The series is centered around the same supernatural or occult elements featured in the novels, with most episodes being direct adaptions of the books.

[2] Goosebumps originally began airing on YTV (in English) from 1995 to 2004, then again in 2016–2017 and Canal Famille (in French) in Canada.

These DVDs were a big upgrade from the previous releases, with menus and enhanced audio and picture quality.

On 26 November 2012, Revelation Films started to release season sets of the series in the United Kingdom (DVD region 2).

These releases contained the episodes' mostly uncensored versions as presented on the defunct UK Fox Kids channel (albeit still truncating the ending of "A Shocker on Shock Street"); a description on the back of the DVD cases mentions the heavy censoring the episodes were subjected to when they aired on CBBC.

Unlike on Fox Kids, all six hour-long specials from across the first and second seasons are presented in their entirety, rather than being split into two-part episodes.

The main difference between the books in this series and their original publications is that the Goosebumps Presents editions contained photos from the corresponding episodes.