NM Logo The Nostalgia Merchant
Classic Movies and TV Shows
NM Logo
You could be watching great TV tonight!
Serials
ComedyDramaWesternsHomeTV Shows
Ace Drummond

Ace Drummond - Chapters 1 - 13
2 DVD Set

The evil-saboteur "The Dragon" threatens the world and hero pilot Ace Drummond must thwart his insidious plans. Lon Chaney Jr. stars in this serial based on the comic strip by beloved World War I flying hero Eddie Rickenbacker, that follows the adventures of master pilot Ace Drummond, "G-Man of the Air!". In this first volume, Ace travels to Mongolia to investigate air catastrophes.

Starring: John King, Jean Rogers, Lon Chaney, Jr.
1936 • BW • 13 Chapters (Packaging may vary)

$15.95

Quantity:  

 
Red Ryder

The Adventures of Red Ryder- Chapters 1 - 13
2 DVD Set

Mesquite banker Calvin Drake plans to profit from the Santa Fe Railroad's acquisition of right-of-way by gaining control of the land in the territory. In the ensuing war of intimidation against the ranchers, Ira Withers is killed and Red Ryder and his father, Colonel Tom Ryder (William Farnum), form an organization to drive the gunmen and outlaws out of the territory. Colonel Ryder is killed by One-Eye Chapin (Bob Kortman) and Red vows vengeance.

Starring: Don 'Red' Barry, Noah Beery, Tommy Cook
1940 • BW • Approx. 20 minutes per chapter.

$15.95

Quantity:  

 
 

The Adventures of Rex and Rinty -
Chapters. 1 -12 - 2 DVD Set

A 12 episode serial starring Rex, the King of the Wild Horses and Rin-Tin-Tin, Jr. Rex is brought from the island of Sujan, where he is worshiped as a God-Horse, to the U.S. to be trained as a polo pony. He escapes, meets Rinty and with the help of Frank Bradley is returned to Sujan. The natives have been persuaded to turn against their God-Horse, however he is rescued just in time before he is burned as a sacrifice.

Starring: Rex, Rin Tin Tin Jr., Kane Richmond, Norma Taylor
1935 • BW • Approx. 20 minutes per chapter.

$15.95

Quantity:  

 
Smilin Jack

The Adventures of Smilin' Jack- Chapters 1 - 13
2 DVD Set

Zack Moseley's famous comic-strip character comes roaring to life in this thrill-packed serial. Daredevil stunt pilot Smilin' Jack Martin takes on the air war in China during the darkest days of WWII.

1943 • BW • Approx. 20 minutes per chapter
Starring: Tom Brown, Rose Hobart, Edgar Barrier, Sidney Toler, Keye Luke.

$15.95

Quantity:  

 
Atom Man

Atom Man vs. Superman - Chapters 1 - 15
2 - DVD Set

Columbia's 43rd serial finds Lex Luthor, secretly the Atom Man, blackmailing the city of Metropolis by threatening to destroy the entire community. Perry White, editor of "The Daily Planet", assigns Lois Lane, Jimmy Olson and Clark Kent/Superman to cover the story. Luthor invents a number of deadly devices to plague the city, including a disintegrating machine which can reduce people to their basic atoms and reassemble them in another place. But Superman manages to thwart each scheme.

1950 • BW • Approx 20 minutes per chapter.
Starring: Kirk Alyn, Noel Neill, Lyle Talbot, Tommy Bond, Pierre Watkin

$15.95

Quantity:  

 
Buck Rogers

Buck Rogers - Chapters 1 - 12
2 DVD Set

An action-packed science fiction serial in 12 chapters. Preserved in a state of suspended animation for 500 years, Buck Rogers and young Buddy Wade are brought back to life by future Earth Scientists. They awaken in the year 2500 A.D. and planet Earth is in a state of emergency being ruled by Killer Kane and his super gangsters. Earth is in dire need of rescuing and Buck and Buddy solicit the help of the planet Saturn to rid the Universe of this sinister tyrant. Thus, the spectacular intergalactic battles begin. Will the universe be saved from this sinister tyrant?

Starring: Larry Crabbe, Constance Moore, Jackie Moran
1939 • BW • 12 Chapters (Packaging may vary)

$15.95

Quantity:  

 
Burn'em UP

Burn'em Up Barnes - Chapters 1 - 12
2 DVD Set

The daring racecar driver, "Burn 'Em Up "Barnes, (Jack Mulhall) meets failing business owner Marjorie Temple (Lola Lane) and becomes her partner. What Marjorie doesn't know is that the land she inherited from her father is worth millions in oil and that the devious racetrack owner, John Drummond (Jason Robards, Sr.), and his cronies are out to steal it. With help from Barnes and his young friend, Bobbie (Frankie Darro), Marjorie faces catastrophe, episode after episode! The racing stunts, crack-ups and fights are top notch in one of Mascot Pictures' most action-filled cliffhangers.

Starring: Frankie Darro, Lola Lane, Jack Mulhall
1934 • BW • 12 Chapters (Packaging may vary)

$15.95

Quantity:  

 
Commando Cody

Commando Cody - Enemies of the Universe
Chapters 1 - 12
2 DVD Set

Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe (or Commando Cody) was a science fiction semi-serial consisting of twelve 30-minute episodes, released theatrically by Republic Pictures Corporation in 1953. It originally was filmed as a limited television series, but union contract problems forced Republic to play it in theaters first. The episodes built on each other, and were intended to be shown in chronological order like the episodes of any other serial, but lacked the cliffhanger endings which had characterized serials for several decades.

Starring: Judd Holden, Aline towne, William Shallert
1953 • BW • 12 Chapters

$15.95

Quantity:  

 
Dick Tracy

Dick Tracy - Chapters 1 - 12
2 DVD Set

A master criminal called The Spider puts the famous detective's brother under a hypnotic spell and turns him against Dick.

Starring: Ralph Byrd
1937 • BW • 20 minutes per chapter

$15.95

Quantity:  

 
Flash Gordon

Flash Gordon Conquerors the Universe - Chapters 1 - 12 - 2 DVD Set

Flash Gordon (forever personified by Buster Crabbe), Dr. Zarkov and Dale Arden return in the third and final adventure of this immortal science fiction series. Flash must voyage to the planet Mongo, to search for the origin of The Purple Death, a fatal disease that has been wreaking havoc on Earth. Emperor Ming the Merciless is the culprit who, with his villainous army, strikes at Flash with death-dealing futuristic weaponry including atomic ray guns, guided missiles and horrifying explosive mechanical men. Flash Gordon's action and special effects were considered quite remarkable for it's time and set the standard for serials to come.

Starring: Buster Crabbe
1940 • BW • 12 Chapters

$15.95

Quantity:  
 
G-Men

G-Men Never Forget - Chapters 1 - 15
2 DVD Set

Shortly before he put on the mask of the Lone Ranger, Clayton Moore strapped on the revolver of ace Federal Agent Ted O'Hara in this rousing serial adventure. Summoned from Washington, O'Hara is asked to stop the crime spree of excaped underworld czar Victor Murkland. He doesn't know it yet, but the man he's after is as close as a handshake. Murkland has undergone plastic surger, kidnapped the police commissioner and taken over the job. Before O'Hara wises to the ruse, he'll contend with raging torrents, runaway vehicles, aerial bombings, posionous gases and more...


1947 • BW • 12 Chapters
Starring: Clayton Moore, Roy Barcroft, Ramsay Ames.

$15.95

Quantity:  

 
Phantom Legion

Government Agents vs. Phantom Legion- Chapters 1 - 12
2 DVD Set

The year was 1951, and America's emotions were on edge. Politicians warned of Communist infiltrators. And the spread of atomic secrets posed an ominous new threat. In so feverish a climate, Saturday matinee fans were more than ready for the excitement and intrigue of Government Agents vs. Phantom Legion. This explosive serial adventure was promoted as "the top-secret story of the boldest robbery in the histroy of the FBI. It's 12 white-knuckle chapters that takes cliffhanger fans to the brink of doom.

Starring: Walter Reed, Mary Ellen Kay, Dick Curtis, John Pickard
1951 • BW • 12 Chapters

$15.95

Quantity:  

 
Great Alaskan

The Great Alaskan Mystery Chapters 1 - 13
2 DVD Set

An inventor creates a secret weapon that Nazis are anxious to steal in this action-packed vintage serial. During a perilous voyage to Alaska, a renegade ship captain and a Nazi agent stop at nothing to steal the Peritron, a powerful ray gun developed by an American scientist for the U.S. war effort. Marine commando Jim Hudson (Milburn Stone), the scientist's beautiful daughter Ruth (Marjorie Weaver) and their pal Grit (Fuzzy Knight) come face-to-face with an avalanche of natural disasters and man-made horrors - poison gas, polar bears, ship wrecks, plane crashes and of course, murder - in one cliffhanging episode after another!!!

Starring: Milburn Stone, Grit 'Fuzzy' Knight, Marjorie Weaver
1941 • BW • 13 Chapters (Packaging may vary)

$15.95

Quantity:  

Great Alaskan poster
Green Hornet

The Green Hornet Chapters 1 - 13
2 DVD Set

In 1939, Universal released the first movie serialization of the popular radio series, "The Green Hornet". Starring Gordon Jones as the Hornet and Keye Luke as Kato. Wade Boteler as Mike Axford and Anne Nagle as Lenore Case
Britt Reid (Gordon Jones) has just taken control of his father’s newspaper, “The Daily Sentinel” but is unsure about how he wants to run it until there is a horrific accident with a new underwater tunnel being constructed with what appears to be shoddy material. After he quickly publishes a scathing editorial about obvious corruption involved with the project, The Syndicate, a criminal organization separated into twelve different operations, decides to have Reid removed. .

Starring: Gordon Jones, Keye Luke
1939 • BW • 13 Chapters

$15.95

Quantity:
 
Green Hornet Strikes

The Green Hornet Strike Again
Chapters 1 - 15 - 2 DVD Set

Newspaper publisher Britt Reid (Warren Hull) has decided to take a vacation in Hawaii to relax after the excitement of his previous adventures as the Green Hornet. Joining him is his faithful valet and friend Kato (Keye Luke). While Reid is having fun in the sun, and enjoying the company of socialite Gloria Manning (Jeanne Kelly), his paper The Daily Sentinel, was being run by his chief editor Gunnigan. Unfortunately soon after Britt left, Gunning was hit by a car and the paper fell into the control of head of advertising Harper (William Forest).But Harper is actually part of the criminal Syndicate. The special effects are well done as cars are rolled down hill sides, buildings are set ablaze, and the climax features a huge safe door blown off it’s hinges. But for all that, the simple, inexpensive, and realistic looking gas gun effect is still the coolest thing about the Green Hornet. Phhtt! Cough cough! Thud!

Starring: Warren Hull, Keye Luke
1939 • BW • 15 Chapters

$15.95

Quantity:  

 
Holt

Holt of the Secret Service Chapters 1 - 15
2 DVD Set

Tough talking, quick-fisted Secret Service agent Jack Holt infiltrates a gang of counterfeiters who are flooding the market with undetectable phony bills. A shadowy criminal syndicate has kidnapped one of the government's best engravers to print the bogus currency, and Holt has been called up to destroy the operation from the inside. Posing as a dangerous criminal, Jack gains entrance to the gang's remote mountain hideout, bringing fellow agent Kay Drew along. Operating among the enemy, Holt and Drew struggle to keep their true identities from being revealed through fifteen exciting chapters.

Starring: Jack Holt, Tristram Coffin
1941 • BW • 15 Chapters (Packaging may vary)

$15.95

Quantity:  

 
Jack Armstrong

Jack Armstrong - Chapters 1 - 15
2 DVD Set

John Hart stars as Jack Armstrong - The All-American Boy in this 15-chapter serial based on the popular 15 minute radio radio program. In this series Jack is met by a host of evil villains when he, Uncle Jim, Betty, and Billy go off on an adventure to rescue a scientist that was kidnapped and whisked away to a far off island in an attempt to steal his brilliant new invention.

Starring: John Hart, Rosemary La Planche, Joe Brown, Jr.
1947 • BW • 13 Chapters

$15.95

Quantity:  

 
Jesse James

Jesse James Rides Again - Chapters 1 - 13
2 DVD Set

This serial focuses on Jesse James as he flees from the law after being wrongfully accused of leading the historic 1876 Northfield, Minnesota bank robbery.

Starring: Clayton Moore
1947 • BW • 13 Chapters

$15.95

Quantity:  

 
Jungle Girl

Jungle Girl - Chapters 1 - 15
2 DVD Set

In 1941 Republic thrilled audiences with perhaps the best jungle serial ever produced. This thrilling adventure was loosely based on the famous novel Jungle Girl by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It starred the very beautiful Frances Gifford as Nyoka, with Tom Neal as the male hero Jack Stanton, and Trevor Bardette and Gerald Mohr as their villainous adversaries. Jungle Girl was packed with thrilling cliffhangers as opposing sides fought from chapter to chapter for a fortune in diamonds hidden in the African jungle. With both Helen Thurston and David Sharpe providing incredible stunt work, Gifford was able to swing through the jungle on vines with the agility of Tarzan, dive from cliffs into alligator-filled lakes, wrestle with man-eating lions, and battle quicksand and poison gas throughout all fifteen exciting episodes!

Starring: Frances Gifford, Tom Neal
1941 • BW • 15 Chapters

$15.95

Quantity:  

 
Jungle Jim

Jungle Jim - Chapters 1 - 12
2 DVD Set

This set contains 12 chapters of the popular 1930's serial that was based on the comic strip created by Alex Raymond (FLASH GORDON). Jungle Jim (Grant Withers) travels to Africa in search of Joan (Betty Jane Rhodes), a rich young lady who was reported missing in the jungle. In his findings, Jim discovers that Joan has since become the leader of a tribe and has been under the evil spell of The Cobra (Henry Brandon). Eventually, Jim helps Joan out of the spell, leaving the two fighting for their lives en route to freedom.

Starring: Grant Withers, Betty Jane Rhodes, Raymond Hatton
1936 • BW • 12 Chapters (Packaging may vary)

$15.95

Quantity:  

 
 

The Law of the Wild - Chapters 1 - 12
2 DVD Set

Rex, a wild stallion, and Rinty, a police dog, are pals. Their master , John Sheldon, is framed for murder, and Alice Ingram plans to race Rex for money to pay for John's legal defense. Meantime, Frank Nolan, who has falsely accused John, sets out to steal Rex for himself.

Starring: Rex, Rin Tin Tin Jr., Ben Turpin, Bob Custer
1934 • BW • 12 Chapters (Packaging may vary)

$15.95

Quantity:  

 
 

The Lightning Warrior - Chapters 1 - 12
2 DVD Set

A Rin-Tin-Tin serial presented in 12 episodes. The mysterious Wolf Man is terrorizing settlers in a western town. With the help of Rinty, young Jimmy Carter unmasks the Wolf Man and foils his evil plot.

Starring: Rin Tin Tin, Frank Darro
1931 • BW • 12 Chapters (Packaging may vary)

$15.95

Quantity:  

 
 

The Lone Defender - Chapters 1 - 12
2 DVD Set

A prospector is murdered by The Cactus Kid and his gang, who hope to find the murdered man's goldmine. The miner's dog, Rin-Tin-Tin, recognizes the killers, who thereafter seek to use the dog to locate the lost mine. With the help of a government agent and a young girl, Rinty saves the mine and brings the bad guys to justice.

Starring: Rin Tin Tin, Walter Miller, June Marlowe
1934 • BW • 12 Chapters (Packaging may vary)

$15.95

Quantity:  

 
Radar Men

Radar Men From the Moon - Chapters 1 - 12
2 DVD Set

Strategic targets on Earth are being destroyed by an unknown weapon. Government security head Henderson suspects it's an "atomic ray" originating from the moon! He assigns Commando Cody, scientist and man of action with a secret flying suit, to investigate. Soon, Cody is battling Earth thugs in the pay of Krog the moon man and making trips in his experimental rocket to the moon itself, in a perilous and all but singlehanded effort to thwart the planned invasion of Earth.

Starring: George Wallace, Aline Towne, Roy Barcroft, Clayton Moore
1952 • BW • 12 Chapters

$15.95

Quantity:  

 
Radio Patrol

Radio Patrol - Chapters 1 - 12
2 DVD Set

A young radio cop and a beautiful girl try to stop an international criminal gang from getting their hands on the formula for a new bulletproof steel.

1937 • BW • Approx 20 minutes per chapter.
Starring: Grant Withers, Cathrine Hughes, Mickey Rentschler

$15.95

Quantity:  

 
SOS Coast Guard

SOS Coast Guard - Chapters 1 - 12
2 DVD Set

Dashing Coast Guard Lieutenant Terry Kent (Ralph Byrd) is determined to stop the villainous Boroff (Bela Lugosi), who has invented a disintegrating gas that's capable of world destruction. Follow Kent through 12 exciting chapters of cliffhanging suspense as he pursues Boroff in a desperate race against time. Republic Pictures loaded SOS Coast Guard with action and exceptional special effects to create one of the best serials of all time.

1937 • BW • 12 Chapters
Starring: Bela Lugosi, Ralph Byrd

$15.95

Quantity:  

 
Terry and Pirates

Terry and the Pirates - Chapters 1 - 15
2 DVD Set

Of all the early radio shows adopted from the classic newspaper comic pages in the '30s and '40s, none was more intriguing or exciting than the action-packed tales of Terry and the Pirates. Columbia Pictures brought Terry and the Pirates to the screen in fifteen thrill-packed episodes in 1940 featuring an excellent cast of screen favorites.

Starring: William Tracy, Granville Owen, Joyce Bryant
1940 • BW • 15 Chapters

$15.95

Quantity:  

 
Zombies

Zombies of the Stratosphere - Chapters 1 - 12
2 DVD Set

Zack Moseley's famous comic-strip character comes roaring to life in this thrill-packed serial. Daredevil stunt pilot Smilin' Jack Martin takes on the air war in China during the darkest days of WWII.

1943 • BW • 12 Chapters
Starring: Tom Brown, Rose Hobart, Edgar Barrier, Sidney Toler, Keye Luke.

$15.95

Quantity:  

 

 

More Serials Coming Soon !
 
ComedyDramaWesternsHomeTV Shows
We Accept All Major Credit Cards