The BEST episodes of Svengoolie season 18
Every episode of Svengoolie season 18, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Svengoolie season 18!
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 - Ssssss
Season 18 - Episode 14 - Aired 4/7/2012
David, a college student, is looking for a job. He is hired by Dr. Stoner as a lab assistant for his research and experiments on snakes. David also begins to fall for Stoner's young daughter, Kristina. However, the good doctor has secretly brewed up a serum that can transform any man into a King Cobra snake-and he plans to use it on David.
#2 - The Deadly Mantis
Season 18 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/7/2012
The calving of an Arctic iceberg releases a giant praying mantis, trapped in suspended animation since prehistoric times. It first attacks military outposts to eat their occupants, then makes its way to the warmer latitudes of Washington and New York. A paleontologist works together with military units to try to kill it.
#3 - Invisible Woman
Season 18 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/25/2012
#4 - The Mummy's Ghost
Season 18 - Episode 27 - Aired 7/7/2012
An Egyptian high priest travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess Ananka and her living guardian mummy Kharis. Learning that Ananka's spirit has been reincarnated into another body, he kidnaps a young woman of Egyptian descent with a mysterious resemblance to the princess. However, the high priest's greedy desires cause him to lose control of the mummy...
#5 - Duck Soup
Season 18 - Episode 52 - Aired 12/29/2012
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
#6 - The Ghost and Mr Chicken
Season 18 - Episode 29 - Aired 7/21/2012
Luther Heggs, a typesetter for the town newspaper, pitches an idea for a story about a local haunted house where a famous murder/suicide occurred 20 years earlier. After the editor assigns Luther to spend one night alone in the mansion, Heggs has a number of supernatural encounters and writes a front page story that makes him a hometown hero...until the nephew of the deceased sues him for libel.
#7 - House of Dracula
Season 18 - Episode 30 - Aired 7/28/2012
A scientist working on cures for rare afflictions, such as a bone softening agent made from molds to allow him to correct the spinal deformity of his nurse, finds the physical causes of lycanthropy in wolf-man Larry Talbot and of vampirism in Count Dracula, but himself becomes afflicted with homicidal madness while exchanging blood with Dracula.
#8 - The Boy Who Cried Werewolf
Season 18 - Episode 31 - Aired 8/4/2012
Little Richie Bridgestone goes to spend the weekend with his father at his secluded mountain cabin, and witnesses his father being attacked by 'a creature' that the boy recognizes as a werewolf. He tries to convince his mother and his therapist that his father is now a werewolf.
#9 - The Creature Walks Among Us
Season 18 - Episode 32 - Aired 8/11/2012
Scientists surgically transform the Creature into an air-breather, but being able to live on land is not enough to make him comfortable with humans. Enraged, he turns his wrath on anyone who comes near as he desperately tries to return to the deep-water world where he truly belongs.
#10 - The Mummy
Season 18 - Episode 33 - Aired 8/18/2012
An ancient Egyptian priest named Imhotep is revived when an archaeological expedition finds his mummy and one of the archaeologists accidentally reads an ancient life-giving spell. Imhotep escapes from the field site and searches for the reincarnation of the soul of his lover.
#11 - The Ghost Breakers
Season 18 - Episode 34 - Aired 8/25/2012
After intrepid working girl Mary Carter becomes the new owner of a reputedly haunted mansion located off the Cuban coast, a stranger phones warning her to stay away from the castle. Undaunted, Mary sets sail for Cuba with a stowaway in her trunk—wise-cracking Larry Lawrence, a radio announcer who helps Mary get to the bottom of the voodoo magic, zombies and ghosts that supposedly curse the spooky estate.
#12 - Phantom of the Opera
Season 18 - Episode 35 - Aired 9/1/2012
Following a tragic accident that leaves him disfigured, crazed composer Erique Claudin transformed into a masked phantom who schemes to make beautiful young soprano Christine Dubois the star of the opera and wreak revenge on those who stole his music.
#13 - The Invisible Woman
Season 18 - Episode 36 - Aired 9/8/2012
Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that will make her invisible so that she can use her invisibility to exact revenge on her ex-boss.
#14 - Bride of Frankenstein
Season 18 - Episode 37 - Aired 9/15/2012
Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive, not killed as previously believed. Dr. Frankenstein wants to get out of the evil experiment business, but when a mad scientist, Dr. Pretorius, kidnaps his wife, Dr. Frankenstein agrees to help him create a new creature.
#15 - The Mole People
Season 18 - Episode 38 - Aired 9/22/2012
A party of archaeologists discovers the remnants of a mutant five millennia-old Sumerian civilization living beneath a glacier atop a mountain in Mesopatamia.
#16 - Dr. Cyclops
Season 18 - Episode 39 - Aired 9/29/2012
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.
#17 - The Deadly Mantis
Season 18 - Episode 40 - Aired 10/6/2012
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.
#18 - This Island Earth
Season 18 - Episode 42 - Aired 10/20/2012
Aliens have landed and are hiding on Earth, but need Earth’s scientists to help them fight an inter-planetary war.
#19 - Werewolf of London
Season 18 - Episode 43 - Aired 10/27/2012
A strange animal attack turns a botanist into a bloodthirsty monster.
#20 - The Curse of the Werewolf
Season 18 - Episode 44 - Aired 11/3/2012
A child conceived by a mute servant girl transforms from an innocent youth to a killer beast at night with uncontrollable urges.
#21 - Dracula
Season 18 - Episode 45 - Aired 11/10/2012
British estate agent Renfield travels to Transylvania to meet the mysterious Count Dracula, who is interested in leasing a castle in London. After Dracula enslaves Renfield and drives him to insanity, the pair sail to London together and Dracula, a secret vampire, begins preying on London socialites.
#22 - The Ghost of Frankenstein
Season 18 - Episode 46 - Aired 11/17/2012
Frankenstein's unscrupulous colleague, Dr. Bohmer, plans to transplant Ygor's brain so he can rule the world using the monster's body, but the plan goes sour when he turns malevolent and goes on a rampage.
#23 - Abbott and Costello Meet Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Season 18 - Episode 47 - Aired 11/24/2012
As American policemen in London, Bud and Lou meet up with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
#24 - House of Frankenstein
Season 18 - Episode 48 - Aired 12/1/2012
Deranged scientist, Gustav Niemann, escapes from prison and overtakes the director of a traveling chamber of horrors, soon reviving the infamous Count Dracula, the frozen Frankenstein Monster, and the Wolf Man.
#25 - Tarantula
Season 18 - Episode 49 - Aired 12/8/2012
A rogue scientist near a small desert town arouses the suspicion of the town's doctor when his lab assistant is found dead from a case of acromegaly, which took only four days to develop. As the doctor investigates, aided by the scientist's new female assistant, they discover that something is devouring local cattle and humans in increasingly large quantities.