SATURDAY AFTERNOON AT THE MOVIES 3 VOLUMES IN 1 Alan G. Barbour HARDCOVER BOOK

Mad scientists and singing cowboys! Ray guns and train robberies Villainous women and massive monsters! For the Hollywood studios that created the memorable movies and for the audiences who devoured them each Saturday afternoon the possibilities were endless. Return now to that time where you could tell the good guys from the bad, where right always triumphed over wrong, and where, week after week, they always got their man.

1986, 565 pages, some wear to the dust jacket but the inside is quite nice!

Volume 1

DAYS OF THRILLS AND ADVENTURE

Preface

BUSTER CRABBE

Author's Note

Introduction WILLIAM K. EVERSON

The First Episode

The Early-Talkie and Independent Serials

Republic Enters the Scene

Comic Strips on the Screen

The Descendants of Zorro

Science Fiction

Hit the Saddle

From Radio and the Pulps

A Stock Company of Villains

The Serial Heroes

... and the Heroines

Jungle Jeopardy

The Stunt Men

World War II

They Got Their Men

Behind the Mask

The Final Episode

The Great Serial Revival of 1965-66

Appendix

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Volume 2

A THOUSAND AND ONE DELIGHTS

PREFACE

THE KING AND QUEEN

OF TECHNICOLOR

CHAMPS OF THE CHASE

3 BRING THEM BACK AGAIN

AND AGAIN

AND THINGS THAT GO BUMP

IN THE NIGHT

THE BEST MEDICINE

THE FUN FACTORY

SATURDAYS ARE FOR THRILLS

MURDER FOR THE MASSES

DUSTY TRAILS TO ADVENTURE

NEW WORLDS TO CONQUER

MAN OF ACTION

THE HORN OF PLENTY

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Volume 3

THE THRILL OF IT ALL

Preface

Silent Hoofbeats

Best of the Breed

Singin' Sandy Makes His Mark

New Trails to Adventure

The Devil's Henchmen

Winning the West Week by Week

Trigger Trios

Guns and Guitars

Daredevils of the West

Twenty-Three Hours of Thrills

The End of the Trail

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