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
Rhyming slang or by criminals to confuse the police (see thieves' cant). The English academic, lexicographer and radio personality Terence Dolan has suggested that rhyming slang may have been invented by Irish immigrants to London "so the actual English wouldn't understand what they were talking about." Many examples of rhyming slang are based on locations in London, such as "Peckham Rye", meaning "tie" (as in necktie), which dates from the late 19th century; "Hampstead Heath", meaning "teeth" (usually as "Hampsteads"), which was first recorded in 1887; and "Barnet Fair", meaning "hair", which dates from the 1850s. By the mid-20th century many rhyming