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The Best Episodes of Svengoolie Season 31

Every episode of Svengoolie Season 31 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Svengoolie Season 31!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Svengoolie Season 31 Episode 52 - Young Frankenstein (1974)
    9.6/10(8 votes)

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    I’ll start off the evening with an expanded show-our premiere of a film for which we have gotten many requests- Mel Brooks’ 1974 homage to the classic Universal films- “Young Frankenstein”!

    Director:Unknown
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  2. Svengoolie Season 31 Episode 6 - 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)
    9.0/10(7 votes)

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    Tonight on MeTV- we go from last week’s huge scaly creature to another- whose origin is even more far out-created by the artistry of Ray Harryhausen’s stop-motion magic! A spaceship returns from a mission to Venus, holding injured astronauts and a strange menace that gets bigger and more destructive after travelling “20 Million Miles to Earth”!

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  3. Svengoolie Season 31 Episode 46 - The Night Strangler (1973)
    9.0/10(10 votes)

    S31:E46

    Twas the week before the BOO-Nanza- and all through tonight- that darn Carl Kolchak has found a new fright! Yes, for those of you who have been missing Kolchak’s adventures during his hiatus from “Super Sci Fi Saturday Nights” here on MeTV, we’ve got an extra helping of our hapless hero in another creepy classic from TV horror legend, producer/director Dan Curtis –1973’s “The Night Strangler”!

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  4. Svengoolie Season 31 Episode 39 - Horror of Dracula (1958)
    8.8/10(7 votes)

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    Tonight, on MeTV- it’s an iconic take on the beginnings of the king of the vampires- as portrayed for the very first time by the great Christopher Lee! Witness his first face off against his archenemy Van Helsing (played by the other half of Hammer’s dynamic duo- Peter Cushing!) in the full-color tale of the “Horror of Dracula”!

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  5. Svengoolie Season 31 Episode 53 - Frankenstein (1931)
    8.8/10(9 votes)

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    the Sven Squad go back to the beginning of a horror franchise- as they present the first Universal “Frankenstein” film! (a House of Svengoolie presentation hosted by the Sven Squad)

    Director:Unknown
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  6. Svengoolie Season 31 Episode 30 - Village of the Damned (1960)
    8.7/10(11 votes)

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    This famed 1960 movie, based on John Wyndham’s novel “The Midwich Cuckoos”, is truly frightening- and was so successful, it spawned a sequel-“Children of the Damned”.

    Director:Unknown
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  7. Svengoolie Season 31 Episode 56 - Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
    8.7/10(7 votes)

    S31:E56

    Tonight on MeTV- it’s the one you’ve been clamoring for- as the perfect follow-up to our month-long “BOO-nanza”- Bela Lugosi as Dracula and Lon Chaney Jr. as Larry Talbot, the Wolf Man- we also get Glenn Strange as the Monster- set against the legendary comedy duo for creepy encounter “Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein”!

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  8. Svengoolie Season 31 Episode 26 - The Mummy (1959)
    8.6/10(9 votes)

    S31:E26

    Tonight, on MeTV- Christopher Lee steps into the role of yet another classic creature- and Peter Cushing again is the man who must try to stop him! It’s Hammer Studios take on the familiar story of the search for the lost tomb of Princess Ananka- which leads to the resurrection of “The Mummy”!

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  9. Svengoolie Season 31 Episode 29 - Son of Dracula (1943)
    8.5/10(8 votes)

    S31:E29

    Tonight on MeTV- before we celebrate Father’s Day, we take a moment to acknowledge a son- who doesn’t go OUT in the sun! He does, however, go America’s bayou country, where his plan is to inflict the curse of the undead first upon a member of an unsuspecting family- and then the nation! A young woman with a fascination for the dark side falls under his hypnotic spell, as Lon Chaney Jr. takes on the role of yet another famous horror name-as the “Son of Dracula”!

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  10. Svengoolie Season 31 Episode 15 - Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
    8.4/10(9 votes)

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    Tonight on MeTV- 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, and a personal favorite of yours truly- the “Creature from the Black Lagoon”!

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  11. Svengoolie Season 31 Episode 28 - Strait-Jacket (1964)
    8.4/10(10 votes)

    S31:E28

    Tonight! is Joan Crawford a real swinger (with an axe) - once released from her "Strait-Jacket"?

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  12. Svengoolie Season 31 Episode 57 - The Valley of Gwangi (1969)
    8.4/10(8 votes)

    S31:E57

    Tonight on MeTV, for the first time, we bring you the final dinosaur film from the great master of stop motion animation, Ray Harryhausen- that combines early 20th century Mexico with- dinosaurs?! It’s the amazing tale of a forgotten valley where prehistoric creatures dwell- which is invaded by rodeo people looking for a new main attraction- and end up finding much more in the “Valley of Gwangi”!

    Director:Unknown
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  13. Svengoolie Season 31 Episode 64 - The Brides of Dracula (1960)
    8.4/10(8 votes)

    S31:E64

    Tonight, on MeTV- we come bearing twice the gifts in a special double feature-first, a Hammer Studios production that unleashes a vampire descendant to prey on young women-only to run into some strong opposition from the great vampire hunter Van Helsing in "Brides of Dracula"

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  14. Svengoolie Season 31 Episode 1 - Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953)
    8.3/10(12 votes)

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    Tonight on MeTV- we bring back a different take on a classic Robert Louis Stevenson horror novel – which boasts not only one of the greatest stars of Universal horror- but also the studio’s longtime top comedy team. It’s been a while since we’ve run this movie- so we are prescribing a new appointment for you with "Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"- featuring Boris Karloff as the tormented doctor!

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  15. Svengoolie Season 31 Episode 22 - Mysterious Island (1961)
    8.3/10(11 votes)

    S31:E22

    During the Civil War a group of Union soldiers, a Confederate and a civilian escape the stockade using a hot-air balloon and end up on a strange Pacific island.

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  16. Svengoolie Season 31 Episode 33 - The Return of the Vampire (1943)
    8.3/10(9 votes)

    S31:E33

    Tonight on MeTV, after the July 4th blasts, we get some very different blasts- that are responsible for the disinterment and restoration of a dangerous vampire thought to have been dealt with years ago! This is the movie that ostensibly returned the great Bela Lugosi to the familiar role of an undead caped menace the grave could not imprison. This time he is seeking revenge against the family that tried to end his practice of making unauthorized transfusions a generation ago in the 1943 chiller “Return of the Vampire”

    Director:Unknown
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  17. Svengoolie Season 31 Episode 58 - Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968)
    8.3/10(8 votes)

    S31:E58

    Tonight on MeTV-the Hammer saga of the vampire count continues- as Sir Christopher Lee once again puts on the fangs to create the revival of his classic character- out to get vengeance against those who have tried to seal his demise- as a freak accident provides the reason that “Dracula Has Risen From the Grave”!

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  18. Svengoolie Season 31 Episode 50 - Them! (1954)
    8.2/10(9 votes)

    S31:E50

    Tonight on MeTV- the “Svengoolie’s BOO-nanza” double features two creepy crawly classics to infest your TV- first, the 1954 giant insect thriller “THEM!”

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  19. Svengoolie Season 31 Episode 51 - Arachnophobia (1990)
    8.2/10(6 votes)

    S31:E51

    followed by the spider-filled 1990 horror comedy “Arachnophobia”! (a House of Svengoolie presentation hosted by the Sven Squad)

    Director:Unknown
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  20. Svengoolie Season 31 Episode 54 - The Fly (1958)
    8.2/10(13 votes)

    S31:E54

    Tonight, on MeTV- the “Svengoolie’s BOO-nanza” double feature requires a No-Pest strip of film- as the Sven Squad and I proudly present another 1950s legendary classic and its sequel- with Vincent Price taking on the transformative terror of “The Fly” and the “Return of the Fly”!

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  21. Svengoolie Season 31 Episode 62 - The Mummy's Tomb (1942)
    8.2/10(6 votes)

    S31:E62

    Tonight on MeTV- with the holidays coming up, we get into wrapping early- when we pay rapt attention to a well-wrapped Egyptian in this continuation of the series from Universal's original classic period- as a thought-to-be dead menace is exported to the U.S. to get revenge on those who defiled his beloved's burial crypt. As is often the case online- a foreign pyramid scheme causes major problems in this country- now emanating from "The Mummy's Tomb"!

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  22. Svengoolie Season 31 Episode 66 - The Creation of the Humanoids (1962)
    8.1/10(13 votes)

    S31:E66

    Tonight on MeTV- direct from the top-secret Sven Cave-we look towards the future (no, not the new year that is coming up in mere days- but even further)! We wind up our Sven calendar year with a visit to a post- apocalyptic world where robots have been designed to resemble people (well, to a certain extent) in order to serve the real humans- some of whom are suspicious that the androids want to conquer mankind! We will witness the history- and consequences- of “The Creation of the Humanoids”!

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  23. Svengoolie Season 31 Episode 23 - Kingdom of the Spiders (1977)
    8.0/10(9 votes)

    S31:E23

    In rural Arizona, countless killer tarantulas are migrating through a farm town, killing every living thing in their path. The town's veterinarian will do everything in his power to survive the onslaught.

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  24. Svengoolie Season 31 Episode 37 - The Black Scorpion (1957)
    8.0/10(6 votes)

    S31:E37

    Tonight on MeTV, when we say we’re serving up a stinger- it’s not that cocktail drink! It’s a stop-motion menace whose creation was supervised by the man who brought us “King Kong”, taking us south of the border- and below its surface- where lurks the massive menace of the “Black Scorpion”!

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  25. Svengoolie Season 31 Episode 40 - The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
    8.0/10(7 votes)

    S31:E40

    Tonight on MeTV- it’s the monster-creating baron-and the evil imp from Erin- as we first bring you the Hammer version of the classic horror tale in which a brilliant scientist is obsessed with creating life in “Curse of Frankenstein”!

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Season 31 Ratings Summary

"Young Frankenstein (1974)" is the best rated episode of Svengoolie season 31. It scored 9.6/10 from 8 votes. Written and directed by Unknown, it aired on October 18, 2025. This episode is rated 0.6 points higher than the second-best, "20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)".