HALLOWEEN CLASSIC: A scene from the "Peanuts" Halloween special. It airs on ABC on Tuesday night. (ABC)
If you can’t wait until tomorrow for “So You Think You Can Dance,” FOX is running a special performance episode tonight at 8pm.
Trauma
NBC
9:00–10:00 p.m.
A Halloween party goes wrong and Tyler and Boone jump into action to control the chaos.
Cake Boss
TLC
10:00–11:00 p.m.
Buddy and the rest of his family are back in the kitchen of Carlo’s bakery. In the season two opener, a customer asks Buddy to bake a cake in the shape of an engagement ring box.
Herbert Hoover: Landslide
PBS
10:00–11:00 p.m.
PBS profiles Herbert Hoover and his presidency during the early years of the Depression.
Tuesday, October 27
ABC airs a Halloween classic tonight.
So You Think You Can Dance
FOX
8:00-10:00 p.m.
Finally, the top twenty dancers perform and the real competition begins.
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
ABC
8:00–9:00 p.m.
This “Peanuts” special first aired in 1966 and is still a favorite. Charlie Brown is invited to Violet’s Halloween party and Linus stakes out the Great Pumpkin.
Wednesday, October 28
Game 1 of the World Series airs at 7:30 p.m. on Fox.
Monsters vs. Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins From Outer Space
NBC
8:00–8:30 p.m.
Stars, including Reese Witherspoon and Kiefer Sutherland, lend their voices to this Halloween special based on the hit movie. The Monsters are now working for the U.S. government and must protect California from a group of aliens posing as jack-o-lanterns.
Friday Night Lights
DirecTV
9:00–10:00 p.m.
Season four won’t air on NBC until next summer, but you can catch it now on DirecTV. This season, Dillon gets split into two rival school districts and Coach Taylor and his wife Tami are on opposite sides of it.
The Real Wolfman
History
9:00–11:00 p.m.
Did the wolf man really exist? A small town in France was convinced that he did after more than 100 villagers were brutally attacked in the late 1700s. A criminal profiler investigates the myth.
Thursday, October 29
There are only six designers left on “Project Runway” (Lifetime, 10:00 p.m.)
Community
NBC
8:00–8:30 p.m.
Annie throws a “Day of the Dead” party, but Jeff would rather take his statistics professor out on a date.
CSI
CBS
9:00–10:00 p.m.
A football coach is murdered and everyone on his team becomes suspects as CSI investigates.
The League
FX
10:30–11:00 p.m.
This new comedy revolves around a group of guys and their fantasy football league. In the first episode, the boys prepare for the draft.
Friday, October 30
Here’s some spookiness for Halloween Eve.
Ghost Whisperer
CBS
8:00–9:00 p.m.
Washington Irving’s Headless Horseman shows up at Aiden’s school and Melinda needs to figure out why he’s haunting them.
Monk
USA
9:00–10:00 p.m.
Monk takes in a dog, but soon realizes its owner may have been a victim of foul play.
Weekend, October 31-November 1
Trick or Treat!
Saturday, October 31
The Good Witch’s Garden
Hallmark
9:00–11:00 p.m.
Hallmark re-airs the second installment of the “Good Witch” series in time for Halloween. Catherine Bell stars as a good witch, who is trying to gain acceptance from her new neighbors.
48 Hours
CBS
10:00–11:00 p.m.
Was it murder or suicide? A woman has visions of dying and is found drowned.
Sunday, November 1
Dexter
Showtime
9:00–10:00p.m.
Dexter continues his investigation into the Trinity Killer after he sees the police make headway.
Cold Case
CBS
10:00–11:00 p.m.
The team investigates the death of a WWII pilot—a civilian woman who was part of the “Women Air Force Service Pilots” program in 1944.
Dee Carlisi writes on pop culture and lives and works in New York.
