Flash Gordon

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Flash Gordon (1954–55 live-action)[edit]

Main article: Flash Gordon (1954 TV series)

Steve Holland starred in a 1954–55 live-action television series which ran for 39 episodes.[4] The first 26 episodes had the distinction of being filmed in West Berlin, Germany less than a decade after the end of World War II. This is notable, given that some episodes show the real-life destruction still evident in Germany several years after the war. The final 13 episodes were filmed in Marseille, France.

In this series, Flash, Dale (Irene Champlin) and Dr. Zarkov (Joseph Nash) worked for the Galactic Bureau of Investigation in the year 3203. The actual timeline was established in one episode, "Deadline at Noon", in which Flash, Dale and Dr. Zarkov went back in time to Berlin in the year 1953. The GBI agents traveled in the Skyflash and Skyflash II spaceships.

The series was syndicated, appearing on stations affiliated with the long-defunct DuMont Network, and many other independent stations in the United States. Stylistic similarities with the Buster Crabbe films are obvious, and may have been desired by the producers.[weasel words] It was recut into a movie in 1957.

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The New Adventures of Flash Gordon - 1x02 - The Monsters of Mongo

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The New Adventures of Flash Gordon - 1x03 - King of the Hawkmen

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Trying to calm down from masks panic...

The New Adventures of Flash Gordon - 1x04 - To Save Earth

Red-haired huntress cartoon Aura got it goin' on...

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The New Adventures of Flash Gordon - 1x05 - The Beast Men's Prey

Has anyone watched any of these yet?  I haven't checked the credits, but some of the voices are very familiar.

I'm pretty sure Flash is voiced same as He-Man, and Ming is Skeletor, fittingly enough.  Teela isn't as distinctive, but isn't that her as Dale?  Prince Thun of the Lion Men sounds a lot like Beast Man...

Thank God, no Orko so far.

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The New Adventures of Flash Gordon - 1x06 - Into The Water World

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The New Adventures of Flash Gordon - 1x07 - Adventure In Arboria

I'd swear that in the newspaper strips, Barin was never bald and Robin Hooded at the same time...

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The New Adventures of Flash Gordon - 1x08 - The Frozen World

(A.K.A. Flash Gordon's Trip to My House Last Winter)

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The New Adventures of Flash Gordon 1x09 Monster of the Glacier

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New Adventures of Flash Gordon - 1x10 - Blue Magic

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The New Adventures of Flash Gordon - 1x11 - King Flash

(A.K.A. Flash Gordon's Date With the Sorceress of Castle Grayskull

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The New Adventures of Flash Gordon - 1x12 - Tournament Of Death

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The New Adventures of Flash Gordon - 1x13 - Castaways In Tropica

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You know, I can still crack Mylochka up with the opening monologue from the Filmation Tarzan cartoon (that had much in common with this in look and style) and which I mostly still remember 40 years later..

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Wasn't Filmation to blame for Superfriends?  I loved it at the time, but no one involved can have been proud...