Halloween Episodes in Your Favorite TV Shows
* New in 2020 | [Our top picks]
- Agatha Cristie’s Poirot (BritBox or buy on Amazon Prime)
- Hallowe’en Party, s12e2
- Boy Meets World (Disney +)
- Who’s Afraid of Cory Wolf, s2e6
- The Witches of Pennbrook, s5e5
- And Then There Was Shawn, s5e17
- Buffy (Hulu)
- Halloween, s2e6
- Fear, Itself, s4e4
- All The Way, s6e6
- Brooklyn 99 (Hulu)
- Halloween, s1e6
- Halloween 2, s2e4
- Halloween, Part III, s3e5
- Halloween IV, s4e5
- HalloVeen, s5e4
- Cinco de Mayo, s6e16
- Charmed (Peacock TV or buy on Amazon Prime)
- All Halliwell’s Eve, s3e4
- Kill Billie, Volume1, s8e6
- Community (Netflix)
- Introduction to Statistics, s1e7
- Epidemiology, s2e6
- Horror Fiction in Seven Spooky Steps, s3e5
- Paranormal Parentage, s4e2
- Doctor Who: (HBOMax) (Editor’s note: Not in order, but ranked by my favorites)
- Blink, s3e10
- Day of the Moon, s6e2
- Mummy on the Orient Express, s8e8
- Hide, s7e10
- Listen, s8e4
- Knock Knock, s10e4
- Sleep No More, s9e9
- The Empty Child, s1e9
- Oxygen, s10e5
- The Water’s of Mars Special, s4e16
- The Unquiet Dead, s1e3
- Midnight, s4e10
- Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead, s4 e8 & 9
- Heaven Sent, s9e11
- It Takes You Away, s11e9
- Even Stevens (Disney +)
- A Very Scary Story, s2e11
- Freaks and Geeks (Purchase DVD from Amazon)
- Tricks and Treats, s1e3
- Friends (HBOMax)
- The One With The Halloween Party, s8e6
- Full House (Hulu)
- It’s Not My Job, s2e3
- Divorce Court, s3e8
- It Was a Dark and Stormy Night, s7e1
- Gilmore Girls (Netflix)
- Pulp Fiction, s5e17 (Editor’s Note: not Halloween, but a costume party)
- Twenty-One is the Loneliest Number, s6e7
- A Year in the Life, “Fall”
- Happy Endings (Hulu)
- Spooky Endings, s2e5
- Hart of Dixie (Netflix)
- The Undead & The Unsaid, s1e6
- Walkin’ After Midnight, s2e5
- Help Me Make It Through the Night, s3e4
- Haven (Netflix)
- Real Estate, s3e6
- How I Met Your Mother (Hulu)
- The Slutty Pumpkin, s1e6
- Canning Randy, s6e7
- The Slutty Pumpkin Returns, s7e8
- Letterkenny (Hulu)
- The Haunting of MoDean’s II, s3e7
- Modern Family (Buy on Amazon Prime)
- Halloween, s2e6
- Open House of Horrors, s4e5
- Halloween 3: AwesomeLand, s6e6
- Halloween 4: The Revenge of Rod Skyhook, s8e5
- It’s The Great Pumpkin, Phil Dunphy, s9e5
- Good Grief, s10e5
- The Last Halloween, s11e5
- New Girl (Netflix)
- Halloween, s2e6
- Keaton, s3e6
- Parks & Recreation (Peacock TV or buy on Amazon Prime)
- Greg Pikitis, s2e7
- Meet n Greet, s4e5
- Halloween Surprise, s5e5
- Recall Vote, s6e6
- Psych (Amazon Prime)
- Scary Sherry Bianca’s Toast, s1e15
- Shawn (and Gus) of the Dead, s2e16
- Tuesday the 17th, s3e15
- The Devil is in the Details and the Upstairs Bedroom, s4e4
- Let’s Get Hairy, s4e8
- Mr. Yin Presents, s4e16
- In Plain Fright, s5e11
- This Episode Sucks, s6e3
- Heeeeere’s Lassie, s6e11
- 100 Clues, s7e5
- A Nightmare on State Street, s8e9
- Pretty Little Liars (HBOMax)
- The First Secret, s2e13
- This Is a Dark Rid, s3e13
- Grave New World, s4e13
- Riverdale (Netflix)
- Chapter Sixty-One: “Halloween”, s4e4
- Sabrina the Teenage Witch (Hulu)
- A Halloween Story, s1e5
- A River of Candy Corn Runs Through It, s2e7
- Good Will Haunting, s3e6
- Episode LXXXI: Phantom Menace, s4e6
- The Halloween Scene, s5e6
- Murder in the Halloween Express, s6e4
- Sabrina, Chilling Adventures of (Netflix)
- Chapter One: October Country, s1e1
- Chapter Two: The Dark Baptism, s1e2
- Editor’s note: Although the above is are the only episodes that are really around Halloween, other stand out spooky episodes are:
- Chapter Five: Dreams in a Witch house, s1e5
- Chapter Six: An Exorcism in Greendale, s1e6
- Chapter Fifteen: Doctor Cerberus’s House of Horror, s2e4
- Chapter Nineteen: The Mandrake, s2e8
- Scream Queens (Hulu)
- Haunted House, s1e3
- Pumpkin Patch, s1e4
- Halloween Blues, s2e4
- Sherlock (Netflix)
- The Hounds of Baskerville, s2e2
- The Abominable Bride, s3e4
- Editor’s note: There are no true Halloween episodes in Sherlock, but I love this show and these episodes have some great spooky vibes)
- Spongebob Squarepants (Seasons 1-5 on Amazon Prime, seasons 6-12 on Amazon to buy)
- Scariest Pants, s1e13
- Graveyard Shift, s2e16
- Ghost Host, s4e10
- The Curse of Bikini Bottom, s7e8
- The Curse of the Hex, s7e25
- Ghoul Fools, s8e9
- Don’t Look Now/Seance Sundance, s9e8
- The Legend of Boo-Kini Bottom, s11e4
- The Night Patty, s11e21
- The Ghost of Plankton, s12e19
- A Cabin in the Kelp, s12e21
- Stranger Things (Netflix),
- Trick or Treat, Freak, s2e2
- Suburgatory (cwseed)
- Halloween, s1e5
- The Witch of East Chatwin, s2e2
- Supernatural (Netflix)
- Monster Movie, s4e5
- It’s the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester, s4e7
- Mint Condition, s14e4
- The Big Bang Theory (HBOMax)
- The Middle Earth Paradigm, s1e6
- The Codpiece Topology, s2e2
- The Justice League Recombination, s4e11
- The Holographic Excitation, s6e5
- The Good Guy Fluctuation, s5e7
- The Imitation Perturbation, s12e6
- The Office (Netflix)
- Halloween, s2e5
- Employee transfer, s5e6
- Costume Contest, s7e6
- Spooked, s8e5
- Here Comes Treble, s9e5
- What I Like About You (Buy on Amazon Prime)
- Ghost of a Chance, s3e7
- Halloween, s4e6
- You’re the Worst (Hulu)
- Spooky Sunday Funday, s2e8
Halloween-Vibe TV Shows
* New in 2020 | [Our top picks]
- American Horror Story: Murder House (Netflix)
- Halloween, Part 1 & 2, s1e4&5
- American Horror Story: Coven (Netflix)
- Fearful Pranks Ensure s3e4
- Burn, Witch. Burn! s3&5
- American Horror Story: Hotel (Netflix)
- Devil’s Night, s5e4
- American Horror Story: Apocalypse (Hulu)
- Forbidden Fruit, s8e3
- American Horror Story: 1984 (Hulu)
- And Then There Were None (2016 mini series) (Acorn TV or Amazon Prime Buy)
- Being Human – UK / BBC (Amazon Prime)
- Being Human – US (Buy on Amazon Prime)
- Black Mirror (Netflix) (Editor’s Note: Playtest s3e2 is especially perfect for Halloween horror)
- Buffy (Hulu)
- Charmed (Peacock TV or buy on Amazon Prime)
- Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (Netflix)
- Crazyhead (Netflix)
- Daybreak (Netflix)
- Ghosts (2019) (HBOMax)
- Goosebumps (1995) (Netflix)
- *La Révolution (Netflix) (Coming October 16)
- *Lovecraft Country (HBOMax)
- Penny Dreadful (Netflix)
- Santa Clarita Diet (Hulu)
- Scream Queens (Hulu)
- So Weird (Disney +) (Editor’s Note: If you are a millennial this will transport you back to middle school.)
- Stan Against Evil (Hulu) (Editor’s note: This is a great horror comedy show!)
- Stranger Things (Netflix)
- Supernatural (Netflix)
- The Fades (HBOMax)
- The Frankenstein Chronicles (Netflix)
- *The Haunting of Bly Manor (Netflix) (Coming October 9th) (Editor’s note: This is the second installment of the anthology after Haunting of Hill House)
- The Haunting of Hill House (Netflix)
- The Twilight Zone (Hulu or Netflix)
- What We Do In The Shadows (2019) (Hulu)
- X-Files (Hulu)
Our Favorite Halloween Movies
* New in 2020 | [Our top picks]
- *A Babysitter’s Guide to Vampire Hunting (Netflix) (Coming October 14)
- The Addams Family (1991) (Netflix & Amazon Prime)
- Addams Family Values (1993) (Amazon Prime)
- Beetlejuice (1988) (Amazon Prime Rent or Buy)
- Coco (2017) (Disney +)
- Casper (2017) (Amazon Prime Rent or Buy)
- Clue (1985) (Amazon Prime)
- Coraline (2009) (Amazon Prime Rent or Buy)
- Crimson Peak (2005) (Amazon Prime Rent or Buy)
- Double, Double Toil and Trouble (1993) (Hulu) (Editor’s note: A childhood favorite with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen!)
- Frankenweenie (2012) (Disney +)
- Get Out (2017) (Amazon Prime Rent or Buy)
- Goosebumps (2015) (Amazon Prime Rent or Buy)
- Halloweentown movies (Disney +)
- Halloween Tree (1993) (Amazon Prime Rent or Buy) (Editor’s Note: Another favorite childhood movie!)
- Happy Death Day (2017) (Amazon Prime Rent or Buy)
- Harry Potter & the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001) (Peacock TV or Amazon Prime Rent or Buy)
- Hocus Pocus (1993) (Disney +)
- Hotel Transylvania (2012) (Amazon Prime Rent or Buy)
- *Hubie Halloween (Netflix)
- I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives in the House (2016) (Netflix)
- It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966) (Hulu Live or Rent on Vudu)
- Jennifer’s Body (2009) (Amazon Prime)
- Little Monsters (2019) (Hulu original)
- Little Shop of Horrors (1986) (HBOMax)
- ParaNorman (2012) (Amazon Prime Rent or Buy)
- Practical magic (1998) (Amazon Prime Rent or Buy)
- Pride & Prejudice and Zombies (2016) (Amazon Prime Rent or Buy)
- Ready or Not (2019) (HBOMax)
- *Rebecca (Netflix) (Coming October 24)
- Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) (Hulu & Amazon Prime Rent or Buy)
- *Save Yourselves (2020) (Amazon Prime Rent or Buy)
- Scooby-Doo Zombie Island (1998) (Netflix & Amazon Prime Rent or Buy)
- Scooby-Doo & The Witches Ghost (1999) (Amazon Prime Rent or Buy)
- Scooby-Doo (2002) (HBOMax)
- Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004) (HBOMax)
- Shaun of the Dead (2004) (Amazon Prime Rent or Buy)
- Sleepy Hollow (1999) (Netflix)
- The Babysitter (2017) (Netflix)
- *The Babysitter Killer Queen (2020) (Netflix)
- The Book of Life (2014) (Amazon Prime Rent or Buy)
- The Cabin in the Woods (2012) (Amazon Prime)
- *The Devil all the Time (2020) (Netflix)
- The Little Stranger (2018) (Amazon Prime Rent or Buy)
- The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) (Disney +)
- The Others (2001) (HBOMax)
- *The Witches (HBOMax) (Coming October 22) (Editors note: It is a reboot with Anne Hathaway)
- The Woods (2006) (Hulu)
- Van Helsing (2004) (Amazon Prime Rent or Buy)
- *Vivarium (2020) (Amazon Prime)
- What We Do In the Shadows (2015) (Amazon Prime Rent or Buy)
- Zombieland (2009) (Amazon Prime Rent or Buy)
Did we miss your favorite? Send us a note in the comments! (Note this is a decidedly “Halloween/generally spooky” list. The hardcore horror movie genre is a whole different story)
