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 Vigilantes Are Coming as the second cheapest of them all. It was filmed between 28 May and 17 June 1936 under the working title The Vigilantes. The serial's production number was 418. This was William Witney's first time working on a serial, although not as director (that would be "The Painted Stallion" in 1937). In "The Vigilantes Are Coming" he worked as a second unit director and as an extra (a Cossack). It was the only serial Republic produced in this year, 1936 (the first year of serial production for Republic), where the lead character did not share the name of the lead