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Watching Any Good Serials?
Topic Started: Apr 12 2006, 09:28 AM (88,341 Views)
Black Tiger
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Fun serial. Love Norman Willis as the evil Spider Webb.

This is one of the few non-Republic serials shown a chapter a week on old tv and it kept me coming back every week for some fine jungle action.

Still can't figure out why Jack Mulhall and the Ivory Patrol wore Australian bush hats, but always thought they were cool.
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Pay no attention to Pa...he is revovering from a brain transplant...the onor was a gentleman named A.B.normal.
Brick Bradford (Ho) andsomest Hero in Serial


At least they transplanted a brain, not a brick, like they did with a certain hero from Cain-Tucky. Even with a brick in the old noggin, that still raised the IQ of the Bradford clan. :D

BTW, Brick, you sure could use your spellcheck
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A serial but certainally not good. Perils of the Wilderness - the penultimate Columbia serial. They should have stopped after this one. It stars a balding Dennis Moore looking 100 years old. The villan is Kenneth MacDonald looking as though he just stepped off a Three Stooges set to film a scene. The Plot has an American Sheriff coming to Canada to work with the Mounties ( who are the NorthWest Mounted Police or the Royal NorthWest Mounted Police or The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, depending on the scene) This really has very little to recommend in it.
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For me the last watchable serial is Panther Girl of the Kongo. It's not what I'd call good exactly, but it's fun.
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Agree Panther Girl of the Kongo is a fun watchable serial. Blazing the Overland Trail is next on my list. So I'll soon be able to see just how low a note they went out on.
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I kind of like KING OF THE CARNIVAL. It was the best of of the last six or so serials made.
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Thanks, Pa, I haven't seen that one.
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Pa Stark
Feb 26 2009, 01:07 PM
I kind of like KING OF THE CARNIVAL. It was the best of of the last six or so serials made.

I would like to see that one, too, Pa. Who has a good copy available?

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Republic Home Video released KING OF THE CARNIVAL on VHS, so it was from the original negatives. Remember, when I said I like it, that is only relative to the other serials from the end of serial making. It certainly pales to serials of just a few years earlier. A couple of late Columbia serials that weren't too bad were GREAT ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN KIDD, and GUNFIGHTERS OF THE NORTHWEST. The latter having good location work and an interesting mystery villain. Biggest complaint is there is not one interior in the entire 15 chapters. When Jock Mahoney reports to his superior at Mountie headquarters, he is always sitting outside on the porch. Maybe that is where his desk was. Another time a heavy is in a shack, and Jocko slips in the front door, and a couple of seconds later emerges with his prisoner.
Columbia's last four serials, RIDING WITH BUFFALO BILL, ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN AFRICA, PERILS OF THE WILDERNESS, and BLAZING THE OVERLAND TRAIL all contain massive amounts of stock footage from earlier serial. CAPTAIN AFRICA has two different settings, jungle and Arabian, with two different heroes with stock from two different serials. Beware.
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Thanks, Pa. As I fan of circus/carnival movies, I will have to track that one down.

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I'm pretty sure Rodney's will be as good as any, and the price is right.
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I can recall being pleasantly surprised at King of the Carnival when I watched it, although I can't recall anything about it now. I think that has more to do with my memory, or the feebleness thereof, than the forgetableness of the serial, though!
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These days I can watch a serial chapter I saw a month ago and not remember a thing about it. When we were kids we remembered every detail. I think they're just a form of mental massage for us oldsters.
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panzer the great & terrible
Feb 27 2009, 08:36 AM

I'm pretty sure Rodney's will be as good as any, and the price is right.

How about it, Rodney? What is the quality of your version of King of the Carnival like?

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panzer the great & terrible
Feb 27 2009, 12:26 PM
These days I can watch a serial chapter I saw a month ago and not remember a thing about it. When we were kids we remembered every detail. I think they're just a form of mental massage for us oldsters.
Thanks. I feel much better knowing I'm not the only one.
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