But the TV shows that Lucas remembered the most fondly were those thirty-minute blocks of local programming in the late afternoon and early evening that broadcasters, looking for content, simply filled with installments of old movie serials.75 There were westerns and jungle adventures, cops and Canadian Mounties, spies and space operas, all in thirty-minute installments practically made for television — and ending on cliff-hangers, guaranteeing that viewers would tune in the next afternoon.
