Mysterious Island (1951) serial / all episodes / Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet (as Spencer Bennet)  Writers: Lewis Clay (screenplay), Royal K. Cole (screenplay) |   Stars: Richard Crane, Marshall Reed, Karen Randle

mysterious Island is the 46th serial released by Columbia Pictures. It is an adaptation of the 1874 novel by Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island (L'Île mystérieuse).

As in the original story, which was a follow-up to Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, this serial is set in 1865. However, the serial has alien Mercurians as an additional set of villains and it has been labelled as a space opera version of the Verne novel.

all episodes;

Lost in Space

Sinister Savages

Savage Justice

Wild Man at Large

Trail of the Mystery Man

The Pirates Attack

Menace of the Mercurians

Between Two Fires

Shrine of the Silver Bird

Fighting Fury

Desperate Chances

Mystery of the Mine

Jungle Deadfall

Men from Tomorrow

The Last of the Mysterious Island

Union prisoners use a balloon to escape a Southern prison camp near the end of the Civil War and end up marooned on a mysterious volcanic island with very unusual inhabitants.

Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet (as Spencer Bennet)

Writers: Lewis Clay (screenplay), Royal K. Cole (screenplay) | 

Stars: Richard Crane, Marshall Reed, Karen Randle