Classic Tv's Best Halloween Episodes 60S and 70S

Classic TV’s Halloween selection has a deep bench. Spooky season brings out the best in our favorite old-school sitcoms. Here are some of our favorite episodes to throw on while waiting for trick-or-treaters.

The Beverly Hillbillies

The entire hook of The Beverly Hillbillies is the fish-out-of-water dynamic as the backwoods Clampetts clash with elite residents of So-Cal. Still, it’s something of a revelation that the secluded country family had never even heard of Halloween before moving out west after striking oil. In the season one episode, “Trick or Treat“, the family goes door to door in their neighborhood to introduce themselves. Little do they know, it’s Halloween, and their neighbors mistake their down-to-earth rural threads to be costumes. The episode actually originally aired on Halloween night in 1962.

The Jeffersons

“Now You See It, Now You Don’t” is a two-part episode from season six of The Jeffersons. This one is nice because we get to see these Classic TV characters dressed as Golden Age Hollywood stars for Halloween for a costume contest. Louise (Isabel Sanford) shines as Mae West, exuding glamour, while George (Sherman Hemsley) channels Charlie Chaplin in a bowler hat. The plot is bonkers, involving a killer robot that crashes the party.