WEBVTT 00:30.000 --> 00:37.000 the 00:46.800 --> 00:51.280 the heavens planets and suns race toward infinity 00:51.280 --> 00:53.940 that world's and live world alike 00:53.940 --> 00:57.640 separated by millions of like you 00:57.640 --> 01:00.980 these members of the galaxy in the stage of space travel 01:00.980 --> 01:03.420 have become interdependent 01:03.420 --> 01:04.860 not only economically 01:04.860 --> 01:07.620 but politically 01:07.620 --> 01:11.020 this is the far-off galaxy of magna mod 01:11.020 --> 01:13.500 the galaxy of dead plants 01:13.500 --> 01:15.900 icy graveyard rolling through space 01:15.900 --> 01:19.380 and each with a communication station 01:19.380 --> 01:22.080 and all the sky flash carrying flash gordon 01:22.080 --> 01:23.780 dale and doctors are called 01:23.780 --> 01:26.100 enters the outer rim of magna moda 01:26.100 --> 01:30.160 on a routine outer space patrol 01:30.160 --> 01:35.260 all around the tranquil peace of these dead world's shattered 01:35.260 --> 01:39.460 first the dead planet 01:39.460 --> 01:42.580 next it was all sorts 01:42.580 --> 01:46.540 next came 01:46.540 --> 01:51.240 and finally 01:51.240 --> 01:54.040 and in the sky flash 01:54.040 --> 01:55.700 i don't understand 01:55.700 --> 01:56.760 first i think 01:56.760 --> 01:58.020 you know sirens 01:58.020 --> 01:59.060 mister and back 01:59.060 --> 02:00.380 shattering in space 02:00.380 --> 02:02.260 it's weird doctor crazy 02:02.260 --> 02:05.160 for planets blowing up in rapid succession 02:05.160 --> 02:07.060 why why should that happen 02:07.060 --> 02:10.100 seems to be some mysterious atomic force 02:10.100 --> 02:13.500 possibly a chain reaction operating from some simple so 02:13.500 --> 02:16.300 well it's about the last of the chain doctor 02:16.300 --> 02:19.700 there's only one dead planet left and that's the nerve 02:19.700 --> 02:20.880 there it is 02:20.880 --> 02:23.060 dead ahead 02:23.060 --> 02:28.500 it will you take the guy to cover 02:28.500 --> 02:31.940 we're coming into a very heavy radioactive dust 02:31.940 --> 02:35.420 check it's tight 02:35.420 --> 02:36.620 horizontal 02:36.620 --> 02:38.620 hundred and five 02:38.620 --> 02:41.860 vertical 02:41.860 --> 02:44.420 but radioactive dust from during 02:44.420 --> 02:46.660 the reunion 02:46.660 --> 02:47.580 possible 02:47.580 --> 02:53.100 why doctor indigenous to a particular area or planet the galaxy out of this rain 02:53.100 --> 02:55.380 yes it's found only on colossia 02:55.380 --> 02:56.700 but it's not only that 02:56.700 --> 02:59.620 uranium was only discovered a few years ago flash 02:59.620 --> 03:03.580 doctors are called made extensive study of its properties for gdp i research and 03:03.580 --> 03:04.520 analysis 03:04.520 --> 03:07.820 i found it to be probably the most powerful fish in the material in the 03:07.820 --> 03:09.100 universe 03:09.100 --> 03:10.900 and the slowest 03:10.900 --> 03:13.200 what do you mean the slowest 03:13.200 --> 03:17.900 unlike other nuclear materials its vision is a slow creeping process 03:17.900 --> 03:20.420 we have to make it better bomb made of uranium 03:20.420 --> 03:23.540 would take over twelve hundred years to explode 03:23.540 --> 03:25.700 and it couldn't be doing in there 03:25.700 --> 03:29.700 if it was a bomb that exploded those planets it had to be put there in 03:29.700 --> 03:33.020 let's see nineteen fifty three 03:33.020 --> 03:37.020 check again 03:37.020 --> 03:40.300 it still comes out 03:40.300 --> 03:42.100 something wrong with me too 03:42.100 --> 03:45.780 the better contact communication station 03:45.780 --> 03:47.940 skyflash or throw calling the river 03:47.940 --> 03:49.620 skyflash calling the nearest 03:49.620 --> 03:50.660 come in the neighborhood 03:50.660 --> 03:52.260 come in 03:52.260 --> 03:54.540 whenever come in 03:54.540 --> 03:57.260 if you could communicate stations out 03:57.260 --> 04:04.260 but now let's move in see if we can get a better look 04:05.740 --> 04:09.140 why should the communications they should be out on the number 04:09.140 --> 04:12.860 last week and move to the atomic bomb at the moment that getting contaminated 04:12.860 --> 04:14.700 i know that we need information 04:14.700 --> 04:18.800 well we know that she reacts explosion may move from this galaxy into others 04:18.800 --> 04:25.800 maybe we can find a clue on the network 04:28.420 --> 04:30.300 the 04:30.300 --> 04:31.860 the 04:31.860 --> 04:38.860 let's get out of here report back to earth 04:39.660 --> 04:44.660 and all the sky flash forward 04:44.660 --> 04:47.780 on earth itself strange things were happening 04:47.780 --> 05:04.020 or voting events for telling them once per se 05:04.020 --> 05:07.180 first a series of freakish weather disturbances 05:07.180 --> 05:13.380 that 05:13.380 --> 05:20.380 and panic and fear spread through every corner of the earth like wildfire 05:20.580 --> 05:24.180 and at the galaxy bureau of investigation commissioner harrick interrogates a 05:24.180 --> 05:25.740 strange captive 05:25.740 --> 05:28.900 picked up by earth agents 05:28.900 --> 05:30.580 a callous whose planet 05:30.580 --> 05:33.060 that's one eternal war against the earth 05:33.060 --> 05:35.860 i'm frightened commission 05:35.860 --> 05:39.540 it was all explosions today that have destroyed cities 05:39.540 --> 05:41.240 flattened mountains 05:41.240 --> 05:44.260 inundated how the continent of the world 05:44.260 --> 05:46.300 the justice 05:46.300 --> 05:48.700 these are just natural phenomena 05:48.700 --> 05:51.820 not man-made 05:51.820 --> 05:54.460 but why are you with you 05:54.460 --> 05:56.240 one hour your precious 05:56.240 --> 05:58.420 it's no 05:58.420 --> 06:02.380 at twelve o'clock no they are no longer being 06:02.380 --> 06:03.820 the part of the galaxy 06:03.820 --> 06:05.300 you're lying 06:05.300 --> 06:07.420 but by the brightness 06:07.420 --> 06:09.140 and my 06:09.140 --> 06:11.380 and look at the fate of i think 06:11.380 --> 06:12.100 sire 06:12.100 --> 06:13.980 me that back 06:13.980 --> 06:15.660 they all got 06:15.660 --> 06:19.500 no into eternity 06:19.500 --> 06:20.800 i believe you 06:20.800 --> 06:21.980 but he won't stop 06:21.980 --> 06:25.140 they have price 06:25.140 --> 06:28.980 what can you offer when in one hour there will be not 06:28.980 --> 06:29.980 at war 06:29.980 --> 06:35.780 uh... 06:35.780 --> 06:39.500 uh... that may be a bit of a mission 06:39.500 --> 06:40.500 i'm a 06:40.500 --> 06:42.420 do it again 06:42.420 --> 06:46.140 but getting me when i find the geranium bomb 06:46.140 --> 06:49.660 smoldering into its final stage of fish 06:49.660 --> 06:52.820 who prompted the syringe 06:52.820 --> 06:58.020 i did 06:58.020 --> 07:02.460 exactly 07:02.460 --> 07:05.980 exactly 07:05.980 --> 07:07.860 in 07:07.860 --> 07:14.140 you'll like now 07:14.140 --> 07:17.020 investing the oem 07:17.020 --> 07:19.700 he 07:19.700 --> 07:20.980 on 07:20.980 --> 07:22.620 com 07:22.620 --> 07:25.580 tactical 07:25.580 --> 07:27.380 organization 07:27.380 --> 07:29.680 cannot 07:29.680 --> 07:32.060 mood 07:32.060 --> 07:39.060 but back in time. Let me tell you it was an interesting experience. 07:39.060 --> 07:44.060 Where did you plant that uranium bomb? Where did you bury it? 07:44.060 --> 07:50.060 You will find out for yourself, Commissioner, very soon. 07:50.060 --> 07:54.060 Alan, you're sure the Geigers indicate nothing? 07:54.060 --> 07:59.060 No, Commissioner. And they won't until fishing. 07:59.060 --> 08:03.060 It's useless for you to try and locate it. 08:03.060 --> 08:10.060 At this late point in its reaction it gives no tell-tale signal. 08:12.060 --> 08:17.060 You have less than one hour to live, Commissioner. 08:17.060 --> 08:22.060 You and every other Earth man. 08:22.060 --> 08:24.060 If we die, you die with us. 08:24.060 --> 08:32.060 I am a Kalashnipatwitch. To die in this cause is an honor. 08:32.060 --> 08:34.060 Alan. Yes, sir. 08:34.060 --> 08:38.060 Establish contact with the Skyflash at once. It's cruising in the Magnemata galaxy. 08:38.060 --> 08:43.060 If Flash Gordon or Dr. Sarkov don't come up with an answer... 08:44.060 --> 08:48.060 Calling Skyflash. GDI headquarters. 08:48.060 --> 08:51.060 Calling Flash Gordon to the Skyflash. 08:51.060 --> 08:54.060 Come in, Flash Gordon. 08:55.060 --> 08:58.060 That's the story. The whole story. 08:58.060 --> 09:04.060 Flash, Dr. Sarkov, we've got to figure out some way to find and deactivate the bomb. 09:04.060 --> 09:07.060 Otherwise the Earth is doomed. 09:07.060 --> 09:11.060 There's less than one hour. A second after twelve and it'll be too late. 09:11.060 --> 09:15.060 There won't be an Earth to come back to. 09:15.060 --> 09:19.060 We're helpless up here. Completely helpless. 09:19.060 --> 09:24.060 Dr. Sarkov, there must be a way out. There must be. 09:24.060 --> 09:27.060 There's only one thing that I can think of. 09:27.060 --> 09:28.060 What is it? 09:28.060 --> 09:34.060 Lock the controls. Decelerate the ship below stomach speed. Come in here. 09:44.060 --> 09:48.060 The time machine. It's our only chance. 09:48.060 --> 09:52.060 We've got to project ourselves back into the past just as the Colossum did. 09:52.060 --> 09:56.060 We must go back through time to the middle of the 20th century. 09:56.060 --> 09:59.060 The year 1953. 09:59.060 --> 10:03.060 If we can find out where the Colossum planted that derrium bomb... 10:03.060 --> 10:05.060 Then we have a chance. 10:05.060 --> 10:07.060 How much of a chance, Doctor? 10:07.060 --> 10:09.060 A thousand to one. 10:09.060 --> 10:12.060 A million to one. 10:12.060 --> 10:14.060 Then let's take it. 10:14.060 --> 10:16.060 What's our speed now, Flash? 10:16.060 --> 10:20.060 We're at landing speed, Doctor. Three five oh an hour. 10:20.060 --> 10:22.060 Good. 10:29.060 --> 10:32.060 Now I'm going to ask you both to hold on. 10:32.060 --> 10:35.060 For the next few moments you will be traveling back through time. 10:35.060 --> 10:39.060 The effect will be strange. Possibly stupefying. 10:39.060 --> 10:42.060 You will hear nothing, see nothing, know nothing... 10:42.060 --> 10:46.060 Until you are back in the sixth decade of the 20th century. 10:47.060 --> 10:49.060 Are you both ready? 10:49.060 --> 11:13.060 Ready, Doctor. 11:19.060 --> 11:33.060 Where are we? What happened? 11:33.060 --> 11:37.060 We are now in the sixth decade of the 20th century. 11:43.060 --> 11:45.060 There it is, Dale. 11:45.060 --> 11:49.060 The Earth as it looked 1,250 years before we were born. 11:49.060 --> 11:51.060 How strange it looks. 11:54.060 --> 11:57.060 It's some kind of a city, Doctor. 11:57.060 --> 12:01.060 I'm trying to check it in this book of ancient maps. 12:02.060 --> 12:05.060 From this description that must be a place called Washington. 12:05.060 --> 12:09.060 The capital of an ancient nation called the United States. 12:09.060 --> 12:10.060 What's our direction? 12:10.060 --> 12:12.060 East by north. 12:12.060 --> 12:15.060 Another city coming up. 12:18.060 --> 12:20.060 That must be New York. New York? 12:20.060 --> 12:22.060 What a strange name. 12:22.060 --> 12:25.060 Dale, set the Geiger counter for Durinium and see if you can get me a reading. 12:25.060 --> 12:27.060 Yes, Doctor. 12:29.060 --> 12:31.060 I am getting a reading, Doctor. 12:31.060 --> 12:33.060 The Durinium bomb is here, somewhere on Earth. 12:33.060 --> 12:34.060 Where, Dale? Can you locate it? 12:34.060 --> 12:36.060 Not quite. The signal is very weak, but... 12:36.060 --> 12:39.060 It's a long distance from here, almost due east. 12:39.060 --> 12:42.060 No, Dale. East by north. 12:42.060 --> 12:45.060 And from the signal strength, I'd say over 3,000 miles away. 12:45.060 --> 12:47.060 East by north it is. 12:47.060 --> 12:51.060 Doctor, do you think we'll be able to exactly locate the Durinium bomb? 12:51.060 --> 12:53.060 I can only hope so, Dale. 12:53.060 --> 12:57.060 The Earth as we know it has only a half hour to live before it explodes. 12:58.060 --> 13:02.060 Well, there's nothing we can do until we cross the ocean. 13:02.060 --> 13:05.060 What kind of a world is it that we're going back to? 13:05.060 --> 13:08.060 Well, from what I remember of ancient history, it was very primitive. 13:08.060 --> 13:13.060 Just think, nobody ever reached a height of more than 15 miles. 13:13.060 --> 13:16.060 Well, it was primitive to our way of thinking, Dale. 13:17.060 --> 13:20.060 And they'd just scratched the surface of atomic research. 13:20.060 --> 13:24.060 And they had to build tremendous motors, housed in gigantic buildings, 13:24.060 --> 13:27.060 to run the machines they used in manufacturing. 13:27.060 --> 13:30.060 It does seem ridiculous when you consider that in our century, 13:30.060 --> 13:36.060 a motor the size of my fist has more power than the gigantic steam-driven turbines they used. 13:36.060 --> 13:38.060 What about the people? 13:38.060 --> 13:42.060 What were... I mean, what are they like? 13:42.060 --> 13:45.060 They considered our Earth just as precious as we do. 13:45.060 --> 13:51.060 And most of them believed in freedom, peace, equality of opportunity. 13:51.060 --> 13:55.060 But I guess just like in our time, there are those who for power, 13:55.060 --> 13:57.060 would make slaves of everybody else. 13:57.060 --> 13:59.060 Yes, I'm afraid so. 14:00.060 --> 14:02.060 But they didn't have our tools to fight them. 14:02.060 --> 14:05.060 And the women, Dr. Zarkov, what were they like? 14:06.060 --> 14:10.060 Well, instead of filling their heads full of knowledge about astrophysics, 14:10.060 --> 14:15.060 atomic research, electronic phenomena, like a certain young lady we know... 14:15.060 --> 14:18.060 Yes, well, what did they do? Sit home and knit? 14:18.060 --> 14:21.060 Well, I wouldn't say that was all they did. 14:21.060 --> 14:25.060 But they certainly knew their way around the kitchen better than they did around a laboratory. 14:26.060 --> 14:28.060 Strange craft at two o'clock. 14:28.060 --> 14:32.060 In a moment we'll be able to see it out the light window. Let's see. 14:35.060 --> 14:37.060 What is that clumsy craft, doctor? 14:38.060 --> 14:39.060 That's an aeroplane. 14:40.060 --> 14:43.060 Did you see the way it was pulled through the air by those gigantic egg beaters? 14:43.060 --> 14:46.060 I'll bet it couldn't do more than 300 miles per hour. 14:46.060 --> 14:49.060 No wonder they didn't cruise around in outer space. 14:49.060 --> 14:53.060 A clumsy craft like that would have trouble getting off the ground. 14:53.060 --> 14:56.060 That thing on the water is even funnier than the airplane. 14:59.060 --> 15:01.060 Yeah, that was a ship. 15:01.060 --> 15:05.060 You see, air travel was only about 50 years old at this time. 15:05.060 --> 15:09.060 And a great deal of travel over land and water was still popular. 15:09.060 --> 15:11.060 What a world to live in. 15:11.060 --> 15:14.060 Yes, as Dale said, primitive. 15:14.060 --> 15:16.060 But a world. 15:16.060 --> 15:19.060 Something we won't have to go back to unless we find out what it is. 15:19.060 --> 15:24.060 But a world. Something we won't have to go back to unless we find that geranium bomb. 15:24.060 --> 15:26.060 And quickly. 15:39.060 --> 15:41.060 Where are they? Why don't we hear from them? 15:41.060 --> 15:45.060 There's nothing we can do about it now, Alan, except wait. 15:45.060 --> 15:49.060 Wait and pray. 15:52.060 --> 15:54.060 Land coming up, Doctor. 15:54.060 --> 15:56.060 1135. 15:56.060 --> 15:59.060 It took us exactly five minutes to cross the ocean. 16:01.060 --> 16:03.060 City coming up at two o'clock, Doctor. 16:03.060 --> 16:05.060 That must be a place called Paris. 16:05.060 --> 16:07.060 Flash, slow down. 16:07.060 --> 16:09.060 The Geiger's up to maximum. 16:09.060 --> 16:12.060 We're almost in the immediate vicinity of the bomb. 16:12.060 --> 16:13.060 Flash, look. 16:13.060 --> 16:15.060 The Geiger's hit maximum. 16:15.060 --> 16:17.060 That means the bomb is directly below us. 16:22.060 --> 16:24.060 It must be someplace in that city. 16:24.060 --> 16:26.060 What's the name? 16:26.060 --> 16:27.060 Berlin. 16:27.060 --> 16:33.060 Finding the bomb there is going to be like searching for a neutron in a molecule. 16:33.060 --> 16:35.060 We can find it with this. 16:35.060 --> 16:37.060 The question is, can we find it in time? 16:37.060 --> 16:40.060 Flash, is there someplace we can land? 16:40.060 --> 16:43.060 There's a clearing below. We can hide the ship there for a while. 16:43.060 --> 16:44.060 Good. 16:44.060 --> 16:45.060 The inhabitants may be hostile. 16:45.060 --> 16:47.060 That's true. 16:48.060 --> 16:52.060 If we don't find that bomb in twenty minutes, it will be all over. 16:52.060 --> 16:53.060 We'll find it. 16:53.060 --> 16:55.060 We've got to find it. 16:55.060 --> 16:57.060 Hang on, twentieth century. Here we come. 16:57.060 --> 16:59.060 Landing positions, everybody. 17:01.060 --> 17:04.060 The Skyflash has landed in a forest outside of Berlin. 17:04.060 --> 17:08.060 Having with its occupants, Flash Gordon, Dale Arden, and Doctor Zarkov, 17:08.060 --> 17:10.060 they've been projected by the time machine, 17:10.060 --> 17:13.060 one thousand two hundred and fifty years back through time, 17:13.060 --> 17:17.060 to Berlin, with only twenty minutes remaining for the Earth to exist. 17:17.060 --> 17:20.060 Commissioner Herrick, pinning all of his hopes on Flash Gordon, 17:20.060 --> 17:22.060 waits tensely, 17:22.060 --> 17:27.060 while the callison who planted the Earth-destroying bomb sits calmly by. 17:27.060 --> 17:30.060 All over Berlin, people have seen a strange object, 17:30.060 --> 17:32.060 spinning and glittering in the sky. 17:32.060 --> 17:35.060 It is thought that this weird visitation from some other planet 17:35.060 --> 17:38.060 has landed somewhere in the outskirts of Berlin. 17:38.060 --> 17:41.060 Reports from Paris and New York also indicate 17:41.060 --> 17:46.060 that this flying pencil, or whatever it is, was sighted in those areas. 17:46.060 --> 18:14.060 Meanwhile, the people of Berlin wait in dread and terror for what will come next. 18:14.060 --> 18:20.060 Achtung, Achtung, all cruise cars, be on the lookout for strange invaders 18:20.060 --> 18:49.060 believed to have landed from outer space somewhere in the vicinity of Berlin. 18:50.060 --> 19:11.060 Achtung, Achtung, car 28, car 28, 19:11.060 --> 19:16.060 a telephone report claims a green and white delivery truck heading for Amtso section, 19:16.060 --> 19:19.060 sighted on Taunsinstrasse. 19:19.060 --> 19:22.060 It is believed car has been commandeered 19:22.060 --> 19:26.060 by a bearded giant and a blonde giant from outer space. 19:26.060 --> 19:28.060 Apprehend and arrest them. 19:28.060 --> 19:57.060 If they resist, shoot to kill. 19:58.060 --> 20:25.060 Achtung, Achtung, all cruise cars, be on the lookout for strange invaders 20:25.060 --> 20:28.060 believed to have landed from outer space. 20:55.060 --> 21:11.060 Achtung, Achtung, all cruise cars, be on the lookout for strange invaders 21:11.060 --> 21:26.060 believed to have landed from outer space. 21:41.060 --> 22:09.060 Achtung, Achtung, all cruise cars, be on the lookout for strange invaders 22:09.060 --> 22:22.060 believed to have landed from outer space. 22:22.060 --> 22:24.060 It just can't be. 22:24.060 --> 22:25.060 Eight seconds now. 22:25.060 --> 22:27.060 Count that. 22:27.060 --> 22:49.060 57, 56, 55, 54, 53, 52, 51. 22:49.060 --> 23:18.060 All right, only 30 seconds left. 23:18.060 --> 23:35.060 Were we in time, doctor? 23:35.060 --> 23:36.060 Plenty, Dale. 23:36.060 --> 23:56.060 We had two seconds to spare. 23:56.060 --> 23:58.060 It looks as though this tired old world 23:58.060 --> 24:00.060 will still be around for a while. 24:00.060 --> 24:01.060 Yes. 24:01.060 --> 24:15.060 Whatever flashed it, it worked. 24:15.060 --> 24:17.060 How hard do we get to the skyflat? 24:17.060 --> 24:18.060 I watched the route coming out. 24:18.060 --> 24:35.060 I think I can get us back there. 24:35.060 --> 24:38.060 Flash, let's stay here in our ancestors' time for a few days. 24:38.060 --> 24:41.060 It should be fun telling them everything that's going to happen to them 24:41.060 --> 24:43.060 for the next 1,200 years. 24:43.060 --> 24:44.060 Fun? 24:44.060 --> 24:46.060 Maybe for us, Dale, but not for them. 24:46.060 --> 24:50.060 It is the mystery of the future that provides the challenge for men to make history. 24:50.060 --> 24:54.060 Take that away and there's no reason for dreams, ambitions, discoveries. 24:54.060 --> 24:56.060 I hadn't thought of it that way. 24:56.060 --> 25:00.060 You're right, of course, but, well, it would have been fun to meet my great, 25:00.060 --> 25:06.060 multiplied by 100 grandfather. 25:06.060 --> 25:10.060 And a few hours later, as night falls on Berlin, 25:10.060 --> 25:14.060 into the scarlet sky flashes a silvery streak. 25:14.060 --> 25:16.060 Suddenly, it stops. 25:16.060 --> 25:21.060 It seems to hang for a moment, suspended in air. 25:21.060 --> 25:28.060 Then, before the eyes of a few stargazers and lovers who observed it, 25:28.060 --> 25:55.060 the sky flash disappeared into the future from Winsor King.