DOES THE SERIAL VERSION EXIST?

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Apparently none of it does with the exception of one chapter which we at the Serial Squadron have on 35mm nitrate. There of course could be something undiscovered out there but for not that one additional chapter is all that is known. We'll release it on DVD along with a serialized versions of the feature restored according to the original script sometime in 2014.

BTW the reason Tarzan acts like such a dork in this serial is that it was originally conceived and written as a Tarzan SPOOF, like GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE, but then the makers changed their minds and decided to extend what they had into a full length serial and try and make more money off of it that way. The story of how it got made is full of twists and turns and convoluted craziness, and so was Edgar Rice Burroughs' reaction to it, which was essentially total fury. He slammed it in his novel TARZAN AND THE LION MAN (read the ending in which the real Tarzan auditions for a Hollywood Tarzan movie and see what happens) and decided he'd shoot his own Tarzan serial later to try and show who was boss. That ended up being THE NEW ADVENTURES OF TARZAN which had plenty of problems of its own, the main one being half of the cast getting sick or injured shooting in a real-life jungle instead of on sets.

I see this is an old message so you may already have an answer. Just in case, however, You can obtain a copy of the COMPLETE Serial from The Serial Squadron website.

Brian