Daniel DeSanto (Gabe) also starred as Tucker in in Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1990). One of the stories Tucker told the Midnight Society, The Tale of the Guardian's Curse (1994), was also about a mummy coming to life.
This episode is based on Goosebumps book #23.
One of four episodes based on a Goosebumps novel which was a sequel, without the original being adapted for television. The others were the Night of the Living Dummy episodes.
The mummy, Prince Khor-Ru, was played by actor/mime artist Peter Jarvis, who also played the mummy in "Don't Wake Mummy".
In the book, Sari was at least an inch taller than Gabe, but here she is clearly several inches shorter.