SCRIPT
Script: George H. Plympton, Basil Dickey, Barry Shipman
Comic Strip: Alex Raymond

DIRECTION
Director: Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Jerome Ash, William A. Sickner

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editors: Joseph Gluck, Saul A. Goodkind, Louis Sackin, Alvin Todd

MUSIC
Music: Ralph Freed (uncredited), Sam Perry (uncredited), Charles Previn (uncredited), Heinz Roemheld (from Bombay Mail (1934), Die Weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü (1929) and The Invisible Man (1933) - uncredited), Frank Skinner (The Sun Never Sets (1939) - uncredited), Franz Waxman (from Bride of Frankenstein (1935) - uncredited)
Music Adaptations: Charles Previn

SOUND
Dialogue Director: Jacques Jaccard

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Harold H. MacArthur

CAST
Buster Crabbe (Flash Gordon)
Carol Hughes (Dale Arden)
Charles Middleton (Emperor Ming)
Anne Gwynne (Sonja)
Frank Shannon (Dr Zarkov)
John Hamilton (Professor Gordon)
Herbert Rawlinson (Dr Frohmann)
Tom Chatterton (Professor Arden)
Shirley Deane (Princess Aura)
Lee Powell (Captain Roka)
Roland Drew (Prince Barin)
Don Rowan (Captain Torch)
Victor Zimmerman (Thong)
Edgar Edwards (Turan)
Ben Taggart (General Lupi)
Michael Mark (Karm)
Earl Dwire (Jenda)
Harry Bradley (Keedish)
Sigurd Nilssen (Count Korro)
Mimi Taylor (woman)
Byron Foulger (Professor Druk)
William Royle (Captain Suden)
Roy Barcroft (soldier / adjutant / Arborian sentry - uncredited)
Allan Cavan (man with thinking brain - uncredited)
Lane Chandler (soldier / adjutant - uncredited)
Donald Curtis (Ronal - uncredited)
Carmen D'Antonio (Ming's dancing girl - uncredited)
Luli Deste (Queen Fria - uncredited)
Mala (Prince of the Rock People - uncredited)
Jack Roper (man of low intellect - uncredited)
Ernie Adams, Robert Blair, Jean Brooks, Harold Daniels, Paul Douglas, John Elliott, Jack Gardner, Pat Gleason, Reed Howes, Bill Hunter, Eddie Parker, Ernie Payson, Joey Ray, Paul Reed, Charles Sherlock, Clarice Sherry, Charles Waldron Jr, Chief Yowlachie (bit part - uncredited)

EPISODES

1. The Purple Death
2. Freezing Torture
3. Walking Bombs
4. The Destroying Ray
5. The Palace of Terror
6. Flaming death
7. The Land of the Dead
8. The Fiery Abyss
9. The Pool of Peril
10. The Death Mist
11. Stark Treachery
12. Doom of the Dictator

When the Earth comes under threat from the Purple Death, a plague from outer space, Dr Zarkov finds that a spaceship from Mongo is seeding the atmosphere with a lethal dust. Flash Gordon and Dale Arden join Zarkov to return to Mongo, teaming up with Prince Barin and Queen Fria to capture some polarite, the only known antidote to the plague. But will they be able to escape the clutches of the merciless Ming?

More low-tech knockabout, with a noticeably bigger budget (it still didn't amount to much but it paid for a few dancing girls) and even more preposterous action than before. None of makes a lot of sense but it rushes along at breakneck pace and there's always something silly just round the corner. Dumb very hard not to love.

USA
Theatrical Distributor: Universal Pictures
Video Distributors: LS Video; Startime Video; United Video; Video Yesteryear