Flash Gordon - The Complete Series

Ready or not...here comes FLASH GORDON--available on U.S. DVD at long last!!!
FLASH GORDON: The Complete Series! This was a fun show and years overdue for a U.S. DVD release! Starring Eric Johnson ["Smallville", "Rookie Blue"] as Flash Gordon, Gina Holden ["Blood Ties", "Harper's Island"] as Dale Arden, Karen Cliche ["Mutant X", "Adventure, Inc."] as Baylin, Jody Racicot as Dr. Hans Zarkov, John Ralston as Ming the Merciless, Anna Van Holt as Princesss Aura, Steve Bacic ["Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda"] as Prince Barin and Ty Olsson ["Defying Gravity"] as Prince Vultan. 22 episodes - a SyFy Channel Production! FLASH GORDON is well worth adding to your DVD library - grab this inexpensive DVD set from Mill Creek!!!
EPISODE LIST:
1) "Flash Gordon: The Pilot" (part one)
2) "Flash Gordon: The Pilot" (part two)
3) "Pride"
4) "Infestation"
5) "Assassin"
6) "Ascension"
7) "Life Source"
8) "Alliances"
9) "Revelations"
10) "'Til Death"
11) "Conspiracy Theory"
12) "Random Access"
13) "Secrets and...

Could have been sooo much better.
Let me start off by saying I am a big fan of Flash Gordon. not just the 80s movie, but also the Filmation animated series, the orginal comics, and even the Buster Crabbe serials. I even own reprints of orginal Sunday comics. now i did not expect this series to be exactly like those. I dont mind a little diversity. however I found that this series failed on every level for me. Eric Johnson was a bit bland as Flash, Holden a so so Dale Arden. Dr. Zarkov was okish. Hooft was uninspiring as Aura. the few decent characters were Balyn, Rankol, and Prince Baron. their characters were fun to watch. now i dont need Ming to be a cackling villain. but still Ralston didnt seem to inspire menace for me. also Hawkmen without wings!! I can not overstate just how wrong that is. now its not just bland actors that put me off. now i did not expect the show to be total redo the old stories, as the Filmation series did. but i did expect some more action packed stories. which i feel this show lacked. i...

An Underrated Science Fiction Adventure
Flash Gordon was a popular 1930's comic strip by Alex Raymond and ended its run in 2003. In 1935 it became a weekly radio series. The comic made its way onto the small screen in the live-action 1954-1955 series and the animated 1979-1980 series. Three more short-lived cartoon series followed in 1982, 1986, and 1996. Flash even made it on the big screen in forty serials between 1936 and 1940. The comic is more famously known for the 1980 box-office flop that featured a soundtrack by Queen, but over the years it has been become a cult classic.

Flash Gordon returned to television on Sci-Fi (now known as SyFy) for the 2007-2008 live-action series. It was released on DVD in Canada in 2009, but it was unavailable in the United States until Mill Creek Entertainment released it on DVD on Tuesday, which I received a free copy in exchange for my honest review.

The series followed Flash Gordon's quest to find his lost scientist father, who had disappeared when Flash was...

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