Consume All Media! Hop Harrigan: "Chapter Nine: Dr. Tobor's Revenge"
- Joseph Heath
- 3 days ago
- 3 min read
Joe Heath is a big fan of comic books and watching things in order. So they made this spreadsheet containing every serial, short, film, television episode, commercial, motion comic, and web series based on a comic book. Now they're watching them all. Previously, Joe watched the eighth chapter of Hop Harrigan. This time, they continue with the ninth.
Hop Harrigan: “Chapter Nine: Dr. Tobor's Revenge” - 19:04 (Available on Dailymotion)
Hop and Tank leave the room filling up with smoke by exiting through an unlocked door. What a great trap, Hunter.
Some henchmen confront Tank and tell him to drive. While they’re not looking, Hop sneaks into the henchmen’s car. They both drive off.
In Tank’s car, a henchman knocks out Tank and jumps out. In the henchmen’s car, Hop knocks out the driver and shoves him out. Hop manages to stop Tank’s car from going over some edge or into a cactus or whatever.
Hunter and Craven show up at the hangar and shove Jackie and Gail into a closet. Then they go for Retner, but Ballard fights them off. Retner flies off with the plane during this distraction.
In the closet, Gail looks incredibly bored, while Jackie shoves a map under the door and pushes the key out of the lock with a hairpin. I have seen this in so many other things, but I never really understood it. So I paused the serial and looked it up. Apparently, doors used to lock differently and you could theoretically pull this off, but the key would have to be positioned correctly and there would have to be no door frame and enough space at the bottom of the door to slide the key under. Also, the key could potentially bounce off of the paper.
I was so fascinated by this, I almost forgot to finish watching this chapter.
Outside of the closet, Hunter and Craven have left and Ballard says that everything is fine.
Hop and Tank go back to the building with the smoke trap but absolutely nothing is there. What a productive scene!
Tobor says he won’t help Hunter and tries to attack him, but Hunter applies a little off-screen violence and Tobor finally agrees to help them.
They want him to fix their radio so he can call Retner and have him bring the invention. Tabor tinkers with the radio a little, sneakily steals a few things, then puts on a show of coughing. They put him back in his room to rest.
He immediately puts together a trap. He calls a henchman in to move his bed closer to the window. The henchman grabs the bed, Tobor flips the light switch, and the henchman is electrocuted. Tobor escapes.
Arnold gets a phone call from Tobor. He blames Arnold for everything and says he’s coming to kill him.
Arnold beefs up his security and a Lieutenant Riley (Jack Ingram) drops by to help. This accomplishes nothing, as someone sneaks onto the balcony and shoots Arnold.
Actor Highlights
Jack Ingram (1902-1969)
Other comic book media: Henchman Klein in Batman (1943), Silver AKA X2 in The Vigilante (1947), Anton in Superman (1948), Cameron in Congo Bill (1948), & Foster in Atom Man vs. Superman.
Riley shoots back and the man falls off of the balcony.
It’s weird how late they introduce Lieutenant Riley, considering how important he is in the last chapter. He’s another basically competent actor who is mostly saddled with spouting boring exposition.
Should you watch it, though? Tobor continues to be delightful and Ballard continues to be slightly intriguing. Everything else continues to bore me.
Tune in next time for Hop Harrigan: "Chapter Ten: Juggernaut of Fate" (Available on Dailymotion.)
