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Watching Any Good Serials?
Topic Started: Apr 12 2006, 09:28 AM (88,272 Views)
mort bakaprevski
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Actually, these serials could have been broadcast even earlier. In L.A., Channel 5 had been operating (as an experimental station) since 1942 (becoming a licensed station in January of 1947). Channel 2 went back further than that to 1931 (becomeing licensed in May of 48).

Sure would be interesting to find out how far back the first broadcast of commercial films on TV went.
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Grampy
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Daredevils of the Red Circle for the first time in fifteen years.
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How's it holding up?
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Great! I'm catching a lot of the business that Dave Sharpe throws in here and there. Always been a fan of Brix because of his educated Tarzan and just finished watching (again) Middleton as Ming in the Mars serial, so it's an added treat watching them work. And this time around I notice the Red Circle has very feminine hands.
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Watching The Masked Marvel again. At a chapter a day, it doesn't seem so overwhelming. First-rate Republic action, explosive cliffhangers and music by Mort Glickman. The four non-entity investigators don't bother me so much this time around as things pick up so quickly when the Marvel appears. Anthony Warde is great as always as Sakima's chief henchman.
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Jan 27 2013, 03:55 PM
Watching The Masked Marvel again. At a chapter a day, it doesn't seem so overwhelming. First-rate Republic action, explosive cliffhangers and music by Mort Glickman. The four non-entity investigators don't bother me so much this time around as things pick up so quickly when the Marvel appears. Anthony Warde is great as always as Sakima's chief henchman.
Don't know how many times you've seen MASKED MARVEL, Tigger, but it's one of those Republics that, for me, has been subjected to the law of diminishing returns. Seeing it one chapter per week on WPIX in 1963, I thought it was fantastic. Felt much the same way during the Joe's Place years, although I never bought a 16mm print. But seeing it several times more in the last 30 or so years -- the home-video era -- I find it doesn't hold up. The four nobodies are a big black hole in the serial's middle. By contrast, the only stiff among the "suspects" in the LONE RANGER was George Letz, and the filmmakers had the good sense to kill him off first.

I'll probably give MASKED MARVEL another whirl in a few years, but at this point its appeal to me is more a matter of nostalgia.
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One of my all time favorite serials, and no the 4 non-entity's don't bother me because what I like about this serial is the action and set pieces with Tom Steele as the Masked Marvel. This was Spencer Bennett's second serial at Republic and you can tell he's getting very comfortable in his new surroundings.
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I am watching the complete ROCKFORD FILES, and saw an episode where Rockford is drugged and put in a mental hospital, ala ONE FLEW OVER THE CUKOO'S NEST. In the background I saw one of the inmates standing against the wall, and it was Tom Steele. He didn't receive any billing. In the next episode Rockford gets involved with a country western singer, and Don "Red" Barry played one of his friends, named "Shorty." That goes along the lines of what William Witney called him, "The Midget."
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Pa Stark
Feb 4 2013, 06:53 PM
I am watching the complete ROCKFORD FILES, and saw an episode where Rockford is drugged and put in a mental hospital, ala ONE FLEW OVER THE CUKOO'S NEST. In the background I saw one of the inmates standing against the wall, and it was Tom Steele. He didn't receive any billing. In the next episode Rockford gets involved with a country western singer, and Don "Red" Barry played one of his friends, named "Shorty." That goes along the lines of what William Witney called him, "The Midget."
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Watching BRICK BRADFORD for the first time. Four chapters in and enjoying it.

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Batman I am sure you are in for the thrill of your serial life...
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Most heartening, hearing that unbiased report from the Handsomest Hero in Serials.

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Brick Bradford
Feb 5 2013, 05:33 PM
Batman I am sure you are in for the thrill of your serial life...
Brick Bradford (231st handsomest Hero in Serials, right behind Rin Tin Tin)
I think walking around the moon without a spacesuit affected your mind. :P
Edited by Pa Stark, Feb 5 2013, 08:10 PM.
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Queen of the Jungle-meh
At least Mary Kornman is cute, although they get her out of her skimpy outfit into pants a little too quick.
All the native banter is dialogue played backwards, looped and very annoying.
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Q of the J was the first totally disappointing serial I bought. Hated it.
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