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Defenders of the Earth(1986)

AnimationAction & Adventure
First Air Date: 1986-09-08
Average Runtime: 21m
Rating: 7.6
Votes: 95
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 65

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.

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Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

Episodes: 65
E01
Escape from Mongo

Air Date: 1986-09-08

30m

When Ming the Merciless leaves Mongo to invade Earth, his old enemy Flash Gordon and the latter's son, Rick, join for...

E02
The Creation of Monitor

Air Date: 1986-09-09

30m

Aided by Flash's Krell allies, the Defenders begin building their base. But Ming has learned of their existence and r...

E03
A Demon In His Pocket

Air Date: 1986-09-10

30m

Some boys try to pick a fight with Kshin so, rather than break the Defenders' Code of Honour, he reads up on summonin...

E04
A House Divided

Air Date: 1986-09-11

30m

When Africa suffers a sudden and unexplained climate change, the Phantom and Jedda head there to investigate. In the ...

E05
Bits and Chips

Air Date: 1986-09-12

30m

When the Defenders receive an invitation to pit Dynak-X against a chess-playing computer, they little suspect that it...

E06
The Root of Evil

Air Date: 1986-09-15

30m

Dr. Whitestead's plant food formula goes haywire--spilling on him and turning him into a plant! Ming seizes the scien...

E07
Cold War

Air Date: 1986-09-16

30m

Ming needs Rick Gordon's ring to complete a weather control machine, and having caught Flash in a battle, uses him as...

E08
The Sleeper Awakes

Air Date: 1986-09-17

30m

Eaons ago, a giant robot crash landed on Earth. Ming learns of The Annihilator, which now sleeps beneath Central City...

E09
The Revenge of Astra

Air Date: 1986-09-18

30m

The vengeful space princess Astra creates an army of clay soldiers. The daughter of Princess Aura, Astra is convinced...

E10
The Hall of Wisdom

Air Date: 1986-09-19

30m

The incredible Hall of Wisdom pays its-2000-year, 24-hour visit to the Galaxy. It's a once-in-a-lifetime chance for M...

E11
The Mind Warriors, Part I

Air Date: 1986-09-24

30m

Ming lures Kshin to Ice Station Earth by kidnapping Zuffy, then probes the dark side of Kshin's imagination to create...

E12
The Mind Warriors, Part II

Air Date: 1986-09-22

30m

The Defenders add a new twist to the Battle Simulation Room--a Thought-Transference Cap. It transmits the wearer's im...

E13
The Lost Jewels of Tibet

Air Date: 1986-09-23

30m

Ming is seeking the Jewels of Power, but a female archeologist named Atuskedero is also after them and travels to Tib...

E14
The Evil of Doctor Dark

Air Date: 1986-09-25

30m

Mandrake's old enemy, Damian Dark, and the latter's Psychic Warrior cohorts escape from jail and join forces with Min...

E15
Diamonds are Ming's Best Friends

Air Date: 1986-09-26

30m

Ming enlists the aid of the ruthless Beastmaster to create an army of Crystal Soldiers, beings grown from diamonds an...

E16
The Men of Frost

Air Date: 1986-09-29

30m

For Ming's plan to blanket the earth with a veneer of frost to be successful, the satellite requires the strength of ...

E17
Battleground

Air Date: 1986-09-30

30m

Ming's forces travel to the planet Grubor, where they use his freeze-ray weapon to capture six Cave Slugs- invincible...

E18
The Panther Peril

Air Date: 1986-10-01

30m

When the famous explorer Andrew Huxley encounters the wrath of Ming the Merciless while on expedition in Africa, he i...

E19
Fury of the Deep

Air Date: 1986-10-02

30m

Ming's attack on an oil platform, to capture a main computer containing the earth's entire energy network, is foiled ...

E20
Family Reunion

Air Date: 1986-10-03

30m

Ming captures the Phantom and Jedda as they return from the race against N'Dama (really the Phantom's brother Kurt Wa...

E21
The Defense Never Rests

Air Date: 1986-10-06

30m

The Defenders fly into space to investigate a mysterious comet and discover, too late to break from the tractor beams...

E22
Like Father, Like Daughter

Air Date: 1986-10-09

30m

Ming's estranged daughter, Aura, crash lands her ship on Monitor and informs the Defenders of her father's latest sch...

E23
The Would be Defender

Air Date: 1986-10-10

30m

At the dedication ceremony for a new courthouse built in honor of our heroes, 13 year-old Earl Sump, bespectacled and...

E24
Doorways into Darkness

Air Date: 1986-10-13

30m

Deep in Africa Ming locates an anti-energy source enabling him to open the Nightgiant Doorway and unleash 7-story tal...

E25
Deal With The Devil

Air Date: 1986-10-14

30m

While captives in Ming's jail, Rick and Jedda overhear Octon and Garax's plans to revolt against Ming. In exchange fo...

E26
Terror In Time

Air Date: 1986-10-15

30m

After retrieving a vat of deadly mutant slime from Ming's laboratory, six of the Defenders (LJ and Kshin do not appea...

E27
Ming's Household Helpers

Air Date: 1986-10-16

30m

The household helper robot, designed by Ming the Merciless in another of his evil schemes, is the hottest selling ite...

E28
The Starboy

Air Date: 1986-10-17

30m

While transporting Starchild, a child-like alien who has landed on earth, through the woods around Monitor, the young...

E29
The Gods Awake

Air Date: 1986-10-20

30m

When statues of ancient gods mysteriously come to life the Defenders are summoned to the Himalayas by Mandrake's old ...

E30
The Ghost Walks Again

Air Date: 1986-10-21

30m

When industrial tycoon/hypochondriac Kent Madden's plan to buy a magic health elixer from Partha, son of Chief Ajuna ...

E31
The Book of Mysteries

Air Date: 1986-10-20

30m

When a two-hundred square mile area of Morocco mysteriously disappears, the Defenders investigate- sans Kshin, who is...

E32
The Future Comes But Once

Air Date: 1986-10-21

30m

While engaging Ming's roboships in battle over the North African Desert, Flash discovers the remains of an ancient py...

E33
Kshin And The Ghost Ship

Air Date: 1986-10-22

30m

While on vacation in Jamaica with the Defenders, Kshin sees a ghost ship; however, no one believes him. Determined to...

E34
The Carnival of Dr. Kalihari

Air Date: 1986-10-23

30m

Dr. Kalihari's carnival is in town and the Defenders are on hand to see the show. What they don't know is that Dr. Ka...

E35
The Mystery of the Book

Air Date: 1986-10-24

30m

Dynak X picks up a bizarre energy transmission from Stonehenge prompting the elder Defenders to investigate. Kshin co...

E36
Flash Times Four

Air Date: 1986-10-27

30m

Ming knows that Flash Gordon is the only man alive who could effectively fly his state-of-the-art warplane The Scorpi...

E37
The Frozen Heart

Air Date: 1986-10-28

30m

Ming's forces kidnap LJ's girlfriend, Kate, turning her into a Frost Person, and have her trick LJ, Rick and Jedda in...

E38
Rick Gordon, One Man Army

Air Date: 1986-10-29

30m

Rick Gordon's new friend at Central City High ! Carlotta Vallejo- requires his help when Ming backs revolutionary for...

E39
The Rites of Zesnan

Air Date: 1986-10-30

30m

While trying to prove their individual prowess during an obstacle course competition, Rick, Jedda and L.J. get a bit ...

E40
Audie and Tweak

Air Date: 1986-10-31

30m

Ming's computer, Octon, has created the ultimate trap- Tycos, a machine designed by a machine, completely devoid of h...

E41
Return of the Skyband

Air Date: 1986-11-03

30m

When an ore transport ship in deep space is looted and notes are found announcing the RETURN OF THE SKY BAND, the Pha...

E42
Dracula's Potion

Air Date: 1986-11-04

30m

The Defenders set out for Transylvania to investigate the disappearance of John Harker, a young archeologist doing re...

E43
One of the Guys

Air Date: 1986-11-05

30m

Rick and L.J. accompany Kshin's class, which includes Marty, a wheelchair-bound boy, on a field trip to the Amazon wh...

E44
100 Proof Highway

Air Date: 1986-11-06

30m

At school, Jedda is invited to a party by Eric, who freely admits that, "Everything looks better with a little vodka"...

E45
The Time Freezer

Air Date: 1986-11-07

30m

The Defenders attend an inter-galactic science convention in Monaco which coincides with a junior magician's competit...

E46
The Prince Makes His Move (1)

Air Date: 1986-11-10

30m

Prince Kro-Tan reduces his father to nothing more than a microbe and seizes control of his empire, determined to conq...

E47
The Prince Triumphant (2)

Air Date: 1986-11-11

30m

Pursuing Kro-Tan to a small kingdom in india, Flash and Rick are astonished to find that Kro-Tan is revered as a bene...

E48
The Prince Weds (3)

Air Date: 1986-11-12

30m

Continuing his power play, Kro-Tan's next step is to secretly attach miniature, mind-controled explosives to the Defe...

E49
The Prince's Royal Hunt (4)

Air Date: 1986-11-13

30m

Locked in the prince's palace, Jedda uses her gift to communicate with animals as a means of escape before the weddin...

E50
The Prince Dethroned (5)

Air Date: 1986-11-14

30m

The witch who's aided Kro-Tan from the start manages to revive the original King of Mongo, and is revealed to be his ...

E51
Lothar's Homecoming

Air Date: 1986-11-17

30m

The Defenders accompany Lothar to his hometown in Jamaica, where the new children?s wing of a hospital will be dedica...

E52
Suspended Sabotage

Air Date: 1986-11-18

30m

While Rick and L.J. test out Rick's new invention- a wave interference device that scrambles any signal transmitted t...

E53
Call of the Eternals

Air Date: 1986-11-19

30m

Ming sends a look-alike Defender ship to provoke the Beacon of the Eternals- a computer operated ship searching for a...

E54
The Return of Doctor Dark

Air Date: 1986-11-20

30m

Ming sets out to rule the entire universe by stealing the first of the three shards of the Orb of Konos from the Yuca...

E55
The Deadliest Battle

Air Date: 1986-11-21

30m

Rick feels the pressure that results from his efforts to live up to Flash's reputation, and all aspects of Rick's lif...

E56
The Necklace of Oros

Air Date: 1986-11-24

30m

As part of Jedda's coming of age, the Phantom takes her to the Skull Cave to choose a gift from among the family trea...

E57
Torn Space

Air Date: 1986-11-25

30m

The fabric of the universe is weak and stretching under the stress of Graviton's bridge, and the evil alien must have...

E58
Ming Winter

Air Date: 1986-11-26

30m

Flash receives a distress call from Prince Barin, summoning him to Mongo to save the planet from Ming's evil son Kro-...

E59
The Golden Queen (1)

Air Date: 1986-11-26

30m

As Ming teams up with Queen Hadea of the Netherworld, elsewhere, Jedda suffers injury from an experiment intended to ...

E60
The Gravity of Ming (2)

Air Date: 1986-11-27

30m

Graviton discovers that the neckless Jedda's wearing is a fake, and Ming vows to punish Hadea. The Phantom escapes fr...

E61
Flesh and Blood

Air Date: 1986-12-01

30m

The Defenders must fight a fanatic cult calling themselves the ""Leauge of Flesh and Blood"" who are opposed to the e...

E62
Drowning World

Air Date: 1986-12-02

30m

Ming constructs a dam near the sea of Japan. This diverts the warm currents of the Japenease oceans towards the antar...

E63
The Adoption of Kshin

Air Date: 1986-12-03

30m

During the court proceedings of Mandrake's adoption of Kshin, Hai, an old Asian man, enters with proof that he Is the...

E64
Street Smarts

Air Date: 1986-12-04

30m

In battle simulation with Jedda, L.J. refuses to take part- he thinks it is only "kid stuff". Flash transports Morlag...

E65
Ming's Thunder Lizards

Air Date: 1986-12-05

30m

The Defenders fly to Alaska to inspect a dinosaur alert. While following dinosaur tracks, Rick and L.J. discover that...

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Top Cast

Lou Richards
Lou Richards
Flash Gordon (voice)
Peter Mark Richman
Peter Mark Richman
The Phantom / Kit Walker / 26th Phantom (voice)
Peter Renaday
Peter Renaday
Mandrake the Magician (voice)
Buster Jones
Buster Jones
Lothar (voice)
Ron Feinberg
Ron Feinberg
Ming the Merciless/Warlock (voice)
Loren Lester
Loren Lester
Rick Gordon / Young Kurt (voice)
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Sarah Partridge
Jedda Walker (voice)
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Dion Williams
L.J. (voice)
Adam Carl
Adam Carl
Kshin / Young Kit (voice)
Diane Pershing
Diane Pershing
Dynak X / Dale Arden (voice)
William Callaway
William Callaway
Octon / Garax (voice)
Hal Rayle
Hal Rayle
Prince Kro-Tan (voice)