#Dr syn series#
That Disney film spawned a series of comic books.
My brother and I were apparently not the only viewers mesmerized by the Scarecrow’s escapades. Syn’s mission, challenges, and reputation were well elucidated in the song that accompanied the opening of each episode: Because whatever he made as a smuggler, he gave away to the poor and the needy.” But, like Robin Hood, although he was a thorn in the side of law and order, he was a hero to the ordinary folk of his time. By day he was a respected member of his community, and by night he was the greatest smuggler in the whole country. He lived in England nearly 200 years ago. “The hero of all the Thorndike stories,” explained American animation pioneer and film producer Walt Disney in his 1964 introduction of Scarecrow, “is one of the strangest characters who ever lived, a real-life Dr. So popular was Thorndike’s original Syn yarn, that he penned half a dozen more, finishing with Shadow of Dr. Mipps (played by George Cole), Syn wages a tireless campaign to support Dymchurch’s contraband operations-all to the benefit of his flock. Attired in the shambles of a field scarecrow, riding his great black steed Gehenna, and assisted by lieutenants including a former Royal Navy carpenter called Mr. Although he’d hoped to enjoy a quiet life in the southeastern village of Dymchurch, beside Romney Marsh, Syn turns swashbuckler once more in order to help his parishioners escape persecution by government authorities who, in order to enforce onerous customs tariffs, are intent on curtailing the illegal smuggling of goods from France, just across the English Channel. (Not even on Halloween!) It starred ex- Danger Man headliner Patrick McGoohan as the Reverend Doctor Christopher Syn, a pirate turned country vicar in 18th-century England. And with the delightful frights it engendered in my brother and me.Īdapted from a 1915 adventure novel titled Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh, by English author Russell Thorndike, this small-screen spine-chiller was first aired in three parts on NBC-TV’s Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, beginning on Sunday, February 9, 1964. My memory, nonetheless, associates Scarecrow with this holiday. It is likely those broadcasts were not nearly so regular, and weren’t consistently tied to All Hallows Eve.
#Dr syn tv#
In those long-gone days of my childhood, it seems that every Halloween was accompanied by a showing of the 1960s TV production The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh.
Syn, Alias The Scarecrow, adapted by “Vic Crume,” aka Victoria Crume (Pyramid, 1975).
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