A HALLOWEEN PROGRAMMING GUIDE TO CHILLS, CHUCKLES AND CLASSICS

Turn out the lights and turn on the TV: the networks, cable and local stations are celebrating All Hallow’s Eve in a big way with programming ranging from classic horror films to camp delights to such holiday favorites as “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.”

Below is a selected list of Halloween treats you can watch on the small screen this week:

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American Movie Classics

If you love Karloff, Lugosi, Chaney, Rains and the Gill Man, get your VCRs read for AMC’s 24-Hour Universal “Horrifying Halloween” Monster Movie Marathon, beginning Thursday at the bewitching hour of 3 a.m. The marathon features horror classics from the vaults of Universal Studios: “Bride of Frankenstein” (3 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.); “Son of Frankenstein” (4:15 a.m. and 7 p.m.); “The Wolf Man” (6 a.m. and 9 p.m.); “Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man” (7:30 a.m. and 10:15 p.m.); “The Invisible Man” (9 a.m. and 11:30 p.m.); “The Invisible Man Returns” (8:30 a.m. and Friday at 1 a.m.); the 1943 version of “The Phantom of the Opera” (noon); “The Creature From the Black Lagoon” (2 p.m.) and “The Mummy” (4 p.m.). Also on tap: “This Is Your Life: Boris Karloff” (3:30 p.m. and Friday at 2:30 a.m.).

Cinemax

Cinemax is pulling out all the stops for All Hallow’s Eve with Chiller’s Hammer House of Horrors, featuring horror flicks produced by Britain’s Hammer Films: “The Curse of Frankenstein” (Thursday at 6:30 p.m.); “Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed” (Monday at 6:30 p.m. and Thursday at 4:30 p.m.); “The Revenge of Frankenstein” (Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. and Thursday at 3 p.m.); “The Gorgon” (Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. and Thursday at noon); and “The Devil’s Own” (Sunday at 3 p.m. and Thursday at 1 p.m.).

Cinemax also is presenting a Witches festival featuring: “The Witches” (Sunday at 9 a.m. and Thursday at 8 p.m.); “Teen Witch” (Thursday at 8:30 a.m.); “Witchery” (Tuesday at 11:45 p.m.); “Witchtrap” (Monday at 8:30 p.m.); and “Love at Stake” (Sunday at midnight and Thursday at 4:20 p.m.).

HBO

The Crypt Keeper is digging into the catacombs to find 12 “ghoul-den” episodes from the hit anthology series Tales from the Crypt for a Halloween marathon beginning Wednesday at 11 p.m. Among the episodes: “The Reluctant Vampire,” with Malcolm McDowell; “Top Billing,” with Jon Lovitz and John Astin; “Easel Kill,” starring Tim Roth; Richard Jordan in “Deadline”; and Kirk and Eric Douglas in “Yellow.”

The Discovery Channel

The Discovery Channel celebrates Halloween Thursday with a series of specials.

Mystery of the Full Moon (6 p.m.) attempts to shed some light as to why assaults and other crimes increase during a full moon. Ghosts, Apparitions and Haunted Houses (7 p.m.) examines one of the most haunted cities in America--Chicago.

Invasion from Mars (7:30 p.m.) looks at the terror and panic that swept the nation when America tuned in Halloween eve of 1938 to hear Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre perform “War of the Worlds.”

The Nightmare Factory (8 p.m.) chronicles the history of horror films. Legend of the Vampires (8:30 p.m.) finds Bill Burrud searching for the origins of the vampire as a bat legend.

The Disney Channel

Mickey Mouse and friends are presenting 18 hours of Halloween fare beginning Thursday at 10 a.m. Highlights of the marathon include: Raggedy Ann & Andy: The Pumpkin Who Couldn’t Smile (10 a.m.); Disney’s DTV Monster Hits (noon), which features music by Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley; The Halloween That Almost Wasn’t (2:35 a.m.); Halloween Under the Umbrella Tree (3 p.m.); Bing Crosby narrates the animated classic The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (3:30 p.m. and Friday at 5 a.m.); Casper’s Halloween Special (5 p.m.) finds the friendly ghost and a group of orphans having their trick-or-treating spoiled by Harry Scary; Dr. Seuss’ Grinch is up to his nasty tricks in Halloween Is Grinch Night (6 p.m.); A Disney Halloween (6:30 p.m.) features spooky scenes from Disney animated films such as “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” “Peter Pan,” “Fantasia” and “101 Dalmatians.”

The Movie Channel

Who’s on the Movie Channel?

Abbott and Costello.

What’s on the Movie Channel?

An Abbott and Costello horror comedy movie marathon.

When is it on the Movie Channel?

Thursday beginning at 9:30 a.m.

And what are the titles?

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (10:30 a.m.); Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (noon); Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1:30 p.m.); Hold That Ghost (3 p.m.); and Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (4:30 p.m.).

Nickelodeon

Are You Afraid of the Dark? (Sunday at 6:30 p.m.; Wednesday at 7 p.m.)--A group of kids sit around a campfire and relate ghost stories.

The Haunting of Nick (Wednesday 5-8 p.m.); The Haunting of Nick at Nite (8:30 p.m.-midnight); --Sit back and enjoy over six hours of ghouls, ghosts and goblins who inhabit scary episodes of “Clarissa Explains It All,” “Salute Your Shorts,” “Looney Tunes,” “The Adventures of Superman,” “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” “Mork & Mindy,” “Green Acres,” “Donna Reed,” “My Three Sons” and “F. Troop.” Included in the festivities is the new special “The Marc Summers Mystery Magical Hour” (6:30 p.m.)

Hitchcock’s Halloween (Thursday from 10 p.m. to Friday at 6 a.m.)--Curl up with eight spine- tingling hours of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents.”

TBS

Kick off Halloween Thursday with holiday-themed episodes of The Flintstones (3:35 a.m.); Little House on the Prairie (6:05 a.m.); Tom and Jerry’s Halloween Special (12:05 p.m.); The Brady Bunch (1:35 p.m.); Happy Days (2:05 p.m.); The Andy Griffith Show (3:35 p.m.) and The Beverly Hillbillies (4:05 p.m.).

TBS also has several chillers on tap Thursday: Witches’ Brew (7:05 a.m.); Joan Collins stars in Tales from the Crypt (10:05 a.m.); Jonathan Frid is Barnabas in House of Dark Shadows (5:05 p.m.); Frid is back in Night of Dark Shadows (7:05 p.m.); George Hamilton stars in Love at First Bite (9:05 p.m,.) Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski star in The Fearless Vampire Killers (11:05 p.m.)

TNT

It’s a veritable Monster, Chiller, Horror Theater Thursday on TNT with 12 hours of creepy classics including the horror-comedy “The Spirit Is Willing” (9 a.m.); Jack Palance in “Torture Garden” (11 a.m.) and Christopher Lee in “The Devil’s Bride” (1 p.m.).

Beginning at 5 p.m. is TNT’s Our Favorite Monsters movie marathon featuring Christopher Lee as Count Dracula in “Taste the Blood of Dracula,” Lee and Peter Cushing in “Dracula A.D. 1972” (7 p.m.), Lee and Michael Cole in “Satanic Rites of Dracula” (9:15 p.m.), “The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires” (11 p.m.) and “The Vampire and the Ballerina” (Friday at 1 a.m.).

VH-1

VH-1 kicks off Halloween Thursday with Alfred Hitchcock (4 and 9 p.m.), a documentary narrated by Cliff Robertson on the Master of Suspense; George Romero’s 1968 cult classic Night of the Living Dead (7 p.m.).

Network

ABC

Roseanne (Tuesday at 9 p.m.) celebrates Halloween by playing a trick on one of the neighbors.

CBS

The Last Halloween (Monday at 8:30 p.m.)--Richard Moll and Rhea Perlman headline this new holiday special featuring a combination of live-action and computer-generated imagery.

It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (Wednesday at 8:30 p.m.)--Halloween wouldn’t be Halloween without the annual airing of this classic Peanuts cartoon.

FOX

Frankenstein: The College Years (Monday at 8 p.m.)--William Ragsdale and Larry Miller star in this comic version of the Frankenstein legend. This time around the creature is brought to life by two college students and becomes a BMOC--”Big Monster on Campus.”

Little Dracula (Thursday at 8 a.m)--This special holiday episode finds Little D and Big Dracula donning the dress of “normal” people and going trick-or-treating.

The Simpsons (Thursday at 8 p.m.)--Bart, Lisa and Homer eat so much candy that they have ghastly nightmares.

NBC

Saturday Night live Halloween Special (Monday at 8 p.m.)-- “Wayne World” host Wayne Campbell and his excellent co-host Garth host this special featuring classic Halloween sketches from SNL’s 16 seasons.

Cheers (Thursday at 9 p.m.)--The gang conjures up the perfect Halloween trick to frighten a rival until discovering it may have scared him to death; Frasier and Lilith take their son trick-or-treating at Cheers.

Local

KTLA

Elvira stars in Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (Tuesday at 8 p.m.); Halloween III (Thursday at 2 a.m.).

KCAL

The Horror Hall of Fame II (tonight at 9 p.m.)--Robert Englund, a.k.a. Freddy Krueger, hosts a two-hour tribute to terror featuring interviews with the actors, producers, writers and crafts people who make horror flicks.

KDOC

Halloween With the Addams Family (Thursday at 6 p.m.)--Spend the evening with Morticia, Gomez, Fester and Thing.