WEBVTT 00:30.000 --> 00:51.400 of the heavens, planets and suns race toward infinity. 00:51.400 --> 00:57.240 Dead worlds and live worlds alike, separated by millions of light years. 00:57.240 --> 01:03.400 And yet, these members of the galaxy in this age of space travel have become interdependent, 01:03.400 --> 01:07.840 not only economically, but politically. 01:07.840 --> 01:14.400 This is the far-off galaxy of Magna Mater, the galaxy of dead planets, icy graveyard 01:14.400 --> 01:19.440 rolling through space, and each with a communications station. 01:19.440 --> 01:24.680 And now the sky flash carrying Flash Gordon, Dale and Dr. Zarkov, enters the outer rim 01:24.680 --> 01:28.840 of Magna Mater on a routine outer space patrol. 01:28.840 --> 01:35.320 Suddenly, all around them the tranquil peace of these dead worlds is shattered. 01:35.320 --> 01:39.680 First the dead planet Isis. 01:39.680 --> 01:42.760 Next it was Osiris. 01:42.760 --> 01:46.600 Next came Mithra. 01:46.600 --> 01:51.440 And finally, Bacchus. 01:51.440 --> 01:54.000 And in the sky, Flash. 01:54.000 --> 01:55.880 I don't understand it. 01:55.880 --> 02:00.440 First Isis, then Osiris, Mithra and Bacchus shattering in space. 02:00.440 --> 02:01.440 It's weird, Doctor. 02:01.440 --> 02:02.440 Crazy. 02:02.440 --> 02:04.760 Four planets blowing up in rapid succession. 02:04.760 --> 02:05.760 Why? 02:05.760 --> 02:06.760 Why should that happen? 02:06.760 --> 02:10.160 It seems to be some mysterious atomic force, Flash. 02:10.160 --> 02:13.600 Possibly a chain reaction operating from some central source. 02:13.600 --> 02:16.400 Well it's about the last of the chain, Doctor. 02:16.400 --> 02:19.040 There's only one dead planet left and that's Minerva. 02:19.040 --> 02:22.080 And there it is, dead ahead. 02:22.080 --> 02:28.520 Dale, will you check the Geiger counter? 02:28.520 --> 02:32.040 We're coming into a very heavy radioactive dust fall, Doctor. 02:32.040 --> 02:33.040 Check its type. 02:33.040 --> 02:34.040 Yes, Doctor. 02:34.040 --> 02:40.040 Horizontal 105, vertical 10. 02:40.040 --> 02:44.440 Why, it's radioactive dust from Durinium. 02:44.440 --> 02:45.440 Durinium? 02:45.440 --> 02:46.440 Impossible. 02:46.440 --> 02:47.440 Why, Doctor? 02:47.440 --> 02:52.920 Is it indigenous to a particular area or a planet of the galaxy out of this range? 02:52.920 --> 02:55.400 Yes, it's found only on Colossia. 02:55.400 --> 02:57.040 But it's not only that. 02:57.040 --> 02:59.400 Durinium was only discovered a few years ago, Flash. 02:59.400 --> 03:04.460 Doctor Zarkov made an extensive study of its properties for GBI research and analysis. 03:04.460 --> 03:09.240 I found it to be probably the most powerful fissionable material in the universe. 03:09.240 --> 03:10.240 And the slowest. 03:10.240 --> 03:12.720 What do you mean, the slowest? 03:12.720 --> 03:17.960 Unlike other nuclear materials, its fission is a slow, creeping process. 03:17.960 --> 03:23.600 We estimated that a bomb made of Durinium would take over 1,200 years to explode. 03:23.600 --> 03:25.240 Then it couldn't be Durinium, Dale. 03:25.240 --> 03:32.800 If it was a bomb that exploded those planets, it had to be put there in, let's see, 1953. 03:32.800 --> 03:34.800 I'll check again. 03:34.800 --> 03:40.480 No, it still comes out Durinium. 03:40.480 --> 03:41.760 Something wrong on Minerva, too. 03:41.760 --> 03:45.800 I'd better contact the communications station. 03:45.800 --> 03:47.880 Skyflash Earth Patrol calling Minerva. 03:47.880 --> 03:49.680 Skyflash calling Minerva. 03:49.680 --> 03:50.680 Come in, Minerva. 03:50.680 --> 03:51.680 Come in. 03:51.680 --> 03:52.680 Minerva, come in. 03:52.680 --> 03:53.680 I can't get through. 03:53.680 --> 03:54.680 The communications station's out. 03:54.680 --> 03:55.680 What now? 03:55.680 --> 04:05.800 Let's move in and see if we can get a better look. 04:05.800 --> 04:08.600 Why should the communications station be out on Minerva? 04:08.600 --> 04:12.800 Flash, we can't move through this atomic fog much longer without getting contaminated. 04:12.800 --> 04:14.720 I know, but we need information. 04:14.720 --> 04:18.840 For all we know, that chain reaction explosion may move from this galaxy into others. 04:18.840 --> 04:21.840 Maybe we can find a clue on Minerva. 04:21.840 --> 04:25.600 Minerva just exploded. 04:25.600 --> 04:31.880 That's the last of the galaxy. 04:31.880 --> 04:32.960 Let's get out of here. 04:32.960 --> 04:39.720 Get back to Earth. 04:39.720 --> 04:43.720 And now the skyflash pointed its nose toward home. 04:43.720 --> 04:50.000 But on Earth itself, strange things were happening, foreboding events, foretelling a monstrous 04:50.000 --> 04:51.000 end. 04:51.000 --> 05:14.760 First, a series of freakish weather disturbances, and after that, and panic and fear spread 05:14.760 --> 05:20.640 through every corner of the Earth like wildfire. 05:20.640 --> 05:24.720 And at the Galaxy Bureau of Investigation, Commissioner Herrick interrogates a strange 05:24.720 --> 05:32.120 captive picked up by Earth agents, a khalasin whose planet had sworn eternal war against 05:32.120 --> 05:33.120 the Earth. 05:33.120 --> 05:35.120 Are you frightened, Commissioner Herrick? 05:35.120 --> 05:42.040 Those small explosions today that have destroyed cities, flattened mountains, inundated half 05:42.040 --> 05:46.440 a continent of your Earth, these are just teases. 05:46.440 --> 05:49.400 These were just natural phenomena, not man-made. 05:49.400 --> 05:53.680 Fool, what do I argue with you? 05:53.680 --> 05:58.560 In one hour, your precious Earth explodes. 05:58.560 --> 06:03.920 At 12 o'clock noon, there will no longer be an Earth to poison the galaxy. 06:03.920 --> 06:04.920 You're lying. 06:04.920 --> 06:07.640 You're trying to frighten us. 06:07.640 --> 06:08.640 Am I? 06:08.640 --> 06:14.040 Then look at the fate of Isis, Osiris, Mithra, Bacchus. 06:14.040 --> 06:18.040 They're all gone, blown into eternity. 06:18.040 --> 06:20.880 All right, I believe you. 06:20.880 --> 06:21.880 But you want to stop it. 06:21.880 --> 06:23.880 Name your price. 06:23.880 --> 06:25.360 Price? 06:25.360 --> 06:31.400 What can you offer when in one hour there will be nothing? 06:31.400 --> 06:33.560 A void. 06:33.560 --> 06:39.640 Does that make you feel better, Commissioner? 06:39.640 --> 06:42.600 Come ahead, do it again. 06:42.600 --> 06:49.680 But hitting me will not find the geranium bomb smoldering into its final stage of fission. 06:49.680 --> 06:52.840 Who planted this geranium bomb? 06:52.840 --> 06:55.840 I did. 06:55.840 --> 06:57.840 You? 06:57.840 --> 06:59.840 When? 06:59.840 --> 07:01.840 Exactly... 07:01.840 --> 07:03.840 Exactly... 07:03.840 --> 07:05.840 1,208 years. 07:05.840 --> 07:07.840 Five months. 07:07.840 --> 07:09.840 Three weeks. 07:09.840 --> 07:17.240 One day, 23 hours and two minutes ago. 07:17.240 --> 07:19.360 You speak the truth. 07:19.360 --> 07:22.960 You've stolen Dr. Zarkov's time machine. 07:22.960 --> 07:25.600 Just the principle, Commissioner. 07:25.600 --> 07:30.680 Our galastic scientists developed it in their own way. 07:30.680 --> 07:35.440 As one who has traveled back in time, Commissioner. 07:35.440 --> 07:40.320 Let me tell you, it was an interesting experience. 07:40.320 --> 07:42.320 Where did you plant that geranium bomb? 07:42.320 --> 07:44.680 Where did you bury it? 07:44.680 --> 07:48.400 You will find out for yourself, Commissioner. 07:48.400 --> 07:50.840 Very soon. 07:50.840 --> 07:55.120 Alan, you're sure the Geigers indicate nothing? 07:55.120 --> 07:57.640 No, Commissioner. 07:57.640 --> 08:00.280 And they won't until fission. 08:00.280 --> 08:04.240 It's useless for you to try and locate it. 08:04.240 --> 08:12.560 At this late point in its reaction, it gives no telltale signal. 08:12.560 --> 08:18.360 You have less than one hour to live, Commander. 08:18.360 --> 08:22.480 You and every other Earth man. 08:22.480 --> 08:24.320 If we die, you die with us. 08:24.320 --> 08:25.920 I am a... 08:25.920 --> 08:28.720 ...Colossal Patriot. 08:28.720 --> 08:32.960 To die in this cause is an honor. 08:32.960 --> 08:36.240 Establish contact with the Skyflash. 08:36.240 --> 08:38.760 It's cruising in the Magna Marta Galaxy. 08:38.760 --> 08:44.880 If Flash Gordon or Dr. Zarkov don't come up with an answer... 08:44.880 --> 08:48.360 Calling Skyflash, GBI headquarters. 08:48.360 --> 08:51.280 Calling Flash Gordon to the Skyflash. 08:51.280 --> 08:55.280 Come in, Flash Gordon. 08:55.280 --> 08:58.560 That's the story. The whole story. 08:58.560 --> 09:00.720 Flash, Dr. Zarkov. 09:00.720 --> 09:04.240 We've got to find a way to deactivate the bomb. 09:04.240 --> 09:07.040 Otherwise, the Earth is doomed. 09:07.040 --> 09:08.720 There's less than one hour. 09:08.720 --> 09:11.320 A second after 12, and it'll be too late. 09:11.320 --> 09:15.600 There won't be an Earth to come back to. 09:15.600 --> 09:19.160 We're helpless up here. Completely helpless. 09:19.160 --> 09:24.840 Dr. Zarkov, there must be a way out. There must be! 09:24.840 --> 09:27.160 There's only one thing I can think of. 09:27.160 --> 09:28.280 What is it? 09:28.280 --> 09:31.200 Lock the controls. Decelerate the ship below stomach speed. 09:31.200 --> 09:33.200 Come in here. 09:44.840 --> 09:46.480 The time machine. 09:46.480 --> 09:48.560 It's our only chance. 09:48.560 --> 09:52.720 We've got to project ourselves back into the past, just as the Colossum did. 09:52.720 --> 09:56.360 We must go back through time to the middle of the 20th century. 09:56.360 --> 09:59.440 The year 1953. 09:59.440 --> 10:03.880 If we can find out where the Colossum planted that derrinium bomb, 10:03.880 --> 10:05.520 then we have a chance. 10:05.520 --> 10:07.320 How much of a chance, Doctor? 10:07.320 --> 10:09.840 A thousandth of one. 10:09.840 --> 10:12.680 A millionth of one. 10:12.680 --> 10:14.800 Then let's take it. 10:14.800 --> 10:17.040 What's our speed now, Flash? 10:17.040 --> 10:20.400 We're at landing speed, Doctor. 350 an hour. 10:20.400 --> 10:26.400 Good. 10:29.120 --> 10:31.840 Now I'm going to ask you both to hold on. 10:31.840 --> 10:35.320 For the next few moments, you will be traveling back through time. 10:35.320 --> 10:38.840 The effect will be strange, possibly stupefying. 10:38.840 --> 10:42.600 You will hear nothing, see nothing, know nothing, 10:42.600 --> 10:47.480 until you are back in the sixth decade of the 20th century. 10:47.480 --> 10:50.960 Are you both ready? 10:50.960 --> 11:18.960 Ready, Doctor. 11:20.960 --> 11:30.960 Where are we? 11:30.960 --> 11:32.960 What happened? 11:32.960 --> 11:36.960 We are now in the sixth decade of the 20th century. 11:36.960 --> 11:44.960 There it is, Dale. 11:44.960 --> 11:48.960 The Earth as it looked 1,250 years before we were born. 11:48.960 --> 11:53.960 How strange it looks. 11:53.960 --> 11:56.960 It's some kind of a city, Doctor. 11:56.960 --> 12:01.960 I'm trying to check it in this book of ancient maps. 12:01.960 --> 12:04.960 From this description, that must be a place called Washington, 12:04.960 --> 12:08.960 the capital of an ancient nation called the United States. 12:08.960 --> 12:09.960 What's our direction? 12:09.960 --> 12:11.960 East by north. 12:11.960 --> 12:16.960 Another city coming up. 12:16.960 --> 12:18.960 That must be New York. 12:18.960 --> 12:19.960 New York? 12:19.960 --> 12:20.960 What a strange name. 12:20.960 --> 12:24.960 Dale, set the Geiger counter for Durinium and see if you can get me a reading. 12:24.960 --> 12:27.960 Yes, Doctor Zarkov. 12:27.960 --> 12:29.960 I am getting a reading, Doctor. 12:29.960 --> 12:31.960 The Durinium bomb is here, somewhere on Earth. 12:31.960 --> 12:32.960 Where, Dale? Can you locate it? 12:32.960 --> 12:37.960 Not quite. The signal is very weak, but it's a long distance from here, almost due east. 12:37.960 --> 12:38.960 No, Dale. 12:38.960 --> 12:40.960 East by north. 12:40.960 --> 12:44.960 And from the signal strength, I'd say over 3,000 miles away. 12:44.960 --> 12:46.960 East by north it is. 12:46.960 --> 12:50.960 Doctor, do you think we'll be able to exactly locate the Durinium bomb? 12:50.960 --> 12:52.960 I can only hope so, Dale. 12:52.960 --> 12:57.960 The Earth as we know it has only a half hour to live before it explodes. 12:57.960 --> 13:01.960 Well, there's nothing we can do until we cross the ocean. 13:01.960 --> 13:04.960 What kind of a world is it that we're going back to? 13:04.960 --> 13:08.960 Well, from what I remember of ancient history, it was very primitive. 13:08.960 --> 13:12.960 Just think, nobody ever reached a height of more than 15 miles. 13:12.960 --> 13:16.960 Well, it was primitive to our way of thinking, Dale. 13:16.960 --> 13:20.960 And they'd just scratched the surface of atomic research. 13:20.960 --> 13:24.960 And they had to build tremendous motors, housed in gigantic buildings, 13:24.960 --> 13:26.960 to run the machines they used in manufacturing. 13:26.960 --> 13:30.960 It does seem ridiculous when you consider that in our century, 13:30.960 --> 13:36.960 a motor the size of my fist has more power than the gigantic steam-driven turbines they used. 13:36.960 --> 13:38.960 What about the people? 13:38.960 --> 13:41.960 What were... I mean, what are they like? 13:41.960 --> 13:45.960 They considered our Earth just as precious as we do. 13:45.960 --> 13:51.960 And most of them believed in freedom, peace, equality of opportunity. 13:51.960 --> 13:55.960 But I guess just like in our time, there are those who for power, 13:55.960 --> 13:57.960 would make slaves of everybody else. 13:57.960 --> 13:59.960 Yes, I'm afraid so. 13:59.960 --> 14:02.960 But they didn't have our tools to fight them with. 14:02.960 --> 14:06.960 And the women, Dr. Zarkov? What were they like? 14:06.960 --> 14:12.960 Well, instead of filling their heads full of knowledge about astrophysics, atomic research, 14:12.960 --> 14:16.960 electronic phenomena, like a certain young lady we know... 14:16.960 --> 14:19.960 Yes, well, what did they do? Sit home and knit? 14:19.960 --> 14:22.960 Well, I wouldn't say that was all they did. 14:22.960 --> 14:27.960 But they certainly knew their way around the kitchen better than they did around the laboratory. 14:27.960 --> 14:29.960 Strange craft at two o'clock. 14:29.960 --> 14:32.960 Oh, in a moment we'll be able to see it out the light window. 14:32.960 --> 14:36.960 Let's see. 14:36.960 --> 14:39.960 What is that clumsy craft, doctor? 14:39.960 --> 14:41.960 That's an airplane. 14:41.960 --> 14:45.960 Did you see the way it was pulled through the air by those gigantic egg beaters? 14:45.960 --> 14:48.960 I'll bet it couldn't do more than 300 miles per hour. 14:48.960 --> 14:51.960 No wonder they didn't cruise around in outer space. 14:51.960 --> 14:56.960 A clumsy craft like that would have trouble getting off the ground. 14:56.960 --> 15:02.960 That thing on the water is even funnier than the airplane. 15:02.960 --> 15:05.960 Man, that was a ship. 15:05.960 --> 15:09.960 You see, air travel was only about 50 years old at this time. 15:09.960 --> 15:13.960 And a great deal of travel over land and water was still popular. 15:13.960 --> 15:15.960 What a world to live in. 15:15.960 --> 15:18.960 Yes, as Dale said, primitive. 15:18.960 --> 15:20.960 But a world. 15:20.960 --> 15:23.960 Something we won't have to go back to unless we find that uranium bomb. 15:23.960 --> 15:38.960 And quickly. 15:38.960 --> 15:39.960 Where are they? 15:39.960 --> 15:41.960 Why don't we hear from them? 15:41.960 --> 15:44.960 There's nothing we can do about it now, Alan, except wait. 15:44.960 --> 15:51.960 Wait and pray. 15:51.960 --> 15:53.960 Land coming up, doctor. 15:53.960 --> 15:55.960 1135. 15:55.960 --> 16:00.960 It took us exactly five minutes to cross the ocean. 16:00.960 --> 16:03.960 City coming up at two o'clock, doctor. 16:03.960 --> 16:05.960 That must be a place called Paris. 16:05.960 --> 16:07.960 Flash, slow down. 16:07.960 --> 16:08.960 The Geiger's up to maximum. 16:08.960 --> 16:11.960 We're almost in the immediate vicinity of the bomb. 16:11.960 --> 16:12.960 Flash, look. 16:12.960 --> 16:14.960 The Geiger's hit maximum. 16:14.960 --> 16:21.960 That means the bomb is directly below us. 16:21.960 --> 16:23.960 It must be someplace in that city. 16:23.960 --> 16:25.960 What's the name? 16:25.960 --> 16:27.960 Berlin. 16:27.960 --> 16:32.960 Finding the bomb there is going to be like searching for a neutron in a molecule. 16:32.960 --> 16:34.960 We can find it with this. 16:34.960 --> 16:37.960 The question is, can we find it in time? 16:37.960 --> 16:39.960 Flash, is there someplace we can land? 16:39.960 --> 16:40.960 There's a clearing below. 16:40.960 --> 16:42.960 We can hide the ship there for a while. 16:42.960 --> 16:43.960 Good. 16:43.960 --> 16:44.960 The inhabitants may be hostile. 16:44.960 --> 16:47.960 That's true. 16:47.960 --> 16:51.960 If we don't find that bomb in 20 minutes, it will be all over. 16:51.960 --> 16:52.960 We'll find it. 16:52.960 --> 16:54.960 We've got to find it. 16:54.960 --> 16:55.960 Hang on, 20th century. 16:55.960 --> 16:56.960 Here we come. 16:56.960 --> 17:00.960 Landing positions, everybody. 17:00.960 --> 17:03.960 The Sky Flash has landed in the forest outside of Berlin. 17:03.960 --> 17:09.960 Having with its occupants, Flash Gordon, Dale Arden, and Dr. Zarkov, been projected by the time machine. 17:09.960 --> 17:16.960 1,250 years back through time to Berlin, with only 20 minutes remaining for the Earth to exist. 17:16.960 --> 17:21.960 Commissioner Herrick, pinning all of his hopes on Flash Gordon, waits tensely, 17:21.960 --> 17:26.960 while the callison who planted the Earth-destroying bomb sits calmly by. 17:26.960 --> 17:31.960 All over Berlin, people have seen a strange object spinning and glittering in the sky. 17:31.960 --> 17:37.960 It is thought that this weird visitation from some other planet has landed somewhere in the outskirts of Berlin. 17:37.960 --> 17:45.960 Reports from Paris and New York also indicate that this flying pencil, or whatever it is, was sighted in those areas. 17:45.960 --> 18:13.960 Meanwhile, the people of Berlin wait in dread and terror for what will come next. 18:13.960 --> 18:19.960 Achtung, Achtung! All cruise cars, be on the lookout for strange invaders 18:19.960 --> 18:48.960 believed to have landed from outer space somewhere in the vicinity of Berlin. 18:49.960 --> 19:10.960 Achtung, Achtung! Car 28, Car 28! 19:10.960 --> 19:18.960 A telephone report claims a green and white delivery truck heading for Amtso section, sighted on Taunsinstraße. 19:18.960 --> 19:25.960 It is believed car has been commandeered by a bearded giant and a blonde giant from outer space. 19:48.960 --> 20:03.960 Achtung, Achtung! 20:18.960 --> 20:47.960 Achtung, Achtung! 20:47.960 --> 21:10.960 Achtung, Achtung! 21:10.960 --> 21:20.960 Hey, boy, fire! Go ahead, doctor, I'll cover you if there's trouble. 21:40.960 --> 22:01.960 Achtung, Achtung! 22:11.960 --> 22:23.960 It just can't be. 22:23.960 --> 22:26.960 Eight seconds now. Count them. 22:26.960 --> 22:48.960 Fifty-seven, fifty-six, fifty-five, fifty-four, fifty-three, fifty-two, fifty-one. 22:48.960 --> 23:01.960 Very fast. Only thirty seconds left. 23:19.960 --> 23:33.960 Were we in time, doctor? 23:33.960 --> 23:54.960 Plenty, dear. We had two seconds to spare. 23:54.960 --> 23:58.960 It looks as though this tired old world will still be around for a while. 23:58.960 --> 24:13.960 Yes. Whatever flashed it, it worked. 24:13.960 --> 24:15.960 How do we get to the skyflat? 24:15.960 --> 24:33.960 I watched the route coming out. I think I can get us back there. 24:33.960 --> 24:36.960 Flash, let's stay here in our ancestors' time for a few days. 24:36.960 --> 24:41.960 It should be fun telling them everything that's going to happen to them for the next twelve hundred years. 24:41.960 --> 24:45.960 Fun? Maybe for us, Gail, but not for them. 24:45.960 --> 24:48.960 It is the mystery of the future that provides the challenge for men to make history. 24:48.960 --> 24:52.960 Take that away and there's no reason for dreams, ambition, discovery. 24:52.960 --> 24:54.960 Well, I hadn't thought of it that way. 24:54.960 --> 25:05.960 You're right, of course, but well, it would have been fun to meet my great, multiplied by one hundred, grandfather. 25:05.960 --> 25:13.960 And a few hours later, as night falls on Berlin, into the starlit sky flashes a silvery streak. 25:13.960 --> 25:20.960 Suddenly, it stops. It seems to hang for a moment, suspended in air. 25:20.960 --> 25:27.960 Then, before the eyes of a few stargazers and lovers who observed it, 25:27.960 --> 25:55.960 the sky flash disappeared into the future from whence it came.