The Adventures of Flash Gordon - Episode # 16 (Ming's Last Battle)

[@WalterDWormack214]

Princess Aura was definitely *"the BEST-DRAWN character" in that series!* Something tells me, that *there were quite a few 'dads'* watching *Filmation's Flash Gordon* back in the 1970s.

[@kennethdemuchest3985]

I was a kid when this show was on NBC Saturday morning.

[@WalterDWormack214]

@@kennethdemuchest3985 Did your *'DAD'* used to *watch it with you,* back when you were a kid, on Saturday mornings? Man, I tell You! *Princess Aura,* was the *"Jessica Rabbit"* of her day!

[@kennethdemuchest3985]

He would sit down with me just to watch FLash Gordon. I would watch it for the spaceships and the stories.

[@folgore1]

Surprisingly, I find Dale the least well-drawn female in the series! Even some of the warrior women that make up Aura's posse are prettier than Dale!

[@WalterDWormack214]

@@kennethdemuchest3985 So would *Dad,* I'm sure! *(Nudge! nudge! Wink! Wink! Say no more!) LOL*

[@marzomarcolinoordonesmarco6169]

I am very much happy for this cartoon now I am 53 years old but when I am watching this one specially the last battle I have felt myself as was travelling in a surreal time machine.

[@MasterJediDude]

Awesome show. I only wish they had a higher budget to work with so they could have had more sound effects and didn’t have to reuse shots. I’d love to see a new live-action movie based on this show. They could finally do it with the help of CGI.

[@floydjohnson7888]

20:28 Brave line for a circa-1980 sci-fi cartoon. In the highly-divisive reality of the 2020s, that's a painful poke in the side.

[@michaelsnyder657]

Thanks for posting this was 100% better that so called film from 1980.

[@DCGuy1997]

Great episode! I wish there was a soundtrack for this series. FILMATION scored a new one specifically for Flash. All of their other 70's shows essentially used music from their Star Trek animated series. I have that soundtrack. I believe every score to be new to this series with the exception of this section: 02:57This cue was used in a lot of Tarzan and later Batman and the Super 7 shows.

[@The_Fat_Controller.]

There are several TV soundtracks I wish could be released, and _Flash Gordon_ is at the top of my list. I am sure the music tapes were destroyed or taped over, but the sheet music probably still exists where the music could be re-recorded. There are many tracks from _Underdog_ and some from _Hogan's Heroes_ and even a couple from _Gilligan's Island_ I would love to listen to just by themselves without dialogue or sound effects.

[@14DaveHunter]

Like the SW's TIE and X-Wing fighters, Ming's yellow and Baron's green fighter crafts balance out.

[@Slashkamr]

Love Ming's awesome laugh...

[@floydjohnson7888]

That evil laugh and snarl of frustration was practically the trademark of VA Alan Oppenheimer ("Oilcan Harry" in "The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse", as well)

[@BarrengerFynar]

Skeletor thinks his laugh is better.

[@johnmcnichol207]

5:26...Flash seems a little *too* happy that Aurora's freed him... ;)

[@bbd468]

Love this cartoon as a young feller.

[@Luke-er6pg]

Same Skeletor voice actor for Ming lol!

[@michaelpowell5266]

The legendary Alan Oppenheimer- he voiced a lot of characters, back in the day, besides Skeletor!!!

[@nateescobales6930]

20:59 Now that is what I like there, knowing exactly which characters that are actually interesting enough to become recurring characters and the characters that really aren't that great at all. Not really like the ones you see nowadays.

[@marzomarcolinoordonesmarco6169]

I am appreciating this excellent final battle but I have supposed to participantes more characters not only: the hawk men, the Arborians , the coralians , the lion men and the phrygia ship. I have supposed also participantes: the blue witch's arms, the tropica arms, the desert hawk arms, the giants arms of ice land of mongu planeta and much others.

[@marzomarcolinoordonesmarco6169]

I am feeling very much emotion total adrenaline when I am watching the scene when the hawk men arms are flying and between of them are flying too the fleet of the arborian fighter ship. It appears more in the revolt of power men.

[@michaelpowell5266]

Some of you will probably say Thun sounds like Bluto from The All-New Popeye- Allan Melvin voiced both Thun the Lion Man and Bluto, respectively!!!

[@14DaveHunter]

The best episode, of the first season.

[@allanegleston4931]

could u imagine our parents or parents parents listening to this on the radio?

[@floydjohnson7888]

There also were short films-"serials" -starring Buster Crabbe (yes, "Flash Gordon" as well as "Buck Rogers")

[@christianmagoon5968]

The Adventures of Flash Gordon - All Episodes (TV Movie) Episode #1, and #16 (Chapter One, and Sixteen) (A Planet in Peril / Ming's Last Battle)

[@tatalsaba]

I rewatch this episode, just to see Captain Ersine get character depht.

[@jamesarmstrong1811]

Would have been nice if Aura and Dale had a nice big cat fight over Flash, but in the end,Barin got a wonderful prize, Princess Aura,who was probably only 19!

[@floydjohnson7888]

As TV was at the time, many a viewer was expecting such a clash between Aura and Dale. However, the typical TV "catfight" of the era was more about literally undressing one's opponent than metaphorically. In more recent years, screenwriters have "made amends" by giving female characters UFC-level fight sequences.

[@bri55118]

The closest you'll get is the "pillow fight " in the 1980 movie.

[@myopiumsongs]

This is great seeing this again. Between the FG serials from the 30s on local TV and this series, oh man, I was eating this UP. But adding Gremlin...WTF? That was as annoying as Scrappy Doo when HE was an addition to the cartoon.

[@jamesarmstrong1811]

I stopped watching when the gremlin was added,NBC censors thought the cartoon was just a bit risque (remember it was 1979,),if they showed it now,it would one of the top cartoons on the Toon network.

[@floydjohnson7888]

I figure you are of an age to have seen "Fat Albert" on CBS - "the era of the Brown Hornet", if you will. My peeps.

[@almattei88]

The only cartoon characters who kissed on a regular basis.

[@Aurora2097]

Did the name of Mings captain Arak ever actually appear inmthis show or was it made up for the toy action figures?

[@robertaguilar2968]

So this was an animated movie with a shorter and different story line from the tv series but with the same exact ending???

[@BarbaraHolmes-re2gs]

Add a comment 60 they should all work together. Let the battle begin.

[@blackraptor311]

Okay, does anyone else think that the narrator in the beginning sounds like Hank Hill?

[@jacob3769]

Lol, it's true, the are very similar voices

[@galvatronprimus8985]

Ming aveva carisma!

[@richardperez9068]

as a kid for some reason I liked Dale more than Princess Aura

[@davidwesley2525]

That's like comparing Betty Boop with Jessica Rabbit.

[@jamesarmstrong1811]

at least Dale Arden changed her appearance now and then, I liked her in the wedding dress, nice mid-riff

[@ST-sd8un]

Dale al parecer es una mujer dócil y bonita. Aura tiene lo suyo pero mi modelo de mujer sigue siendo Dale

[@presidentevil9951]

they didn't resolve the cliffhanger???

[@nikosloudaros9784]

MING LIKE MIGIANKI

[@uniquerebel385]

16:16

[@floydjohnson7888]

These days, that would have been followed with, "No one catches Ming over a barrel and lives!"

[@floydjohnson7888]

21:45 Whaaaat?! The creator of "Ren and Stimpy" (the most poorly-drawn animated series in the history of television, even worse than "Gumball") was a storyboard artist for Filmation's "Flash Gordon" ? How did he fall so far as to present gelatinous characters barely recognizable as a cat and dog?

[@lilithdemonia74]

What kind of crap is this? Flash defeats Ming, Prince Barin delares himself Regent?? HE didn't defeat Ming.

[@presidentevil9951]

neither did Flash

[@Aurora2097]

Nobody EVER defeats Ming! He always returns... merciless!

[@MasterJediDude]

I think he was the only potential heir to the throne, being the only Prince with ties to it.

[@ST-sd8un]

Barin al ser futuro esposo de Aura y pertenecer a la realeza de Mongo no estuvo mal que fuera él quien reclame el trono.