The WORST episodes of The New Animated Adventures of Flash Gordon

#1 - King Flash

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/1/1979

Flash, his memory erased, and Queen Azura board a great war chariot, drawn by two fierce dragon-like creatures, to lead the army of three-taloned, purple robed witch men into battle against Prince Barin's green-clad forest hunters and King Vultan's winged hawkmen. The witchmen crush the opposing forces and take Prince Barin and Vultan prisoner. Zarkov's scientific wizardry frustrates Queen Azura's plan to keep Flash under her spell as Gor Daahn as he restores Flash's memory. Azura's anger knows no bounds as she unleashes the monstrous fire king, talors, to stop Flash from fleeing her kingdom. With the help of one of Zarkov's wondrous ray weapons, Flash overpowers talors and escapes. As he departs Syk he is surrounded once again by Ming's forces and as the chapter closes Flash hears Ming warn him of this being their last meeting.

#2 - Gremlin the Dragon

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/1982

Flash and Dale rescue a baby dragon from the beast men. The beast men retaliate and a battle ensues. After the battle is over, Flash and Dale tell the little dragon that he is free to go, but the dragon wants to stay with Flash and Dale. They then name him Gremlin and he becomes a part of our series.

#3 - Royal Wedding

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/1982

At the wedding of Prince Barin to Ming's daughter, Aura, Ming's giant robot invades the scene to capture Aura and return her to her father. The robot also takes Dale and Gremlin, but Gremlin escapes- and locates Flash and company, who defeat the robot and Ming and the wedding festivities continue.

#4 - Tournament of Death

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/8/1979

Recaptured by Ming's evil forces, Flash and his friends are chained to the combat arena in preparation for Emperor Ming's tournament of death games from which there will be but one winner. The winner will be given his freedom and the choice of any woman in Ming's kingdom. Feigning illness, Flash gains his and his party's freedom and they flee through a secret palace tunnel. Outwitting the tunnel's three giant drok dragons, Flash, Dale and Zarkov's dash for freedom is shortlived as they crash crossing the cavern of fire. They are captured by the metalmen and returned to the palace where Flash, together with lion men, hawkmen, lizardmen and iceland giants are pitted against Mongo's most horrible monsters. Flash's strength and agility overcome the monsters and he and a masked forestman (resembling Prince Barin) are the two survivors of the war games. As the chapter ends Ming announces the one who survives the green flame will be declared winner of the tournament of death.

#5 - Deadly Double

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/25/1982

Dr. Tavv creates a duplicate of Gremlin, a robot, for Ming. Ming substitutes the robot Gremlin for the real one to lure Flash and company into a trap. Gremlin and the robot Gremlin fight it out and Gremlin disables the robot. Flash and Thun them stop Dr. Tavv and Ming, once again.

#6 - Blue Magic

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/24/1979

As Flash and his party rocket through the Mongo countryside enroute to Arboria, they see that Ming's metalmen are following in a ray-emitting rocket train. Flash avoids capture by detouring his rocket train into the forbidden country of Syk. There, Azura, Witch Queen of Syk, saves Flash's party from the dreaded blue fire worm as she believes Flash is Gor Daahn, former Lord of Syk. The high wizard of Syk, Tahl, takes the intruders aboard his flying carpet to the throne of Queen Azura, who erases Flash's memory and installs in flash the memory of Syk's long-departed former ruler, Gor Daahn, who Flash resembles. This chapter ends with battle preparations of Syk's warriors and the smaller forces of Prince Barin and Vultan who are trying to rescue Flash and his party from Azura, the WitchQueen of Syk.

#7 - A Planet in Peril

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/1979

To save the planet Earth from complete destruction, Flash Gordon, Dale Arden and Dr. Hans Zarkov fly into outer space where they crashland on the strange and mysterious planet of Mongo. As the three are taken prisoner by the Gillmen they meet other captives: Prince Barin of Arboria and Thun the Lion Man. Escaping their captors Flash and his friends find themselves hunted by the cruel Princess Aura and her women warriors across dangerous swamps. The heroes soon come face-to-face with the evil Ming the Merciless...

#8 - Castaways in Tropica

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/15/1979

With flashing flame swords, Flash and the now-revealed Prince Barin fight one another on a suspended high wire over the blazing green fire in the final game of Ming's tournament of death. Princess Aura saves the two fighters and they escape with Dr. Zarkov in their newly repaired earth rocket ship. Enroute to Arboria, Ming's space patrol hits Flash's rocket ship and he lands in Tropica, a virtual Garden of Eden. Flash saves Tropica's Queen Desira from a tree-dragon attack and he and his friends are invited by the queen to be guests of this lovely, tropical country. Desira's scheming cousin Braznor drugs the queen and prepares to take over the country. Flash and friends rescue the queen and they break for freedom astride giant horse-like gryphs. Flash and his friends escape a giant lizard-like monster and survive an attack by the dreaded rock termites. As the chapter ends we see Flash and party mysteriously suspended in midair and drawn as if by a magnet into the dark depths of the deepening cavern.

#9 - Gremlin's Finest Hour

Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 11/6/1982

#10 - The Memory Bank of Ming

Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 10/30/1982

#11 - Beware of Gifts

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 10/30/1982

#12 - Micro Menace

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/9/1982

Flash and Dale answer a distress call from the pycarlan jungle, only to be captured by mutant men,- led by Racar, the Ruler of the Kingdom. They are set to work as slaves, feeding crystals to a reactor, the power source of the city. They discover that the crystals are unhealthy for the slaves and devise a plan to destroy the reactor and the entire kingdom as well.

#13 - Witch Woman

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/9/1982

The Lobus, a creature Ming had created of nuclear energy, escaped into the jungles of Mongo and has now returned to wreak havoc. Our heroes track the Lobus to a cave where lizard women protect and worship it. Flash and Dale use a radium transformer to drain its power and render it harmless.

#14 - The Seed

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/2/1982

Ming and Enak launch a synthetic meteor to the city of Arboria, which contains a plant-monster. The monster begins to terrorize the city until our heroes capture it and send it back to the magnetic mountains- and back to Ming.

#15 - Sir Gremlin

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/25/1982

Azura, the witch queen, orders her magic men to find Flash and bring him to her. Gremlin saves Flash from the magic men, but in turn, they capture Dale and Gremlin feels guilty for not keeping his post watching over Dale. Thun and Flash go to find Dale and when they meet Azura, she wants a trade- Flash to become her husband for Dale's release. Gremlin bravely saves Dale and Azura's plan is defeated.

#16 - Revolt of the Power Men

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/29/1979

At a strategy meeting in Tropica, Flash and his friends plan to recapture Vultan's mile-high Sky City now under control of Ming's robot guards. Flash and Thun return to Mongo City where they team up with Ergon, Leader of the Power. Ming dispatches his trusty aide Urzeen to Tropica to capture Dale and bring her back for his bride. Flash and his party stow away on a supply rocket ship to sky city where they immobilize Ming's energy shield that protects sky city. Vultan and his winged warriors and Prince Barin and his forestmen attack and recapture Sky City. It takes the verve of Flash and the genius of Ergon to re-connect the faulty anti-gravity beams, saving the falling city just before it slams into the ground. With Sky City secure, Flash hastens to Mongo City to free Dale from Ming. As the chapter ends Flash unexpectedly meets Ming, who freezes Flash into a solid mass of ice crystals.

#17 - The Game

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/2/1982

Ior, of the Cavern City, sends mutant soldiers to capture people from Arboria (along with Flash, Dale and Gremlin), to play in the game. Athos, a giant, and his people are imprisoned by Ior to participate in the game also. Flash and Athos are pitted against each other and when Flash wins, he spares his life. Athos and Flash then team to defeat Ior and abolish the game forever.

#18 - Adventure in Arboria

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/3/1979

Flash and his friends arrive in Arboria and are greeted by a huge swarm of flying, poisonous squirlons. Dr. Zarkov is bitten by a squirlon as the party swings through the tree forests in an attempt to escape the airborne rodents. Prince Barin, Thun and Vultan are reunited with Flash and his friends and all undergo the unknown dangers of the deep caverns, the river dragons and Ming's metalmen's attack before they finally find the rare antidote that saves Dr. Zarkov from the near-fatal squirlon wound.

#19 - The Desert Hawk

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/22/1979

In Prince Barin's treetop palace in Arboria, he, Princess Aura, Thun and Vultan discuss how to find the missing Flash Gordon. Flash and his party continue to flee from the traitorous Braznor who has seized control of Tropica from Queen Desira. With capture imminent, the party flees into the desert of fire where they are saved from a fire dragon by Gundar the desert hawk, Lord of the Fire Lands. Brazor's laser-firing armored tanks penetrate Gundar's mountain fortress and capture Flash and his friends. Vultan and Prince Barin's forces soundly de-feat Braznor and restore Queen Desira to her throne. The chapter ends with Barin, Vultan, Thun, Desira and Gundar pledging their forces to fight the battle to free Mongo from Ming's tyrannical clutches.

#20 - The Beast Men's Prey

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/20/1979

Prince Barin's deadly ice arrows and Vultan's fiery energy balls are no match for Ming's ray tanks and the forest kingdom's intrepid group is forced to flee Ming's palace in their mecho mole machine without Flash, Dale and Dr. Zarkov. Flash and friends escape later in a magnetic car and end up captives of the prehistoric beast men. Taken to the monsters' cave domain the captives see the beast men worship a gigantic statue of Ming the merciless. In a daring escape Flash and his friends outwit the beast men and flee by rocket ship. The chapter ends with Flash heading for new adventures in Arboria.

#21 - Survival Game

Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 11/6/1982

#22 - Sacrifice of the Volcano Men

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 10/23/1982

#23 - The Freedom Balloon

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 10/23/1982

#24 - The Warrior

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/16/1982

#25 - Flash Back

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/16/1982