Off the Wall: TV scares for Halloween

Off the Wall gets you into the swing of frightful things.

MONSTOBER That's the name of Disney Channel's annual month of Halloween-pegged thrills. Saturday night features the zombie-fied hour "Night of the Living Pharmacists" on "Phineas & Ferb" (8 p.m., Disney), guest-starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost as Shaun and Ed ("Shaun of the Dead"). There's live-action fear from "Ghost Adventures" (Saturday night at 9, Travel), aboard the Queen Mary, and "Ghost Hunters" (Wednesday at 9 p.m., Syfy), celebrating its 10th anniversary in Georgia (the state). More mayhem comes courtesy of AMC's Zombie Apocalypse Week run of all four seasons of "The Walking Dead" (Monday-Friday 7 p.m.-2:30 a.m.-ish, plus next weekend Saturday noon-Sunday 9 p.m., leading into AMC's Season 5 premiere). Movie monstrosities include two new Syfy flicks: Tom Sizemore's "Dark Haul" (Saturday night at 9) and Ray Wise's "Dead Still" (Monday at 9 p.m., both on Syfy). Big-screen scares fill October Thursday nights on both Sony Movie Channel (check availability) and Turner Classic Movies. Full lineup at tcm.com/this-month.

SEASON FINALES Wrapping up are the second seasons of "Cedar Cove" (Saturday night at 8, Hallmark) and "Witches of East End" (Sunday at 9 p.m., Lifetime). Also the first seasons of Guillermo del Toro's "The Strain" (Sunday at 10 p.m., FX) and Robert Rodriguez's graphic novel-esque "Matador" (Tuesday at 9 p.m., El Rey). If your TV provider doesn't carry El Rey, "Matador" is available via vudu.com.

TALK TALK Some of the tube's coolest chat comes amid the revelry of "The Graham Norton Show" (Saturday night at 11 p.m., BBC America). The latest season kicks off with Denzel Washington and Peter Capaldi. Viral videos at nwsdy.li/graham

LOCAL ANGLE Huntington is home to the latest nightclub makeover on "Bar Rescue" (Sunday at 9 p.m., Spike). See New Street's old Artful Dodger/Radio attempt to banish its teens, mosquitoes and fruit flies by morphing into speakeasy-themed P's&Q's Autobody. Preview at barrescue.spike.com

HIGH DRAMA Still waiting for a fall drama to grab you? This week offers additional options. A new take on "The Flash" (Tuesday at 8 p.m., CW/11) casts '90s-version star John Wesley Shipp as unjustly jailed dad to nascent young superhero Grant Gustin ("Glee," "Arrow"). "American Horror Story: Freak Show" (Wednesday at 10 p.m., FX) has Michael Chiklis joining Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Sarah Paulson, Denis O'Hare and Angela Bassett for the midcentury end of the carnival sideshow. "Kingdom" (Wednesday at 9p.m., DirecTV's Audience Network) finds Frank Grillo, Matt Lauria, Kiele Sanchez and Nick Jonas in Southern California's mixed martial arts subculture. And Claire Danes' "Homeland" (Sunday 9-11 p.m., Showtime) launches Season 4.