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Pilot: Trick or Treat

Gideon Hackles is an old, grumpy and cold miser who runs an antique type store shop for a living. Many of the customers he sells to are poor people and many of them owe debts, therefore he treats them...poorly! However, every Halloween season he allows for the children of his debtors to trick or treat in house to find the bill slips of their parents. The lucky kid who can find the hidden debt stack of bill slips will be the lucky one that will set their family debt free. Only one by one this old man is a master of putting off spooks through his store in the form of hidden gadgets and button trickery...

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  • Originally Aired October 29, 1983
  • Runtime 20 minutes
  • Content Rating United States of America TV-14
  • Network CBS
  • On Other Sites IMDB
  • Special Category Pilots
  • Notes Is a season finale
  • Created September 10, 2021 by
    dubz81
  • Modified March 24, 2023 by
    dreamon
Name Type Role
George A. Romero Writer
Bob Balaban Director