Fantasy Television Programming: Halloween (2017)

Imagine you have complete control of a television channel on October 31st, 2017.   You are in charge of this year's Halloween programming for 24 hours starting at 6am! 

6:00am - It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown (1966)
             The Peanuts gang celebrates Halloween while Linus waits for the Great Pumpkin.



Meet me at the pumpkin patch! Linus van Pelt, Snoopy, and witch Lucy wait among the pumpkins on Halloween night for the Great Pumpkin to appear in this Peanuts by Jim Shore At the Pumpkin Patch Each Year the Great Pumpkin Rises Statue from artist Jim Shore. Made of stone resin, it measures 9 3/4-inches wide x 5 1/2-inches tall x 3 1/2-inches long. Ages 15 and up


6:30am - Happy Days - Episode: Haunted (1974) 
              Richie scoffs at kid sister Joanie's fear of the haunted Simpson house until he gets a                      glimpse of a ghostly figure inside one of its cobwebbed closets.



7:00am - Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew Meet Dracula Part 1 (1978)
              When Fenton disappears while in Europe, Joe and Frank go there to find him. Eventually                they meet a Romanian police inspector who's working with their father. They also run                    into Nancy Drew; it seems that Fenton was working for her father and she came to find                out what he learned. Eventually they find themselves in the village where Dracula is from.


8:00am - Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew Meet Dracula Part 2 (1978)


9:00am - The Night Stalker (1972)
              An abrasive Las Vegas newspaper reporter investigates a series of murders committed                  by a vampire.


10:30am - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1949)
                In a small town, a brewing romantic rivalry with a local tough and a school-teacher                        culminates in a terrifying ride in the night.



11:00am - Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
                 Two hapless freight handlers find themselves encountering Dracula, the Frankenstein                     Monster and the Wolf Man.


12:30pm - Michael Jackson's Thriller (1983)
                A night at the movies turns into a nightmare when Michael and his date are attacked                      by a hoard of bloodthirsty zombies - only a "Thriller" can save them now.


1:00pm - An American Werewolf in London (1981)
              Two American college students on a walking tour of Britain are attacked by a werewolf                  that none of the locals will admit exists.


3:00pm - John Carpenter's Original Classic: Halloween (1978)
              Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes                from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield to kill again.






4:30pm - Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
              Four horror and science fiction segments, directed by four famous directors, each of                      them being a new version of a classic story from Rod Serling's landmark television series.


6:30pm - Creepshow (1982)
              An anthology which tells five terrifying tales based on the E.C. horror comic books of the                1950s.




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8:30pm - Trick r' Treat (2007)
              Five interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: An everyday high school principal has                  a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have just met the guy for her; a                        group of teenagers pull a mean prank; a woman who loathes the night has to contend                  with her holiday-obsessed husband; and a mean old man meets his match with a                          demonic, supernatural trick-or-treater.




10:00pm - Rob Zombie's Halloween (2007)
                After being committed for 17 years, Michael Myers, now a grown man and still very                      dangerous, escapes from the mental institution and immediately returns to Haddonfield                  to find his baby sister, Laurie.


12:00am  - The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
                    A newly engaged couple have a breakdown in an isolated area and must pay a call 
                    to the bizarre residence of Dr. Frank-N-Furter.


2:00am - Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
              A disfigured composer sells his soul for the woman he loves so that she will perform his                music. However, an evil record tycoon betrays him and steals his music to open his rock                palace, The Paradise.






4:00am - Vampyres (2015)
               Deep in the rural English countryside, two tempting daughters of Erebus, the woeful                       wraith-like phantoms Fran and Miriam, prey on the innocent and the foolishly brave to                   tread alone. - Remake from Artsploitation Films 





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