Editing Flash Gordon (section)

===''Defenders of the Earth'' (1986)===
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In the 1986 cartoon ''[[Defenders of the Earth]]'', Flash teamed up with fellow [[King Features]] heroes [[Phantom (comics)|The Phantom]] and [[Mandrake the Magician]] in 65 episodes. This series took extreme liberties with all the characters, revealing that Flash and Dale Arden had conceived a son, Rick Gordon, who is in his mid-teens when the series begins. Dale has her mind torn from her body by Ming in the first episode and is preserved in a crystal, which Rick is able to recover and give to his father. Dale is reborn on Earth as Dynak-X, the strategic super-computer based in the Defenders' Headquarters.