She will forever be the reigning Queen of Halloween.
Beginning with Season 2, “Roseanne” went big with its annual celebration of Halloween, a tradition that continued throughout the show’s entire run. From Season 2 straight through Season 9, a total of EIGHT Halloween episodes aired on ABC.
As I wrote in my in-depth look at the “Roseanne” Halloween episodes last year, they “remain a high watermark for television Halloween specials, paving the way for all subsequent shows to celebrate a holiday that was once completely absent from the small screen. There are few shows nowadays that don’t acknowledge Halloween in October, and Roseanne did it both first and, if you’re asking me, best. Particularly in the early seasons, the Conners’ celebrations showed that it was okay to get crazy, let loose, and have a whole lot of spooky fun on Halloween.”
With the revival season arriving in 2018, we’re hoping we get one more Halloween episode. In the meantime, you can watch all the originals through Amazon Streaming!
As a fun blast from Halloween past, the ABC press website just uploaded a bunch of images from two of the episodes, “BOO!” and “Halloween IV.” They’ve labeled the images as “NEW,” and indeed many of them seem to be more than simple screen grabs. Some look like on-set photographs, and all are higher-res than the streams on Amazon.
If nothing more, the images are a reminder to revisit these before Halloween passes!
