Linda Stirling, who was known as “The Serial Queen” for her stardom in the weekly cliffhanger adventure shorts that enticed young moviegoers in the 1940s and early ’50s, has died.

I’ve been watching the old “Green Hornet” serial films from 1940 and am quite addicted ... you stick with each part until the explosive cliffhanger. However, this is why even at only 20-21 ...

While the Green Hornet’s lingered in the public consciousness thanks to the original 1930s radio series, some 1940s cliffhanger serials, the single-season but still fondly recalled 1960s TV ...

The trend harkens back to the origins of action cinema in the 1930s and 1940s, when serials would stick Flash Gordon in a death trap at the end of each episode to compel audiences to come back for ...

Show business history is littered with the skeletons of dead genres, like minstrel shows, singing-cowboy movies, South Sea island sarong sagas and cliffhanger serials. Can we back up to that last one?

While the Green Hornet’s lingered in the public consciousness thanks to the original 1930s radio series, some 1940s cliffhanger serials, the single-season but still fondly recalled 1960s TV ...