Bewitching Hours Stretch from Morning till Night on October 31, with
Non-Stop Holiday Fare for Tots to Tweens
The Fairly OddParents, SpongeBob SquarePants, Catscratch, Danny Phantom,
Jimmy Neutron and Many, Many More Fill Four Spooktacular Marathons; Nick,
Jr.'s 'Monster Mash Week' Treats Tots to Noontime Premieres, October 23-26
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Nickelodeon's "Shriekin' Weekend"
scares up a monstrous slate of Halloween specials, Friday-Sunday, October
27- 29 -- topped by three chill-filled premieres -- and ushers in a
Halloween Day non-stop marathon for kids from tots to tweens. The kid
channel lifts the lid on back-to-back all-new episodes of
Mr.Meaty/"Nosferateens" and The X's/"The Haunting of Home Base" on Friday,
October 27 (8:30 & 9 p.m. ET/PT) and uncloaks Ned's Declassified School
Survival Guide/"Vampires, Werewolves, Ghosts and Zombies," Sunday, October
29 (7:30 p.m. ET/PT).
Being a vampire bites, both for Mr. Meaty's burger-flipping puppets
Josh and Parker, who decide to become "undead" for a little trick-or-treat,
on-the- job excitement after finding a caped creature in the freezer in
"Nosferateens" and for the tipster of Ned's Declassified (Devon
Werkheiser), whose toothy transformation on Halloween draws a gaggle of
ghouls in "Vampires, Werewolves, Ghosts and Zombies." The X's bratty spy
kid Truman stays human but shrinks in horror when his parents and sister
turn into zombies in "The Haunting of Home Base."
Nick. Jr. will treat tots, too, with noontime premieres during "Monster
Mash Week," Monday-Thursday, October 23-26, featuring all-new
Backyardigans/"Monster Party," LazyTown/"Haunted Castle," Wonder Pets/
"Save the Black Kitten and Wow! Wow! Wubbzy/"Monster Madness." Consecutive
encores of the quartet will cast a morning spell, October 27 & 31 (10:30
a.m.-12:30 p.m.).
The "Shriekin' Weekend" kicks off on Friday night, October 27 (7-10
p.m. ET/PT), with a trio of frightful faves: SpongeBob SquarePants'
"Scaredy Pants" with its amazing undersea costume party, Catscratch's
"Scaredy Cat" -- superstitious kitty Gordon dreads Halloween -- and The
Fairly OddParents' "Scary Godparents" (7, 7:30 & 8 p.m.) pave the way to
the rib-tickling premieres of Mr. Meaty and The X's (8:30 & 9 p.m.). Danny
Phantom's "Fright Knight" (9:30 p.m.) wraps up Friday's deliciously scary
fare, as the titular teen hero fights the evil, ghostly Spirit of Halloween
(a.k.a. Fright Knight).
Rattling a lengthy chain, Saturday's five-hour marathon (2-7 p.m.
ET/PT) links even more holiday offerings. Among them, Jimmy Neutron's
"Nightmare in Retroville" (2 p.m.) finds the boy genius desperately trying
to reverse the effects of his latest invention, the neutronic monster
maker. And Chuckie finds his inner "werewuff" on "Hallomean" in Rugrats'
"Curse of the Werewuff" (6 p.m.) and stands up to Angelica, who has all the
babies shivering in their booties.
Sunday night's TEENick trick-or-treat lineup, which turns a spooky
spotlight on Ned's Declassified's premiere of "Halloween" and "Vampires,
Werewolves, Ghosts and Zombies" as its centerpiece at 7:30 p.m., first
finds The Amanda Show's Judge Trudy ruling on ridiculous Halloween mishaps
in comedy sketches at 6 p.m. The all-new, frightfully funny
Halloween-themed Mr. Meaty encores at 6:30 p.m. Nick peeks at ghostly
goings-on in Zoey 101's "Haunted House" (8 p.m.) when Zoey's (Jamie Lynn
Spears) little brother gets lost in the spooky abode Logan created. Then
there's a Spooktacular party at which a reticent Addie expects a non-random
Spin the Bottle in Unfabulous's "The Dark Side" (8:30 p.m.).
And stretching one of the biggest days in kids' lives, Halloween, into
the celebration it deserves, Nickelodeon gets knees to knocking and
monsters meshing on Tuesday, October 31, in the biggest, scariest Halloween
marathon ever: Twenty holiday specials in 15 hours chill Nick's airwaves
from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Following is a full rundown of Nickelodeon's extensive Halloween lineup
(all times ET/PT):
Nick Jr.'s Monster Mash Week of Noontime Premieres, October 23-26
* Monday -- Backyardigans/"Monster Party" -- Mad Scientist Tasha sends
her humble assistant, Austin, on a journey to bring three monsters back to
her laboratory: Mummy Tyrone, Werewolf Uniqua and Vampire Pablo. What
Austin doesn't know is that a big surprise birthday party awaits him when
he gets back. (Repeats 10-27 & 31)
* Tuesday -- Wonder Pets/"Save the Black Kitten" -- The
trick-or-treating, Halloween costumed Wonder Pets get a call from a Black
Kitten trapped inside a haunted doghouse. (Repeats 10-27 & 31)
* Wednesday - Wow! Wow! Wubbzy"/ "Monster Madness" -- When Wubbzy is
scared by a TV show and sees monsters everywhere, Widget builds the Monster
Masher, but soon she starts imagining monsters too. Walden uses a
flashlight to show them that all the monsters were just ordinary objects in
the dark. (Repeats 10-27 & 31)
* Thursday - LazyTown/"Haunted Castle" -- The Mayor warns the kids to
stay away from an old, unsafe castle, but Trixie convinces them to join her
inside. Meanwhile, Robbie poses as a ghost to scare the kids into not
playing any more. The kids get trapped in the falling castle and Sportacus
arrives to save the day. (Repeats 10-27 & 31)
NICKELODEON'S SHRIEKIN' WEEKEND
Friday Night Marathon, October 27
* 7 p.m. -- SpongeBob SquarePants/"Scaredy Pants" -- SpongeBob is the
easiest scare in Bikini Bottom, but this Halloween he aims to turn the
tables and scare everyone at Mr. Krabs' party. With Patrick's help,
SpongeBob devises what is sure to be the scariest costume ever. Although
his costume scares no one, his presence does summon Bikini Bottom's most
feared ghostly legend, The Flying Dutchmann, who is appalled by the way
SpongeBob is portraying him (repeats 10-28 & 31).
* 7:30 p.m. - Catscratch/"Scaredy Cat" -- Halloween is superstitious
Gordon's most dreaded day of the year! After locking himself in his room to
ward off evil, Gordon grudgingly allows Blik to decorate the house.
Unfortunately, when Blik turns the mansion into a giant spaceship, real
aliens mistake it for their long-lost mother ship and show up to reclaim
it. The three brothers must band together to defend their house, a mission
made more difficult by the fact that the aliens have launched it into
outer-space - with everyone inside it! (repeats 10-28)
* 8 p.m. -- The Fairly OddParents/"Scary GodParents" -- Timmy finds
himself mummified in two-ply toilet paper and trick-or-treating with Vicky
as his chaperone. Tired of not having a cool costume, like the Jack-O-Bots
in his favorite Crash Nebula Halloween special, "Crash Nebula vs. the
Pumkinator," Timmy wishes everybody's costume were "real and scary." So it
goes that everyone in the world becomes the character his or her costume
denotes. The bad news is the rich kids are in the Pumkinator costumes, and
when Timmy's wish comes true, THEY become the Pumpkinator - a gigantic
monster doomsday device that can destroy the world! Oh ... and the
Yugopotamians are angry they weren't invited (repeats 10-28 & 31).
* 8:30 p.m. - Mr. Meaty/"Nosferateens" and "I Love Lizzy" - HOLIDAY
PREMIERE -- Discovering a vampire hiding in the freezer, Josh and Parker
decide that becoming undead is the perfect plan to get away from all the
boring rules they endure working for Mr. Meaty. But they're aghast when
they can't see their reflections, food has no taste and Doug's on the hunt
to catch any fangheads in his mall.
* In "I Love Lizzy" Parker falls for the new employee, who's a messy
eater and likes Star Raiders. Josh thinks Lizzy is pretty hot too, though,
and the boys get into a game of one-upmanship, trying to impress her - a
game that Parker wins. But when Josh discovers that Lizzy's really a
lizard-faced alien, will his friend believe him? (repeats 10-29 & 31)
* 9 p.m. - The X's/"The Haunting of Home Base" - HOLIDAY PREMIERE --
Truman can't get enough of Halloween, but the rest of the family's unfazed
by ghosts and pumpkins when they fight scarier stuff every day. So the spy
kid decides to turn Home Base into a haunted house. Before long, the walls
are bleeding and major appliances are becoming possessed. Worst of all, Mr.
X, Mrs. X and Tuesday have turned into horrible zombies! Will Truman be
able to figure out what's "haunting" his house and save his family?
(repeats 10-28 & 31)
* 9:30 p.m. - Danny Phantom/"Fright Night" -- Heroic Danny battles the
evil ghostly Spirit of Halloween a.k.a. Fright Knight. In an attempt to
beat Dash in a haunted house decorating contest, Danny "borrows" Fright
Knight's enchanted sword. When the powerful apparition arrives to retrieve
his magic saber, he decides to stick around long enough to turn the real
world into his own stormy realm of terror, but Danny Phantom has other
ideas (repeats 10-28 & 31)
Saturday, October 28 - Five-Hour Marathon
* 2 p.m. -- The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius/"Nightmare in
Retroville" - With his latest invention, the neutronic monster maker, Jimmy
transforms his friends Carl and Sheen into a vampire and werewolf for
Halloween, and the pair quickly mutate into real monsters. And as Vampire
Carl and Wolf Man Sheen prowl the streets in search of fresh victims to
indulge their carnivorous appetites, Hugh Neutron accidentally turns
himself into a duck-loving version of Frankenstein's Monster. It's now up
to Jimmy to reverse the effects of his invention before Carl, Sheen and
Hugh wreak havoc on Retroville monster-movie-style (repeats 10-31).
* 2:30 p.m. -- CatDog/"CatDoglia" -- It's Halloween, and Cat is
costumed as Duke Kahanamoku of Hawaii, while Dog dons Count Dogula garb to
go trick-or- treating. Dog is bitten by Nosferacho, a Peruvian vampire
tick, and turns into a vampire. Then the tick bites Lola, Rancid, the
Greasers, Mervis, Dunglap and Randolph. Armed with his garlic lei, Cat
heroically fights off Dog, the vampire mob and the Peruvian vampire ticks,
then soaks them all in garlic juice to make them normal again.
* 3 p.m. -- Danny Phantom/"Fright Knight"
* 3:30 p.m. -- Hey, Arnold/"Arnold's Halloween" -- On a creepy
Halloween night, the neighborhood comes down with alien fever when Arnold
and Gerald broadcast a mock radio show, warning of a spaceship landing.
Meanwhile, Helga and the gang go trick-or-treating in cool, space alien
costumes. Arnold and Gerald must come to the rescue before their friends
come to a spooktacular demise.
* 4 p.m. - The X's/"The Haunting of Home Base"
* 4:30 p.m. - Kappa Mikey/"The Phantom of the Soundstage" -- Sick of
Mikey's pranks, Lily aligns herself with the Phantom of the Soundstage. But
when the Phantom takes his evildoings too far, Lily rebels and tries to
save Mikey from a career-ending prank. As Guano's raggedy old suit breaks
down, he must begin to deal with the prospect of life outside his costume.
* 5 p.m. - The Fairly OddParents/"Scary Godparents"
* 5:30 p.m. - Catscratch/"Scaredy Cat"
* 6 p.m. -- Rugrats/ "Curse of the Werewuff" -- On "Hallowmean," the
babies get lost in a haunted house, and to make matters scarier, Angelica
convinces them they'll turn into whatever their costumes denote and that
only she can break the spell -- if they fork over their candy. Fearing a
life as a werewolf, Chuckie pleads with the other babies to give up their
treats -- until he finds his inner werewuff, stands up to "Princess
Angelica" and leads the babies to safety. (Repeats 10-31)
* 6:30 p.m. SpongeBob SquarePants/"Scaredy Pants"
Sunday TEENick Holiday Specials - October 29
* 6 p.m. - The Amanda Show - In comedy sketches Judge Trudy (Amanda
Bynes) rules ridiculously on Halloween, punishing a mom who gave a
trick-or-treater an apple and finding Billy (Drake Bell) innocent of egging
Mr. Bulbin's house.
* 6:30 p.m. - Mr. Meaty/"Nosferateens" & "I Love Lizzie"
* 7:30 p.m. -- Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide/"Halloween" and
"Vampires, Werewolves, Ghosts and Zombies" - HALLOWEEN PREMIERE --
"Halloween" -- Ned, Moze and Cookie plan the school's scariest party ever,
blowing the entire art budget on a spook-tacular Haunted Hallway. But when
it comes to "trick or treat," the tween trio is no match for Principal Pal
-- who they fear they kinda, sorta accidentally scared to death with
special effects -- and amid Halloween high jinks, Pal proves he's a hale
and hearty prankster.
* "Vampires, Werewolves, Ghosts and Zombies" -- Chills and chuckles
fill James K. Polk Middle Ghoul, where being a vampire really bites for
Ned. The pasty pupil must pass the "B.A.T.'s" and turn into a bat to avoid
summer school, but his frightful efforts only lead to brief incarnations as
a bunny and goat. Meanwhile, half-werewolf/half scaredy-cat Cookie flees
from zombie bully Billy while waiting for a full moon to totally transform
him. And see- through green ghost Moze wanders the halls - and walks
through walls - searching for a kindred spirit. (Repeats 10-31)
* 8 p.m. - Zoey 101/"Haunted House" -- In keeping with Halloween
tradition at Pacific Coast Academy, the upper school builds a haunted house
for the lower school, and Logan promises that his creation will be
especially scary. But when Zoey's little brother and his roommate get lost
in the house, Zoey and Logan wonder if something otherworldly has taken it
over. (Repeats 10-31)
* 8:30 p.m. -- Unfabulous/"The Dark Side" -- Maris and Cranberry are
throwing their annual "Spook-tacular." When Geena assures Addie that Spin
the Bottle doesn't have to be totally random, Addie vows not to chicken out
like she did last year. (Repeats 10-31)
Monstrous Halloween Day Marathon, October 31
* 6 a.m. - Rugrats/"Curse of the Werewuff"
* 6:30 a.m. - Jimmy Neutron/"Nightmare in Retroville"
* 7 a.m. - Danny Phantom/"Fright Knight"
* 7:30 a.m. -- The Fairly OddParents/"Scary Godparents"
* 8 a.m. -- SpongeBob SquarePants/"Scaredy Pants"
* 8:30 a.m. - SpongeBob SquarePants/"Fear of a Krabby Patty"
* 9 a.m. - Dora the Explorer/"Boo!" -- It's Halloween, and trick-or-
treating Dora and Boots are surprised by a cute little monster who they
help hurry home before the arrow on the big clock strikes 12. It's a spooky
journey, as we find pumpkins that match to get out of the Pumpkin Patch and
take a ride on a broomstick through the Good Witch's forest. We reach the
Monster House as the clock strikes 12, just in time for a Halloween Party!
* 10 a.m. - Blue's Clues/"What Is Blue Afraid of" -- Blue is scared,
and kids play Blue's Clues to determine what is frightening her, in the
process searching for clues, investigating shadows and conceptualizing what
objects are making them.
* 10:30 a.m. - Backyardigans/"Monster Party" -- Mad Scientist Tasha
sends her humble assistant Austin on a journey to bring three monsters back
to her laboratory: Mummy Tyrone, Werewolf Uniqua and Vampire Pablo. What
Austin doesn't know is that a big surprise birthday party awaits him when
he gets back.
* 11 a.m. -- Wonder Pets/"Save the Black Kitten"
* 11:30 a.m. - Wow! Wow! Wubbzy"/ "Monster Madness"
* 12 p.m. - LazyTown/"Haunted Castle"
* 12:30 p.m. - Rugrats/"Curse of the Werewuff "
* 1 p.m. - Rugrats/"Candy Bar Creep Show"/"Monster in the Garage" --
Stu and Didi build a haunted house for Halloween and the Rugrats sneak in,
looking for Reptar bars. They get tangled up in the props and Grandpa
thinks the place really is haunted. The adults blame Spike for mysterious
accidents in the garage, but Tommy believes his pet is innocent. Convinced
the accidents are caused by a monster, Tommy talks the other Rugrats into a
garage expedition.
* 2 p.m. - SpongeBob SquarePants/"The Graveyard Shift"-- To increase
profits Krabs orders SpongeBob and Squidward to work the Graveyard Shift.
At first SpongeBob is scared, so Squid taunts him by telling a scary tale
about the Hash Slinging Slasher. Soon, their paranoia gets the best of them
and they become convinced someone is stalking them.
* 3:30 p.m. -- The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius/"Nightmare
in Retroville"
* 5 p.m. - The X's/"The Haunting of Home Base"
* 6:30 p.m. - Mr. Meaty/"Nosferateens" & "I Love Lizzy"
* 7 p.m. - SpongeBob SquarePants/"Scaredy Pants"
* 7:30 p.m. -- Unfabulous/The Dark Side
* 8 p.m. - Zoey 101/"Haunted House"
* 8:30 p.m. - Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide/"Halloween" and
"Vampires, Ghosts, Werewolves and Zombies"
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