Return of the Mummy/TV episode

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"Return of the Mummy" is the ninth episode of season one of the Goosebumps TV series. It premiered on December 22, 1995 on Fox during the Fox Kids block.

Cast[]

• Daniel DeSanto as Gabe Sabry
• Annick Obonsawin as Sari Hassad
• Elias Zarou as Ben Hassad
• Afrah Gouda as Nila Rahmad
• Peter Jarvis as Prince Khor-Ru
• Gerry Mendicino as Nila's Driver

Blurb[]

Gabe is in for the ultimate adventure when he visits his uncle and cousin Sari in Egypt. Uncle Ben, an important archaeologist, is about to unearth the tomb of the great Prince, Khor Ru. But superstition has it that if the prince's mummy is disturbed, he will come back to life and seek revenge . . . on whoever wakes him from the dead! Will Gabe get to see a real, live mummy? And if so, will he live to tell his tale?

Differences from the book[]

• The opening scene in the book where Gabe is arriving to Cairo via airplane is omitted. Instead, the episode opens with Gabe having already arrived and is already inside the pyramid with Sari and Uncle Ben.
• In the episode, Sari sees a mummy hand in Gabe's pocket and questions him about it. He explains that he bought it at the airport, and it can supposedly summon spirits. In the book, Sari already knows about the mummy hand because Gabe used it in The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb. In that book, Gabe says that he bought the item at a garage sale.
• Dr. Omar Fielding does not appear in the episode.
• The scene where Gabe runs into John, the man in the mummy costume filming a bandage commercial is omitted.
• None of Uncle Ben's workers appear in the episode. The expedition consists of just Ben, Gabe and Sari.
• The ending is different. In the book, Gabe is possibly bitten by a scarab. In the episode, his summoner moves on its own and sneaks into his suitcase.
• The magic words are altered. Instead of being "Teki Kahru Teki Kahra Teki Khari", they are simply "Kahru Kahra Khari".
• In the book Gabe shattered Nila's pendant which defeated her, in the episode instead Prince Khor-Ru shattered Nila's pendant.
• In the book, Khor-Ru stops after Nila is defeated. In the episode, he continues to attack Gabe.
• Sari's late mother isn't brought up at all in the episode.

Other media[]

Goosebumps Presents[]

No.	Cover	Release date	Pages
4		September 1996	64

Home media[]

Title	Release date	Media type
Return of the Mummy	March 31, 2009	DVD
3-Pack Thriller	August 26, 2014	DVD

Trivia[]

• Even though Return of the Mummy was adapted for television, its predecessor, The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb, was never made into an episode.
  • A similar incident would befall "Night of the Living Dummy II", which got an episode instead of its predecessor.
• In the book, Sari was at least an inch taller than Gabe, but here she is clearly several inches shorter.
• The mummy, Prince Khor-Ru, was played by actor/mime artist Peter Jarvis, who also played the mummy in "Don't Wake Mummy".
• Daniel DeSanto also played Tucker, one of the members of the Midnight Society in Are You Afraid of the Dark?. Coincidentally, Tucker tells the mummy story "Tale of the Guardian's Curse".
• While the episode starts with Gabe and the others in their tent, the Goosebumps Presents book starts with them standing outside the pyramid.
  • When Gabe takes a picture of Sari and Ben, Gabe hears a noise and afterwards notices the summoner has moved. In the TV book, it vanishes entirely while in the episode this happens later on.
  • In the book, Nila reveals the words that bring Khor Ru to life instead of Ben.
  • After Nila's introduction, the episode cuts right to them trying to open the tomb. The TV book has a scene in between with them getting ready to go in.
  • The episode has them go right into the false tomb while the TV book has a moment where they deal with a booby trap first.
  • The TV book establishes that you need both the words and the Summoner to bring Khor Ru to life. The episode didn't specify this.
  • The final scene of the episode is set during the day, but the TV book changes it to night.

Gallery[]

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