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You can put on a costume, go trick-or-treating, bob for apples ... or you can stay home and watch TV this Halloween weekend.

There's plenty of holiday programming. You can hardly flip through the cable channels without running across a horror movie.

So here, in chronological order, are 13 Halloween TV picks for Friday-Monday:

"Powerpuff Girls"

In an episode titled "The Squashening," the Powerpuffs are captured by a monster, and they have to tell him a scary story in order to escape. Who doesn't love the Powerpuff Girls? (Friday, 2 p.m.; Sunday, 8:30 a.m. & 5:30 p.m., Cartoon Network)

"It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"

This 1966 animated show is the single best Halloween TV special ever. It's utterly charming to see Linus worry about having the most sincere pumpkin patch — and it's hilarious to see Lucy freak out about dog germs. (Friday, 7 p.m., ABC/Ch. 4)

"The Nightmare Before Christmas"

Is this a Halloween movie? Is it a Christmas movie? It's sort of both. And it's sort of great. (Friday, 7:45 p.m.; Saturday, noon, Freeform)

"Halloween" movie marathon

Believe it or not, there have been 10 movies in the "Halloween" franchise, and AMC is airing seven of them repeatedly. From 8 p.m. Friday-8:55 p.m. Saturday — and then 10 a.m.-midnight Monday — the cable channel will telecast "Halloween" (1978), "Halloween II" (1981), "Halloween 3: Season of the Witch" (1982), "Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988), "Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers" (1989),"Halloween" (2007) and "Halloween II" (2009).

"Hocus Pocus"

Younger kids like this goofy 1993 movie about three witches. (Friday, 10:25 p.m.; Sunday, 8:25 p.m.; Monday, 10 p.m., Freeform)

"Zombieland"

This 2009 movie is frightening and funny at the same time — and Bill Murray is a hoot. (Saturday, 8 p.m. & midnight; Monday, 10 p.m. Syfy)

"The Night Before Halloween"

If you're looking for a dumb TV movie, where better to look than Syfy, the home of "Sharknado" and its spawn. In this teleflick, a Halloween prank goes wrong and unleashes a monster. (Saturday, 10 p.m., Syfy)

"The Rocky Horror Picture Show"

They'll be doing the Time Warp again and again and again. The original, 1975 theatrical film (not the TV movie remake) airs 10 times in a row. (Sunday 4 p.m.-Monday 10 p.m., Logo)

Also airs Monday at 10 p.m. on IFC.

"Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein"

Bud and Lou are arguably the best comedy team ever, and this 1948 movie is arguably their best. Bela Lugosi (Dracula) and Lon Chaney Jr. (Wolfman) also star. (Sunday, 8 p.m., TCM)

Stephen King miniseries

The four-part, eight-hour "The Stand" has sort of a stupid ending, but locals will enjoy all the Utah sites; it was filmed in Salt Lake City. (Sunday, 10 p.m.-Monday, 6 a.m., IFC). "Salem's Lot" is a much better show, although the 1979 original (Monday, 6-10:30 a.m., IFC) is considerably better than the 2004 remake. (Monday, 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., IFC)

"The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horrors"

The first 25 Halloween episodes of this animated series — spanning the years 1990-2014 — air in a 12½ hour marathon. (Monday, 12:30 p.m.-1 a.m.)

(Installments VIII, XI, XII, XVII, XXI, XXII, XXIII, XXIV, XXV, XVIII, XIX and XX air Friday from 7 p.m.-1 a.m.)

Universal monster movies

It's a blast from the past with Universal Pictures old timey, black-and-white classics "Dracula" (1931), "The Mummy" (1932), "The Invisible Man" (1933) and "The Wolf Man" (1941), which air back-to-back-to-back-to-back. (Monday, 6, 7:30, 9 and 8:15 p.m., TCM)

"The Odd Couple"

Oscar (Matthew Perry) volunteers to take Charlotte's son trick-or-treating; Felix (Thomas Lennon) takes the kids in their building on a haunted history tour. (Monday, 8:30 p.m., CBS/Ch. 2)