The Secret Empire: Summary

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  • Airs Next:NBC at Thursday 8:00 PM (20 min.)
  • Status:Ended
  • Premiered:February 27, 1979
  • Last Aired:May 1, 1979
  • Show Categories:Action/Adventure, Science-Fiction
Marshal Jim Donner, chasing a gang of masked robbers, stumbles upon an underground city of alien invaders, led by the evil Emperor Thorval, who keeps his people in subjugation via a mind-control machine.

This obvious homage to Gene Autry's classic movie serial The Phantom Empire was one of the three segments of TV's "Cliffhangers" series, so someone is in deadly peril at the end of each episode.

All of the scenes set in the surface world near Cheyenne, Wyoming, are in black and white, whereas those in the underground city of Chimera are in color. Marshal Jim Donner, chasing a gang of masked robbers, stumbles upon an underground city of alien invaders, led by the evil Emperor Thorval, who keeps his people in subjugation via a mind-control machine.

This obvious homage to Gene Autry's classic movie serial The Phantom Empire was one of the three segments of TV's "Cliffhangers" series, so someone is in deadly...
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Chapter 12 - Powerhouse

Aired: Tuesday May 1, 1979

With Thorval finally having succeeded in using the Compliatron to subdue the Partisans, Donner has to infiltrate the city and locate the reversal unit.

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