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The best Halloween TV episodes for families, show by show.
Halloween episodes of live-action family TV, from Bewitched and The Addams Family to Disney Channel, Nickelodeon and Goosebumps, grouped by show.
Most family sitcoms get around to a Halloween episode; the committed ones make it an annual fixture. This list gathers the best Halloween TV episodes for families from live-action shows — TGIF-era sitcoms, Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, a little Goosebumps — and groups them by show, so you can pick a household and stay there for the evening.
Every entry carries its season, episode, year and audience rating, and the 1960s still win: Bewitched holds the top spot twice at 8.6. Where-to-watch details were checked in September 2026, and streaming homes move, so confirm before you promise anyone a marathon.
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Halloween Candy
The Barones’ only stop on this list, and a sturdy one at 8.0. Late-’90s network comedy at its most dependable, with a title that doesn’t bury the lede.
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Haunting of Taylor House
Five Home Improvement Halloweens make this list, and this is the first. The title sets the tone: the Taylor house gets the haunted treatment.
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Crazy for You
No ghoul in the title, but it scores an 8.1 — second-best of the show’s five here. Season three, with the show at full volume.
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I Was a Teenage Taylor
Borrowing its title from I Was a Teenage Werewolf, this one tops the Taylor Halloweens on the list at 8.2.
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A Night to Dismember
A pun Tim Taylor would be proud of. Season seven, rated 7.8, and more proof this family never skipped October.
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Bewitched
Season eight takes its title from another sitcom on this list. The last Taylor Halloween here, rated 7.7.
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iScream on Halloween
First-season iCarly, with the show’s trademark lowercase i doing pun duty. A 7.2 from more than 500 voters.
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A Halloween Story
Sabrina’s first Halloween since learning, on her sixteenth birthday, that she’s a witch. Rated 7.8, and the start of five Spellman Halloweens on the list.
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A River of Candy Corn Runs Through It
Possibly the best title on the list: a Robert Redford riff aimed squarely at the parents on the couch. Season two, 7.8.
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Good Will Haunting
Good Will Hunting, haunted. Sabrina’s best score here at 7.9, from the season-three Halloween.
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The Halloween Scene
The college-years Halloween, from season five. The lowest-rated Sabrina entry at 7.1, but completists won’t skip it.
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Murder on the Halloween Express
Agatha Christie gets a costume change. Season six, rated 7.5, and the last of the Spellman Halloweens in this run.
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Halloween
A family of wizards on Halloween has an unfair advantage in the costume department. Disney Channel, season three, rated 6.7.
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Louisween
Louis Huang’s name folded into the holiday, which tells you whose night this is. The best of the Huangs’ three here at 7.5.
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It's a Plastic Pumpkin, Louis Huang
Charlie Brown makes way for Louis Huang, and the Great Pumpkin downgrades to plastic. Season four, rated 7.3.
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Workin' the 'Ween
Halloween as a shift rather than a party, if the title is anything to go by. The last of three Huang Halloweens, rated 7.2.
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Dog Day Halloween
Dog Day Afternoon gets the Winslow treatment in the title. Season two, 7.5 — the best-rated of the family’s three here.
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Stevil
Steve Urkel plus evil, compressed into one word. Season eight, rated 7.2, from the show’s gadget-happy later years.
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Stevil II: This Time He's Not Alone
The sequel, with a subtitle straight off a horror-movie poster. Rated 6.7, a notch below the original — sequels, famously.
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The Halloween Dream
Walnut Grove’s Halloween, and the lowest-rated scripted episode on the list at 5.2 from 429 voters. For prairie devotees first.
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Halloween
The Camdens’ first-season Halloween, from 1996. A gentle 7.1, in keeping with the show’s earnest streak.
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Le Halloween
The Duncans go French, at least in the title. Disney Channel’s best score on the list at 7.8.
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The Witches Are Out
Halloween is complicated when your wife is an actual witch and the holiday’s idea of one is a warty hag. The Stephens household’s first, rated 8.3.
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Trick or Treat
Tied for the highest rating on the whole list at 8.6. Season two, black-and-white, and Endora’s low opinion of Darrin is a holiday tradition of its own.
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Twitch or Treat
Samantha’s nose-twitch gets its own Halloween pun. Season three, the show’s first in color, rated 8.5.
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A Safe and Sane Halloween
The other 8.6, sharing top billing. The title reads like a parenting pamphlet, which in a house full of witches is optimistic.
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To Trick-Or-Treat or Not to Trick-Or-Treat
Hamlet goes trick-or-treating. Season six brought a new Darrin in Dick Sargent, and a 6.9 — the only Bewitched entry here below 8.
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Trick or Treat
Angel Grove does Halloween, first-season Power Rangers style. A 6.4, but anyone who owned a Morpher will forgive that.
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Halloween with the Addams Family
For the Addamses, Halloween is the one night the rest of the street dresses like them. The 1964 original, rated 7.8.
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Halloween - Addams Style
Season two’s follow-up, with a title that sums up the whole show. Rated 7.5, and the black-and-white only helps.
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Don't Have a Cow
Disney Channel’s psychic sitcom in its second season, with a title that is either advice or a costume warning. Rated 7.5.
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Halloween & Vampires, Werewolves, Ghosts and Zombies
Ned’s survival-guide format takes on the whole monster roster in one title. Nickelodeon, season three, 7.4 from a small crowd of voters.
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Happy Halloween: Part 1
The Seavers get a two-part Halloween in season six. Part one, rated 6.8 — commit to both halves or neither.
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Happy Halloween: Part 2
The conclusion, a shade lower at 6.6. Watch it straight after part one; the show clearly meant you to.
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The Haunted Mask: Part 1
Carly Beth buys a mask that won’t come off, and a generation of kids eyed their own costumes differently. The most-voted episode on the list by far.
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Attack of the Jack-O'-Lanterns
Adapted from R.L. Stine’s book of the same name, with the title doing all the pitching. Season two, rated 7.4, and the second-most-voted episode here.
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Halloween
Frontier medicine meets All Hallows’ Eve: Jane Seymour’s Dr. Mike and the town of Colorado Springs get the first of three Halloweens on the list. Season two, rated 7.6.
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Halloween II
Numbered like a slasher sequel, which is funnier for a family western. Season three, and it matches the first Dr. Quinn Halloween at 7.6.
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Halloween III
Three Halloweens, three numbered titles, as if the frontier were running a franchise. Season four closes the set a shade lower, at 7.3.
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Horror Stories & Halloween Scares
Every Austin & Ally title comes in pairs, and this one pairs horror stories with Halloween scares. Disney Channel, season three, and a strong 7.7.
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Halloween
Tia and Tamera Mowry, twins reunited, take on Halloween — a decade before their Twitches witches. Season three, and a sturdy 7.9 from a small but loyal crowd.
Five Halloweens apiece for the Taylors, the Spellmans and Samantha Stephens. That’s commitment.
Pick a show, line up its Halloween episodes in order, and watch the kids on screen grow up a year at a time. When one household’s October runs out, the Fieldguide watchlist has plenty more to fill the rest of the month.