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Flash Gordon 1979 Filmation. Episode 1: A Planet in Peril. In 1979, Filmation produced the animated series simply entitled The New Adventures of Flash Gordon, based on the comic strip and the first season is remembered as one of the better efforts of the studio. The animated series first season follows, more or less, the traditional FG mythos, opening with the launch of the rocketship carrying Flash, Dale Arden, and Dr. Zarkov from somewhere in the Eastern Hemisphere (or at least the opening scene shows the ship clearing Earth's atmosphere above Europe and the Middle East). The series actually opens with the crash of the Terran ship into an ocean on Mongo after being attacked during the final approach to the planet.
In the opening scenes, Gordon, Arden, and Zarkov meet Thun the Lion-man and Prince Barin of the forest-kingdom of Arboria. This coincidence (meeting reigning royalty of two different realms by apparent chance) sets much of the tone of the series, in which we must conclude either that logic is irrelevant, or that Destiny is at work in the arrival of FG on Mongo.
The remainder of the first season consists of pulpish adventures of Gordon and Co. across the face of Mongo, in traditional pulp style passing from one near-death situation to another with a cheery disregard for probability or logic, and a definite sense of fun. The protagonists meet Emperor Ming almost immediately, and Ming is revealed as being the classic archetype of the Evil Overlord. Flash later gains the aid of King Vultan, ruler of the Hawk-Men as a friend and ally, and also gains the attention of many of Mongo's female monarchs, such as Queen Undina of Coralia, Queen Fria of Frigia, Azura, the Witch-Queen of Syk, and Queen Desira of Tropica. But the most notable of these admirers was, of course, Princess Aura.

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Ooops. I made a ... ( 1 year ago by jwg372)

Ooops. I made a mistake. Alex Raymond was the original Artist on Flash Gordon. Hal Foster did Tarzan and Prince Valiant.

Thanks for sharing ... ( 1 year ago by sexysensation)

Thanks for sharing this. I've got the complete series on DVD. The story is surprisingly pretty close to the original 1934 Alex Raymond stories which I have re-prints of few changes of course but that's to be expected

Is it just me, or ... ( 1 year ago by theawesome)

Is it just me, or when the gillmen are pushing Flash does he yell "Hey! Cockface!!"

It's just you! ... ( 1 year ago by darklighter1)

It's just you! HAHA! He said CODface. Funny though.

No... but I'm going ... ( 1 year ago by killians45)

No... but I'm going to pretend he does because... well, that's just funny as hell.

ultra awesome ships ... ( 1 year ago by jmpoder)

ultra awesome ships animation for the time

Even though I ... ( 1 year ago by Dunes)

Even though I always prefered the classic 80's movie,it's great to see this series again. The sci fi channel version has nothing on this imo.

falic symbols ... ( 11 months ago by s1rama)

falic symbols anyone?

Array ( 11 months ago by BlackBeltJohnson)

Oh my lord!! I haven't seen this in 28 flippin years!! Used to love this show when I was a kid, but it was only aired sporadically for some reason in western Canada, and I never saw more than a few eps. Filmation's classic reuse scenes were in full effect even then, but they always seemed to be able to tell decent stories despite it. Awesome stuff! Thanks for posting!

The voice of Flash. ... ( 11 months ago by VideoJunkei)

The voice of Flash...he is the same person that voiced Thundarr, I think!!! Also, WOW on the ship crash sequence!!

I just knew the ... ( 10 months ago by starkid77)

I just knew the baron would say, "No one's asking you!" To the tiger guy lol

Hey Princess Aura ... ( 10 months ago by gusleite)

Hey Princess Aura don't remind Teela (from He-Man and the Master and the Universe)? I always thought both of them HOT!

"You owe me ... ( 10 months ago by Twilty)

"You owe me satisfaction for that!" I'm sorry but that quote is classic.

Yes. Flash was ... ( 10 months ago by Originalman320)

Yes. Flash was voiced by the late Robert (Bob) Ridgely, who played Thundarr, as well as Tarzan.

I don't remember ... ( 8 months ago by takufan4)

I don't remember the cartoon much, but the theme has never left my mind. When I think of adventure, it comes right on in my head.

This is great! ... ( 6 months ago by iupuijagsone)

This is great! Flimation did all it's work here in the USA. I don't care for the Cartoons made oversea too much. The Cartoons made here have a look to them. Filmation "THANK YOU" for keeping it in the USA for as long as you could!

This is cool,..the ... ( 6 months ago by americanjedi77)

This is cool,..the lion guy seems kinda' like a whiny bitch though but, they should do a re-make of the Flash Gordon movie & cartoon (with today's technology it would look FUCKIN' SWEET!!)

I love Flash Gordon ... ( 5 months ago by muzafar001)

I love Flash Gordon!!!! It's been my Sunday morning diet since I was a kid!!! FG rulesss!!!!!

i remember this ... ( 3 months ago by rozz6398)

i remember this show from when it was originally on, and I still love it! As far as I'm concerned it's the last faithful adaptation of the comic strip, beating out even the film that came a year after.

Actually, Aura was ... ( 3 months ago by FaytLinegod)

Actually, Aura was the base for Teela's character design.

Man, this really ... ( 2 months ago by dbonanno)

Man, this really suffers from the over-recycling of animation. Non of the shots hook up and the characters always have the same expressions. The reuse of so many shots also limits the camera angles to boring, flat shots. Watching this stuff really makes me appreciate anime even more!

I agree! I always ... ( 2 months ago by 7DARKHELLS)

I agree! I always wondered how Aura got pass censorship in that costume.

so watch anime and ... ( 1 month ago by maraszewski)

so watch anime and cut your bullshit about flash...Nobody expects you to enjoy stuff like flash etc.

Yeah, most of the ... ( 1 month ago by dbonanno)

Yeah, most of the anime that comes to American TV these days is pretty lame. But some of it is the best ever (Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, Guren Laggen). Flash Gordon did stand out from the rest of the Saturday morning line-up and I gotta give Filmation credit for using different animation techniques to give their productions the quality that was lacking in other, more mundane American cartoons. Its continuing storyline style was also rare back then, so I give it props for that too.