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Date Posted: 10:11:42 10/07/06 Sat
Author: Glenn
Subject: Re: How did you first discover Flash Gordon?
In reply to: Traveler 's message, "How did you first discover Flash Gordon?" on 18:28:20 10/06/06 Fri

In the late 1960s, local channel 11, WPIX in New York, broadcast the Flash Gordon serials. I remember watching them at my grandparents' home on Sunday afternoons before sitting down to family dinner. Grandma came to this country as a domestic, and boy, could she cook!

I think the popularity of the reruns was helped by Buster Crabbe's appearance as a pitchman for an exercise t-shirt that gave you "a real corporation up front." Crabbe would grab the shirt around his midsection and it would snap (loudly!) back into place! Very impressive, and he looked great for his age.

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[> [> Re: How did you first discover Flash Gordon? -- Prince Barin, 17:48:02 10/07/06 Sat [1]

Serials were common daytime fare in the early days of television. In 1952 in New York City there was "Serial Theater" that showed FG, Don Winslow, etc. but best of all Buster Crabbe had his own after school show that featured FG and Buck Rogers and later "Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion" in which he also starred.

Buster had a studio audience of kids and from time to time his son Cuffy would appear. He also answered questions that viewers wrote in. I distinctly remember him answering a question on how many FG serials there were. After the show my friends and I would play on a "light bridge" of planks from a construction site and pretend our cap guns were ray guns.

I look back on those long-ago days as an adult and now realize that Flash became a hero to me. Over the years when I would read or hear about Flash, alll those memories would come flooding back. I never thought about the whole thing seriously until these internet forums materialized and realized that Flash for me has always been ideal, an embodiment of what we should strive for. He's always optimistic, resourceful, dedicated to noble goals and the welfare of his friends and society. He also gets the gal, which ain't a bad thing either!

And I certainly remember Buster, still looking good, pitching his exercise shirt on TV in 1969! Too bad I didn't buy one.


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