NBC airs the 16th episode of Filmation’s animated series The New Adventures of Flash Gordon, based on the classic Alex Raymond comic book character and featuring the voices of Alan Oppenheimer and Melendy Britt. This episode concludes the first season. 
Elektra Records releases an album of rock group Queen‘s soundtrack from the cult science fiction classic Flash Gordon. The album, which omits Howard Blake’s orchestral score and leads off with the single “Flash’s Theme”, is a European chart-topper (and gets a surprising amount of airplay elsewhere for a mostly-instrumental soundtrack album). 