A Halloween Bag of Treats Including ‘Simpsons’ Special

It’s a spook-tacular weekend for things that go bump in the night. With Halloween just around the corner, television has plenty of movies, series and specials in store to scare the daylights out of viewers.

Bill Fagerbakke stars in the Disney Channel movie “Under Wraps,” Saturday at 7 and 10:20 p.m. The former “Coach” regular plays a mummy who is reunited with his lost love on Halloween, thanks to the help of three kids.

The Cartoon Network offers a 25-hour marathon of the ghost-busting Great Dane, “Scooby-Doo,” beginning Saturday at 9 p.m. The Doo-a-thon features all the episodes from the first two seasons of the original, “Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?”

Boyd Matson looks at animals that are dangerous and ones that are not on “Nightmares of Nature,” a “National Geographic Explorer” special airing at 4 p.m. Sunday on TBS.

“The Wonderful World of Disney” presents a family Halloween flick, “Tower of Terror,” at 7 p.m. Sunday on Channel 7. Steve Guttenberg stars as a tabloid journalist who tries to help a group of ghosts break a witch’s curse.

The Learning Channel’s “Castle Ghosts of Wales,” at 7 and 10 p.m. Sunday, chronicles some of the weird spooks haunting Welsh castles.

Trick or treat! Fox’s “The Simpsons” serves its latest installment of its “Treehouse of Horror” Halloween trilogy, at 8 p.m. Sunday on Channel 11. This year, the series parodies feature films: “The Homega Man,” “Fly vs. Fly” and “Easy-Bake Coven.”

Kim Delaney and Thomas Gibson star in ABC’s “The Devil’s Child,” at 9 p.m. Sunday on Channel 7. Delaney plays a woman who discovers she’s pregnant with Satan Jr.

Today

NBC broadcasts Game 5 of baseball’s World Series between the Florida Marlins and Cleveland Indians at 5 p.m. on Channel 4. If they are necessary, Game 6 is set for Saturday at 4:30 p.m. and Game 7 is scheduled for Sunday at 4:30 p.m.

The “Signature” series profiles Tony-winning director George C. Wolfe (“Jelly’s Last Jam”), at 10 p.m. on KCET-TV Channel 28.

Friday

Bernie Kopell and Ted Lange of “The Love Boat” guest as themselves on ABC’s “Boy Meets World,” at 8:30 p.m. on Channel 7.

Michael Kinsley moderates a “Firing Line Debate” on trade with China, at 9 p.m. on KCET. William F. Buckley Jr., Henry Kissinger and Jerry Brown are among the panelists.

Saturday

Julio Cesar Chavez and Miguel Angel Gonzalez battle it out for the vacant WBC super-lightweight title, at 6 p.m. on pay per view.

Sunday

KCBS-TV Channel 2’s “Parenting in the ‘90s,” at 11 a.m., is the first of five specials designed to help the contemporary mother address such issues as work, computers, insurance, investments and child care.

In the documentary “Pins and Noodles,” at 6 p.m. on KCET, Arnold Iger and Paul Kwan chronicle the healing power of food and the cultural significance of what we eat.

Meredith Baxter is quite literally ruling the airwaves with two back-to-back movies: the Family Channel’s “Let Me Call You Sweetheart,” at 7 p.m., and CBS’ “Miracle in the Woods,” at 9 p.m. on Channel 2. “Sweetheart” is based on Mary Higgins Clark’s suspense novel about a renowned prosecutor who reopens an 11-year-old murder case. In “Miracle,” Baxter and Patricia Heaton play sisters who find an elderly woman (Della Reese) living on land they inherited from their mother.

PBS’ “Masterpiece Theatre” presents Anne Bronte’s “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall,” at 9 p.m. on KCET. Tara Fitzgerald and Rupert Graves star in this adaptation of Bronte’s 1848 novel about a woman who tries to remove herself and her son from an abusive marriage.