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My most frequently watched serial would have to be FLASH GORDON, if only because it was the most accessible. All three Flash Gordon serials were readily accessible, although I've seen the first more often than the other two. For many years they ran almost continuously on New York television. And by the time I started collecting 16mm film, it was easy to buy dupe prints of very good quality from a local dealer/collector affectionately known as "the Mad Ghoul." I often ran my print for friends and co-workers.

Another serial I saw frequently was CAPTAIN MARVEL. In the early '70s it seemed to be everywhere. One theatrical distributor here in the NY / NJ area included Chapter One of CM in a two-hour program headlined by REEFER MADNESS, which helped kick off the "Midnight Movie" craze. During my freshman year in college (1971-72), that program played in a nearby town every Friday night for weeks, and I went several times with various friends and classmates. I finally saw the serial complete at the 1972 NYC ComiCon. Caught most of it again the following year at the nostalgia-oriented Saturday-matinee film series at Town Hall, and yet again a few months later at Manhattan's Elgin Theater, a revival house that ran it one Saturday night as an all-night show, from midnight to six a. m., with cartoons played between chapters. Shortly after that, a good friend of mine bought a 16mm print, which I borrowed from him several times over the next five or so years. And when Nostalgia Merchant finally made CM available legitimately, at the dawn of the video era, I was one of the first to buy a VHS copy from them. So I probably saw MARVEL ten times in as many years. I didn't revisit it until Republic Home Video brought it out on laserdisc circa 1990, but I've probably watched the thing another handful of times since then.