the
the heavens planets and suns race toward infinity
that world's and live world alike
separated by millions of like you
these members of the galaxy in the stage of space travel
have become interdependent
not only economically
but politically
this is the far-off galaxy of magna mod
the galaxy of dead plants
icy graveyard rolling through space
and each with a communication station
and all the sky flash carrying flash gordon
dale and doctors are called
enters the outer rim of magna moda
on a routine outer space patrol
all around the tranquil peace of these dead world's shattered
first the dead planet
next it was all sorts
next came
and finally
and in the sky flash
i don't understand
first i think
you know sirens
mister and back
shattering in space
it's weird doctor crazy
for planets blowing up in rapid succession
why why should that happen
seems to be some mysterious atomic force
possibly a chain reaction operating from some simple so
well it's about the last of the chain doctor
there's only one dead planet left and that's the nerve
there it is
dead ahead
it will you take the guy to cover
we're coming into a very heavy radioactive dust
check it's tight
horizontal
hundred and five
vertical
but radioactive dust from during
the reunion
possible
why doctor indigenous to a particular area or planet the galaxy out of this rain
yes it's found only on colossia
but it's not only that
uranium was only discovered a few years ago flash
doctors are called made extensive study of its properties for gdp i research and
analysis
i found it to be probably the most powerful fish in the material in the
universe
and the slowest
what do you mean the slowest
unlike other nuclear materials its vision is a slow creeping process
we have to make it better bomb made of uranium
would take over twelve hundred years to explode
and it couldn't be doing in there
if it was a bomb that exploded those planets it had to be put there in
let's see nineteen fifty three
check again
it still comes out
something wrong with me too
the better contact communication station
skyflash or throw calling the river
skyflash calling the nearest
come in the neighborhood
come in
whenever come in
if you could communicate stations out
but now let's move in see if we can get a better look
why should the communications they should be out on the number
last week and move to the atomic bomb at the moment that getting contaminated
i know that we need information
well we know that she reacts explosion may move from this galaxy into others
maybe we can find a clue on the network
the
let's get out of here report back to earth
and all the sky flash forward
on earth itself strange things were happening
or voting events for telling them once per se
first a series of freakish weather disturbances
that
and panic and fear spread through every corner of the earth like wildfire
and at the galaxy bureau of investigation commissioner harrick interrogates a
strange captive
picked up by earth agents
a callous whose planet
that's one eternal war against the earth
i'm frightened commission
it was all explosions today that have destroyed cities
flattened mountains
inundated how the continent of the world
the justice
these are just natural phenomena
not man-made
but why are you with you
one hour your precious
it's no
at twelve o'clock no they are no longer being
the part of the galaxy
you're lying
but by the brightness
and my
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i believe you
but he won't stop
they have price
what can you offer when in one hour there will be not
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but back in time. Let me tell you it was an interesting experience.
Where did you plant that uranium bomb? Where did you bury it?
You will find out for yourself, Commissioner, very soon.
Alan, you're sure the Geigers indicate nothing?
No, Commissioner. And they won't until fishing.
It's useless for you to try and locate it.
At this late point in its reaction it gives no tell-tale signal.
You have less than one hour to live, Commissioner.
You and every other Earth man.
If we die, you die with us.
I am a Kalashnipatwitch. To die in this cause is an honor.
Alan. Yes, sir.
Establish contact with the Skyflash at once. It's cruising in the Magnemata galaxy.
If Flash Gordon or Dr. Sarkov don't come up with an answer...
Calling Skyflash. GDI headquarters.
Calling Flash Gordon to the Skyflash.
Come in, Flash Gordon.
That's the story. The whole story.
Flash, Dr. Sarkov, we've got to figure out some way to find and deactivate the bomb.
Otherwise the Earth is doomed.
There's less than one hour. A second after twelve and it'll be too late.
There won't be an Earth to come back to.
We're helpless up here. Completely helpless.
Dr. Sarkov, there must be a way out. There must be.
There's only one thing that I can think of.
What is it?
Lock the controls. Decelerate the ship below stomach speed. Come in here.
The time machine. It's our only chance.
We've got to project ourselves back into the past just as the Colossum did.
We must go back through time to the middle of the 20th century.
The year 1953.
If we can find out where the Colossum planted that derrium bomb...
Then we have a chance.
How much of a chance, Doctor?
A thousand to one.
A million to one.
Then let's take it.
What's our speed now, Flash?
We're at landing speed, Doctor. Three five oh an hour.
Good.
Now I'm going to ask you both to hold on.
For the next few moments you will be traveling back through time.
The effect will be strange. Possibly stupefying.
You will hear nothing, see nothing, know nothing...
Until you are back in the sixth decade of the 20th century.
Are you both ready?
Ready, Doctor.
Where are we? What happened?
We are now in the sixth decade of the 20th century.
There it is, Dale.
The Earth as it looked 1,250 years before we were born.
How strange it looks.
It's some kind of a city, Doctor.
I'm trying to check it in this book of ancient maps.
From this description that must be a place called Washington.
The capital of an ancient nation called the United States.
What's our direction?
East by north.
Another city coming up.
That must be New York. New York?
What a strange name.
Dale, set the Geiger counter for Durinium and see if you can get me a reading.
Yes, Doctor.
I am getting a reading, Doctor.
The Durinium bomb is here, somewhere on Earth.
Where, Dale? Can you locate it?
Not quite. The signal is very weak, but...
It's a long distance from here, almost due east.
No, Dale. East by north.
And from the signal strength, I'd say over 3,000 miles away.
East by north it is.
Doctor, do you think we'll be able to exactly locate the Durinium bomb?
I can only hope so, Dale.
The Earth as we know it has only a half hour to live before it explodes.
Well, there's nothing we can do until we cross the ocean.
What kind of a world is it that we're going back to?
Well, from what I remember of ancient history, it was very primitive.
Just think, nobody ever reached a height of more than 15 miles.
Well, it was primitive to our way of thinking, Dale.
And they'd just scratched the surface of atomic research.
And they had to build tremendous motors, housed in gigantic buildings,
to run the machines they used in manufacturing.
It does seem ridiculous when you consider that in our century,
a motor the size of my fist has more power than the gigantic steam-driven turbines they used.
What about the people?
What were... I mean, what are they like?
They considered our Earth just as precious as we do.
And most of them believed in freedom, peace, equality of opportunity.
But I guess just like in our time, there are those who for power,
would make slaves of everybody else.
Yes, I'm afraid so.
But they didn't have our tools to fight them.
And the women, Dr. Zarkov, what were they like?
Well, instead of filling their heads full of knowledge about astrophysics,
atomic research, electronic phenomena, like a certain young lady we know...
Yes, well, what did they do? Sit home and knit?
Well, I wouldn't say that was all they did.
But they certainly knew their way around the kitchen better than they did around a laboratory.
Strange craft at two o'clock.
In a moment we'll be able to see it out the light window. Let's see.
What is that clumsy craft, doctor?
That's an aeroplane.
Did you see the way it was pulled through the air by those gigantic egg beaters?
I'll bet it couldn't do more than 300 miles per hour.
No wonder they didn't cruise around in outer space.
A clumsy craft like that would have trouble getting off the ground.
That thing on the water is even funnier than the airplane.
Yeah, that was a ship.
You see, air travel was only about 50 years old at this time.
And a great deal of travel over land and water was still popular.
What a world to live in.
Yes, as Dale said, primitive.
But a world.
Something we won't have to go back to unless we find out what it is.
But a world. Something we won't have to go back to unless we find that geranium bomb.
And quickly.
Where are they? Why don't we hear from them?
There's nothing we can do about it now, Alan, except wait.
Wait and pray.
Land coming up, Doctor.
1135.
It took us exactly five minutes to cross the ocean.
City coming up at two o'clock, Doctor.
That must be a place called Paris.
Flash, slow down.
The Geiger's up to maximum.
We're almost in the immediate vicinity of the bomb.
Flash, look.
The Geiger's hit maximum.
That means the bomb is directly below us.
It must be someplace in that city.
What's the name?
Berlin.
Finding the bomb there is going to be like searching for a neutron in a molecule.
We can find it with this.
The question is, can we find it in time?
Flash, is there someplace we can land?
There's a clearing below. We can hide the ship there for a while.
Good.
The inhabitants may be hostile.
That's true.
If we don't find that bomb in twenty minutes, it will be all over.
We'll find it.
We've got to find it.
Hang on, twentieth century. Here we come.
Landing positions, everybody.
The Skyflash has landed in a forest outside of Berlin.
Having with its occupants, Flash Gordon, Dale Arden, and Doctor Zarkov,
they've been projected by the time machine,
one thousand two hundred and fifty years back through time,
to Berlin, with only twenty minutes remaining for the Earth to exist.
Commissioner Herrick, pinning all of his hopes on Flash Gordon,
waits tensely,
while the callison who planted the Earth-destroying bomb sits calmly by.
All over Berlin, people have seen a strange object,
spinning and glittering in the sky.
It is thought that this weird visitation from some other planet
has landed somewhere in the outskirts of Berlin.
Reports from Paris and New York also indicate
that this flying pencil, or whatever it is, was sighted in those areas.
Meanwhile, the people of Berlin wait in dread and terror for what will come next.
Achtung, Achtung, all cruise cars, be on the lookout for strange invaders
believed to have landed from outer space somewhere in the vicinity of Berlin.
Achtung, Achtung, car 28, car 28,
a telephone report claims a green and white delivery truck heading for Amtso section,
sighted on Taunsinstrasse.
It is believed car has been commandeered
by a bearded giant and a blonde giant from outer space.
Apprehend and arrest them.
If they resist, shoot to kill.
Achtung, Achtung, all cruise cars, be on the lookout for strange invaders
believed to have landed from outer space.
Achtung, Achtung, all cruise cars, be on the lookout for strange invaders
believed to have landed from outer space.
Achtung, Achtung, all cruise cars, be on the lookout for strange invaders
believed to have landed from outer space.
It just can't be.
Eight seconds now.
Count that.
57, 56, 55, 54, 53, 52, 51.
All right, only 30 seconds left.
Were we in time, doctor?
Plenty, Dale.
We had two seconds to spare.
It looks as though this tired old world
will still be around for a while.
Yes.
Whatever flashed it, it worked.
How hard do we get to the skyflat?
I watched the route coming out.
I think I can get us back there.
Flash, let's stay here in our ancestors' time for a few days.
It should be fun telling them everything that's going to happen to them
for the next 1,200 years.
Fun?
Maybe for us, Dale, but not for them.
It is the mystery of the future that provides the challenge for men to make history.
Take that away and there's no reason for dreams, ambitions, discoveries.
I hadn't thought of it that way.
You're right, of course, but, well, it would have been fun to meet my great,
multiplied by 100 grandfather.
And a few hours later, as night falls on Berlin,
into the scarlet sky flashes a silvery streak.
Suddenly, it stops.
It seems to hang for a moment, suspended in air.
Then, before the eyes of a few stargazers and lovers who observed it,
the sky flash disappeared into the future from Winsor King.