Find Halloween Treats On The Tube
This Halloween you can catch terror, drama or laughs on the tube. If you can handle the interruptions by trick-or-treaters, it’s a night with a lot to offer.
For the scariest stuff, turn to the wide variety of movies on independent stations and cable.
Television’s top-rated drama, NBC’s “ER” at 10, features an episode set on a stormy Halloween night in Chicago. Carter’s (Noah Wyle) baptism of fire continues when he has to deliver tragic news to an 8-year-old trick-or-treater (Lauren Robinson) struck, along with her father, by a hit-and-run driver.
Hathaway (Julianna Margulies) and Ross (George Clooney) share Health Mobile duty in a part of town that’s scary year-round. Meanwhile, Benton (Eriq La Salle) shows he isn’t so tough when he takes some young patients trick-ortreating in the hospital.
Looking for comic relief on Halloween? Both of FOX’s Thursday comedies serve up Halloween treats. On “Martin” at 8, Martin and Gina (Martin Lawrence, Tisha Campbell) buy a dream house they fear is haunted. On “Living Single” at 8:30, Regine (Kim Fields Freeman) assists with the wedding plans of a creepy couple dubbed “the bride and groom of doom.”
On NBC’s “The Single Guy” at 8:30, Jonathan (Jonathan Silverman) encounters a “Cinderella” on the way home from a Halloween party. Feeling she is “the one,” he works like a prince to meet her.
Highlights
“Friends,” NBC at 8: In a clever flashback, we get to see what was going on in the lives of the six pals three years ago, just before we first met them in the “Friends” series premiere. Ross (David Schwimmer) is bummin’ after finding out his wife is a lesbian.
“High Incident,” ABC at 8: El Camino is rocked by a major earthquake, putting the force into high gear. Among the emergencies, Jessie (Lisa Vidal) aids a pregnant woman trapped in a tunnel.
“Figure Skating,” ABC at 9: From the Knickerbocker Arena in Albany, N.Y., it’s the U.S. Pro Figure Skating Championships. Skaters competing in the two-day event (concluding Saturday at 8) include six Olympic gold medalists: Kristi Yamaguchi, Katarina Witt, Dorothy Hamill, Ekaterina Gordeeva, Brian Boitano and Viktor Petrenko.
“Mystery!,” KSPS at 8: Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot returns for a sixth and final season.
David Suchet stars as the supersleuth in “Dumb Witness,” a two-parter concluding a week from tonight. “Witness” and “Hercule Poirot’s Christmas” (Nov. 14 and 21) are the last original episodes.
Suchet will have starred in 47 “Poirot” tales.
“48 Hours,” CBS at 10: It used to be that newsmagazine stories about the obsession with dieting were mainly about women. Times have changed, according to this broadcast. It’s men who are feeling the pressure to be thinner so they will look younger. And for some men, the weight-loss plan includes plastic surgery.