The exciting conclusion to the Phantom Empire saga blazes across the screen, and brief portions of it are actually intelligible. Join Gene Autry and his hick pals for one last adventure in the mysterious (and doomed) underground realm of Murania, where everyone dresses just as weird as all get...
"The Phantom Empire, Chapter 11: Queen in Chains"
When the Kids agreed to help out with the riffing of the second-to-last chapter of a classic Gene Autry serial, they thought they knew what they were in for. Oh, sure, people tried to warn them. They tried to tell them that this...
And now to the next exciting episode in this incredible saga..!
With Frankie and Betsy deep within Murania's underground complex, Gene Autry and Co. look to extrapulate their young friends before Imperial forces find them first. Meanwhile, Count Argo has gathered his army of rebels...
What's this? Gene Autry burning to death in a crash airplane? Scientists planning on destroying Radio Ranch for their own purposes? A totalitarian queen who imprisons children, who are later subjected to deadly radium beams?
Why, it must be children's...
Ah, yes the JAWS OF JEOPARDY! It was around the time when the Jaws series of film had reached it's nadir with Bruce the Great White Shark appearing on game shows....
... What? You say this is not part of the Jaws franchise? You mean this is another one of those crappy singing cowboy...
Death be not proud.
In fact, when you're a singing cowboy who perishes at the hands of mole people, death can be downright humiliating.
It's bad enough to lose your life in a...
Chapter 6 of the Phantom Empire finds singing cowboy Gene Autry about to be executed for seeing the underground city of Murania. Luckily (or not) Gene is spared by an underground movement (Get it, underground? I think I'm funny) to overthrow Queen Tika. But Gene's rescue is not a...
Atomic Treatment Presents: Episode 3: Lightning Chamber
Gene Autry was known as the "Singing Cowboy". I never understood that as I always thought of him as the "Pansy Cowboy". Not only did Jack Palance crap bigger than Autry, Martin Short in "The Three...
The Phantom Empire - Episode 5: "Beneath the Earth"
Thrills! Spills! Lots of subterranean action! These are things you won't find in chapter 5 of "The Phantom Empire." Also, no phantoms and very few empires.
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The Phantom Empire - Episode 4: "Phantom Broadcast"
Maybe the writers were getting tired because we're only up to episode #4 and they're already using the word "Phantom" more times than Gene Autry can touch a kid in a way that...
This iRiff is Chapter Two of the iRiffs Crossover Project #2. Find the rest of the chapters here: www.rifftrax.com/iriffs/phantom-empire
As every school child now knows after the last ice age the continent of...
Ralph and Rick are honored to bring you the first episode: CHAPTER ONE of the PHANTOM EMPIRE CROSSOVER PROJECT!
Lost to the annals of history*, a...
