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"Welcome to Camp Nightmare" is the fifth and sixth episode of season one of the Goosebumps TV series. Part one and two premiered on November 17, 1995 on Fox during the Fox Kids block.

Cast

Kaj-Erik Eriksen as Billy Harlan
Chris Benson as Uncle Al
Jeffrey Akomah as Jay
Ken Mundy as Colin
Benjamin Plener as Roger
Paul Brogren as Larry
David Roemmele as Mike
Sarah Mitchell as Dawn
Greg Kramer as George
Gil Garratt as Counselor
Kerry Duff as Dori
Alex Hazisavvas as Martha
Danny Sohal as Kevin Spears
Alec Bachlow as Mr. Harlan (uncredited)
Michèle Duquet as Mrs. Harlan (uncredited)

Blurb

The summer camp of Billy's dreams is turning out to be a total nightmare. The food stinks. The counselors are weird. And who or what is this vicious beast everyone calls "Sabre"? Things are getting worse by the minute! So why doesn't Uncle Al, the camp director, seem worried? Does the mystery of the Forbidden Bunk have something to do with Billy's fellow campers disappearing one by one? Either way Billy has had it! He is determined to find out what is going on before it is too late.

Differences from the book

During the sequence where the camp goes on a manhunt for Dawn: in the book version, the boys are given rifles. In the TV version Uncle Al gives the boys vague devices that resemble crossbows. This was most likely done due to Standards and Practices rules forbidding scenes of children handling guns on children's television shows (unless it's a show with an episode centered on the dangers of mishandling a gun).
Dawn is the only girl to hide in the woods. In the book, she brings Dori with her.
The kids are attacked by a lupine monster named Sabre, instead of wolf creatures. Sabre did not physically appear in the book at all and in the episode is revealed to be a robot created by the lab.
In the book, Roger doesn't speak until later while in the episode, he speaks for the first time near the start.
The campfire scene is extended to include Billy comforting Mike.
Tommy and Chris are absent. Instead, it is Jay and Colin who get in a canoe accident.
In the book, Dawn and Dori approach Billy while he is talking a walk to tell them about what is going on in the girl's camp. In the episode, this happens while Billy is investigating the forbidden bunk.
Jay is less of a joker, with Roger taking on the joker role.
Billy never saves Larry from drowning after he falls off the canoe. Instead of being in a canoe, Larry shoves Billy into the water after a struggle and runs away.

Other media

Goosebumps Presents

No.	Cover	Release date	Pages
3		July 1996	68

Home Media

Title	Release date	Media type
Welcome to Camp Nightmare (UK)	October 1st, 1999	VHS
One Day at HorrorLand	September 16, 2008	DVD
3-Pack Thriller	August 26, 2014	DVD

Trivia

This episode was adapted into Goosebumps Presents book #3.
When the episode first aired, it was originally intended to have the theme that "The Cuckoo Clock of Doom" and "The Girl Who Cried Monster" had. Instead, it was replaced with the original theme, except when the word "Goosebumps" appeared through the door of the house, the word continued to move.
Benjamin Plener (Roger) played Jonathan Hall in season three's, 'The Haunted House Game".
David Roemmele (Mike) played Billy Brown in season three's, "Perfect School".
Kerry Duff, who had an uncredited appearance as a camper, played Margo in season one's "Night of the Living Dummy II".
The rubber snake that Mike was "bitten" by is seen in two close-up shots as a real Ball Python.
Goof: In the scene where Billy is wielding his weapon, there is a repeated continuity error in between shots; in one shot, the arrow in the crossbow has a suction-cup tip, but it doesn't have a rubber tip in the next shot.
Footage from this episode would later be reused in "An Old Story".
When the kids first arrive at the empty spot, Roger jokingly says they're at "Camp Nowhere". This name would later be used as the title for the 9th book in R.L. Stine's The Nightmare Room series.
- This is also a reference to the 1994 film Camp Nowhere starring Christopher Lloyd.
Of the two-part episodes to air in season one, this is the only one that did not receive a VHS release in North America.

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Promos

Goosebumps Promo- Welcome to Camp Nightmare (1995)

Goosebumps TV series
Season 1	The Haunted Mask • The Cuckoo Clock of Doom • The Girl Who Cried Monster • Welcome to Camp Nightmare • Phantom of the Auditorium • Piano Lessons Can Be Murder • Return of the Mummy • Night of the Living Dummy II • Stay Out of the Basement • My Hairiest Adventure • It Came from Beneath the Sink • Say Cheese and Die • A Night in Terror Tower • The Werewolf of Fever Swamp
Season 2	Be Careful What You Wish For... • Attack of the Mutant • Bad Hare Day • The Headless Ghost • Go Eat Worms • You Can't Scare Me • Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes • Ghost Beach • Attack of the Jack-O'-Lanterns • The Haunted Mask II • Let's Get Invisible • Scarecrow Walks at Midnight • Monster Blood • More Monster Blood • Vampire Breath • How to Kill a Monster • Calling All Creeps • Welcome to Dead House • Don't Wake Mummy • The Blob That Ate Everyone • Night of the Living Dummy III
Season 3	Shocker on Shock Street • My Best Friend Is Invisible • The House of No Return • Don't Go To Sleep • Click • An Old Story • The Barking Ghost • One Day at HorrorLand • The Haunted House Game • Perfect School • Werewolf Skin • Awesome Ants • Bride of the Living Dummy • Strained Peas • Say Cheese and Die... Again • Chillogy • Teacher's Pet
Season 4	How I Got My Shrunken Head • The Ghost Next Door • Cry of the Cat • Deep Trouble

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 == Differences from the book ==
 *During the sequence where the camp goes on a manhunt for Dawn: in the book version, the boys are given rifles. In the TV version Uncle Al gives the boys vague devices that resemble crossbows. This was most likely done due to Standards and Practices rules forbidding scenes of children handling guns on children's television shows (unless it's a show with an episode centered on the dangers of mishandling a gun).
-*Billy is woken up by Dawn instead of Larry.
 *Dawn is the only girl to hide in the woods. In the book, she brings Dori with her.
 *The kids are attacked by a lupine monster named Sabre, instead of wolf creatures. Sabre did not physically appear in the book at all and in the episode is revealed to be a robot created by the lab.