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 Lost World

Season 31 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/15/2025

A professor leads an expedition into the Amazonian jungle to find dinosaurs.

#5 - Mysterious Island (1961)

Season 31 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/3/2025

Tonight on MeTV - we are happy to bring you a science fiction tale from the great Jules Verne - as escapees from a Confederate Army prison hijack a wayward balloon that brings them to a far-off place with amazing and deadly creatures and an encounter with a legendary master of the sea! It’s the 1961 film that is actually the sequel to two previous Jules Verne stories - welcome to the "Mysterious Island"!

#6 - Willard (1971)

Season 31 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/26/2025

Tonight on MeTV - a young man who is tired of being under the thumb of a big cheese decides to fight back - with an army of rats! It’s vengeance in the form of vicious vermin lead by "Willard"!

#7 - It Came from Outer Space (1953)

Season 31 - Episode 16 - Aired 4/19/2025

Tonight on Me-TV - a spaceship from another world crashes in the Arizona desert in "It Came from Outer Space"!

#8 - Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958)

Season 31 - Episode 14 - Aired 4/5/2025

Tonight on MeTV - we not only prove that the song was right - "Big Girls Don’t Cry" - but that one really big girl, in particular, could make people die! An unhappy wife of normal size has a close encounter of the alien kind - resulting in a transformation from being the object of the townspeople's pity to becoming a big woman in town in the "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman"!

#9 - The Creature From The Black Lagoon (1954)

Season 31 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/22/2025

Tonight on MeTV - we head to a similarly steamy Amazon jungle sector in search of an amphibious relic from ages ago! We travel to a place that legend says no man has ever returned from - and discover that the deadly species known as Gill Man is the reason why! It’s the classic original introduction to Universal Studios' greatest monster of the 1950s, the "Creature from the Black Lagoon"!

#10 - The Thing That Couldn't Die (1958)

Season 31 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/8/2025

Tonight, on MeTV – if you toss a coin, we’re calling heads - because our menace - a disembodied head that has survived for centuries - is unearthed and uses its amazing mental powers to control others in order to conqueror the modern world - all orchestrated by "The Thing That Couldn't Die"!

#11 - 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.

#12 - 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.

#13 - 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)

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

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

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

#15 - Dracula's Daughter (1936)

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

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

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

#17 - Godzilla vs Monster Zero (1970)

Season 31 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/29/2025

Tonight on MeTV - a hidden planet plans to recruit two of the Earth's mightiest players to team up against a deadly beast that's destroying their world! Toho Studios presents the final four - minus one - it’s Rodan and - "Godzilla vs Monster Zero"!

#18 - The Deadly Mantis (1957)

Season 31 - Episode 15 - Aired 4/12/2025

Tonight on MeTV - a man-eating menace that defrosts and creates a one-bug infestation - as an actor we know from a certain classic legal drama tries to win the case against - "The Deadly Mantis!"