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 - 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”!
#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.
#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.
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#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.
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#5 - Konga (1961)
Season 29 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/18/2023
Tonight on MeTV- we are in for a crash course in belligerent botany and bigger-than-life biology- as a scientist/teacher returns from the jungle with rare plants and a chimp companion- and proceeds to turn they all into large lethal weapons! Find out what could go wrong-a when he experiments on “Konga”! A London botany professor returns from Africa with a small chimpanzee called Konga he injects the animal with a serum extracted from a carnivorous plant, which turns it into a gorilla monster that goes on a rampage throughout London.
#6 - The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)
Season 29 - Episode 8 - 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"!
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#7 - Island of Lost Souls (1932)
Season 29 - Episode 9 - 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.
#8 - The Night Stalker (1972)
Season 29 - Episode 18 - Aired 10/21/2023
Tonight on MeTV, the made-for-TV movie that introduced us to the beloved- and somewhat disheveled- reporter Carl Kolchak, who can’t avoid the supernatural. The very first Kolchak story- which viewers have been asking to see for a long time- has the reporter covering the news in Las Vegas- when some mysterious deaths occur- in which the young female victims have been drained of their blood!
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#9 - The Old Dark House (1932)
Season 29 - Episode 12 - 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.
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#10 - Empire of the Ants (1977)
Season 29 - Episode 21 - Aired 11/18/2023
Tonight on METV- Joan Collins has some real estate she wants to sell you-until it’s discovered that it is already in the possession of some oversized pests who have plans for movin’ on up to take over new territory and claim it as the “Empire of the Ants”! This 1977 film is yet another produced and directed by Bert I. Gordon- whose initials- “B-I-G” – are an immediate tip-off to the size of the six-legged menaces in this film. Based very loosely on an H.G. Wells story, we begin with a brief lecture about ants (pay attention- some facts in this tutorial will be important later)- then, we shift to a tableau of illegal activity- with barrels of radioactive waste being dumped into the ocean. One barrel washes up on a beach, and some of its oozing contents become a feast for …you guessed it- ants!
#11 - Kingdom of the Spiders (1977)
Season 29 - Episode 20 - Aired 11/4/2023
This week on MeTV- you’ll see a familiar face from our “Super Sci Fi Saturday Night” in a different environment- instead of going where no man has gone before, William Shatner must battle terrestrial terror that somehow has ended up where no tarantulas had been before! These fuzzy freaks prove to be a much greater danger than Tribbles- as they establish the “Kingdom of the Spiders”!
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#12 - The Night Strangler (1973)
Season 29 - Episode 19 - Aired 10/28/2023
Tonight on MeTV, 1973’s “The Night Strangler” finds Kolchak- as well as his beleaguered boss Tony Vincenzo- both run out of Las Vegas after the “Night Stalker” case, and now in Seattle. Tony reluctantly hires Carl to work at his current newspaper, run by a crusty old gentleman (John Carradine!). Tony assigns Kolchak to cover a series of exotic dancer murders-figuring this would be right up his alley (and a dark alley it is). Each victim has been strangled, with their necks crushed- and a small amount of blood drained form them. It could be the work of a twisted serial killer-
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#13 - Ghoulies II (1988)
Season 29 - Episode 17 - Aired 7/15/2023
This week on MeTV- hurry, hurry, hurry! Step right up for the big show- with the little monsters! It’s mayhem on the midway- when the diminutive occult creatures who plagued a young couple and their friends last week on our show-become a part of a carnival and cause chaos! Take in the sinister sideshow of a sequel- “Ghoulies II!”
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#14 - Ghoulies (1985)
Season 29 - Episode 16 - Aired 7/8/2023
This week on MeTV, we have something ’fraidy from the 80s- in which the descendent of a powerful warlock finds himself getting caught up in dangerous supernatural rituals that end up releasing some major evil- aided by some tiny terrors known as – “Ghoulies”!
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#15 - Curse of the Demon (1958)
Season 29 - Episode 15 - Aired 6/17/2023
Tonight on MeTV, we travel to England with a skeptical psychologist who plans to debunk reports of a Satanic cult using supernatural powers to destroy their enemies- only to find more than he bargained for when he becomes the target of the “Curse of the Demon”!
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#16 - Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)
Season 29 - Episode 11 - 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.
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#17 - 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.
#18 - The Thing With Two Heads (1972)
Season 29 - Episode 14 - 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”!
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#19 - Blacula (1972)
Season 29 - Episode 13 - 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”!
#20 - Destroy All Monsters (1968)
Season 29 - Episode 12 - 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 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”!
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#22 - 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.
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