ANSWERS:

1. The original tile was "The Baby-sitter Murders."
2. Michael's mask is actually the William Shatner/Captain Kirk "Star Trek" mask painted white with hair added.
3. Sam Loomis was the name of the character played by John Gavin in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho."
4. The film introduced Jamie Lee Curtis.
5. Michael did in 14 folks between the two flicks (busy night), five in the first film and nine in the second. It's true. First there's Michael's sister, Judith who gets it with a large butcher knife, then some poor guy who's seen on the side of the road, then Laurie's friend Annie, who gets it with a knife in her car, Bob, Linda's boyfriend, who gets nailed to the wall with a butcher knife and then Linda, who gets strangled with a phone cord. Then, in Halloween II, Ellen, the poor girl who's listening to the radio gets a butcher knife in the throat, Mr. Garrett, the hospital security guard, gets a claw hammer to the top of the head, Bud, the ambulance driver, gets choked with a towel, his girl friend, Carol the nurse, gets boiled in a therapeutic hot tub, then Janet, the other nurse finds Dr. Mixer with a hypodermic needle in his eye just before Michael puts one in her temple, then the head nurse, Mrs. Ellis, gets all of her blood drained out, just before the final nurse gets a scalpel to the spine and finally, the stupid state policeman gets his throat cut with the same scalpel even though he's been warned to stay away.
6. The fictitious TV show was Dr. Dementia. The three films it supposedly shown were Howard Hawk's "The Thing," the 1954 sci-fi classic "Forbidden Planet," and George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead."
7. In the television version, Lance Guest's character, Jimmy, the ambulance driver, lives.
8. Trick question. Dr. Loomis wasn't in "Halloween III." This 1982 film, about a Halloween manufacturer (Dan O'Herlihy) who plots to use masks rigged with micro chips powered by bits of mystic stone mined from Stonehenge to unleash a plague of deadly critters on Halloween night was a departure from the Michael Myers storyline. Supposedly, Carpenter wanted to turn the Halloween series into an anthology of fresh material rather than an endless sludge of sequels. "Season of the Witch," however, was a box office flop, so it looked for a while like the series was as dead as a Michael Myers victim. But a whole string of successful films about Myers clones like Jason ("Friday the 13th") and Freddy ("A Nightmare on Elm Street") convinced Halloween producers that there was still life in the original masked bogeyman. So the series returned to its roots in 1988.
9. Michael overhears the ambulance drivers talking about a niece, Jamie, who he didn't know existed.
10. Michael's niece wears the same clown costume Michael wore when he killed his sister as a boy.
11. Yes. Michael's face is exposed at the end of the first film.
12. . Lindsey Wallace.
13. In both "Halloween III" and "The Curse of Michael Myers" the configurations of the stars and planets are given as motivating factors triggering all the mayhem.
14. The song was "Mr. Sandman" by a mid-fifties girl group called the Chordettes.
15. "Halloween H20", which was intended to provide actress Jamie Lee Curtis "closure" to her earlier, "Queen of Scream" roots, broke with tradition and featured no nudity. Four years later, however, not only was Jamie Lee back for more "closure" in "Halloween Resurrection", but so was the gratuitous nude scene.
16. The cast of "The Fog" (1980) reads like a "Halloween" reunion. It featured Jamie Lee Curtis (Laurie Strode from "Halloween," "Halloween II," "H20," "Resurrection"), Nancy Loomis (Laurie's friend Annie from "Halloween"), Charles Cyphers (Sheriff Bracken from "Halloween," "Halloween II"), Vivian Lee (Laurie's secretary in "H20") and Tom Atkins ("Halloween III, Season of the Witch"). The only major Halloween player not present in "The Fog" was Donald Pleasance. Carpenter used him in two of his other films, "Escape from New York" (1981) and "The Prince of Darkness" (1987).