Flash Gordon

The Adventures of Flash Gordon was a 26-episode radio serial adapting the comic strip of Flash Gordon. Recorded in New York and transcribed for broadcast on West Coast stations, the program aired from April 27 to October 26, 1935 over the Mutual Broadcasting System. As was common with radio serials, each installment was 15 minutes.

The final installment had Flash Gordon, Dale Arden and Dr. Hans Zarkov landing in a jungle, where they encounter another Hearst comics character, Jungle Jim (played by Matt Crowley), thus transitioning into Jungle Jim as the replacement series.

The first four episodes run through the first year of the comic strip story very quickly, in order to catch up to the current story. The first episode breezes through the first ten weeks of the strip, and a long narration at the beginning of episode 2 covers the next five weeks "off-screen", finishing the first storyline, "On the Planet Mongo". The rest of episode 2 covers the first eight weeks of the next storyline, "The Monsters of Mongo".

By Episode 5, the radio series has caught up with the current storyline, "The Witch Queen of Mongo", and begins to follow the comic week-by-week.