Flash Gordon
(1954) Steve Holland, Irene Champlin, Joe Nash. Flash, Dale and Zarkov adventure through time and space in a television series produced in West Berlin.
Planet of Death
First show in the series. Dr. Zarkoff's request to test his new anti-gravitation device on a remote planet is denied because of the mysterious deaths of most of a recent scientific expedition that recently explored the world. The sole survivor's wild tale of an idol's curse is dismissed by Flash and he, Dale and Zarkoff return to the planet to investigate.
Akim the Terrible King Akim rules over a planet where cruelty, hate, and lawlessness are virtues and murder is commonplace. A G.B.I. agent is sent to investigate, but Akim the Terrible brainwashes him and orders the agent to assasinate Flash Gordon.
The Claim Jumpers Flash and his cohorts come to the aid of a prospector and his daughters who are threatened by claim jumpers.
The Breath of Death Dale is sent to a prison world to repair the machinery used to create oxygen, without which not only the ruthless prisoners, but the warden and his guards would soon perish. Flaggert, the most notorious murderer in the galaxy manages to break out of his cell and hides on Flash Gordon's spaceship in order to make good his escape and have his revenge on the man who sent him to prison in the first place. Return of the Androids Androids - indestructible, human-like robots - were outlawed three hundred years in the past; their locations, the radio frequency they respond to and their power source closely guarded galactic secrets. A world-ruler bent on galactic domination has learned the first two secrets and with the help of a ruthless secret agent plans to force Flash Gordon to reveal the location of the power source by torturing Dale Arden until he cracks.
The Lure of Light Over the Commissioner's objections, the Galactic Counsel has released Queen Tridentia, the ruler who started the last galactic war, from prison. The president of the counsel believes the Queen is no longer a threat, not knowing of her plans to steal the plans for a spaceship that can travel faster than the speed of light, thereby going back in time to alter the course of the last war.
Deadline at Noon An enemy of Earth uses the principles of Dr. Zarkov's time machine to travel back 1250 years and plant a powerful bomb in 1953 Berlin. Flash, Dale, and Dr. Zarkov have less than one hour to find the bomb and defuse it.
Race Against Time There is to be a crucial vote on Mars to decide if the Galaxy Bureau of Investigation will continue. Flash, Dale and Zarkov have a stake in this because they work for the G.B.I. But three criminals, who don't want Commander Richards to get there in time to cast Earth's deciding vote, use a ray machine to force the Skyflash to make an emergency landing on planetoid Epsilon 30. The Witch of Neptune Part 1 of a 3 part story featuring the villainess Zydereen.
The Brain Machine After Flash and Dale foil her plan to destroy Neptune by repairing the auxilliary air converter, Zydereen uses stolen technology to transport Dr. Zarkov and Commander Richards to her castle on the planet Saturn, where she hooks them up to a machine that will drain all the important scientific and strategic military information from their minds, all part of her plan to conquer the entire Galaxy.
Struggle to the End Zydereen plans to hijack the galaxy's principal store of the energy source corillium. Flash and Dale must find her and destroy the electro-brain recorder that holds the combined knowledge of Dr. Zarkov and Commander Richards.
Saboteurs from Space Paralysis ray stops machines on earth. Flash looks into it. Forbidden Experiment Dr. Zarkov receives a call from Dr. Fabian Prentiss, an old friend who has been missing for years. Prentiss is on the planet Zeta N1 and asks Zarkov to bring him some serum. When Zarkov gets there he finds his friend is dead and that Prentiss's fiendish experiments have created a Lion Man who can command all the animals in the jungle.
Subworld Revenge Flash learns that the survivors of the underworld kingdom that he thought he had destroyed in episode 35, "The Earth's Core," seek revenge on the "surface people."