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Watching Any Good Serials?
Topic Started: Apr 12 2006, 09:28 AM (88,378 Views)
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"What are you running here, a junk yard or a Sunday school?" -- from the penultimate chapter of Radio Patrol.
"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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I watched chapter 7 of Ace Drummond, putting me over the half way point. I like the illustrated panels at the start of each chapter, bringing me up to speed for the day's action. Tonight, Ace and Jerry are caught in rifle cross-fire and surrounded by explosives. Not a great move, but it makes for a dandy cliffhanger!

If your not lookin for jade in the Far East, ya can get gold south of the border ala Zorro's Fighting Legion, chapter 4. I'm enjoying this serial, but everytime I see Zorro jump from some high spot and land in the saddle, I grimace and imagine a pain in my abdomen. Zorro's mask is too cool, much more so than Guy Williams' dainty little one from the TV show.
It's like Rodney King used to say, "Can't we all get a bong."
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Just finished the Hermitage Hills dvd, THE SCARLET HORSEMAN. Very crisp image.
Very pleased with the sharp quality. Are all of Hermitage Hills' titles as good looking as this one?

Non-B Western fans will despise this serial.
I enjoyed it -even if I had problems with Paul Guilfoyle as The Scarlet Horseman. I prefer him as "Pearly" or "Hymie" from The Saint RKO series.
Cy Kendall is a life-long favorite movie bad-guy. He's one of the better things going for this serial.
Peter Cookson was hmmmokay enough to get by as the "matinee idol" of the team.
Never had heard of Harold Goodman ("Idaho") before... this is his only serial according to IMDB. The only other thing he ever co-starred in was a Range Busters entry -SADDLE MOUNTAIN ROUNDUP where he appears as "Cousin Harold (singing / comic ranch hand...)"
Poor guy looks like he spent most of his formative years during Prohibition drinking out of the wrong bathtubs.

Edward Howard's "Zero Quick" has to have one of the coolest names ever sported by a B-Western serial villain. Except for the heaping spoonfuls of overall oiliness, "Zero Quick" provides routine skullduggery with the usual members of the posse.
Guy Wilkerson's routine as a corn-pone Willie the Shake quoting kidnapper is old by the end of the first chapter.

Victoria Horne and Virginia Christine are featured in an oblique sapphic spin on serial villainy.
Before checking IMDB I didn't know that that Victoria Horne ("Loma") was the daughter of everyone's favorite director -James W. Horne.
Also took me six chapters before I recognized a very young Virginia Christine as "Carla Marquette". Virginia Christine is most famous for her portrayal of Folgers Coffee's own Mrs. Olson.
I didn't know this, so if it's been discussed in this thread before, I apologize.
"Mrs Olson" turns out to have been quite the looker earlier in her career. I had no idea. Reminded me quite a bit of Peggy Cummins (GUN CRAZY, HELL DRIVERS, NIGHT/CURSE OF THE DEMON).

Had to get away from all of the cowboys and injuns and renegades and endless stock footage of buffalo stampedes, runaway wagons loaded with gunpowder, attacking aborigines, and bushhwackers so I started alternating serials a week ago. A chapter from THE SCARLET HORSEMAN followed the next morning with a chapter from THE SPIDER RETURNS.
So now I'm currently watching the Restored Serials issued THE SPIDER RETURNS for the third time in a year.
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Classic dialog, from episode 5 of The Scarlet Horseman...

"How ya feelin'?"

"Not bad, for a cripple."
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In chapter 8 of The Lost City we find out Dr Manyus can turn black guys into white guys. He uses a serum that he's had before his daughter was born, and he just happens to have some on him after 20 some years. This serial is goofy fun.
It's like Rodney King used to say, "Can't we all get a bong."
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Mar 12 2008, 05:09 PM
In chapter 8 of The Lost City we find out Dr Manyus can turn black guys into white guys....

and they lose all sense of rhythm?
Sorry. Shame on my chicken stealin' soul.
I must have overdosed on the Geraldine Ferraro agitprop news coverage today.

As for THE LOST CITY I must admit that I occasionally pondered Appollyn's sexuality. As in, did he like girls in a "boyfriend-girlfriend" kind of way? But I mostly concerned myself with imagining how Zolok made his booze and where he stashed it.

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Mar 13 2008, 04:05 AM
Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer
Mar 12 2008, 05:09 PM
In chapter 8 of The Lost City we find out Dr Manyus can turn black guys into white guys....

and they lose all sense of rhythm?

And they can no longer jump?
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Stop it! ... stop it! ... you guys are bustin' me up. :D :D :D :D
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Feb 18 2008, 04:31 AM
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Feb 17 2008, 08:57 AM
Did you get to the "Go ahead and RAM!" portion of Crash Corrigan, yet?


Not yet.


I saw this today, chapter 8. Lon Chaney is the 1st human I've seen in the vehicle which usually has the robots only. Maybe because the robots are in some sort of aerial vehicle! A funny scene-While flying in the aero-whatchamacallit, one robot nudges another robot and points groundward. Funny shit.
It's like Rodney King used to say, "Can't we all get a bong."
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This mornin' I watched the second episode of Woman in Grey. Now that I'm learning (slowly) who all these people are, getting very interesting. On top of that, it's almost non-stop action and/or thrills. Literally! Look away from the screen for a couple of seconds, and ya miss something.
"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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Mar 16 2008, 06:25 PM
This mornin' I watched the second episode of Woman in Grey. it's almost non-stop action and/or thrills. Literally! Look away from the screen for a couple of seconds, and ya miss something.

A pleasant change from Young Eagles!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:
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*still giggling*

Okay, so Walter Miller, chief bad guy, tries to break into professor James Durkin's house in the 10th episode of The Vanishing Shadow, see? Only the prof's got the door knob wired with electricity, right? So Miller touches it, the screen is filled with sound and fury (and animated lightning bolts), and he screams like a woman and clutches his right hand in agony.

Henchman Ed Cobb: "Hurt ya?"
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Finished Radio Patrol this morning; hard to believe -- it seems like I just started the darn thing. It went by really fast (I checked -- I watched the first episode in early January). Is it a good serial? Well, no. It's got some good stuff in it, and the last episode -- in which nobody turns out to be whom they seemed -- is fun. But there's too much "business" with the chubby, inept comic relief cop sidekick and too many trips to the Egyptian corner of the Universal lot to make this a serial I'll want to revisit anytime soon. Grant Withers, whom I liked a LOT as Jungle Jim, isn't nearly as good here. It's not a bad serial, I guess, so I'm gonna file it as "pedestrian" and leave it at that.

It's place in the rotation will be taken by... oh, what th' heck, let's watch The Mysterious Pilot, shall we? I think our copy came from good ol' Trevor.
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My favorite reveal from Radio Patrol was the completely out of left field revelation of Frank Lackteen's real identity-something I never saw coming.
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Silver Wolf was an above average serial dog. I think I prefer him to some of the sons of Rin Tin Tin. I haven't seen enough of the original RTT to rate him -- I need to correct that oversight.
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