Halloween on ABC: A Timeline of the Network’s Obsession With All Hallows’ Eve
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‘The Addams Family’ — “Halloween With the Addams Family”
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‘Schoolhouse Rock!’ — “Them Not-So-Dry Bones”
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‘Bewitched’ — “To Trick-or-Treat or Not to Trick-or-Treat”
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‘The Brady Bunch’ — “Fright Night”
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‘Happy Days’ — “Haunted”
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‘Barney Miller’ — “Werewolf”
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‘Mork and Mindy’ — “A Morkville Horror”
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‘Mr. Belvedere’ — “Halloween”
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‘MacGyver’ — “Halloween Knights”
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‘Roseanne’ — “Boo!”
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‘Thirtysomething’ — “The Haunting of DAA”
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‘Doogie Howser, M.D.‘ — “Revenge of the Teenage Dead”
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‘Growing Pains’ — “Happy Halloween”
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‘Perfect Strangers’ — “Fright Night”
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‘Family Matters’ — “Whose Kid Is It Anyway?”
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‘Home Improvement’ — “Haunting of Taylor House”
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‘My So-Called Life’ — “Halloween”
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‘Step by Step’ — “Something Wild”
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‘Boy Meets World’ — “Who’s Afraid of Cory Wolf?”
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‘Ellen’ — “Trick or Treat. Who Cares?”
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‘Sabrina the Teenage Witch’ — “A River of Candy Corn Runs Through It”
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‘It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown’
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‘Hope and Faith’ — “The Halloween Party”
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‘Ugly Betty’ — “The Lyin, the Witch and the Wardrobe”
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‘Grey’s Anatomy’ — “Haunt You Every Day”
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‘Desperate Housewives’ — “Now I Know, Don’t Be Scared”
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‘Castle’ — “Vampire Weekend”
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‘The Middle’ — “Halloween”
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‘Modern Family’ — “Halloween”
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‘The Goldbergs’ — “Family Takes Care of Beverly”
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‘Dancing With the Stars’ — “Halloween Night”
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‘Fresh Off the Boat’ — “Miracle on Dead Street”
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‘Black-ish’ — “Jacked o’ Lantern”
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‘Dr. Ken’ — “Halloween-Aversary”
Halloween makes for good TV. But here's something we noticed: Many of our favorite Halloween-obsessed shows have a common address — ABC.
The powers-that-be at the Alphabet Network seem a bit consumed with things that go bump in the night, so we did a little digging to confirm that this is not a new thing. In fact, ABC has been treating us with trick-or-treat themed episodes for more than 60 years, starting with the Ozzie and Harriet episode "The Halloween Party" way back in 1952.
Related: How ABC Became the King of Halloween: Your 2016 Preview
ABC is so into Halloween that in 1976 the network hosted The Paul Lynde Halloween Special, which featured Wizard of Oz legend Margaret Hamilton in her first reprisal as the Wicked Witch of the West in the 1939 classic movie. And over the past six decades, every ABC show from According to Jim to Zorro has featured a Halloween episode — with no end in sight, as can be seen by this season's fall-friendly lineup and sister network, Freeform's, annual 13 Days of Halloween.
Click through this gallery to take a walk down ABC's Halloween-themed memory lane.