Svengoolie Season 1, Episode 17: The Brain That Wouldn't Die

1

C.H.U.D.

A bizarre series of sudden disappearances on the streets of New York City seems to point toward something unsavory living in the sewers.

2

Transylvania 6-5000

Two tabloid reporters are sent to Transylvania to find the Frankenstein monster - or get fired. They are laughed at there, but something suspicious is going on.

3

The Stuff

A delicious, mysterious goo that oozes from the earth is marketed as the newest dessert sensation, but the tasty treat rots more than teeth when zombie-like snackers who only want to consume more of the strange substance at any cost begin infesting the world.

4

The Beast of Hollow Mountain

An American cowboy living in Mexico discovers his cattle are being eaten by a giant prehistoric dinosaur.

5

Godzilla 1985

Thirty years after the original monster's rampage, a new Godzilla emerges and attacks Japan.

6

House

A troubled writer moves into a haunted house after inheriting it from his aunt.

7

Angel

Molly, a high schooler, secretly earns her living as Angel, a street prostitute whose only family and friends are the ones she works with on the streets. She has to survive against a serial killer who is targeting people of her profession.

8

The Philadelphia Experiment

A United States Navy destroyer escort participates in a Navy "invisibility" experiment that inadvertently sends two sailors forty years into the future.

9

The Creeping Unknown

Professor Bernard Quatermass' manned rocket ship returns to Earth, but two of the astronauts are missing and the survivor seems ill and unable to communicate.

10

The Black Sleep

Sir Joel Cadman, a mad scientist, kidnaps his victims and cuts open their brains in an effort to discover a means to cure his wife's brain tumor.

11

The Neanderthal Man

Professor Groves, an expert in prehistoric life, proves his theories with an extract that'll regress a cat to a saber-tooth tiger and man to a Neanderthal.

12

Red Planet Mars

An American scientist is able to contact and communicate with Mars with shattering political, economic, and spiritual repercussions.

13

Devil Girl from Mars

An uptight, leather-clad female alien, armed with a ray gun and accompanied by a menacing robot, comes to Earth to collect Earth's men as breeding stock.

14

The Return of Dracula

After a vampire leaves his native Balkans, he murders a Czech artist, assumes his identity, and moves in with the dead man's American cousins.

15

The Magnetic Monster

The Office of Scientific Investigation sends A-Men agents to investigate reports of unusual magnetic activity in various communities.

16

Voodoo Island

A scholarly type is asked to investigate the possible island site for a large resort hotel--an island rumored to be infested with zombies.

17

The Brain That Wouldn't Die

A doctor experimenting with transplant techniques keeps his girlfriend's head alive when she is decapitated in a car crash, then goes hunting for a new body.

18

Dr. Blood's Coffin

People are mysteriously disappearing near a remote Cornish village, where a scientist is experimenting; reviving the dead.

19

The Man from Planet X

As a mysterious planet hurls itself toward Earth, an enigmatic extraterrestrial scout arrives on a remote Scottish island with unknown intentions.

20

Children of the Corn

A young couple is trapped in a remote town where a dangerous religious cult of children believes that everyone over age 18 must be killed.

21

The Vampire

A small town doctor mistakenly ingests an experimental drug made from the blood of vampire bats which transforms the kindly medic into a bloodthirsty monster.

22

The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake

Jonathan Drake, while attending his brother's funeral, is shocked to find the head of the deceased is missing. When his brother's skull shows up later in a locked cabinet, Drake realizes an ancient curse placed upon his grandfather by a tribe of South American Jivaro Indians is still in effect and that he himself is the probable next victim.

23

The Twonky

A college professor, left alone by his wife for the weekend, discovers his new TV set is not only alive, but determined to take control of his entire life.

24

The Best of Svengoolie: Featuring... Svensurround

The best of Svengoolie featuring Sven riffing movie clips in his iconic Svensurround!

25

Superbeast

A doctor finds a jungle laboratory, complete with mad scientist and genetic engineering experiments.

26

Wavelength

Two young lovers learn that a small group of child-like space aliens are marooned on Earth and are being held prisoner at a top secret military facility. The couple then decide to liberate the extraterrestrial castaways and help them make a rendezvous with a rescue ship sent from the alien home planet.

27

U.F.O.

Interviews and documentary footage combine with the fictional story of an air-force pilot who encounters aliens.

28

Night of the Lepus

Giant mutant rabbits terrorize the southwest!!

29

The Creeping Terror

A newlywed sheriff tries to stop a shambling monster that has emerged from a spaceship to eat people.

30

Revenge of the Zombies

When Dr. Von Altermann's wife Lila dies mysteriously at his spooky mansion, her relations suspect murder. They little suspect he's turning her into a zombie, to join the army of living dead he hopes to devote to the Nazi cause. Lila, though dead, has developed a will of her own. Meanwhile, Lila's brother Scott and his friends are increasingly alarmed by the eerie events.

31

Village of the Damned

In a small English village everyone suddenly falls unconscious. When they awake every woman of child bearing age is pregnant. The resulting children have the same strange blond hair, eyes and a strong connection to each other.

32

Logan's Run

In the 23rd century, inhabitants of a domed city freely experience all of life's pleasures — but no one is allowed to live past 30. Citizens can try for a chance at being "renewed" in a civic ceremony on their 30th birthday. Escape is the only other option.

33

Forbidden Planet

Starship C57D travels to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of spaceship "Bellerophon," a scientific expedition that has been missing for 20 years, only to find themselves unwelcome by the expedition's lone survivor and warned of destruction by an invisible force if they don't turn back immediately.

34

The Long, Long Trailer

A newly wed couple, Tacy and Nicky, travel in a trailer for their honeymoon. The journey is a humorous one that could end up destroying their marriage.

35

The Beastmaster

Dar, is the son of a king, who is hunted by a priest after his birth and grows up in another family. When he becomes a grown man his new father is murdered by savages and he discovers that he has the ability to communicate with the animals, which leads him on his quest for revenge against his father's killers.

36

It Happened at the World's Fair

Mike and Danny fly a cropduster, but because of Danny's gambling debts, a local sheriff takes custody of it. Trying to earn money, they hitch-hike to the World's Fair in Seattle and, while Danny tries to earn money playing poker, Mike takes care of a small girl whose father has disappeared. Being a ladies' man, he also finds the time to court a young nurse.

37

The Brain

Dr. Blake runs a TV show called "Independent Thinkers", which is sort of a Scientology-like self-help/religion program. But he's not making his audience think any more independently - with the help of an alien organism he calls The Brain, he's using brainwashing and mind control. The only thing that stands between them and world domination is a brilliant but troubled high school student with a penchant for pranks...

38

Curse of the Faceless Man

A stone-encrusted body is unearthed at Pompeii, and people left alone with it keep dying of crushed skulls...