| | Credits | |

Writer: Dan Berendsen
Director: Kenneth R. Koch

Regulars:
Melissa Joan Hart as Sabrina Spellman
Caroline Rhea as Hilda Spellman
Beth Broderick as Zelda Spellman
Nick Bakay as Voice of Salem Saberhagen
David Lascher as Josh
Trevor Lissauer as Miles Goodman
Elisa Donovan as Morgan Cavanaugh
Nate Richert as Harvey Kinkle
Soleil Moon Frye as Roxie King

Guest Stars:
Douglas Sills as Will, the Steward

Other Cast:
Martin Charles Warner as Hobo/Grandpa

| | Synopsis | |

Sabrina's Halloween plans aren't looking very good until Salem tells her about a Halloween murder mystery train. She quicky signs herself and her friends up although none of them are really into the idea. Once the game begins, Sabrina finds out she is on an Other Realm train and they wont be able to get off until she solves the mystery!

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| | Tricks and Treats | |

Quip - Zelda: "Well, how did Halloween taffy turn out this year?" Hilda: "Too gooey, too garlicky and way too much unicorn."

Quip - Zelda: "Oh please. They send me this flyer every year. It’s a Halloween mystery train that makes a special stop in Boston." Hilda: "Hey, this actually looks like fun Zel. I think it would be a hoot to ride a train and solve a murder." Zelda: "No thanks. I’m looking forward to a nice quiet Halloween. Reading, watching a little television."

Quip - Sabrina: "Salem, any thoughts on what I should go as for Halloween?" Salem: "Off the top of my head... hmm, fashion victim?" Sabrina: "Hu-hu-hu. The only thing lamer than that joke are my plans for Halloween. The only invitation I was able to wangle is for a dumb dance sponsored by the School of Dentistry. Yeah, lots of good candy there."

Quip - Salem: "Well now. If you don’t want your Halloween to be lame, take a ride on the mystery train." Sabrina (Reading Flyer): "For fabulous food and sophisticated fun, this mystery train is number one." Salem, this is perfect."

Quip - Sabrina: "Once again, I am your Halloween saviour. Thanks to me, we are no longer stuck dancing with dental students."

Quip - Sabrina: "Well I am offering you a ride on Halloween mystery train." Roxie: "Is that one of those totally pathetic who-dun-it’s?" Harvey: "Where everyone has to play a stupid character?" Miles: "And solve a fake, idiotic murder?" Morgan: "That any moron could figure out?" Sabrina: "Exactly! Whoo-hoo! We’re goin’ on a mystery train."

Quip - Josh: "Not really. Sabrina, I’ve never been that in to Halloween. To be honest, it’s always kinda bugged me that it’s such a big deal to you." Sabrina: "Well it’s a big deal to me because I happen to be a wi... wittle upset because I had to pay for these tickets in advance."

Quip - Roxie, Harvey, Miles and Morgan: Groan! Sabrina: "Yes! That’s exactly the kind of enthusiasm I’m looking for."

Traditions - COSTUMES: Once the game begins everyone in the parlor car become their characters in full costume.

Costumes - Harvey becomes tennis pro, Biff Buffington with slicked hair, sweater and tennis togs.

Costumes - Morgan becomes Countess Admirer in full flapper attire complete with ostrich feather head-dress and fan.

Costumes - Roxie becomes Hortense, Countess Admirer' maid.

Costumes - Miles becomes Professor Von Claptrap who smokes a pipe and wears a monocle as well as a bowler hat.

Costumes - Josh is the murder victim, Kip Kodak, who is a renowned photographer and wears a 20's style suit and cap.

Quip - Zelda: "It’s been years since I’ve watched the giant pumpkin drop in the Other Realm Time Square." Hilda: "I can’t wait. Winos and tourists splattered with pumpkin guts. Have I mentioned how bored I am?"

Costumes - Sabrina becomes the detective complete with a bleach blonde bob hair cut, brown trenchcoat and hat.

Quip - The Steward: "The first question you want to ask yourself is ‘What was the motive?’" Sabrina: "I just wanted to give my friends a nice Halloween. Oh, you mean the murderers motive."

Costumes - Getting into the spirit of the Halloween Express, when Zelda shows up she magically changes into a white beaded fringe dress with matching head band.

Costumes - Hilda magically changes into a satiny bronze colored dress with matching paterned robe over it complete with headdress.

Quip - Salem: "Isn’t it true that you’re angry with Josh for not supporting you in your ever more manic quest for the perfect Halloween? That your being so resentful of his pouty attitude and sarcasm, that the rage built up in you and you..." Sabrina: "-Yes! It’s true! It’s true! I’m the murderer! I killed Josh!... Wow! I totally didn’t see that one comin’"

Quip - Josh: "Whoa! I don’t remember much, but this Halloween was exhausting. I’m so dead." Sabrina: "No you’re not, you’re alive again." Josh: "Again?"

Quip - Sabrina: "Look Josh, I wanna talk to you about this whole Halloween thing. It may not be an important holiday for you, but it is for me and I was hurt that you weren’t more supportive. I mean, I supported you when you..." Josh: "-When I was going to move to Prague, when I got a job on the paper and with pretty much everything I’ve done since you’ve know me. I’m sorry Sabrina."

| | Dialogue To Die For | |

Countess Admirer: "Murder?"
Professor Von Claptrap: "Murder?"
Biff: "Murder?"
Hortense: "Great, something else for me to clean up."

Zelda: "Well, why don’t we grab a crystal ball and go check up on her?"
Hilda: "Good idea. I’ve got one in my hope chest." [Reaches into her cleavage and pulls out the crystal ball.]

Biff: "Let’s stop this charade! You want me, and to be perfectly honest, I’m okay with that."
Sabrina: "Well I have a problem with guys who use the word ‘charade’ Especially ones that use it while my boyfriend is lying dead in the other room."

| | Dialogue To Bury | |

Salem: "I believe we only have one thing left to do. Dust the body."
Sabrina: "For fingerprints?"
Salem: "No, it’s filthy!"

| | Pop! Goes the Culture | |

The Steward: "Please read them and, as we say at the Stella Adler academy, become them."
Stella Adler is an acclaimed actress that was born in 1905. In 1949 she established the Stella Adler n Theatre Studio (later renamed the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting, and finally the Stella Adler Studio of Acting). Combining what she had learned from the Yiddish theatre, The Group Theatre, Broadway, Hollywood, and Stanislavski, she offered courses in principles of acting, speech and voice, Shakespeare, movement, and makeup, together with workshops in play analysis, character, scene preparation, and acting styles. Onstage experience was acquired by performances of scenes and plays before an invited audience. Alumni include Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Warren Beatty, Elaine Stritch, Kevin Costner, Harvey Keitel, and Candice Bergen. Her belief in the supreme seriousness of her art kept many well-known members of the theatre coming back for her intelligent and passionate advice.

Sabrina: "Where’s Josh?" The Steward: "Oh, you mean world renowned photographer, Kip Kodak."
The Eastman Kodak Company is a large multinational company that produces photographic equipment. They developed roll film and the first camera suitable for amateur use. The basis of Eastman Kodak was the Eastman Dry Plate Company founded by inventor George Eastman and businessman Henry Strong in 1881. Today they remain one of the largest suppliers of film in the world.

Zelda: "It’s been years since I’ve watched the giant pumpkin drop in the Other Realm Time Square."
This is a parody of the giant ball drop in New York Times Square on New Year's which is a tradition that dates back to 1906. Hundreds of thousands of people flock to the free event each year to watch the ball drop once the clock strikes midnight. A quick bit of trivia is that the ball was changed to an apple for a short time in the early 1980s.

Sabrina: "Ooohh, London Fog."
Established in 1922, London Fog is a New York based company who is noted for being the leader in designing, marketing and manufacturing mens and women's outerwear and rainwear.

Sabrina: "Well, I’m not very good at solving murders. I-I-I even stink at Clue."
Clue® is a murder mystery board game originally published by Waddington Games, UK in 1948 (currently published by American toy company, Hasbro). It was devised by Anthony Pratt, a solicitor's clerk from Birmingham, England. The game has been spun off into a movie, 2 television shows (in England and Australia), 3 different games (Clue Master Detective, Clue Jr. and Simpsons Clue) and a children's book series.

Sabrina: "Do they stand for Betty Boop, Bugs Bunny or Biff Buffington?"
Betty Boop is an animated cartoon character who was the first truly feminine character of her kind. She appeared in the Talkartoon and Betty Boop series of films produced by Max Fleischer and was a hit with theater goers. Despite having had her sexuality toned down in the 1930s, she remains popular today due to her sexiness.

Bugs Bunny is a fictional street-smart gray rabbit that appears in the Looney Tunes series of cartoons. He is one of the most recognizable characters, real or fictional, in the world. He is known for his signature quote, "Eh, what's up, doc?" and his feuds with Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, Marvin the Martian and Daffy Duck.

Sabrina: Cut to the chase, Sherlock.
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective from the late 19th and early 20th century that was created by British author and physician Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes is famous for using logic and careful observation to solve cases. Many other fictional detectives have used his infamous method of solving cases; they include Perry Mason, Columbo, Dick Tracy as well as superhero Batman.

| | Goofs, Gaffes and Nitpicks | |

The Spellman's have a new lighted plastic pumpkins stack in the kitchen this year but for some reason they have it on the end of the kitchen island facing the wall.

When Salem, Zelda and Hilda jump onto the train and Salem is talking about his outfit getting dirty, his mouth isn't moving and he is inside of Zelda's purse so how can he be getting dirty anyway?

If the feather has been stuck up Kip's nose then it wouldn't be so dry and fluffy.

| | Creep Show | |

In 2002, Nate Richert was in the horror films, Demon Island (aka Piñata: Survival Island) and Are You a Serial Killer.

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| | Misc Notes | |

In the corner of the kitchen is the same pumpkin stack from last year and there are also several of them in Hilda's Coffee House again.

This bit of a scene is cut out of the syndicated airings of this episode. This extenuation of a scene is usually cut out of the syndicated airings of this episode:

| | Music | |

THEME: Danny Lux and Paul Taylor
SCORE: Danny Lux