and many more!
I just watched a Halloween episode of Kate and Allie.
It wasn't very good. It was very familiar though. Which means I probably watched it more than once in the 80s. So when I was ten I not only watched Kate and Allie (because, I don't know, a show about two divorced women living together spoke to me) but watched episodes multiple times. Looking at the TV schedule it looks like I wasn't watching MacGyver or ALF. Oh, we're watching ALF by the way.
I don't have any regrets. Watching so much TV then has really informed my TV watching now. Putting in all those hours has insured that I like good television instead of awful, derivative things like Big Bang Theory. Plus I went outside to play once and there was a bug and it was gross.
The episode of Punky Brewster called "The Perils of Punky" has inspired headlines like How Punky Brewster Traumatized a Nation and 5 Inexplicably Horrifying Episodes of Classic Comedies. I don't know if it's specifically Halloween-based but it did air on October 20, 1985. Of course that left room the following week for the episode "Just Say No". What's scarier than battling an evil spirit in a cave? Being offered drugs.
Speaking of Johnny Galecki sitcoms, Johnny Galecki is not in the episode of Roseanne we're watching. His character didn't appear until 1992. But John Goodman is back since we saw him in C.H.U.D.
What I discovered in researching 80s Halloween episodes is, generally, a show would do one late in their run. Around season six. Roseanne pioneered the yearly Halloween episode, predating even The Simpsons. Also, it took me two days to write this and in the meantime I watched a Mr. Belvedere. Jesus Fucking Christ. Good theme song though:
Here's what happened last week:
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