I remember this show airing on Monday evenings in Helena, Montana and it became a favorite of our neighborhood crew. We actually built a twelve to fifteen foot cardboard viking ship in my folks basement, complete with painted cardboard shields hung over the gunwales. My Dad made me a sword some two feet long, cut from a scrap of redwood with a band saw and sanded to shape. The blade was covered with silver 3M Scotchcal salvaged from the trash can at the Montana Highway Department Sign Shop which he headed for thirty plus years. For a time at least, flashing "steel" joined the "Buntline Special", Hubley "Atomic Disintegrator", Sharps cavalry carbine, battery operated M-14 battle rifle and many other items in my personal arsenal.
I loved the opening with the giant horn and never knew it was from a movie, or that their was a movie, until reading the previous comments. I remember the theme song was rousing to my nine year old ears, but am so musically challenged that I can't replay the tune in my head.
Warning, spoiler ahead! Strangely, the only episode I remember a detail of is one in which the heroes constructed a large (maybe two foot diameter), tandem lensed magnifier mounted on a tripod. They used this contrivance to focus the suns' rays in order to torch the sails of a fleet of ships intent on invading whichever group the Vikings had befriended that week.
Even though I viewed it in monochrome, my mind's eye supplies the color for the bits that I remember.
I loved the opening with the giant horn and never knew it was from a movie, or that their was a movie, until reading the previous comments. I remember the theme song was rousing to my nine year old ears, but am so musically challenged that I can't replay the tune in my head.
Warning, spoiler ahead! Strangely, the only episode I remember a detail of is one in which the heroes constructed a large (maybe two foot diameter), tandem lensed magnifier mounted on a tripod. They used this contrivance to focus the suns' rays in order to torch the sails of a fleet of ships intent on invading whichever group the Vikings had befriended that week.
Even though I viewed it in monochrome, my mind's eye supplies the color for the bits that I remember.