Terry and the Pirates (TV series)

Terry and the Pirates
John Baer as Terry Lee.
Genre	Adventure
Written by	Frank Burt Milton Caniff Oliver Crawford Norman S. Hall Arthur Pierson Lou Rusoff Barney A. Sarecky
Directed by	Lew Landers Arthur Pierson
Starring	John Baer Jack Reitze William Tracy Sandra Spence Gloria Saunders
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	18
Production
Executive producer(s)	H. Alexander MacDonald
Producer(s)	Warren Lewis
Cinematography	William E. Snyder
Editor(s)	Robert Golden Maurice Wright
Running time	30 mins.
Release
Original network	Syndication
Picture format	Black-and-white
Audio format	Monaural
Original release	June 26 – November 21, 1953

Terry and the Pirates is an American adventure series based on Milton Caniff's comic strip, was telecast from June 26, 1953 to November 21, 1953. The syndicated series ran for 18 episodes and was produced by Don Sharpe Enterprises.Canada Dry Ginger Ale was the show's original sponsor.

USAAF Colonel Terry Lee (John Baer) heads to the Far East to locate a gold mine he inherited from his grandfather. Once in the Orient, Lee becomes a pilot with Air Cathay, a cargo and passenger airline owned and operated by the cunning Chopstick Joe (Jack Reitzen), who is not always honest. His friend and co-pilot is Charles C. Charles, aka Hotshot Charlie (William Tracy), while the romantic interest is provided by the attractive blonde Burma (Sandra Spence). Lee has several encounters in thirteen episodes with his beautiful and mysterious nemesis, Lai Choi San, aka The Dragon Lady (Gloria Saunders). In the pilot episode, "Macao Gold", Chopstick Joe was portrayed by Jack Kruschen and Burma was played by Mari Blanchard.

In 1951 Sam Katzman obtained the film rights to the comic strip from Douglas Fairbanks Jr but no film resulted.

In 2007 Alpha Home Entertainment released four DVD sets of the episodes. Packaged with four episodes per Volume there are only sixteen of the eighteen. Episode 17 "Overseer" and 18 "The Diamond Maker" were not included. The episodes are not compiled in any order. The Sets have been available from re-sellers on the internet.