It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown has the gang in the spooky spirit, dressing up to go trick-or-treating and to crash Violet's spooktacular Halloween party. While the crew goes out to collect their candy—Charlie Brown in a ghost costume (with more eyeholes cut out than needed), Lucy dressed as a witch and Snoopy in a World War I flying ace costume—Linus decides to hold vigil in the pumpkin patch as he awaits the Great Pumpkin. The Halloween special includes a documentary focusing on the myth and tradition of the Halloween staple television program.