Flash Gordon to Hit SciFi in August

All I can say is that it has got to be better than ‘Buck Rogers’ was in the ’70s. I remember my father showing my copies of the comic strip from the 1930′s and was quite looking forward to the TV series. What showed up on the family TV was not what I had expected. Ok, I liked it but I was only seven. What did I know back then.
I do remember the Flash Gordon cartoon series that was in the Saturday morning line up. That was pretty good, I liked the idea of the the planet Mongo marauding around the galaxy plundering and conquering as they went. It stared off well but started to take on the suckage as they dumbed it down and tried to make it funny.

The 22-hour series, a contemporary take on the popular comic strip franchise, is slated for an August premiere. It will feature Johnson (Smallvill) as space traveler Flash Gordon embarking on all-new adventures.

Info about the series has been a bit thin. I found a press release about the production and a tiny remark that the sets for the planet Mongo are going to be redressed sets from the upcoming TV series ‘Tin Man’. ‘Tin Man‘ is a re-imagining of the ‘Wizard of Oz’. I’m not even going to go there, I never fully recovered from a bout of ‘The Wiz‘.

Johnson rockets with Sci Fi ‘Flash’