Posted by jayembee on 06/26/06 07:21

Walter Traprock <wetraprock@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Heynony <nospam@noway.com> wrote:
>
>>> Gene Autry, you know, weird ones like ... Phantom Empire
>> [snip]
>> It was remade maybe 20 years ago as part of a TV series made up of
>> three serials, no style at all, though the Vampire segment was OK.
>
> Never heard of it.

It was a show called CLIFFHANGERS that aired circa 1980. They did a
selection of chapters from three serials, not always starting with
Chapter One. I don't recall how many weeks it ran, but the only one
of the three serials that was reasonably complete was a Dracula story
set in the (then) present day starring Michael Nouri in the title
role. Another one of the serials was a Brenda Starr style adventure
thriller called "Stop Susan Williams". The third was an uncredited
remake (or rip-off) of THE PHANTOM EMPIRE. The gimmick in that
version was that the surface scenes were shot in sepia, and the
underground scenes in color.

-- jayembee

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