Duration about 1 hour, 20 minutes - 4 episodes of about 25 minutes each -- 1952-1953 - produced by Don Sharpe Enterprises.
This one I remember watching when it first came out, in 1952-1953, so I was no more than 5 years old. Although I still could not read the TERRY AND THE PIRATES newspaper strip in the Sunday newspaper, I was blown away by the garish colors and unusual perspectives (by this time the artist was GEORGE WUNDER, and not the original creator, MILTON CANIFF); and the 1950s TV series and many of the characters were heavily based upon the GEORGE WUNDER version, rather than that of MILTON CANIFF. The sets were bare-bones & primitive, with very few exterior shots; and, although the series was supposed to be based on post-war China, very few Chinese actors populated the show. In fact, most of the Oriental actors were Caucasians in heavy make-up, such as JACK REITZEN as CHOPSTICK JOE, the unscrupulous owner of Cathay Air, who employs Terry Lee as a pilot; and GLORIA SAUNDERS as the DRAGON LADY, the mysterious lady of mixed morals, who is attracted to Terry early as much as she is ill-gotten wealth. But every once in a while KEYE LUKE appears (as in this set of episodes) -- he us best known as CHARLIE CHAN'S Number 1 son in many of the films from that series.
The hero of the whole series, of course, is former USAAF officer (and World War II veteran) TERRY LEE, played by JOHN BAER, who is employed as the chief pilot at Cathay Air, with his co-pilot HOTSHOT CHARLIE, played by WILLIAM TRACY (who had actually portrayed the young TERRY LEE in the 1940 TERRY AND THE PIRATES serial). And, rounding out the cast of regulars is the mysterious (and often larcenous) BURMA, played by SANDRA SPENCE. This set of 4 episodes also features MICHAEL ANSARA (before he became COCHISE on the TV series BROKEN ARROW), and PHYLLIS COATES, shortly before she became LOIS LANE in the first season of THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN. Don't expect great photography, sets or plot development, folks -- this was a short-lived bare-bones, B&W TV show, which only lasted 18 episodes (when a full season in the 1950s was 32 episodes), and was finally shuttled off to the never-neverland of Saturday morning kid's television. Worth a look-see, though, for nostalgia's sake!
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