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Nick Hands Out Animated Halloween Episode Premieres

Nickelodeon rattles a five-day chain of Halloween specials for Shriek Week -- October 27-Friday, October 31, 2003 -- featuring spooky episodes premieres of THE ADVENTURES OF JIMMY NEUTRON, BOY GENIUS, CHALKZONE, DORA THE EXPLORER and MAX & RUBY and a morning-till-night marathon on Halloween Day.

The celebration includes an hour of primetime Halloween delights each night, shining a scary spotlight at 8:00 pm (ET/PT) on the likes of JIMMY NEUTRON and CHALKZONE, premieres respectively titled Nightmare in Retroville (October 29) and Pumpkin Love (Thursday, October 30), as well as frightful favorites THE FAIRLY ODDPARENTS/Scary GodParents (October 27) and SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS/ Scaredy Pants (October 28). Each night, Nick premieres of SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH holiday episodes cap off the hour at 8:30 p.m.

There are morning treats for tots include the all-new DORAS Boo! in which she and Boots ride a broomstick through the Good Witchs forest (October 29) and to the premiere of Maxs Halloween on MAX & RUBY in which Ruby coaxes Max to be a Little Prince to her Cinderella for Halloween, but he plans to don a Vampire costume (October 31).

Following is a full rundown of Nickelodeons extensive Halloween lineup (all times ET/PT):

Monday, October 27

8:00 pm THE FAIRLY ODDPARENTS /Scary Godparents 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. (repeats 10-31).

8:30 pm -- SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH / "A Halloween Story" Nickelodeon premiere -- Sabrina faces a frightful dilemma when she must be in two places at once for Halloween.

Tuesday, October 28

8:00 pm 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. (repeats 10-31).

8:30 pm -- SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH / "A River of Candy Corn Runs Through It Nickelodeon premiere -- Halloween is a scary night indeed when Sabrina and her aunts try to throw a "normal" party.

Wednesday, October 29

10:00 am DORA THE EXPLORER /"Boo" -- episode premiere -- It's Halloween, and Trick-or-treating Dora and Boots help a cute little monster reach the Monster House as the clock strikes midnight, just in time for a Halloween Party.

8:00 pm THE ADVENTURES OF JIMMY NEUTRON, BOY GENIUS/Nightmare in Retroville episode premiere Jimmy Neutron desperately trying to reverse the effects of his latest invention, the neutronic monster maker, after he transforms pals Carl and Sheen into a vampire and werewolf for Halloween and they wind up wreaking havoc on Retroville -- monster movie style.

8:30 pm -- SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH /"Good Will Haunting" Nickelodeon premiere Halloween turns truly frightful when a demented doll takes charge of the festivities.

Thursday, October 30

8:00 pm CHALKZONE/Pumpkin Love/Snaps Nightmare episode premiere Rudy uses ChalkZone to sneak his award-worthy "Jill-o-Lantern" to the pumpkin contest, but evil pumpkin-headed rock star Jack-O (voiced by Tim Curry) falls in love with Jill and kidnaps her. (repeats 10-31).

8:30 pm -- SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH /Phantom Menace Nickelodeon premiere Its Halloween, and Sabrina is having a ghoulish time adjusting to her new job at the coffeehouse.

Friday, October 31 -- Halloween Day

9:30 am -- MAX & RUBY / Maxs Halloween -- episode premiere -- Ruby wants Max to be a Little Prince to her Cinderella for Halloween, but when he dons a Vampire costume for trick-or-treating, shes sure hell scare Grandma. But its Ruby who squeals when Grandma answers the door. MAX & RUBY /The Blue Tarantula -- episode premiere -- Max gets frightened when Ruby reads the scary story he wanted to hear at bedtime. Ruby assures Max there's no scary blue tarantula hiding in his room, but when Ruby starts hearing strange noises, the tables are turned.

10:30 am -- BLUES CLUES/Blues Big Costume Party Its the day of Blues costume party and lots of silly spooky things are happening. The audience must help Magenta figure out what to wear. And guess what costumes the other friends are wearing. Theres plenty of other party games in store for viewers to play as well.

11 am DORA THE EXPLORER /Boo!

12:30 pm -- LITTLE BILL/The Halloween Costume -- Bent on being Captain Brainstorm for Halloween, Little Bill is crestfallen when his costume disappears in a mix-up, but when he fantasizes about saving Captain Brainstorm from Tickle Slime, he learns that theres more than one solution to every problem. LITTLE BILL /The Haunted Halloween Party Trick-or-treating frightens Little Bill what with vampires and skeletons on the loose and the big Haunted Halloween Party is even scarier. Little Bill conquers his fears and ends up having the best Halloween ever.

1 pm MAGGIE THE FEROCIOUS BEAST/Trick or Treat episode premiere -- Maggie, Hamilton, Beast and Rudy dress up and go trick-or-treating.

3 pm -- RUGRATS/Ghost Story -- As the Rugrats sit around a battery-operated campfire, Angelica leads the babies in a ghost story about the scardiest boy in the world (Chuckie) in a haunted house. RUGRATS /"Candy Bar Creep Show"- Stu and Didi build a haunted house for Halloween, and the Rugrats sneak in looking for Reptar bars and make Grandpa think the place is really haunted.

3:30 pm -- ROCKET POWER/"The Night Before" -- Otto, Sam and Twister agree to sneak out with Eddie, Prince of the Netherworld, for Mischief Night, but they soon realize that vandalism is totally uncool.

4 pm -- THE AMANDA SHOW/Judge Trudy Halloween In comedy sketches Judge Trudy (Amanda Bynes) rules backhandedly on two cases regarding Halloween mishaps: A woman who had the audacity to give a trick-or-treater an apple gets her just desserts, as does a man whose house was decorated by an egg-thrower.

4:30 pm -- AS TOLD BY GINGER/I Spy a Witch -- When Ginger wins the lead in I Spy a Witch a musical rendition of The Crucible her jealous understudy Miranda takes revenge and center stage by transforming the school statue into a witch and planting incriminating evidence in Gingers bag. Principal Milty kicks off a campaign to uncover the culprits, and last minute evidence turns Mirandas trick into a treat for the vindicated Ginger.

5:00 pm U-Pick the Halloween Episode 9ROCKO/DOUG/REAL MONSTERS)

5:30 pm SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS/"Graveyard Shift" -- Krabs decides that the Krusty Krab will now be open 24 hours a day. He orders SpongeBob and Squidward to work all night on the Graveyard Shift. Squid taunts him by telling a scary tale about the Hash Slinging Slasher, and soon, their paranoia gets the best of them.

6:00 pm -- Mystery Pick Halloween -- CATDOG/"CatDogula" -- Its 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.

6:30 pm -- HEY, ARNOLD/Arnolds 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.

7:00 pm-- RUGRATS/"Curse of the Werewuff" -- On "Hallowmean," the babies get lost in a haunted house, and to make matters scarier, Angelica convinces them theyll turn into whatever their costumes denote and that only she can break the spell -- if they fork over their candy.

7:30 pm SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS/Scaredy Pants

8:00 pm -- THE FAIRLY ODDPARENTS/That Ol Black Magic-- Timmy poofs to Fairy World to give the bad luck anti-fairies a piece of his mind but accidentally lets them all out, unleashing copious amounts of their bad luck on Dimsdale. It's up to Timmy, Cosmo and Wanda to trick the anti-fairies back into Fairyworld.

9:00 pm -- THE ADVENTURES OF JIMMY NEUTRON, BOY GENIUS/Nightmare in Retroville

9:30 pm -- CHALKZONE/Pumpkin Love/Snaps Nightmare