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1 "The Case of the Cunningham Heritage"
In which Dr John Watson, returning from Afghanistan, first meets the "rather strange" Sherlock Holmes. An old friend Lord Stamford (Rowland Bartrop) at his London club mentions to Dr W that SH is also seeking lodgings. So, with the possibility for sharing a flat, Dr W goes to SH's chemical laboratory to learn to his surprise that SH somehow knows who he is.
221B Baker Street is the flat they rent, and Dr W soons becomes amazed at "the man's fantastic powers of perception. But his knowledge of literature- nothing... politics- disinterested. Botany- he knows everything there was to know about poison and absolutely nothing about practical garden. Chemistry- profound. Sensational literature"- yes he's well versed in that.
After this long but interesting introduction to the main characters, the first case begins when we also meet a baffled Inspector Lestrade who is typically "completely stuck," not for the last time, as a mother finds her daughter-in-law Joan (Ursula Howells) holding the knife which has killed her rich husband Peter. "You're completely stymied," observes SH to poor Inspector L, though frankly, it needs no deduction to notice that! The problem is L can find no motive for Joan killing her husband. But when it's shown she inherits everything, L makes a swift arrest.
In a simple case, SH breaks into the house with a sceptical Dr W and Ralph, Peter's brother, oddly boasts about his blackmailing Peter because he knew Joan was a "jailbird." It's Dr W who seizes Ralph's gun, and Inspector L has to admit he's arrested the wrong person.
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2 "The Case of Lady Beryl"
This story follows on from the last, in that newspapers are praising Inspector Lestrade for his handling of the Cunningham Case. This has aroused Dr Watson's ire, and he marches angrily into L's office, only to find that the policeman concurs with DrW's view, admitting it is Holmes who should have received all the credit. Not that SH cares at all. He's too busy experimenting with poisons.
News reaches the Yard of a murder at the home of Lord Beryl (Peter Copley). Karl Oberstein, a shadowy foreign agent, has been found dead in the study, and Lady Beryl (Paulette Goddard) has admitted to shooting him. Special music as cameras close in on the famous actress.
When SH is told about it, he only pauses in his experimentation, to wonder why she has lied. DrW and Inspector L look bemused. SH pulls apart their logic and shows them she must be shielding her husband. When they interrogate her in her cell she "prefers not to explain her actions," but nevertheless, on SH's word, she's released.
What can SH learn at the scene of the crime? Even though it has now been "tidied up" he finds an elusive clue. He questions the secretary Ross (Duncan Elliott), who had discovered the corpse, about exactly where it had been found, and Lady Beryl shows her position as she killed Oberstein. Then a trick question traps the killer. "I don't understand this, Mr Holmes," who patiently explains the death had been the result of a plot to sell state secrets. Lady Beryl had assumed her husband had been to blame.
"Brilliant," declares an admiring DrW, "absolutely brilliant." Inspector L returns from a fool's errand SH had sent him on, to find the case solved.
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3 "The Case of The Pennsylvania Gun"
Burleston Manor Sussex, according to Dr Watson's encyclopedic knowledge of railway timetables, nearly four hours from London! There, Squire John Douglas is murdered, found in his study, his head blown off.
Taking his fishing equipment, SH and DrW travel there when Inspector MacLeod (Russel Waters) calls the great detective in.
This "sealed fortress," is a peaceful spot, "when the moat is up" (sic!), and it was then that Douglas was killed with a sawn-off shotgun. The only people inside apart from servants were Mrs Douglas and a foreign friend John Morelle, who's the obvious suspect. Both he and Douglas have VV341 tattooed on their wrists, a registration mark for their gold claim they'd made with a third party, who since went mad.
Macleod wants to arrest Morelle, but in his slow way, he realises he has not yet got enough evidence. "Cherchez la woman" is the motive he's pursuing. SH however is more interested in the fact that there is only one dumbell in the room. Does that matter? Macleod and DrW can't see it does, so SH pursues his own line, fishing that is, in that remarkable moat. Find the man who took the dumbell, is his parting advice.
In the moat he has fished, and to celebrate, he slides down the banisters. Drain the moat he orders Inspector MacLeod, who baulks at such an impossible task. But this is but a ruse to get the killer to fish out of the moat his sunken evidence, a heap of clothes, weighted down by that missing dumbell.
It's Morelle, and now MacLeod can make his arrest. Ah, but it isn't that simple. The dead man was not actually Douglas but the missing member of the gold syndicate.
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4 "The Case of the Texas Cowgirl"
Arriving in a covered wagon with her pal Slim, is Minnie O'Malley (Lucille Vines) "a-lookin' Mr Sherlock Holmes." (Must be made for the American market!)
"Howdy doc," is her firm greeting to Dr Watson. She wants SH's help 'cos there's a body dead in her hotel room, killed with a tomahawk (what else?!) that belongs to Minnie. The hombre must be got out of her room "pronto."
"Is that his name?" queries the green DrW, one of several jokes on Anglo-American language differences. Minnie don't want her fiance, the Earl of Warcesster (Worcester) to hear of any possible scandal.
The corpse is a 30 year old man, according to DrW, a vengeance killing it seems. Skeleton keys on his person suggest he's a burglar. Using the keys to good advantage, and despite Dr W's protestations, SH hides the body in a neighbouring room. "Relax, doc, leave it to Sherlock," Minnie advises.
Page boy Tommy tells SH he'd seen a hand in the room turning a knob on a bedpost.
Enter Inspector Lestrade, baffled by the tomahawk. The body is of Sly Sam and it's now in the room of Mr Honeywell, a salesman. What DrW can't understand is why SH has planted the tomahawk by the dead man, when it might well lead L to Minnie. "Grab air," shouts Minnie when the pair return to Baker Street, which being translated is, Hands Up. She too's annoyed, that the tomahawk has been put by the corpse. "Any last wishes Sherlock?"
SH is able to reassure her that the tomahwak in question isn't hers, but another, hidden away by the murderer. "Someone's tryin' to frame me," she realises.
Chief Running Water is the owner of this second tomahawk. "How," is his well worn opening line. But he no speak English, or even American, though he takes an uncanny interest in L's bald pate. But good old Sgt Wilkins is able to translate the chief's words- the tomahawk really belongs to the owner of Minnie's wild west show, Bison Jack.
"Ain't mine," is his terse response.
SH is able to solve the case when he proves the motive for the killing was the theft of jewellery in the hotel. It's now hidden in the bedpost. The killer makes a run for it, but the alert DrW rounds him up with a neat swing of Minnie's lasso. "You could really twirl that rope, doc."
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5 "The Case of the Belligerent Ghost"
It's "absolutely fantastic" but Dr Watson has been given a black eye. And who punched him? A ghost! Sherlock listens as Watson pours out his sorry story. He'd been helping a man who'd had a heart attack whilst walking in the street. Dr W had carried Albert Higgins back to his digs at 19 Hooper Street, but on arrival, Albert was dead. After a pint to steady his nerves, Dr W been walking along Spender Street when he'd bumped into a man- it was Higgins! That's when he'd received his black eye.
SH examines Higgins' room. Landlady Mrs Blake is most distressed. Higgins' corpse is there at the morgue- "he's punched his last punch!" Paint under his fingernails might be a clue. He worked at the Pembroke Picture Museum, finishing work each day at 9pm. Which is odd, as Dr W is certain it was soon after 8pm that he died.
From Inspector Lestrade, SH's learns that 'Pound Note' Higgins was one of the best counterfeiters around.
That evening Dr W gets another shock in Spender Street- there's Higgins again, and this time he pulls Dr W's nose!
To SH it's now "quite obvious" that Leonardo's Moonlight Madonna, on exhibition at the museum, loaned by the Italian government, has been stolen. Inspector L doesn't seem convinced, especially when he wakes up the curator, who confirms the painting is still in its proper place. But SH's close inspection shows that it is a forgery!
Later SH and Dr W break into the museum and SH starts ripping a painting up, to Dr W's consternation. But behind is the missing Moonlight Madonna. The curator interrupts them and accusing them of robbery, soon finds himself shown up as the thief. SH explains all, even to the extent of admitting he had pulled poor Dr W's "leg," or rather his nose
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6 "The Case of the Shy Ballerina"
SH's violin playing is getting on DrW's nerves, so they decide to go for a walk. But DrW discovers he has someone else's coat, but whose is it? In a pocket is a cryptic note Twelves Heros with Broken Feet. Written by a woman observes SH, but it appears to be nonsense.
The coat's owner solves part of the mystery by returning DrW's coat and then dashing off, taking DrW's bowler hat by mistake. So DrW has to go to the man's house to return the hat. Mrs Chelton explains her husband is out and solicits SH's help: "My husband is being blackmailed." Whilst in St Petersberg he had "inadvertently" passed some military secrets to a ballerina Olga Yaclanov (Martine Alexis), who is now in London and demanding £5,000. SH promises to assist.
Then, at dead of night, SH and DrW are awoken by Inspector Lestrade who has come to arrest DrW! His hat has been discovered by the corpse of the Hon Harry Chelton in St James Park! "This is a fine example of British justice," snorts the frustrated doctor.
At the park, SH inspects the scene of the crime. He elucidates the mysterious note DrW had found.
Twelve is the time: midnight. Heros is really Eros, the statue in this park, and it has broken feet too.
Swiftly they move to arrest the ballerina who agrees she had arranged to meet Chelton, but has that familiar excuse, she'd arrived to find him dead. The director of her ballet Serge Smernoff defends her vociferously. The meeting had been about her refusal to perform Chelton's balletic composition The Spider's Web. "Foreigners! Women! Nobody could be logical about them," fumes L, "not even Sherlock Holmes."
But the great detective has it all in hand. He exposes the lies that have been told, to L's increasing bemusement, and produces the evidence. "Who are you accusing of murder, Holmes?" begs poor L. "Are you sure this time?!"
Third arrest lucky. A rather muddled story, at times attempting some silent film-type melodrama, Eugene Deckers as Smernoff definitely over the top
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As SH mulls over the Dietrich case, Harvey Winthrop (Ivan Desny) seeks the great man's aid. Harvey's elder brother John (Peter Copley) is heir to the family fortune, but if he dies, Harvey inherits, and "his life has been threatened." Threatened in an unusual way, for the family legend states that pieces of eight presages death, and gold dubloons imminent death. That has happened to John, and their father suffered the same fate when he fell down the stairs at Winthrop Manor thirty years ago. Since then the place has been empty, but now John is going there for a kind of reunion.
SH and DrW with Harvey and his fiance Margaret Hall reach the draughty manor house, amid thunder and lightning. John is there with Alice his blind wife (Meg Lemmonier). Harvey explains to SH that she won't inherit if John does die.
"I don't like it Holmes." A scream, and there at the foot of the stairs is John, his neck broken. A gold dubloon lies at his side.
Fact: Harvey and Alice were at the top of the stairs at the time! It seems SH has lost his marbles as he performs "acrobatics." It's to test his theory that if John really had fallen, buttons from his clothing would surely have been ripped off. Thus SH accuses Miss Hall, who had been downstairs at the time. How to prove she is guilty? It looks more like entrapment as he persuades Harvey to tell her he's breaking off their engagement. She jumps to the conclusion it's because he still loves Alice. SH, who has been eavesdropping, breaks in to explain how she killed John. "No court would convict me," she confidently proclaims.
So does the murderess walk free? No, for as the thunder claps and lightning flashes she falls down the stairs to her fate.
Note- Inspector Lestrade absent.
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8 "The Case of Blind Man's Bluff"
A jolly sing-song in a pub turns ugly when a sailor argues with a Cockney barmaid over a mysterious claw. "Maybe I need some air," cries Faraday (Gregoire Aslan in a tiny role) before he is stabbed in an alleyway.
Dr W is enjoying his bath when he's interrupted by a bearded Cockney- it takes him quite a while to penetrate Holmes' disguise! Inspector Lestrade prevents the pair arguing, having casually popped in to sound out SH's thoughts on the Faraday murder. The chicken claw bound with a black ribbon is puzzling L, as a similar object had been found beside the corpse of Howard Shackle. SH is able to enlighten the ignorant policeman that this is a warning of death in Trinidad.
Next recipient of The Claw is a Dr Jonas (Colin Drake- billed as "Docteur Jonas") but he claims to have no connection with the previous murders, nor with Trinidad either. Remarks poor L: "this thing doesn't make sense." He's unimpressed with SH who is still convinced of the link with Trinidad.
Dr Jonas' next patient is a man in dark glasses (Eugene Deckers) who reminds Jonas they had met five years ago when Jonas was doctor on the ship Gloria North. "You could have tried to stop it," warns the man in dark glasses. That's the end of Jonas.
By delving into the hospital records, SH discovers this connection. Further, Shackle had been chief officer, and Faraday a sailor on the Gloria North. The captain was named Pitt, and Holmes surmises he will be the next victim! Yes, he's just received his Claw. There he sits in his chair, awaiting his fate.
SH knocks at his door, to be greeted by the man in dark glasses, Vickers. After a long chat, SH can prove that Vickers is not in fact blind, he is indeed the killer. Vickers reveals his motive- the ship was being used to smuggle "natives from Trinidad to England." Perhaps the scriptwriters were unaware that slaving had long been abolished. Vickers' wife was a native, as was his child, and they were on board in chains, when the captain, alerted to possible danger, had had to push his passengers overboard. Before Vickers can kill SH also, Inspector L breaks in to arrest the murderer, in a wordless finale
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9 "The Case of The Harry Crocker"
Escape artist Harry is in "dead trouble," accused of
murdering stage-struck chorus girl Sally King. The case against him is strong
enough to convince Inspector Lestrade, since he had had an argument with her and
her locket is found in his possession.
"Poor Harry, why did you murder her?" is
the common view. But SH proves he didn't, thanks to some dubious evidence
against the doorman Charlie Villiers (Harry Towb, here as Harris Towb).
Here's a story full of entertaining moments, with Eugene Deckers who calls
himself at first Harry "Croker" seriously overacting, and as a true
escapologist persistently eluding Lestrade's handcuffs who thus becomes more and
more Lestradish.
At the music hall Dr Watson enjoys a few winks with the chorus
girls in a characterisation and plot that would surely have given Conan Doyle a
heart attack had he lived to see it. Nevertheless it's somehow outrageously fun
and ends with SH successful in emulating Crocker's baffling vanishing act.
To
add to the mystery, the opening and closing music is slightly different to that
used for the remainder of the series.
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10 The Mother Hubbard Case
Poor little Frances is lost, so a kind stranger escorts her home.
This is a "complex" case, for he's the eighth man to have "evaporated from the face of London" recently. He was Richard Trevor, and his fiancee Margaret (Delphine Seyrig) and her father ask SH to find her intended. Only clue, a note he'd sent her stating he had been "detained because he'd run into a little girl that was lost."
Last seen at his gentleman's club, SH traces the carriage that had picked him and the girl up. They'd been dropped off at an empty house. Despite Dr W's protestations, SH breaks in, in quest of a clue. He certainly finds one, in the shape of Trevor's corpse. He'd died from an overdose of strychnine and had been robbed.
Now they're off to Brighton to meet RJ Cookson (Billy Beck), owner of the empty house. Who knew he was away from town and had a key? The old charwoman, but "she wouldn't hurt a fly." 322 Radcliffe Way is where she lives with her granddaughter. By an amazing stroke of good fortune, SH and DrW overhear her rehearsing her ward for their next job.
Thus SH is able to pose as their next victim when Frances takes her to another empty home. There's he's thanked by her grateful grandmother Mrs Enid (Amy Dalby), who offers SH a glass of milk and some fudge. SH smiles at her: "smells very good." Before she can poison him also, Inspector Lestrade marches in to arrest her.
"I needed the money for the child," is her simple explanation.
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11 "The Case of the Red Headed League"
Well, here's a genuine Conan Doyle tale. It starts with SH examining the theory of 'gun-prints' which drives poor DrW into a bit of a lather when SH starts firing his revolver. The badinage turns to near tragedy, when a body is found slumped at their door. Not quite dead, but frightened by the shots. Mr Wilson (Alexander Gauge) has a mystery for the great detective to solve.
"To the Red Headed League" a newspaper ad reads, 11am Monday, applicants for a vacancy should appear at this time. Vincent Spaulding (Eugene Deckers), Wilson's assistant in his shop, encourages his flame-red headed boss to go along. Philanthropist Hezekiah Hopkins, an American millionaire, had left money in his will exclusively for red heads.
"I've never seen anything like it," declares Duncan Ross (Colin Drake) when he examines Wilson's head of hair. He gets the "position," which is to copy an encyclopedia, word for word from 10am to 2pm daily in Ross' office. Starting at 'Aachen,' Wilson industriously sets about his task, being paid four sovereigns each week. After eight weeks, he arrives at the office to read the note 'The Red Headed League is Dissolved.' No sign of Ross. Mr Wilson asks SH to investigate.
To keep his investigations secret, SH tells Wilson he is not interested. Exit one very dissatisfied client.
SH poses two rather obvious Whys?
First, "Why was the League formed?" Obvious answer- to keep Wilson away from his shop each day.
Second, But Why? That's the puzzle.
Off to the shop where, down in the cellar, they find Spaulding. Whilst DrW distracts him, SH snoops around.
The answer is to second problem is now evident- The Westminster County Bank is Spaulding's target. Or, as it is later described, the "Royal Westminter Bank." The vaults there are "impregnable" according to its manager.
With Inspector Lestrade, SH waits. Through a wall break our robbers, Spaulding and Ross: "your bankrobbing days are over," L informs them. Thanks are rendered from the grateful manager.
Thanks too later from a jovial L. He's rather entertained by the fact that Wilson has complained about the way SH had treated him
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12 "The Case of The Shoeless Engineer" -
A tranquil day in the country for SH and DrW is interrupted by an exhausted barefoot man, carrying a young lady. "Help me, they may be coming," he cries. In a deep state of shock, according to Dr W's observations, the mute girl is carried all the way back to Baker Street, the distraught man Haterly (David Oxley) accompanying them.
He recounts his ordeal. As an hydraulics engineer, he'd been engaged by Col Stark (Richard Warner) to repair a large hydraulic press. In the colonel's house, Haterly had encountered the mute girl: "beauty and fear were sharp in her face." Bruno Carreau, her guardian, also lives in the house.
By signs, the girl tries to make Haterly leave. But the £50 fee is sufficient inducement to stay. He realises the press is to make silver amalgam, despite the colonel's claims to the contrary. So that night he reexamines the press. The mute watches as Stark, angry at his secret being discovered, locks Haterly inside the giant press. Like a medieval torture, it threatens to turn him to pulp. Rescue comes via the girl. Together they elude first Carreau with a dagger, then Stark with his gun.
The shock has thankfully now stirred speech in the girl. She's called Ruth Connors (June Elliott) and she explains Colonel Stark had shot a previous engineer. She'd attempted to contact the police but couldn't speak!
There's only a few minutes left of the film for Inspector Lestrade to effect his arrest. But he finds Stark dead and Carreau has flown. All SH has to do is show L where the counterfeit money is hidden, which is where the wicked Carreau is hiding. This he does by simply tapping the floor- a hollow sound gives away the hiding place. A punch up and Carreau is taken into custody, but you couldn't say SH's intellect is stretched at all in this routine adventure
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13 "The Case of The Split Ticket" -
"Desperate. Will be back in an hour. Brian O'Casey," reads a note shoved under SH's door.
This Brian (Harris Towb) asks SH to find a Mr Snow. £8,000 is at stake. Snow holds numbers 3 and 4 of their sweepstake ticket.
Brian relates his whole sorry tale. He'd been approached by Belle Rogers in a baker's shop. Her friend Albert Snow had persuaded him to take a third share in a £24,000 sweep, with their number 16634. They had torn their ticket in three and now Snow has disappeared! (They'd also invested in a horse race, but this subplot isn't mentioned further.)
SH is unable to talk to Miss Rogers as she has "gone" from her baker's shop, taking a white cake with her. SH had expected all this, naturally.
But then she comes to Brian, with the tragic news that Arthur has been drowned in the river. His ticket is lost at the bottom of the river. She sadly tears up her portion of the ticket, and asks Brian to give her his part, to throw into the fire.
SH however has been practising legerdemain and has swapped her portion and Brian's for duplicates. He explains the white cake had been for her wedding to Snow. By their trickery they had planned to get hold of the complete sweepstake ticket, only to be outswindled by SH's palming the pieces himself.
Note- Though Inspector Lestrade gets a passing mention, he is not in this odd story
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14 "The Case of The French Interpreter" -
Start- a filmed sequence outside the House of Commons as Dr W hurries to the St Denis Club. Comedy, as it's supposed to be a silent place, but DrW has to fetch SH urgently. Complains a member: "I don't believe such an incident ever occurred before!"
DrW explains a Claude Dubec has an urgent case. "Perhaps it was a nightmare," Dubec muses as he recounts how he'd been approached late one night in his role as an interpreter, by a Harold Lattimer (Robert Cunningham). He'd been driven to a secret location to be ordered to interrogate, in French, a French gentleman. But the poor man is tied up in a chair. Question: Will he sign the papers? Answer: Never. After repeated refusals Dubec asks the prisoner some questions of his own, and learns the chap is called Paul. Can SH help?
Now it's SH's turn to ask some questions. "I have all the facts at my disposal," he announces after consulting maps. Confident, he picks up Inspector Lestrade at the Yard and makes for the mystery house.
Paul is asking for food, Dubec translating his words. Finally the weakened Paul agrees to sign. Just in time SH's carriage draws up. Gunshots and an arrest. The sorry tale is just about explained.
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Flash Gordon (1954/5)
- Made in West Berlin, Steve Holland starred in this low budget, low thrills series of 39 dark stories.
1 The Planet of Death - "You'll murder every man you send to Tarsis." The curse of Belphegor falls on anyone landing on this dead planet. But as "the defence of the galaxy" depends on gravitational experiments being conducted there, our brave Mr Flash must travel to this Planet of Death
8 The Breath of Death - Flash and Dale zoom in the Skyflash to prison planet Gemini to patch up an oxygen purifier. "One of the worst criminals in the universe," No 34, escapes and stows aboard for the return trip. While Ground Control are forced to consider blowing up Skyflash, Flash is compelled to land on a poisonous planet where he and 34 have to hold their breath. A fight. Flash, naturally, has the bigger lungs, and "disintegrator guns" just save Skyflash from annihilation. "Thank heaven!"
10 Return of the Androids -
Flash and his buddies hold the secrets of how the robots known as Androids used to be made. Forcing Flash to reveal all will enable an evil Queen take over (shock horror) the galaxy! "Androids - destroy. Attack GBI headquarters!"
17 The Lure of Light -
"Can a human being survive at a speed faster than the speed of light?"
Evil Queen Credentia wants that secret in order to go back in time to
reverse the result of the war she lost, and thus become Queen of the
Universe. But it's Flash who braves that epic first journey, thwarting
her wicked plan
19 Race Against Time - A ray machine forces Flash to make an emergency landing on Planet Epsilon 30. Waiting are three criminals, who act more like the Three Stooges
21 The Brain Machine - Cmdr Richards and Dr Zarkov cause an explosion on Neptune. Flash clears their names by exposing the Witch of Neptune and her fiendish "brain recorder" which is able to "make every living human bend to her will." Richards and Zarkov end up as dummies (OK, so they always were) as the Witch flees with their secrets. (to be continued)
22 Struggle to the End (part 2) -
An electronic memory file holds the secrets of what Dr Zarkov and Cmdr Richards once knew: "their mind's a complete blank!" Learning the secret of matter transference, Flash swears to catch the "mad witch of Neptune" before she rules the galaxy: "I have made the greatest conquest of all"
24 Saboteurs from Space - Flash's craft is "sucked thru space into a trap" whilst machines on Earth are paralysed by an "electronic distorter." But good old Flash foils the attempt to kidnap top scientists
25 The Forbidden Experiment -
Electrosillion is wanted on a remote planet by an old colleague of Dr Zarkov,
but it's a trap and he's captured by a growling fiend known as The Lion Man. Flash to
the rescue, but with all the animals in the jungle at Lion Man's disposal, surely Flash
can't succeed?
36 Deadline at Noon -
Isis, Osiris and other planets are blown up by an enemy that "has sworn
eternal war against the Earth," where an early intimation of Climate
Change is the result of a bomb being placed way back in 1953 by the
evil planet's representative, who speaks, unsurprisingly, with a German
accent. "In one hour, your precious earth explodes," he warns. Dr
Zarkov's time machine leads Flash to, where else?, Berlin ("the
inhabitants may be hostile") and there's a long chase sequence set
around the rubble of West Berlin. With a mere two secs to go the bomb
is defused
39 The Subworld Revenge - 1,500 miles inside the earth's core, the evil Zaldo plans to fire his deadly machine that'll turn the earth into a ball of fire. Flash is caught by Zaldo's magnetic field- "poor Flash... and soon it'll be poor us!"
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