September 8, 2025 • 29 mins
Today's Adventure: With the power of invisbililty, Flash terrorizes Azura, Thal, and the Blue Magic Men.
Originating Radio Broadcast Date:August 24 and 31, 1935
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Starring: Gale Gordon as Flash Gordon; Maurice Franklin; Bruno Wick
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Originating Radio Broadcast Date:August 24 and 31, 1935
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Gale Gordon as Flash Gordon; Maurice Franklin; Bruno Wick
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Welcome to the Great Adventurers of Old Time Radio from
boy s, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham. In
a moment, we're going to bring you this week's episodes
of the Interplanetary Adventures of Flash Gordon. But first I
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net now. From August twenty fourth and August thirty first,
nineteen thirty five, here is Chapter seventeen and Chapter eighteen
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of the Interplanetary Adventures of Flash Gordon.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Presenting the amazing interplanetary adventures of Flash Gordon. Last week,
Flash Gordon was given a charge of electrical current which
would keep him invisible for a time sufficient for him
to make a trip to the Witch Queen's Palace, but
he was warned most emphatically by Doctor Zakov that he
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must return to the Herdsman's cottage at the first sign
of his reappearing to human vision. In the meantime, a.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Zura was found to.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Have recovered from the drug of forgetfulness, and Taal delivered Khan.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
To her as a household servant.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
While Taul was out of the room, Khan gave Azura
another portion of Lithian. Azua followed Khan's coaching, and Taul
never suspected she was again drug Meanwhile, deol Arden was
worrying about Flash and feared for his safety, but doctor
Zakov told her they could do nothing but hope for Flash.
Gordon's safe return. While they worried, and Flash arrived at
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the outer walls of Assouri's palace and, terrifying the guards
by his invisibilities, sent word to Azua that the avenging
Shadow was coming. These thrilling adventures come to you as
they are pictured each Sunday in the Big full page
Comic Weekly, the world's greatest pictorial supplement of humor and adventures.
The full page Comic Weekly, each page printed in full colors,
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is distributed everywhere as an integral part of your first
Sunday newspaper. Now we continue the story as Dale, Arden
and doctor Zarkov anxiously wait for Flash. They suddenly hear
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a horse approaching.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
It's Flash I'll go and welcome him.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Wait, let us make sure who it kiss first before
you go out. It may be want to be sold,
just searching for us.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
It is Flash.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
I can see the ride of this course.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Yes, I say, right in this horseholder, But we cannot
tell whether the invisible Flash is riding him or whether
the horses really without him.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
Right you mean Flash may have been cuted.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Oh no, he can't be dead.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
We shall soon know.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
Call him Flash Flash darling.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Are you there?
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (03:20):
It worked, Thank heavens.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
I was so worried about you, darling.
Speaker 7 (03:24):
Why I promised to return before I became visible? And
here I am.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Yes, lad, here you are, and just in time. Look
at your hands.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Oh I can see them, can you?
Speaker 8 (03:34):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (03:34):
Yes, I guess I didn't get back just in time.
Nobody at the palace saw me. Oh how frightened they were.
They ran like mice when they saw me, saw my shadow.
I mean, did you see Tao or the Queen? No
need the one. I didn't trust this tricktest guys too
long the first time. But I sent word to a
Zoora to watch.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Out for me.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Good. That will give us something to think about if
she can think.
Speaker 7 (03:54):
Oh, come now, Dale, you mustn't feel that way. Everything's
all right now.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
I know it is Flash, but I that woman and
I always shall come.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Lad. That does give you another electrical treatment?
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Yes, do?
Speaker 7 (04:06):
Then I can go back to the palace so soon.
I must see what's happened to calm. They've probably taken
him prisoner again, I.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Suppose, though, But I hate to have you go and
leave me.
Speaker 7 (04:15):
Step up on the platform, Flash, all right, I'm sorry
to have to leave you, Daobus, You're safer here. I'll
make this a good one, Daka. I'll have to stay
at the palace longer. This time, I can increase the charge.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Now that we know how it works.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Good.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
I have jotted the amount of current Jules and the
lens of timely to retain its power. Soon we can
control it to suit the occasion, Daka, we'll conquer the witch.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
Queen.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yes, back in the palace, Queen As are been coached
by Khan as to how she should act.
Speaker 8 (05:03):
And when he returns, King Flesh will reward you. Do
you understand?
Speaker 9 (05:06):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (05:07):
But that does not interest me.
Speaker 9 (05:09):
Why must you always be talking about this King?
Speaker 6 (05:11):
Flash?
Speaker 10 (05:12):
Can't you find a more interesting subject?
Speaker 6 (05:14):
I can.
Speaker 8 (05:15):
Time is leading Azora, I'll leads us alone, so little,
I must work fast.
Speaker 10 (05:19):
Tall Flash forget them for a while.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
Let us talk about us.
Speaker 8 (05:23):
We cannot talk about us, Azora. Why not, because when
we become personal in our conversation, I become nothing. You
are everything.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
Aha, that is.
Speaker 9 (05:31):
The most interesting thing I've ever heard you say. Go on,
say something else nice like this.
Speaker 8 (05:38):
That's call.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
Oh, let him knock. I do not want to see
him now.
Speaker 8 (05:43):
You must see him, Asura. He will be suspicious of
your actions and our cause will be lost.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Oh very well, Come in, your majesty.
Speaker 11 (05:53):
We are still unable to find any traitire Flash Gordon
and his companions.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
Never mind, let him go.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Let them go, your majesty, I do not understand.
Speaker 9 (06:04):
It probably will not bother us anymore, and I am
sure I do not care what happened to them?
Speaker 11 (06:10):
Very well, your majesty, you may go tall, very well,
tall hotel, Yes.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Queen, as your last What.
Speaker 9 (06:19):
Had happened to Flash Gordon and the scientists and the girls.
Have you found them?
Speaker 4 (06:24):
You?
Speaker 3 (06:25):
I just told you.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
I told me nothing. How dare you say this thing
to me? You forget? You are addressing your queen.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
What are you saying?
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Why I.
Speaker 11 (06:35):
Yes, your majesty, we are still unable to find any
trace of Flash Gordon and his companions.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
I'll keep searching until you do.
Speaker 9 (06:43):
Do you understand, Yes, your majesty, leave no plate unsearched.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
Those people must be recaptured.
Speaker 11 (06:48):
But I thought you said to let them go, Your majesty,
I said to let them.
Speaker 8 (06:52):
Go, when you must have misunderstood a tall.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
What right has this servant to interpere?
Speaker 11 (06:58):
Do you not remember, your majesty, you ordered him treated
as your friend? When, your majesty, forgive me, but this
must be cleared up. One of us is hopelessly confused.
Do you not remember me bringing this man to you
as a household seventh? Yes, and you ordering me to
treat him as your friend. No, By my life, I
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swear that is truly what happened here in.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
This very room.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
You have never lied to met.
Speaker 9 (07:27):
No, your majesty, I am forced to believe you if
I cannot remember what happened to my mind to cause
it to become a blank.
Speaker 11 (07:34):
Your majesty, did that prisoner give you anything to drink?
Speaker 6 (07:39):
I do not remember.
Speaker 8 (07:41):
You've asked your majesty enough questions, Tom you are tiring her.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
What did you give her to drink your rama.
Speaker 8 (07:46):
Her majesty has not said I gave her anything.
Speaker 9 (07:48):
Wait, I seem to remember he gave me some bacco bacco.
Speaker 11 (07:53):
I thought, so, your majesty, this man gave you another
portion of lithium.
Speaker 6 (07:58):
The drug of forgetfulness. That is what happened to me.
Speaker 11 (08:02):
He pricked me, your majesty. He said he would be
glad to have the opportunity to serve you. Now I
understand what he meant.
Speaker 8 (08:09):
Yes, now you understand. You thought, because King Flash was
forced to leave to save the life of Princess Dale,
that he had deserted me. Well, I let you think so,
and I let you think I had deserted his cause.
Speaker 9 (08:19):
You will not have a chance to serve him or
anyone else now, Cohan.
Speaker 8 (08:22):
I have served him to the best of my ability,
And if the power of e lithium had lasted a
little longer, I should have been able to deliver you
and tall here into his hands.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
Take this man away and keep him closely, God.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
And oh Gods, take this man away.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Queen Azura, Queen Asura, what is the trouble with your majesty?
My companion has been a slain by an invisible enemy.
Invisible enemy, yes, General, and the voice bade me tell her, majesty,
we'll go on that the Avenging Shadow is coming.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
The Avenging Shadow. What nonsense is.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
This, Great gods Hahn, Is this a trick up Flash Garden.
Speaker 8 (08:58):
If it is, I warn you to King, Flash will
rule this magic land before long.
Speaker 11 (09:02):
Now away with him, take the prisoner to the Fiery dungeon.
Speaker 9 (09:11):
What can this invisible enemy be like Taul? Here have
a glass of vacco without lathium this time.
Speaker 11 (09:18):
Thank you, your majesty. The Shadow with some new magic
of Flash. Gordon's ire wager.
Speaker 6 (09:25):
Well, whatever it is, we can spoil it.
Speaker 11 (09:28):
How can we, your majesty? And we do not know
what we are up again?
Speaker 9 (09:32):
And my men stands shoulder to shoulder outside the door
of my quarters and nothing can pass them.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Back in the herdsman's cottage, zach Offendale are thinking about
Flash and how he is getting along.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
He ought to be there by now, Doctor Zarko, just
about Dale. I should like to be there to see
how that wicked acts.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
When Flash meets her, she will not be very pleased.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
I can assure you of that you gave Slash a
good supply of electricity, Doctor Zarko.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Yes, double strength this time.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
I'm so worried about him.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
All those blue magic soldiers there and just Flash against them.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Numbers are useless against an enemy they cannot.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
See Dale's I suppose that's true, and.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
I assure you there is no cause for worry this
time about the power of the electricity lasting. Besides, Flash
has given me his word that he will run no
risk of being seen.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
Oh, Doctor, if I were alone, I think I'd go
mad with worry and sustain.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
I know how you feel, Dale, and I don't blame
you for your anxiety. But if I did that no
Flash Gordon like I do, I too might have some
qualms about his safety.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
I know Flash can do almost anything he sets out
to do, But this time it's different somehow.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Now, see here, there is no use of us sitting
here are tottering ourselves with worry. Let us busy ourselves
do something to keep our minds off flesh until he
comes back.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
All right, artus Arko, what should we do? Well?
Speaker 3 (11:10):
The firewood is getting low. Suppose I take that ax
and chop some while you pick.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
Up kindling blended.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Come along, Be careful now, and don't get too far
away from me there, Why.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
What could possibly happen to me here in this wilderness?
We haven't seen a soul since that searching party went
by the day we came here, I know, but that.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Doesn't prove anything there. Somebody or something might be around.
We do not know what lies in those woods.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
All right, arts Arkov, I'll be careful.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Well, I might as well start jumping down this tree.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
And I'll start picking out some of those small branches
for kindling.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Ah, this tree is a beauty look out all here,
she goes.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
No, what a big tree that off? Give us all
what we need?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
That is right now?
Speaker 3 (12:01):
I will break it up.
Speaker 12 (12:10):
A darclecle No, what happened?
Speaker 3 (12:15):
What's the matter? Steal?
Speaker 12 (12:17):
Steal?
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Back?
Speaker 2 (12:31):
At the palace, Tall and Queen Asura awaits the promise
visit from the avenging Shadow.
Speaker 9 (12:36):
Well, there is no sign of this invisible enemy yet Tall.
Speaker 11 (12:40):
No, I wonder if that was just a threat to
try to scare us.
Speaker 9 (12:45):
Perhaps, Well, I'm going to have some more voco, how
about you?
Speaker 3 (12:48):
No, thank you, your majesty.
Speaker 12 (12:50):
Oh, oh, tell Shadow, what look look at? Taking a
dagon out of my head?
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Drop that sagon, whoever you are, or I'll right you
invisible scene.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
You've killed Tao that do not come near me? Do
you hear?
Speaker 7 (13:08):
Drop that ray pistol Azora?
Speaker 6 (13:09):
I know you, Flash Gordon. I will kill you.
Speaker 7 (13:11):
That's toys a dangerous Zora. You might hurt us out
Give me that gun, No, give it, keep.
Speaker 12 (13:16):
Away, Rake out the door.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
Now he've got flesh Gordon.
Speaker 12 (13:25):
There there is shadow.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Shadow is Flash Gordon. We have n't to hell you God.
Speaker 6 (13:30):
The window is clids, his window.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
I'm hurt him quickly, Nah, have you in my power?
Speaker 6 (13:37):
Flash Gordon, listen to me.
Speaker 7 (13:40):
Zora, Your magic and your soldiers are useless against the
avenging shadow. I leave now, but I shall return.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
The splash Gordon delivers his defiance of Queen Azure. He
leaps through the window. The witch Queen turns to the
captain of the guards.
Speaker 10 (14:02):
After him, Captain, that shadow is flesh Gordon.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Yes, your majesty after him?
Speaker 6 (14:07):
Soldiers, Well, why don't you shoot in him? Captain?
Speaker 4 (14:12):
We can't see him, your majesty.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
He gets leap out of that window.
Speaker 7 (14:15):
He can't be far away through your majesty. But if
we can't see him, how can we tell where he is?
Speaker 9 (14:21):
Ooh Ooo, you saw the raight title he held in
his hand when he said, there on the window sills.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
Why can't you see the pitstol? Now, that ought to
show you his.
Speaker 7 (14:28):
Position, But your majesty, the pistol is nowhere in sight.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
He must have thrown it away.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
Yeah, that was his voice. Where did it come from?
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Oh there, your majesty, But we can't be sure.
Speaker 13 (14:44):
Where can't be sure?
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Fire a body down there?
Speaker 10 (14:47):
You may hit him.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
It is useless, your majesty. He may have run in
any one of four directions.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
There is no use wasting ammunition by firing at nothing.
Speaker 10 (14:56):
Very well, Captain, he's threaten to return if he does
it a shadow. You are as a man who are
to shoot to kill? Do you understand?
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Yes, your majesty, If we see him, we will shoot
him down.
Speaker 10 (15:07):
Flash Gordon is invisible, but he is alive and whole
the same as we are. You can't see him, but
you may be able to touch him. Shoot straight for
the voice when you hear it again. That ought to
put an end to Flash Gordon.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Yes, your majesty, return to waters man.
Speaker 14 (15:23):
Oh oh oh are you all right?
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Oh God, bring that portable repapperbire here and revive General.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
Toll any sign it's coming to that machine working.
Speaker 15 (15:52):
General Towel must not die.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Meanwhile, back in the woods surrounding the herdsman's cottage, zack
Off hers to the aid of Dale.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Arden, Dale, what has happened?
Speaker 6 (16:24):
Where are you? Dale?
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Oh?
Speaker 12 (16:29):
Don't put me down to talk off.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I'm coming to you Dale as fast as I can.
And eight men do not struggle. Dale, Relax. That the
ape man working to our kids. Then it was rapid.
That's it now, right, Steve. I will throw its attention
away from you. Now, are you all right, Dale?
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Yes, I'm all right.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Now. I'll just put an end to this fellow, my
ex so he won't bother us anymore.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
Oh, oh, he's got your dotor, Taco, give me the act.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
I cannot tell you the beast has it crushed between us.
I cannot get it.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
Free hold it over a few minutes longer, doctor, Doc.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Where where are you going?
Speaker 6 (17:21):
Tail? You get your right.
Speaker 13 (17:23):
Histle, Dale, Dale, I am getting weak, Doc.
Speaker 14 (17:41):
We're not try.
Speaker 12 (17:46):
I don't want to hit you.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
I'm free Dale. Shoot you hit it now, kill it,
amade ittle below it's left shoulder. You got it a
good shooting tail, My That was a close call for
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both of us.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
It certainly was, Doctor Darphas. No, it's all over, brother, Oh.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Come, come, do not faint now, Dale, you are all right.
Take some deep breaths of air. Ah, that's right. How
do you feel now?
Speaker 5 (18:29):
I guess I'll be all right now.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
Thanks good.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
My.
Speaker 13 (18:33):
What a big creature this shape man is.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
He is too big to move, so we'll just let
him lie where he is.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
I wonder if there's a tribe of them around here there.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Maybe perhaps we'd better move to some other place as
soon as Flash comes back.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
I do almost forgotten Flash. How long would he intended
to be gone this time.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
Doctors Dark?
Speaker 3 (18:50):
He did not say, But he should not be much longer.
That the electrical charge will soon be wearing off.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Oh I hope that won't be foolish enough to stay
too long.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
You warned him about the risk of the chart wearing.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Yes, Dale, and Flash promised he would not take any
unnecessary chances.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
But he may be cornered in some part of the
palace and be unable to return.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
That is true, Dale, Doctor.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
Let's go to Flash. Let's go and see what happened
to him. I can't stay here and not.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
No day, steady, Dale, you are just nervous and upset.
Flash intended staying away longer than usual. This time we
must be patient.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
All right, doctor Zarkoff, you know best.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
I'll wait for him.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
That is the way to talk.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Dale.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Come now, we have not finished getting our firewood. You
pick up the pieces of wood as I chop.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
Them off.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
For being As the guard continues to work over the
unconscious General all suddenly his efforts are rewarded by.
Speaker 13 (20:05):
QUEENSA queen Osula.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
Good. You may go.
Speaker 11 (20:11):
Now, I'm with you, your majesty.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Where am i? What happened? Oh?
Speaker 13 (20:20):
My head?
Speaker 10 (20:21):
The shadow hit you over the head with the flag.
Speaker 11 (20:23):
And now I remember the shadow you were struggling with it.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Where is it? I'll pin it to the wall.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
It's gone tall.
Speaker 9 (20:31):
It was Flash Gordon, made invisible by some magic of
that earth scientist.
Speaker 11 (20:35):
I wish I had had a chance to get that
Flash Garden.
Speaker 9 (20:38):
You did, and he knocked you unconscious him and I
can will come.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
What happened to the door?
Speaker 10 (20:46):
The soldiers broke it down trying to capture Flash Gordon.
Speaker 11 (20:49):
All the god you posted up there couldn't catch him.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
No.
Speaker 9 (20:53):
They marched across the room shoulder to shoulder, driving the
shadow before them, and suddenly he spoke broke from that window.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Still a fools, Why didn't they shoot as they marched?
Speaker 6 (21:02):
Tell them at bay with your ray pistol.
Speaker 11 (21:04):
If only I've been able to take charge. No ray
pistol would have stopped me.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
From capturing him a flagon.
Speaker 11 (21:11):
I was taken by surprise. I hadn't time to draw
my rape pistol. You should have called me sooner as
you are well.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
You will have another chance at him. Tall he'll return.
Speaker 10 (21:21):
How do you know that, your majesty, He told me
so just before he left.
Speaker 11 (21:25):
I know how we can capture him, Your majesty is
an indirect method that it can be most effective.
Speaker 12 (21:31):
But is it all?
Speaker 6 (21:32):
How can we capture him?
Speaker 11 (21:33):
There is no way of making a person permanently invisible,
anymore than you can make the drug of forgetfulness permanently untal.
You mean sometime the magic will wear off and have
to be repeated.
Speaker 9 (21:47):
I see what you mean. You can get the shadow
cornered in a room that has only one door. Lock
the door for a long enough time, and flash Gordon
will become visible again.
Speaker 11 (21:56):
Yes, that is one way, your majesty, but not the
method I am suggesting, And I.
Speaker 10 (22:02):
Do not follow you.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
Tell what is your method?
Speaker 11 (22:05):
While we are waiting for the shadow to reappear? Why
not capture the sauce of the magic power?
Speaker 6 (22:13):
Wonderful? That is a wonderful plan, Tol.
Speaker 11 (22:16):
How can you do this very easily, your majesty? Of course,
we shall take every measure to capture the shadow within
the palace. In the meantime, I shall take a company
of soldiers and personally discover and capture that earth magician
Za cop the scientist.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
A towel plot to capture doctor Zako from the scientist,
and they'll anxiously await Flash Gordon's return. A solitary guard
paces back and forth before the iron bars of the
cell in which Coln the hawk Man has been put
for safe keeping. As the guard pauses and rest his
weight on his flame rifle, it has suddenly snatched from
under his arm and thrust into his stomach as a
voice nowhere asks is.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
Captain con alive the shadow?
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Oh yes, yes, yes, he's alive.
Speaker 7 (23:06):
Tell me where he is or you die?
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Oh yes, Conn is in this hell?
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Can are you all right? Yes? I'm all right?
Speaker 13 (23:13):
Is that you flat?
Speaker 4 (23:14):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (23:14):
Khn, and clear him the door. I'm going to melt
the lock with this flaime rifle right, and you'd better
stay right where you are, God, if you want to live.
I said, you come back, Flack. It tried to make
me think you and the others had deserted me, desert
my friend. Never I came back, especially to find your count.
We had to leave. Suddenly they were melting down our doors.
There was no time to waste that tause what I
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thought it happened. Flack always tends to Dale and doctor's
heart poll.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Well and safe.
Speaker 7 (23:39):
We'll see them presently. Ah, the lock is almost melted.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Good.
Speaker 7 (23:43):
I almost got control of the palace while you were gone.
I drugged the Dona again with a lithium more off
and my plot was discovered.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
That's why I'm here. That was too bad. Can For
a while, it worked beautifully.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
I had that devil call thinking I was a Dona's friend.
I just gave him something to remember me by. I
broke a flagon over his head.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
Who bad?
Speaker 7 (23:59):
It wasn't his bro I'm not sure I didn't. There
wasn't any time to waste finding out, though soldiers were
on top of me. Ah, there the lock is melted through.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
Come on out.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Con, that's fine.
Speaker 7 (24:11):
Why, I certainly glad to see you. What white?
Speaker 4 (24:13):
Where are you?
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Why?
Speaker 7 (24:16):
Why don't look so startled?
Speaker 10 (24:18):
Khan?
Speaker 7 (24:18):
Where are you? I hear you, but I can't see you?
Dark Off newest invention made me invisible? Yeah, take this
gun while I bind the.
Speaker 8 (24:25):
God how which certainly is odd to see your rifle
suspend it in the air, isn't it.
Speaker 7 (24:30):
I've been having great supports with the soldiers.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Help as, help.
Speaker 7 (24:35):
That you will be using that voice of yours for
a while. Hoorry flash that? Why may bring a solabody?
Speaker 10 (24:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Flat?
Speaker 10 (24:44):
Eh?
Speaker 4 (24:44):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Con?
Speaker 7 (24:45):
I can see your hands so you can sark Off
warned me the electrical rays would wear up. We must
cut it now. There's no time to lose. Here comes
the Dona with some more guards. You hold them back
with that right, I'm going to capture Azora while that
attention is centered on you, sand back, you holders of
the witch.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
I'm hot here.
Speaker 7 (25:04):
It's Judas.
Speaker 6 (25:06):
Hey where you are?
Speaker 12 (25:07):
Why did he get out of that?
Speaker 6 (25:08):
Sale?
Speaker 12 (25:09):
Shut him down?
Speaker 6 (25:09):
Men? What are you waiting for?
Speaker 2 (25:12):
The soldiers battle Khan's merciless fire with the flame rifle,
as Zura suddenly finds herself grasped by two phantom hands.
Speaker 7 (25:18):
Oh shatter at last, disorder, I've got you in my power.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Next Sunday you will find these adventures graphically portrayed in
full color action pictures in the Comic Weekly, which is
distributed with your Hearst Sunday newspaper.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
See all these characters.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
And gain the added thrill of knowing them by sight
as well as by voice. Flash Gordon, day Laden and
Doctor Zakhov, who are from this Earth, and Tall Azura
Khan and others who are inhabitants of the planet Bongo,
where our story takes place. You will also meet old
favorites like Bonnie Google, Sutson, Kasper, the Katsanyama Kids, and
many others. So be sure to get the colorful and
entertaining Comic Weekly each week with your Hearst Sunday newspaper,
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and next week at the same time, we'll be back
with another chapter in the amazing interplanetary adventures of Flash Gordon.
Speaker 6 (27:05):
Welcome back well, General Tall.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Learning the important lesson that if you are going to
say something would not have happened if you had been there,
it had better be an event that didn't occur while
you were standing right there and even worse getting beat
down by the enemy you promised to defeat. Probably the
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show's one big struggle here is trying to keep the
Dale and Zarkov segments interesting, and I'm not certain those
are working out. Although the ape man thing was interesting,
it felt just a bit random. It's like, okay, we
can't just have them talking and worrying about flash. I
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thought it was interesting that the eighteenth episode ends on
a cliffhanger where the villain has been captured, which is
not typically something you hear. We'll have to see how
our villainness gets out of it or whatever the clubhanger is.
We'll find out what happens next. Well, now it is
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Welcome to the Great Adventurers of Old Time Radio from
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nineteen thirty five, here is Chapter seventeen and Chapter eighteen
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of the Interplanetary Adventures of Flash Gordon.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Presenting the amazing interplanetary adventures of Flash Gordon. Last week,
Flash Gordon was given a charge of electrical current which
would keep him invisible for a time sufficient for him
to make a trip to the Witch Queen's Palace, but
he was warned most emphatically by Doctor Zakov that he
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must return to the Herdsman's cottage at the first sign
of his reappearing to human vision. In the meantime, a.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Zura was found to.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Have recovered from the drug of forgetfulness, and Taal delivered Khan.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
To her as a household servant.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
While Taul was out of the room, Khan gave Azura
another portion of Lithian. Azua followed Khan's coaching, and Taul
never suspected she was again drug Meanwhile, deol Arden was
worrying about Flash and feared for his safety, but doctor
Zakov told her they could do nothing but hope for Flash.
Gordon's safe return. While they worried, and Flash arrived at
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the outer walls of Assouri's palace and, terrifying the guards
by his invisibilities, sent word to Azua that the avenging
Shadow was coming. These thrilling adventures come to you as
they are pictured each Sunday in the Big full page
Comic Weekly, the world's greatest pictorial supplement of humor and adventures.
The full page Comic Weekly, each page printed in full colors,
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is distributed everywhere as an integral part of your first
Sunday newspaper. Now we continue the story as Dale, Arden
and doctor Zarkov anxiously wait for Flash. They suddenly hear
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a horse approaching.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
It's Flash I'll go and welcome him.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Wait, let us make sure who it kiss first before
you go out. It may be want to be sold,
just searching for us.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
It is Flash.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
I can see the ride of this course.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Yes, I say, right in this horseholder, But we cannot
tell whether the invisible Flash is riding him or whether
the horses really without him.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
Right you mean Flash may have been cuted.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Oh no, he can't be dead.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
We shall soon know.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
Call him Flash Flash darling.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Are you there?
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (03:20):
It worked, Thank heavens.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
I was so worried about you, darling.
Speaker 7 (03:24):
Why I promised to return before I became visible? And
here I am.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Yes, lad, here you are, and just in time. Look
at your hands.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Oh I can see them, can you?
Speaker 8 (03:34):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (03:34):
Yes, I guess I didn't get back just in time.
Nobody at the palace saw me. Oh how frightened they were.
They ran like mice when they saw me, saw my shadow.
I mean, did you see Tao or the Queen? No
need the one. I didn't trust this tricktest guys too
long the first time. But I sent word to a
Zoora to watch.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Out for me.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Good. That will give us something to think about if
she can think.
Speaker 7 (03:54):
Oh, come now, Dale, you mustn't feel that way. Everything's
all right now.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
I know it is Flash, but I that woman and
I always shall come.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Lad. That does give you another electrical treatment?
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Yes, do?
Speaker 7 (04:06):
Then I can go back to the palace so soon.
I must see what's happened to calm. They've probably taken
him prisoner again, I.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Suppose, though, But I hate to have you go and
leave me.
Speaker 7 (04:15):
Step up on the platform, Flash, all right, I'm sorry
to have to leave you, Daobus, You're safer here. I'll
make this a good one, Daka. I'll have to stay
at the palace longer. This time, I can increase the charge.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Now that we know how it works.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Good.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
I have jotted the amount of current Jules and the
lens of timely to retain its power. Soon we can
control it to suit the occasion, Daka, we'll conquer the witch.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
Queen.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yes, back in the palace, Queen As are been coached
by Khan as to how she should act.
Speaker 8 (05:03):
And when he returns, King Flesh will reward you. Do
you understand?
Speaker 9 (05:06):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (05:07):
But that does not interest me.
Speaker 9 (05:09):
Why must you always be talking about this King?
Speaker 6 (05:11):
Flash?
Speaker 10 (05:12):
Can't you find a more interesting subject?
Speaker 6 (05:14):
I can.
Speaker 8 (05:15):
Time is leading Azora, I'll leads us alone, so little,
I must work fast.
Speaker 10 (05:19):
Tall Flash forget them for a while.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
Let us talk about us.
Speaker 8 (05:23):
We cannot talk about us, Azora. Why not, because when
we become personal in our conversation, I become nothing. You
are everything.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
Aha, that is.
Speaker 9 (05:31):
The most interesting thing I've ever heard you say. Go on,
say something else nice like this.
Speaker 8 (05:38):
That's call.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
Oh, let him knock. I do not want to see
him now.
Speaker 8 (05:43):
You must see him, Asura. He will be suspicious of
your actions and our cause will be lost.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Oh very well, Come in, your majesty.
Speaker 11 (05:53):
We are still unable to find any traitire Flash Gordon
and his companions.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
Never mind, let him go.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Let them go, your majesty, I do not understand.
Speaker 9 (06:04):
It probably will not bother us anymore, and I am
sure I do not care what happened to them?
Speaker 11 (06:10):
Very well, your majesty, you may go tall, very well,
tall hotel, Yes.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Queen, as your last What.
Speaker 9 (06:19):
Had happened to Flash Gordon and the scientists and the girls.
Have you found them?
Speaker 4 (06:24):
You?
Speaker 3 (06:25):
I just told you.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
I told me nothing. How dare you say this thing
to me? You forget? You are addressing your queen.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
What are you saying?
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Why I.
Speaker 11 (06:35):
Yes, your majesty, we are still unable to find any
trace of Flash Gordon and his companions.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
I'll keep searching until you do.
Speaker 9 (06:43):
Do you understand, Yes, your majesty, leave no plate unsearched.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
Those people must be recaptured.
Speaker 11 (06:48):
But I thought you said to let them go, Your majesty,
I said to let them.
Speaker 8 (06:52):
Go, when you must have misunderstood a tall.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
What right has this servant to interpere?
Speaker 11 (06:58):
Do you not remember, your majesty, you ordered him treated
as your friend? When, your majesty, forgive me, but this
must be cleared up. One of us is hopelessly confused.
Do you not remember me bringing this man to you
as a household seventh? Yes, and you ordering me to
treat him as your friend. No, By my life, I
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swear that is truly what happened here in.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
This very room.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
You have never lied to met.
Speaker 9 (07:27):
No, your majesty, I am forced to believe you if
I cannot remember what happened to my mind to cause
it to become a blank.
Speaker 11 (07:34):
Your majesty, did that prisoner give you anything to drink?
Speaker 6 (07:39):
I do not remember.
Speaker 8 (07:41):
You've asked your majesty enough questions, Tom you are tiring her.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
What did you give her to drink your rama.
Speaker 8 (07:46):
Her majesty has not said I gave her anything.
Speaker 9 (07:48):
Wait, I seem to remember he gave me some bacco bacco.
Speaker 11 (07:53):
I thought, so, your majesty, this man gave you another
portion of lithium.
Speaker 6 (07:58):
The drug of forgetfulness. That is what happened to me.
Speaker 11 (08:02):
He pricked me, your majesty. He said he would be
glad to have the opportunity to serve you. Now I
understand what he meant.
Speaker 8 (08:09):
Yes, now you understand. You thought, because King Flash was
forced to leave to save the life of Princess Dale,
that he had deserted me. Well, I let you think so,
and I let you think I had deserted his cause.
Speaker 9 (08:19):
You will not have a chance to serve him or
anyone else now, Cohan.
Speaker 8 (08:22):
I have served him to the best of my ability,
And if the power of e lithium had lasted a
little longer, I should have been able to deliver you
and tall here into his hands.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
Take this man away and keep him closely, God.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
And oh Gods, take this man away.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Queen Azura, Queen Asura, what is the trouble with your majesty?
My companion has been a slain by an invisible enemy.
Invisible enemy, yes, General, and the voice bade me tell her, majesty,
we'll go on that the Avenging Shadow is coming.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
The Avenging Shadow. What nonsense is.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
This, Great gods Hahn, Is this a trick up Flash Garden.
Speaker 8 (08:58):
If it is, I warn you to King, Flash will
rule this magic land before long.
Speaker 11 (09:02):
Now away with him, take the prisoner to the Fiery dungeon.
Speaker 9 (09:11):
What can this invisible enemy be like Taul? Here have
a glass of vacco without lathium this time.
Speaker 11 (09:18):
Thank you, your majesty. The Shadow with some new magic
of Flash. Gordon's ire wager.
Speaker 6 (09:25):
Well, whatever it is, we can spoil it.
Speaker 11 (09:28):
How can we, your majesty? And we do not know
what we are up again?
Speaker 9 (09:32):
And my men stands shoulder to shoulder outside the door
of my quarters and nothing can pass them.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Back in the herdsman's cottage, zach Offendale are thinking about
Flash and how he is getting along.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
He ought to be there by now, Doctor Zarko, just
about Dale. I should like to be there to see
how that wicked acts.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
When Flash meets her, she will not be very pleased.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
I can assure you of that you gave Slash a
good supply of electricity, Doctor Zarko.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Yes, double strength this time.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
I'm so worried about him.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
All those blue magic soldiers there and just Flash against them.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Numbers are useless against an enemy they cannot.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
See Dale's I suppose that's true, and.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
I assure you there is no cause for worry this
time about the power of the electricity lasting. Besides, Flash
has given me his word that he will run no
risk of being seen.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
Oh, Doctor, if I were alone, I think I'd go
mad with worry and sustain.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
I know how you feel, Dale, and I don't blame
you for your anxiety. But if I did that no
Flash Gordon like I do, I too might have some
qualms about his safety.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
I know Flash can do almost anything he sets out
to do, But this time it's different somehow.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Now, see here, there is no use of us sitting
here are tottering ourselves with worry. Let us busy ourselves
do something to keep our minds off flesh until he
comes back.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
All right, artus Arko, what should we do? Well?
Speaker 3 (11:10):
The firewood is getting low. Suppose I take that ax
and chop some while you pick.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
Up kindling blended.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Come along, Be careful now, and don't get too far
away from me there, Why.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
What could possibly happen to me here in this wilderness?
We haven't seen a soul since that searching party went
by the day we came here, I know, but that.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Doesn't prove anything there. Somebody or something might be around.
We do not know what lies in those woods.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
All right, arts Arkov, I'll be careful.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Well, I might as well start jumping down this tree.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
And I'll start picking out some of those small branches
for kindling.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Ah, this tree is a beauty look out all here,
she goes.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
No, what a big tree that off? Give us all
what we need?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
That is right now?
Speaker 3 (12:01):
I will break it up.
Speaker 12 (12:10):
A darclecle No, what happened?
Speaker 3 (12:15):
What's the matter? Steal?
Speaker 12 (12:17):
Steal?
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Back?
Speaker 2 (12:31):
At the palace, Tall and Queen Asura awaits the promise
visit from the avenging Shadow.
Speaker 9 (12:36):
Well, there is no sign of this invisible enemy yet Tall.
Speaker 11 (12:40):
No, I wonder if that was just a threat to
try to scare us.
Speaker 9 (12:45):
Perhaps, Well, I'm going to have some more voco, how
about you?
Speaker 3 (12:48):
No, thank you, your majesty.
Speaker 12 (12:50):
Oh, oh, tell Shadow, what look look at? Taking a
dagon out of my head?
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Drop that sagon, whoever you are, or I'll right you
invisible scene.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
You've killed Tao that do not come near me? Do
you hear?
Speaker 7 (13:08):
Drop that ray pistol Azora?
Speaker 6 (13:09):
I know you, Flash Gordon. I will kill you.
Speaker 7 (13:11):
That's toys a dangerous Zora. You might hurt us out
Give me that gun, No, give it, keep.
Speaker 12 (13:16):
Away, Rake out the door.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
Now he've got flesh Gordon.
Speaker 12 (13:25):
There there is shadow.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Shadow is Flash Gordon. We have n't to hell you God.
Speaker 6 (13:30):
The window is clids, his window.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
I'm hurt him quickly, Nah, have you in my power?
Speaker 6 (13:37):
Flash Gordon, listen to me.
Speaker 7 (13:40):
Zora, Your magic and your soldiers are useless against the
avenging shadow. I leave now, but I shall return.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
The splash Gordon delivers his defiance of Queen Azure. He
leaps through the window. The witch Queen turns to the
captain of the guards.
Speaker 10 (14:02):
After him, Captain, that shadow is flesh Gordon.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Yes, your majesty after him?
Speaker 6 (14:07):
Soldiers, Well, why don't you shoot in him? Captain?
Speaker 4 (14:12):
We can't see him, your majesty.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
He gets leap out of that window.
Speaker 7 (14:15):
He can't be far away through your majesty. But if
we can't see him, how can we tell where he is?
Speaker 9 (14:21):
Ooh Ooo, you saw the raight title he held in
his hand when he said, there on the window sills.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
Why can't you see the pitstol? Now, that ought to
show you his.
Speaker 7 (14:28):
Position, But your majesty, the pistol is nowhere in sight.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
He must have thrown it away.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
Yeah, that was his voice. Where did it come from?
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Oh there, your majesty, But we can't be sure.
Speaker 13 (14:44):
Where can't be sure?
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Fire a body down there?
Speaker 10 (14:47):
You may hit him.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
It is useless, your majesty. He may have run in
any one of four directions.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
There is no use wasting ammunition by firing at nothing.
Speaker 10 (14:56):
Very well, Captain, he's threaten to return if he does
it a shadow. You are as a man who are
to shoot to kill? Do you understand?
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Yes, your majesty, If we see him, we will shoot
him down.
Speaker 10 (15:07):
Flash Gordon is invisible, but he is alive and whole
the same as we are. You can't see him, but
you may be able to touch him. Shoot straight for
the voice when you hear it again. That ought to
put an end to Flash Gordon.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Yes, your majesty, return to waters man.
Speaker 14 (15:23):
Oh oh oh are you all right?
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Oh God, bring that portable repapperbire here and revive General.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
Toll any sign it's coming to that machine working.
Speaker 15 (15:52):
General Towel must not die.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Meanwhile, back in the woods surrounding the herdsman's cottage, zack
Off hers to the aid of Dale.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Arden, Dale, what has happened?
Speaker 6 (16:24):
Where are you? Dale?
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Oh?
Speaker 12 (16:29):
Don't put me down to talk off.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I'm coming to you Dale as fast as I can.
And eight men do not struggle. Dale, Relax. That the
ape man working to our kids. Then it was rapid.
That's it now, right, Steve. I will throw its attention
away from you. Now, are you all right, Dale?
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Yes, I'm all right.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Now. I'll just put an end to this fellow, my
ex so he won't bother us anymore.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
Oh, oh, he's got your dotor, Taco, give me the act.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
I cannot tell you the beast has it crushed between us.
I cannot get it.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
Free hold it over a few minutes longer, doctor, Doc.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Where where are you going?
Speaker 6 (17:21):
Tail? You get your right.
Speaker 13 (17:23):
Histle, Dale, Dale, I am getting weak, Doc.
Speaker 14 (17:41):
We're not try.
Speaker 12 (17:46):
I don't want to hit you.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
I'm free Dale. Shoot you hit it now, kill it,
amade ittle below it's left shoulder. You got it a
good shooting tail, My That was a close call for
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both of us.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
It certainly was, Doctor Darphas. No, it's all over, brother, Oh.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Come, come, do not faint now, Dale, you are all right.
Take some deep breaths of air. Ah, that's right. How
do you feel now?
Speaker 5 (18:29):
I guess I'll be all right now.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
Thanks good.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
My.
Speaker 13 (18:33):
What a big creature this shape man is.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
He is too big to move, so we'll just let
him lie where he is.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
I wonder if there's a tribe of them around here there.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Maybe perhaps we'd better move to some other place as
soon as Flash comes back.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
I do almost forgotten Flash. How long would he intended
to be gone this time.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
Doctors Dark?
Speaker 3 (18:50):
He did not say, But he should not be much longer.
That the electrical charge will soon be wearing off.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Oh I hope that won't be foolish enough to stay
too long.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
You warned him about the risk of the chart wearing.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Yes, Dale, and Flash promised he would not take any
unnecessary chances.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
But he may be cornered in some part of the
palace and be unable to return.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
That is true, Dale, Doctor.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
Let's go to Flash. Let's go and see what happened
to him. I can't stay here and not.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
No day, steady, Dale, you are just nervous and upset.
Flash intended staying away longer than usual. This time we
must be patient.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
All right, doctor Zarkoff, you know best.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
I'll wait for him.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
That is the way to talk.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Dale.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Come now, we have not finished getting our firewood. You
pick up the pieces of wood as I chop.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
Them off.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
For being As the guard continues to work over the
unconscious General all suddenly his efforts are rewarded by.
Speaker 13 (20:05):
QUEENSA queen Osula.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
Good. You may go.
Speaker 11 (20:11):
Now, I'm with you, your majesty.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Where am i? What happened? Oh?
Speaker 13 (20:20):
My head?
Speaker 10 (20:21):
The shadow hit you over the head with the flag.
Speaker 11 (20:23):
And now I remember the shadow you were struggling with it.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Where is it? I'll pin it to the wall.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
It's gone tall.
Speaker 9 (20:31):
It was Flash Gordon, made invisible by some magic of
that earth scientist.
Speaker 11 (20:35):
I wish I had had a chance to get that
Flash Garden.
Speaker 9 (20:38):
You did, and he knocked you unconscious him and I
can will come.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
What happened to the door?
Speaker 10 (20:46):
The soldiers broke it down trying to capture Flash Gordon.
Speaker 11 (20:49):
All the god you posted up there couldn't catch him.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
No.
Speaker 9 (20:53):
They marched across the room shoulder to shoulder, driving the
shadow before them, and suddenly he spoke broke from that window.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Still a fools, Why didn't they shoot as they marched?
Speaker 6 (21:02):
Tell them at bay with your ray pistol.
Speaker 11 (21:04):
If only I've been able to take charge. No ray
pistol would have stopped me.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
From capturing him a flagon.
Speaker 11 (21:11):
I was taken by surprise. I hadn't time to draw
my rape pistol. You should have called me sooner as
you are well.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
You will have another chance at him. Tall he'll return.
Speaker 10 (21:21):
How do you know that, your majesty, He told me
so just before he left.
Speaker 11 (21:25):
I know how we can capture him, Your majesty is
an indirect method that it can be most effective.
Speaker 12 (21:31):
But is it all?
Speaker 6 (21:32):
How can we capture him?
Speaker 11 (21:33):
There is no way of making a person permanently invisible,
anymore than you can make the drug of forgetfulness permanently untal.
You mean sometime the magic will wear off and have
to be repeated.
Speaker 9 (21:47):
I see what you mean. You can get the shadow
cornered in a room that has only one door. Lock
the door for a long enough time, and flash Gordon
will become visible again.
Speaker 11 (21:56):
Yes, that is one way, your majesty, but not the
method I am suggesting, And I.
Speaker 10 (22:02):
Do not follow you.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
Tell what is your method?
Speaker 11 (22:05):
While we are waiting for the shadow to reappear? Why
not capture the sauce of the magic power?
Speaker 6 (22:13):
Wonderful? That is a wonderful plan, Tol.
Speaker 11 (22:16):
How can you do this very easily, your majesty? Of course,
we shall take every measure to capture the shadow within
the palace. In the meantime, I shall take a company
of soldiers and personally discover and capture that earth magician
Za cop the scientist.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
A towel plot to capture doctor Zako from the scientist,
and they'll anxiously await Flash Gordon's return. A solitary guard
paces back and forth before the iron bars of the
cell in which Coln the hawk Man has been put
for safe keeping. As the guard pauses and rest his
weight on his flame rifle, it has suddenly snatched from
under his arm and thrust into his stomach as a
voice nowhere asks is.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
Captain con alive the shadow?
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Oh yes, yes, yes, he's alive.
Speaker 7 (23:06):
Tell me where he is or you die?
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Oh yes, Conn is in this hell?
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Can are you all right? Yes? I'm all right?
Speaker 13 (23:13):
Is that you flat?
Speaker 4 (23:14):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (23:14):
Khn, and clear him the door. I'm going to melt
the lock with this flaime rifle right, and you'd better
stay right where you are, God, if you want to live.
I said, you come back, Flack. It tried to make
me think you and the others had deserted me, desert
my friend. Never I came back, especially to find your count.
We had to leave. Suddenly they were melting down our doors.
There was no time to waste that tause what I
(23:35):
thought it happened. Flack always tends to Dale and doctor's
heart poll.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Well and safe.
Speaker 7 (23:39):
We'll see them presently. Ah, the lock is almost melted.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Good.
Speaker 7 (23:43):
I almost got control of the palace while you were gone.
I drugged the Dona again with a lithium more off
and my plot was discovered.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
That's why I'm here. That was too bad. Can For
a while, it worked beautifully.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
I had that devil call thinking I was a Dona's friend.
I just gave him something to remember me by. I
broke a flagon over his head.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
Who bad?
Speaker 7 (23:59):
It wasn't his bro I'm not sure I didn't. There
wasn't any time to waste finding out, though soldiers were
on top of me. Ah, there the lock is melted through.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
Come on out.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Con, that's fine.
Speaker 7 (24:11):
Why, I certainly glad to see you. What white?
Speaker 4 (24:13):
Where are you?
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Why?
Speaker 7 (24:16):
Why don't look so startled?
Speaker 10 (24:18):
Khan?
Speaker 7 (24:18):
Where are you? I hear you, but I can't see you?
Dark Off newest invention made me invisible? Yeah, take this
gun while I bind the.
Speaker 8 (24:25):
God how which certainly is odd to see your rifle
suspend it in the air, isn't it.
Speaker 7 (24:30):
I've been having great supports with the soldiers.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Help as, help.
Speaker 7 (24:35):
That you will be using that voice of yours for
a while. Hoorry flash that? Why may bring a solabody?
Speaker 10 (24:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Flat?
Speaker 10 (24:44):
Eh?
Speaker 4 (24:44):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Con?
Speaker 7 (24:45):
I can see your hands so you can sark Off
warned me the electrical rays would wear up. We must
cut it now. There's no time to lose. Here comes
the Dona with some more guards. You hold them back
with that right, I'm going to capture Azora while that
attention is centered on you, sand back, you holders of
the witch.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
I'm hot here.
Speaker 7 (25:04):
It's Judas.
Speaker 6 (25:06):
Hey where you are?
Speaker 12 (25:07):
Why did he get out of that?
Speaker 6 (25:08):
Sale?
Speaker 12 (25:09):
Shut him down?
Speaker 6 (25:09):
Men? What are you waiting for?
Speaker 2 (25:12):
The soldiers battle Khan's merciless fire with the flame rifle,
as Zura suddenly finds herself grasped by two phantom hands.
Speaker 7 (25:18):
Oh shatter at last, disorder, I've got you in my power.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Next Sunday you will find these adventures graphically portrayed in
full color action pictures in the Comic Weekly, which is
distributed with your Hearst Sunday newspaper.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
See all these characters.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
And gain the added thrill of knowing them by sight
as well as by voice. Flash Gordon, day Laden and
Doctor Zakhov, who are from this Earth, and Tall Azura
Khan and others who are inhabitants of the planet Bongo,
where our story takes place. You will also meet old
favorites like Bonnie Google, Sutson, Kasper, the Katsanyama Kids, and
many others. So be sure to get the colorful and
entertaining Comic Weekly each week with your Hearst Sunday newspaper,
(26:04):
and next week at the same time, we'll be back
with another chapter in the amazing interplanetary adventures of Flash Gordon.
Speaker 6 (27:05):
Welcome back well, General Tall.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Learning the important lesson that if you are going to
say something would not have happened if you had been there,
it had better be an event that didn't occur while
you were standing right there and even worse getting beat
down by the enemy you promised to defeat. Probably the
(27:29):
show's one big struggle here is trying to keep the
Dale and Zarkov segments interesting, and I'm not certain those
are working out. Although the ape man thing was interesting,
it felt just a bit random. It's like, okay, we
can't just have them talking and worrying about flash. I
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thought it was interesting that the eighteenth episode ends on
a cliffhanger where the villain has been captured, which is
not typically something you hear. We'll have to see how
our villainness gets out of it or whatever the clubhanger is.
We'll find out what happens next. Well, now it is
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time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day, and
I do want to go ahead and thank Rose, Patreon
supporter since June of twenty twenty three, currently supporting the
podcast at the secret Agent level of four dollars or
more per month. Thanks so much for your support, Rose,
and that will do it for today. If you're enjoying
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with another episode of Flash Gordon, But be sure and
join us back here on Saturday for another episode of
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Cloak and Dagger. In the meantime, do send your comment
to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net. From Boise, Idaho,
this is your host, Adam Graham signing off.
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