{"id":1078,"date":"2007-07-25T09:33:02","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T09:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2007-07-25T09:33:02","modified_gmt":"2007-07-25T09:33:02","slug":"tv_title_sequences_the_new_adv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2007\/07\/25\/tv_title_sequences_the_new_adv\/","title":{"rendered":"TV Title Sequences: The New Adventures of Flash Gordon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a title=\"All We Have to Do is Save the Universe\u2026\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/2007\/07\/all_we_have_to_do_is_save_the\/\">yesterday&#8217;s blatheration<\/a> about the new <i>Flash Gordon<\/i> series, I made several references to previous versions of the story. The best known of these are, of course, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flash_Gordon_%28serial%29\">1930s-vintage<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flash_Gordon%27s_Trip_to_Mars\">movie<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flash_Gordon_Conquers_the_Universe\">serials<\/a> starring Buster Crabbe, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flash_Gordon_%28film%29\">1980 feature film<\/a> with the so-cheesy-it&#8217;s-awesome <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flash_Gordon_%28album%29\">soundtrack<\/a> by the rock group <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Queen_%28band%29\">Queen<\/a>. However, there have also been a number of <i>Flash<\/i> television shows over the years, including an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_New_Adventures_of_Flash_Gordon\">animated version<\/a> that debuted in 1979. Known variously as <i>The New Adventures of Flash Gordon<\/i>, <i>The Adventures of Flash Gordon<\/i>, or just plain <i>Flash Gordon<\/i>, this series was a weekly Saturday-morning must-see for me:<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"725\" height=\"544\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nSJlpf8MG5c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This series is available on DVD, but honestly, I&#8217;m half-afraid to watch it again, because it might not hold up to my adult scrutiny and I don&#8217;t want to ruin a fond memory. Even so, there are a lot of things in that clip above that still look good to me: rocketships, robots, ray guns, alien creatures, exotic landscapes, giant drilling machines tunneling beneath the ground, and scantily clad women with swords in hand&#8230; ah, now that&#8217;s <i>Flash Gordon<\/i>, in all its pulpy, comic-strippy glory! Somehow, I doubt the Sci-Fi Channel&#8217;s take on the material will quite live up to this standard&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In yesterday&#8217;s blatheration about the new Flash Gordon series, I made several references to previous versions of the story. The best known of these are, of course, the 1930s-vintage movie serials starring Buster Crabbe, and the 1980 feature film with the so-cheesy-it&#8217;s-awesome soundtrack by the rock group Queen. However, there have also been a number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-title-sequences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}