Catch Halloween Episodes of ‘Matlock,’ ‘Dick Van Dyke’ and More on MeTV This Week
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Halloween is less than two weeks away — so it’s the perfect time to celebrate every day, with MeTV’s spooky Halloween classics. Between daily creepy dispatches from Toon In With Me, The Twilight Zone, and Alfred Hitchcock Presents, plus especially scarifying episodes of Matlock, Petticoat Junction, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Lost in Space, Bugs Bunny and Friends, and more, get ready to scare your pants off … so, maybe put on a second pair of pants, just to be safe.
All times EST. Find full MeTV schedule here.
Monday, October 20
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7 am: Toon In With Me, “Chilling Traditions”
Toon In With Me’s Boo-Bash begins with a look back on some seriously spooky traditions.
12:35 am: The Twilight Zone, “Number Twelve Looks Just Like You
In a creepy dystopia, being beautiful isn’t nice — it’s required.
1:05 am: Alfred Hitchcock Presents, “Woman Who Wanted To Live/ Strange Miracle”
First up, a murderer (Charles Bronson) forces a young woman to drive him to safety … but it turns out, she has her own reasons for helping with his getaway. Then, a man fakes being paralyzed to collect an insurance payout, and then fakes a miracle to get walking again.
Tuesday, October 21
7 am: Toon In With Me, “Tales Of Poe”
Toony and Bill retell classic horror tales of Edgar Allan Poe
12:35 am: The Twilight Zone, “Black Leather Jackets”
Three aliens disguise themselves as greasers.
1:05 am: Alfred Hitchcock Presents, “The Test/ Burglar Proof”
First up, a young man’s life hangs in the balance when forensics tests are performed on a gun. Then, a company that manufactures safes creates an un-crackable safe … and if you can crack it, the $50,000 inside it are yours.
Wednesday, October 22
7 am: Toon In With Me, “TIWM’s Horror Show”
10 am: Matlock, “The Strangler”
Ben Matlock decides to go up against serial killer Jeffrey Speidel. Are there enough hot dogs in the world to get him out of this one??
12:35 am: The Twilight Zone, “Night Call”
This episode has an impeccable classic horror pedigree — it was directed by Jacques Tourneur (Cat People), from a script by Richard Matheson. In it, an elderly woman receives increasingly bizarre phone calls from a stranger who won’t identify himself. But the real story is far more complex than some prankster with too much time on his hands.
1:05 am: Alfred Hitchcock Presents, “The Big Score/ Profit-sharing Plan”
First up, a babysitter and her friends rob and murder her client … but turns out, there’s someone much badder than them looking for the money they stole. Then, a retiring office worker tries to have it both ways, as he plots to rob the office with his wife, but then take off with his mistress.
Thursday, October 23
7 am: Toon In With Me, “Halloween Monsters”
Toony and Bill turn into classic monsters.
8 pm: The Andy Griffith Show, “Stranger in Town”
When a man no one has ever met before gets off the bus from New York City and seems to know all sorts of things about every person he meets, the citizens of Mayberry get suspicious. Is he a spy? An alien? Or something even worse??
12:35 am: The Twilight Zone, “From Agnes — With Love”
A computer programmer gets more than he bargained for when the world’s most advanced computer decides it wants him for a beau.
1:05 am: Alfred Hitchcock Presents, “Apex/ The Last Remains”
First up, a man and his mistress decide to knock off his rich wife. Yeah, that always goes well on Alfred Hitchcock Presents, right? Then, a funeral director finds just the thing to keep his struggling mortuary in business.
Friday, October 24
7 am: Toon In With Me, “Do You Want To Play With Me?”
Bill and Toony discuss clowns and dolls.
12:35 am: The Twilight Zone, “Spur of the Moment”
The idea of “if I knew then what I know now” is taken to a whole new (and thoroughly metaphysical) level.
1:05 am: Alfred Hitchcock Presents, “The Ten O’clock Tiger/ The Kerry Blue”
First up, a boxer discovers a new performance-enhancing drug. Then, a man is sure that his wife buried his beloved Kerry Blue terrier alive out of jealous for the way he doted on the pup — and he’s determined to make her pay.
Saturday, October 25
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5 am: Petticoat Junction, “The Curse Of Chester W. Farnsworth/ That Was The Night That Was”
First, Uncle Joe is dead-set (pun intended) on believing that the ghost of Chester W. Farnsworth haunts the halls of the Shady Rest. Then, a freaky visitor makes Kate and the rest of the group wonder if he’s of this earth.
9 am: Bugs Bunny and Friends Halloween Cartoons
Check out classics starring witches, aliens, and your favorite Looney Tunes.
5:30 pm: Wanted Dead or Alive, “The Monster”
Mining camps are being wrecked and the residents of Nugget City are terrified … but it couldnt be an actual monster, could it?
8 pm: Svengoolie Presents The Fly
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Get out your industrial-strength bug zappers for this double-header of Vincent Price sci-fi classics. In the original film, David Hedison plays a scientist who transforms into a half-man, half-fly.
10:30 pm: House of Svengoolie Presents Return of the Fly
In the sequel, the scientist’s son attempts to clear his father’s name … and that probably turns out fine, right?
12:30am: Adventures of Superman, “The Ghost Wolf”
The timber company that supplies the Daily Planet with its printing paper believes that it is under attack by a werewolf.
1 am: Lost in Space, “Ghost In Space”
Dr. Smith believe the colony is being threatened by a ghost.
Sunday, October 26
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5 pm: The Love Boat, “The Eyes Of Love / Masquerade / Hollywood Royalty (part 2)”
In a continuation of last week’s story, old loves connect during an on-ship costume party.
6:30 pm: Collector’s Call, “David Kostman- Sci-fi/horror Props + Costumes”
Kostman keeps a vast collection of sci-fi, horror and fantasy film props, costumes and memorabilia in his home “dungeon” (hey, if you had a home dungeon, isn’t that what you’d keep in it?)
11 pm: The Dick Van Dyke Show, “Uhny Uftz/ Long Night’s Journey Into Day”
First up, Rob thinks he saw a UFO, but no one else is quite convinced. Then, Laura gets nervous when she spends the night alone in the house.
12:35 am: The Twilight Zone, “Nightmare At 20,000 Feet”
The moment has finally arrived! Check out this iconic performance from a pre-Kirk William Shatner as the only man who can see the gremlin attempting to destroy his plane.
1:05 am: Alfred Hitchcock Presents, “Nightmare In 4-d/ Breakdown”
First up: a man who reads too many pulp crime tales finds himself smack in the middle of one.
Then, in one of the most infamous half-hours in TV history (and an episode directed by Hitch himself), a severely injured man is paralyzed but alive … but how will he convey that to the people who look at him and see a dead man? This episode represents the third collaboration between Hitchcock and Joseph Cotten.
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