Post by Zone Fighter on Aug 11, 2005 16:23:21 GMT -8
Sergeant Preston of the Yukon (1956)
Starring Richard Simmons as Seargent Preston in 78 thirty-minute episodes.
Seargent Preston of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, his super inteligent dog Yukon King (and in the spring his horse Rex) keep the peace in Great White North. Criminals beware, Seargent Preston always gets his man.
Seargent Preston was created by George W. Trendle and Fran Stryker, creators of the Lone Ranger and the Green Hornet. Like those television series it was a radio series first. It was because I have heard several episodes of the radio series that I was interested in the TV series. Sergeant Preston of the Yukon is not as good the Lone Ranger but its not bad.
Each episode begins with a map of the Yukon, the camera zooms on the name of the town or outpost the episode takes place at. Each episode ends with Seargent Preston petting Yukon King and saying "this case is closed".
Yukon King is the most inteligent animal on Earth. Preston tells the dog to go fetch someone, it does. For example in "Skagway's Secret" the montie is undercover in US terroritory, so he tells king to go get the U.S. Marines and that's just what King does.
4 episodes ae available on a $1 DVD, Sergeant Preston of the Yukon Vol. 1.
The episodes themeselves have no titles, the dvd and case list the episode titles as:
1. One Bear Too Many
2. Phantom of Pheonixville
3. Trapped
4. Skagway's Secret
BONUS CARTOON: Popeye, "Greek Mirthology"
however there is nothing in the first episode about bears.
Sergeant Preston of the Yukon had both b/w and color episodes. The episodes on this disc are in color, so they must be some of the later episodes.
"I arrest you in the name of the Crown."
-- Seargent Preston