Chapter 4 — Halloween Comes to Television
20 historic pictures in the Chapter 4 — Halloween Comes to Television collection, part of Hollywood Halloween Horrors. Each one can be ordered as a print or licensed, and the collection is a starting point for telling stories about the past.
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Jerry Mathers, who made his television debut as a trick-or-treater in the 1952 “Halloween… (1952)
The Beaver, spooked, in “The Haunted House” — Leave It to Beaver, aired March 5, 1959 (1959)
“Where's my candy, you son of a bitch?” — on That '70s Show, foreign-exchange student Fez…
Halloween with the Kramdens: in one of the Honeymooners “Lost Episodes,” Ralph and Alice…
“The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone” — the prime-time Halloween special sent…
Lassie's UNICEF trick-or-treat episode, first aired October 24, 1959
Trick or Treat for UNICEF
“Trick or Treatment” — M*A*S*H set its one Halloween episode in the operating room…
“Haunted” — Happy Days sent Richie and the gang into the supposedly haunted Simpson house…
“A Haunting We Will Go” — riding the Ghostbusters wave of that summer, Diff'rent Strokes…
Illustration — Laverne & Shirley; Ghost Story
Vanessa hosts a Halloween party while Cliff takes Rudy and her friends out… (1985)
The cast of The Jeffersons dressed as movie stars on their way to a Halloween party at… (1979)
Agnes Moorehead in witch costume for the television play “Rapunzel,” some ten years…
Endora, Tabitha and Samantha behind two jack-o’-lanterns — three generations of witches… (1969)
Detectives on the trail of a neck-biter: “The Vampire,” the one and only Halloween outing…
Gloomsbury Manor, October 29, 1976: Paul Lynde hosts an hour of network television that… (1976)
Margaret Hamilton in the green makeup with Gene Simmons of KISS, on the set of The Paul…
Fred Rogers with Margaret Hamilton on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, episode 1453, first… (1975)
Margaret Hamilton out of costume