I have to admit that I'm writing this review after having seen only the first two chapters. However, 70 years ago, it was my little 10-year-old body in the American Theater (Greenpoint, Brooklyn) cheering on these heroic knights and dastardly villains. I already knew who George Reeves was from his surprising villainy in the original Jungle Jim film (he tried to push Johnny Weissmuller off a cliff in that one) and from his co-starring effort with Ralph Byrd (of Dick Tracy fame) in a really delightful little comedy adventure called THUNDER IN THE PINES (which introduced Denise Darcel two years before M-G-M decided to 'introduce' Denise all over again). Anyway, I liked this at the time, but watching it last night, what impressed me most is how squashed and dumpy George Reeves looked in his Medieval outfit. We see him only once in these two chapters without his face and/or head covered by a helmet right out of the Columbia prop room. George was in his mid-30s, good looking, and in good physical shape, but you'd never know it from these first two chapters, where he and Charlie King are virtually indistinguishable when their face protectors are down. Everybody else except Nelson Leigh as Arthur sounds like they just resigned from a cattle-rustling gang, but Charlie sounds like he's still in it. William Fawcett as Merlin has an American twang, too, and despite the fact that he is wearing long white hair to make him look older, veteran serial fans and film-goers will know that he looked even more ancient when he just appeared as himself sans make-up. Reeves's Prince Valiant hair does his appearance no favors, either. The three ladies - Guinevere, Morgan Le Fey, and the Lady of the Lake are very attractive, but were hardly ever seen in anything again where you could recognize them as the three girls in this serial. The Lady of the Lake is particularly fetching (well, if she lives in a lake, she should look fetching - sorry about that) and if I'd been as smart at 10 as I am at 80, I would have loved to take her home to mother. Anyway, watching Medieval England taking place on Columbia's standard Western sets (I think I actually knew some of the boulders by name!) is fun, and these two episodes, as truly awful as they are, were fun, too. Another reviewer commented that with just about every serial ever made, if you watch the first two chapters and the last two chapters, you've pretty much seen the entire four- or five-hour serial, because nothing much ever happens in the middle episodes (and usually they are recapitulated in the next-to-last or last chapter, so you really don't miss much). Interestingly, though, I could still recall from 70 years ago what I just saw again last night, so the serial must have had the effect Sam Katzman intended it to have - to embed itself into the hearts and minds of ten-year-old boys until the Dark Fellow with the Scythe arrives to get you out of all this. And the budget? Let's just say than when King Ulric tries to conquer England early on, he does so with an army of about ten men, and no matter how many of them Galahad outduels, there still seems to be an approximate ten-man army gathered around to do nasty business to Camelot. Very enjoyable, and even if George Reeves was unhappy to always be associated with Superman, it would have been far worse for his career and legend (well, if he has a legend) to be forever associated with Sir Galahad.