Svengoolie Announces October Film & TV Schedule for ‘Svengoolie’s Halloween BOO-nanza’
That cold chill you just felt crawl up your spine wasn’t a draft from an open window … it was the announcement that Svengoolie will return this October with his third annual Svengoolie’s Halloween BOO-nanza, a monthlong celebration of all things creepy and classic on MeTV!
This year, Svengoolie and crew will be celebrating the season with two back-to-back spooky films every Saturday night on Svengoolie Classic Horror & Sci-Fi Movie, with movies like Son of Frankenstein, The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, Fiend Without a Face, House of Wax and Invaders From Mars, plus the debut of two new Jim Henson films into the Svengoolie vault: Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal!
But you’ll want to do more than just keep your Saturday nights clear; Svengoolie’s Halloween BOO-nanza features full-weekend programming that includes Halloween episodes of some of your favorite classic shows!
BEVERLY HILL BILLIES, Halloween episode, courtesy of MeTV
On Saturday, Oct. 5, you can grab a bowl of cereal and relive your youth with the special House of Svengoolie Cartoon BOO-Nanza, a one-hour Saturday morning dive into the creepiest Looney Tunes around, hosted by the Sven Squad: Svengoolie’s lovely assistant Gwengoolie, IMP and 800-year-old vampire Nostalgiaferatoo. It will be followed by a special presentation of eerie episodes of classic Westerns like The Rifleman!
And every Saturday night, after Svengoolie’s Saturday movies are through, don’t touch that dial — expect special overnight marathons of blood-curdling classics like The Twilight Zone and Kolchak: The Night Stalker.
On Sunday evenings, tune in for a lineup of creepy, kooky, mysterious and spooky Halloween episodes of classic sitcoms like The Brady Bunch, The Andy Griffith Show, All in the Family, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Beverly Hillbillies, I Love Lucy and The Love Boat. And on top of this, get ready for special Halloween episodes of Collector’s Call and Toon in With Me!
So whether your October plans involve traveling the world in the form of a bat or just kicking back in your crypt with some popcorn and a chilled glass of blood, make sure to carve out time in your schedule for these lineups of eerie classics!
SATURDAY, OCT. 5, 2024
7-10am ET/PT: “House of Svengoolie Cartoon Boo-Nanza”
This cartoon block celebrates all your favorite spooky, hare-raising Looney Tunes classics.
10-6pm ET/PT: MeTV Halloween Westerns
Spend the rest of your Saturday with special eerie episodes of Western TV shows, including Wild Wild West, Gunsmoke, Bonanza and The Rifleman.
8pm-1am ET/PT: Svengoolie Classic Horror & Sci-Fi Movie Double Feature: Son of Frankenstein (8-10:30pm ET/PT) and The Monster That Challenged the World (10:30pm-1am ET/PT).
This double creep-ture kicks off with the 1939 Karloff/Lugosi film where Dr. Frankenstein’s son (Basil Rathbone) meets a spooky blacksmith (Lugosi), who holds the body of the Creature (Karloff). And in 1957’s The Monster That Challenged the World, a giant evil mollusk is running amok in California, and only Tim Holt and Audrey Dalton can stop it.
1-6am ET/PT: Sventoonie
If you’re too rattled to sleep after that, never fear — a block of Sventoonie episodes will keep you company until daylight!
SUNDAY, OCT. 6, 2024
10-6:30pm: Classic Halloween Sitcom Episodes
Get in the spooky season spirit with a full day of classic Halloween episodes of The Brady Bunch, Happy Days, The Beverly Hillbillies, I Love Lucy, The Love Boat and more!
SATURDAY, OCT. 12, 2024
8pm-1am ET/PT: Svengoolie Classic Horror & Sci-Fi Movie Double Feature: The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (8-10:30pm ET/PT) and Fiend Without a Face (10:30pm-1am ET/PT).
Kick off the night with Don Knotts’ classic 1966 haunted house comedy, and then follow it up with this bizarro 1958 sci-fi tale about a scientist whose thoughts(!) turn into evil, brain-shaped monsters!
1-2am ET/PT: Svengoolie Uncrypted
This one-hour special celebrates Svengoolie and his 43-plus year career as America’s longest-running horror host.
2-6am ET/PT: The Twilight Zone
For the true night owls, get ready to enter a dimension not only of sight and sound but also of mind with this four-hour block of classics including “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet,” “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” and “To Serve Man.”
SUNDAY, OCT. 13, 2024
5pm-12am: Classic Halloween Sitcom Episodes, plus Collector’s Call
Start the night with a costume-tastic episode of The Love Boat, and then at 6:30pm, the Season 5 finale of Collector’s Call, with a Halloween-y twist — this episode showcases a vast collection of Halloween masks and spooky memorabilia!
Then, it’s a night of more creepy episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show, M*A*S*H and Carol Burnett & Friends.
SATURDAY, OCT. 19, 2024
8pm-1am ET/PT: Svengoolie Classic Horror & Sci-Fi Movie Double Feature: House of Wax (8-10:30pm ET/PT) and Labyrinth (10:30pm-1am ET/PT).
Begin your Saturday night spookfest with the 1953 Vincent Price classic about a man who gets trapped in his own wax museum as it burns … and goes on to seek murderous revenge! Then, for the first time, Svengoolie will present the 1986 Jim Henson dark fantasy film, which features Jennifer Connelly as a teenage girl who must rescue her baby brother from Jareth (David Bowie), the big-haired Goblin King.
1-6am ET/PT: Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Wind down in the witching hour with five episodes of this ’70s horror classic that influenced The X-Files!
SUNDAY, OCT. 20, 2024
4-9pm ET/PT: Classic Halloween Sitcom Episodes
Get even more into the season’s spirit, with Halloween episodes of Mama’s Family, All in the Family and The Love Boat.
MONDAY, OCT. 21-FRIDAY, OCT. 25, 2024
Every day, 7-9am ET/PT: Toon in With Me Hallo-Palooza
Halloween is almost here, so start your days with a hearty helping of Halloween-themed tunes! Toon in With Me will present two hours of spooky toons each day before work — the perfect thing to do before going out in search of victims … uh, I mean, going to work!!
SATURDAY, OCT. 26, 2024
8pm-1am ET/PT: Svengoolie Classic Horror & Sci-Fi Movie Double Feature: Invaders From Mars (8-10:30pm ET/PT) and The Dark Crystal (10:30pm-1am ET/PT).
The spookiest weekend of the year is finally here! Grab a big bowl of candy (the kids can have whatever is left over) and enjoy it with this pairing of the 1952 sci-fi classic and the 1982 Jim Henson film about a young elf who must find a shard of crystal to restore order to her increasingly dark world.
1-6am ET/PT: Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Stay up all night with Kolchak. Hey, if you’re watching TV, the monsters under your bed can’t get you!
SUNDAY, OCT. 27, 2024
9am-12pm ET/PT: Classic Halloween Sitcom Episodes, plus House of Svengoolie’s Cartoon Boo-Nanza
Saved by the Bell, Happy Days and The Dick Van Dyke Show get freaky, and Svengoolie’s Sven squad present their favorite scary Looney Tunes at 10am.
Halloween Week: Monday, Oct. 28-Thursday Oct. 30
Begin every day with a freaky episode of Tune in With Me from 7-9am, and end every night with an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents at 1 or 1:05am.
THURSDAY, OCT. 31
All Day: Classic Spooky Sitcom Episodes
Tune in throughout the day for episodes of Perry Mason, The Waltons and The Beverly Hillbillies with eerie themes.
And don’t forget to settle in for a final back-to-back showing of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, from 1:05-2:05am.
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