Finally! We Are Able to Have You Face "Fiend Without a Face"!

Posted on May 15, 2021

                                                           PLEASE! NO SPOILERS THIS WEEK!

Please don’t reveal the menace, or post the revealing poster for the film or stills showing it (when it becomes visible). If you feel you must, please wait until the show has run in all time zones.

Tonight on MeTV, we finally have a movie we have been trying to get for years! It’s the memorable story of strange incidents happening up in Canada, near a military base that is experimenting with a system run by nuclear power-with unexplainable deaths committed by an unseen force we can only call the “Fiend Without a Face”!

We visit the U.S. Air Force’s experimental radar station in Winthrop Manitoba, where they are working on a new long-range tracking system, powered by their own nuclear plant. Things aren’t working out, though- just when they seem to be on the brink of success, the nuclear power seems to be draining off.

Add to their problems the fact that, in the local farming community, mysterious deaths have been occurring- and the local folk are quick to blame radiation coming from the military base- ignoring the small bit of evidence that each victim has puncture marks at the base of their skull ( a Canadian vampire?)- and – their brain and spinal column appear to be- gone!

Major Jeff Cummings is out to investigate- and bumps heads with a few of the local people in the process, including the pretty sister of one of the victims, who works for a retired British scientist who lives near the base, whose area of research is telekinetic power.

Jeff must combat the locals who theorize that it must be someone from the military who has become a maniac killer, if not the radiation that is causing the deaths- but we soon see that it is an invisible life form that is ready to eliminate the human population!

We won’t go any further in describing what will happen- but we will say that when the faceless enemy is no longer faceless- it’s amazing and shocking!

As I said, this 1958 horror flick is one for which we had a lengthy search for who had the movie and broadcast rights- and we also know that, though some people might not recall the name of this film, they do remember the menace once it is visible!

As you experience this film, we’ll tell you about the movie’s cast and the history of the film’s story, plus find some product uses for the unseen fiend-and bring you a new song to the tune of one of our friend Freddy “Boom Boom” Cannon’s big hits! Please note that the song will come up a little later than it usually does in the show tonight!

“Fiend Without a Face” appears tonight on MeTV at 8 pm  eastern/pacific, 7 central time. Twitter was again abuzz ( or, a-Twitter) last week with viewers live-Tweeting during the show, again making us trend high nationally- and you are invited to join in, using the hashtag #svengoolie in your Tweets. In the Chicago viewing area, the terrifying tree stump walks again in “From Hell It Came” on our main local station, CW26, at 11 am.

Very soon, you will see that new addition to our store- a Sven item that will be a perfect Father’s Day gift for dads who are Sven fans ( and everybody else, as well)!

Discussion has been going on about us being able to return to our dungeon studio at the station. We’ll keep you informed of any developments.

A quick note of congratulations to our friends Gina Shock and the GoGos who are on their way to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!

Meanwhile, join us tonight when something unbelievable rolls into a quiet Canadian village- and rocks their world- not in a good way!

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KIKI 39 months ago
I cannot believe they got away with the major popping Benzedrine!
Leigh 42 months ago
I really enjoyed this episode. I really didn't expect the fiends. I loved that there was stop motion work.
Geo 42 months ago
Katink I could not scroll back far enough. Thank you for the Birthday wishes.
1MikeM 42 months ago
....and dat was Fiend witout a Face...and dat's da name a dat tune!
Patarheel1954 42 months ago
Great movie reminds me of forbidden planet
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Katink 42 months ago
Good night, MrsG! See you at the movies!
KeithJ 42 months ago
Nice themed avatar!
Katink 42 months ago
Thanks, KeithJ!
deadringer42 42 months ago
King Kong on Carol Burnett.
Coincident? I think not.
Islander 42 months ago
Well I was planning on watching The Brain From Planet Arous that Dale mentioned earlier today. But, fishing all day on the pier has wiped me out. I'd never make it thru the movie so I'll save it for Sunday .
Early congrats to our first blogger whomever that may be. I sure won't be around for it.
MADave 42 months ago
Just went to the Svengoolie store (he has a store?) I checked out the new baseball cap it looks absolutely AWESOME there's only one question, does it glow in the dark?
Jack MADave 42 months ago
I tried shining a UV light on the one on my computer screen and nothing happened.
Klaatu MADave 42 months ago
In the fine print, it says “Your head may glow after extended wearing.”😆
Thereman 42 months ago
Happy Sventurday Eve to all- Of note to Gooliacs, tonight's Pierre Masson is a good one. Seems back in season 6, Raymond Burr did land in the hospital for surgery/ recovery. The exact cause has never been revealed, but it took a lot of star power to replace PERRY in his prime. The scenes where he talks on the phone with his substitutes were actually shot in his hospital room. Last night, Bette Davis played attorney Constant Doyle. Monday night, it's TCOT TWO-FACED TURN- ABOUT with Hugh O'Brien; Tuesday night is TCOT SURPLUS SUITOR, with Walter Pidgeon, who nearly got the role of PM on the radio series in the 40's. Tonight however, it's TCOT LIBELOUS LOCKET with none other then Michael Rennie, yes, that very Klaatu in the movie that made some of us fall in love with the theremin. So, enjoy! Mrs. T has graduate students coming for pizzapolouza tomorrow night, but I'll post on the man who not only wrote the music for a bunch of movies from Japan dealing with extra large life forms, but actually invented the Godzilla shriek! Happy Sventurday Eve once more!
Jack Thereman 42 months ago
Pierre Mason?! Enh-henh-henh! 🇫🇷⚜️🐓🗼🥖🍷👨🏻‍🎨🦨
Aceman2 Thereman 42 months ago
Raymond Burr would have been 104 today. He was born William Raymond Stacy Burr on May 21, 1917 and died September 12, 1993 at age 76. Burr was a Canadian-American actor known for his lengthy Hollywood film career and his title roles in the television dramas Perry Mason and Ironside.
Islander 42 months ago
My apologies if some has already mentioned this.
Right now it's 9 0clock, the 21st hour of the 21st day of the 21st week of the 21st year of the 21st century.
Now back to your regularly scheduled program.
gabste Islander 42 months ago
Wow !
Thereman gabste 42 months ago
The regularly scheduled program seems tame compared to that bit of info!
vettenoir Islander 42 months ago
You should have waited a few more minutes until 21:21, like I did
Jack Thereman 42 months ago
My regularly scheduled program is worrying about catching the digital clock reading 12:34!
gabste Thereman 42 months ago
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gabste 42 months ago
Ya !
MADave 42 months ago
Lookin' forward to cartoons in the morning and frights by night who will win the battle KING KONG or his tin can clone? Find out tomorrow night when we will see KING KONG ESCAPES same Svengoolie time same Svengoolie channel.
gabste MADave 42 months ago
Yeaahhhh
NoPersonalChicks 42 months ago
Tom Lowell from 'The Manchurian Candidate', 'That Darn Cat' and many MeTV shows is a beatnik on TAF.
MADave 42 months ago
Good Friday before Svengoolie Saturday group this year's TBB sounds great but as much as ld live to meet you all in sunny CA my mom comes first so I'm sorry again I won't be able to make it but hopefully someday it'll be in either MA or NH home of bostonmark
Kergooliewyn 42 months ago
I am looking forward to the movie Saturday night. Though I've always felt Kong got a raw deal.
CrazyK Kergooliewyn 42 months ago
Yes he did! They made an as out of him! 😂
BelleLugosi Kergooliewyn 42 months ago
This one looks like it will truly be AWFULly good.😂 So excited!
Kergooliewyn 42 months ago
Everybody here is just so great. Thanks everybody for being....well, just so great.
gabste Kergooliewyn 42 months ago
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Islander gabste 42 months ago
The Gov lifted the mask mandate. You're free
Drang Islander 42 months ago
*Regional exceptions may apply.
DrClayton gabste 42 months ago
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gabste DrClayton 42 months ago
Ha ha 🤣🤣
Drang DrClayton 42 months ago
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DrClayton 42 months ago
"When Life gives you corn(fields), make popcorn." [with apologies to lemons...]
Islander DrClayton 42 months ago
When life gives you corn, you can also thank Anita.
Jack DrClayton 42 months ago
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Klaatu Jack 42 months ago
I’ve been to the Cornfield 😵
Mikeyyy DrClayton 42 months ago
Hey I like popcorn! I found a good popcorn store in Pigeon forge thats much better than that lonely cornfield
KeithJ Klaatu 42 months ago
Me too! 🎶I've got friends in cooorn places! 🎶
DrClayton DrClayton 42 months ago
Or should I say, "When life hands you corn, make Corn Dogs!" ?
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BelleLugosi 42 months ago
Our accents are indeed something else. But I'm bilingual. I speak Appalachia with family, but I also can speak English since my parents grew-up in Maryland and didn't move here until '72.
Mikeyyy 42 months ago
I don't have much of any of an accent! I was born in Mass and we moved to Florida when I was 13. I lived there till I was 58 and retired and moved to Tennessee 3 years ago.
TheKodakKid 42 months ago
When we were in Chicago for The Big Blogcast 2, we piggybacked with Flashback Weekend. I was talking to Victoria Price (Vincent’s daughter). After a few minutes she said, “Alright, where are you from? Because you’re not from around here.”

Many years ago, I worked at Dollywood. Although I worked in accounting, I was on loan to marketing for a special project. They liked me (silly people), so they started asking me to do other things as well. One day I was in the call center because they were short handed. At the end of one call, a woman said, “”Thank you, you’ve been most helpful, and you sound exactly like Ricky Skaggs.”
gabste 42 months ago
Appalachia....cool !
vettenoir 42 months ago
Hopefully movie producers don't butcher Appalachia as bad as they do 'Canadian'
BelleLugosi 42 months ago
We have a lot of special to screw up. We are NOT all of us like the Beverly Hillbillies, but they do exist up in the hollers.
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