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 - War of the Colossal Beast
Season 29 - Episode 34 - Aired 8/26/2023
After a series of delivery trucks are robbed and destroyed south of the border, Joyce Manning (Sally Fraser) fears her brother, Lt. Col. Glenn Manning (Dean Parkin), is the culprit. Manning is a gigantic behemoth, a victim of overexposure to radiation who has gone insane due to his freakish size. The giant is eventually apprehended by the Army and held captive. But the frenzied beast is too much for his captors and soon breaks out, intent on laying waste to Los Angeles.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - The War of the Gargantuas
Season 29 - Episode 36 - Aired 9/9/2023
Two apelike brothers stomp around Tokyo; an American scientist (Russ Tamblyn) and his helper (Kumi Mizuno) advise.
#9 - Frankenstein
Season 29 - Episode 35 - Aired 9/2/2023
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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - Konga
Season 29 - Episode 33 - Aired 8/19/2023
Dr Decker comes back from Africa after a year, presumed dead. During that year, he came across a way of growing plants and animals to an enormous size. He brings back a baby chimpanzee to test out his theory.
#12 - The Black Scorpion
Season 29 - Episode 32 - Aired 8/12/2023
After a volcano erupts south of the border, people and animals begin inexplicably dying. Earth scientists Hank (Richard Denning) and Arturo (Carlos Rivas) travel to the small town of San Lorenzo, Mexico to investigate. They soon discover that the eruption cracked open an underground cave that contained hordes of giant prehistoric insects, including the scorpions that have been responsible for the killings. Soon, Hank and Arturo come up with a plan to take these monsters down once and for all.
#13 - The Shadow of the Cat
Season 29 - Episode 31 - Aired 8/5/2023
A house cat sees her owner murdered by two servants under orders from her husband, and becomes ferociously bent on revenge.
#14 - The Haunted Strangler
Season 29 - Episode 30 - Aired 7/29/2023
The ghost of the long-dead Haymarket Strangler takes possession of a researcher bent on clearing the killer's name.
#15 - The Uninvited
Season 29 - Episode 29 - Aired 7/29/2023
While vacationing on the English coast, composer Rick Fitzgerald (Ray Milland) and his sister Pamela (Ruth Hussey) find an an abandoned 18th-century house and decide to buy it. The owner, Commander Beech (Donald Crisp), associates it with the tragic death of his daughter and is willing to part with it despite his granddaughter Stella's (Gail Russell) objection. The Fitzgeralds move in and soon find themselves, with the help of Stella, battling it out with two very prickly ghosts.
#16 - The Car
Season 29 - Episode 26 - Aired 7/1/2023
Two bicyclists are run down by a strange black car in the desert near a small town in Utah. But this is just the first in a series of hit-and-run murders. Sheriff Wade Parents (James Brolin) is called in to investigate, and his deputy, Everett (John Marley), is killed by the black sedan, which, some witnesses say, has no one behind its wheel. When the car threatens a local school parade, the lives of the town's children and Wade's teacher girlfriend, Lauren (Kathleen Lloyd), are endangered.
#17 - Fiend Without a Face
Season 29 - Episode 25 - Aired 6/24/2023
A scientist on an air base in Canada experiments with the materialisation of thought waves, but things get wildly out of control when his own dark thoughts take the form of floating killer brains.
#18 - Night Monster
Season 29 - Episode 23 - Aired 6/10/2023
A man (Lionel Atwill) uses mind over matter to replace his legs, then hunts the doctors who took them.
#20 - 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.
#21 - The Deadly Mantis
Season 26 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/16/2020
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.
#22 - 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.
#23 - 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.
#24 - 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.
#25 - 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.