Watch All The Movies, Part 3: Crash of the Moons

"Crash of the Moons" was released in 1954 as three parts of a long-running serial; it has since fallen into the public domain. I picked it up years ago on VHS, but now it's available from the Internet Archive. Since I like cheating, I watched it that way.

It's not bad for a 1954 SciFi serial, but it definitely ticks all the boxes: handsome lead, vaguely Einstein-ish scientist, pretty actresses in short skirts as haughty Space Queens, aliens with names like Cleolanthe (the haughty Space Queen in question) that look exactly like humans, a tow-headed child actor, and incomprehensible SciFi gibberish (the phrase "atmosphere chain" gets repeated about 23 times during the film.)

Fun facts:

• The film was skewered by the good folks at MST3K.
• The director, Hollingsworth Morse, went on to direct episodes of the Dukes of Hazzard and Daughters of Satan.
• Sally Mansfield, who played spaceship navigator Vena Ray, was obliged by her contract for the series to not marry; lead actor Richard Crane was obliged not to divorce his wife. (At least, so says Wikipedia, which we know is never wrong.)
• Scotty Beckett, who played sidekick Winky, went through the canonical child actor parabola.
• The VHS copy I have was made by the good folks at Madacy Entertainment; we also have an album of cover songs by The Countdown Singers, their in-house cover band.