Cliffhangers (TV series)

Cliffhangers was an American television series that debuted on February 27, 1979 on NBC.

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American - February 27 - 1979 - NBC

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Cliffhangers attempted to revive the genre of movie serials in a made-for-TV format. Each hour-long episode was divided into three 20-minute (after commercials) segments featuring different storylines. During the series' run, three serials were featured - a mystery, a science fiction/western hybrid, and a horror story:

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Serials - Science fiction - Western

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• "Stop Susan Williams": Susan Anton stars as a TV journalist investigating a murder.
• "The Secret Empire": the adventures of a marshall in the Old West who stumbles upon a futuristic hidden city.
• "The Curse of Dracula": starring Michael Nouri as Count Dracula, who is living undercover as a teacher in 1979.

The series was cancelled after only 13 episodes were aired. The only serial to be completed was "The Curse of Dracula." "Stop Susan Williams" was commissioned later as a series of television movies in their own right.

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