The BEST episodes of Svengoolie

#1 - King Kong Vs. Godzilla

Season 20 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/8/2014

#2 - Monolith Monsters

Season 20 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/11/2014

Rocks from a meteor which grow when in contact with water threaten a sleepy Southwestern desert community.

#3 - The Car

Season 25 - Episode 23 - Aired 6/8/2019

The Utah community of Santa Ynez is being terrorized by a mysterious black coupe that appears out of nowhere and begins running people down. After the car kills off the town sheriff, Captain Wade Parent is determined to stop the murderous driver.

#4 - Bride of Frankenstein

Season 17 - Episode 12 - Aired 6/18/2011

This Universal classic gives us the iconic character, the iconic hairstyle and the universal reference for a female train-wreck, regardless the reason. The Frankenstein saga continues as Dr. Frankenstein is visited by an even eviler genius, Dr. Pretorius. After displaying his accomplishments in creation of life, he coerces Dr. Frankenstein to create a mate for the monster (Karloff), only thought to be kill in the windmill fire at the end of the first picture.

#5 - Blood of Dracula

Season 27 - Episode 39 - Aired 9/25/2021

A young woman at a boarding school for girls becomes the object of an experiment at the hands of one of her teachers and through hypnosis techniques and ancient black magic becomes a vicious vampire.

#6 - Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

Season 27 - Episode 40 - Aired 10/2/2021

Svengoolie presents 'Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein'. The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster's body.

#7 - The Invisible Man

Season 22 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/26/2016

After experimenting on himself and becoming invisible, scientist Jack Griffin, now aggressive due to the drug's effects, seeks a way to reverse the experiment at any cost.

#8 - The Return of the Vampire

Season 31 - Episode 27 - Aired 7/5/2025

In 1918, an English family is terrorized by a vampire, until they learn how to deal with it. They think their troubles are over, but German bombs in WWII free the monster. He reclaims the soul of his wolfman ex-servant, and assuming the identity of a scientist who has just escaped from a concentration camp, he starts out on a plan to get revenge upon the family.

#9 - Duel

Season 29 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/18/2023

David Mann (Dennis Weaver), a mild mannered electronics salesman, is driving cross-country on a two-lane highway when he encounters an old oil tanker driven by an unseen driver who seems to enjoy annoying him with dangerous antics on the road. Unable to escape the demonic big rig, David finds himself in a dangerous game of cat and mouse with the monstrous truck. When the pursuit escalates to deadly levels, David must summon his inner warrior and turn the tables on his tormentor.

#10 - Frankenstein

Season 25 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/4/2019

Tampering with life and death, Henry Frankenstein pieces together salvaged body parts to bring a human monster to life; the mad scientist's dreams are shattered by his creation's violent rage as the monster awakens to a world in which he is unwelcome.

#11 - The Leech Woman

Season 30 - Episode 25 - Aired 6/22/2024

An endocrinologist in a dysfunctional marriage with an aging, alcoholic wife journeys to Africa seeking a drug that will restore youth.

#12 - Dr Cyclops

Season 22 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/2/2016

Four explorers are summoned to Peru by the brilliant physicist Dr Thorkel. They discover a rich source of radium and a half-mad Thorkel who shrinks them down to one-fifth their normal size when they threaten to stop his unorthodox experimentation.

#13 - The Deadly Mantis

Season 19 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/23/2013

A giant prehistoric praying mantis, recently freed from the Arctic ice, voraciously preys on American military at the DEW Line and works its way south.

#14 - Son of Dracula

Season 19 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/2/2013

Carpathian Count Alucard is invited to the U.S. by a young heiress. Her boyfriend and local officials are suspicious of the newcomer, who is interested in the "virile" soil of the new world.

#15 - The Beast Must Die

Season 27 - Episode 35 - Aired 8/28/2021

"The Beast Must Die" is a suspenseful British thriller, available as both a novel and a television series, centered on a mother's revenge after her son is fatally hit by a speeding car. Frances Cairns, driven by grief and the police's lack of progress, decides to take matters into her own hands, posing as a novelist to ingratiate herself with the family of the man she believes is responsible. Detective Nigel Strangeways, also dealing with his own grief and a potentially linked police cover-up, finds himself entangled in Frances's plan and the investigation into the hit-and-run.

#16 - Dan Curtis' Dracula (1974)

Season 31 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/1/2025

Tonight on MeTV - we witness Dan Curtis' take on the classic novel that began the tale of the most famous vampire in "Dan Curtis' Dracula!" Note: this 1974 made-for-TV production, starring Jack Palance, was originally called "Bram Stoker’s Dracula" - but is now identified by the Dan Curtis title to avoid confusion with the Francis Ford Coppola 1992 film - also due to Coppola actually buying the exclusive rights to the title "Bram Stoker's Dracula"! Notably, tonight’s film was really the first version of the Dracula story to touch upon the Vlad the Impaler history of the Count, and to adhere more closely (but not entirely) to the original novel. Note: this 1974 made-for-TV production, starring Jack Palance, was originally called “Bram Stoker’s Dracula”- but is now identified by the Dan Curtis title to avoid confusion with the Francis Ford Coppola 1992 film-also due to Coppola actually buying the exclusive rights to the title “Bram Stoker’s Dracula”!

#17 - The War of the Gargantuas (1966)

Season 31 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/22/2025

Sven presents facts and trivia about a Toho film featuring their double-sized take on King Kong.

#18 - The Land That Time Forgot (1974)

Season 30 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/4/2024

Tonight on MeTV- we head back in time- and then, head even FURTHER back in time- when a World War I submarine holding two enemy groups finds itself lost- only to discover a hidden uncharted subcontinent where dinosaurs co-exist with prehistoric men- and life evolves in a totally different way. Stand by to submerge yourself in “The Land That Time Forgot”!

#19 - Bride of Frankenstein

Season 20 - Episode 14 - Aired 4/5/2014

Tonight marks the 3rd anniversary of the Svengoolie show being beamed to a national audience via the Me-TV network- but we're giving YOU the gift! After a long absence on our program, we are so happy to be able to present, once again, another landmark Universal horror film- one in which the title "creature" appears only briefly, but is still one of the most memorable characters in the studio's horror gallery- it's the 1935 sequel to the original "Frankenstein"- "Bride of Frankenstein"- as the first entry in this month's theme- "Rotten Relatives Reunion"!

#20 - Red Planet Mars

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/25/1995

Husband-and-wife scientists (Peter Graves, Andrea King) pick up a pie-in-the-sky TV message supposedly from Mars.

#21 - It! The Terror Beyond Space

Season 28 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/5/2022

A rescue team arrives on Mars to take Col. Edward Carruthers back home to be executed for apparently murdering his entire crew. Soon mysterious killings aboard ship give reason to doubt his guilt.

#22 - The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

Season 27 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/1/2021

Svengoolie presents 'The Ghost of Mr. Chicken'. A timid typesetter hasn't a ghost of a chance of becoming a reporter - until he decides to solve a murder mystery and ends up spending a fright-filled night in a haunted house.

#23 - The Car

Season 23 - Episode 27 - Aired 7/8/2017

Svengoolie presents 'The Car'. A small desert town is terrorized by a powerful, seemingly possessed car, and the local sheriff may be the only one who can stop it.

#24 - Munster, Go Home!

Season 23 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/29/2017

Svengoolie presents 'Munster, Go Home!'. The Munsters travel to England after Herman discovers he's the new Lord of the Munster Hall.

#25 - Gargoyles

Season 23 - Episode 19 - Aired 5/13/2017