programming I'm interested in - guess I'm more of a DIY guy but I'm not upgrading my satellite for that!)
I also usually try to catch Marth Stewart's Halloween shows (love her or hate her, she does some good Halloween) and some of the Food Network specials.

We, too, make a point of watching Halloween-related movies during the season. The Deduction's reached the age where some of the ones Daddy likes get put off until she goes to bed (correction - IF she goes to bed), but you can count on a few:

Nightmare Before Christmas
Corpse Bride
Coraline
Princess and the Frog (not a Halloween movie you say? Come ON - voodoo, shadow demons, poppets, people being dragged bodily to Hell? What about that doesn't SCREAM Halloween? Except for being set during Mardi Gras and all)
It's a Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown
the Halloweentown series (just discovered that last year, where have I been???)

and as soon as I track down Disney's version of the Legend of Sleepy Hollow, it'll be added to the playlist!

Oh, on tape (showing my age) also have an old Lifetime Special: "Intimate Portrait: Witches" that usually sees some play around this time of year. Yes I know that it has nothing to do with Halloween, but that's how it happens in Auditor-House.

I LOVE to watch the home improvement or travel channel shows about home haunters displays and the shows about how to make Halloween stuff. Not that many so far this year though.

It's not Halloween per se...but I've been watching the slow painful death of the Red Sox this month

Originally Posted by Scatterbrains

It's not Halloween per se...but I've been watching the slow painful death of the Red Sox this month

Yeah, I watched the slow, painful death of the White Sox all season.

Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow is a must for me.

I like the usual scary movies. I'm a big scary movie gal anyways but there is just something so wonderful about popping in a few scary movies on the weekends leading up to Halloween.

I also love Disneys Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown and I'm really big on the Simpsons Halloween specials. I LOVE those!

Originally Posted by ironmaiden

We have already started watching our favorites each weekend.....


Great Pumpkin CB

Night of the Headless Horseman

Nightmare Before Xmas

The Corpse Bride

Hocus Pocus

Dark Night of The Scarecrow

Kolchak, the Night Stalker (original tv series)

Who's Afraid of the Dark tv series

Monster House (we save that for our twin nephews at the Halloween party)


We dont like gore

What a great list! I loved Who's Afraid of the Dark and would have never thought of it again had you not mentioned it!