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I got lucky. This story about the 1996-97 kid game show Secrets of the Cryptkeeper's Haunted House is actually pretty good. For those who've never heard of the show - I was only dimly aware of it myself - it was a children's stunt game loosely based on Tales From the Crypt.
The show boasts its own Wikipedia article with lots of detail on the various stunts the kids endured as the Cryptkeeper hectored them. There was plenty of early-generation CGI to give the proceedings a cartoonish look. It ran Saturday mornings on CBS, after all, so young'uns expected cartoons at that time of day.
The linked article offers a complete episode and it's fun to watch the computer effects. They're not bad for the 1990s, if a little hokey. The show snagged a Daytime Emmy nomination but lost to that boring old The Price is Right, which didn't use any CGI at all.
The writer of the linked article grumps that nobody remembers Secrets of the Cryptkeeper's Haunted House and laments that the show is likely to stay dead and buried. That's a little harsh. As usual, YouTube recalls the show. The video site doesn't let anything slip down the memory hole.
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