
05 Jan 1943

The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
A movie serial in 12 chapters: The famous comic strip character is on a mission to protect a secret tunnel passage between China and India.

RADIO'S ALL-AMERICAN BOY LEAPS INTO AN ALL-THRILL, ALL-TIME HIGH IN SERIAL ADVENTURE!
15 episode serial where Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy, battles the evil Dr. Grood, who has placed a death ray aboard his spaceship orbiting Earth.

Jack Armstrong

Betty Fairfield

Princess Alura [Chs. 3-6, 9-11, 15]

Billy Fairfield (as Joe Brown)

Uncle Jim Fairfield

Prof. Hobart Zorn

Henchman Blair

Henchman Slade

Vic Hardy

05 Jan 1943

A movie serial in 12 chapters: The famous comic strip character is on a mission to protect a secret tunnel passage between China and India.

06 Apr 1936

Disaster seems imminent when scientists discover that the planet Mongo is about to crash into Earth. Luckily, heroic young Flash Gordon is on hand to lead an investigative mission into outer space and onto the speedily approaching planet. There, he and his best girl, Dale, who is along for the ride, learn that Ming, the devious ruler of Mongo, has purposely put the planet on a collision course with Earth, and only Flash can stop him.

21 May 1935

A serial in 12 chapters. Tarzan goes to Guatemala to find his lost friend, D'Arnot. On the way he helps Major Matling search Mayan ruins for hidden jewels and an idol containing the formula for a powerful explosive. D'Arnot and the idol are rescued, but the idol falls into the clutches of the explorer Raglan.

27 Dec 1951

Space hero Captain Video battles the evil Vultura on the planet Atoma.

16 Jul 1921

Miracles of the Jungle is the adventures of two U.S. Secret Service men sent to Africa to bring back a man wanted for murder. Chapter 1 - The City of Lions Chapter 2 - The Passage of Death Chapter 3 - The Jungle Attack Chapter 4 - The Leopard's Revenge Chapter 5 - The Storm in the Desert Chapter 6 - To the Rescue Chapter 7 - The Leopard's Lair Chapter 8 - Doomed to Death Chapter 9 - In the Hands of the Apes Chapter 10 - Midst Raging Tigers Chapter 11 - Twelve Against One Chapter 12 - Cheating Death Chapter 13 - The Heart of an Elephant Chapter 14 - The Lion's Leap Chapter 15 - All's Well That Ends Well.

15 Aug 1920

No overview found

16 Jul 1922

The Timber Queen follows Ruth Rowland as the inheritor of a wealthy timber business who tries to stay independent of a cruel man who wants to marry her and steal her wealth. The UCLA Film and Television Archive has preserved episodes one, four, eight and nine, and distributor Harpodeon has preserved episode twelve.

13 Dec 1940

A mad scientist named Dr. Satan plots to steal key pieces of technology to enable him to build an army of robots based on his prototype to conquer America. The only one standing in his way is Bob Wayne, who fights Satan as the enigmatic Copperhead. Mysterious Doctor Satan is a 1940 film serial named after its chief villain. Doctor Satan's main opponent is the masked mystery man, "The Copperhead", whose secret identity is Bob Wayne, a man searching for justice and revenge on Satan for the death of his step-father. The serial charts the conflict between the two as Bob Wayne pursues Doctor Satan, while the latter completes his plans for world domination.

06 Jan 1954

In this 12 Chapter serial the UN enlists trader Tom Rogers and Vivian Wells, to lead the effort to prevent the natives from starting a revolution in Burmatra and its neighbors.

01 Mar 1931

Richard Grant, imprisoned in India for a crime he did not commit, escapes and makes his way to Africa.

08 Jun 1949

Prof. Millard pretends to be dead and helps Jeff King ferret out Vulcan, the evil traitor at the science academy. Donning his Rocket Man costume King goes from one hair raising rescue to the next in order to keep the newly invented Decimator out of the clutches of Vulcan and his minions.

13 Sep 1951

It is 1865 and Union prisoners use a military balloon to escape a Southern prison camp near the end of the Civil War. The balloon drifts for days and finally lands on a mysterious volcanic island with very unusual inhabitants. Also landing, in a better aircraft, is Rulu, a visitor from Mercury. She seeks a radio-active material that will enable her to manufacture an explosive that will destroy the world or, at least, the portion known as Earth in this 15 Chapter Serial from the 1950s.

10 Aug 1918

Rosalind Joy is a constantly imperiled heiress to a fortune in gold. An 18 part adventure serial

02 Jan 1919

A beautiful young woman is a daring master thief. She meets the young millionaire Thomas Babbington Norton, while fleeing from the scene of her latest theft.

08 Jan 1917

A wealthy young athlete comes to the aid of a beautiful heiress, whose fortune is being threatened by two arch villains, The Great Master and Doctor Zulph.

27 Aug 1925

Movie serial Perils of the Wild

15 Feb 1929

When a bank executive disappears, he is accused of stealing a fortune from the bank. But his daughter and her criminologist friend set out to find her father and clear his name.

01 Mar 1922

A Canadian Mountie and a young girl team up to prevent an evil couple from finding a fallen meteorite that contains a powerful element called "Tilano."

05 Jul 1937

Retired lawman Kentucky Wade and his three buddies, Mike Morales, "Dude" Hanford and "Trigger" Benton come to Brimstone and help their friends Larry Munro and his sister, Lucy , in their fight to retain control of Larry's rich ore mine. "Doc" Hardy , as an old friend of Wade's, joins them in their efforts to keep Matt Keeler , the scheming owner of "The Brimstone News", from his efforts to wrest control of Munro's property and mine. Keller employs a legion of henchmen, and sidelines at running runs guns to Red Hatchet and his tribe so they can also get in on the fray against the Munro's and Kentucky and friends.

25 Nov 1932

A lady reporter and two college students search for the "Gold Special," a train that disappeared without a trace.