One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since; its earliest documented telecast took place in Minneapolis 3 October 1959 on WTCN (Channel 11)).
The only shared credit of Buster Crabbe and Frank Shannon other than their respectively playing the characters of Flash Gordon and Dr. Zarkov in the three sci-fi adventure serials Flash Gordon (1936), Les nouvelles aventures de Flash Gordon (1938) and Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940).