Tonight on Svengoolie -- "The Car"

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Tonight on Svengoolie®
beginning at 8P | 7C on
MeTV
The Car
at 8P | 7C on
ON MOST METV STATIONS

It's the Vehicle from- Well, the Same Place Gas Prices Have Gone to- There's a Devilish Drive-By from "The Car"- Tonight!

Posted on April 11, 2026

Tonight on MeTV- buckle up for a ride with a violent vehicle that gives citizens of a small desert town a hellish hit-and-run -it’s the deadly and devilish driverless destruction of- "The Car"!

Let’s reminisce - 1977, "roadkill" movies seemed to be in vogue, with "Christine" and "Maximum Overdrive" in theatres- and they were joined by this film (which opens with a quote from the late leader of "the Church of Satan"!? ) – which starts out serenely enough with two bicyclists cruising through a canyon-when a mysterious black car seems to decide that the road isn’t big enough for all of them! Soon after, a French horn-playing hitchhiker finds out he can’t compete with the strange car’s horn- in the worst way!

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[Mister Ed]

1. Is that the sequel (or prequel) to "My Mother, The Car"?

[wcmagumba]

2. Nope, I don't think Jerry Van Dyke was in this one...

[Wiz Imp]

3. "1977, "roadkill" movies seemed to be in vogue, with "Christine" and "Maximum Overdrive" in theatres"

Maximum Overdrive was released in 1986 and Christine in 1983. Both long after 1977. Really pathetic job by MeTV getting basic facts spectacularly wrong.

[House of Roberts]

4. The Wraith with Charlie Sheen was from 1986 too.

That's the one where he'd hit another car head on, and his atomized car would suck back together, and leave whole, but the other one wouldn't.