"The Nightmare Before Christmas" released 1993

Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, released across the US October 29, 1993, is a stop-motion animated dark fantasy film about Jack Skellington, the King of Halloween Town, who becomes obsessed with Christmas.  

Tim Burton wrote a poem while working as an animator for Walt Disney Productions and it eventually became The Nightmare Before Christmas.  Disney released it through its stepchild studio Touchstone Pictures.  

It was a critical and financial success and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Visual Effects.  It won Saturn Awards for Best Fantasy Film and Best Music.  

"It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!" premieres 1966

It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown made its television debut October 27, 1966.  It is perennial Halloween watching for those of us who grew up with Charlie Brown and the gang.  While everyone is out trick-or-treating, Linus sits in a pumpkin patch to wait for the Great Pumpkin.

It was nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards: Outstanding Children's Program, Special Classifications of Individual Achievements for director Bill Melendez and writer Charles Schulz.

It lost the Children's Program award to Jack and the Beanstalk.  Anyone remember that one?