The Flash: The Complete Series
DC Comics / Pet Fly Productions / Warner Bros. Television / Warner Home Video (1990)
TV Series  /  Action, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Television
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IMDB   7.3
1088 mins United States / English
DVD  Region 1   Unrated
John Wesley Shipp Barry Allen / ... (22 episodes, 1990-1991)
Amanda Pays Christina 'Tina' McGee (22 episodes, 1990-1991)
Alex Désert Julio Mendez (22 episodes, 1990-1991)
Vito D'Ambrosio Officer Tony Bellows (17 episodes, 1990-1991)
Biff Manard Officer Michael Murphy (17 episodes, 1990-1991)
Mike Genovese Lt. Warren Garfield (17 episodes, 1990-1991)
Richard Belzer Joe Kline / ... (10 episodes, 1990-1991)
Dick Miller Fosnight (6 episodes, 1990-1991)
Gloria Reuben Sabrina (5 episodes, 1990-1991)
Priscilla Pointer Nora Allen (3 episodes, 1990-1991)
Joyce Hyser Megan Lockhart (3 episodes, 1990-1991)
Justin Burnette Shawn Allen (3 episodes, 1990-1991)
Sven-Ole Thorsen Omega / ... (3 episodes, 1990-1991)
Mark Hamill James Jesse / ... (2 episodes, 1991)
Michael Nader Nicholas Pike (2 episodes, 1990-1991)
Jason Bernard Desmond Powell / ... (2 episodes, 1990-1991)
M. Emmet Walsh Henry Allen (2 episodes, 1990)
John Toles-Bey Father Michael (2 episodes, 1990-1991)
Robert Shayne Reggie (2 episodes, 1990-1991)
Brad 'Cat' Sevy Waiter (2 episodes, 1990-1991)
Christopher Murray Highway Patrolman / ... (2 episodes, 1990-1991)
John Wesley Shipp Barry Allen
Amanda Pays Christina 'Tina' McGee
Alex Désert Julio Mendez
Vito D'Ambrosio Officer Tony Bellows
Biff Manard Officer Michael Murphy
Mike Genovese Lt. Warren Garfield
Richard Belzer Joe Kline
Director
Mario Azzopardi
Gus Trikonis
Producer Danny Bilson
Don Kurt
Writer Danny Bilson
Jim Trombetta
Cinematography John Newby
Greg Gardiner
Musician Shirley Walker


LIFE IN THE VERY FAST LANE!Who-o-o-o-osh! The origins and exploits of the crime fighting DC Comics superhero come your way at lightning speed in this 22-episode live-action series. John Wesley Shipp portrays Barry Allen, a police crime technologist endowed with sudden talents after a fluke lab accident. He pledges to use his new powers for good, powers that include ultra-speed reflexes and the ability to vibrate his molecules so rapidly he can pass through solid walls. Amanda Pays is medical researcher Tina McGee, who monitors Allen's accelerated metabolism and guards his secret identity. The Trickster, Captain Cold, the Ghost, mad inventors: Central City is rife with criminals. Now there's a hero to keep pace with them. He's called The Flash. And in our era of instant communications, he's more in step with the times than ever.
Episodes
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    20/09/1990  1.  Pilot
Barry Allen, a police scientist, is working one night during a terrible thunder storm when a bolt of lightning crashes through the lab window, electrocuting him. Barry survives and soon learns that he is now able to move at almost incomprehensible speed.
Director:  Robert Iscove  Writer:  Danny Bilson  / Paul Demeo 
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    27/09/1990  2.  Out of Control
Homeless people are dying and their bodies are disappearing. Tina rekindles a relationship with a former colleague who is an expert in genetic engineering.
Director:  Mario Azzopardi  /  David Nutter  Writer:  Greg Berlanti  / Gail Morgan Hickman 
Guest starring:  Robert Benedetti, Bill Dunnam, Macka Foley, Stan Ivar, Jeff Perry, Michael Earl Reid, Mario Roccuzzo,  John Toles-Bey
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    18/10/1990  3.  Watching the Detectives
A corrupt D.A. hires a private investigator to learn the Flash's secret identity and then try to blackmail him into working for the D.A.
Director:  Gus Trikonis  Writer:  Howard Chaykin  / John Francis Moore 
Guest starring:  Hubert Braddock, Pat Cupo, Vincent F. Gustaferro, Darrell Harris, Harris Laskawy,  Jordan Lund, Helen Martin, Manuel Perry, Brenda Swanson, Frankie Thorn, Nicholas Trikonis,  Vincent Guastaferro, Joyce Hyser
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    25/10/1990  4.  Honor Among Thieves
While arranging security at the Central City Museum, Barry is reunited with an old girlfriend and a former mentor.
Director:  Aaron Lipstadt  / Howard Chaykin  Writer:  Danny Bilson  / Paul Demeo 
Guest starring:  Rene Assa, Ian Buchanan, Justin Burnette, Clarence Clemons, Sav Farrow,  Elizabeth Gracen, Michael Green, Paul Linke, Jon Menick, Ping Wu, Michael Wyle, Lydie Denier
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    01/11/1990  5.  Double Vision
A mad scientist uses the Flash as a supernatural force.
Director:  Gus Trikonis  Writer:  Jim Trombetta 
Guest starring:  Anne Gee Byrd, Elisabeth Chavez, Michael Fernandes, Clifton Gonzalez, Ricardo Gutierrez, Charley Hayward, Zitto Kazann,  William Marquez, Karla Montana, Richard Yniguez
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    08/11/1990  6.  Sins of the Father
A murderer escapes from prison to find his loot and kill Barry's father, the cop who put him away.
Director:  Jonathan Sanger  Writer:  Stephen Hattman 
Guest starring:  Pete Antico, Richard Camphius, Will Gill, Jr., Chuck Hicks, Michael James, Paul Koslo,  Richard Kuss, Fred Lerner, Cole McKay, Priscilla Pointer,  Ralph SeymourRobert ShayneWes StudiM. Emmet Walsh
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    15/11/1990  7.  Child's Play
An orphan boy has information that incriminates a 1960s cult figure who is trying to make a comeback.
Director:  Danny Bilson  / Gail Morgan Hickman  Writer:  Howard Chaykin  / John Francis Moore 
Guest starring:  Awest,  Kirk BaltzJonathan BrandisIvonne CollMark Dacascos, Freddie Dawson, Lance Gilbert, Alec Murdock, Perrey Reeves,  Michele Lamar RichardsRemy RyanJimmie F. Skaggs
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    29/11/1990  8.  Shroud of Death
Pieces of a broken madillion are the only clue to an unknown assassin who is on a deadly rampage in central city.
Director:  Mario Azzopardi  / Howard Chaykin  Writer:  Michael Reaves 
Guest starring:  Don Hood, Lenore Kasdorf, Dani Klein, Randall Montgomery, Walter Olkewicz, Fred Pinkard, Margueritte Ray, Lora Zane
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    13/12/1990  9.  Ghost in the Machine
Barry befriends an african american who was once a super hero that defeated a terrorist called the ghost who blackmailed the city through television sets when the presumed dead crimmnal is defrosted the night shade is back in buisness
Director:  Bruce Bilson  Writer:  Howard Chaykin  / John Francis Moore 
Guest starring:  Ian AbercrombieJason Bernard, Lois Nettleton, Floyd Raglin, Sherri Rose, Anthony Starke
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    10/01/1991  10.  Sight Unseen
Barry finds himself up against an unseen criminal who traps Tina and her boss in the lab.
Director:  Christopher Leitch  / Gail Morgan Hickman  Writer:  John Vorhaus 
Guest starring:  Sara Daly, George Dickerson, Francois Giroday, Deborah May, Christopher Neame,  Robert Shayne, James Tartan
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    31/01/1991  11.  Beat the Clock
When Julio's old friend - a jazz musician accused of killing his wife years ago - is scheduled for execution, Barry and Julio race against the clock to prove his innocence.
Director:  Mario Azzopardi  Writer:  Jim Trombetta 
Guest starring:  Angela Bassett, Joe Bellan, Thomas Mikal Ford, Ken Foree,  Jay Arlen JonesJohn Toles-Bey, Eugene Lee, Dennis Vero
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    07/02/1991  12.  The Trickster
Barry must protect his old girlfriend, Megan Lockhart, from an obsessed, maniacal criminal disguised as The Trickster.
Director:  Danny Bilson  Writer:  Howard Chaykin  / John Francis Moore 
Guest starring:  Mark Hamill, William Long Jr., Christopher Murphy, Timothy Stack, Joyce Hyser
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    14/02/1991  13.  Tina, Is That You?
When Barry has nightmares about Tina betraying him, she puts them both under her scanner; but something goes terribly wrong. His dreams are transferred into her mind and now she thinks that she is a gang member.
Director:  Chad Hayes  / Carey Hayes  Writer:  David L. Newman 
Guest starring:  Ivy Bethune, Denise Dillard, William Forward, Courtney Gebhart, Mary Gillas, Yvette Nipar, Bella Pollini, John Santucci
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    21/02/1991  14.  Be My Baby
Barry must protecting a woman and her child from her Criminal ex-husband.
Director:  Bruce Bilson  Writer:  Jule Selbo 
Guest starring:  David Chemel,  Bryan Cranston, John Hostetter, Kimberly Neville, Priscilla Pointer,  Robert Z'Dar
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    27/02/1991  15.  Fast Forward
Jay's killer, Nicholus Pike, is released from jail and blames the Flash for Jay's death. He sets the Flash up by using a heat seeking bomb on him, but something goes awry. Instead of killing the Flash, it sends him into the future where Pike is in charge and outlaws anyone from mentioning the Flash.
Director:  Gus Trikonis  Writer:  Gail Morgan Hickman 
Guest starring:  Justin Burnette, Michael Nader, Robert O'Reilly, Hank Stone, Paul Whitthorne, Beth Windsor
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    30/03/1991  16.  Deadly Nightshade
The Flash and the Nightshade team up once again as they go up against a nightshade imposter.
Director:  Bruce Bilson  Writer:  Howard Chaykin  / John Francis Moore 
Guest starring:  Jason BernardRichard BurgiDenise Crosby, Jonathan Fuller, Will McMillan, Gloria LeRoy, Charles McDaniel,  Jeri Ryan
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    06/04/1991  17.  Captain Cold
Captain Cold, who freezes his victims to death, is contracted to kill the Flash.
Director:  Gilbert M. Shilton  / Paul Demeo  Writer:  Gail Morgan Hickman 
Guest starring:  Jeffrey Anderson-GunterMichael Champion, Francois Chau,  Jeffrey Combs, Lisa Darr, Erni Vales, Jerry D. O'Donnell
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    13/04/1991  18.  Twin Streaks
A scientist clones Barry. The clone is physically perfect but emotionally it is still a child.
Director:  James A. Contner  Writer:  Stephen Hattman 
Guest starring:  Lenny Von Dohlen, Charley Lang
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    27/04/1991  19.  Done with Mirrors
Barry meets an old classmate and gets involved in a scheme to rip off Star Labs.
Director:  Danny Bilson  Writer:  Howard Chaykin  / John Francis Moore 
Guest starring:  Richard L. Blackwell, David Cassidy, William Heyes, Signy Coleman, Zach Norman,  Carolyn Seymour
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    04/05/1991  20.  Good Night, Central City
When a ""presumed to be dead"" criminal's body disappears, Barry is suspected. The criminal has invented a machine that makes anyone who hears it's strange sound waves fall into a deep sleep.
Director:  Mario Azzopardi  Writer:  Jim Trombetta 
Guest starring:  Pamela Gordon, Jeffrey King, Matt Landers,  Bill Mumy, Victor Rivers
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    11/05/1991  21.  Alpha
Barry and Tina befriend an Android who's running from a group of assassins wanting to use her as a deadly weapon.
Director:  Bruce Bilson  / Denise Skinner  Writer:  Gail Morgan Hickman 
Guest starring:  Jason Azikiwe, Ross Partridge, Anthony Powers,  Claire Stansfield, Laura Robinson,  Sven-Ole ThorsenKenneth Tigar
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    18/05/1991  22.  The Trial of the Trickster
The Trickster escapes from his trial and brainwashes the Flash.
Director:  Danny Bilson  Writer:  Howard Chaykin  / John Francis Moore 
Guest starring:  Parley Baer,  Corinne Bohrer, Marsha Clark,  Mark Hamill, Brad Sevy, Joyce Hyser
Edition Details
Series Flash, The
Release Date 10/01/2006
Packaging Custom Case
Screen Ratio 1.33:1
Subtitles English; French; Spanish
Audio Tracks English Dolby Digital 2.0
Layers Single Side, Dual Layer
No. of Discs/Tapes 6