Editing Flash Gordon (section)

==Radio serials and audio-dramas==
Starting April 22, 1935, the strip was adapted into ''The Amazing Interplanetary Adventures of Flash Gordon'', a 26-episode weekly radio serial.<ref name="mc" /> The series followed the strip very closely, amounting to a week-by-week adaptation of the Sunday strip for most of its run.

Flash Gordon was played by [[Gale Gordon]], later famous for his television roles in ''[[Our Miss Brooks]]'', ''[[Dennis the Menace (1959 TV series)|Dennis the Menace]]'', ''[[The Lucy Show]]'' and ''[[Here's Lucy]]'' (the latter two with [[Lucille Ball]]). The cast also included Maurice Franklin as Dr. Zarkov and Bruno Wick as Ming the Merciless.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.audio-classics.com/ltheamazinginterplanetary.html |title=Audio Classics Archive: The Amazing Interplanetary Adventures of Flash Gordon |publisher=Audio-classics.com |access-date=2010-12-14 |archive-date=2016-03-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306085901/http://www.audio-classics.com/ltheamazinginterplanetary.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

The radio series broke with the strip continuity in the last two episodes, when Flash, Dale and Zarkov returned to Earth. They make a crash landing in [[Malaysia]], where they meet [[Jungle Jim]], the star of another of Alex Raymond's comic strips.

The series ended on October 26, 1935, with Flash and Dale's marriage. The next week, ''The Adventures of Jungle Jim'' picked up in that Saturday timeslot.

Two days later, on October 28, ''The Further Interplanetary Adventures of Flash Gordon'' debuted as a daily show, running four<ref name=nyt>{{Cite web |url=http://www.jjonz.us/RadioLogs/ |title=Newspaper Radio Logs. At website, select New York Times, then Radio Pages for 1935 list the show aired Monday through Thursdays from October 28 1935 to February 6 1936. Also the shows themselves state it is a Monday through Thursday series. |access-date=2019-06-27 |archive-date=2019-06-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190630093007/http://www.jjonz.us/RadioLogs/ |url-status=live }}</ref> days a week. This series strayed further from Raymond's strip, involving Flash, Dale and Zarkov in an adventure in [[Atlantis]]. The series aired 60 episodes, ending on February 6, 1936.<ref name=nyt/><ref>"[http://www.otrsite.com/articles/artts013.html Radio Science Fiction: Information and Help to the New Collector] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013202328/http://www.otrsite.com/articles/artts013.html |date=2007-10-13 }}", by Terry G.G. Salmonson. Retrieved 09-11-07.</ref>

Twenty-six years after he had played Flash Gordon in the last of the three Universal film serials (1940), [[Buster Crabbe]] again played Flash for two newly recorded audio-dramas released as the 1966 LP, ''The Official Adventures Of Flash Gordon'' (MGM/Leo The Lion Records CH-1028).{{citation needed|date=July 2024}}