The BEST episodes of Svengoolie season 31

#1 - Dan Curtis' Dracula (1974)

Season 31 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/1/2025

Tonight on MeTV - we witness Dan Curtis' take on the classic novel that began the tale of the most famous vampire in "Dan Curtis' Dracula!" Note: this 1974 made-for-TV production, starring Jack Palance, was originally called "Bram Stoker’s Dracula" - but is now identified by the Dan Curtis title to avoid confusion with the Francis Ford Coppola 1992 film - also due to Coppola actually buying the exclusive rights to the title "Bram Stoker's Dracula"! Notably, tonight’s film 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. Note: this 1974 made-for-TV production, starring Jack Palance, was originally called “Bram Stoker’s Dracula”- but is now identified by the Dan Curtis title to avoid confusion with the Francis Ford Coppola 1992 film-also due to Coppola actually buying the exclusive rights to the title “Bram Stoker’s Dracula”!

#2 - The War of the Gargantuas (1966)

Season 31 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/22/2025

Sven presents facts and trivia about a Toho film featuring their double-sized take on King Kong.

#3 - Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978)

Season 31 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/18/2025

Tonight on MeTV-we go from frightful fruit to nasty nightlife- as we present a favorite cult classic fresh from the ghastly garden. The 1978 fan favorite “Attack of the Killer Tomatoes”. Just to clarify the above- tomatoes ARE considered a fruit, since they are seed-bearing, but are used the way you would use a vegetable. You can argue about that among yourselves.

#4 - The Haunted Strangler

Season 31 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/31/2025

A researcher investigating a notorious serial killer who was hanged 20 years earlier seemingly becomes possessed by the long-dead strangler.

#5 - Son of Dracula

Season 31 - Episode 24 - Aired 6/14/2025

Carpathian Count Alucard is invited to the U.S. by a young heiress. Her boyfriend and local officials are suspicious of the newcomer, who is interested in the "virile" soil of the new world.

#6 - Strait-Jacket

Season 31 - Episode 23 - Aired 6/7/2025

After a 20-year asylum stay for a double ax murder, suspicion arises about Lucy Harbin's behavior as she returns to her daughter Carol, who is engaged to marry Michael Fields. Soon, heads begin to roll again. Is Lucy repeating her past?

#7 - Village of the Damned

Season 31 - Episode 25 - Aired 6/21/2025

(1960) In the English village of Midwich, the blonde-haired, glowing-eyed children of uncertain paternity prove to have frightening powers.

#8 - Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster

Season 31 - Episode 26 - Aired 6/28/2025

(1965) A Martian princess and a doctor replace the women on Mars, destroyed by atomic war, by raiding Puerto Rico while a shot down android terrorizes all.

#9 - Invaders from Mars

Season 31 - Episode 28 - Aired 7/12/2025

In the early hours of the night, young David Maclean sees a flying saucer land and disappear into the sand dunes just beyond his house. Slowly, all of the adults, including his once loving parents, begin to act strangely.

#10 - The Black Cat

Season 31 - Episode 29 - Aired 7/19/2025

Stranded honeymooners follow mad doctor to manor.

#11 - The Black Scorpion

Season 31 - Episode 30 - Aired 8/2/2025

#12 - Werewolf of London

Season 31 - Episode 31 - Aired 8/9/2025

#13 - Horror of Dracula

Season 31 - Episode 32 - Aired 8/16/2025

#14 - Leprechaun

Season 31 - Episode 34 - Aired 8/23/2025

Jennifer Aniston famously picked up her first film credit playing teen heroine Tory, who must fight the crazed leprechaun as he annihilates the residents of a small farm.

#15 - The Night Strangler

Season 31 - Episode 39 - Aired 9/27/2025

Kolchak fans, assemble! In this second made-for-TV movie, following 1972’s The Night Stalker, newspaperman Carl Kolchak (Darren McGavin) is back — now based in Seattle, he’s hot on the trail of a killer creep who is murdering exotic dancers by crushing their necks and relieving them of a few drops of blood. Kolchak’s clues lead him to an old hospital, an interview with Mark Twain, and a bizarre secret that might be centuries in the making. Horror and sci-fi screenwriting legend Richard Matheson and Dark Shadows mastermind Dan Curtis once again teamed up for this film, as they had for the first — but this would be the end of the road for their involvement with Kolchak. When Kolchak: The Night Stalker debuted on ABC in 1974, only McGavin and Simon Oakland remained.

#16 - THEM!

Season 31 - Episode 41 - Aired 10/11/2025

James Arness faces giant ants!

#17 - Young Frankenstein

Season 31 - Episode 42 - Aired 10/18/2025

The Mel Brooks horror classic

#18 - The Fly

Season 31 - Episode 43 - Aired 10/25/2025

David Hedison bugs Vincent Price

#19 - The Ghost of Frankenstein

Season 31 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/17/2025

Dr. Frankenstein's plans to replace the brain of his monster are hijacked by his scheming and malevolent assistant Ygor.

#20 - Abbott And Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll And Mr Hyde (1953)

Season 31 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/4/2025

#21 - Dracula's Daughter (1936)

Season 31 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/11/2025

#22 - Godzilla: King of the Monsters! (1956)

Season 31 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/25/2025

#23 - 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)

Season 31 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/1/2025

#24 - The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)

Season 31 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/8/2025

This British adaptation based on the novel, "The Werewolf of Paris" by Guy Endore, is a brutal cult horror favorite that casts Oliver Reed as a young 18th-century Spaniard who has an adverse reaction to the moon.

#25 - Sssssss (1973)

Season 31 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/15/2025

Sven presents the first film of double-feature night, where Dirk Benedict undergoes an experiment with unexpected consequences. Sven shares typical movie facts.