Defenders of the Earth

Defenders of the Earth - The Savior of the Earth is an American animated television series from the year 1985 in Germany it was the early 90s to the private channel Tele 5.

Action

The series is science fiction hero Flash Gordon and Lee Falk's is a group of famous heroes, consisting of Alex Raymond's comic characters Mandrake the Magician, jungle hero Phantom and Lothar, Mandrake's assistant and the strongest man in the world. Together they fight against the evil ruler Ming, the classic Flash Gordon's opponent, who tried in 2015 to conquer the earth.

To appeal to the target group of children, the newly created force was complemented with a new, youthful hero generation. This consists of Flash's son Rick Gordon, son of Lothar Lothar Junior ( mostly short " LJ "), and the daughter of the phantom Jedda Walker and the orphan K'shin around which Mandrake care. Added to this was K'shins Alien Pet Zuffy the Zuffoide.

Between the original comic characters and their likenesses series there are some differences. Lothar, who originally appeared only as Mandrake's servant in the comics, was expanded to an independent adventurer figure. Mandrake, which has especially hypnotic powers in the comic, was now equipped with powerful magic forces. And villain Ming, who was originally uniquely Asian type, has now shown with green skin color in order to avoid the stereotype of the evil Asians.

Characters

The savior of the earth

The alien invaders

Production and publication

The series was created as a collaboration between King Features ( the license holder of the newspaper strips, from which the characters came from ) and the animation studio Marvel Productions. Author of the series was Alan Swayze, supported by Allan Cole. It was the first attempt by King Features to let a group of their comic characters embark on adventures together ( such as DC Comics ' Justice League of America ).

The first broadcast of the pilot episode " Escape from Mongo " was held on September 8, 1986 in the United States. Actually, the series had already been produced in 1985, but since there was no time slot for another series available, they had to be postponed. A total of 64 episodes of 30 minutes each were broadcast, a second season was not produced.

" - The Savior of the Earth Defenders" on the private TV station Tele 5 in Germany sent the series was the late 80s under the title. This is the series today many young adults in Germany in memory. After the end of the station broadcasting rights went to the private channel kabel eins, where they existed until October 1997.

Published in 1998 by Select two video cassettes à three episodes on which the first 6 episodes were included. 2003, a DVD was released under the title " Defenders of the Earth - The story begins ... ", to which, however, only the first episodes were included. In 2005, the entire series of KSM was finally released on DVD, distributed on two DVD boxes with a total of 13 DVDs.

Synchronization

Merchandise

  • The toy manufacturer Galoob did in the 80s out more Action toys that were based on vehicles in the series.
  • In Marvel -Verlag published a four-part Defenders comic series in January 1987.
  • In Germany in the late eighties, a chewing gum cigarette series with the portraits of the Defenders was temporarily available on the market.

Computer Games

1990, the computer game forge Enigma Variations secured the Defenders rights and developed a jump 'n ' run video game for Amiga, Amstrad_CPC, Atari_ST and C64. The player controlled, download Flash Gordon in third-person perspective by Ming fortress and fought against the despot and his minions.

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