Soap operas

Usage examples of serials.

A survivor of the Killing Times and the Year of the Serials, Jaguar is a Teacher on Planetoid Three, the newest and most advanced of the off-Earth prisons.

You get this at a low level in comic strips and in the old movie serials of the silent days.

If we consider Jack Williamson The Legion of Space, which I read as a teenager with the same emotions that I viewed the movie serials half a decade earlier, we find the same unending danger about to destroy our beloved heroes and the security of Earth along with them.

If many serials prove to have this grabbing quality, readers will subscribe rather than take the chance of missing installments.