The BEST episodes of Goosebumps season 1

Every episode of Goosebumps season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Goosebumps season 1!

This Canadian children series based on the popular series of books by RL Stine adapts some of the best tales in the spinechilling series to the screen.

Last Updated: 11/12/2024Network: YTV (CA)Status: Ended
Welcome to Camp Nightmare (2)
star
8.05
128 votes

#1 - Welcome to Camp Nightmare (2)

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/24/1995

Billy's summer camp is turning out to be a total nightmare. The counselors are weird. And who or what is this vicious beast everyone calls "Sabre"?

Directors: Ron Oliver
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The Haunted Mask (2)
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7.94
190 votes

#2 - The Haunted Mask (2)

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/27/1995

Shy, quiet Carly Beth is an easy target for everyone's teasing and practical jokes. But this Halloween she's found a wonderfully spooky mask that has her tormentors scared and running. Carly Beth refuses to take her new mask off, even though it seems to cause strange things to happen to her and other people. One day the magic of the mask turns on Carly Beth. She's horrified to discover that she and the mask have become one.

Directors: Timothy Bond
Writer: José Rivera
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The Werewolf of Fever Swamp (2)
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7.84
101 votes

#3 - The Werewolf of Fever Swamp (2)

Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 5/17/1996

When Grady's family moves out of the city and into a rickety old house in Fever Swamp, both he and his sister Emily find a lot to complain about: they have no friends, no neighbors and nothing to do. Then Grady meets the only other kid around, Will Blake, who tells him the legend of the swamp and about the werewolf responsible for the mysterious disappearances of many former residents. Although Grady is afraid the legend may be true, his parents and sister refuse to believe it...until the next full moon.

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Night of the Living Dummy II
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7.76
122 votes

#4 - Night of the Living Dummy II

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/12/1996

It's the middle of Amy Kramer's most-hated night, Family Night, where every member of the family has to share something with the others. After a home-made video of the family's most embarrasing situations put together by Amy's mischievious little brother, Jed, it's Amy's turn to share. She decides to share a ventriloquist act with her ventriloquist dummy, Dennis. However, not even halfway through the routine, Dennis loses his head. Amy complains to her father, reminding him that he told her she'd get a new dummy. So Amy does. She gets Slappy. However, after Amy reads the card of magic gibberish in Slappy's coat pocket, she's just put her family and herself in jeopardy. Because Slappy's no normal dummy. He's one that can come to life...

Directors: Ron Oliver
Writer: Rick Drew
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It Came from Beneath the Sink!
star
7.70
110 votes

#5 - It Came from Beneath the Sink!

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/2/1996

Kat and her brother, Daniel, are so lucky. They just moved to a new house with tons of rooms, two balconies, and a lawn the size of a football field! But all that good luck is about to run out. Because there's something really evil living in their new house. Something that's moving. Watching. Waiting. Something that comes from beneath the kitchen sink...

Directors: David Winning
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Return of the Mummy
star
7.69
113 votes

#6 - Return of the Mummy

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/22/1995

After last year's scary adventure, Gabe's a little nervous about being back in Egypt. Back near the ancient pyramids. Back where he saw all those creepy mummies. Then he learns about an Egyptian superstition. A secret chant that is supposed to bring mummies to life. Gabe's uncle says it's just a hoax. But now it sounds like something's moving in the mummy's tomb. No way a couple of dumb words can wake the dead. Can they?

Directors: John Bell
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The Haunted Mask (1)
star
7.64
342 votes

#7 - The Haunted Mask (1)

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/27/1995

Shy, quiet Carly Beth is an easy target for everyone's teasing and practical jokes. But this Halloween she's found a wonderfully spooky mask that has her tormentors scared and running. Carly Beth refuses to take her new mask off, even though it causes strange things to happen to her and other people. One day the magic of the mask turns on Carly Beth. She's horrified to discover that she and the mask have become one.

Directors: Timothy Bond
Writer: José Rivera
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A Night in Terror Tower (2)
star
7.56
77 votes

#8 - A Night in Terror Tower (2)

Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/25/1996

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Phantom of the Auditorium
star
7.51
118 votes

#9 - Phantom of the Auditorium

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/1/1995

When Brooke gets the lead in a school play about a Phantom, she is thrilled ... until the nightmares begin.

Directors: John Bell
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The Werewolf of Fever Swamp (1)
star
7.43
84 votes

#10 - The Werewolf of Fever Swamp (1)

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/17/1996

Grady's family has just moved out of the city. Into the swamp. Suffice to say, Grady and his sister, Emily, aren't exactly thrilled, especially when his sister finds a snake in the medicine chest. After making a few jokes about the snake looking like Emily's old boyfriend, his father orders him to set the snake free in the swamp. So Grady does. However, he gets a bit lost, and realizes he's gone in a bit too deep. He then runs into the local swamp hermit. The next day, Grady meets the only other kid around, Will Blake. When the go into the swamp, Will tells Grady about a strange fever that you can get from the swamp. He also tells Grady about the swamp hermit, and how the swamp hermit is a werewolf. Grady somehow believes it, but his family is skeptical. That night, hoping he does not catch the ""Fever Swamp"", Grady goes downstairs to lock the basement door, but he is attacked by an animal. Is it the werewolf?

Directors: William Fruet
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Say Cheese and Die!
star
7.28
71 votes

#11 - Say Cheese and Die!

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/9/1996

Greg thinks there is something wrong with the old camera he and his friends found. The photographs keep turning out wrong. Very wrong. Like the snapshot Greg took of his father's new car that shows it totalled. And then Greg's father is in a nasty wreck. But Greg's friends don't believe him. Shari even makes Greg bring the camera to her birthday party and take her picture. Only Shari's not in the photograph when it develops. Is Shari about to be taken out of the picture permanently? Who is going to take the next fall for...the evil camera?

Directors: Ron Oliver
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Stay Out of the Basement (1)
star
7.26
77 votes

#12 - Stay Out of the Basement (1)

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/27/1996

When Margaret's dad gets fired from his job as a botanist, he begins acting weird and spending all his time down in the basement. But no one seems to notice his odd behavior or hear the strange noises coming from below-except Margaret. She's really scared. Has her father turned into a mad scientist? Her brother, Casey, thinks she's nuts-that is until he finds out that dad has been eating plant food! What is going on? Together Margaret and Casey venture down into the dark, creepy basement to unearth their father's spooky secret...

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Stay Out of the Basement (2)
star
7.25
60 votes

#13 - Stay Out of the Basement (2)

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/27/1996

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A Night in Terror Tower (1)
star
7.22
97 votes

#14 - A Night in Terror Tower (1)

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/25/1996

While visiting London, Sue and her brother, Eddie, are out on their own for the day while their parents attend a buisness conference. At first bored, they are delighted when their bus makes a stop at Terror Tower. But the fun turns to fright when the kids see the wax statues in the Tower's torture chamber moving as if they are real... and ghostly images start calling out warnings to them. Suddenly, Sue and Eddie are running for their lives as they travel back in time to the Middle Ages to escape the dark fate of Terror Tower.

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Welcome to Camp Nightmare (1)
star
7.19
134 votes

#15 - Welcome to Camp Nightmare (1)

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/17/1995

Billy's summer camp is turning out to be a total nightmare. His fellow campers are disappearing one by one! Could the culprit be the Forbidden Bunk?

Directors: Ron Oliver
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Piano Lessons Can Be Murder
star
7.17
98 votes

#16 - Piano Lessons Can Be Murder

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/8/1995

Jerry is excited about taking piano lessons on a piano he found at his new house. But there's something strange about his piano teacher, Dr. Shreek!

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The Girl Who Cried Monster
star
7.06
146 votes

#17 - The Girl Who Cried Monster

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/10/1995

Lucy loves telling monster stories, but her family and friends are tired of her wild tales.

Directors: John Bell
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My Hairiest Adventure
star
6.69
87 votes

#18 - My Hairiest Adventure

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/19/1996

Larry Boyd just found the coolest thing in the trash. It's an old bottle of INSTA-TAN. ""Rub on a dark suntan in minutes""-that's what the label says. So Larry and his friends do. But nothing much happens. Until Larry notices the hair. Dark spikey hair growing on his hands and face. Really gross shiny hair. Hair that keeps growing back even after he shaves it off...

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The Cuckoo Clock of Doom
star
6.65
272 votes

#19 - The Cuckoo Clock of Doom

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/3/1995

An eerie old cuckoo clock in Michael's and Tara's house has mysterious powers and it's about to set back the hands of time ... forever!

Directors: John Bell
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