Ep. 188: Flash Gordon (1980)

Zo somehow finds himself on a strange world. He doesn’t know if he’s on a different planet, timeline, dimension or reality, but the one thing that he knows for sure is that he’s not in Kansas anymore! In this place there are remarkable sites: floating forest covered moons in the upper atmosphere, floating mountains, a hovering city. There are strange creatures, robots and a variety of people: winged people fill the skies, tree people haunt the forests, and soldiers in gold and red armor patrol the ground. The different tribes seem to bicker with each other, and Zo is saavy enough to understand that there is an over arching presence that oppresses them all. What they need is a unifying force that could band them together so that they might fight their common foe and free themselves from the tyranny that they all live under. Could the hero with the charisma to unify them come in the form of the New York Jets quarterback Flash Gordon?

Episode Segments

00:04:59 Opening Credits for Flash Gordon starring: Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson and Max von Sydow

00:14:18 Favorite Parts of the 1980 film: Flash Gordon

00:56:52 Trivia from the campy sci-fi action movie: Flash Gordon

01:05:54 Critics’ Thoughts on Mike Hodges’ Flash Gordon

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