Embassy Pictures, who created Sons of Hercules, was founded in 1942 by Joseph E. Levine as a distributor of foreign films. He knew that these movies had been popular in theaters and that while that initial success may be waning, local UHF channels had a desperate need for content. They answered with Sons of Hercules, which gave these stations fourteen movies unified with a memorable name, a catchy theme song and a voiceover that starts each movie placing them into the same cinematic universe, even if there was no such connection.

This episode gives an overview of the movies in that package:

• Ursus, Son of Hercules
• Mole Men vs the Son of Hercules
• Triumph of the Son of Hercules
• Fire Monsters Against the Son of Hercules
• Venus Against the Son of Hercules
• Ulysses Against the Son of Hercules
• Medusa Against the Son of Hercules
• Son of Hercules in the Land of Fire
• Tyrant of Lydia Against The Son of Hercules
• Messalina Against the Son of Hercules
• The Beast of Babylon Against the Son of Hercules
• Terror of Rome Against the Son of Hercules
• Son of Hercules in the Land of Darkness
• Devil of the Desert Against the Son of Hercules

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Theme song: Strip Search by Neal Gardner

Closing song: Sons of Hercules theme

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