Defenders of the Earth
Defenders of the Earth is an American animated television series produced in 1986, featuring characters from three comic strips distributed by King Features Syndicate—Flash Gordon, The Phantom, and Mandrake the Magician—opposing Ming the Merciless in...
Defenders of the Earth
Defenders of the Earth is an American animated television series produced in 1986, featuring characters from three comic strips distributed by King Features Syndicate—Flash Gordon, The Phantom, and Mandrake the Magician—opposing Ming the Merciless in the year 2015. Supporting characters include their children Rick Gordon, Jedda Walker, Kshin, Mandrake's assistant Lothar, and Lothar's son L.J. The show lasted for 65 episodes; there was also a short-lived comic book series published by Star Comics, created by Gerry Conway, Ross Andru and John Romita, Sr.. The closing credits credit Rob Walsh and Tony Pastor for the main title music, and Stan Lee for the lyrics. The series was later shown in reruns on the Sci Fi Channel as part of Sci Fi Cartoon Quest.
Defenders of the Earth
Defenders of the Earth is an American animated television series produced in 1986, featuring characters from three comic strips distributed by King Features Syndicate—Flash Gordon, The Phantom, and Mandrake the Magician—opposing Ming the Merciless in...
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Episode 1: Intro
Episode 2: The Story Begins
Episode 3: Episode 3
Episode 4: Episode 4
Episode 5: Episode 5
Episode 6: Episode 6
Episode 7: Episode 7
Episode 1: Escape from Mongo
When Ming the Merciless leaves Mongo to invade Earth, his old enemy Flash Gordon and the latter's so...
Episode 2: The Creation of Monitor
Aided by Flash's Krell allies, the Defenders begin building their base. But Ming has learned of thei...
Episode 3: A Demon In His Pocket
Some boys try to pick a fight with Kshin so, rather than break the Defenders' Code of Honour, he rea...
Episode 4: A House Divided
When Africa suffers a sudden and unexplained climate change, the Phantom and Jedda head there to inv...
Episode 5: Bits and Chips
When the Defenders receive an invitation to pit Dynak-X against a chess-playing computer, they littl...
Episode 6: The Root of Evil
Dr. Whitestead's plant food formula goes haywire--spilling on him and turning him into a plant! Ming...
Episode 7: Cold War
Ming needs Rick Gordon's ring to complete a weather control machine, and having caught Flash in a ba...
Episode 8: The Sleeper Awakes
Eaons ago, a giant robot crash landed on Earth. Ming learns of The Annihilator, which now sleeps ben...
Episode 9: The Revenge of Astra
The vengeful space princess Astra creates an army of clay soldiers. The daughter of Princess Aura, A...
Episode 10: The Hall of Wisdom
The incredible Hall of Wisdom pays its-2000-year, 24-hour visit to the Galaxy. It's a once-in-a-life...
Episode 11: The Mind Warriors, Part I
Ming lures Kshin to Ice Station Earth by kidnapping Zuffy, then probes the dark side of Kshin's imag...
Episode 12: The Mind Warriors, Part II
The Defenders add a new twist to the Battle Simulation Room--a Thought-Transference Cap. It transmit...
Episode 13: The Lost Jewels of Tibet
Ming is seeking the Jewels of Power, but a female archeologist named Atuskedero is also after them a...
Episode 14: The Evil of Doctor Dark
Mandrake's old enemy, Damian Dark, and the latter's Psychic Warrior cohorts escape from jail and joi...
Episode 15: Diamonds are Ming's Best Friends
Ming enlists the aid of the ruthless Beastmaster to create an army of Crystal Soldiers, beings grown...
Episode 16: The Men of Frost
For Ming's plan to blanket the earth with a veneer of frost to be successful, the satellite requires...
Episode 17: Battleground
Ming's forces travel to the planet Grubor, where they use his freeze-ray weapon to capture six Cave...
Episode 18: The Panther Peril
When the famous explorer Andrew Huxley encounters the wrath of Ming the Merciless while on expeditio...
Episode 19: Fury of the Deep
Ming's attack on an oil platform, to capture a main computer containing the earth's entire energy ne...
Episode 20: Family Reunion
Ming captures the Phantom and Jedda as they return from the race against N'Dama (really the Phantom'...
Episode 21: The Defense Never Rests
The Defenders fly into space to investigate a mysterious comet and discover, too late to break from...
Episode 22: Like Father, Like Daughter
Ming's estranged daughter, Aura, crash lands her ship on Monitor and informs the Defenders of her fa...
Episode 23: The Would be Defender
At the dedication ceremony for a new courthouse built in honor of our heroes, 13 year-old Earl Sump,...
Episode 24: Doorways into Darkness
Deep in Africa Ming locates an anti-energy source enabling him to open the Nightgiant Doorway and un...
Episode 25: Deal With The Devil
While captives in Ming's jail, Rick and Jedda overhear Octon and Garax's plans to revolt against Min...
Episode 26: Terror In Time
After retrieving a vat of deadly mutant slime from Ming's laboratory, six of the Defenders (LJ and K...
Episode 27: Ming's Household Helpers
The household helper robot, designed by Ming the Merciless in another of his evil schemes, is the ho...
Episode 28: The Starboy
While transporting Starchild, a child-like alien who has landed on earth, through the woods around M...
Episode 29: The Gods Awake
When statues of ancient gods mysteriously come to life the Defenders are summoned to the Himalayas b...
Episode 30: The Ghost Walks Again
When industrial tycoon/hypochondriac Kent Madden's plan to buy a magic health elixer from Partha, so...
Episode 31: The Book of Mysteries
When a two-hundred square mile area of Morocco mysteriously disappears, the Defenders investigate- s...
Episode 32: The Future Comes But Once
While engaging Ming's roboships in battle over the North African Desert, Flash discovers the remains...
Episode 33: Kshin And The Ghost Ship
While on vacation in Jamaica with the Defenders, Kshin sees a ghost ship; however, no one believes h...
Episode 34: The Carnival of Dr. Kalihari
Dr. Kalihari's carnival is in town and the Defenders are on hand to see the show. What they don't kn...
Episode 35: The Mystery of the Book
Dynak X picks up a bizarre energy transmission from Stonehenge prompting the elder Defenders to inve...
Episode 36: Flash Times Four
Ming knows that Flash Gordon is the only man alive who could effectively fly his state-of-the-art wa...
Episode 37: The Frozen Heart
Ming's forces kidnap LJ's girlfriend, Kate, turning her into a Frost Person, and have her trick LJ,...
Episode 38: Rick Gordon, One Man Army
Rick Gordon's new friend at Central City High ! Carlotta Vallejo- requires his help when Ming backs...
Episode 39: The Rites of Zesnan
While trying to prove their individual prowess during an obstacle course competition, Rick, Jedda an...
Episode 40: Audie and Tweak
Ming's computer, Octon, has created the ultimate trap- Tycos, a machine designed by a machine, compl...
Episode 41: Return of the Skyband
When an ore transport ship in deep space is looted and notes are found announcing the RETURN OF THE...
Episode 42: Dracula's Potion
The Defenders set out for Transylvania to investigate the disappearance of John Harker, a young arch...
Episode 43: One of the Guys
Rick and L.J. accompany Kshin's class, which includes Marty, a wheelchair-bound boy, on a field trip...
Episode 44: 100 Proof Highway
At school, Jedda is invited to a party by Eric, who freely admits that, "Everything looks better wit...
Episode 45: The Time Freezer
The Defenders attend an inter-galactic science convention in Monaco which coincides with a junior ma...
Episode 46: The Prince Makes His Move (1)
Prince Kro-Tan reduces his father to nothing more than a microbe and seizes control of his empire, d...
Episode 47: The Prince Triumphant (2)
Pursuing Kro-Tan to a small kingdom in india, Flash and Rick are astonished to find that Kro-Tan is...
Episode 48: The Prince Weds (3)
Continuing his power play, Kro-Tan's next step is to secretly attach miniature, mind-controled explo...
Episode 49: The Prince's Royal Hunt (4)
Locked in the prince's palace, Jedda uses her gift to communicate with animals as a means of escape...
Episode 50: The Prince Dethroned (5)
The witch who's aided Kro-Tan from the start manages to revive the original King of Mongo, and is re...
Episode 51: Lothar's Homecoming
The Defenders accompany Lothar to his hometown in Jamaica, where the new children?s wing of a hospit...
Episode 52: Suspended Sabotage
While Rick and L.J. test out Rick's new invention- a wave interference device that scrambles any sig...
Episode 53: Call of the Eternals
Ming sends a look-alike Defender ship to provoke the Beacon of the Eternals- a computer operated shi...
Episode 54: The Return of Doctor Dark
Ming sets out to rule the entire universe by stealing the first of the three shards of the Orb of Ko...
Episode 55: The Deadliest Battle
Rick feels the pressure that results from his efforts to live up to Flash's reputation, and all aspe...
Episode 56: The Necklace of Oros
As part of Jedda's coming of age, the Phantom takes her to the Skull Cave to choose a gift from amon...
Episode 57: Torn Space
The fabric of the universe is weak and stretching under the stress of Graviton's bridge, and the evi...
Episode 58: Ming Winter
Flash receives a distress call from Prince Barin, summoning him to Mongo to save the planet from Min...
Episode 59: The Golden Queen (1)
As Ming teams up with Queen Hadea of the Netherworld, elsewhere, Jedda suffers injury from an experi...
Episode 60: The Gravity of Ming (2)
Graviton discovers that the neckless Jedda's wearing is a fake, and Ming vows to punish Hadea. The P...
Episode 61: Flesh and Blood
The Defenders must fight a fanatic cult calling themselves the ""Leauge of Flesh and Blood"" who are...
Episode 62: Drowning World
Ming constructs a dam near the sea of Japan. This diverts the warm currents of the Japenease oceans...
Episode 63: The Adoption of Kshin
During the court proceedings of Mandrake's adoption of Kshin, Hai, an old Asian man, enters with pro...
Episode 64: Street Smarts
In battle simulation with Jedda, L.J. refuses to take part- he thinks it is only "kid stuff". Flash...
Episode 65: Ming's Thunder Lizards
The Defenders fly to Alaska to inspect a dinosaur alert. While following dinosaur tracks, Rick and L...
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