Last week we looked at the TV movie. I forgot the series was available legally on YouTube, and by two sources. Filmrise has the rights to distribute but because Flash Gordon is owned by Kings Features Syndicate they also have the series up. I decided tonight to bring up the entire first season, the serialized one, not the second season where executive meddling led to two stories per half-hour episode and the unnecessary addition of…
Sorry, Gremlin. On another show I might have liked you, but you don’t fit here.
I don’t even hate Gremlin the baby dragon. He just feels so unnecessary that I wouldn’t have missed him had he not been there. He didn’t add anything to the story, and while I could maybe find a use I don’t remember any stuffed animals of him being sold, so he didn’t even fulfill his marketing purpose while having no narrative purpose. Killing the serial format (probably so they could be lazy and air the episodes however they wanted) was what really ruined the show for me, though. That’s why the embedded playlist below is made from the Comics Kingdom posting. You’ll only see the intro once but you can stop at any outro, and after the embed I’ll link to where you can see it to continue for yourself.
The playlist, if it’s still up when you get here, has all of season one and the first episode of season two. It introduced Gremlin so you know what I’m talking about, but it also has an important wedding (no spoilers for newcomers), so I felt like including it. Enjoy.
What, you had to stop for the night? It’s 17 episodes total including the one season two addition. It’s up on a lot of streaming services thanks to Filmrise, but here are the links on YouTube for both Filmrise through YouTube’s “Movies & TV” section and the Comics Kingdom upload used in this playlist through their official YouTube channel (the Flash Gordon playlist includes Defenders Of The Earth, that terrible 90s teen Flash Gordon show, and some new “cartoony” version I haven’t checked out yet) have it.
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