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Congo Bill is one of the great "Saturday Afternoon Serials" that were a treat for kids in the mid twentieth century. I have a special fondness for this adventure serial as it was my first cinema experience at age seven, when I was growing up in Fiji. With each of the fifteen episodes playing weekly on a Saturday afternoon, you had nearly four months of suspense and excitement! Congo Bill is an intrepid lion tamer and explorer attached to a circus who goes to Africa in search of a beautiful girl who is a possible heir to the circus fortune. He has heard rumours about a mythical White Queen living in the Congo and wants to find out if there is any basis in fact to this story. The steamy, humid, tropical atmosphere of the Congo is well captured at the ramshackle "Green Parrot Inn" where patrons sweat while drinking cold refreshments under slowly revolving ceiling fans.

Evil doers try to dog Congo Bill's path all the way. Each episode ends with a heart stopping cliff-hanger that consumes all your curiosity and impatient expectations from week to week! Children and adults alike will love this pure escapist entertainment. I highly recommend it.