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unusual facts about The Serial



Kevyn Major Howard

His headshot was delivered to Paramount Pictures and, shortly thereafter, he was called in and booked for his first major film role, in The Serial, with Martin Mull, Tuesday Weld, Sally Kellerman, Pamela Bellwood and Peter Bonerz.


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Abigail Jain

She got the main lead role of Kakoon in the serial Kya Dill Mein Hai on 9X.

Abraham Kovoor

The challenge listed 23 miracles or feats that godmen (and Western mystics and performers such as Uri Geller and Jeane Dixon) were claimed to perform, such as reading the serial numbers from currency in sealed envelopes, materializing objects, predicting future events, converting liquids from one kind to another, and walking on water.

Amita Ka Amit

The serial starred newcomers Chandni Bhagwanani and Nishad Vaidya in the lead roles and Neha Saxena in the supporting role.

Angie Cheong

In 2013, Cheong returned to TVB to film Aerobic Girls after being persuaded by her good friend and executive producer of the serial drama, Eric Tsang.

Anne Charleston

Having briefly played the brusque daughter of released prisoner "Mum" Brooks in 1979, Charleston returned for several appearances in the serial as policewomen through the early 1980s before taking the larger recurring role of Deidre Kean, mother of prison toughie Reb Kean (Janet Andrewartha), in 1984.

Bristol S.S.A.

The sole prototype, given the serial 'No.219', was first flown at Larkhill on 8 May 1914 with a temporary aluminium spinner due to vibration with the steel assembly.

Chandana Sharma

She played the role of Tara Arora in the serial Yeh Dil Chahe More telecast on STAR One.

Dani Sutherland

In November 2001, Josh West (Daniel Collopy) was introduced to the serial and became a love interest for Dani.

Darlene Gillespie

In the third season, she appeared in the serial, The New Adventures of Spin and Marty, with Tim Considine and David Stollery.

David Beecroft

He played the serial killer in 1990's The Rain Killer, and a gigolo in 1987's Creepshow 2.

Dick Tracy Returns

The serial was re-released on 17 July 1948 between the first runs of Dangers of the Canadian Mounted and Adventures of Frank and Jesse James.

Dick Tracy's G-Men

The serial was re-released on 19 September 1955 following the release of Republic's final serial, King of the Carnival.

International spy, Zarnoff, in the employ of "The Three Powers" (presumably a fictionalized reference to the Axis) is captured by Dick Tracy at the start of the serial, tried and sentenced to death.

Doctor Who: The Music

The album was re-released in 1992 by Silva Screen records as Earthshock - Classic Music From The BBC Radiophonic Workshop Volume 1, with bonus tracks including "The World of Doctor Who", a track recorded by Mills as a B-side to Dudley Simpson's 1973 "Moonbase 3" single, which featured a mix of music from the serial "The Mind of Evil" with sound effects from "Planet of the Daleks" before finishing with Simpson's "Master's Theme".

Edward Sloman

Sloman quit Lubin altogether and went to the American Film Company ("Flying A") studio in Santa Barbara, where he assumed an important role in that company's expanding feature-length film output (especially in directing several films starring Mary Miles Minter) and also directed other prestige projects such as the serial The Sequel to the Diamond from the Sky (1916).

Fairfax, California B-17 Crash

The plane, which carried the serial number of 44-85510, took off at 4 pm on May 15 from Clovis Army Air Force Base in Clovis, New Mexico.

Ferguson TE20

Harry Ferguson merged his worldwide companies with Massey-Harris of Toronto in July 1953, three years before TE and TO20 production ended, hence the change of name on the serial plate to 'Massey-Harris-Ferguson'.

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe

At the same time, co-star billing is given to Anne Gwynne, Universal ingenue whose role does not develop until the middle of the serial.

Gregory Sierra

Sierra was cast as South American anti-Communist revolutionary "El Puerco" — whose friends simply call him "El" — on the serial spoof Soap, figuring prominently in the series' unresolved final episode in 1981.

Hackney Wick railway station

On 29 December 1985, the station was the scene of one of the murders of the serial rapists John Duffy and David Mulcahy.

Jacqueline Hill

Hill returned to Doctor Who in 1980 for an appearance in the serial Meglos, as the Tigellan priestess Lexa.

Johnny Swank

The serial was about a secret agent named Johnny Swank (voiced by Rob Sitch) and his sidekick K2 (voiced by Santo Cilauro).

Kirk Alyn

The serial consisted of 15 episodes which recounted Superman’s arrival on Earth, getting a job as a reporter at the Daily Planet newspaper, and meeting Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen.

Kyōko Koizumi

As an actress, she played in numerous dramas and movies; most notably, she was cast in two of the most successful movies in Japan ever: as the serial killer in Bayside Shakedown: The Movie (1998), and as the witch in Onmyoji (2001).

Lynne Carol

The verbal interplay between the three epitomised the serial's North of England humanity and yielded some of the 'richest moments' in the programme.

Manhunt of Mystery Island

Three of the serial's cliffhanger gags / set pieces are copied in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

Matt Hancock

When the serial's scriptwriters noticed that there was a physical resemblance between Hunt and a young Elvis Presley, they decided to give his character a storyline in which he became an Elvis impersonator.

Metti Oli

The serial was dubbed in telugu as Mettala Savvadi Gemini and remade in Kannada as Mangalya on Udaya, Malayalam as Minnukettu on Surya and Hindi as Shubh Vivah on Sony tv but the story lines change in all three languages into different stories and all had a different climax.

Michael Jayston

In the serial The Ultimate Foe, the Valeyard is revealed to be a manifestation of the Doctor's dark side.

Pierre Watkin

He is perhaps best remembered for his connection to the serial and television versions of Superman.

Punpun

Punpun nowadays came in highlights due to a character in the tv series Bhagyavidhaata on Colors tv named "Punpun Wali Bhabi" (a bahu in the serial) who belongs to Punpun village in Bihar.

Rita Walter

Four years later, in May 1970, she joined the ATWT cast as Deming (and her later married names Hughes Stallings Andropoulos Frazier) until her exit from the serial on Christmas Day 1981.

Robert Jewell

Robert Jewell (1920 – 10 May 1998) was an Australian actor who mostly worked as a Dalek or other robot operator on Doctor Who in the late 1960s, also playing a cameo as Bing Crosby in the serial The Daleks' Master Plan.

Roger Murray-Leach

For the serial Planet of Evil, Murray-Leach designed an alien jungle at Ealing studios that so impressed Hinchcliffe that he wrote to the Head of the BBC design department, suggesting that Murray-Leach should be nominated for a BAFTA or a Royal Television Society Award.

Roy Hattersley

In 2008, Hattersley appeared in a documentary on the DVD for the Doctor Who serial, Doctor Who and the Silurians, to discuss the political climate that existed at the time of making the serial.

Sajan Re Jhoot Mat Bolo

The serial name was based on a famous song “Sajan re jhoot mat bolo, Khuda ke paas jana hai” from the movie Teesri Kasam.

See No Evil: The Moors Murders

The only murder which featured in the serial was the final murder: that of 17-year-old Edward Evans at Hindley and Brady's house in Hattersley.

Serial number

During the Second World War RAF aircraft that were secret or carrying secret equipment had "/G" (for "Guard") appended to the serial, denoting that the aircraft was to have an armed guard at all times while on the ground, e.g., LZ548/G—the prototype de Havilland Vampire jet fighter, or ML926/G—a de Havilland Mosquito XVI experimentally fitted with H2S radar.

Spirou

Spirou et Fantasio, comics series published in the serial journal and in hardcover book format

Sumter County Does

On one wrist, the man wore a yellow gold Bulova Accutron watch bearing the serial number H918803.

The Crimson Ghost

His first was The Painted Stallion in 1937 and prior to this production had temporarily left the serial business to serve in World War II.

The Edge of Destruction

The serial was recommended by Charlie Jane Anders of io9 as an example of the classic series for new viewers to watch, describing it as "a quick hit ... and still just as intense as it was 48 years ago".

Thun'da

The screen rights for the character were bought by Columbia Pictures, who brought Thun'da to the screen in the serial King of the Congo (1952), featuring Buster Crabbe as Roger Drum, the officer who becomes Thunda.

Trader Tom of the China Seas

In 1966 the serial was edited into a 100-minute television film with the new title Target: Sea of China.

Vasl

It is directed by Mehreen Jabbar and written by Sameera Fazal, the serial had an ensemble cast composed of Faisal Rehman, Adnan Siddiqui, Imran Abbas Naqvi, Juggan Kazim, Ahsan Khan, Ayesha Khan, Tooba Siddiqui, Shahood Alvi, Badar Khalil, Ayesha Khan (senior), Salma Azfer and Eshita Mehboob.

Who Pays the Ferryman?

Jack Hedley starred in the central role of Alan Haldane, whilst other notable cast members in the serial included Betty Arvaniti, Neil McCarthy, Stefan Gryff, Patience Collier, Jack Watson, Lalla Ward, Gareth Thomas, Patrick Magee, Marina Sirtis and Sally Knyvette.