4 years ago

Digging deeper into the Flash Gordon rabbit-hole, I found that there's an earlier series - this one from 1936. This serial stars Buster Crabbe as Flash Gordon, and the synopsis is:
[⚠ giant lizards🦎]

"The Planet of Peril" -
The planet Mongo is on a collision course with Earth. Dr. Alexis Zarkov takes off in a rocket ship to Mongo with Flash Gordon and Dale Arden as his assistants. They find that the planet is ruled by the cruel Emperor Ming, who lusts after Dale and sends Flash to fight in the arena. Ming's daughter, Princess Aura, tries to spare Flash's life.
(Wikipedia)

I'd originally planned to use another 1955 episode, but with a different lookup table for colour correction; I went slightly off-piste and used it on 1936 first episode instead.
This one is cool because you get to see Ming in it.

This episode is public domain
https://archive.org/details/PhantasmagoriaTheater-FlashGordonEpisodeOneThePlanetOfPeril445-2

I've age restricted this because though clearly fake, the fight scenes are quite excessive and not recommended for younger viewers.

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