The Technodrome Forums - Defenders of the Earth coming to DVD

BCI will release the first volume of two box sets containing the entire series of Defenders of the Earth in late 2006. This will mark the first time the series will be distributed in it's entirty, in Region Two many of it's story arcs were edited together to form special movie versions, such as "The Necklas of Oros" and "The Prince Rules"

The series featured a team of old school Kings Features Newspaper strip characters such as Flash Gordon, The Phantom, Mandrak The Magigician, and his faithful servant Lothar battling the forces of Ming The Merciless. It is best known for it's extreme liberties taken with Gordon's character, killing off Dale Arden and providing him with a teenage offspring, it's immortal theme song, and being the only series to depict The Phantom as having super powers ("By Jungle Law, the Ghost who walks calls on the power of Ten Tigers").

The first episode of Defenders is avaialble as an extra on the Filmation Flash Gordon series, despite a glaring and narrow-minded stab at the episode from the dinosaurs at the corporate Toonzone, this is one REAL animation authority among many who can vouch at how good this show is.