Tim Burton's Hansel and Gretel (1982 Short Film)

At 10:30pm, on October 31, 1983, Disney aired a 34 minute short film entitled Hansel and Gretel, directed by (the now acclaimed) Tim Burton; it was the second short he ever made, and was created in 1982. The short is a Japanese style take on the Brothers Grimm story of the same name, and is live action (for the most part). The short was hosted by Vincent Price, who had previously worked with Burton on his 1982 short Vincent.

Burton's Hansel and Gretel has never again aired on TV since that one Halloween night in 1983 (allegedly due to both the facts that Burton was embarassed by the short, and that Disney executives found the short's themes dark and uncomfortable), and the only other times it has been shown publicly were at a Tim Burton retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in late 2009 to early 2010 (for which a recently rediscovered copy of the film was restored), and the "Tim Burton L'Exposition" at the Cinémathèque Française, Paris (in August 2012). The French exhibition was reported to have borrowed a copy of the film from the LA County Museum of Art (who now possess the film, and who prior to said exhibition, released two screenshots from the short). The film has not yet surfaced online, and is highly sought after by collectors.