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Rich man Arnold (Emmett Vogan) asks ace pilot Hop Harrigan (William
Bakewell) to fetch Doctor Tobor (John Merton), the brilliant inventor, for
him from his secret lab somewhere in the desert (so secret, that Hop even
has to fly there blindfolded).
But even when returning with Tobor, Harrigan's plane is shot down with
some kind of deathray, & he, his co-pilot Tank Tinker (Sumner
Getchell) & Tobor only barely survive. But what's more, Tobor thinks
Harrigan has double-crossed him & runs out on him, only to fall into
the hands of his real enemies, the criminal flight entrepreneur Hunter
(Tiny Brauer) & his gang of hoodlums, who are all in the employ of the
mysterious Chief Pilot, & who get their pointers from Arnold's
personal secretary Craven (Peter Michael).
Soon, Tobor realizes that he has fallen into the wrong hands but
manages to call his assistant Retner (Ernie Adams) for help, who flies a
futuristic jet plane every now & again.
Eventually, Hop & Retner team up, if reluctantly, & make
attempt after attempt to break Tobor free, with mixed results ...
Then though Tobor finds a way to escape himself (he electrocutes one of
his guards using a bed !), but for some reason, he makes Arnold
responsible for his situation & threatens his life over the phone. A
short time later, Arnold really is shot at, by someone looking like Tobor
... but Tobor has a perfect alibi, having been at Hop's girlfriend Gail
(Jennifer Holt) at the time. But that doesn't last long, since Tobor is
soon taken prisoner by Ballard (Wheeler Oakman), who is after his
invention as well, while Hop still has to shoot it out with Hunter's men.
Ballard manages to persuade Tobor to lead him to his secret lab
(even if he has to embark on the flight there blindfolded himself), but
somehow, Gail's smartass kid brother Jackie (Robert 'Buzz' Henry) flies
with them & learns the location of Tobor's hideout ... which makes
him, once he has managed to escape, a hot item for Craven & his
hoodlums, who soon enough try to force him to take them there ... with
poor results, as the kid outsmarts them, then they even get caught in a
police dragnet.
Meanwhile at Tobor's, Tobor decides to kill Ballard ... but somehow
fails in his mission, & out of revenge, Ballard wrecks Tobor's place
... which drives Tobor competely over the edge, & he decides to
destroy the whole world ... & his assistant Retner, learning that
Tobor plans to kill everyone including him, Retner, shows surprisingly
little resistance.
Of course, Ballard has since made it from Tobor's hideout back to
civilisation & fetches Hop, Tank & their good friend Captain Riley
(Jack Ingram) to help him save the world ... & only seconds before it
goes off, they can destroy Tobor's doomsday device ...
It only now turns out that Ballard was not a bad guy at all but a
benefactor that was so alarmed about Tobor's inventions that he decided to
destroy them for the sake of mankind.
And the Chief Pilot, you might ask.
It turns out to be Gwen Arnold (Claire James), Arnold's ward who only
scarcely appeared throughout the serial ...
A mad scientist bent on destorying the world with his madder inventions
! Plenty of aerial actions in order to stop him !! And a mysterious
villain called the Chief Pilot that is only shown as the shadow of his
(well, her) silhouette !!!
What more could you ask for ?
Concerning this serial, the answer is, plenty. All of these above fun
pulp mainstays are put together in the least imaginative and most boring
way, the love for the genre that pervaded so many Mascot
serials from a decade earlier for example is totally amiss here, the
action is strictly routine (as not to say dull), & storytelling itself
couldn't be less exciting. & above all, there's one of these totally
annoying smartass boys in the cast.
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