Terror In Time

Playing into Ming's hands, the Phantom and Mandrake steal a mutant life form from Ice Station Earth which they believe Ming will use to destroy all life on Earth. Ming then lures them into a vortex which sends them reeling back in time to the days of King Arthur's Court. During the journey, a part of the mutant form attached itself to Mandrake and now threatens his very life. When the Defenders are saved by Prince Valiant and his son, Arn, they learn of an evil warlock who lives in a castle on the top of a cliff and has taken the Prince's wife, Aleta, captive. The super heroes pledge their assistance. Flash, the Phantom, Mandrake, Lothar and Valiant scale the cliff below the warlock's castle, while Arn, Jedda and Rick wait at the base of the steep incline. While the Defenders and Valiant fight the warlocks guards and imaginary monsters, the deathly life form rises out of the lake by the cliffs and threatens Jedda, Rick and Arn. The Defenders break in on the Warlock, free Aleta and gain possession of the powerful Eternity Stone, just as Jedda telepathically warns them that the mutant is scaling the cliff and will soon engulf the castle. The Defenders beat a hasty escape. With a wrecked ship and no way of penetrating the now-closed vortex which brought them through time, the Defenders resign them-selves to spending the remainder of their days in this time period. However, Aleta uses the mystical powers of the Eternity Stone to raise their ship out of the lake and open the vortex, enabling them to travel back to the future and continue their fight against Ming the Merciless.

Flash Gordon, Mandrake the Magician, Lothar, Lothar Jr. (L.J.), The Phantom/Kit Walker, Richard "Rick" Gordon, Jedda Walker, Kshin, Zuffy, Prince Kro-tan, Ming the Merciless, Dynak X

Defenders of the Earth was actually produced in 1985, but since TV schedules had no room for another series, it was not released until 1986.