The BEST episodes of Svengoolie

#1 - King Kong Vs. Godzilla

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

#2 - Monolith Monsters

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

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

#3 - 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.

#4 - The Night Walker

Season 22 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/3/2016

Svengoolie presents 'The Night Walker'. A woman is haunted by recurring nightmares, which seem to be instigated by her late husband who supposedly was killed in a fire.

#5 - Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

Season 27 - Episode 39 - 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.

#6 - Frankenstein

Season 27 - Episode 40 - Aired 10/9/2021

A scientist creates a living being from body parts, only too learn to late its brain came from the body of a madman.

#7 - The War of the Gargantuas (1966)

Season 29 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/25/2023

Tonight on MeTV- we face danger from two towering terrors- with opposing attitudes- but equal capability for destruction! It’s a threat more warm-blooded than Godzilla- but cold-blooded enough to devastate cities! Humankind finds itself caught in the middle of the “War of the Gargantuas”!

#8 - The Land That Time Forgot (1974)

Season 30 - Episode 6 - 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”!

#9 - Dan Curtis' 'Dracula' (1974)

Season 30 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/23/2024

This 1974 made-for-TV production, starring Jack Palance, was originally called “Bram Stoker’s Dracula”- but is now identified with the Dan Curtis monicker to avoid confusion with the Francis Ford Coppola 1992 film- and also because Coppola actually bought the exclusive rights to the title “Bram Stoker’s Dracula”! Regardless, this 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.

#10 - Bride of Frankenstein

Season 23 - Episode 17 - Aired 6/3/2017

#11 - 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"!

#12 - The Mummy’s Curse

Season 23 - Episode 27 - Aired 12/9/2017

It's the final chapter that wraps up the original Universal series of Mummy movies ( if you don't count "Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy")- with Kharis' beloved and oft-reincarnated true love reappearing - and the undying embalmed one bringing death to the bayou- in "The Mummy's Curse"!

#13 - 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.

#14 - The Ghoul

Season 28 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/19/2022

An Egyptologist returns from the dead to take revenge on those who have violated his tomb.

#15 - 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.

#16 - The Car

Season 23 - Episode 19 - 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.

#17 - Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man

Season 23 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/1/2017

Svengoolie presents 'Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man'. Two bumbling private eyes help a man wrongly accused of murder who has become invisible to help clear his name.

#18 - Village of the Damned

Season 25 - Episode 18 - Aired 8/17/2019

In a small English village everyone suddenly falls unconscious. When they awake every woman of child bearing age is pregnant. The resulting children have the same strange blond hair, eyes and a strong connection to each other.

#19 - Dead Man's Eyes

Season 22 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/23/2016

When an artist is blinded, his fiancée's father offers an operation to restore his sight. When the benefactor suddenly dies, the artist becomes a suspect.

#20 - The Mad Ghoul

Season 19 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/7/2013

A mad professor discovers an ancient Mayan gas places it's victim in a zombie like state (No, not Indiana). In an evil plot to steal his assistants fiance, the professor uses the gas on his him. However, to keep his zombie alive-dead, he must feed him fresh human hearts (with secret herbs and spices) resulting in a story to chill the blood. In the GOOD part of this episode, Svengoolie recaps the design and creation of his new coffin, seen here for the first time.

#21 - War of the Colossal Beast

Season 27 - Episode 35 - Aired 9/4/2021

After a series of delivery trucks are sidelined and destroyed in rural Mexico, Joyce fears her brother, Lt. Col. Glenn Manning, is the responsible. Manning having been over exposed to radiation, now is gigantic in size.

#22 - The Mummy’s Tomb

Season 17 - Episode 32 - Aired 11/26/2011

In yet another Universal horror classic, the mummy cult high priest role is transferred to a new fez wearing fiend who bring the living mummy Kharis (Chaney) to America. Here he revives him to exact revenge on those who foiled their plans before. Thus begins the foot-dragging action that has become the standard for the '40's mummy movies.

#23 - Attack of the 50 Foot Woman

Season 25 - Episode 12 - Aired 6/15/2019

When an abused wife grows to giant size because of an alien encounter and an aborted murder attempt, she goes after her cheating husband with revenge on her mind.

#24 - Godzilla: King of the Monsters (1956)

Season 29 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/28/2023

A 400-foot (122-meter) dinosaur-like beast, awoken from undersea hibernation off the Japanese coast by atomic-bomb testing, attacks Tokyo.

#25 - The 7th Voyage of Sinbad

Season 26 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/27/2020

The dauntless Sinbad (Kerwin Mathews) heads to the island of Colossa, where only the egg of a giant bird can restore a pea-sized princess (Kathryn Grant) to normal size. The evil magician Sokurah (Torin Thatcher) accompanies him -- with ulterior motives to retrieve a lamp and genie (Richard Eyer) he once lost. But before the group can return home, they must conquer a landscape of fantastic beasts, including a Cyclops that hungers for human flesh.