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''Cliffhangers'' attempted to revive the genre of movie Serials in a made-for-TV format. Each hour-long episode was divided into three 20-minute (after commercials) segments featuring different storylines. During the series' run, three serials were featured - a mystery, a Science Fiction / Western hybrid, and a horror story: # "Stop Susan Williams": Susan Anton stars as a TV Journalist investigating a murder. # "The Secret Empire": the adventures of a marshall in the Old West who stumbles upon a futuristic underground city. # "The Curse of Dracula": starring Michael Nouri as Count Dracula , who is living undercover as a teacher in 1979. In an effort to recreate the movie serial experience, only one of the three parts began with the first chapter, and only one ended with the last chapter. This may have been too avant-garde for television in the 1970s. The series was cancelled after only 13 episodes were aired. The only serial to be completed was "The Curse of Dracula." "Stop Susan Williams" was commissioned later as a series of television movies in their own right. "The Secret Empire" was a pastiche of the Gene Autry movie serial '' The Phantom Empire ''. Scenes in the underground city were in color, but scenes on the surface were "in glorious black and white". EXTERNAL LINKS |
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