The Nightmare Room is an American children's

Children's television series

Children's television series, are commercial television programs designed for, and marketed to children, normally scheduled for broadcast during the morning and afternoon when children are awake. They can sometimes run in the early evening, for the children that go to school...

 anthology horror series

Horror fiction

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 that aired on Kids' WB

Kids' WB

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. The series was based on the short-lived book series The Nightmare Room children's books created by Goosebumps author, R.L. Stine. The Nightmare Room originally aired from August 31, 2001, to March 16, 2002, in the United States. It was rated TV-Y7 for fantasy violence (FV) and scenes deemed too scary or disturbing for younger viewers in the United States.

Premise

The Nightmare Room is based on fears that children have, such as ghosts and monsters, which normally ended with comments by the narrator whose final words always were "the nightmare room", then a door with the The Nightmare Room logo would appear, closing. In many instances, the series resembled the television series The Twilight Zone

The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)

The Twilight Zone is an American anthology television series created by Rod Serling, which ran for five seasons on CBS from 1959 to 1964. The series consisted of unrelated episodes depicting paranormal, futuristic, dystopian, or simply disturbing events; each show typically featured a surprising...

with teens taking the role as the main characters, many of whom portrayed the characters were popular actors, including Amanda Bynes

Amanda Bynes

Amanda Laura Bynes is an American actress, comedian, singer, and fashion designer. Bynes appeared in several successful television series, such as All That and The Amanda Show, on Nickelodeon in the mid to late 1990s and early 2000s, and in 2002, she starred in the TV series, What I Like About You...

, Drake Bell

Drake Bell

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, Brenda Song

Brenda Song

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, Shia LaBeouf

Shia LaBeouf

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, A.J. Trauth

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 and Dylan and Cole Sprouse

Dylan and Cole Sprouse

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. In addition, Robert Englund

Robert Englund

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 (famously known as Freddy Krueger

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 from the Nightmare On Elm Street films") played as various roles.

The Nightmare Room is Kids' WB

Kids' WB

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's only live-action show and aired on the short-lived Kids' WB variant of Toonami

Toonami

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, making it the only live-action show to air on the strand. The show was produced by Parachute Entertainment

Parachute Publishing

Parachute Press is a division of Parachute Publishing, a packager of book series for children and teenagers. The four women listed as the company's principals are all themselves authors of children's books , and Jane Stine is married to R. L. Stine. The press first gained notice with the 1989...

, Tollin/Robbins Productions

Tollin/Robbins Productions

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, and Warner Bros. Television

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.

Book titles and summaries

1. Don't Forget Me: Danielle Warner and her brother, Peter, move into a house where the basement is haunted by the ghosts of children who have been forgotten by their friends and families—and lure living children in by making their friends and families forget about them.
2. Locker 13: Superstitious Luke Green gets assigned Locker #13 on his first day of school and tries to quell the bad luck that goes along with it by finding a good-luck charm. But the good-luck charm has a twisted secret of its own.
3. My Name is Evil: A carnival fortuneteller accuses Maggie of being evil. Maggie brushes it off as a joke—until accidents occur in school and all signs point to Maggie as a suspect.
4. Liar, Liar: Years of lying suddenly catch up with Ross when he finds himself in a parallel world where an evil twin tells him that he will die in two days.
5. Dear Diary, I'm Dead: Alex Smith discovers a diary in his room that predicts the future, including his death.
6. They Call Me Creature: Laura must find out why the animals she cares for are turning on her — and discovers a horrible creature living in her father's shed.
7. The Howler: Self-proclaimed electronics geek Spencer Turner buys a machine called "The Howler" that lets humans communicate with the dead...and gets messages from three ghosts who want to possess Spencer and her friends.
8. Shadow Girl: A bored girl named Selena discovers that she's really a superheroine named Shadow Girl, and, like all superheros, has an arch-enemy who wants her dead.
9. Camp Nowhere: At summer camp, Russell rows over Forbidden Falls—and finds himself in a summer camp haunted by the ghost of an evil Indian spirit.
10. Full Moon Halloween: It's a frightful Halloween night as a group of 5 teens realize that one of them may be a werewolf.
11. Scare School: Sam is haunted by an imp at his new school who preys on new students.
12. Visitors: UFO enthusiast Ben Shipley discovers that aliens
    Extraterrestrial life
    Extraterrestrial life is defined as life that does not originate from Earth...
    
     are covertly invading Earth.

The Nightmare Room Thrillogy

• Fear Games: Twelve kids (April, Kristen, Marlin, Anthony, Dolores, Jared, etc.) with special abilities have been selected to take part in a reality show called Life Games, set on an island haunted by a psychotic witch.
• What Scares You the Most?: April (one of the contestants) is stranded on the island and must fight her biggest fears in order to escape.
• No Survivors: After her escape in What Scares You the Most?, April must return to the haunted island in order to rid it of the witch's spirits.

Episodes

#	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Production code

Opening narration

At the beginning of each episode, R. L. Stine

R. L. Stine

Robert Lawrence Stine , known as R. L. Stine, and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American writer. Stine, who is called the "Stephen King of children's literature," is the author of hundreds of horror fiction novels, including the books in the Fear Street, Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, and The...

 gives an opening monologue of sorts — in a manner very similar to Rod Serling

Rod Serling

Rodman Edward "Rod" Serling was an American screenwriter, novelist, television producer, and narrator best known for his live television dramas of the 1950s and his science fiction anthology TV series, The Twilight Zone. Serling was active in politics, both on and off the screen and helped form...

's iconic opening narration for The Twilight Zone

The Twilight Zone

The Twilight Zone is an American television anthology series created by Rod Serling. Each episode is a mixture of self-contained drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist...

— that acts somewhat like a theme song for the series.

Award nominations

Year	Award	Result	Category	Recipient
2002	Emmy Award Emmy Award An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...	Nominated	Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing	Michael C. Gutierrez, James L. Pearson, Tony Torretto, Susan Welsh, and Debby Ruby-Winsberg

International broadcasters

Country	Channel(s)	International Title
Australia	FOX8 FOX8 Fox8 is an Australian cable and satellite channel available on Foxtel, Austar and Optus Television's subscription platforms...	The Nightmare Room
Brazil Brazil Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...	Boomerang and SBT	A Hora do Arrepio
Canada	YTV	The Nightmare Room
France	France 2 France 2 France 2 is a French public national television channel. It is part of the state-owned France Télévisions group, along with France 3, France 4, France 5 and France Ô...  (2002–2004)	Aux portes du cauchemar
Italy	Italia 1 Italia 1 Italia 1 is an Italian commercial television channel on the Mediaset network. It is oriented especially at young people.Italia 1 was launched in January 1982 and, originally, was owned by Rusconi; after a few months, however, due to the aggressive dumping practices of Silvio Berlusconi's rival...	L'incubo camera
Japan	NHK NHK NHK is Japan's national public broadcasting organization. NHK, which has always identified itself to its audiences by the English pronunciation of its initials, is a publicly owned corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television license fee....  (2002–2003)	ナイトメア・ルーム (Katakana) Naitomea· Rūmu (Romaji)
Latin America	Boomerang	Las aventuras del suspenso
Portugal	Nickelodeon Nickelodeon (Portugal) Nickelodeon Portugal is the fourth Portuguese television network mostly for children and teens. The network was launched on September 1, 2005 at 10 a.m. Nickelodeon Portugal is a simulcast of Nickelodeon España in Portuguese...  (2002)	A Hora do Medo
Spain	TVE2	La habitación de las pesadillas
South Korea	KBS 2TV	나이트메어 룸 (Hangul) Naiteumeeo lum (Roman)
United Kingdom	CBBC CBBC CBBC is one of two brand names used for the BBC's children's television strands. Between 1985 and 2002, CBBC was the name given to all the BBC's programmes on TV for children aged under 14...	The Nightmare Room
United States	Kids' WB! (2001-2002)	The Nightmare Room