The Vigilantes Are Coming actor (although "Crash" Corrigan in the previous Republic serial, "Undersea Kingdom", had his stage name created specifically for that serial). "The Vigilantes Are Coming"'s official release date is 22 August 1936, although this is actually the date the sixth chapter was made available to film exchanges. In the early 1950s, "The Vigilantes Are Coming" was one of fourteen Republic serials edited into a television series. It was broadcast in six 26½-minute episodes. The Vigilantes Are Coming The Vigilantes Are Coming is a 1936 American Republic film serial. It was the third of the sixty six serials made by Republic Pictures
The Indians Are Coming time a serial was given an "uptown" treatment. The serial played at The Roxy in New York City and had full runs across the country. According to Raymond Stedman, "The Indians Are Coming" earned a profit on "near" $1M. The success of the serial ended doom-mongering about the sound technology being the end of the serial format. In the words of William C. Cline, it is "credited with reviving interest in what seemed to be a dying form of entertainment" and proved that action could still be done with sound equipment. Stedman compares Tim McCoy's delivery to that of Adam