"Adventure in Arboria" is the seventh episode in the first season of the 1979 animated series The New Adventures of Flash Gordon. It aired on November 3, 1979.
Overview
Flash and his friends arrive in Arboria and are greeted by a huge swarm of flying, poisonous squirlons. Dr. Zarkov is bitten by a squirlon as the party swings through the tree forests in an attempt to escape the airborne rodents. Prince Barin, Thun, and Vultan are reunited with Flash and his friends and all undergo the unknown dangers of the deep caverns, the river dragons and Ming's metalmen's attack before they finally find the rare antidote that saves Dr. Zarkov from the near-fatal squirlon wound.
Synopsis
Cast
- Robert Ridgely - Flash Gordon
- Alan Oppenheimer - Ming the Merciless
- Diane Pershing - Dale Arden
- Allan Melvin - Thun
- Melendy Britt - Princess Aura
- Norm Prescott - Narrator
Quotes
- Princess Aura: Return to Arboria, Flash Gordon. But we shall meet again. I promise that nothing on Mongo will keep you from me.
- Dale Arden: Those robots are rotten swimmers!
- Thun: Well, friend, we're in need of one of your bursts of brilliance.
- Thun: Looks peaceful enough...
Flash Gordon: Looks can be deceiving, Thun.
Thun: Another Earth saying?
Dale Arden: Flash, you're well on your way to becoming Mongo's Confucius. - Dale Arden: I'm afraid we're at the end of our rope. We've run out of trees.
Flash Gordon: We're not licked yet! - Dale Arden: You must have been some boy scout when you were a kid.
Flash Gordon: Don't be scared.
Dale Arden: With you, Flash? Never.
Trivia
- Filmation's stock rotoscope footage from "Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle" of characters swinging through the trees was utilized in this episode.