August 12, 2025 • 33 mins
Today's Adventure: Zarkoff is determined to rescue Flash Gordon. But Flash, under the control of the Witch Queen Azura, sets out to capture Zarkoff and his army of Hawkmen while dealing with treachery from Azura's high priest and general, Tal.
Originating Radio Broadcast Date: June 22 and July 6, 1935
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Starring: Gale Gordon as Flash Gordon; Maurice Franklin; Bruno Wick
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Originating Radio Broadcast Date: June 22 and July 6, 1935
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Gale Gordon as Flash Gordon; Maurice Franklin; Bruno Wick
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
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(00:50):
The episodes are date to June twenty second and July
sixth of nineteen thirty five, although there are no missing
episodes in between. Let's go ahead and take a lesson
though to episodes nine and ten of the Interplanetary Adventures
of Flash Gordon.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Presenting the amazing Interplanetary Adventures of Flash Gordon. Last week,
Flash Gordon, at Queen Asura's suggestion, turned the combustion ray
guns on the advance guard of the attacking Hawkman and
brought them to the ground.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
In flames.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Ordering his men to retreat, Doctor Zarkov led the way
to a nearby tunnel, where he shut out the flames
with a wall of chemical ice. Back at the palace
with Dale and Khan Mar, the Spy decided on his
daring attempt to find doctor Zarkoff and deliver his report.
While Flashing his officers were reconnoitering outside the entrance to
the tunnel in which Zarkoff and his hawkmen are barricaded.
Paul tried to persuade Queen Asura that Flash was not
(01:58):
capable enough to be Mandarin chiefs.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
At that moment, Flash rode up and.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Tall urged the Zura to listen to what he proposed
and then choose which man was better qualified to head
the army. Without hesitation, Flash declare that the only thing
to do was charge, and gave the order himself. These
thrilling adventures come to you as they are pictured each
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We now continue the story with shouts and confusion. The
Blue Magic Army charges to attack the barricaded Hawkman Suddenly Tall,
(02:51):
curious at being displaced as general by Flash, draws a
beat on his back and pulls the trigger. Why Flash.
His horse stumbles and pitches forward. Dead Flash hurl to
the ground.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Stop starting sure It.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Gives the order to stop the charge and makes her
way to Flash aside.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Pledge, my prim Are you hurt? Oh specially my glorious one?
Flash here here take your helmet. Someone open your eyes,
my beloved prim?
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Where am I.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Quick?
Speaker 6 (03:21):
You given some stimulants from the flask?
Speaker 7 (03:24):
That hizure?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
My beautiful one? What happened? You're all right?
Speaker 8 (03:32):
No?
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Thanks to tell here, your majesty?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
What you shot?
Speaker 6 (03:36):
A flashes back?
Speaker 9 (03:37):
No, no, I saw you.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
It's lucky your hand wasn't steady, but from making an
attent on flashes life.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
You shall die by my sword.
Speaker 10 (03:47):
No, no, your majesty, I beg of you.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Wait, don't kill he deserves to die.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
This was an act of greatest pressure.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
No, no, it was an accident. I swear it clean
as your eye. It was.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Let him go, ada, I'll take his word for it.
It's growing dark and we can't afford a moment's delay.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Very well, all get behind the lines and thank your
Prince's generosity that you live.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Thank you, sire, I, thank you, gracious Queen.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
And now for a fresh mount. My horse is.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Dead, take my horse.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Play very well.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
See growing darker with each second. It will be better
to camp here for the night and attack of daylight.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
But the hawkman may escape during the night.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Ofa not if we keep the combustion ray guns trained
on them.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Omen the seeds to the tunnel with the combustion ray
gun part the mirage of combustion rays as soon as
the rains can be found. And tomorrow morning, my queen,
but come, I will tell you of my plan.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
I hope they aren't all military ones might sin.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Right back in Aszura's palace, the chief cook closes the
kitchen until the morning shift will come on, and Dale
and Khan march out with the other slaves.
Speaker 11 (05:11):
I'm worried, Khan, nothing to worry about. Princess mar is
taking an awful risk. He'll never be able to find
his way through the enemy lines. To doctor Zharko.
Speaker 12 (05:20):
Maybe Tomar he was clever enough to get himself into
the palace. He'll get back to Zarkoff somehow.
Speaker 13 (05:25):
Oh way, your quart can Do you really think Mar
will get to Zarkov in time to warn him?
Speaker 11 (05:36):
Of course, I heard one of the guards say their
army had the Hawkman bottled up in a tunnel something.
Speaker 12 (05:40):
If that is op, Princess, Dharkoff can't pay very far
from here. It ought to be easy for Mar to
see the lights of the campfires, and so I'll make
his way straight to the lines.
Speaker 11 (05:47):
Oh, I hope he gets there in time for do
Zarkoff may not know why flashes at the head of
the Blue Magic Man. He may think he's a trader
and shoot him down on site, grew, Princess.
Speaker 12 (05:56):
But on the other hand, Flash not recognizing Zharkoff as
his friend, may kill him.
Speaker 11 (06:00):
Oh, con Ma must get through those lines. If he doesn't,
something terrible would happen. I know it.
Speaker 12 (06:06):
Don't worry, Princess. I know Mar to be a fine
officer and a brave soldier. He'll get worried through the
Zarkoff or die in the attempt.
Speaker 11 (06:12):
We do say that comes he makes to grow cool
all over.
Speaker 12 (06:15):
I'm sorry, Princess, I only wish to convey to you
how hard mar will try to carry out his mission.
Speaker 11 (06:19):
If Mark gets to Zarkoff and tells him about Slash,
the great scientist may be able to get him out
of the wicked Queen's power.
Speaker 12 (06:25):
That's what I'm hoping, Princess. I'm only a rough soldier.
I know nothing of drugs and chemicals. We need Darkoff
and his great knowledge. I'm sure he could help us come.
Speaker 11 (06:33):
Yes, it's odd how long we affected that drug. He
has lasted down Splash, don't you think so?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Yes?
Speaker 12 (06:38):
I do. At first I thought it might be put
in his food, But I watched every morsel of that prepared.
It's taken from the same pants and kettles as a Zurus,
and nothing happens to.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
It in the kitchen.
Speaker 11 (06:48):
Perhaps the Zura gives it to him.
Speaker 12 (06:49):
Most likely, Well, she has a splendid opportunity to renew
the drug now out on the field of battle.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
If she needs to renew it, why what do you mean,
Princess can.
Speaker 11 (06:59):
Sometimes I want a flash is under the spell of
the Queen's magic drugs, or under the spell or the
Queen herself. She is a beautiful and attractive woman.
Speaker 12 (07:07):
You mean a Flash is pretending he doesn't know us,
but his mind is perfectly clear. Yes, oh no, Princess
Flash Gordon is not capable of such deceit.
Speaker 11 (07:15):
I hope you're right, Tom. I've tried and tried to
believe my faught was just my own imagination. The Flash
really and truly was under some strange drugs, but the
effect is in so lasting. I'm beginning to doubt he's
in love with me.
Speaker 12 (07:28):
You must never think that, Princess. I don't blame you
for having such thoughts. This whole thing must be terribly
hard on you. You've been brave and loyal so far.
You must not weaken. Now, promise me you won't weaken, Princess.
Speaker 11 (07:39):
Thank you for your encouragement, Khan. I have been foolish
to doubt Flash. I won't doubt anymore. I promise.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Good. Look, here comes Mar You must be ready to start.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
I've come with Say goodbye friends.
Speaker 12 (07:50):
You're leaving now?
Speaker 8 (07:51):
Yes, for the servants, Gape, Will you see that the
coast is clear while I slip out?
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Certainly letter Sorry.
Speaker 8 (07:56):
A soldier just come in from the battlefront, he says.
The Blue Magic Eye me is besieged. The hawkman in
the tunnel ten miles from here.
Speaker 14 (08:02):
What did I tend you?
Speaker 11 (08:03):
Khan? That guard was right. They had doctor Zarkov.
Speaker 8 (08:06):
Bottle dock, the Queen's armies in camp for the night,
and will attack in the daylight.
Speaker 7 (08:09):
I must get through and warn Zarkov.
Speaker 11 (08:11):
Don't forget to explain to him about flash.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
No, I won't, Prisness, it comes to guard.
Speaker 12 (08:15):
Step back into the shadows.
Speaker 7 (08:16):
Mark who's there?
Speaker 3 (08:21):
We're getting a breath of air before going to our quarters.
Very well, don't deny too long.
Speaker 7 (08:29):
All right, Mara, you can come out. Thanks goodness, you
were with me.
Speaker 8 (08:32):
Well from here on I'm on my own.
Speaker 11 (08:35):
Goodbye, Princess, goodbye, Ma, and good luck.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Thank you.
Speaker 12 (08:38):
Success to you, comrade, may not be a good cheer
both of you.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
Zarakov shall soon be here.
Speaker 11 (08:42):
Goodbye, good luck?
Speaker 7 (08:49):
Oh who goes there? A stranger? Where are you going
to join tall?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
He ordered me to join him as soon as I arrested.
Speaker 15 (08:58):
Then why are you sneaking out the back way? Why
don't you lead by the main gate.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
I'm not sneaking.
Speaker 8 (09:03):
Besides, this gate will save me many steps.
Speaker 15 (09:06):
You're not going out this way, stranger, go back into
the courtyard.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
You will regret this. That guard when Tall here's that it?
Speaker 15 (09:12):
That may be so, but I'll chance it. My orders
are to allow no one to lead by this gate.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Is that so?
Speaker 7 (09:18):
Drop that sort? Make me drop it.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Just as the dawn breaks in the east, the Blue
Magic Army rouses from its camp and prepares to attack
the hawkman.
Speaker 9 (09:50):
La Lura.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yes, my tin Hanna's rising were gonna stop your turn.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
I am ready, my tins.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
I'll give the orders to chart. Wait, let us treak a.
Speaker 11 (09:59):
Toast before enter battle.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Here, my prince, victory and you li said, my prince.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Now let us charge the enemy and capture them.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
My statuous hero, you would think.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
You were out hunting leg You are attacking a fierce
and warlike army.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
That dreaded hossmen.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I've never heard of them. They mean nothing to me.
You are sure of that, certainly? Why do I? I
wondered that devil Tall we've been saying things against me.
He told you that because I'm a stranger in your land,
I'm not going to be trusted.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
Well, he has intimated that.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I admit he's a jealous fool. I know he's angry
because you appointed me instead of him. But I didn't
think you would lose faith in me, Azora.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
Lose faith in you.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
I see it now. You had me to lay until
morning so that you might decide whether to trust me
to lead the charge, And even now you can't make
up your mind. Very well, I'll make it easier for you.
But what are you going to do? So I hand
you my sword and my resignation as commander in chief
of your army.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
There, plush well, my impulsive prince. You misunderstand. It wasn't
because I have lost faith in you that I asked
that question.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Another reason prompted me. Ah, but never mind that. Show
you my faith in you is not shaken. Here is
your sword again. You are still my commander in chief.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
As order you humble me. I deeply appreciate your competence.
I'll give my action of a moment ago. I accept
my command again, and I'll fight twice as hard in
your behalf. I am sure you will say, now, my Queen,
to prove my words with action, I'll give those orders
for Chad.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Wait.
Speaker 6 (11:39):
I have something for you, but plave bring it here.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
What is that a torpedo?
Speaker 6 (11:45):
When you get close enough as a hawkman, throw it
into their.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Knits, But I thought you didn't want to kill them.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
The torpedo does not kill, but when it explodes, its
humes will turn the hawkman into icy steps.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Wonderful, Ah, my beautiful queen, how can anyone hope to
fight against you? I go to conquering your name?
Speaker 16 (12:04):
Oh well, the attack holloway.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Meanwhile, inside the tunnels, dark Off and his men wonder
at the sudden stopping in the combustion rave bombardment, which
has been going on all night.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
If bombardment has stopped that he is very strange.
Speaker 9 (12:36):
Perhaps as has given up Prince dark Coff.
Speaker 15 (12:38):
No more likely, it means an attack.
Speaker 9 (12:40):
Loop, Commander, someone is running up to the entrance alone.
Speaker 7 (12:44):
What is this some kind of treat?
Speaker 9 (12:45):
It may be. Look there comes the enemy.
Speaker 15 (12:49):
They are shooting at our visits on it. See the
little clouds of just rising from the ground behind.
Speaker 9 (12:54):
Him, Commander, it's Captain Marr.
Speaker 15 (12:57):
Quickly cut a hole in the ice. Get him inside.
Speaker 9 (13:01):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 15 (13:05):
Hurry, man, hurry, he will be killed if you do
not get him inside.
Speaker 7 (13:10):
Ah, that's it. The hold is backing up the top
through now mark the eneme.
Speaker 15 (13:18):
Hurrymen, get that I spoken through? What have you to
report mark Asaka.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
The enemy are right behind me.
Speaker 7 (13:25):
I hope to get into her time to one.
Speaker 15 (13:27):
You are pull him inside, men, Commander Commanda fresh Gardon,
he said, pull him inside. Flash Cordon is what mar
Mar Speakman.
Speaker 9 (13:40):
Mar A kill him. Commander Mar is dead.
Speaker 15 (13:47):
Just as he was going to reveal something about Flash.
Poor hellow hateful to the end, there comes Flash Gordon,
now riding ahead of the Blue Magic Army, ahead of
the enemy. Can he have deserted? Are they after him
to stand aside? Let me be the first to welcome
flesh to our rights. Flesh, carton flesh, my.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Friends, look, I'll commander he's flying up, bomb shouts and tumult.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
The army of Blue Magic men with Queen Azua at
their head, reached the tunnel entrance.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Oh it worked, It worked, the enemy of frozen into
wise to go of God.
Speaker 14 (14:40):
It worked, My prind Didn't I tell you what would
happened when you threw the torpedo?
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Oh wonderful Azara. Whireman such pools us to try to
fight against you. They don't for long? Do you know?
This man frozen with his hand up raised?
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Do you know?
Speaker 3 (14:56):
But but what it seems as though I should know.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Yeah, drink this votto will refresh you off your hard ride.
Why do you think you should know this man, my prince?
Speaker 3 (15:07):
When I rode up to throw the torpedo, this man
came out of the tunnel with his hand up raised,
just as it is now.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
He may have been about the surrender.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
No, no, he didn't say anything about surrendering.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
He spoke to you. What did he say?
Speaker 3 (15:19):
He called Flash Gordon, Flash, my friend. He surprised me,
so I almost forgot to throw the torpedo.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
Thanks to God, you didn't forget.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Why should this man call me friend? I've never seen
him before. It was a trick.
Speaker 11 (15:33):
Flash.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
When he saw you carrying the torpedo, he tried to
deceive you to throw you.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Off your God, well it almost works.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
You are a man of steel, my prince. What self
control you have?
Speaker 4 (15:46):
A You actually the man of my heart?
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Am I, my beautiful one? It makes me very happy
to hear you say that.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
My prince.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
Oh, at the prisoner's carried back to my palace.
Speaker 10 (16:00):
Very careful of this one, Oh, yes, your majesty, your
co man shall be obeyed to the letter, Your majesty,
At Captain.
Speaker 16 (16:10):
In good condition?
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Why are you so particular about the man who called
me slash.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
Did you ever hear a man called Zakoff sakof.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Sako no Azora. I've never heard of him. Who is he?
Speaker 6 (16:23):
That is the man who called to you in his
own country.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
He is a wizard.
Speaker 7 (16:27):
That wall of.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Chemical ice which protected him and his men from our
combustion race is an example of his magic skill.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
I don't wonder you handle him with care. He should
be a most valuable man to have around you.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
See my point exactly. I shall have tale revive him
when they get back to the palace. And by the way,
Sli Yes, the fumes of the torpedo sometimes called strange reactions.
Speaker 6 (16:50):
If you meet the Zarkoff, he insists on calling you friend.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Remember that was the last thing on his mind before
the torpedo exploded.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
I quite understand that.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Now, my victorious Prince Sellari celebrate.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Back in the palace, Paul carried out the witch Queen's order.
He straps the frozen arc off to a table. Then
he tips it into the rays of an electro therapeutic
reave have a.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
Fire and take care of this.
Speaker 10 (17:33):
When she said, I wonder why the cake change from
you to middle eighty. If so, I must see what
I can do to win her favor.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
You are sawing out?
Speaker 10 (17:49):
Are you good?
Speaker 5 (17:51):
I'll give you a.
Speaker 7 (17:52):
Little more heat.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
How's that, stranger?
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Taul, be careful the current arnful? You know what that
may do.
Speaker 10 (18:02):
I didn't notice the indicator. Be very careful of this one,
she said, yes, you may see. We'll take care of him.
H you are coming around? Are you all right?
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Stranger? Loose the strap slave?
Speaker 10 (18:28):
Come on now, sir, h well, stranger and get on
your feet.
Speaker 7 (18:35):
Flush gotton, flush, my friend.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Lash Flash Gordon is not here.
Speaker 7 (18:42):
Who are you? Well? What has happened?
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Where am i?
Speaker 10 (18:47):
You are a prisoner of Azura, Queen of Magic, and
your friend Flash Gordon captured you.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
Now I know you. You stand back.
Speaker 10 (18:57):
I have my short point against your breath. One move
and I'll run you through.
Speaker 7 (19:03):
I came to rescue Flash Gordon.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Rescue him. He doesn't need to be rescued.
Speaker 15 (19:09):
You mean tell me the truth? You wisit of darkness?
Has Flash turned traitor?
Speaker 10 (19:14):
He has drunk the Queen's magic drug and has forgotten
you and his sweetheart Dale Arden, and even his own identity.
Speaker 15 (19:24):
Thank the Gods, I was afraid the change was due
to flash himself.
Speaker 7 (19:29):
What is this drug of forgetfulness?
Speaker 5 (19:31):
Lithium?
Speaker 10 (19:33):
God doo, take this new slave the kittens until her
majesty makes up her mind how she will.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Dispose of him. Thank you, General, dal don't thank me.
I had my way, you wouldn't be here now.
Speaker 7 (19:47):
Much this way, slave, wait general toal what.
Speaker 10 (19:50):
Has happened to Tay loved them? And you will see
her in the kitchen. She is alive then and gone
con Yes, that must be the other one, and he's
there too. Take him away, God, come along, slave, Yeah, here,
you put this machine and apparate us away.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Clean up.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
These are the kitchens.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
I presume, yes, but see that you don't presume too
much around here. Oh hey, joke, not bad, stop laughing.
There will be no joke if you start any trouble
and we have to electrocute you. Quite so, quite so?
Speaker 15 (20:31):
Why is that animal carcass placed between those machines?
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Those machines are two electrodes.
Speaker 7 (20:38):
Flaming rays are roasting the carcass. Very interesting, very interesting.
Electrodes eh a.
Speaker 15 (20:46):
Much quaker process than roasting in an oven.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Doctor, doctor, stay loddon, stay here, slave, Well, I get
a set of madicals for you.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Oh the kind of watch your state.
Speaker 11 (21:00):
Mar reached you in time, and he got there safely.
Speaker 15 (21:02):
Yes, Ma, richly, safely tail. But just as we were
pulling him into the tunnel, he was killed. Yes, he
was hit by a ray from the Queen's soldier.
Speaker 11 (21:13):
Oh, then he didn't tell you about Flash.
Speaker 7 (21:17):
No, he was killed just as he was about to.
Speaker 11 (21:20):
Oh that I've been so loneh Yes, yes, Flash has
turned against me. He's completely forgotten me.
Speaker 10 (21:27):
No.
Speaker 11 (21:27):
Yes, he's in love with that wicked queen of magic.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
No, no, Dale, Flash has been drunk, he has lost
his memory. Run.
Speaker 11 (21:34):
Yes, that's just what Con and I thought might have happened.
How did you find out?
Speaker 7 (21:38):
A general named Tao told mate Chaos.
Speaker 11 (21:41):
That's the Queen's right hand man, her chief magician. He
ought to know. Oh, we must save Flash.
Speaker 7 (21:48):
Yes, Tale, we must say Flash, and ourselves too.
Speaker 11 (21:52):
Oh, I'm so glad you've come. Con and I both
wish you were here to help us. You know so
much about sience and electricity.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
Where is Khan Kao said I would see him here.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Well.
Speaker 11 (22:03):
In getting away from the talents, Sma went out the
servants gate. ConA and I went with him to see
that the coast was clear, Yes, and go on. He
saw him slip out safely, And the next thing we knew,
the guard came after us to our quarters and blamed
us to his escape.
Speaker 7 (22:16):
How could they have linked you with Mark?
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (22:18):
They had seen us talking together, and one of the
inner guards had challenged us near the gate just before
Mars looked out.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
I see, but what has happened to Khan?
Speaker 11 (22:26):
They separated us. Kna is in a cell somewhere. They
bring him in here to do his work and take
him away again.
Speaker 7 (22:32):
I shall be glad to see him. Is that, fellow town?
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Now what they're going on here? Get to work? Play?
Speaker 7 (22:39):
What is the hurry?
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Now?
Speaker 7 (22:40):
You have got lots of time for work.
Speaker 10 (22:42):
Come come now back talk your taste the electric whips?
Oh God, neither this new prisoner land magic discipline, Yes,
General tal and you, yes, General Tall. Prepare some little
cakes and fill these two flagons with elbacco, Majesty and
flash wish refreshment.
Speaker 9 (23:03):
Her Majesty is.
Speaker 10 (23:04):
Very particular about these salad gold flagons. See that Flash
Gordon gets this large to handle one, and her Majesty
the smaller and more.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
Delicately shaped one.
Speaker 10 (23:16):
Yes, well, what you're standing there for hurry, hurry, And
you see that dragon's eyes over there flashing.
Speaker 7 (23:24):
What has that got to do with dale stuffs?
Speaker 10 (23:27):
Whenever Queen a zero, which is some bottle? Those dragons
eyes light up. You can almost judge her mood from
the flash of the eyes.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Wonderful.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
Yes, I shall tell her, majesty you are coming. Hurry now.
Speaker 11 (23:41):
I'm sorry I can't stay to talk with you that acca.
We have so much to stay to each other, that.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
Is true, Dale.
Speaker 15 (23:47):
But we shall have plenty of time around here to topolater.
You attend to your duties in the meantime until they
get those monarcles for me.
Speaker 7 (23:55):
I'll have a look around.
Speaker 11 (23:56):
The kitchen very well, I'll take these in the flash
and Queens.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
That well about time?
Speaker 3 (24:08):
What kept your girl?
Speaker 6 (24:09):
I think you had to make the vasco instead of
the porus.
Speaker 11 (24:12):
I'm sorry to be so long.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
This is the night of celebration. I'm glad.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Let's not spoil it, as you say, my princes, yeah,
drink this vacco have one of these little cakes.
Speaker 6 (24:22):
I'm sure you'll like this.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Thanks, I'll have one of the cakes. Nothing to drink
with him? Well, I'll take a step of the vacco
to keep you company, my bro.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
Just part give me that flagon.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Girl, you had a hard day of it?
Speaker 7 (24:34):
Do ah?
Speaker 3 (24:36):
That tastes good?
Speaker 6 (24:39):
Sure you don't care for any more my pins?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
No, no more for me?
Speaker 6 (24:42):
Thanks, take the flagons and takes away girl. Yes, dude,
yes that's our call.
Speaker 7 (24:52):
I have to plan to save us all you have
or what is it?
Speaker 11 (24:55):
Doctor Zarko?
Speaker 7 (24:55):
Gets your trade done there?
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Now?
Speaker 11 (24:59):
That is what is your plan?
Speaker 15 (25:00):
While you were gone, the god slashed me with his
electric whip. I have just thought of the way to
repay him.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
Now.
Speaker 7 (25:07):
I want you to knock over those teachers piled up
there on that table.
Speaker 11 (25:10):
Then the god will beat me.
Speaker 7 (25:11):
Oh no he won't. He has beaten others for less cause.
Speaker 11 (25:14):
Why won't he be me?
Speaker 15 (25:15):
Because when you knock the dishes over, I will jump
up on that platform and grab one of those electrodes
that is being used to roast the lead and swing
its flaming ray on the chief cook and the guard as.
Speaker 7 (25:26):
They stop for you that if the attempts failed, I
do not think about that table. It must not fail to.
As I tell you, everyone's back your tongue. Just now
hurry very.
Speaker 14 (25:37):
Well, here go, don't know, leave me, stand back from
that girl, or I will bring you both to increase.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Are the tables to be turned the doctor's ark off
single handed, overcome Queen.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Asera's guard and rescue Dale Arden.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
See for yourself how he proposes to do this in
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Flash Gordon.
Speaker 7 (27:41):
Welcome back.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
A good story with some suspenseful twist and shocking surprises,
and it, particularly after the first part ended, it left
our heroes in a tight spot.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Thank you fully.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
General Towel is whole horrible at his job. I mean,
he did everything you could imagine to provide an opportunity
for reversal fortune, including horrible security measures and helping Zarkov
get caught up on the plot in vital details which
he didn't know and for Taul's purpose, didn't need to know.
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He's the type of person taulas who gets ahead in
an area where he never has to face any competition
or rivals, and no one gets a chance to see
how incompetent he is. And Tal's incompetence is complimented by
a completely unjustified sense of superiority, which makes him a
danger to everyone who trust him. And really he chose
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the wrong person to underestimate. There's no one who's probably
more secretly dangerous than Zarkov. Now, of course, as we
talked about last episode, he's not really a great choice
for a military commander, but free of the responsibilities of command,
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you just give him a chance and he will think
of something that's totally outside the box and brilliant, as
well as being utterly mad and reckless, which is what
you get at the end of the episode. Now, he's
not going to solve everything because it's not his show,
but tal underestimating him looks like a very costly mistake,
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and we'll see what sort of price that Tall and
Queen Azora have to pay for it next week. Well,
listener comments and feedback now, and we go to the
site called X and comments start with Bernard who rides
regarding the third and fourth chapters. These aren't the greatest
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radio episodes ever, but are very faithful to the prior
Sunday strips, but probably better than a lot of mid
thirties radio. Can't wait to listen to surviving Buck Rogers
radio episodes to see how they compare well in terms
of quality of mid nineteen thirties radio. It's always tough
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to say, because there is just a whole lot less
of it that survives to this day compared to say,
the post war programs. But I think in many ways
there are a lot of features of it that are unique,
and particularly in the way that it sticks so close
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to the ideas of the comic strap and you know,
really just having this sort of swashbuckling space opera on radio. Yeah,
as far as we can tell, there's nothing that quite
survives like on this epic scale. But when it comes
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to Buck Rogers. We're missing probably the key years for
the series because it was on the radio a lot
longer and a lot earlier, and mostly what we have
of buck Rogers and what we'll be able to play
is from the nineteen thirty nine series, by which point
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buck Rogers have been around for ten years. But it'll
definitely be fun to listen to. Of course, we have
eight more weeks of Flash Gordon until we get to that,
and another listener comments, I love Flash Gordon. These are
much cleaner. Did you clearer? Did you clean up the audio?
Speaker 5 (31:36):
Well?
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Of course, Andrew does whatever he can with any program
that we play, and in this case, I was actually
able to forcure from higher quality in codes than you
might find around the internet. And I always like to
say these are from non retail sources, which is just
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to be clear. We didn't take them from like a
commercial vendor like Radio Spirits and just copy them over
or something like that. But we are able to get
them from a non retail source and they sound a
bit better than you might typically find on the internet.
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to thank our Patreon supporter of the day, and I
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The episodes are date to June twenty second and July
sixth of nineteen thirty five, although there are no missing
episodes in between. Let's go ahead and take a lesson
though to episodes nine and ten of the Interplanetary Adventures
of Flash Gordon.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Presenting the amazing Interplanetary Adventures of Flash Gordon. Last week,
Flash Gordon, at Queen Asura's suggestion, turned the combustion ray
guns on the advance guard of the attacking Hawkman and
brought them to the ground.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
In flames.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Ordering his men to retreat, Doctor Zarkov led the way
to a nearby tunnel, where he shut out the flames
with a wall of chemical ice. Back at the palace
with Dale and Khan Mar, the Spy decided on his
daring attempt to find doctor Zarkoff and deliver his report.
While Flashing his officers were reconnoitering outside the entrance to
the tunnel in which Zarkoff and his hawkmen are barricaded.
Paul tried to persuade Queen Asura that Flash was not
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capable enough to be Mandarin chiefs.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
At that moment, Flash rode up and.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Tall urged the Zura to listen to what he proposed
and then choose which man was better qualified to head
the army. Without hesitation, Flash declare that the only thing
to do was charge, and gave the order himself. These
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We now continue the story with shouts and confusion. The
Blue Magic Army charges to attack the barricaded Hawkman Suddenly Tall,
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curious at being displaced as general by Flash, draws a
beat on his back and pulls the trigger. Why Flash.
His horse stumbles and pitches forward. Dead Flash hurl to
the ground.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Stop starting sure It.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Gives the order to stop the charge and makes her
way to Flash aside.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Pledge, my prim Are you hurt? Oh specially my glorious one?
Flash here here take your helmet. Someone open your eyes,
my beloved prim?
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Where am I.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Quick?
Speaker 6 (03:21):
You given some stimulants from the flask?
Speaker 7 (03:24):
That hizure?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
My beautiful one? What happened? You're all right?
Speaker 8 (03:32):
No?
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Thanks to tell here, your majesty?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
What you shot?
Speaker 6 (03:36):
A flashes back?
Speaker 9 (03:37):
No, no, I saw you.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
It's lucky your hand wasn't steady, but from making an
attent on flashes life.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
You shall die by my sword.
Speaker 10 (03:47):
No, no, your majesty, I beg of you.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Wait, don't kill he deserves to die.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
This was an act of greatest pressure.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
No, no, it was an accident. I swear it clean
as your eye. It was.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Let him go, ada, I'll take his word for it.
It's growing dark and we can't afford a moment's delay.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Very well, all get behind the lines and thank your
Prince's generosity that you live.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Thank you, sire, I, thank you, gracious Queen.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
And now for a fresh mount. My horse is.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Dead, take my horse.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Play very well.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
See growing darker with each second. It will be better
to camp here for the night and attack of daylight.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
But the hawkman may escape during the night.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Ofa not if we keep the combustion ray guns trained
on them.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Omen the seeds to the tunnel with the combustion ray
gun part the mirage of combustion rays as soon as
the rains can be found. And tomorrow morning, my queen,
but come, I will tell you of my plan.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
I hope they aren't all military ones might sin.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Right back in Aszura's palace, the chief cook closes the
kitchen until the morning shift will come on, and Dale
and Khan march out with the other slaves.
Speaker 11 (05:11):
I'm worried, Khan, nothing to worry about. Princess mar is
taking an awful risk. He'll never be able to find
his way through the enemy lines. To doctor Zharko.
Speaker 12 (05:20):
Maybe Tomar he was clever enough to get himself into
the palace. He'll get back to Zarkoff somehow.
Speaker 13 (05:25):
Oh way, your quart can Do you really think Mar
will get to Zarkov in time to warn him?
Speaker 11 (05:36):
Of course, I heard one of the guards say their
army had the Hawkman bottled up in a tunnel something.
Speaker 12 (05:40):
If that is op, Princess, Dharkoff can't pay very far
from here. It ought to be easy for Mar to
see the lights of the campfires, and so I'll make
his way straight to the lines.
Speaker 11 (05:47):
Oh, I hope he gets there in time for do
Zarkoff may not know why flashes at the head of
the Blue Magic Man. He may think he's a trader
and shoot him down on site, grew, Princess.
Speaker 12 (05:56):
But on the other hand, Flash not recognizing Zharkoff as
his friend, may kill him.
Speaker 11 (06:00):
Oh, con Ma must get through those lines. If he doesn't,
something terrible would happen. I know it.
Speaker 12 (06:06):
Don't worry, Princess. I know Mar to be a fine
officer and a brave soldier. He'll get worried through the
Zarkoff or die in the attempt.
Speaker 11 (06:12):
We do say that comes he makes to grow cool
all over.
Speaker 12 (06:15):
I'm sorry, Princess, I only wish to convey to you
how hard mar will try to carry out his mission.
Speaker 11 (06:19):
If Mark gets to Zarkoff and tells him about Slash,
the great scientist may be able to get him out
of the wicked Queen's power.
Speaker 12 (06:25):
That's what I'm hoping, Princess. I'm only a rough soldier.
I know nothing of drugs and chemicals. We need Darkoff
and his great knowledge. I'm sure he could help us come.
Speaker 11 (06:33):
Yes, it's odd how long we affected that drug. He
has lasted down Splash, don't you think so?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Yes?
Speaker 12 (06:38):
I do. At first I thought it might be put
in his food, But I watched every morsel of that prepared.
It's taken from the same pants and kettles as a Zurus,
and nothing happens to.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
It in the kitchen.
Speaker 11 (06:48):
Perhaps the Zura gives it to him.
Speaker 12 (06:49):
Most likely, Well, she has a splendid opportunity to renew
the drug now out on the field of battle.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
If she needs to renew it, why what do you mean,
Princess can.
Speaker 11 (06:59):
Sometimes I want a flash is under the spell of
the Queen's magic drugs, or under the spell or the
Queen herself. She is a beautiful and attractive woman.
Speaker 12 (07:07):
You mean a Flash is pretending he doesn't know us,
but his mind is perfectly clear. Yes, oh no, Princess
Flash Gordon is not capable of such deceit.
Speaker 11 (07:15):
I hope you're right, Tom. I've tried and tried to
believe my faught was just my own imagination. The Flash
really and truly was under some strange drugs, but the
effect is in so lasting. I'm beginning to doubt he's
in love with me.
Speaker 12 (07:28):
You must never think that, Princess. I don't blame you
for having such thoughts. This whole thing must be terribly
hard on you. You've been brave and loyal so far.
You must not weaken. Now, promise me you won't weaken, Princess.
Speaker 11 (07:39):
Thank you for your encouragement, Khan. I have been foolish
to doubt Flash. I won't doubt anymore. I promise.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Good. Look, here comes Mar You must be ready to start.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
I've come with Say goodbye friends.
Speaker 12 (07:50):
You're leaving now?
Speaker 8 (07:51):
Yes, for the servants, Gape, Will you see that the
coast is clear while I slip out?
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Certainly letter Sorry.
Speaker 8 (07:56):
A soldier just come in from the battlefront, he says.
The Blue Magic Eye me is besieged. The hawkman in
the tunnel ten miles from here.
Speaker 14 (08:02):
What did I tend you?
Speaker 11 (08:03):
Khan? That guard was right. They had doctor Zarkov.
Speaker 8 (08:06):
Bottle dock, the Queen's armies in camp for the night,
and will attack in the daylight.
Speaker 7 (08:09):
I must get through and warn Zarkov.
Speaker 11 (08:11):
Don't forget to explain to him about flash.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
No, I won't, Prisness, it comes to guard.
Speaker 12 (08:15):
Step back into the shadows.
Speaker 7 (08:16):
Mark who's there?
Speaker 3 (08:21):
We're getting a breath of air before going to our quarters.
Very well, don't deny too long.
Speaker 7 (08:29):
All right, Mara, you can come out. Thanks goodness, you
were with me.
Speaker 8 (08:32):
Well from here on I'm on my own.
Speaker 11 (08:35):
Goodbye, Princess, goodbye, Ma, and good luck.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Thank you.
Speaker 12 (08:38):
Success to you, comrade, may not be a good cheer
both of you.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
Zarakov shall soon be here.
Speaker 11 (08:42):
Goodbye, good luck?
Speaker 7 (08:49):
Oh who goes there? A stranger? Where are you going
to join tall?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
He ordered me to join him as soon as I arrested.
Speaker 15 (08:58):
Then why are you sneaking out the back way? Why
don't you lead by the main gate.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
I'm not sneaking.
Speaker 8 (09:03):
Besides, this gate will save me many steps.
Speaker 15 (09:06):
You're not going out this way, stranger, go back into
the courtyard.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
You will regret this. That guard when Tall here's that it?
Speaker 15 (09:12):
That may be so, but I'll chance it. My orders
are to allow no one to lead by this gate.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Is that so?
Speaker 7 (09:18):
Drop that sort? Make me drop it.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Just as the dawn breaks in the east, the Blue
Magic Army rouses from its camp and prepares to attack
the hawkman.
Speaker 9 (09:50):
La Lura.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yes, my tin Hanna's rising were gonna stop your turn.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
I am ready, my tins.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
I'll give the orders to chart. Wait, let us treak a.
Speaker 11 (09:59):
Toast before enter battle.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Here, my prince, victory and you li said, my prince.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Now let us charge the enemy and capture them.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
My statuous hero, you would think.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
You were out hunting leg You are attacking a fierce
and warlike army.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
That dreaded hossmen.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I've never heard of them. They mean nothing to me.
You are sure of that, certainly? Why do I? I
wondered that devil Tall we've been saying things against me.
He told you that because I'm a stranger in your land,
I'm not going to be trusted.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
Well, he has intimated that.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I admit he's a jealous fool. I know he's angry
because you appointed me instead of him. But I didn't
think you would lose faith in me, Azora.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
Lose faith in you.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
I see it now. You had me to lay until
morning so that you might decide whether to trust me
to lead the charge, And even now you can't make
up your mind. Very well, I'll make it easier for you.
But what are you going to do? So I hand
you my sword and my resignation as commander in chief
of your army.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
There, plush well, my impulsive prince. You misunderstand. It wasn't
because I have lost faith in you that I asked
that question.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Another reason prompted me. Ah, but never mind that. Show
you my faith in you is not shaken. Here is
your sword again. You are still my commander in chief.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
As order you humble me. I deeply appreciate your competence.
I'll give my action of a moment ago. I accept
my command again, and I'll fight twice as hard in
your behalf. I am sure you will say, now, my Queen,
to prove my words with action, I'll give those orders
for Chad.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Wait.
Speaker 6 (11:39):
I have something for you, but plave bring it here.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
What is that a torpedo?
Speaker 6 (11:45):
When you get close enough as a hawkman, throw it
into their.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Knits, But I thought you didn't want to kill them.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
The torpedo does not kill, but when it explodes, its
humes will turn the hawkman into icy steps.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Wonderful, Ah, my beautiful queen, how can anyone hope to
fight against you? I go to conquering your name?
Speaker 16 (12:04):
Oh well, the attack holloway.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Meanwhile, inside the tunnels, dark Off and his men wonder
at the sudden stopping in the combustion rave bombardment, which
has been going on all night.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
If bombardment has stopped that he is very strange.
Speaker 9 (12:36):
Perhaps as has given up Prince dark Coff.
Speaker 15 (12:38):
No more likely, it means an attack.
Speaker 9 (12:40):
Loop, Commander, someone is running up to the entrance alone.
Speaker 7 (12:44):
What is this some kind of treat?
Speaker 9 (12:45):
It may be. Look there comes the enemy.
Speaker 15 (12:49):
They are shooting at our visits on it. See the
little clouds of just rising from the ground behind.
Speaker 9 (12:54):
Him, Commander, it's Captain Marr.
Speaker 15 (12:57):
Quickly cut a hole in the ice. Get him inside.
Speaker 9 (13:01):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 15 (13:05):
Hurry, man, hurry, he will be killed if you do
not get him inside.
Speaker 7 (13:10):
Ah, that's it. The hold is backing up the top
through now mark the eneme.
Speaker 15 (13:18):
Hurrymen, get that I spoken through? What have you to
report mark Asaka.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
The enemy are right behind me.
Speaker 7 (13:25):
I hope to get into her time to one.
Speaker 15 (13:27):
You are pull him inside, men, Commander Commanda fresh Gardon,
he said, pull him inside. Flash Cordon is what mar
Mar Speakman.
Speaker 9 (13:40):
Mar A kill him. Commander Mar is dead.
Speaker 15 (13:47):
Just as he was going to reveal something about Flash.
Poor hellow hateful to the end, there comes Flash Gordon,
now riding ahead of the Blue Magic Army, ahead of
the enemy. Can he have deserted? Are they after him
to stand aside? Let me be the first to welcome
flesh to our rights. Flesh, carton flesh, my.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Friends, look, I'll commander he's flying up, bomb shouts and tumult.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
The army of Blue Magic men with Queen Azua at
their head, reached the tunnel entrance.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Oh it worked, It worked, the enemy of frozen into
wise to go of God.
Speaker 14 (14:40):
It worked, My prind Didn't I tell you what would
happened when you threw the torpedo?
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Oh wonderful Azara. Whireman such pools us to try to
fight against you. They don't for long? Do you know?
This man frozen with his hand up raised?
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Do you know?
Speaker 3 (14:56):
But but what it seems as though I should know.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Yeah, drink this votto will refresh you off your hard ride.
Why do you think you should know this man, my prince?
Speaker 3 (15:07):
When I rode up to throw the torpedo, this man
came out of the tunnel with his hand up raised,
just as it is now.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
He may have been about the surrender.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
No, no, he didn't say anything about surrendering.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
He spoke to you. What did he say?
Speaker 3 (15:19):
He called Flash Gordon, Flash, my friend. He surprised me,
so I almost forgot to throw the torpedo.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
Thanks to God, you didn't forget.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Why should this man call me friend? I've never seen
him before. It was a trick.
Speaker 11 (15:33):
Flash.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
When he saw you carrying the torpedo, he tried to
deceive you to throw you.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Off your God, well it almost works.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
You are a man of steel, my prince. What self
control you have?
Speaker 4 (15:46):
A You actually the man of my heart?
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Am I, my beautiful one? It makes me very happy
to hear you say that.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
My prince.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
Oh, at the prisoner's carried back to my palace.
Speaker 10 (16:00):
Very careful of this one, Oh, yes, your majesty, your
co man shall be obeyed to the letter, Your majesty,
At Captain.
Speaker 16 (16:10):
In good condition?
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Why are you so particular about the man who called
me slash.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
Did you ever hear a man called Zakoff sakof.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Sako no Azora. I've never heard of him. Who is he?
Speaker 6 (16:23):
That is the man who called to you in his
own country.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
He is a wizard.
Speaker 7 (16:27):
That wall of.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Chemical ice which protected him and his men from our
combustion race is an example of his magic skill.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
I don't wonder you handle him with care. He should
be a most valuable man to have around you.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
See my point exactly. I shall have tale revive him
when they get back to the palace. And by the way,
Sli Yes, the fumes of the torpedo sometimes called strange reactions.
Speaker 6 (16:50):
If you meet the Zarkoff, he insists on calling you friend.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Remember that was the last thing on his mind before
the torpedo exploded.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
I quite understand that.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Now, my victorious Prince Sellari celebrate.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Back in the palace, Paul carried out the witch Queen's order.
He straps the frozen arc off to a table. Then
he tips it into the rays of an electro therapeutic
reave have a.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
Fire and take care of this.
Speaker 10 (17:33):
When she said, I wonder why the cake change from
you to middle eighty. If so, I must see what
I can do to win her favor.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
You are sawing out?
Speaker 10 (17:49):
Are you good?
Speaker 5 (17:51):
I'll give you a.
Speaker 7 (17:52):
Little more heat.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
How's that, stranger?
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Taul, be careful the current arnful? You know what that
may do.
Speaker 10 (18:02):
I didn't notice the indicator. Be very careful of this one,
she said, yes, you may see. We'll take care of him.
H you are coming around? Are you all right?
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Stranger? Loose the strap slave?
Speaker 10 (18:28):
Come on now, sir, h well, stranger and get on
your feet.
Speaker 7 (18:35):
Flush gotton, flush, my friend.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Lash Flash Gordon is not here.
Speaker 7 (18:42):
Who are you? Well? What has happened?
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Where am i?
Speaker 10 (18:47):
You are a prisoner of Azura, Queen of Magic, and
your friend Flash Gordon captured you.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
Now I know you. You stand back.
Speaker 10 (18:57):
I have my short point against your breath. One move
and I'll run you through.
Speaker 7 (19:03):
I came to rescue Flash Gordon.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Rescue him. He doesn't need to be rescued.
Speaker 15 (19:09):
You mean tell me the truth? You wisit of darkness?
Has Flash turned traitor?
Speaker 10 (19:14):
He has drunk the Queen's magic drug and has forgotten
you and his sweetheart Dale Arden, and even his own identity.
Speaker 15 (19:24):
Thank the Gods, I was afraid the change was due
to flash himself.
Speaker 7 (19:29):
What is this drug of forgetfulness?
Speaker 5 (19:31):
Lithium?
Speaker 10 (19:33):
God doo, take this new slave the kittens until her
majesty makes up her mind how she will.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Dispose of him. Thank you, General, dal don't thank me.
I had my way, you wouldn't be here now.
Speaker 7 (19:47):
Much this way, slave, wait general toal what.
Speaker 10 (19:50):
Has happened to Tay loved them? And you will see
her in the kitchen. She is alive then and gone
con Yes, that must be the other one, and he's
there too. Take him away, God, come along, slave, Yeah, here,
you put this machine and apparate us away.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Clean up.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
These are the kitchens.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
I presume, yes, but see that you don't presume too
much around here. Oh hey, joke, not bad, stop laughing.
There will be no joke if you start any trouble
and we have to electrocute you. Quite so, quite so?
Speaker 15 (20:31):
Why is that animal carcass placed between those machines?
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Those machines are two electrodes.
Speaker 7 (20:38):
Flaming rays are roasting the carcass. Very interesting, very interesting.
Electrodes eh a.
Speaker 15 (20:46):
Much quaker process than roasting in an oven.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Doctor, doctor, stay loddon, stay here, slave, Well, I get
a set of madicals for you.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Oh the kind of watch your state.
Speaker 11 (21:00):
Mar reached you in time, and he got there safely.
Speaker 15 (21:02):
Yes, Ma, richly, safely tail. But just as we were
pulling him into the tunnel, he was killed. Yes, he
was hit by a ray from the Queen's soldier.
Speaker 11 (21:13):
Oh, then he didn't tell you about Flash.
Speaker 7 (21:17):
No, he was killed just as he was about to.
Speaker 11 (21:20):
Oh that I've been so loneh Yes, yes, Flash has
turned against me. He's completely forgotten me.
Speaker 10 (21:27):
No.
Speaker 11 (21:27):
Yes, he's in love with that wicked queen of magic.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
No, no, Dale, Flash has been drunk, he has lost
his memory. Run.
Speaker 11 (21:34):
Yes, that's just what Con and I thought might have happened.
How did you find out?
Speaker 7 (21:38):
A general named Tao told mate Chaos.
Speaker 11 (21:41):
That's the Queen's right hand man, her chief magician. He
ought to know. Oh, we must save Flash.
Speaker 7 (21:48):
Yes, Tale, we must say Flash, and ourselves too.
Speaker 11 (21:52):
Oh, I'm so glad you've come. Con and I both
wish you were here to help us. You know so
much about sience and electricity.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
Where is Khan Kao said I would see him here.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Well.
Speaker 11 (22:03):
In getting away from the talents, Sma went out the
servants gate. ConA and I went with him to see
that the coast was clear, Yes, and go on. He
saw him slip out safely, And the next thing we knew,
the guard came after us to our quarters and blamed
us to his escape.
Speaker 7 (22:16):
How could they have linked you with Mark?
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (22:18):
They had seen us talking together, and one of the
inner guards had challenged us near the gate just before
Mars looked out.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
I see, but what has happened to Khan?
Speaker 11 (22:26):
They separated us. Kna is in a cell somewhere. They
bring him in here to do his work and take
him away again.
Speaker 7 (22:32):
I shall be glad to see him. Is that, fellow town?
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Now what they're going on here? Get to work? Play?
Speaker 7 (22:39):
What is the hurry?
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Now?
Speaker 7 (22:40):
You have got lots of time for work.
Speaker 10 (22:42):
Come come now back talk your taste the electric whips?
Oh God, neither this new prisoner land magic discipline, Yes,
General tal and you, yes, General Tall. Prepare some little
cakes and fill these two flagons with elbacco, Majesty and
flash wish refreshment.
Speaker 9 (23:03):
Her Majesty is.
Speaker 10 (23:04):
Very particular about these salad gold flagons. See that Flash
Gordon gets this large to handle one, and her Majesty
the smaller and more.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
Delicately shaped one.
Speaker 10 (23:16):
Yes, well, what you're standing there for hurry, hurry, And
you see that dragon's eyes over there flashing.
Speaker 7 (23:24):
What has that got to do with dale stuffs?
Speaker 10 (23:27):
Whenever Queen a zero, which is some bottle? Those dragons
eyes light up. You can almost judge her mood from
the flash of the eyes.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Wonderful.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
Yes, I shall tell her, majesty you are coming. Hurry now.
Speaker 11 (23:41):
I'm sorry I can't stay to talk with you that acca.
We have so much to stay to each other, that.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
Is true, Dale.
Speaker 15 (23:47):
But we shall have plenty of time around here to topolater.
You attend to your duties in the meantime until they
get those monarcles for me.
Speaker 7 (23:55):
I'll have a look around.
Speaker 11 (23:56):
The kitchen very well, I'll take these in the flash
and Queens.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
That well about time?
Speaker 3 (24:08):
What kept your girl?
Speaker 6 (24:09):
I think you had to make the vasco instead of
the porus.
Speaker 11 (24:12):
I'm sorry to be so long.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
This is the night of celebration. I'm glad.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Let's not spoil it, as you say, my princes, yeah,
drink this vacco have one of these little cakes.
Speaker 6 (24:22):
I'm sure you'll like this.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Thanks, I'll have one of the cakes. Nothing to drink
with him? Well, I'll take a step of the vacco
to keep you company, my bro.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
Just part give me that flagon.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Girl, you had a hard day of it?
Speaker 7 (24:34):
Do ah?
Speaker 3 (24:36):
That tastes good?
Speaker 6 (24:39):
Sure you don't care for any more my pins?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
No, no more for me?
Speaker 6 (24:42):
Thanks, take the flagons and takes away girl. Yes, dude,
yes that's our call.
Speaker 7 (24:52):
I have to plan to save us all you have
or what is it?
Speaker 11 (24:55):
Doctor Zarko?
Speaker 7 (24:55):
Gets your trade done there?
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Now?
Speaker 11 (24:59):
That is what is your plan?
Speaker 15 (25:00):
While you were gone, the god slashed me with his
electric whip. I have just thought of the way to
repay him.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
Now.
Speaker 7 (25:07):
I want you to knock over those teachers piled up
there on that table.
Speaker 11 (25:10):
Then the god will beat me.
Speaker 7 (25:11):
Oh no he won't. He has beaten others for less cause.
Speaker 11 (25:14):
Why won't he be me?
Speaker 15 (25:15):
Because when you knock the dishes over, I will jump
up on that platform and grab one of those electrodes
that is being used to roast the lead and swing
its flaming ray on the chief cook and the guard as.
Speaker 7 (25:26):
They stop for you that if the attempts failed, I
do not think about that table. It must not fail to.
As I tell you, everyone's back your tongue. Just now
hurry very.
Speaker 14 (25:37):
Well, here go, don't know, leave me, stand back from
that girl, or I will bring you both to increase.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Are the tables to be turned the doctor's ark off
single handed, overcome Queen.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Asera's guard and rescue Dale Arden.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
See for yourself how he proposes to do this in
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(26:21):
the variety show. For the big full page Comic Weekly
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(26:42):
Flash Gordon.
Speaker 7 (27:41):
Welcome back.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
A good story with some suspenseful twist and shocking surprises,
and it, particularly after the first part ended, it left
our heroes in a tight spot.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Thank you fully.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
General Towel is whole horrible at his job. I mean,
he did everything you could imagine to provide an opportunity
for reversal fortune, including horrible security measures and helping Zarkov
get caught up on the plot in vital details which
he didn't know and for Taul's purpose, didn't need to know.
(28:21):
He's the type of person taulas who gets ahead in
an area where he never has to face any competition
or rivals, and no one gets a chance to see
how incompetent he is. And Tal's incompetence is complimented by
a completely unjustified sense of superiority, which makes him a
danger to everyone who trust him. And really he chose
(28:46):
the wrong person to underestimate. There's no one who's probably
more secretly dangerous than Zarkov. Now, of course, as we
talked about last episode, he's not really a great choice
for a military commander, but free of the responsibilities of command,
(29:07):
you just give him a chance and he will think
of something that's totally outside the box and brilliant, as
well as being utterly mad and reckless, which is what
you get at the end of the episode. Now, he's
not going to solve everything because it's not his show,
but tal underestimating him looks like a very costly mistake,
(29:29):
and we'll see what sort of price that Tall and
Queen Azora have to pay for it next week. Well,
listener comments and feedback now, and we go to the
site called X and comments start with Bernard who rides
regarding the third and fourth chapters. These aren't the greatest
(29:49):
radio episodes ever, but are very faithful to the prior
Sunday strips, but probably better than a lot of mid
thirties radio. Can't wait to listen to surviving Buck Rogers
radio episodes to see how they compare well in terms
of quality of mid nineteen thirties radio. It's always tough
(30:09):
to say, because there is just a whole lot less
of it that survives to this day compared to say,
the post war programs. But I think in many ways
there are a lot of features of it that are unique,
and particularly in the way that it sticks so close
(30:33):
to the ideas of the comic strap and you know,
really just having this sort of swashbuckling space opera on radio. Yeah,
as far as we can tell, there's nothing that quite
survives like on this epic scale. But when it comes
(30:55):
to Buck Rogers. We're missing probably the key years for
the series because it was on the radio a lot
longer and a lot earlier, and mostly what we have
of buck Rogers and what we'll be able to play
is from the nineteen thirty nine series, by which point
(31:16):
buck Rogers have been around for ten years. But it'll
definitely be fun to listen to. Of course, we have
eight more weeks of Flash Gordon until we get to that,
and another listener comments, I love Flash Gordon. These are
much cleaner. Did you clearer? Did you clean up the audio?
Speaker 5 (31:36):
Well?
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Of course, Andrew does whatever he can with any program
that we play, and in this case, I was actually
able to forcure from higher quality in codes than you
might find around the internet. And I always like to
say these are from non retail sources, which is just
(31:58):
to be clear. We didn't take them from like a
commercial vendor like Radio Spirits and just copy them over
or something like that. But we are able to get
them from a non retail source and they sound a
bit better than you might typically find on the internet.
But thanks so much for listening. Well, now it's time
to thank our Patreon supporter of the day, and I
(32:20):
want to thank Ian Patreon supporter since August twenty sixteen,
currently supporting the podcast at the Detective Sergeant level of
seven dollars and fourteen cents or more per month. Thanks
so much for your support in and that will do
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rate and review the podcast wherever you download it from.
We will be back next Tuesday with another episode of
Flash Gordon and join us back here on Saturday for
Cloak and Dagger. In the meantime, send your comments to
Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net. But from Boise, Idaho,
(33:02):
this is your host, Adam Graham signing off.
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