"Defenders of the Earth" is an animated science fiction series that unites some of King Features Syndicate’s most iconic comic strip heroes into one superhero team to battle evil forces threatening Earth. The series is set in the year 2015 (a distant future at the time of release) and blends high-tech action with classic pulp comic lore.
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00:01Defenders of the Earth! Defenders!
00:05Out of the sky, his rockets ignite!
00:08He gets into battle life faster than light!
00:12Lord of the jungle, the hero who stalks!
00:15The beast call him brother, the go of the war!
00:19Defenders of the Earth!
00:22Master of magic, spells and illusion!
00:26Enemies crumble in fear and confusion!
00:30And drink!
00:31Defenders of the Earth!
00:32Enders!
00:35His strength is a legend, his skills conquer all!
00:38Armed with his power, we never will fall!
00:42Defenders of the Earth!
00:44Enders!
00:46With our new young heroes proving their worth!
00:49Four become eight, defending the Earth!
00:52Defenders of the Earth!
00:54Enders!
00:55Defenders of the Earth!
00:57Defenders of the Earth!
01:07Our XP-1 series of computers controls all defense systems!
01:12Should anyone launch an attack from anywhere in the galaxy, we'll be alerted!
01:16What is happening, General?
01:17We're under attack, sir!
01:18It's not possible!
01:20Those missiles are right on top of us!
01:22They're gonna hit!
01:23The missiles are very hard!
01:25Gentlemen, will you please explain what happened?
01:26The XP-1 ran amok!
01:28The missile attack took place only in the computer!
01:30Hey, we can play with three!
01:31But it's more fun with four!
01:32Let's ask that guy to play with us!
01:33We don't wanna play with a nerd like Audie!
01:34Yeah?
01:35Maybe I don't wanna play with you either!
01:36Hey, Rick, do you know that kid over there?
01:38I've never seen him in class!
01:39That's Audie Barrett!
01:40Believe it or not, he's a great ahead of us!
01:41But he's my age!
01:42Yeah!
01:43He's one of those child geniuses!
01:44He looks kinda... lonely!
01:45I wanna ask him to play!
01:46Hey!
01:47Audie!
01:48You wanna bop the ball?
01:49Yeah!
01:50Yeah!
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02:05Yeah!
02:06He's one of those child geniuses!
02:07He looks kinda... lonely!
02:09I wanna ask him to play!
02:11Hey!
02:12Audie!
02:13You wanna bop the ball around with us?
02:15No!
02:16Leave me alone!
02:18What's his problem?
02:26Huh?
02:27The market just went down 400 points!
02:30No!
02:31It just went up 600 points!
02:35Soon this entire wretched planet will be brought to a standstill!
02:40Tychus!
02:41Yes!
02:42Mighty Ming!
02:44What confusion shall we create next?
02:47There is much yet to be done!
02:50Computers whose data banks I have yet to destroy!
02:57Tychus is the ultimate trap!
02:59A machine designed by a machine!
03:02Completely devoid of human flaws!
03:05With it I shall destroy the accursed defenders of the earth!
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03:55your best friend, Artie?
03:56You know you are, Tweek.
03:58Then listen to some friendly advice.
04:01You should have played with those kids today.
04:03You gotta make friends.
04:05And I don't mean make them like this.
04:09Welcome home, Artie.
04:12I mean, you gotta meet some people.
04:15Real people like you.
04:17That's just it.
04:18There isn't anybody like me, Tweek.
04:21Maybe I am a blank.
04:23Computers all over the world
04:26are being disrupted
04:27by an unknown transmission force.
04:30The strongest readings
04:31are coming from the Rocky Mountains.
04:34One moment.
04:35One moment.
04:37Oh, the mountains.
04:39Oh, the sea. Crimson.
04:41Sometimes like fire.
04:43Dynak, what are you talking about?
04:45It appears our Dynak
04:47has fallen prey to this computer demon as well.
04:50Yeah.
04:53Dynak is right, you know.
05:01I am in the mountains.
05:05Come and get me,
05:07if you dare.
05:09Whoever you are,
05:11you bet we will.
05:13Anybody there?
05:14It's me, Kashin.
05:16Let him in, Meathead.
05:18Now's your chance to make friends.
05:21No.
05:22Well, if you won't,
05:23I will.
05:24Tweak, stop!
05:26Artie, let me open it!
05:30No!
05:31If you don't,
05:32I swear I'll never speak to you again.
05:36All right.
05:38Hi.
05:39What do you want?
05:40I'd heard a lot of great things about you and...
05:43About me?
05:44This is some place you got here.
05:47Where are your folks?
05:48They're gone.
05:50No kidding.
05:51So are mine.
05:53But the guy who takes care of me is cool.
05:55He's Mandrake the...
05:56The magician?
05:57One of the defenders?
05:59Well, he's owing.
06:01If I hadn't been hanging around him so long,
06:04I might have met you sooner.
06:05That's enough, Tweak.
06:07See?
06:08Artie's got this notion that nobody will ever like him.
06:11Tweak, I said enough.
06:13I've been trying to find him a human friend and...
06:16Why is he doing that?
06:22Because he's programmed not to disobey my orders.
06:25Hey, look.
06:25I didn't come here to bust up any friendships.
06:28That's right.
06:29And you won't, because you're leaving now.
06:37Come in, defenders.
06:41I am waiting for you.
06:47This is a trap.
06:48I'll let you know what I find.
06:55I can't see much yet.
06:57Wait, there's a light ahead.
06:59I'm coming up on a room.
07:01It's huge.
07:04What's happening to me?
07:06I can't seem to...
07:07Like, I can't...
07:09Next.
07:15Next.
07:20Wow, the school's been cancelled.
07:22Yeah, the computer's down.
07:23I hear that everything with a microchip in it has gone nuts.
07:27Even pocket calculators.
07:28Even pocket calculators.
07:28Look, Addy.
07:29I'm sorry if I caused any trouble last night.
07:32No, forget about it.
07:34Forget about it.
07:34Forget about it?
07:37He might be able to save the world.
07:39But no!
07:40Tweek, you're pushing it.
07:43I'm for crying out loud.
07:45I'm...
07:46You know, for a friend, you sure treat that little guy lousy.
07:53Hey, how come his brain is working when everything else with a microchip in it has gone dead?
07:59Because I made his circuits out of organic matter.
08:01Whatever is destroying the computers affects normal silicone circuits.
08:05But his are made out of plankton.
08:08You've got to tell people about this.
08:10They need your help.
08:12Why should I want to help people?
08:15They think I'm a freak.
08:17Come on, Tweek.
08:18Well, I'm going to tell the other Defenders about this.
08:21The Defenders are here.
08:30I have already trapped the one known as the Fandom.
08:35Excellent.
08:36And your other work?
08:39All circuitry in the Western Hemisphere has been shot down, my Lord Ming, with one exception.
08:49A small robot.
08:50The nature of his circuits is unknown to me.
08:55Report back when you have added more Defenders to my collection.
09:02That robot poses a definite threat, sire.
09:07One harmless robot against my Tychus?
09:11You must be joking, Octon.
09:15We have searched everywhere.
09:17There's no possible way in except through that door.
09:21I am going inside to see what happened to the Phantom.
09:24I will radio back to you.
09:28Flash!
09:29Can you hear me?
09:30Yes, Mandrake.
09:31See anything?
09:32I see nothing.
09:33No, wait.
09:34There, I...
09:35There, I see.
09:36I see.
09:36The Phantom.
09:38Good Lord.
09:41Gath.
09:44It's Gath.
09:47Mandrake!
09:49Mandrake!
09:50I am waiting for you.
09:53Flash Gordon.
09:55And you're going to get more than you bargained for.
09:59We gotta get Tweak.
10:00He's the only one who can help us.
10:02What are you talking about, Kishin?
10:04What's a Tweak?
10:06He's a little robot.
10:07If Dynax down, how's a little robot going to help?
10:09Whatever it is that fouled up all the machines, it didn't foul up Tweak.
10:14He's immune to it.
10:15But will he help us?
10:17Tweak wants to help.
10:18I know it.
10:20It's Audie that's gonna be the problem.
10:23This oxygen helmet should keep me safe from the gas.
10:26But listen, Lothar.
10:27If anything happens to me, go back to Monitor for all the explosives you can carry.
10:32And blow this place sky high.
10:35But this thing must be stopped.
10:38Take care, Flash.
10:45There's the light.
10:50Some kind of nerve gas.
10:58Welcome, Flash Gordon.
11:02Please allow me to introduce myself.
11:06I am Tychus.
11:09These are my maintenance drones.
11:12I've ordered them to dismantle your pesky little oxygen helmet.
11:19I'd call off your drones if I were you.
11:22It is useless to resist, Flash Gordon.
11:43It's only a matter of time now.
11:46Oh, and that helmet of yours is so thin.
12:01Audie, we've gotta talk to you.
12:03I don't wanna talk to you or anybody else.
12:06You've gotta help us.
12:08Will you listen to them?
12:10I don't wanna hear it, Tweak.
12:11Audie, please.
12:18Hear us out.
12:19Please.
12:19We need your help.
12:21Just listen to us.
12:22You could help save the world.
12:24Yeah?
12:25And what's the world ever done for me?
12:27Forget it.
12:28Come on, Tweak.
12:31Listen about the...
12:32Just the robot we were looking for.
12:51Look!
12:54One of Ming's ships.
12:58Audie, Tweak, are you in there?
13:00Ming must have figured out that Tweak is the only computer that isn't shut down.
13:07Then, he's kidnapped them.
13:09The genius who built a machine capable of withstanding Tycho's power is just a little force.
13:16Octon, I want to know why it is immune to Tycho's disruption.
13:22My greatest computer must have no more failures.
13:26I am your greatest computer.
13:28I designed Tycho's.
13:31And may I remind you that I could have Tycho's shut you down, like all the other computers in the world?
13:40Now, take this toy robot and tear it apart, piece by piece.
13:46Very well, sire.
13:48Uh, couldn't I have just brought you a schematic?
13:54Wait, no!
13:56Please don't take him apart!
13:58Oh, poor little boy.
14:01Don't worry.
14:02His destruction will be quick.
14:04And as he's only a machine, it will not be too painful.
14:11Ming's loyalty shifts like the wind.
14:14Ever since Tycho's became operational, I have been ignored by Ming.
14:18Uh, listen, pal.
14:22What do you say we make a little deal?
14:25What do you mean?
14:27It's obvious Tycho's is stealing all your thunder.
14:31You said it yourself.
14:33You are being ignored.
14:34Yes, yes.
14:37I was once Ming's favorite.
14:39And now, I've designed my own replacement.
14:44That's for starters.
14:45Tycho's can wipe you out.
14:47Poof.
14:48You'll be history.
14:50Suppose you don't take me apart.
14:52Suppose you let me go.
14:54I mean, just suppose.
14:56And I'll eliminate your number one rival.
14:59I'll take care of Tycho's faster than you can say.
15:03Okay.
15:06Tweak?
15:07What are you doing?
15:09Getting out of here.
15:10Want to join me?
15:12Let's just hope that Timbal Octon knows which doors to open.
15:16Now all we have to worry about is...
15:19Osh!
15:19Robots!
15:22Come on!
15:26They saved us, for heaven's sake.
15:28They don't care about me.
15:30They just need your help, that's all.
15:32I'm for crying out loud.
15:34Turn me up!
15:36I can't listen to this baloney anymore.
15:39You know something, Audie?
15:41For a genius, you're pretty stupid.
15:44You can say that again.
15:47We want to be your friends, Audie, but you won't let us.
15:50You think you're so above everybody.
15:52You mean...
15:54You don't care that I'm so smart?
15:55To tell you the truth, the way you act, I'm not even sure you are so smart.
16:00I don't understand.
16:02I mean, I care about you.
16:06You really like me?
16:07Yes, stupid.
16:08We like you.
16:12Now to detonate.
16:13Hold it, Lothar!
16:21Wait, don't!
16:24What are you all doing here?
16:26We won't be needing that, Lothar.
16:29This little guy knows how to take out that computer.
16:33How'd you?
16:34Octon told us.
16:35Ready, old buddy?
16:37I'll give you a shout as soon as I shut up the gas.
16:39Hum-dee-dum-dee-dum.
16:45Hum-dee-dum.
16:50There's the shuttle, family.
16:54Okay, guys.
16:55The gas is off.
16:59Seize him!
17:00No!
17:06Arnie and the others are on their way, and they'll get dead!
17:12Only one way to shut it off permanently.
17:15It's the least I can do for my buddy, Arnie.
17:19With my power power!
17:21Never mind those friends!
17:32Get the defenders!
17:38Oh, hi, guys.
17:41What's up?
17:42Oh, nothing.
17:43Fifty crazed robots just went that-a-way after Lothar and the others.
17:47Why didn't you say so?
17:48There's the power generator!
17:56Got a communicator?
17:58Here.
17:58It's a little late to radio for hell, body.
18:01I just want the power supply.
18:03Got a flashlight?
18:16Come on!
18:18You impudent idiots!
18:24You impudent idiots!
18:38Wait a minute.
18:40Weak!
18:40Can't you fix him up, Arnie?
18:46No!
18:47His circuits are made of living cells.
18:50They'll die off without his power supply.
18:53Tweak!
18:55Don't leave me!
18:56You're my only friend!
18:58It's okay, Arnie.
19:01You don't need me anymore!
19:03I do!
19:05I do!
19:06Don't go!
19:08You've got real friends now!
19:12Nice knowing you, buddy!
19:15May I borrow that detonator for a moment, Lothar?
19:23Be my guest, Arnie.
19:26For you, Tweak.
19:32Thanks to you, Arnie.
19:33The computers of the world are back online, including our Dynac X.
19:38And Arnie, you did it!
19:41No, Tweak did it.
19:44Now that he's gone, you still want to be friends?
19:48Well, I don't know.
19:50I really don't like the way you dress.
19:54Huh?
19:54Okay, tell you what.
19:57We can be friends if you wear this.
20:01You insist.
20:03Oh, didn't I tell you?
20:05Arnie, you are now an honorary defender of the Earth.
20:09All right!
20:24Oh, you are now an honorary defender of the Earth.
20:26Oh, I can be friends if I don't know.
20:28All right!
20:29You are now an honorary defender of the Earth.
20:47You're listening to Arnie, you're listening to Arnie, you're listening to Arnie.