July 29, 2025 • 31 mins
Today's Adventure: Flash begins his conquest of the Kingdom of Caves, but runs into a major complication when he's captured by Queen Azusa, witch and leader of the blue magic men.
Originating Radio Broadcast Date: May 25 and June 1, 1935
Originating from Hollywood Starring: Gale Gordon as Flash Gordon; Maurice Franklin; Bruno Wick
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Originating Radio Broadcast Date: May 25 and June 1, 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 Boise, Idaho.
This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment we
will be blasting off to the Interplanetary Adventures of Flash Gordon.
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fifth and sixth episodes of the Interplanetary Adventures of Flash Gordon.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Presenting the amazing interplanetary adventures of Flash Gardens. These thrilling
adventures come to you as they are pictured each Sunday
in the Comic Weekly, The World's greatest pictorial supplement of
humor and adventure, the Big Comic Weekly, Each page printed
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(01:45):
of your host's Sunday newspapers. Well the benefit of those
who may not have heard the earlier episodes, Flash Gordon
and Daleliden were thrown onto the new planet Mongol. The
two Americans were said to the prison city of the Hawkmen.
In a tournament of death, Flash Gordon wins the unconquered
Kingdom of the Caves and sets out to subdue his domain.
(02:09):
We now follow Flash Gordon in his conquest of the
Kingdom of the Caves. Having picked up a company of
King Volsan's Hawkmen, the huge rocket ship bearing Flash and
Dale to their new kingdom heads for the yawning mouth
of Kira, the wild and forbidding cave world. Following Ming's
map and instructions, Captain Khan steers a course for the
(02:31):
stronghold of Zug, chief of the Cavemen. The ship leaves
the gloom of the first cave and enters another, colossal
in size and brilliantly lighted. They land and get out
of the rocket ship.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Well, Dale, we're here.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
What a huge cave. And look at all those little
holes in the side.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Oh, must be the dwellings of my subject a khan,
all my kingdom like this.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
I've never been inside before, your majesty. Nobody has ever
explored this strange underground world.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Look Nella coming out of those holes in the cliff.
And what fierce looking men.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
The powerful looking red headed giants. Must be the leader.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
We'll break the news to him, Your majesty.
Speaker 7 (03:10):
Mee me keep here.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Why you come, bend your knee, al red haired one.
This is King Flas, the first ruler of Kira, the
cave world, my order of ming, the merciless emperor of Mongo.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
No, no, King me, keep me kill him.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
That's son actual pool. Yeah, this is a ray pistol
which can of dissolve you into pieces.
Speaker 8 (03:30):
Wait.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Con, I'll not rule any man. I can't beat him
fair combat.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
Why why you stronger? You king?
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Thanks up, I'll make you my right hand man.
Speaker 9 (03:42):
Run Run for your life.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
He comes, eater of men.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
What's the matter, de delizard?
Speaker 7 (03:47):
Monster?
Speaker 6 (03:48):
Eat men?
Speaker 7 (03:49):
Run for your life.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Con gip hear my signal, gum nothing gets.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Close enough, no, no shooting flash.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Good work, your majesty, you have blinded him. There, he goes,
I don't think you'll ever be bothered by him again.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
Zoob oh, king me my try fight for you alway.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Fine with the cave men and the hawkmen, I'll conquer
my kingdom.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Flash Gordon leads his army of cliffmen and hawkmen into
the immense caves which make up his kingdom. After progressing
for a long time without seeing a living thing, he
decides to take Dale and go on a scouting expedition.
Walking through a cave of terrifying beurty, the two Americans
are suddenly surprised by a band of lizard men.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
They drop them all sides hurling stones.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Flash is knocked out, and the old signal gun shrieks
at sirens as she.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
Fires both after bolt at the.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Charging man beasts back on the plane. Captain Conn and
zoog leaped to their feet as the wailing of Dale's
signal gun reaches their ears with a dashing fill. As
Captain Conn at their heads, the squad of hawkmen come.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
To the rescue.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
HEO, hel what has happened to his majesty?
Speaker 4 (05:00):
And they attacked us and knocked Flash out. I bought them off,
but they took Flash and escaped through.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
That crevice block with a huge stone. Men, bring that
quick firing gun in the position.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
There.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
That's why Dale. Let us find his majesty. Look blood,
that means King Flash came this way, lizard man, don't.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Please, This passage seems blocked off.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
We'll have to use a ncro gun.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Wait, let me squeeze through that opening.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Right, I was a Dale.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Can you'll see the end? Not yet now I'm stuck,
but I can see light ahead. Flash, Darling, you're alive.
I'm so glad.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I have to get the camera. I can't bunch this stone.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Can you reach my signal gun?
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Yes, I got it, Thanks Dale. Quiet, here come the
lizard men after me.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
In the meantime, in the castle of Azora, the Witch,
Queen of the Blue Magic Men, Tall, the chief magician,
called the Queen's attention to something he sees in the
magic glass.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
Yeh, look, go, queen, strangers to my cave.
Speaker 10 (06:07):
Fighting with the lizard men. See they have blown down
the stone and have conquered their opponents.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
They are free.
Speaker 10 (06:13):
They are coming this way.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
What a handsome blonde leader, Tarl. We must go to
welcome him.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
What's that con what the earth is fumbling. The walls
are taking.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
The soldiers and Zook and the cavemen.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
They're bettered under an avalanche of stone.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
That weird life? What does it mean? Book?
Speaker 5 (06:36):
In the midst of the lord flames?
Speaker 6 (06:38):
A woman reading standers?
Speaker 10 (06:41):
Are you bendonio strangers? You are face to face with us?
Or a queen of the blue magic men?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
A queen, I am king flesh. I bend mind you
to no one man or woman.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
So make him bow to me.
Speaker 8 (06:55):
Tall poison guys, I'm yeah.
Speaker 10 (07:08):
Your spell is on them. Oh, queen. See they sink
to the ground, unconscious from the sleep gas. Yours is
the power to bring them back.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
For you the pool.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
He thinks he can pitch his muscle against sleep gas.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
Have them carried to the gravity sled.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Will you return to the castle?
Speaker 10 (07:32):
Well, Queen Ajora, here are the three strangers laid out
before you, still in beach lumber, from which only you
have the power to bring them back. What is your pleasure?
Speaker 6 (07:44):
Ay, You're so handsome, so big and strong.
Speaker 10 (07:50):
I'll use the promoter bring this one back to life.
There his eye lids quipper. I shall have run through
his body. The blonde youth is coming back to us.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Oh, oh, don't worry there, I'm with you.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
I'm where am i?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Oh you?
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Are you so displeased with my appearance?
Speaker 6 (08:19):
Am I not beautiful to look upon? Save your breath?
She cannot hear you, she cannot answer you. She is dead.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
No, pal you you will you kill her?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (08:34):
I killed her?
Speaker 3 (08:35):
You tend there and admit it.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Don't I killed her as I killed you and your
other companion.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
And I can.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Bring her back as I brought you back to life.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Then do it at once.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
You are young and full of life. It would be
a pity to put.
Speaker 11 (08:50):
Such a fine passimen of manhood there.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 6 (08:55):
One of you must die? Shall it be you or
the girl?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
You know? There's only one answer to that.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
Ah.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
The brave youth wish is to make the supreme sacrifice.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
Very noble, but very is foolish. I've changed my mind.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
You shall live for me, and dy'll what will happen
to her?
Speaker 6 (09:18):
You promise to obey me forever? I will bring her
back to life.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Then I agree to your terms.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Can we steal our bargain?
Speaker 6 (09:26):
With a drink?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Very well tall?
Speaker 10 (09:28):
Here it is you, queen, take this cup.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
Changer, drink to our love A head you.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
You, you me, yes, and.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
Now you are truly mine forever.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
I can't even remember where am I?
Speaker 6 (09:52):
Who are you? Who am I? Do not worry, my soldier, Prince.
I am your queen as you are.
Speaker 7 (09:58):
A queer eye.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
I can't remember who I am.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
I had something, I had something to do.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
I had to save.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
Somebody sits back and your last I.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Must have been struck on the head during a battle.
Forgive me for being so foggy.
Speaker 6 (10:13):
You have forgiven, my Prince, Come with me.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
My mind is a blank as to my past.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
You mean you have forgotten everything, even our love.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
All I know is that you are the most gorgeous
woman I have ever seen.
Speaker 11 (10:25):
Ah, that is what I have been waiting to hear
you say.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
Listen, my handsome Prince, I wish to test you.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Look at those two figures.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
To spend it there. Do you know them?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Man and the girl? Beautiful girl too? I never saw
them before in my life? Should I recognize them?
Speaker 6 (10:45):
Have I ever met them? One more test?
Speaker 11 (10:48):
Tell the promoter bring that man back to life.
Speaker 10 (10:55):
He is coming back to Queens.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
O flesh, Your majesty, Where is Dale?
Speaker 7 (11:06):
Dale?
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Your majesty? What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Must be ill?
Speaker 5 (11:10):
Your majesty, don't you know.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Me Cohn of the hawkman Aura? A man raving about
the warp is nerve our?
Speaker 6 (11:16):
It's crazy from me.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Oh then I quite understand.
Speaker 8 (11:19):
I forgiven.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
I am glad you are loyal to me, my tea.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
I always will be my beautiful queen.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
Flash, why listen to me?
Speaker 6 (11:26):
Quiet?
Speaker 12 (11:26):
Lie back you.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
I warn you it will take a thousand magic men
to keep me in change.
Speaker 10 (11:30):
I think not, my God, find him with the electric
manical silence dog. I warn you, if you disobey, these
manacles will become red hot and steel you to the bowl.
Take him into the kitchen, oh.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Wor.
Speaker 7 (11:49):
And now for.
Speaker 13 (11:50):
The girl, lush, lush, Where are you you?
Speaker 9 (11:59):
Chelsea him?
Speaker 7 (12:00):
Get up?
Speaker 9 (12:01):
Come this way?
Speaker 13 (12:03):
Where am i?
Speaker 10 (12:04):
You are in the palace of Azura, Queen of the
magic Men. When I draw these curtains, you shall see
your lover in the arms of his Queen Azura.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Oh bless, how could you listen?
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Very beautiful, my God, I think I would enjoy the
flight of food more.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
I'm tah forgive me, my prince.
Speaker 11 (12:27):
I was so interested in showing you the beauty of
my palate I've forgotten about food.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
Come to the dining room. Oh, come some food.
Speaker 10 (12:37):
Now, strange girl, Come with me to the kitchen. You
shall serve them.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Paul takes Dale to the kitchen of the palace, where
she joins Khan, who was helping.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
They are the food, Oh, Dale, your face.
Speaker 13 (13:02):
Yes, Captain Town, and I'm glad to find you safe too.
But splash, oh, Captain Tom what is called slash to change?
Speaker 6 (13:11):
Though?
Speaker 5 (13:11):
I do not know, but he seems to be under
some kind of spell. This queen is indeed a witch.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
One of yo too whispering about get to work.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
No, I won't. I won't do anything for her.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
You dare to rebel and take this back?
Speaker 6 (13:26):
Let me work up.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Give me that, piper, I'll break your neck, Fame.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
Can you tell them you'll obey for your sake?
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Dale, I surrender.
Speaker 7 (13:36):
I will obey.
Speaker 10 (13:38):
Good. Now, guy, I'll take this plate of food into
the queen and her new print.
Speaker 7 (13:44):
Here.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
I will help you with the trey. Dale, one taste
of this acid on the food, and all of your
magic won't save her there. Now, then, can you carry it?
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Yes, I shall take it in now. Ah, here comes
the food. There's my prince hers Flash, Oh, clumsy food. Oh,
don't love me anymore?
Speaker 7 (14:15):
Love you?
Speaker 6 (14:15):
Oh, I don't even know you.
Speaker 7 (14:17):
Girl.
Speaker 11 (14:17):
I will teach this unruly and clumsy servant girl and Pedion,
God give her a whip.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Back.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
In the Kingdom of the Hawkmen, King Hooltan and Doctor
Zakhoff are talking together.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
Ah, Prince Zagov, the palace seems emptations. That very little
bird flew away with flesh Gordon.
Speaker 12 (14:45):
Yes, Woltani, does I miss Flash and Dale also? But
I suppose we shall never hear from them again.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
Not until he has conquered his kingdom of the caves
and put it in running order.
Speaker 12 (14:57):
With Captain Khan to help him. That should not take long.
He is an excellent soldier.
Speaker 7 (15:01):
Yes, I should hate to lose him. Oh, are your
newest inventions coming along, by the way, Dhakov.
Speaker 12 (15:08):
Splendidly, splendidly. I cannot thank you enough for the wonderful
apparatus and laboratory you have turned.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
Over to me.
Speaker 12 (15:15):
It is it is an inventor's paradise. Yes, that's what
it is, an inventor's paradise.
Speaker 7 (15:22):
Well, he is the latest creation of your great brain.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
It is it.
Speaker 12 (15:26):
I beg your pardon, Bultan, But I dare not speak
of it until I have tested it thoroughly. There must
be no mistake, no flaw when I give it to
the kingdom.
Speaker 7 (15:36):
Oh, of course, of course, I like your passion for
being precise, Dakhov.
Speaker 12 (15:43):
Someone is trying to get you on this spacephone, answered
dago at once, Bultan, this is Alkov speaking.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
But where who is it?
Speaker 7 (15:55):
Daghoff?
Speaker 12 (15:56):
When that comes, Lieutenant, I can't hear you.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
You got.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
Hold on.
Speaker 12 (16:04):
King Flash and Tale and Khan are captured by Azura,
Queen of the Blue Magic Men. The lieutenant once helped.
Speaker 7 (16:09):
Tell him he shall be sented once find out his
exact position.
Speaker 12 (16:14):
Will Dan says, he will send aid At once. What
is your exact position?
Speaker 7 (16:18):
Tell him you will be in charge of the men.
Speaker 12 (16:21):
Yes, yes, I have just been told I am to
be in charge of the relief expedition.
Speaker 7 (16:28):
I shall start within the hour.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
Within the hour.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
In the kitchens of the palace of Azua, Queen of
the Blue Magic Men, we find Dale and Khan.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Cheer up, Princess Dale, I can't be cheerful.
Speaker 13 (16:48):
The waitings are Captain Khan only Azure I hadn't asked
me to say the food to Flash well.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
She did, so there's nothing to be done about it.
It wasn't your falt, Princess. It was the faith of
the God.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
Do feel that free about it?
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Come, we must.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Figure out a way to foil her magical power. Stop
your whispering. Start at you at once, God, carry that
over here.
Speaker 13 (17:10):
I don't see how I can help you before the
Queen she's had me chained to the stoves as punishment. No,
I can't even see Flash anymore.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Yes you can, princess. Oh, the chain on your manacles
will permit you to walk to the end of the
galley stove.
Speaker 7 (17:23):
There.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
From that point you can look out the grilled window
into the garden. No doubt Flash will sometimes walk by
with the Queen. Yes, I'm afraid the zoo will be
with him. She seems to have claimed him as her
own personal property.
Speaker 13 (17:35):
Come, yes, Princess, you don't think that Flash has really
fallen in love with her?
Speaker 5 (17:41):
By my sword, I swear king Flash as bewitched. He
doesn't know where he is or what he's doing. I
know he wasn't pretending when he failed to recognize me.
What makes you so sure his eyes had a dull
and glassy look?
Speaker 6 (17:54):
Why?
Speaker 13 (17:54):
Yes, I remember I saw that too. When he looked
at me, it was as though he look through me
instead of acting.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
If only I could reach my men, if there are
any left. I don't know what happened after Razora broke
that gas bomb in our faces.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
Captain Cohn.
Speaker 13 (18:11):
Yes, if you obey all the guards ordered, they may
put you on parole or something that may give you
the freedom of the palace.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
An excellent idea. Excellent, Thank you, Princess, thank you. I
will be the most obedient slave in the kitchen and
see if that will earn me some privileges.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
I will obey too.
Speaker 13 (18:28):
Oh, Captain Kahn, we must do something to say flash
and that wicked humans.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Do not worry, Princess. We will find a way somehow. Hey,
you're harry that keptle over to the table. Certainly, guards,
let me take this one also.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Meanwhile, roaring through space in a fleet of rocket ships
with Prince Zakhof in command, an army of hawkmen are
hurrying on their way to aid our friends. Suddenly their
looms up in front of them, a whole squadron of
cloud men with huge billowing cloaks, journey hands and spreading
the cloaks.
Speaker 7 (19:09):
The cloud Men form an.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Opaque and impenetrable wall before the rocket ship. The Hawkmen
try to maneuver above them, but they rise at the
same speed. Then the Hawkmen try to fly below them,
but they drop like lightning and present their solid barrier,
wheeling the fleet around. Zarkoff signals for the dissolvo guns
mounted on the nose of each rocket ship to start firing.
(19:30):
Shot after shot is fired at the white billows until
the path of the Hawkmen has been cleared. Then Zarkoff
signals for doubles feet.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Ahead did make up for lost time.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
At the same time, in the Palace of Azuf, flashes
entertained by the Queen that gold armor.
Speaker 6 (19:51):
Isn't worthy of you, my prince.
Speaker 11 (19:53):
I'm asstuous at my armor and makes something more.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Sist, my beautiful Azera. The armor is but a symbol
of your self. Even if it were made of the
most precious and rare metals to be obtained and studded
with jewels, my loyalty to you and your cause could
not be greater.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
You do love me, don't you.
Speaker 11 (20:09):
Fly.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
I know of no one in the past, present, or
even the future for whom I have felt such a
deep love, my gorgeous queen.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
No one, my handsome prince.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
No one, You and you alone, I love.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
It is sweet, very sweet to hear you speak those words.
As long as you do and mean them, I will
reward you well.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
To be with you, to be allowed to serve and
love you with all the reward I desire, my.
Speaker 11 (20:33):
Darmin, I shall have to think up some special privilege
for that pretty Then.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Let me kiss your hands here, my prince, fair hands,
so delicate, so shapely. How many men have lost their
hearts and heads trying to gain you, flatterer. I only
speak from my own reactions with her. I know that
I should be willing to risk everything to win you
for myself.
Speaker 6 (20:54):
We shall see, We shall see.
Speaker 11 (20:58):
Flash, I must give some orders to the s, and
you out into the garden and wait for me.
Speaker 6 (21:03):
I will join you presently.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
The slightest wish of the command, my beautiful.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
One, Lash slash.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Eh, who's calling me?
Speaker 6 (21:13):
It's deal? Deal, arve me?
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Oh there you are, I see you now. They're in
that grilled window. What are you doing there, girl?
Speaker 4 (21:21):
I'm a prisoner here, Flash. Ever since I got that
tray of food.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Oh yes, I wondered where I've seen you. You you tripped,
and the Zorra ordered you punished.
Speaker 13 (21:30):
He has had me chained to the galley stove. My
chain just reaches to this window.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Are you all right?
Speaker 6 (21:37):
Flash?
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Am I all right? Of course I am? Why shouldn't
I be? Did you think a Zora had punished me
for something too?
Speaker 9 (21:44):
No?
Speaker 4 (21:45):
I just wanted to know how you are.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Well, that's very kind of you, girl. And since you've
taken such an interest in my welfare, I'll take an
interest in yours. How can you too young and pretty
to be made a prisoner in the kitchen. I'll ask
Azora to free you?
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Oh no, you mustn't.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Mustn't, Who says so? I shall ask his order at one.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Who bless you love them?
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Alanon roll the rocket ships of the Hawkman into the
yawning mouth of Kira, through the caverns of the cliff dwellers,
through the caves of living man eating plants, and finally
they come into the enormous transparent cave where the handfuls
of survivors whom can squadrons are waiting. The fleet lands
and Prince Zakov is the first to get out the
lieutenant who call for aid on the Spacephone comes up
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to him.
Speaker 12 (22:39):
Well, what is the latest news, Lieutenant.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
We were afraid something had happened to you, Prince Zakof.
Speaker 12 (22:45):
We were delayed in a skirmish with the cloud men.
What is deletedt ree pot on the fate of my friends.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
We don't know what happened to them.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
After the Blue Magic Men captured King Flash and Princess
Dale and our captain, they blasted the sunnel leading to
their land, killing most of our men.
Speaker 12 (23:00):
Is there any chance that Flash and his companions are
still alive?
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Who knows?
Speaker 3 (23:04):
That's the land of magic.
Speaker 12 (23:05):
I have brought a battery of bray cannons with us.
We will blush our way to my friends, all aware
they're impending dangerous. Zora and talk confer in the powers
of the Blue Magic Man.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
You understand tall.
Speaker 9 (23:24):
Or perfectly, In your majesty.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
There is nothing too good in my whole kingdom.
Speaker 9 (23:30):
For my new prince is every way shall be obeyed,
Old Queen, its slightest, twim fullfilled.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
I do not know what I shall do with his companions.
They are problems.
Speaker 11 (23:42):
I do not want them around, and yet I cannot
execute them. If Delythium should wear off and Flash discovered
what I had done. Flash, I told him I would
only be a minute. The dear boy is so mad
about me he cannot bear to have me out of his.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
Open a door.
Speaker 9 (24:02):
All at once.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
Show Queen, here, I am, Flash.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Oh, I beg your pardoner. I know you were still busy.
Speaker 9 (24:11):
Oh, come quickly, I am summoned your majesty. Have I
your permission?
Speaker 6 (24:17):
Yes?
Speaker 9 (24:17):
Tall go okay, your majesty?
Speaker 6 (24:23):
Well? Flash, will you lonely without me? Is that why
you came calling for me?
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Azora? You're good and kind.
Speaker 6 (24:31):
This sounds like a man who has a favorite to us.
I have my queen ask it shall be granted.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Thank you, Azora. I knew you were kind of good.
She will be so grateful.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
Gee.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Who the girl who tripped while serving us food the
other night?
Speaker 6 (24:46):
Was the favor you asked for her?
Speaker 7 (24:48):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (24:48):
She called to me from a window the kitchens and
told me she was chained to the galley stove. Well,
I promised to ask you to free her, and you
have wait.
Speaker 11 (24:57):
I thought the favor was for yourself, Flash, not one
of my prisoner.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Nothing I need for myself as eh. And the girl
is too young and too pretty to deserve such a fate.
I thought you just some kind. Do not cause me
to change my mind.
Speaker 11 (25:10):
You make it hard for me, Smash, I've never freed
a prisoner in my life.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
Your what does this unteremony sentence me? Chall I did
not send for you.
Speaker 7 (25:22):
I only crave your.
Speaker 9 (25:23):
Pardon, your majesty, and I have news of the most
extreme urgency. Speak then I landed being invaded by the Hawkman.
Speaker 6 (25:33):
Hawkmen, we must go forth to wars. The army must
be caught out. I will press the signal.
Speaker 9 (25:49):
And always to lead your men into battle.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
All clean of course, and as to point someone to
head the army, will you lead our men into that all?
Flash your magic.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Serving as your commander in chief would be a pleasure.
Speaker 9 (26:03):
My queen, hermantesy, what's this stranger over me?
Speaker 6 (26:12):
Let her beware.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
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Flash Gordon.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Welcome back. Well, the story got off at a super
fast paced I mean Flash was fighting people and signing
up allies and venturing further into the Kingdom of Caves
in the first three minutes that you thought the whole
conquest would go pretty quickly, but the Blue Magic Man
slowed things down. They're not too much and we get
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a lot of great stuff going on. I like the
mind control wasn't a situation where Flash's entire personality was changed,
which is often how it's portrayed in different media, but
rather his memory and perception were altered, but his core
personality goodness, bravery, and loyalty still remain and kind of
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great some problems for Azora, but now mind controlled Flash
is set to take on his actual allies, and we've
got palace intrigues in Azua's court, So all really good
stuff for next week's show. I will admit the space
weapons sound effects were a bit jarring. We have to
keep in mind that the sound of space weapons hadn't
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been developed, so we get some early attempts of what
that sounded like on radio. You just kind of have
to bear with that. Also, kind of a weird decision
to put Zarkov in military command of anything. He's a
scientist and to be honest, not necessarily the most stable
person we've met, but it does simplify the plot a bit,
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just ten to fifteen years old. It was that's like
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fifteen or so, things that sound cliche to us. We're
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Speaker 2 (01:22):
Presenting the amazing interplanetary adventures of Flash Gardens. These thrilling
adventures come to you as they are pictured each Sunday
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of your host's Sunday newspapers. Well the benefit of those
who may not have heard the earlier episodes, Flash Gordon
and Daleliden were thrown onto the new planet Mongol. The
two Americans were said to the prison city of the Hawkmen.
In a tournament of death, Flash Gordon wins the unconquered
Kingdom of the Caves and sets out to subdue his domain.
(02:09):
We now follow Flash Gordon in his conquest of the
Kingdom of the Caves. Having picked up a company of
King Volsan's Hawkmen, the huge rocket ship bearing Flash and
Dale to their new kingdom heads for the yawning mouth
of Kira, the wild and forbidding cave world. Following Ming's
map and instructions, Captain Khan steers a course for the
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stronghold of Zug, chief of the Cavemen. The ship leaves
the gloom of the first cave and enters another, colossal
in size and brilliantly lighted. They land and get out
of the rocket ship.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Well, Dale, we're here.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
What a huge cave. And look at all those little
holes in the side.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Oh, must be the dwellings of my subject a khan,
all my kingdom like this.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
I've never been inside before, your majesty. Nobody has ever
explored this strange underground world.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Look Nella coming out of those holes in the cliff.
And what fierce looking men.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
The powerful looking red headed giants. Must be the leader.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
We'll break the news to him, Your majesty.
Speaker 7 (03:10):
Mee me keep here.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Why you come, bend your knee, al red haired one.
This is King Flas, the first ruler of Kira, the
cave world, my order of ming, the merciless emperor of Mongo.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
No, no, King me, keep me kill him.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
That's son actual pool. Yeah, this is a ray pistol
which can of dissolve you into pieces.
Speaker 8 (03:30):
Wait.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Con, I'll not rule any man. I can't beat him
fair combat.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
Why why you stronger? You king?
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Thanks up, I'll make you my right hand man.
Speaker 9 (03:42):
Run Run for your life.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
He comes, eater of men.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
What's the matter, de delizard?
Speaker 7 (03:47):
Monster?
Speaker 6 (03:48):
Eat men?
Speaker 7 (03:49):
Run for your life.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Con gip hear my signal, gum nothing gets.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Close enough, no, no shooting flash.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Good work, your majesty, you have blinded him. There, he goes,
I don't think you'll ever be bothered by him again.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
Zoob oh, king me my try fight for you alway.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Fine with the cave men and the hawkmen, I'll conquer
my kingdom.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Flash Gordon leads his army of cliffmen and hawkmen into
the immense caves which make up his kingdom. After progressing
for a long time without seeing a living thing, he
decides to take Dale and go on a scouting expedition.
Walking through a cave of terrifying beurty, the two Americans
are suddenly surprised by a band of lizard men.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
They drop them all sides hurling stones.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Flash is knocked out, and the old signal gun shrieks
at sirens as she.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
Fires both after bolt at the.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Charging man beasts back on the plane. Captain Conn and
zoog leaped to their feet as the wailing of Dale's
signal gun reaches their ears with a dashing fill. As
Captain Conn at their heads, the squad of hawkmen come.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
To the rescue.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
HEO, hel what has happened to his majesty?
Speaker 4 (05:00):
And they attacked us and knocked Flash out. I bought them off,
but they took Flash and escaped through.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
That crevice block with a huge stone. Men, bring that
quick firing gun in the position.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
There.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
That's why Dale. Let us find his majesty. Look blood,
that means King Flash came this way, lizard man, don't.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Please, This passage seems blocked off.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
We'll have to use a ncro gun.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Wait, let me squeeze through that opening.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Right, I was a Dale.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Can you'll see the end? Not yet now I'm stuck,
but I can see light ahead. Flash, Darling, you're alive.
I'm so glad.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I have to get the camera. I can't bunch this stone.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Can you reach my signal gun?
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Yes, I got it, Thanks Dale. Quiet, here come the
lizard men after me.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
In the meantime, in the castle of Azora, the Witch,
Queen of the Blue Magic Men, Tall, the chief magician,
called the Queen's attention to something he sees in the
magic glass.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
Yeh, look, go, queen, strangers to my cave.
Speaker 10 (06:07):
Fighting with the lizard men. See they have blown down
the stone and have conquered their opponents.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
They are free.
Speaker 10 (06:13):
They are coming this way.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
What a handsome blonde leader, Tarl. We must go to
welcome him.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
What's that con what the earth is fumbling. The walls
are taking.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
The soldiers and Zook and the cavemen.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
They're bettered under an avalanche of stone.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
That weird life? What does it mean? Book?
Speaker 5 (06:36):
In the midst of the lord flames?
Speaker 6 (06:38):
A woman reading standers?
Speaker 10 (06:41):
Are you bendonio strangers? You are face to face with us?
Or a queen of the blue magic men?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
A queen, I am king flesh. I bend mind you
to no one man or woman.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
So make him bow to me.
Speaker 8 (06:55):
Tall poison guys, I'm yeah.
Speaker 10 (07:08):
Your spell is on them. Oh, queen. See they sink
to the ground, unconscious from the sleep gas. Yours is
the power to bring them back.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
For you the pool.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
He thinks he can pitch his muscle against sleep gas.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
Have them carried to the gravity sled.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Will you return to the castle?
Speaker 10 (07:32):
Well, Queen Ajora, here are the three strangers laid out
before you, still in beach lumber, from which only you
have the power to bring them back. What is your pleasure?
Speaker 6 (07:44):
Ay, You're so handsome, so big and strong.
Speaker 10 (07:50):
I'll use the promoter bring this one back to life.
There his eye lids quipper. I shall have run through
his body. The blonde youth is coming back to us.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Oh, oh, don't worry there, I'm with you.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
I'm where am i?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Oh you?
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Are you so displeased with my appearance?
Speaker 6 (08:19):
Am I not beautiful to look upon? Save your breath?
She cannot hear you, she cannot answer you. She is dead.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
No, pal you you will you kill her?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (08:34):
I killed her?
Speaker 3 (08:35):
You tend there and admit it.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Don't I killed her as I killed you and your
other companion.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
And I can.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Bring her back as I brought you back to life.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Then do it at once.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
You are young and full of life. It would be
a pity to put.
Speaker 11 (08:50):
Such a fine passimen of manhood there.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 6 (08:55):
One of you must die? Shall it be you or
the girl?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
You know? There's only one answer to that.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
Ah.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
The brave youth wish is to make the supreme sacrifice.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
Very noble, but very is foolish. I've changed my mind.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
You shall live for me, and dy'll what will happen
to her?
Speaker 6 (09:18):
You promise to obey me forever? I will bring her
back to life.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Then I agree to your terms.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Can we steal our bargain?
Speaker 6 (09:26):
With a drink?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Very well tall?
Speaker 10 (09:28):
Here it is you, queen, take this cup.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
Changer, drink to our love A head you.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
You, you me, yes, and.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
Now you are truly mine forever.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
I can't even remember where am I?
Speaker 6 (09:52):
Who are you? Who am I? Do not worry, my soldier, Prince.
I am your queen as you are.
Speaker 7 (09:58):
A queer eye.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
I can't remember who I am.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
I had something, I had something to do.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
I had to save.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
Somebody sits back and your last I.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Must have been struck on the head during a battle.
Forgive me for being so foggy.
Speaker 6 (10:13):
You have forgiven, my Prince, Come with me.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
My mind is a blank as to my past.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
You mean you have forgotten everything, even our love.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
All I know is that you are the most gorgeous
woman I have ever seen.
Speaker 11 (10:25):
Ah, that is what I have been waiting to hear
you say.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
Listen, my handsome Prince, I wish to test you.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Look at those two figures.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
To spend it there. Do you know them?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Man and the girl? Beautiful girl too? I never saw
them before in my life? Should I recognize them?
Speaker 6 (10:45):
Have I ever met them? One more test?
Speaker 11 (10:48):
Tell the promoter bring that man back to life.
Speaker 10 (10:55):
He is coming back to Queens.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
O flesh, Your majesty, Where is Dale?
Speaker 7 (11:06):
Dale?
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Your majesty? What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Must be ill?
Speaker 5 (11:10):
Your majesty, don't you know.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Me Cohn of the hawkman Aura? A man raving about
the warp is nerve our?
Speaker 6 (11:16):
It's crazy from me.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Oh then I quite understand.
Speaker 8 (11:19):
I forgiven.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
I am glad you are loyal to me, my tea.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
I always will be my beautiful queen.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
Flash, why listen to me?
Speaker 6 (11:26):
Quiet?
Speaker 12 (11:26):
Lie back you.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
I warn you it will take a thousand magic men
to keep me in change.
Speaker 10 (11:30):
I think not, my God, find him with the electric
manical silence dog. I warn you, if you disobey, these
manacles will become red hot and steel you to the bowl.
Take him into the kitchen, oh.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Wor.
Speaker 7 (11:49):
And now for.
Speaker 13 (11:50):
The girl, lush, lush, Where are you you?
Speaker 9 (11:59):
Chelsea him?
Speaker 7 (12:00):
Get up?
Speaker 9 (12:01):
Come this way?
Speaker 13 (12:03):
Where am i?
Speaker 10 (12:04):
You are in the palace of Azura, Queen of the
magic Men. When I draw these curtains, you shall see
your lover in the arms of his Queen Azura.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Oh bless, how could you listen?
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Very beautiful, my God, I think I would enjoy the
flight of food more.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
I'm tah forgive me, my prince.
Speaker 11 (12:27):
I was so interested in showing you the beauty of
my palate I've forgotten about food.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
Come to the dining room. Oh, come some food.
Speaker 10 (12:37):
Now, strange girl, Come with me to the kitchen. You
shall serve them.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Paul takes Dale to the kitchen of the palace, where
she joins Khan, who was helping.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
They are the food, Oh, Dale, your face.
Speaker 13 (13:02):
Yes, Captain Town, and I'm glad to find you safe too.
But splash, oh, Captain Tom what is called slash to change?
Speaker 6 (13:11):
Though?
Speaker 5 (13:11):
I do not know, but he seems to be under
some kind of spell. This queen is indeed a witch.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
One of yo too whispering about get to work.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
No, I won't. I won't do anything for her.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
You dare to rebel and take this back?
Speaker 6 (13:26):
Let me work up.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Give me that, piper, I'll break your neck, Fame.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
Can you tell them you'll obey for your sake?
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Dale, I surrender.
Speaker 7 (13:36):
I will obey.
Speaker 10 (13:38):
Good. Now, guy, I'll take this plate of food into
the queen and her new print.
Speaker 7 (13:44):
Here.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
I will help you with the trey. Dale, one taste
of this acid on the food, and all of your
magic won't save her there. Now, then, can you carry it?
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Yes, I shall take it in now. Ah, here comes
the food. There's my prince hers Flash, Oh, clumsy food. Oh,
don't love me anymore?
Speaker 7 (14:15):
Love you?
Speaker 6 (14:15):
Oh, I don't even know you.
Speaker 7 (14:17):
Girl.
Speaker 11 (14:17):
I will teach this unruly and clumsy servant girl and Pedion,
God give her a whip.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Back.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
In the Kingdom of the Hawkmen, King Hooltan and Doctor
Zakhoff are talking together.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
Ah, Prince Zagov, the palace seems emptations. That very little
bird flew away with flesh Gordon.
Speaker 12 (14:45):
Yes, Woltani, does I miss Flash and Dale also? But
I suppose we shall never hear from them again.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
Not until he has conquered his kingdom of the caves
and put it in running order.
Speaker 12 (14:57):
With Captain Khan to help him. That should not take long.
He is an excellent soldier.
Speaker 7 (15:01):
Yes, I should hate to lose him. Oh, are your
newest inventions coming along, by the way, Dhakov.
Speaker 12 (15:08):
Splendidly, splendidly. I cannot thank you enough for the wonderful
apparatus and laboratory you have turned.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
Over to me.
Speaker 12 (15:15):
It is it is an inventor's paradise. Yes, that's what
it is, an inventor's paradise.
Speaker 7 (15:22):
Well, he is the latest creation of your great brain.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
It is it.
Speaker 12 (15:26):
I beg your pardon, Bultan, But I dare not speak
of it until I have tested it thoroughly. There must
be no mistake, no flaw when I give it to
the kingdom.
Speaker 7 (15:36):
Oh, of course, of course, I like your passion for
being precise, Dakhov.
Speaker 12 (15:43):
Someone is trying to get you on this spacephone, answered
dago at once, Bultan, this is Alkov speaking.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
But where who is it?
Speaker 7 (15:55):
Daghoff?
Speaker 12 (15:56):
When that comes, Lieutenant, I can't hear you.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
You got.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
Hold on.
Speaker 12 (16:04):
King Flash and Tale and Khan are captured by Azura,
Queen of the Blue Magic Men. The lieutenant once helped.
Speaker 7 (16:09):
Tell him he shall be sented once find out his
exact position.
Speaker 12 (16:14):
Will Dan says, he will send aid At once. What
is your exact position?
Speaker 7 (16:18):
Tell him you will be in charge of the men.
Speaker 12 (16:21):
Yes, yes, I have just been told I am to
be in charge of the relief expedition.
Speaker 7 (16:28):
I shall start within the hour.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
Within the hour.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
In the kitchens of the palace of Azua, Queen of
the Blue Magic Men, we find Dale and Khan.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Cheer up, Princess Dale, I can't be cheerful.
Speaker 13 (16:48):
The waitings are Captain Khan only Azure I hadn't asked
me to say the food to Flash well.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
She did, so there's nothing to be done about it.
It wasn't your falt, Princess. It was the faith of
the God.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
Do feel that free about it?
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Come, we must.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Figure out a way to foil her magical power. Stop
your whispering. Start at you at once, God, carry that
over here.
Speaker 13 (17:10):
I don't see how I can help you before the
Queen she's had me chained to the stoves as punishment. No,
I can't even see Flash anymore.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Yes you can, princess. Oh, the chain on your manacles
will permit you to walk to the end of the
galley stove.
Speaker 7 (17:23):
There.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
From that point you can look out the grilled window
into the garden. No doubt Flash will sometimes walk by
with the Queen. Yes, I'm afraid the zoo will be
with him. She seems to have claimed him as her
own personal property.
Speaker 13 (17:35):
Come, yes, Princess, you don't think that Flash has really
fallen in love with her?
Speaker 5 (17:41):
By my sword, I swear king Flash as bewitched. He
doesn't know where he is or what he's doing. I
know he wasn't pretending when he failed to recognize me.
What makes you so sure his eyes had a dull
and glassy look?
Speaker 6 (17:54):
Why?
Speaker 13 (17:54):
Yes, I remember I saw that too. When he looked
at me, it was as though he look through me
instead of acting.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
If only I could reach my men, if there are
any left. I don't know what happened after Razora broke
that gas bomb in our faces.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
Captain Cohn.
Speaker 13 (18:11):
Yes, if you obey all the guards ordered, they may
put you on parole or something that may give you
the freedom of the palace.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
An excellent idea. Excellent, Thank you, Princess, thank you. I
will be the most obedient slave in the kitchen and
see if that will earn me some privileges.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
I will obey too.
Speaker 13 (18:28):
Oh, Captain Kahn, we must do something to say flash
and that wicked humans.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Do not worry, Princess. We will find a way somehow. Hey,
you're harry that keptle over to the table. Certainly, guards,
let me take this one also.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Meanwhile, roaring through space in a fleet of rocket ships
with Prince Zakhof in command, an army of hawkmen are
hurrying on their way to aid our friends. Suddenly their
looms up in front of them, a whole squadron of
cloud men with huge billowing cloaks, journey hands and spreading
the cloaks.
Speaker 7 (19:09):
The cloud Men form an.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Opaque and impenetrable wall before the rocket ship. The Hawkmen
try to maneuver above them, but they rise at the
same speed. Then the Hawkmen try to fly below them,
but they drop like lightning and present their solid barrier,
wheeling the fleet around. Zarkoff signals for the dissolvo guns
mounted on the nose of each rocket ship to start firing.
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Shot after shot is fired at the white billows until
the path of the Hawkmen has been cleared. Then Zarkoff
signals for doubles feet.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Ahead did make up for lost time.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
At the same time, in the Palace of Azuf, flashes
entertained by the Queen that gold armor.
Speaker 6 (19:51):
Isn't worthy of you, my prince.
Speaker 11 (19:53):
I'm asstuous at my armor and makes something more.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Sist, my beautiful Azera. The armor is but a symbol
of your self. Even if it were made of the
most precious and rare metals to be obtained and studded
with jewels, my loyalty to you and your cause could
not be greater.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
You do love me, don't you.
Speaker 11 (20:09):
Fly.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
I know of no one in the past, present, or
even the future for whom I have felt such a
deep love, my gorgeous queen.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
No one, my handsome prince.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
No one, You and you alone, I love.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
It is sweet, very sweet to hear you speak those words.
As long as you do and mean them, I will
reward you well.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
To be with you, to be allowed to serve and
love you with all the reward I desire, my.
Speaker 11 (20:33):
Darmin, I shall have to think up some special privilege
for that pretty Then.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Let me kiss your hands here, my prince, fair hands,
so delicate, so shapely. How many men have lost their
hearts and heads trying to gain you, flatterer. I only
speak from my own reactions with her. I know that
I should be willing to risk everything to win you
for myself.
Speaker 6 (20:54):
We shall see, We shall see.
Speaker 11 (20:58):
Flash, I must give some orders to the s, and
you out into the garden and wait for me.
Speaker 6 (21:03):
I will join you presently.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
The slightest wish of the command, my beautiful.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
One, Lash slash.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Eh, who's calling me?
Speaker 6 (21:13):
It's deal? Deal, arve me?
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Oh there you are, I see you now. They're in
that grilled window. What are you doing there, girl?
Speaker 4 (21:21):
I'm a prisoner here, Flash. Ever since I got that
tray of food.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Oh yes, I wondered where I've seen you. You you tripped,
and the Zorra ordered you punished.
Speaker 13 (21:30):
He has had me chained to the galley stove. My
chain just reaches to this window.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Are you all right?
Speaker 6 (21:37):
Flash?
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Am I all right? Of course I am? Why shouldn't
I be? Did you think a Zora had punished me
for something too?
Speaker 9 (21:44):
No?
Speaker 4 (21:45):
I just wanted to know how you are.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Well, that's very kind of you, girl. And since you've
taken such an interest in my welfare, I'll take an
interest in yours. How can you too young and pretty
to be made a prisoner in the kitchen. I'll ask
Azora to free you?
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Oh no, you mustn't.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Mustn't, Who says so? I shall ask his order at one.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Who bless you love them?
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Alanon roll the rocket ships of the Hawkman into the
yawning mouth of Kira, through the caverns of the cliff dwellers,
through the caves of living man eating plants, and finally
they come into the enormous transparent cave where the handfuls
of survivors whom can squadrons are waiting. The fleet lands
and Prince Zakov is the first to get out the
lieutenant who call for aid on the Spacephone comes up
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to him.
Speaker 12 (22:39):
Well, what is the latest news, Lieutenant.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
We were afraid something had happened to you, Prince Zakof.
Speaker 12 (22:45):
We were delayed in a skirmish with the cloud men.
What is deletedt ree pot on the fate of my friends.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
We don't know what happened to them.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
After the Blue Magic Men captured King Flash and Princess
Dale and our captain, they blasted the sunnel leading to
their land, killing most of our men.
Speaker 12 (23:00):
Is there any chance that Flash and his companions are
still alive?
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Who knows?
Speaker 3 (23:04):
That's the land of magic.
Speaker 12 (23:05):
I have brought a battery of bray cannons with us.
We will blush our way to my friends, all aware
they're impending dangerous. Zora and talk confer in the powers
of the Blue Magic Man.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
You understand tall.
Speaker 9 (23:24):
Or perfectly, In your majesty.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
There is nothing too good in my whole kingdom.
Speaker 9 (23:30):
For my new prince is every way shall be obeyed,
Old Queen, its slightest, twim fullfilled.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
I do not know what I shall do with his companions.
They are problems.
Speaker 11 (23:42):
I do not want them around, and yet I cannot
execute them. If Delythium should wear off and Flash discovered
what I had done. Flash, I told him I would
only be a minute. The dear boy is so mad
about me he cannot bear to have me out of his.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
Open a door.
Speaker 9 (24:02):
All at once.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
Show Queen, here, I am, Flash.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Oh, I beg your pardoner. I know you were still busy.
Speaker 9 (24:11):
Oh, come quickly, I am summoned your majesty. Have I
your permission?
Speaker 6 (24:17):
Yes?
Speaker 9 (24:17):
Tall go okay, your majesty?
Speaker 6 (24:23):
Well? Flash, will you lonely without me? Is that why
you came calling for me?
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Azora? You're good and kind.
Speaker 6 (24:31):
This sounds like a man who has a favorite to us.
I have my queen ask it shall be granted.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Thank you, Azora. I knew you were kind of good.
She will be so grateful.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
Gee.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Who the girl who tripped while serving us food the
other night?
Speaker 6 (24:46):
Was the favor you asked for her?
Speaker 7 (24:48):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (24:48):
She called to me from a window the kitchens and
told me she was chained to the galley stove. Well,
I promised to ask you to free her, and you
have wait.
Speaker 11 (24:57):
I thought the favor was for yourself, Flash, not one
of my prisoner.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Nothing I need for myself as eh. And the girl
is too young and too pretty to deserve such a fate.
I thought you just some kind. Do not cause me
to change my mind.
Speaker 11 (25:10):
You make it hard for me, Smash, I've never freed
a prisoner in my life.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
Your what does this unteremony sentence me? Chall I did
not send for you.
Speaker 7 (25:22):
I only crave your.
Speaker 9 (25:23):
Pardon, your majesty, and I have news of the most
extreme urgency. Speak then I landed being invaded by the Hawkman.
Speaker 6 (25:33):
Hawkmen, we must go forth to wars. The army must
be caught out. I will press the signal.
Speaker 9 (25:49):
And always to lead your men into battle.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
All clean of course, and as to point someone to
head the army, will you lead our men into that all?
Flash your magic.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Serving as your commander in chief would be a pleasure.
Speaker 9 (26:03):
My queen, hermantesy, what's this stranger over me?
Speaker 6 (26:12):
Let her beware.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
What will happen when Flash leads Queen Azora's Magic men
against the gallant Hawkman. Follow the adventures of Flash Gordon
in next Sunday's Comic Weekly, the world's greatest collection of
humor and adventure. You will find it with your Hearst
Sunday newspaper. See for yourself in full colored pictures, Flash Gordon,
Queen Azora tal Or, Chief Magician, and all the other
(26:40):
characters you have just heard. Then of course you want
to see Skippy, the Kats and Yama Kids, Jungle Jim,
bringing up Father and the Little King. You will find
them waiting for you in next Sunday's Comic Weekly, the
only comic Weekly. Be sure and get the big full
colored Comic Weekly with your hearst newspaper next Sunday, and
don't forget to listen again next week at the same
time to another chapter in the Amazing Interplanetary Adventures of
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Flash Gordon.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Welcome back. Well, the story got off at a super
fast paced I mean Flash was fighting people and signing
up allies and venturing further into the Kingdom of Caves
in the first three minutes that you thought the whole
conquest would go pretty quickly, but the Blue Magic Man
slowed things down. They're not too much and we get
(28:06):
a lot of great stuff going on. I like the
mind control wasn't a situation where Flash's entire personality was changed,
which is often how it's portrayed in different media, but
rather his memory and perception were altered, but his core
personality goodness, bravery, and loyalty still remain and kind of
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great some problems for Azora, but now mind controlled Flash
is set to take on his actual allies, and we've
got palace intrigues in Azua's court, So all really good
stuff for next week's show. I will admit the space
weapons sound effects were a bit jarring. We have to
keep in mind that the sound of space weapons hadn't
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been developed, so we get some early attempts of what
that sounded like on radio. You just kind of have
to bear with that. Also, kind of a weird decision
to put Zarkov in military command of anything. He's a
scientist and to be honest, not necessarily the most stable
person we've met, but it does simplify the plot a bit,
(29:13):
and Volton trust him, so that has to be good
enough for us. All right, Well, listener comments and feedback now,
and we go over to the Great Detectives dot netwebsite
and Emmitt writes, it was an absolute joy to hear
this the very beginning of what was to be a
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world famous, highly lucrative franchise. It's not often we get
to hear the origins of a legend, but that's what
this is for sure. While I was listening, I thought
about how new radio was at the time Flash Gordon appeared,
just ten to fifteen years old. It was that's like
(29:53):
some major ground break breaking technology having emerged in twenty
fifteen or so, things that sound cliche to us. We're
brand new to listeners. Then this is like opening a
time capsule and seeing what's inside. Thanks for starting off
with this new series. Well, thanks so much, EMT. And
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now it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day,
and I want to thank Harold, Patreon supporter since September
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In the meantime, send your comments to Box thirteen at
Great Detectives dot net from Boise, Idaho. This is your host,
Adam Graham signing off.
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