The BEST episodes of Svengoolie season 30
Every episode of Svengoolie season 30, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Svengoolie season 30!
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 - 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.
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#2 - 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”!
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#3 - The Monster That Challenged the World (1957)
Season 30 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/10/2024
We’ve shown you various watery threats like the Creature from the Black Lagoon, giant octopi, and a piranha or fifty- but tonight on MeTV, it’s a unique sort of subsea prehistoric menace that emerges from the deep to find food- and you can probably guess what item is at the top of its menu- as mankind faces “The Monster That Challenged the World”!
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#4 - The Monolith Monsters (1957)
Season 30 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/8/2024
Rocks from a meteor which grow when in contact with water threaten a sleepy Southwestern desert community.
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#5 - Willard (1971)
Season 30 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/27/2024
In our home base of Chicago, there’s been a lot of interest lately in the “Rat Hole”- the impression of what appears to be the outline of a rat in a sidewalk’s concrete - but, tonight on MeTV- a young man is tired of being under the thumb of a big cheese- and decides to fight back through an army of rats that he has learned to communicate with and control! It’s a riot of rodent revenge lead by “Willard”!
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#6 - The Comedy of Terrors (1963)
Season 30 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/16/2024
Tonight on Svengoolie-it’s an all-star cast of horror legends- a mix of humor and horror with mirthful morticians who decide to take it upon themselves to create new customers -and a corpse that just won’t stay dead! It’s the scream team of Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff and Basil Rathbone-making the curtain rise-and bodies fall- in the “Comedy of Terrors”!
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#7 - The Time Travelers (1964)
Season 30 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/6/2024
Tonight on MeTV- a 1964 film foretells the future with a wall-mounted flatscreen TV- but a freak accident turns the screen into a path to a frightening future on a decimated earth- overrun by fierce mutants and the struggling survivors of humanity! It looks like existence could run out of time for “The Time Travelers”!
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#8 - Scream Blacula Scream (1973)
Season 30 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/18/2024
Tonight on MeTV- William Marshall makes an unexpected return as the Africa vampire sired by Count Dracula himself-who we saw meet his end in the original “Blacula” film- but now revived by supernatural voodoo power to seek not only new victims, but also a cure for his cursed affliction! Cries of terror and anguish fill the air in “Scream Blacula Scream”!
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#9 - The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
Season 30 - Episode 9 - Aired 6/15/2024
Tonight on MeTV- we pay tribute to the recently passed cinema icon Roger Corman by presenting one of the films from a series he was known for- based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe- and featuring Vincent Price in the lead role. When a young man journeys to a castle in Spain to investigate his sister’s death, he tries to pry the reason for her demise from her grieving husband- which leads to frightening flashbacks, the revealing of family secrets, and weird ghostly events. Horrifying danger awaits in the castle’s subterranean dungeon that houses “The Pit and the Pendulum”!
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#10 - The Angry Red Planet (1959)
Season 30 - Episode 10 - Aired 7/6/2024
Tonight on MeTV- it’s some spacey scares from director Ib Melchoir who brought us “The Time Travelers”- but these travelers are headed to the fourth planet in our solar system-for some tinted terror of the alien kind! The space explorers meet with deadly Martian mayhem when they land on “The Angry Red Planet”!
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Season 30 - Episode 11 - Aired 9/28/2024
Tonight on MeTV- we offer for your approval what might have been director/producer Dan Curtis’ version of “The Twilight Zone”- in an anthology of three stories- much like his “Trilogy of Terror”- that range from time-travelling sentimentality to frightening horror- in tales that come alive in the “Dead of Night”! This 1977 made-for-TV film is, much like “Trilogy of Terror”, another collaboration of Curtis and Richard Matheson- who either wrote or adapted each story. Curtis had originally done a one-episode pilot for a “Dead of Night” series back in the late 60s that never got picked up- and this film, along with “Trilogy”, was his last attempt to sell a “Dead of Night” series.