Cliffhanger Serials on DVD

Pulse Pounding... Thrills, Spills and Chills...
Thrilling, Thundering and Throbbing...
Breathless, Breakneck Adventure!

These were the terms and tag lines used to announce the weekly serial episode to an anxious crowd of fans each Saturday afternoon. These 20 minute chapter plays, lasting 12 to 15 episodes, were intended to warm up the audience for the big budget, feature movie but have long outlived many of the features in terms of popularity. Each week the hero would find himself at the closing moments in a life or death cliff hanger struggle, which of course would not be resolved until next week’s episode.

Featured Cliffhanger Serials

• 150 Serial Classics
• Ace Drummond Vol 1 Chapters 1 - 6 by Ace Drummond
• Ace Drummond Vol 2 Chapters 7 - 13 by Ace Drummond
• Adventures of Kit Carson by Bill Williams
• Burn-em Up Barnes Volume 1 (Chapters 1-6) by Frankie Darro
• Burn-em Up Barnes Volume 2 (Chapters 7-12) by Frankie Darro
• Custer's Last Stand by Rex Lease and Frank McGlynn
• Fighting with Kit Carson by Johnny Mac Brown
• Flash Gordon: The Purple Death From Outer Space by Buster Crabbe
• Great Alaskan Mystery Chapter 1 - 7 by Edgar Kennedy
• Great Alaskan Mystery Chapter 8 - 13 by Edgar Kennedy
• Jack Armstrong: All American Boy
• Junior G-Men Volume 1 Chapter 1 - 6 by Dead End Kids
• Junior G-Men Volume 2 Chapter 7 - 12 by Dead End Kids
• Lost City
• Overland Mail by Lon Chaney
• Sea Raiders Volume 1 Chapter 1 - 6 by Dead End Kids
• Sea Raiders Volume 2 Chapter 7 - 12 by Dead End Kids
• Secret Agent X-9 #2 Starring Scott Kolk by Dashiell Hammett
• The Clutching Hand
• The Galloping Ghost by Harold Red Grange
• The Lost Jungle Chapters 1 - 6 by Clyde Beatty
• The Lost Jungle Chapters 7 - 12 by Clyde Beatty
• The Mystery Squadron by Bob Steele
• The New Adventures of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs
• The Phantom Creeps Vol 1 Ch 1- 6 by Bela Lugosi
• The Phantom Creeps Vol 2 Ch 7- 12 by Bela Lugosi

 

Cliffhanger Serial Books

• In the Nick of Time: Motion Picture Sound Serials by William C. Cline
• Serials-ly Speaking: Essays on Cliffhangers by William C. Cline
• In a Door, Into a Fight, Out a Door, Into a Chase: Movie Making Remembered by the Guy at the Door by William Witney