28 Years Ago Today: ‘Goosebumps’ Aired The Corny and Awkward Escape From Karlsville' Episode
Saturday marks 28 years since the iconic '90s Goosebumps television show aired one of its campiest episodes. The original Goosebumps TV show, based off of R.L. Stine's best-selling children's book series, produced 74 episodes over four seasons. The two-part series premiere, The Haunted Mask , aired on Oct. 27, 1995. By the time they started work on season three, producers began adapting episodes from Tales to Give You Goosebumps , a book series that featured short stories written by Stine. But Goosebumps writers Billy Brown and Dan Angel decided to try something different in season three. The two actually wrote a three-part episode, Chillogy , that wasn't based off of any stories from Stine. The first episode, Squeal of Fortune , tells the story of a teenage girl named Jessica Walters (starring a young Caterina Scorsone) who accidentally gets transported into a small miniature town called "Karlsville." The man who runs the town, Karl Knave, tricks Jessica into...
