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| - Defenders of the Earth is an animated television series of the 1980s featuring three characters from comic strips distributed by King Features Syndicate - Flash Gordon, The Phantom, and Mandrake the Magician - battling the Flash Gordon villian Ming the Merciless in the year 2015. Supporting characters include their children Rick Gordon, Jedda Walker (daughter of The Phantom), Kshin (adopted son of Mandrake), 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 Marvel Comics.
- Defenders of the Earth is an animated series which ran in syndication in 1986. Produced by Marvel Productions in association with King Features, the series followed the pattern of the long-running Super Friends animated series, by teaming up an assortment of King Features heroes and villains. Set in the year 2015, Flash Gordon was the leader of the group. Other members included the Phantom and Mandrake the Magician and his sidekick Lothar. New to the series were the youthful offspring or wards of each member: Rick Gordon, Flash's teenage son; Jedda Walker, the Phantom's daughter; Lothar Junior, known as L.J.; and Kshin, an orphaned Asian boy, rescued by Mandrake. Also accompanying the team was Zuffy, a cute alien and the team mascot. Another King Features hero, Princa Valiant, made a guest
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| - Defenders of the Earth is an animated television series of the 1980s featuring three characters from comic strips distributed by King Features Syndicate - Flash Gordon, The Phantom, and Mandrake the Magician - battling the Flash Gordon villian Ming the Merciless in the year 2015. Supporting characters include their children Rick Gordon, Jedda Walker (daughter of The Phantom), Kshin (adopted son of Mandrake), 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 Marvel Comics.
- Defenders of the Earth is an animated series which ran in syndication in 1986. Produced by Marvel Productions in association with King Features, the series followed the pattern of the long-running Super Friends animated series, by teaming up an assortment of King Features heroes and villains. Set in the year 2015, Flash Gordon was the leader of the group. Other members included the Phantom and Mandrake the Magician and his sidekick Lothar. New to the series were the youthful offspring or wards of each member: Rick Gordon, Flash's teenage son; Jedda Walker, the Phantom's daughter; Lothar Junior, known as L.J.; and Kshin, an orphaned Asian boy, rescued by Mandrake. Also accompanying the team was Zuffy, a cute alien and the team mascot. Another King Features hero, Princa Valiant, made a guest appearance in the episode "Terror in Time." The principal villain, inevitably, was Ming the Merciless, re-designed slightly with green skin. He was alternately aided and hindered by Princess Aura and a new character, Ming's son Prince Krotan. Other villains included many of Ming's henchmen, and the Phantom's evil twin brother, Kurt Walker, newly created for the series. In the premiere episode, Flash learns that Ming is again planning to take over the Earth. He kidnaps Flash's wife (unnamed, but presumably Dale Arden). Flash organizes his friends and their children to rescue her, but she dies; however, her mind and soul ("essence") are stored in a crystal and restored as the Defenders' computer, Dynak X. The series also spawned a four-issue Marvel Comics series and assorted video games. BCI released the series on DVD, in two sets, and the first episode was included as a bonus on Flash Gordon: The Complete Series.
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