Après la mort de son frère, Victor Frankenstein, étudiant en médecine, se promet de trouver un moyen de le ramener à la vie. Obsédé par cette idée, Frankenstein se joint au docteur Clerval pour modeler une créature dont les organes proviennent des dépouilles d’ouvriers tués lors d’un accident dans une carrière. Lorsque Clerval meurt d’une crise cardiaque, Frankenstein insère le cerveau du défunt dans le corps inanimé de la créature et lui donne la vie. Bien que fasciné par l’intelligence et la beauté de sa créature, il remarque bientôt que le processus dégénère…
When an old man (Sebastian Cabot) spies the department store Santa Claus get drunk before taking part in the Macy's Thanksgiving parade, he immediately locates and complains to Karen Walker (Jane Alexander), the parade director. She promptly fires her Santa Claus and the old man, who turns out to be named Kris Kringle, volunteers to take his place for the sake of the children. Kris does so well during the parade that he is immediately hired to be the store's main Santa for the holiday period. At the same time, Karen's daughter, Susan (Suzanne Davidson), an intelligent but cynical six-year-old, meets her new neighbor, Bill Schafner (David Hartman), a lawyer, and decides to try and hook him up with her mother.
An elderly widow (Amanda Blake) hires a young woman (Tisha Sterling) as her companion. Little does she suspect that the woman and her boyfriend are criminals, who plan to make her their next victim, killing her and stealing her money.