Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe: Volume One

All the episodes from the classic 1940s sci-fi movie serial starring Buster Crabbe as the eponymous Flash. Flash Gordon, Dale Arden (Carol Hughes) and Dr Zarkov (Frank Shannon) travel to the planet Mongo in the hope of dissuading Ming the Merciless (Charles Middleton) from experimenting any further with his deadly purple dust. Ming refuses to co-operate, and in the ensuing conflict Flash becomes separated from Dale and Zarkov, both of whom are captured and held prisoner on Mongo.

Ming tries to use Zarkov's scientific genius for his own purposes, but Zarkov rebels and creates a magnetic gun which could bring an end to Ming's cruel regime. Zarkov and a recently-returned Flash consequently find themselves victims of a bomb plot, which they escape only to come face-to-face with the rock people. Flash then tries to rescue Dale from Ming's evil clutches, while Zarkov attempts to uncover the secret of the deadly dust.

Meanwhile, Ming reveals that he has another diabolical means of destroying the Earth. The episodes are: 'The Purple Death', 'Freezing Torture', 'Walking Bombs', 'The Destroying Ray', 'The Palace of Horror', 'Flaming Death', 'The Land of the Dead', 'The Fiery Abyss', 'The Pool of Peril', 'The Death Mist', 'Stark Treachery' and 'Doom of the Dictator'.