On Stranger Tides his inspiration for the ambience of the series, while his true inspiration was "On Stranger Tides". In 2007, after the successful opening weekend of the third "Pirates of the Caribbean" film, "", Walt Disney Studios Chairman Dick Cook said he was interested in a fourth film. The Los Angeles Times also reported that Bruckheimer already had rights to a book that could end up as another installment, though had not confirmed what book it was. On September 11, 2009, Walt Disney Pictures announced that the fourth installment would be titled "". The announcement had fueled speculation that the film would
The Stranger (TV series) cited "The Stranger", among other DuMont series, as one of the reasons fewer and fewer viewers tuned into the ailing DuMont Network. They stated the series was, like several other DuMont programs during the 1953-1954 season, "doomed from the start by third-rate scripts and cheap production" and called the program a "stale pulp adventure". The series did not last long, and the network itself began crumbling by early 1955. A single episode (November 12, 1954) survives at the UCLA Film and Television Archive and is believed to be the sole surviving episode. The Stranger (TV series) The Stranger was an