The BEST episodes of Svengoolie season 1
Every episode of Svengoolie season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Svengoolie season 1!
Svengoolie has been the premier horror show icon of Chicago since the late 1970's. He has appeared on a national basis on MeTV since April 2011. Generations of viewers have become fans of the awful jokes and monstrous movies that this video vampire presents every Saturday night.
#1 - 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.
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Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/7/1995
A rash of bizarre murders in New York City seems to point to a group of grotesquely deformed vagrants living in the sewers. A courageous policeman, a photo journalist and his girlfriend, and a nutty bum, who seems to know a lot about the creatures, band together to try and determine what the creatures are and how to stop them.
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Season 1 - Episode 27 - Aired 9/2/1995
Interviews and documentary footage combine with the fictional story of an air-force pilot who encounters aliens.
#4 - The Vampire
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 7/8/1995
A small town doctor mistakenly ingests an experimental drug made from the blood of vampire bats which transforms the kindly medic into a bloodthirsty monster.
#5 - Superbeast
Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 8/19/1995
A doctor finds a jungle laboratory, complete with mad scientist and genetic engineering experiments.
#6 - Night of the Lepus
Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 9/9/1995
Giant mutant rabbits terrorize the southwest!!
#7 - The Creeping Terror
Season 1 - Episode 29 - Aired 9/16/1995
A newlywed sheriff tries to stop a shambling monster that has emerged from a spaceship to eat people.
#8 - Godzilla 1985
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/4/1995
Originally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily re-edited, re-titled "Godzilla 1985". Adding in new footage of Raymond Burr, this 16th Godzilla film ignores all previous sequels and serves as a direct follow-up to the 1956 "Godzilla King of the Monsters", which also featured scenes with Burr edited into 1954's "Godzilla". This film restores the darker tone of the original, as we witness the nuclear destruction of giant lizard terrorizing Japan.
#9 - Village of the Damned
Season 1 - Episode 31 - Aired 10/14/1995
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.
#10 - Logan's Run
Season 1 - Episode 32 - Aired 10/21/1995
In the 23rd century, inhabitants of a domed city freely experience all of life's pleasures — but no one is allowed to live past 30. Citizens can try for a chance at being "renewed" in a civic ceremony on their 30th birthday. Escape is the only other option.
#11 - Forbidden Planet
Season 1 - Episode 33 - Aired 11/4/1995
Starship C57D travels to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of spaceship "Bellerophon," a scientific expedition that has been missing for 20 years, only to find themselves unwelcome by the expedition's lone survivor and warned of destruction by an invisible force if they don't turn back immediately.
#12 - The Long, Long Trailer
Season 1 - Episode 34 - Aired 11/11/1995
A newly wed couple, Tacy and Nicky, travel in a trailer for their honeymoon. The journey is a humorous one that could end up destroying their marriage.
#13 - The Black Sleep
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/11/1995
In 19th century England, a noted brain surgeon rescues a former student from being hanged on a false conviction for murder, and spirits him away to an ancient, repurposed abbey far in the countryside. There, he connives his pupil into assisting him in mapping the functions of the various parts of the human brain, using living subjects who are under a terrible animation-suspending drug called "black sleep". Subsequently, the student, along with the daughter of one of the subjects, discover that most of these subjects have survived but are being kept in a dungeon-like cellar, in various stages of physical and mental derangement...
#14 - It Happened at the World's Fair
Season 1 - Episode 36 - Aired 11/25/1995
Mike and Danny fly a cropduster, but because of Danny's gambling debts, a local sheriff takes custody of it. Trying to earn money, they hitch-hike to the World's Fair in Seattle and, while Danny tries to earn money playing poker, Mike takes care of a small girl whose father has disappeared. Being a ladies' man, he also finds the time to court a young nurse.
#15 - The Brain
Season 1 - Episode 37 - Aired 12/16/1995
Dr. Blake runs a TV show called "Independent Thinkers", which is sort of a Scientology-like self-help/religion program. But he's not making his audience think any more independently - with the help of an alien organism he calls The Brain, he's using brainwashing and mind control. The only thing that stands between them and world domination is a brilliant but troubled high school student with a penchant for pranks...
#16 - Devil Girl from Mars
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/1/1995
Eight people at a remote Scottish inn find themselves confronted by a woman from Mars, who has landed her flying saucer for repairs but intends to soon conquer the Earth and enslave its men for breeding purposes.
#17 - The Return of Dracula
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 4/8/1995
After a vampire leaves his native Balkans, he murders a Czech artist, assumes his identity, and moves in with the dead man's American cousins.
#18 - The Brain That Wouldn't Die
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/29/1995
Dr. Bill Cortner and his fiancée, Jan Compton, are driving to his lab when they get into a horrible car accident. Compton is decapitated. But Cortner is not fazed by this seemingly insurmountable hurdle. His expertise is in transplants, and he is excited to perform the first head transplant. Keeping Compton's head alive in his lab, Cortner plans the groundbreaking yet unorthodox surgery. First, however, he needs a body.
#19 - Doctor Blood's Coffin
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/6/1995
After being thrown out of medical school for ethical violations, Dr. Peter Blood returns home to a small Cornish village, where he sets up a research laboratory in a secluded cave. There, he attempts to revive the dead, using kidnapped humans -- who he views as unworthy of life -- for their body parts, specifically, their hearts.
#20 - Children of the Corn
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/20/1995
A boy preacher named Isaac goes to a town in Nebraska called Gatlin and gets all the children to murder every adult in town.
#21 - The Beastmaster
Season 1 - Episode 35 - Aired 11/18/1995
Dar, is the son of a king, who is hunted by a priest after his birth and grows up in another family. When he becomes a grown man his new father is murdered by savages and he discovers that he has the ability to communicate with the animals, which leads him on his quest for revenge against his father's killers.
#22 - Transylvania 6-5000
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/14/1995
Two reporters travel to a strange castle in Transylvania to investigate the apparent reappearance of Frankenstein, and encounter the sensitive Wolfman, the horny Vampiress Odette and a whole cast of other weirdos.
#23 - The Stuff
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/21/1995
Amalgamated Dairies hires David Rutherford, an FBI man turned industrial saboteur, to investigate a popular new product called “the Stuff,” a new dessert product that is blowing ice cream sales out of the water. Nobody knows how it’s made or what’s in it, but people are lining up to buy it. It's got a delicious flavor to die for!
#24 - The Beast of Hollow Mountain
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/28/1995
An American cowboy living in Mexico discovers his cattle is being eaten by a giant prehistoric dinosaur.
#25 - Revenge of the Zombies
Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 9/23/1995
When Dr. Von Altermann's wife Lila dies mysteriously at his spooky mansion, her relations suspect murder. They little suspect he's turning her into a zombie, to join the army of living dead he hopes to devote to the Nazi cause. Lila, though dead, has developed a will of her own. Meanwhile, Lila's brother Scott and his friends are increasingly alarmed by the eerie events.