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''Flash Gordon'' (also known as ''The Adventures of Flash Gordon'' and even ''The New Adventures of Flash Gordon'') was an adaptation of the comic strip ''[[Flash Gordon (
The series had a movie-length pilot, ''Flash Gordon: The Greatest Adventure of All'', which for some reason was not aired until after the rest of the series.
Though the best-known animated version of Flash Gordon, it was not the only one. Flash Gordon also appeared in two animated [[Massively Multiplayer Crossover|Massively Multiplayer Crossovers]] with other King Features heroes: the one-off special ''[[
The first season was serialized and followed the original comic strip remarkably faithfully. After the [[Executive Meddling|network complained]] that the serial was [[Viewers are Morons|too difficult for kids to follow,]] the second season consisted of standalone episodes, and a [[Team Pet]] was added, Gremlin the dragon. Older viewers are likely to prefer the serialized episodes, while younger viewers are likely to prefer the later, more simply-plotted standalones.
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* [[Amazon Brigade]]: Princess Aura had an elite guard of female warriors under her command known as the [[Witch Species|Witch-Women]].
* [[Apparently Human Merfolk]]: The people of Corallia, who are green but otherwise look human. As opposed to Ming's grotesque gill-men.
* [[Back for
* [[Beast Man]]: The Beast Men.
* [[Big Door]]: The Beast Men's drawbridge that takes up most of a cliffside.
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* [[Kirk Summation]]: Flash gives one of these early on to Barin and Thun because he's sick of their racial bickering, and says the only reason a tyrant like Ming is able to hang onto power is that the peoples of Mongo are busy fighting each other instead of uniting against him. Thun comes to agree with him pretty quickly, but Barin takes a couple more episodes to convince.
* [[Lizard Folk]]: The Lizard Women. There are Lizard ''Men,'' too, they just don't show up as often. Also the reptillian bounty hunter from the second season.
* [[Mecha
* [[Parallel Universe]]: The second season episode "Flash Back."
* [[Pragmatic Adaptation]]: The pilot movie, which was intended have Dr. Zarkov to be sympathetic from the start, changed the circumstances of Flash and Dale boarding his rocket. The solution was that the visitors are forced to enter Zarkov's lair while being chased by a flood of molten lava caused by a meteor shower inflicted by Ming. In that crisis, Zarkov immediately invites them into his rocket and since it is the only means around to escape certain death, the young heroes get in as fast as they can before it launches for Mongo. Furthermore, once Zarkov explains what he hopes to do there, Flash and Dale agree to help.
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