Thread: The Revival of Halloween Television

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I just recently bumped an old thread (years old) wherein I asked folks to join me in petitioning Turner broadcasting to return "The Halloween Tree" to the October airwaves.

It got me thinking...

Shouldn't we Halloweenies be demanding far more from our broadcasters? Christmas specials were revived on the Family Channel and all the old Rankin/Bass cartoons can be seen every year now, due to viewer demand. Shouldn't we be making some noise?

Shouldn't your tv be thick with shows in October, shows like;
"Halloween is Grinch Night"
"Mad Monster Party"
"Garfields Halloween Adventure"
"Spooks Night Out"
The first Five Simpsons "Treehouses of Terror"
and dozens of others?

Don't sit there and wish they would show, write a four-six sentence email and send them to Turner broadcasting, Warner Bros., NBC, CBS, Disney/ABC, Fox, whoever!
We are the Largest Halloween community online. We are the source for prop and party research for dozens of business interests.

Lets let them know what we want.

And if you need a library of classic Halloween TV specials to reference, here is the best place online:
http://halloweenspecials.blogspot.com

Hope you'll help!

I remember when Halloween shows, everything from horror flicks to cartoons, would start on TV Oct. 1, now they just play stuff the week before or the week of & that's it. Not including channels like FearNet or Chiller, there's not much Halloweeny stuff anymore.

This also reminds me I need to move up Mad Monster Party on my Neflix queue.

i alway miss things like that. They should bring back more Halloween on TV.
but yet i dont remember seeing anything HALLOWEEN on tv at all . if there was it be a late night i really think they should bring the halloweens shows back !!

Funny how they always seem to take away the things that make Halloween fun. It seems that they just side-step Halloween and Thanksgiving and go straight to Christmas. They don't get it that some people enjoy ALL the holidays and the special things that go along with them. Christmas has become so big that the other holidays seem to be lost in the Christmas shuffle!

I don’t expect to see all the Halloween specials I grew up with on TV but I would really like to see Garfield’s Halloween Adventure make a come back. I’ll never understand why this fell out of favor.

Well, we do have ABC Family's 13 Nights of Halloween, but other than that, there isn't anything else to my knowledge. Like others said, its usually just the week of Halloween, and not even that. I remember AMC had horror movies all October long, now its just about the week before. Also, the on demand channels no longer have a Halloween section for movies during October. I definatly do agree that we should do something, the only question is, what.

Originally Posted by Mr. Scratch

I don’t expect to see all the Halloween specials I grew up with on TV but I would really like to see Garfield’s Halloween Adventure make a come back. I’ll never understand why this fell out of favor.

That one was great "Candy, candy, candy!!!"

I watch all of those every year, as i own them all. I just bought last year, the fat albert halloween special, brought back alot of memories. The Garfield one is great also. It's on dvd.

Originally Posted by kprimm

I watch all of those every year, as i own them all. I just bought last year, the fat albert halloween special, brought back alot of memories. The Garfield one is great also. It's on dvd.

Yeah, I've got the DVD and watch it every year but somehow it's just not quite as much fun as seeing in on tv but what ya gonna do?

Originally Posted by Dr.Ghoul

Well, we do have ABC Family's 13 Nights of Halloween, but other than that, there isn't anything else to my knowledge. Like others said, its usually just the week of Halloween, and not even that. I remember AMC had horror movies all October long, now its just about the week before. Also, the on demand channels no longer have a Halloween section for movies during October. I definatly do agree that we should do something, the only question is, what.

TCM will be playing Horror films all month, every Friday they will play them all night.