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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Air Date: 1986-09-08
When Ming the Merciless leaves Mongo to invade Earth, his old enemy Flash Gordon and the latter's son, Rick, join for...
Air Date: 1986-09-09
Aided by Flash's Krell allies, the Defenders begin building their base. But Ming has learned of their existence and r...
Air Date: 1986-09-10
Some boys try to pick a fight with Kshin so, rather than break the Defenders' Code of Honour, he reads up on summonin...
Air Date: 1986-09-11
When Africa suffers a sudden and unexplained climate change, the Phantom and Jedda head there to investigate. In the ...
Air Date: 1986-09-12
When the Defenders receive an invitation to pit Dynak-X against a chess-playing computer, they little suspect that it...
Air Date: 1986-09-15
Dr. Whitestead's plant food formula goes haywire--spilling on him and turning him into a plant! Ming seizes the scien...
Air Date: 1986-09-16
Ming needs Rick Gordon's ring to complete a weather control machine, and having caught Flash in a battle, uses him as...
Air Date: 1986-09-17
Eaons ago, a giant robot crash landed on Earth. Ming learns of The Annihilator, which now sleeps beneath Central City...
Air Date: 1986-09-18
The vengeful space princess Astra creates an army of clay soldiers. The daughter of Princess Aura, Astra is convinced...
Air Date: 1986-09-19
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...
Air Date: 1986-09-24
Ming lures Kshin to Ice Station Earth by kidnapping Zuffy, then probes the dark side of Kshin's imagination to create...
Air Date: 1986-09-22
The Defenders add a new twist to the Battle Simulation Room--a Thought-Transference Cap. It transmits the wearer's im...
Air Date: 1986-09-23
Ming is seeking the Jewels of Power, but a female archeologist named Atuskedero is also after them and travels to Tib...
Air Date: 1986-09-25
Mandrake's old enemy, Damian Dark, and the latter's Psychic Warrior cohorts escape from jail and join forces with Min...
Air Date: 1986-09-26
Ming enlists the aid of the ruthless Beastmaster to create an army of Crystal Soldiers, beings grown from diamonds an...
Air Date: 1986-09-29
For Ming's plan to blanket the earth with a veneer of frost to be successful, the satellite requires the strength of ...
Air Date: 1986-09-30
Ming's forces travel to the planet Grubor, where they use his freeze-ray weapon to capture six Cave Slugs- invincible...
Air Date: 1986-10-01
When the famous explorer Andrew Huxley encounters the wrath of Ming the Merciless while on expedition in Africa, he i...
Air Date: 1986-10-02
Ming's attack on an oil platform, to capture a main computer containing the earth's entire energy network, is foiled ...
Air Date: 1986-10-03
Ming captures the Phantom and Jedda as they return from the race against N'Dama (really the Phantom's brother Kurt Wa...
Air Date: 1986-10-06
The Defenders fly into space to investigate a mysterious comet and discover, too late to break from the tractor beams...
Air Date: 1986-10-09
Ming's estranged daughter, Aura, crash lands her ship on Monitor and informs the Defenders of her father's latest sch...
Air Date: 1986-10-10
At the dedication ceremony for a new courthouse built in honor of our heroes, 13 year-old Earl Sump, bespectacled and...
Air Date: 1986-10-13
Deep in Africa Ming locates an anti-energy source enabling him to open the Nightgiant Doorway and unleash 7-story tal...
Air Date: 1986-10-14
While captives in Ming's jail, Rick and Jedda overhear Octon and Garax's plans to revolt against Ming. In exchange fo...
Air Date: 1986-10-15
After retrieving a vat of deadly mutant slime from Ming's laboratory, six of the Defenders (LJ and Kshin do not appea...
Air Date: 1986-10-16
The household helper robot, designed by Ming the Merciless in another of his evil schemes, is the hottest selling ite...
Air Date: 1986-10-17
While transporting Starchild, a child-like alien who has landed on earth, through the woods around Monitor, the young...
Air Date: 1986-10-20
When statues of ancient gods mysteriously come to life the Defenders are summoned to the Himalayas by Mandrake's old ...
Air Date: 1986-10-21
When industrial tycoon/hypochondriac Kent Madden's plan to buy a magic health elixer from Partha, son of Chief Ajuna ...
Air Date: 1986-10-20
When a two-hundred square mile area of Morocco mysteriously disappears, the Defenders investigate- sans Kshin, who is...
Air Date: 1986-10-21
While engaging Ming's roboships in battle over the North African Desert, Flash discovers the remains of an ancient py...
Air Date: 1986-10-22
While on vacation in Jamaica with the Defenders, Kshin sees a ghost ship; however, no one believes him. Determined to...
Air Date: 1986-10-23
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...
Air Date: 1986-10-24
Dynak X picks up a bizarre energy transmission from Stonehenge prompting the elder Defenders to investigate. Kshin co...
Air Date: 1986-10-27
Ming knows that Flash Gordon is the only man alive who could effectively fly his state-of-the-art warplane The Scorpi...
Air Date: 1986-10-28
Ming's forces kidnap LJ's girlfriend, Kate, turning her into a Frost Person, and have her trick LJ, Rick and Jedda in...
Air Date: 1986-10-29
Rick Gordon's new friend at Central City High ! Carlotta Vallejo- requires his help when Ming backs revolutionary for...
Air Date: 1986-10-30
While trying to prove their individual prowess during an obstacle course competition, Rick, Jedda and L.J. get a bit ...
Air Date: 1986-10-31
Ming's computer, Octon, has created the ultimate trap- Tycos, a machine designed by a machine, completely devoid of h...
Air Date: 1986-11-03
When an ore transport ship in deep space is looted and notes are found announcing the RETURN OF THE SKY BAND, the Pha...
Air Date: 1986-11-04
The Defenders set out for Transylvania to investigate the disappearance of John Harker, a young archeologist doing re...
Air Date: 1986-11-05
Rick and L.J. accompany Kshin's class, which includes Marty, a wheelchair-bound boy, on a field trip to the Amazon wh...
Air Date: 1986-11-06
At school, Jedda is invited to a party by Eric, who freely admits that, "Everything looks better with a little vodka"...
Air Date: 1986-11-07
The Defenders attend an inter-galactic science convention in Monaco which coincides with a junior magician's competit...
Air Date: 1986-11-10
Prince Kro-Tan reduces his father to nothing more than a microbe and seizes control of his empire, determined to conq...
Air Date: 1986-11-11
Pursuing Kro-Tan to a small kingdom in india, Flash and Rick are astonished to find that Kro-Tan is revered as a bene...
Air Date: 1986-11-12
Continuing his power play, Kro-Tan's next step is to secretly attach miniature, mind-controled explosives to the Defe...
Air Date: 1986-11-13
Locked in the prince's palace, Jedda uses her gift to communicate with animals as a means of escape before the weddin...
Air Date: 1986-11-14
The witch who's aided Kro-Tan from the start manages to revive the original King of Mongo, and is revealed to be his ...
Air Date: 1986-11-17
The Defenders accompany Lothar to his hometown in Jamaica, where the new children?s wing of a hospital will be dedica...
Air Date: 1986-11-18
While Rick and L.J. test out Rick's new invention- a wave interference device that scrambles any signal transmitted t...
Air Date: 1986-11-19
Ming sends a look-alike Defender ship to provoke the Beacon of the Eternals- a computer operated ship searching for a...
Air Date: 1986-11-20
Ming sets out to rule the entire universe by stealing the first of the three shards of the Orb of Konos from the Yuca...
Air Date: 1986-11-21
Rick feels the pressure that results from his efforts to live up to Flash's reputation, and all aspects of Rick's lif...
Air Date: 1986-11-24
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...
Air Date: 1986-11-25
The fabric of the universe is weak and stretching under the stress of Graviton's bridge, and the evil alien must have...
Air Date: 1986-11-26
Flash receives a distress call from Prince Barin, summoning him to Mongo to save the planet from Ming's evil son Kro-...
Air Date: 1986-11-26
As Ming teams up with Queen Hadea of the Netherworld, elsewhere, Jedda suffers injury from an experiment intended to ...
Air Date: 1986-11-27
Graviton discovers that the neckless Jedda's wearing is a fake, and Ming vows to punish Hadea. The Phantom escapes fr...
Air Date: 1986-12-01
The Defenders must fight a fanatic cult calling themselves the ""Leauge of Flesh and Blood"" who are opposed to the e...
Air Date: 1986-12-02
Ming constructs a dam near the sea of Japan. This diverts the warm currents of the Japenease oceans towards the antar...
Air Date: 1986-12-03
During the court proceedings of Mandrake's adoption of Kshin, Hai, an old Asian man, enters with proof that he Is the...
Air Date: 1986-12-04
In battle simulation with Jedda, L.J. refuses to take part- he thinks it is only "kid stuff". Flash transports Morlag...
Air Date: 1986-12-05
The Defenders fly to Alaska to inspect a dinosaur alert. While following dinosaur tracks, Rick and L.J. discover that...