The BEST episodes of Svengoolie season 29
Every episode of Svengoolie season 29, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Svengoolie season 29!
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 - 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.
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#2 - 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.
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#3 - Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)
Season 29 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/11/2023
This Saturday on Svengoolie is the cult classic KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE. This movie is a 1988 American science fiction horror comedy film written, directed and produced by the Chiodo Brothers, and starring Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson and John Vernon. It is the only movie written and directed by the Chiodo Brothers, who also created the practical effects and makeup. It concerns a clan of evil extraterrestrials who resemble clowns. They arrive on Earth and invade a small town in order to capture, kill and harvest the human inhabitants to use as sustenance.
#4 - The Raven (1963)
Season 29 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/7/2023
The sorcerer Craven learns from fellow magician Dr. Bedlo that his supposedly dead wife is alive and living at the castle of master sorcerer Dr. Scarabus.
#5 - Island of Lost Souls (1932)
Season 29 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/11/2023
Tonight on MeTV- it’s an early Paramount classic- the original screen version of an H.G.Wells science fiction tale, featuring some famed actors- one of which is barely recognizable! It’s the story of how a castaway becomes a prisoner in a bizarre island compound featuring monstrous mutations and a maniacal mad man-in the 1932 presentation of "Island of Lost Souls"! This film was part of a major acquisition by Universal from Paramount, as part of a deal to form a package of films to run on TV.
#6 - The War of the Gargantuas (1966)
Season 29 - Episode 8 - 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”!
#7 - The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)
Season 29 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/4/2023
Tonight, we start off a month with a majority of fuzzy frights-with England’s fabled Hammer Studios’ solitary lycanthrope tale - in which young Oliver Reed progresses from a strange childhood to an adult life tainted by- the "Curse of the Werewolf"!
#8 - Blacula (1972)
Season 29 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/6/2023
Tonight on MeTV- it’s an American International early ‘70s update on a classic character (who actually is responsible for the whole plot!)- as America encounters the first black vampire in horror film history- “Blacula”!
#9 - Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
Season 29 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/4/2023
Svengoolie presents 'Creature From the Black Lagoon'. A strange prehistoric beast lurks in the depths of the Amazonian jungle. A group of scientists try to capture the animal and bring it back to civilization for study.
#10 - Konga
Season 29 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/18/2023
Dr Decker comes back from Africa after a year, presumed dead. During that year, he came across a way of growing plants and animals to an enormous size. He brings back a baby chimpanzee to test out his theory.
#11 - The Ghost and Mr Chicken
Season 29 - Episode 19 - Aired 5/13/2023
Looking to score a break as a newspaper reporter and impress beautiful Alma Parker (Joan Staley), milquetoast typesetter Luther Heggs (Don Knotts) pitches a story about his small town's haunted house. When his editor (Dick Sargent) insists Luther spend a night alone in the spooky mansion, where a grisly murder-suicide had taken place decades earlier, the timid reporter learns that the house contains a supernatural resident who doesn't like visitors.
#12 - The Kiss of the Vampire (1963)
Season 29 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/21/2023
Tonight on MeTV- though it may be too late for Christmas mistletoe and too early for Valentine’s Day, it’s still the perfect time to kiss up to this hot-blooded tale from the British Hammer studios, in which a young couple makes the acquaintance of an aristocratic family that is much more than it seems- ready to deliver the “Kiss of the Vampire”!
#13 - This Island Earth
Season 29 - Episode 15 - Aired 4/15/2023
Scientist Cal Meacham (Rex Reason) solves a mysterious puzzle that allows him access to a highly secretive program -- led by the mysterious Exeter (Jeff Morrow) -- that has assembled the world's greatest scientific minds in an attempt to quickly learn how to generate and store nuclear power. But with the help of fellow scientists Ruth Adams (Faith Domergue) and Steve Carlson (Russell Johnson), Meacham soon discovers that his host is not what he claims to be.
#14 - Man Made Monster
Season 29 - Episode 22 - Aired 6/3/2023
A mad scientist (Lionel Atwill) makes an electric man (Lon Chaney Jr.) who glows and must wear a rubber suit.
#15 - The Killer Shrews
Season 29 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/27/2023
Capt. Thorne Sherman lands his ship on an isolated island to make a delivery, only to find that mad doctor Marlowe Craigis is experimenting on shrews in an attempt to shrink them. The opposite happens, and the shrews become enormous and hungry for human flesh, leaving everyone on the island in peril, including the doctor's pretty daughter, Ann, and her unappealing fiancé, Jerry. Then, Thorne tries to organize an escape plan.
#16 - Blood of Dracula
Season 29 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/25/2023
Nancy Perkins (Sandra Harrison) is a sweet but perturbed teenager who is sent to a girls boarding school for guidance. There she unwittingly becomes the subject of a monstrous experiment -- at the hands of teacher Miss Branding (Louise Lewis) -- that blends modern hypnosis techniques with ancient black magic. This twisted process turns Nancy's confused and burgeoning feelings into an insatiable bloodlust, transforming her into a vicious vampire who remembers nothing when back in human form.
#17 - Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)
Season 29 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/1/2023
When the murder of an archaeologist puts a valuable medallion into their hands, Abbott and Costello waste little time in trying to sell it, only to find themselves pursued by police, a slinky adventuress, an Egyptian high priest, and the mummy himself.
#18 - The Old Dark House (1932)
Season 29 - Episode 14 - Aired 4/8/2023
Svengoolie presents the 1932 classic "The Old Dark House" starring Boris Karloff . Seeking shelter from a storm, five travelers are in for a bizarre and terrifying night when they stumble upon the Femm family estate.
#19 - The Thing With Two Heads (1972)
Season 29 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/20/2023
Tonight on MeTV - we HEAD back to the early 70s for a confusing fusion of a bigoted doctor and a Death Row convict- who happens to be black- when, in order to save the doctor’s life- his living head must be transplanted onto the convict’s body (which unfortunately already HAS a noggin of its own)! This uneasy alliance puts the combined duo on the run, and the police searching for “The Thing with Two Heads”!
#20 - Destroy All Monsters (1968)
Season 29 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/29/2023
Tonight on MeTV-fans of the giant Japanese monsters get to see an all-star roster of the biggest and baddest Kaiju creatures that ever came from the Toho Studios! This time out- the people of Earth, who thought they had the behemoths under control- find out the hard way that an alien race has taken control of the creatures- leading the authorities to have no choice but to- “Destroy All Monsters”!
#21 - The Invisible Man (1933)
Season 29 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/14/2023
Claude Rains delivers a remarkable performance in his screen debut as a mysterious doctor who discovers a serum that makes him invisible. Covered by bandages and dark glasses, Rains arrives at a small English village and attempts to hide his amazing discovery. But the same drug that renders him invisible slowly drives him to commit acts of unspeakable terror. Based on H.G. Wells' classic novel and directed by the master of macabre James Whale, The Invisible Man not only fueled a host of sequels, but also features some special effects that are still immitated today.
#22 - The Mole People
Season 29 - Episode 16 - Aired 4/22/2023
Scientists (John Agar, Hugh Beaumont) find a lost underground city of pale people and mutant slaves.
#23 - Konga
Season 29 - Episode 33 - Aired 8/19/2023
Dr Decker comes back from Africa after a year, presumed dead. During that year, he came across a way of growing plants and animals to an enormous size. He brings back a baby chimpanzee to test out his theory.
#24 - War of the Colossal Beast
Season 29 - Episode 34 - Aired 8/26/2023
After a series of delivery trucks are robbed and destroyed south of the border, Joyce Manning (Sally Fraser) fears her brother, Lt. Col. Glenn Manning (Dean Parkin), is the culprit. Manning is a gigantic behemoth, a victim of overexposure to radiation who has gone insane due to his freakish size. The giant is eventually apprehended by the Army and held captive. But the frenzied beast is too much for his captors and soon breaks out, intent on laying waste to Los Angeles.
#25 - Frankenstein
Season 29 - Episode 35 - Aired 9/2/2023
This iconic horror film follows the obsessed scientist Dr. Henry Frankenstein as he attempts to create life by assembling a creature from body parts of the deceased. Aided by his loyal misshapen assistant, Fritz, Frankenstein succeeds in animating his monster, but it escapes into the countryside and begins to wreak havoc. Frankenstein searches for the elusive being and eventually must confront his tormented creation.