Chapter Ten: Blue Magic
- Studio
- Filmation Associates, King Features
- Distributor
- National Broadcasting Company
Synopsis
As Flash and his party rocket through the Mongo countrieside enroute to Arboria, they see that Ming's metalmen are following in a ray-emitting rocket train. Flash avoids capture by detouring his rocket train into the forbidden country of Syk. There, Azura, Witch Queen of Syk, saves Flash's party from the dreaded blue fire worm as she believes Flash is Gor Daahn, former Lord of Syk. The high wizard of Syk, Tahl, takes the intruders aboard his flying carpet to the throne of Queen Azura, who erases Flash's memory and installs in flash the memory of Syk's long-departed former ruler, Gor Daahn, who Flash resembles. This chapter ends with battle preparations of Syk's warriors and the smaller forces of Prince Barin and Vultan who are trying to rescue Flash and his party from Azura, the WitchQueen of Syk.
Characters
Flash Gordon, Dr. Zarkov, Ming, the Merciless, Prince Barin, Princess Aura, Queen Fria, Dale Arden, Thun, Vultan, Gremlin
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Hal Sutherland, Don Towsley, Lou Zukor
Producing
- Producer
- Don Christensen
- Executive Producers
- Norm Prescott, Lou Scheimer
Writing
- Writer
- Sam Peeples
- Story Editor
- Ted Pedersen
Voices
- Voice
- Robert Ridgely (Flash Gordon, Prince Barin), Alan Oppenheimer (Dr. Zarkov, Ming), Diane Pershing (Dale Arden), Allan Melvin (Thun, Vultan), Melendy Britt (Princess Aura, Queen Fria), Lou Scheimer (Gremlin)
Music
- Music
- Ray Ellis, Norm Prescott
- Composers (Theme Music)
- Marc Ellis, Norm Prescott
- Music Editor
- Robert Waxman
- Music Supervisor
- George Mahana
- Music Publisher
- Shermley Music Co
- Background Music By
- Yvette Blais, Jeff Michael
Animation
- Animation Directors
- Ed Friedman, Lou Kachivas, Marsh Lamore, Gwen Wetzler, Kay Wright, Lou Zukor
- Animator
- Bob Arkwright, John Allan Armstrong, Tom Baron, Jim Brummett, Kent Butterworth, Bill Carney, John Conning, Franco Cristofani, James A. Davis, Zeon Davush, Ed De Mattia, Jaime Diaz, Jeff Etter, Chuck Eyler, Francesca Freeman, Kennetha Gaebler, John Garling, Milton Gray, Karen Haus, Barry Helmer, Larry Miller, Emory Myrick, Greg Nocon, Bill Nunes, Frank Onaitis, Jack Ozark, Tony Pabian, Karen Peterson, Tom Ray, William Recinos, Virgil Ross, Don Ruch, Sonja Ruta, Ernie Schmidt, Larry Silverman, Nick Stern, Leo Sullivan, Reuben Timmins, Bob Trochim, Linn Trochim, Richard Trueblood, Bob Tyler, Dardo Velez, James T. Walker, Barry Whitebook, Larry White, Woody Yocum
- Assistant Animation Supervisor
- Marlene Robinson May
Editing
- Editor
- James Blodgett, Earl Biddle
Crew
- Production Manager
- Joseph Simon
- Cinematography
- R.W. Pope
- Camera Operators
- Patty Burns, Don Dinehart, Roncie Hantke, Dan Larsen, David J. Link, Dean G. Teves, David Valentine, F.T. Ziegler
- Art Direction
- Herb Hazelton
- Storyboard Supervisor
- Bob Kline
- Storyboard Artists
- Kurt Conner, John Dorman, Paul Fennell, Eddie Fitzgerald, Rich Fogel, Karl Geurs, John Grusd, Mike Joens, John Kricfalusi, Lonnie Lloyd, Tom Minton, Mitch Schauer, Wendell Washer
- Background Artists
- Barbara Benedetto, Alan Bodner, Sheila Brown, Dianne Erenberg, Vern Jorgensen, Ellen Kashan, Pat Keppler, Tom O'Loughlin, Norly Paat, Curt Perkins, Don Peters, Don Schweikert, Don Watson
- Key Layout Artist
- Carol Lundberg
- Layout Artists
- Sharon Forward, Sergio Garcia, Ed Haney, David Hoover, Richard Hoover, Mary Jorgensen, John Koch, Michael Mitchell, Phillip Norwood, Sharon Rolnik
- Layout Key Assistant
- Mike Hazy
- Color Director
- Ervin L. Kaplan
- Paint Supervisors
- Alla Marshall, Val Vreeland
- Xerography Supervisor
- John Remmel
- Checking Supervisor
- Marion Turk
- Cel Painter/Xerox Checker
- Daryl Carstensen
- Director, Animation Photography
- R.W. Pope
- Sound By
- Glen Glenn Sound
- Sound Effects Editor
- Robert Waxman
- Sound Effects Supervisor
- George Mahana
- Film Coordinators
- Toni Christiansen, June Gilham
- Production Controller
- Robert W. Wilson
- Color By
- TECHNICOLOR
Production notes
Beginning life as a comic strip character in 1934, American astronaut Flash Gordon proved to be so popular that in 1936, Universal Pictures produced a 15-episode serial about the intrepid space traveler. Further serials in the 30's and 50's cemented Gordon's reputation as America's favorite space traveler (before John Glenn, Neil Armstrong, et al).
In 1979, The New Adventures of Flash Gordon appeared, partly as a reaction to the mammoth success of 1977's Star Wars. More of an homage to the original cartoon than an actual updated 70's version, the series featured all of the original characters, including Flash' girlfriend Dale Arden and the scientist Hans Zarkov.
Flash and company had traveled to the planet Mongo, where they were forced into battle by its ruler, Ming the Merciless, and his army of robots. To help their cause, the heroes formed an alliance with King Thun, leader of the Lion People, Prince Barin, leader of Aboria, and King Vultan, ruler of the Hawkmen. The only new addition was the pet dragon Gremlin, an artist in nose-blown smoke.
A year after this series appeared, a live-action movie was released, starring Sam A. Jones, Max Van Sydow, Brian Blessed, Timothy Dalton, and Topol (a.k.a. Tevye, from Fiddler on the Roof). The rock band Queen provided the catchy theme song ("He'll save every one of us!")
In 1986, Flash returned to TV yet again as one of four heroes on the cartoon Defenders of the Earth. This time, Flash played second banana to his son Rick, proving that old space heroes never die; they just get upstaged by their kids.
In 1979, The New Adventures of Flash Gordon appeared, partly as a reaction to the mammoth success of 1977's Star Wars. More of an homage to the original cartoon than an actual updated 70's version, the series featured all of the original characters, including Flash' girlfriend Dale Arden and the scientist Hans Zarkov.
Flash and company had traveled to the planet Mongo, where they were forced into battle by its ruler, Ming the Merciless, and his army of robots. To help their cause, the heroes formed an alliance with King Thun, leader of the Lion People, Prince Barin, leader of Aboria, and King Vultan, ruler of the Hawkmen. The only new addition was the pet dragon Gremlin, an artist in nose-blown smoke.
A year after this series appeared, a live-action movie was released, starring Sam A. Jones, Max Van Sydow, Brian Blessed, Timothy Dalton, and Topol (a.k.a. Tevye, from Fiddler on the Roof). The rock band Queen provided the catchy theme song ("He'll save every one of us!")
In 1986, Flash returned to TV yet again as one of four heroes on the cartoon Defenders of the Earth. This time, Flash played second banana to his son Rick, proving that old space heroes never die; they just get upstaged by their kids.