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Flash Gordon
File:FlashGordon2007OpeningLogo.JPG
Title card
GenreScience fiction drama
StarringEric Johnson
Gina Holden
Country of originUnited States
Canada
No. of episodes9
Production
Executive producersRobert Halmi Jr.
Robert Halmi Sr.
Peter Hume
Original release
NetworkSCI FI
ReleaseAugust 10, 2007 –
present

Flash Gordon is an American science fiction television series that debuted on SCI FI in the United States on August 10, 2007. It will premiere on the UK SCI FI channel in 2008. The show's pilot episode was written by executive producer Peter Hume.

The new series, based on the comic strip of the same name and its adaptations, follows the adventures of Steven "Flash" Gordon (the nickname referring to his running ability), who lives with his mother in Maryland and whose scientist father was apparently lost in a mysterious accident when Flash (Eric Johnson) was 13 years old. Flash's former girlfriend, Dale Arden (Gina Holden), is a television news reporter and is engaged to police detective Joe Wylee. They meet the elder Gordon's eccentric former assistant, Hans Zarkov (Jody Racicot), when rifts in space appear, allowing travel between Earth and the planet Mongo.

Mongo is ruled by the ruthless dictator Ming (John Ralston) who is not called "the Merciless," as he was in previous adaptations of the strip (he is instead called "the Benevolent Father"). He also exhibits the traits of modern, media-savvy dictators, rather than the more simplistic, stereotypically evil characterization of earlier incarnations. [1] Once again, Ming has a daughter, Princess Aura (Anna van Hooft), who is disturbed by her father's brutality. The series adds a new non-human character, Baylin (Karen Cliche), a bounty hunter from Mongo. She finds herself trapped on Earth and becomes a comrade of Flash, Dale and Zarkov.

The peoples of Mongo live in "cantons", tribal groups that echo the outlandish animal-human hybrids of the original comic strip. The cantons include the Omadrians (women who create powerful medicines), the Verden (based on Prince Barin's forest-dwelling people from the strip), Turin (based on the strip's Lion Men), and the Dactyls (the series' version of the Hawkmen).

Episode list

Season One

  1. Pilot: Flash Gordon thought that his father died in a fire 13 years ago. Actually, Professor Gordon disappeared through a "rift", traveling to the planet Mongo... and now something has come back through the rift, looking for a mysterious artifact that Gordon left behind. Flash is forced to team up with his ex-girlfriend, Dale Arden, who travels with him to Mongo to meet Ming, the planet's brutal dictator.
  2. Pride: Ming's bounty hunter, Baylin, is trapped on Earth... and living in Flash's house. To bring Baylin back, Ming sends another hunter, who has a personal connection to her.
  3. Infestation: A dangerous insect travels through an errant rift and bites Flash's friend. Dale is left behind to tend to Nick, while Flash and Baylin travel to Mongo in search of a cure.
  4. Assassin: Flash is astonished to see his father come through the rift... but his joy turns to horror when Professor Gordon starts murdering his old colleagues.
  5. Ascension: Vultan, leader of the Dactyls, extorts Rankol into opening a portal to Earth, so he can find the son he lost via a rift a decade ago.
  6. Life Source: Flash and Dale track a Mongo woman who is sucking the life out of Earth men.
  7. Alliances: (part 1 of 2) Flash, Baylin and Zarkov travel to Mongo, searching for information about Flash's father.
  8. Revelations: (part 2 of 2) Prince Barin of the Verden agrees to marry Ming's daughter Aura. Ming is disturbed by a prophecy predicting his overthrow.
  9. Till Death: Aura travels to Earth to drug Flash with a love potion, so that she may get out of the arranged bonding with Barin.
  10. Conspiracy Theory
  11. Random Access
  12. Secrets and Lies
  13. (TBA)
  14. Sorrow

Cast

References

  1. ^ Sci-Fi Channel. June 29, 2007. http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=2&id=42218
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