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Date Posted: 20:01:36 10/08/09 Thu
Author: joystar
Subject: Re: Favorite Universal movie serials
In reply to: Rick 's message, "Favorite Universal movie serials" on 03:54:23 01/25/09 Sun

Tim Tyler's Luck
Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars
and my beloved Buck Rogers.

Tim Tyler's Luck was the first, and I remember LOVING the music.

Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars was Gorgeous, and I enjoyed Anthony Waarde as the Tree King and C. Montague Shaw as the Clay King. I STILL loved the music...

In Buck Rogers, I was reunited with my dear Buster Crabbe, enjoyed meeting old friends in new characters...also known as "Killer Kane" and "Dr. Huer".. I also loved seeing "Wilma Deering" kick **s, and found Henry Brandon's
"Captain Laska a fitting adversary for Buck.

And Yes...I STILL LOVE THE MUSIC. Every single blessed note. (lol)

One final thought. Do any of the East Coast brigade remember the old Chuck McCann show on WNEW Ch. 5 out of New York City?

McCann was a gifted comedian and impressionist who could do spot on impressions of both Laurel and Hardy. He also ran chapters of the serials. After Friday's episode, it was hell waiting til Monday to find out what happened.

It drove me nuts during TRIP TO MARS, because Friday's cliffhanger was a hypnotised Dale stabbing flash in the back, and WNEW then cancelled McCann's show! Took me 20 years to find out how he got out of it!

Cliffhangers can be pretty tough when you're only 10!

JS

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[> Re: Favorite Universal movie serials -- DAN, 19:47:07 10/11/09 Sun [1]

The first TV shows I remember Chuck McCann from was his Sunday morning show "Let's Have Fun," opposite Wonderama on WNEW, and "Laurel & Hardy and Chuck" on weekday afternoons. Both shows ran from 1960 till 1965 on WPIX channel 11.

"Let's Have Fun" was a three and a half hour show.
You could see a variey of cartoons, a couple of Three Stooges shorts, a few live puppet skits, and the marquis chimps.

I tried like hell to never miss Laurel & Hardy and Chuck, because, besides the L&H film short, the L&H puppets Chuck used on the show would be used in a different serialized adventure. And each adventure would last for about three weeks. Chuck provided the voices for both of the L&H puppets.

In the fall of 1965 Chuck McCann moved to WNEW and ran some cartoons along with the old serials. I was bummed when his show was cancelled.

Before The Chuck McCann Show, in 1962 Officer Joe Bolton, became "Chief Joe Bolton" and left the hosting duties of The Three Stooges to Fireman Todd Russell on WPIX.

Chief Joe Bolton now hosted the Dick Tracy cartoons along with a serial. The only two serials I can remember seeing on this show were "Zombies of the Stratosphere" and "Radar Men From the Moon."


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[> [> Re: Favorite Universal movie serials -- joystar, 12:51:28 10/13/09 Tue [1]

Dan...hello! I definitely remember Officer Joe Bolton, though I don't really remember the show's content. WPIX also had Fire Captain Jack McCarthy as well. I only came upon Chuck McCann on WNEW. I remember that he pronounced Buster Crabbe's name as "Crabbay", as though it were French! I remember that Chuck used to flip his tie, ala Oliver Hardy. How I LOVED that dear man...


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