Earth vs. the Spider (1958)

Teenagers from a rural community and their high school science teacher join forces to battle a giant mutant spider.

**Released:** 1958

**Director:** Bert I. Gordon

**Writers:** László Görög (screenplay), George Worthing Yates(screenplay), Bert I. Gordon(story)

**Stars:** Ed Kemmer, June Kenney, Eugene Persson

**IMDB:** 4.6/10

**Sven Promo:** Official Site

## Bumpers

Sven breaks out Too Drawn Out for a spider joke.

Sven cuts back in for a Cutaway Gag where he implies that people enter the DMV and never come out again.

Sven makes a lame joke about DDT.

Sven informs us we've heard Berwyn 49 times between this broadcast and the one prior. It's a Cutaway Gag where a character in the movie states "make it 50."

Sven lays down some history on Gene Roth, who starred in some old genre films and was in numerous The 3 Stooges shorts, as well as Ed Kemmer, June Kenney, and Eugene Persson; among others. June Jocelyn and June Kenney both previously appeared in Attack of the Puppet People. Sven highlights a load of genre flicks in this bumper that he's never played (at least on his Me-TV run). He wraps it up joking about the credited Spider Handler, Jim Dannaldson.

Sven's Cutaway Gag is about his filming location during The Coronavirus Pandemic being top secret due to the whole world wanting to take a look at that thing down there.

We get a lame joke about riding the spider to the hospital if bitten. We get further trivia about Hank Patterson, who appeared in Tarantula and on Green Acres, and Skip Young. Somewhere in there is a joke about "All My Chitlins."

We break back in with a Cutaway Gag about Hank Patterson's connection to the Fred Astaire film Daddy Long Legs.

Kerwyn hosts the trivia game Spider Sense, where all the answers are bad puns.

Sven's Cutaway Gag implies the sheriff has just called The Flying Nun in for advice on dealing with the spider.

Following the song, we Cutaway Gag back in with a joke about vermin snack foods like chocolate-covered ants, fried grasshoppers, and baked spiders.

During the December 2021 broadcast, Kerwyn and Sventa Claus drop in to wish everyone a happy holidays and show off fan mail.

After the break, we get a lame joke about Carol and Mike playing The Newlyweb Game in the underground cave.

We get some trivia about spiders not having vocal chords and not making noise.

For the return to the film's climax, we get a Cutaway Gag about the kids' band from earlier in the movie breaking into the Top 40.

Following the climax, Sven reviews knowledge we've gained that electric current can't kill The Blob, but it can kill giant tarantulas and 50 foot women.

## Song

The song normally played during the broadcast can be found here.

## Door Gag

"Sven, I'll tell ya, these kids today. I gotta tell ya about my daughter. Last night at home, I yelled for her to please get me a phone book. She rolls her eyes and says Oh, Dad, you are so not with it. Nobody uses a phone book anymore. Here, just use my cellphone."

"Uh huh, sure."

"So I took her cellphone and smashed it against a wall to kill a spider.

## Final Gag

*We are glad you stuck with us for our woven web of wackiness! Come back up the water spout with us again next week!*

## Broadcast History

Below are all of the indexed broadcasts of Earth vs. the Spider.

### Svengoolie

January 30th, 2021 (Me-TV run premiere) - Blog post

December 25th, 2021 - Blog post

December 31st, 2022 - Blog post

### Son of Svengoolie

This movie never aired on Son of Svengoolie.

## Related Links

-Wikipedia entry

-Chris Hamby's blog entry for a broadcast