The WORST episodes of Svengoolie
Every episode of Svengoolie ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Svengoolie!
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 - Triology of Terror
Season 29 - Episode 47 - Aired 10/28/2023
The same woman (Karen Black) appears in three tales as a blackmailed teacher, a tormented lover and opposite sisters.
#2 - 4D Man
Season 26 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/14/2020
A scientist discovers a formula enabling him to pass through solid matter but he loses his life-force and rapidly ages which forces him to kill humans in order to reverse the aging process by absorbing his victims' energies.
#3 - Cry of the Werewolf
Season 26 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/7/2020
A New Orleans Gypsy queen (Nina Foch) tries to kill a couple (Stephen Crane, Osa Massen) who know she is a werewolf.
#5 - The Mole People
Season 26 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/15/2020
Scientists (John Agar, Hugh Beaumont) find a lost underground city of pale people and mutant slaves.
#6 - The Ghost and Mr Chicken
Season 26 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/1/2020
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.
#7 - Revenge of the Creature
Season 26 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/11/2020
In a tributary of the Amazon, a monster, half-man, half-fish, is captured and placed in a reservoir in a Florida national park to be observed by scientists.
#8 - It Came from Outer Space
Season 26 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/4/2020
While looking through his telescope one night, John Putnam (Richard Carlson) sees what at first appears to be a meteor shower -- but it is actually a crash-landing alien spaceship! After investigating the crater from the impact, John informs the town sheriff (Charles Drake), and receives nothing but ridicule. Even his fiancée, Ellen (Barbara Rush), is skeptical. All that changes when the townsfolk start disappearing, and are replaced by eerie alien duplicates.
#9 - Munster, Go Home!
Season 29 - Episode 49 - Aired 11/11/2023
Herman, Lily, Grandpa, and their ghoulish clan relocate overseas when Herman inherits his uncle's English estate. However, they discover a group of criminals is occupying their new home.
#10 - Village of the Damned
Season 26 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/28/2020
One day the peaceful village of Midwich is cast into a mysterious sleep for several hours, but with no obvious consequences, until soon all the women of child-bearing age turn out to be pregnant. Their children are all born at the same time, and grow quickly into very spooky young people, with strange white-blonde hair and eerie eyes.
#11 - Godzilla King of the Monsters!
Season 29 - Episode 45 - Aired 10/21/2023
Underwater hydrogen bomb testing awakens a fire-breathing monster from its centuries-long sleep, and it soon starts to terrorise Japan.
#12 - Invaders from Mars
Season 29 - Episode 43 - Aired 10/14/2023
Curious adolescent boy David MacLean (Jimmy Hunt) confronts aliens who have set up base in his backyard. The extraterrestrials intend to use mind control on the local townsfolk. Determined to stop the invaders, who have already co-opted his father (Leif Erickson), he attempts to warn others. But when local law officers also succumb, David teams up with astronomer Stuart Kelston (Arthur Franz) and Dr. Pat Blake (Helena Carter), and the trio must fight together to repel the insidious intruders.
#13 - Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein
Season 29 - Episode 42 - Aired 10/14/2023
In the first of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello's horror vehicles for Universal Pictures, the inimitable comic duo star as railway baggage handlers in northern Florida. When a pair of crates belonging to a house of horrors museum are mishandled by Wilbur (Lou Costello), the museum's director, Mr. MacDougal (Frank Ferguson), demands that they deliver them personally so that they can be inspected for insurance purposes, but Lou's friend Chick (Bud Abbott) has grave suspicions.
#14 - The Crawling Eye
Season 29 - Episode 41 - Aired 10/7/2023
In a small Swiss resort town, sisters Anne (Janet Munro) and Sarah Pilgrim (Jennifer Jayne) are worried by Anne's telepathic sense, which goes haywire. Reporter Philip Truscott (Laurence Payne) and U.N. worker Alan Brooks (Forrest Tucker), who's in the area to investigate unusual radiation levels, also sense something is amiss. It turns out vicious extraterrestrials are living in a radiation cloud in the Alps, brutally killing anyone who comes near and threatening to descend upon the town.
#15 - Killer Klowns from Outer Space
Season 29 - Episode 40 - Aired 10/7/2023
When teenagers Mike (Grant Cramer) and Debbie (Suzanne Snyder) see a comet crash outside their sleepy small town, they investigate and discover a pack of murderous aliens who look very much like circus clowns. They try to warn the local authorities, but everyone assumes their story is a prank. Meanwhile, the clowns set about harvesting and eating as many people as they can. It's not until they kidnap Debbie that Mike decides it's up to him to stop the clowns' bloody rampage.
#16 - Trilogy of Terror
Season 29 - Episode 39 - Aired 9/30/2023
The same woman (Karen Black) appears in three tales as a blackmailed teacher, a tormented lover and opposite sisters.
#17 - The Return of the Vampire
Season 29 - Episode 38 - Aired 9/23/2023
When an errant bomb unearths the coffin of a vampire during the London Blitz, a gravedigger unknowingly reanimates the monster by removing the stake from his heart.
#18 - Mr Sardonicus
Season 29 - Episode 37 - Aired 9/16/2023
Sir Robert Cargrave (Ronald Lewis), a gifted London doctor researching experimental treatments for paralysis, receives a mysterious letter written in a familiar hand. Following its instructions, Cargrave travels to the foggy mountains of Gorslava, where he must treat the horribly disfigured Baron Sardonicus (Guy Rolfe). Sardonicus has married Cargrave's childhood sweetheart, Maude (Audrey Dalton), and threatens to harm her should the good doctor fail to cure him of his bizarre affliction.
#19 - Dracula's Daughter
Season 26 - Episode 16 - Aired 4/18/2020
Although Count Dracula was destroyed by Van Helsing (Edward Van Sloan), who is now being tried for his murder, Dracula's daughter, the Countess Marya Zaleska (Gloria Holden), is still alive -- and her father's death has brought her no closer to eradicating her vampiric thirst for blood. When attempts to free herself of the disease fail, she turns to psychiatrist Dr. Garth (Otto Kruger) for assistance, but soon finds herself struggling with the desire to make him one of the undead as well.
#20 - Frankenstein
Season 26 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/2/2020
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.
#21 - Munster, Go Home!
Season 26 - Episode 19 - Aired 5/9/2020
Herman, Lily, Grandpa, and their ghoulish clan relocate overseas when Herman inherits his uncle's English estate. However, they discover a group of criminals is occupying their new home.
#22 - The Deadly Mantis
Season 26 - Episode 20 - Aired 6/16/2020
When a melting iceberg releases a prehistoric giant praying mantis, a paleontologist works with the military to kill it after it attacks scientific outposts on its way to Washington and New York.
#23 - Gargoyles
Season 26 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/23/2020
An anthropologist and his daughter, while travelling through the southwestern US, stumble upon a colony of living, breathing gargoyles.
#24 - Bride of Frankenstein
Season 26 - Episode 23 - Aired 6/6/2020
After recovering from injuries sustained in the mob attack upon himself and his creation, Dr. Frankenstein (Colin Clive) falls under the control of his former mentor, Dr. Pretorius (Ernest Thesiger), who insists the now-chastened doctor resume his experiments in creating new life.
#25 - The Curse of the Werewolf
Season 26 - Episode 24 - Aired 6/13/2020
A man with brutal and macabre origins, Leon Corledo (Oliver Reed) was raised in the home of Don Alfredo Corledo (Clifford Evans), his kind and loving adopted father. When he leaves Don Alfredo to find work, Leon discovers that he has increasingly violent urges. Although these tendencies are calmed by Leon's love for the beautiful Christina (Catherine Feller), he ultimately cannot contain his curse and transforms into a werewolf, terrorizing the Spanish countryside.