Dale Arden in Other Media
- Dale's broadcast debut was in a Hearst Radio series that ran from April to October 1935. The actress who played her is unknown.
- Dale was first portrayed on film by Jean Rogers in the film serials Flash Gordon (1936) and Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938).
- In the 1940 serial, Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe, Dale was portrayed by Carol Hughes.
- Irene Champlin took the role for the 1954 Flash Gordon television series. Champlin was praised for transforming Arden from the typical damsel in distress of the serials into a trained scientist and a "quick thinker who often saved from perishing".
- Diane Pershing provided the voice for the character in the 1979 Filmation series.
- In 1980, Dale was portrayed by Melody Anderson in the film Flash Gordon, produced by Dino De Laurentiis. In this version of the story, Dale is a newspaper reporter.
- During the course of the 1980s Marvel animated series Defenders of the Earth, Dale (who has become a computer expert after Dr. Zarkov's death) is captured and killed by Ming, but her consciousness is left trapped inside a crystal Flash uses to power the Defenders base on Earth, Monitor. Dale is reborn as the heart of the base, Dynak.
- Lexa Doig voiced Dale in the 1996 animated series Flash Gordon.
- Gina Holden portrayed Dale in the 2007 Flash Gordon television series.
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