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Well this article was a trip down memory lane given the afternoons of my childhood spent watching Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Eerie, Indiana, So Weird, and Goosebumps. I watched many of them with my Mom who is a horror fan, much to my dad's chagrin as he thought the genre and those shows were dumb. Didn't stop him (probably at my mom's coaxing) buying my brother and I books and VHS types from Goosebumps for Christmas over a couple of years.
That said, the Doctor Who fan in me would like to point out that State of Decay aired during JN-T's first season in 1980 rather than under Williams' watch. Though it was originally commissioned (in a different form) by Williams and Robert Holmes. The Louis Jordan Dracula put paid to that version, of course.
Galaxy of Fear! YEEAAHHH!!!
In recent years, Goosebumps has had new and reprinted books while Spooksville reprints dropped off after the first few. So there's something Stine has that still resonates with today's kids.
History doesn't repeat but it rhymes, there were people saying that about Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde at the time of its 1920 silent film adaptation.Speaking of, re Shock, when I first read about it, I saw Karloff at the time saying he didn't think the sophisticated modern audiences will be interested. They were very interested!