Legendary, controversial, and enigmatic, the LEGION OF DANGER TV series was perhaps the most interesting apocryphal television shows of the mid-'60s. Fan clubs, reunions of the surviving actors, and occasional mentions in blogs persist to this day-and since the property was purchased by Interesting Pictures, parent company of Bob Burden's Bob Burden Productions, interest has recently risen exponentially.

  As much as modern-day fans revere it, the series was not well-received in its day, and even then it was regarded as stiff, out of fashion, and campy. The allegation that the creative team of Dillon and Miller crassly lifted the entire concept and look of the series (that of masked wrestlers teaming up to battle gangsters, aliens, monsters, and mad scientists) from Mexican Lucha Libre and Mil Mascaras films is not without foundation.
While Dillon is no longer around to defend his creative choices (having been run over after falling asleep on a railroad track in 1978), Miller often addresses the issue by changing the subject, or just staring off into space until any argumentative or curious individuals leave.

  The show was broadcast in very limited markets, mostly overseas in badly dubbed kinescope format. Today very few images and clips remain, and only a few complete episodes are known to exist.
All but a handful of the clips that can still be seen today on Youtube are actually dubbed back into English from salvaged foreign prints.

  The series was shown however in South America, France, Portugal, Algeria, and is still seen late-night in Istanbul, where it was said to have inspired a number of strangely bizarre and disturbing superhero and science fiction films.

  In their book THE WONDERFUL YEARS! A LOOK BACK AT '60s TELEVISION THROUGH ROSE-COLORED SPECTACLES, the TV historians Nutting & Wang revived cult-status interest in LEGION when they made an in-depth study of the popular but apocryphal TV series. "LEGION OF DANGER was the last gasp of an era.
"The flawless, two-fisted, straight-laced, square-jawed media hero that reigned from the '30s through the '50s was on its way out. DICK TRACY, THE LONE RANGER, and JACK ARMSTRONG THE ALL-AMERICAN BOY were thrown in the dustbin of history, in favor of a new breed of edgy, flawed, and morally questionable antiheroes," said Wyndam Nutting of the series. "That mid-'60s spaceage-miniskirt-sideburns-Silva Thins Man-era may have been the high point of American culture, and for sure a fondly remembered landmark. There is a distinct line drawn in time, between the pre-hippie OUR MAN FLINT era and the Woodstock generation which followed."
  "Though forgotten, mocked, and passed over by today's all-about-me-generation, the stalwart, unflinching hero is still out there somewhere. He's still out there, waiting to snap to attention, receive the presidential order and return to action, ready to lay his life on the line, even for all those that ridicule and scorn him."

  There was a LEGION OF DANGER comic series by Tucker Fiddy and Skeeter Hayes of JING-PALS and CRYIN' LION fame from the now-defunct Friction House comics publishers. Interest was briefly rekindled in 1986 when Marble Comics fielded three issues. The comic book was optioned by Kwinne Marlin Productions, but production fell into the doldrums when Kwinne Marlin's legal department did a title search and found that they already owned the property.
A series of 12-inch action figures was designed by CoolcoToys but never went past the test-market stage. In 2006, one of them brought $186 on Ebay in the original blisterpack.