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Watching Any Good Serials?
Topic Started: Apr 12 2006, 09:28 AM (88,400 Views)
riddlerider
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panzer the great & terrible
Nov 16 2007, 05:52 PM
That's interesting, rodney. I didn't like it the first time, but the second time I loved it. Maybe Horne's serials are an acquired taste (one that some people never acquire).


I acquired a taste for Horne serials more than 30 years ago, but I still don't like his Western serials as much as the non-Westerns. IMO, DEADWOOD DICK and WHITE EAGLE are okay -- just okay, mind you -- and PERILS OF THE ROYAL MOUNTED is the weakest of his ten solo Columbias.


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Nov 17 2007, 06:59 AM
I understand from Mr. Orsak that this is probably the ONLY print out there of this serial (Pirate's Treasure), which is a shame. It's okay, but that's it. This has moved to #1 in my "wish there was a better print available" serial list.

Don't know if it's the same print or not, but Fred Shay also sells it.
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Nov 17 2007, 06:59 AM
A couple of added takes... King of the Mounties: (spoiler ahead): Mountie King falls out of an airplane one week, and the next week... LANDS ON A HAYSTACK?!?! Oh, C'MON Republic... what WERE you thinking? Land him in the same lake Republic heroes fall into when they fall off a cliff out in the desert, but... onto a HAYSTACK?!? Sheesh.

This isn't a true spoiler in that it isn't an actual cliffhanger, but the same thing happens in Captain Video. Video and his Ranger leap out of an interplanetary rocketship as it plummets to earth and are saved when they land safely in a haystack (!). The cliffhanger is that the haystack is set afire by the bad guys (!!). Will they escape? Tune in to Captain Video to find out.
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They leap out of a spaceship and land in a haystack and the bad guys are right there to set it on fire? And you ask me why I like serials?
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Nov 17 2007, 06:25 PM
They leap out of a spaceship and land in a haystack and the bad guys are right there to set it on fire?

Of course! It was the only haystack on the planet!
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Well, let's think about this... Where are they GOING to stand? I mean, c'mon... if you were an intelligent henchman, wouldn't you think, "If Cap'n Video falls out of the rocketship, he's going to be squashed flat and out of our hair for good. Unless... hmmm... what if he JUST HAPPENS to land on that haystack over there? That would be his ONLY chance of survival. Let's go stand over there so that if he DOES land there, we'll be ready!"
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... if you were an intelligent henchman ...

Except, the number of serials with intelligent henchmen can be counted on the fingers of on hand. :P
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I agree... while as a rule they dress nicely, they're all dumb as posts. Particularly if you get one who's played by somebody who is usually a hero. Clayton Moore was the dumbest villainous henchman EVER.

Besides, the thought has occurred to me that the villains had better oughtta not stand next to the haystack, lest Cap'n Video and his Video Ranger fall on THEM. Ouch!
"I'm glad that this question came up, because there are so many ways to answer it that one of them is bound to be right." - Robert Benchley
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In the sixth episode of The Red Rider, Buck treats an injured pig and Ed Cobb sings.

The greatest serial chapter ever? Has to rate consideration.

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Gordon of Ghost City and the Red Rider are my favorite Buck Jones serials. I'm may drop in the Red Rider tonight and take a look see.
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Okay, so I'm watchin' episode nine of the Squadron's wonderful presentation of King of the Mounties, and we get another of those daffy "only in a serial" moments that I love so much... In this case, a wave of terror sweeps Canada as the villains blow up a variety of civilian establishments in preparation for the upcoming Axis invasion, right? So the Mounties discern that the bombs are made from a rare mineral that comes from only one mine, at Bear Creek. So they descend in force, hundreds of men, guns a-blazin', and... well, no. Sgt. King decides to saunter up to the mine all by himself. Sheesh. Who is he, the "Die Hard" guy? Shouldn't he be court-martialed for being a ninny?
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Serial heroes aren't know for their smarts. Just grit and determination. Hard heads, too.
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So they descend in force, hundreds of men, guns a-blazin', and... well, no. Sgt. King decides to saunter up to the mine all by himself. Sheesh. Who is he, the "Die Hard" guy? Shouldn't he be court-martialed for being a ninny?


That is one of the elements of a serial that I have always found interesting. The hero and sometimes the heroine will go to the hideout, the cave, the warehouse by themselves when we all know they will get into some kind of huge fight. The heroine will wind up unconscience on the floor. When all the hero needs to do is call for backup and wait for the SWAT team to get there and then rush the evil doers.

Has there ever been an example of the hero waiting for his pals to get to the hideout before he rushes in to capture the bad guys? But if he did wait for back up before he rushed in to capture the bad guys we would lose nearly all the cliffhanger endings and would not have over 200 serials to watch. Also, Tom Steele and Dale Van Sickle would have been out of work.

Most serial heroes are combinations of the Die Hard guy, the Energizer bunny and a Timex watch. They take a lickin' and keep on going and going and going and.....


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And as I've mentioned before, in Radar Men from the Moon, we determine our planet is under attack from heavily-armed superior forces from outer space bent on invading and conquering the Earth. So what do we do? Send three guys to fight 'em.
"I'm glad that this question came up, because there are so many ways to answer it that one of them is bound to be right." - Robert Benchley
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