Welcome to the great adventurers of old time radio from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we will bring you the first exciting episode of this new podcast series. We'll be bringing you

the first two episodes of the 1935 Flash Gordon Radio serial. At first we'll explain a little

bit about the background of Flash Gordon and this particular radio series.

And after our drama, we will talk about the episode.

Give you an idea of what you can expect to hear on this new twice-weekly Old Time Radio Adventure podcast series.

This first episode is being cross-posted to the great

detectives of Old Time Radio podcast feed, and we will also be cross-posting our

adult adventure series Cloak and Dagger, and we'll talk more about that after the episode,

but if you want to hear future episodes of Flash Gordon,

you will want to subscribe at our website at Great Adventure. Info.

Well, now a little bit about Flash Gordon.

Flash Gordon was created by Alex Raymond and made his comic strip debut on January 7, 1934.

Flash was inspired by and was competition for another famous comic strip character, Buck Rogers.

I do want to say to any Buck Rogers fans out there, we are in no way

disrespecting Buck Rogers by having Flash Gordon be our first serial. It's a simple matter

of radio preservation with Flash Gordon offering a complete 26-episode story arc,

which is just sadly not available with Buck Rogers.

But don't worry, Buck Rogers fans, we will be doing Buck Rogers immediately afterwards.

But back to our hero, Flash Gordon, like Rogers, became a national sensation.

It was not only featured in the funny pages. Flash Gordon was a multimedia sensation. There were

three Flash Gordon film serials. And then there was all the merchandising.

Or as we call it today, the merch, the toys, the coloring books. And of course, there would be more.

...