01x65 - Ming's Thunder Lizards
Posted: 09/30/24 10:23
- ♪ Defenders of the Earth ♪
Defenders!
[dramatic music]
♪ Out of the sky, his rockets ignite ♪
♪ Jets into battle flying faster than light ♪
Flash Gordon!
♪ Lord of the jungle, the hero who st*lks ♪
♪ The beasts call him brother, The Ghost Who Walks ♪
Phantom!
♪ Defenders of the Earth ♪
Defenders!
♪ Master of magic, spells, and illusion ♪
♪ Enemies crumble in fear and confusion ♪
Mandrake!
♪ Defenders of the Earth ♪
Defenders!
♪ His strength is a legend, his skills conquer all ♪
♪ Armed with his power, we never will fall ♪
Lothar!
♪ Defenders of the Earth ♪
Defenders!
♪ With our new young heroes proving their worth ♪
♪ Four become eight defending the Earth ♪
♪ Defenders of the Earth ♪
Defenders!
♪ Defenders of the Earth ♪
[peaceful music]
♪ ♪
- It sure is a great day to be fishing, isn't it, Dave?
- Sure is.
- I can see that salmon steaming on my plate
right now, can't you?
- Sure can.
- What a day!
Can you think of anything else
you'd rather be doing than fishing?
- Sure can't.
- Look at that ripple over there.
I bet it's gonna be a monster of a catch!
[roars]
[growling]
[ominous music]
♪ ♪
[wood splintering]
both: [screaming]
[growls]
- That was a dinosaur, wasn't it?
- Sure was. Tyrannosaurus Rex.
♪ ♪
[growls]
[wood splinters]
[roars]
[wood splintering]
[growling]
[roars]
- Emily? This is Mike!
Maybe you better let me talk to the sheriff, and quick!
[panic and screaming]
[roars]
[glass shattering and wood splintering]
[panic and screaming]
[roars]
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- A dinosaur alert?
This is the craziest call we've ever received!
- Dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years!
- Those long Alaskan nights
might make it easy for a person to imagine almost anything...
even a dinosaur.
- Let's assume we really do come face-to-face
with a big lizard--
how are we going to handle it?
- [chuckles]
I still think you guys are spinning your wheels.
We've got an estimated time of arrival on Flaherty Bay
of seconds, and then you're all going to feel like--
♪ ♪
like...like...
- You were saying, old man?
- Excellency!
The work is proceeding according to your plan.
- Octon's sensors have reported
a drop in the heat level, Garax.
- That problem is being attended to
at this moment, Emperor Ming.
[suspenseful music]
The drill has cleared below the earth's crust
and is returning.
♪ ♪
- Satisfactory.
♪ ♪
- We have a problem, Emperor.
- What is it, Garax?
- One of the dinosaurs seems to have escaped.
- What? How could that be?
- I do not know, Emperor.
- Find it!
Recapture it, Garax,
or I will see that you pay... personally!
[ … ]
[wind howls]
[rotors whirring]
- Man, look at the size of those footprints!
- Dynak, we've got no problems
backtracking that dinosaur so far.
Give me a map of Alaska--
with a projection of the Tyrannosaurus' route.
- The creature's tracks lead toward...an extinct volcano
where satellites have picked up heat waves
from this same uninhabited area.
- Could the volcano be reactivating?
- Highly improbable.
- Whatever it is, we'll soon find out!
- We'll just follow these tracks back to the volcano
and solve both problems!
[wind howling]
- Mayday, mayday! We're going down!
[wind howling]
- Come, Rick! Pull her up, pull her up!
- I'm trying, I'm trying!
Cancel that mayday.
- Whoa, that wind came out of nowhere!
- That wind is called a williwaw.
- Thanks for putting a name to it.
Whatever you call it, it sure gave me the willies!
- Attention, Rick.
Further aerial investigation will be impossible.
A major weather front moving in!
- I could have used that info about seconds ago!
Returning to Flaherty Bay... I hope.
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
- When we return home,
remind me to change our travel agent.
- [groans] I hear you, old buddy!
Now...all we have to do is ski down this hill,
across that valley,
climb that monster ridge over there,
and we've got it made!
- [chuckles] You make it sound so easy!
- [chuckles]
What's a few broken legs between friends?
- If that cornice comes down,
we'll be right in the path of one giant avalanche!
- You're right, Lothar, but it's too late to turn back!
The slightest sound could trigger an avalanche--
so no noise, guys.
Let's move out!
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[snow rumbles]
♪ ♪
- Avalanche!
[avalanche rumbling]
- Nice hotdogging, buddy!
Airborne!
[avalanche rumbling]
- One thing about being a Defender--it's never dull!
- Why would anyone dome over an extinct volcano?
- Good question, Father.
- Looks like a super stadium.
[distant roar]
- What was that? - I don't want to know!
[laser blasts]
[dramatic music]
- Using the heat from the Earth's molten core
to thaw out those long-frozen reptiles
was genius--total genius!
- One of your most brilliant plans, sire!
- [chuckles]
Within a few hours I shall launch my invasion--
of prehistoric dinosaurs!
♪ ♪
[frogs croaking]
- Whoever built this setup's pretty serious
about his hothouses.
[wings flapping]
[screeches]
[screeches]
[screeches]
- [struggles]
[screeches]
[grunts]
I prefer seeing pteranodons in science books.
- LJ, watch it! Here it comes again!
[screeches]
- Nice work, Mandrake!
- Shall we?
[mechanical whirring]
- Ming and Garax!
- Who else would be raising dinosaurs?
- The question is, why?
- Let's check it out!
[birds calling and insects buzzing]
- This place gives me the creeps.
- [growls]
- What in the world are those?
- Antrodemi, sometimes known as Allosauri.
Interesting creatures.
Paleontologists theorize they hunted in packs.
[ … ]
- Well, I don't intend to end my days
as an hors d'oeuvre for a lizard!
[thundering footsteps]
- Wait, Flash!
Let me try a mind link.
[roaring]
Creatures, hear me!
We come as friends. We mean you no harm!
- It worked this time, Jedda,
but I don't think it'll work again.
[footsteps echoing]
- Flash was right-- run for it!
- [roars]
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[roars]
[thundering footsteps]
[roaring]
- In the cave!
[thundering footsteps]
[roars]
- Jedda, you want to give your mind link another try?
- I've been trying but the creature's not responding!
- What are we gonna do?
- Wait--maybe he'll get tired.
Well, so much for that theory.
[snarls]
[thundering footsteps]
[snarls]
[raspy growl]
- Why are they fighting? - For their dinner.
- What dinner? - Us.
[roaring]
[roars]
- Keep your eyes open.
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
[deep growl]
[munching]
♪ ♪
Rick--you, Jedda, and LJ check out that building
on the other side of the lake.
- Right, Dad!
♪ ♪
[thundering footsteps]
- Well, well, what have we here?
It appears to be a dinosaur factory.
- And look who's running it.
- Let's see if I can pick up their voices.
- Octon, you displease me! - That's our boy.
- Emperor, there is but one more dinosaur to be thawed out!
- Excellent.
- Bring on the last creature.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Hmm, what a treasure trove!
, beasts, cased in ice,
waiting for me all these millions of years!
I am ordering the attack to begin immediately!
- Send my dinosaurs out to destroy the cities of Earth!
- There is no way of stopping Ming now!
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
- Red alert, red alert!
- This time I shall brook no interference with my plans!
Eliminate them!
- Come down, Defenders!
- Your wish is my command!
♪ ♪
- Unleash the dinosaurs!
Track them down, they must be found!
[thundering footsteps]
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
- So that's how Ming
turned this place into a giant hothouse.
- I don't get it.
- Ming drilled down through the Earth's crust,
miles or so, and tapped molten lava.
He's changed the climate from subarctic to tropical.
- Neat trick.
- You will not move. You will stand perfectly still.
You will turn around and face me.
- Don't look at him.
He'll turn us into frost people.
How about that one, sports fans?
- I give it an .. Your recovery was uneven.
- Come on, I've got an idea! Let's find that drill.
- I don't mind getting wrinkled,
but this is ridiculous.
- They will never escape me now!
- I think we're trapped! - Not as long as we can swim.
[snarls]
- Swimming would appear to be out of the question.
- How are we going to get across?
[lasers blasting]
- One log, coming up!
- I don't think this log is a log!
- What is it, then?
- The great grandfather of all crocodiles!
[ … ]
[crocodile growls]
- Nice crocodile!
[peaceful music]
- After them! - [hisses]
- Into the lake!
[crocodile growls]
- I think it's waking up!
- That's the end of the line.
- Let's find out how the kids are.
Rick, come in!
- Dad, you're loud and clear.
- Listen--
you guys are going to have to destroy that drilling station.
- You got it, Dad.
[ominous humming]
But we're gonna need a little time.
- We don't have much time!
Ming's breathing down our necks!
[takes deep breath] We'll do our best, Son.
- How're we doing? - We're getting there.
LJ's figured out how to run that drill.
Now he has to position it over the shaft.
- Then we'll drill straight down at full speed
and have ourselves the world's first custom volcano!
[energetic rock music]
♪ ♪
[lasers blasting]
- By Jungle Law...
The Ghost Who Walks calls forth the power of ten tigers!
♪ ♪
[deep growling]
[grunts]
- Okay, here goes!
- Move it! Let's move it!
[roaring]
♪ ♪
[snarling]
[roars]
- The Earth is cracking!
The volcano is going to explode!
[serpent hisses]
Retreat, retreat!
[serpent hisses]
- I think our compatriots blew the drilling station.
[volcano rumbling]
♪ ♪
- [panting]
Just a little bit farther!
♪ ♪
- How much time do we have?
- Zero!
[energetic rock music]
♪ ♪
[earth rumbling]
[pteranodon screeches]
[roars]
[expl*si*n]
- Poor Ming.
- Well, what is this note of sympathy for Ming?
- Now he'll never be able to learn
which lizard he has descended from.
Defenders!
[dramatic music]
♪ Out of the sky, his rockets ignite ♪
♪ Jets into battle flying faster than light ♪
Flash Gordon!
♪ Lord of the jungle, the hero who st*lks ♪
♪ The beasts call him brother, The Ghost Who Walks ♪
Phantom!
♪ Defenders of the Earth ♪
Defenders!
♪ Master of magic, spells, and illusion ♪
♪ Enemies crumble in fear and confusion ♪
Mandrake!
♪ Defenders of the Earth ♪
Defenders!
♪ His strength is a legend, his skills conquer all ♪
♪ Armed with his power, we never will fall ♪
Lothar!
♪ Defenders of the Earth ♪
Defenders!
♪ With our new young heroes proving their worth ♪
♪ Four become eight defending the Earth ♪
♪ Defenders of the Earth ♪
Defenders!
♪ Defenders of the Earth ♪
[peaceful music]
♪ ♪
- It sure is a great day to be fishing, isn't it, Dave?
- Sure is.
- I can see that salmon steaming on my plate
right now, can't you?
- Sure can.
- What a day!
Can you think of anything else
you'd rather be doing than fishing?
- Sure can't.
- Look at that ripple over there.
I bet it's gonna be a monster of a catch!
[roars]
[growling]
[ominous music]
♪ ♪
[wood splintering]
both: [screaming]
[growls]
- That was a dinosaur, wasn't it?
- Sure was. Tyrannosaurus Rex.
♪ ♪
[growls]
[wood splinters]
[roars]
[wood splintering]
[growling]
[roars]
- Emily? This is Mike!
Maybe you better let me talk to the sheriff, and quick!
[panic and screaming]
[roars]
[glass shattering and wood splintering]
[panic and screaming]
[roars]
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- A dinosaur alert?
This is the craziest call we've ever received!
- Dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years!
- Those long Alaskan nights
might make it easy for a person to imagine almost anything...
even a dinosaur.
- Let's assume we really do come face-to-face
with a big lizard--
how are we going to handle it?
- [chuckles]
I still think you guys are spinning your wheels.
We've got an estimated time of arrival on Flaherty Bay
of seconds, and then you're all going to feel like--
♪ ♪
like...like...
- You were saying, old man?
- Excellency!
The work is proceeding according to your plan.
- Octon's sensors have reported
a drop in the heat level, Garax.
- That problem is being attended to
at this moment, Emperor Ming.
[suspenseful music]
The drill has cleared below the earth's crust
and is returning.
♪ ♪
- Satisfactory.
♪ ♪
- We have a problem, Emperor.
- What is it, Garax?
- One of the dinosaurs seems to have escaped.
- What? How could that be?
- I do not know, Emperor.
- Find it!
Recapture it, Garax,
or I will see that you pay... personally!
[ … ]
[wind howls]
[rotors whirring]
- Man, look at the size of those footprints!
- Dynak, we've got no problems
backtracking that dinosaur so far.
Give me a map of Alaska--
with a projection of the Tyrannosaurus' route.
- The creature's tracks lead toward...an extinct volcano
where satellites have picked up heat waves
from this same uninhabited area.
- Could the volcano be reactivating?
- Highly improbable.
- Whatever it is, we'll soon find out!
- We'll just follow these tracks back to the volcano
and solve both problems!
[wind howling]
- Mayday, mayday! We're going down!
[wind howling]
- Come, Rick! Pull her up, pull her up!
- I'm trying, I'm trying!
Cancel that mayday.
- Whoa, that wind came out of nowhere!
- That wind is called a williwaw.
- Thanks for putting a name to it.
Whatever you call it, it sure gave me the willies!
- Attention, Rick.
Further aerial investigation will be impossible.
A major weather front moving in!
- I could have used that info about seconds ago!
Returning to Flaherty Bay... I hope.
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
- When we return home,
remind me to change our travel agent.
- [groans] I hear you, old buddy!
Now...all we have to do is ski down this hill,
across that valley,
climb that monster ridge over there,
and we've got it made!
- [chuckles] You make it sound so easy!
- [chuckles]
What's a few broken legs between friends?
- If that cornice comes down,
we'll be right in the path of one giant avalanche!
- You're right, Lothar, but it's too late to turn back!
The slightest sound could trigger an avalanche--
so no noise, guys.
Let's move out!
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[snow rumbles]
♪ ♪
- Avalanche!
[avalanche rumbling]
- Nice hotdogging, buddy!
Airborne!
[avalanche rumbling]
- One thing about being a Defender--it's never dull!
- Why would anyone dome over an extinct volcano?
- Good question, Father.
- Looks like a super stadium.
[distant roar]
- What was that? - I don't want to know!
[laser blasts]
[dramatic music]
- Using the heat from the Earth's molten core
to thaw out those long-frozen reptiles
was genius--total genius!
- One of your most brilliant plans, sire!
- [chuckles]
Within a few hours I shall launch my invasion--
of prehistoric dinosaurs!
♪ ♪
[frogs croaking]
- Whoever built this setup's pretty serious
about his hothouses.
[wings flapping]
[screeches]
[screeches]
[screeches]
- [struggles]
[screeches]
[grunts]
I prefer seeing pteranodons in science books.
- LJ, watch it! Here it comes again!
[screeches]
- Nice work, Mandrake!
- Shall we?
[mechanical whirring]
- Ming and Garax!
- Who else would be raising dinosaurs?
- The question is, why?
- Let's check it out!
[birds calling and insects buzzing]
- This place gives me the creeps.
- [growls]
- What in the world are those?
- Antrodemi, sometimes known as Allosauri.
Interesting creatures.
Paleontologists theorize they hunted in packs.
[ … ]
- Well, I don't intend to end my days
as an hors d'oeuvre for a lizard!
[thundering footsteps]
- Wait, Flash!
Let me try a mind link.
[roaring]
Creatures, hear me!
We come as friends. We mean you no harm!
- It worked this time, Jedda,
but I don't think it'll work again.
[footsteps echoing]
- Flash was right-- run for it!
- [roars]
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[roars]
[thundering footsteps]
[roaring]
- In the cave!
[thundering footsteps]
[roars]
- Jedda, you want to give your mind link another try?
- I've been trying but the creature's not responding!
- What are we gonna do?
- Wait--maybe he'll get tired.
Well, so much for that theory.
[snarls]
[thundering footsteps]
[snarls]
[raspy growl]
- Why are they fighting? - For their dinner.
- What dinner? - Us.
[roaring]
[roars]
- Keep your eyes open.
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
[deep growl]
[munching]
♪ ♪
Rick--you, Jedda, and LJ check out that building
on the other side of the lake.
- Right, Dad!
♪ ♪
[thundering footsteps]
- Well, well, what have we here?
It appears to be a dinosaur factory.
- And look who's running it.
- Let's see if I can pick up their voices.
- Octon, you displease me! - That's our boy.
- Emperor, there is but one more dinosaur to be thawed out!
- Excellent.
- Bring on the last creature.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Hmm, what a treasure trove!
, beasts, cased in ice,
waiting for me all these millions of years!
I am ordering the attack to begin immediately!
- Send my dinosaurs out to destroy the cities of Earth!
- There is no way of stopping Ming now!
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
- Red alert, red alert!
- This time I shall brook no interference with my plans!
Eliminate them!
- Come down, Defenders!
- Your wish is my command!
♪ ♪
- Unleash the dinosaurs!
Track them down, they must be found!
[thundering footsteps]
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
- So that's how Ming
turned this place into a giant hothouse.
- I don't get it.
- Ming drilled down through the Earth's crust,
miles or so, and tapped molten lava.
He's changed the climate from subarctic to tropical.
- Neat trick.
- You will not move. You will stand perfectly still.
You will turn around and face me.
- Don't look at him.
He'll turn us into frost people.
How about that one, sports fans?
- I give it an .. Your recovery was uneven.
- Come on, I've got an idea! Let's find that drill.
- I don't mind getting wrinkled,
but this is ridiculous.
- They will never escape me now!
- I think we're trapped! - Not as long as we can swim.
[snarls]
- Swimming would appear to be out of the question.
- How are we going to get across?
[lasers blasting]
- One log, coming up!
- I don't think this log is a log!
- What is it, then?
- The great grandfather of all crocodiles!
[ … ]
[crocodile growls]
- Nice crocodile!
[peaceful music]
- After them! - [hisses]
- Into the lake!
[crocodile growls]
- I think it's waking up!
- That's the end of the line.
- Let's find out how the kids are.
Rick, come in!
- Dad, you're loud and clear.
- Listen--
you guys are going to have to destroy that drilling station.
- You got it, Dad.
[ominous humming]
But we're gonna need a little time.
- We don't have much time!
Ming's breathing down our necks!
[takes deep breath] We'll do our best, Son.
- How're we doing? - We're getting there.
LJ's figured out how to run that drill.
Now he has to position it over the shaft.
- Then we'll drill straight down at full speed
and have ourselves the world's first custom volcano!
[energetic rock music]
♪ ♪
[lasers blasting]
- By Jungle Law...
The Ghost Who Walks calls forth the power of ten tigers!
♪ ♪
[deep growling]
[grunts]
- Okay, here goes!
- Move it! Let's move it!
[roaring]
♪ ♪
[snarling]
[roars]
- The Earth is cracking!
The volcano is going to explode!
[serpent hisses]
Retreat, retreat!
[serpent hisses]
- I think our compatriots blew the drilling station.
[volcano rumbling]
♪ ♪
- [panting]
Just a little bit farther!
♪ ♪
- How much time do we have?
- Zero!
[energetic rock music]
♪ ♪
[earth rumbling]
[pteranodon screeches]
[roars]
[expl*si*n]
- Poor Ming.
- Well, what is this note of sympathy for Ming?
- Now he'll never be able to learn
which lizard he has descended from.