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The Flash
1990 - 1991 7.4 (503 votes) 1 Seasons
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Genres
Action & Adventure Crime Drama Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Networks
CBS
Created By
Danny Bilson
Paul De Meo

The Flash

Overview

When a bolt of lightening crashes through a police crime lab, a mix of electrically charged substances bathes chemist Barry Allen, transforming him into the fastest man alive--The Flash.

Key Crew

Top Cast

John Wesley Shipp
John Wesley Shipp

Barry Allen / Flash

Amanda Pays
Amanda Pays

Christina 'Tina' McGee

Alex Désert
Alex Désert

Julio Mendez

Seasons

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (1990)

Barry Allen, a forensic scientist working for the Central City police, is struck by lightning and doused in chemicals in his lab. He develops superspeed and creates a superhero identity for himself to fight crime: The Flash. Research scientist Dr. Tina McGee works at S.T.A.R. Labs and helps Barry fight crime while trying to understand how his powers are developing. As well as his superheroics, Barry tries to maintain a private life, and tries to keep his superhero identity from his colleagues, his boss Lt. Garfield, and his best friend, Julio Mendez.

22 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Pilot
1990-09-20

A laboratory accident endows a police scientist with the ability to move at superhuman speed which he uses to battle a menacing gang as a superhero.

Runtime: 94 min
Episode 2: Out of Control
1990-09-27

Homeless people are dying and their bodies are disappearing. Tina rekindles a relationship with a former colleague who is an expert in genetic engineering.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 3: Watching the Detectives
1990-10-18

The corrupt District Attorney Thomas Castillo hires a private eye named Megan Lockhart to find out the Flash's identity. He then blackmails Barry to work for him, or he'll expose his secret.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 4: Honor Among Thieves
1990-10-25

While arranging security at the Central City Museum, Barry is reunited with an old girlfriend and a former mentor.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 5: Double Vision
1990-11-01

Someone spreads graffiti, and messages asking to meet "Flash" at a church. Barry goes to the church. Shortly after that, he begins to experience black outs and memory losses.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 6: Sins of the Father
1990-11-08

A bank robber escapes from prison. He goes back to Central City to get his money and revenge on the cop who busted him, Henry Allen, Barry's father.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 7: Child's Play
1990-11-15

An orphan boy has information that incriminates a 1960s cult figure who is trying to make a comeback.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 8: Shroud of Death
1990-11-29

Pieces of a broken medallion are the only clue to an unknown assassin who is on a deadly rampage in central city.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 9: Ghost in the Machine
1990-12-13

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 criminal is defrosted, the Night Shade is back in business.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 10: Sight Unseen
1991-01-10

An invisible man gets into Star Labs, and releases a neurotoxin with Tina inside the lab. Then he starts killing scientists who worked on the project. Flash must find the invisible man and save his friend.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 11: Beat the Clock
1991-01-31

A jazz musician friend of Julio's is about to be executed. An hour before the execution, a friend calls and says he has evidence that could exonerate their friend. Before Barry can contact him, he disappears. They have less than an hour to save a condemned man.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 12: The Trickster
1991-02-07

Barry must protect his old girlfriend, Megan Lockhart, from an obsessed, maniacal criminal disguised as The Trickster.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 13: Tina, Is That You?
1991-02-14

Barry is having trouble sleeping. Tina tries to use bio-feedback to help him, but it back fires on Tina. She joins a gang, and she's able to hold Flash at bay with her knowledge of his strengths and weaknesses. Barry has got to find a way to save his friend.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 14: Be My Baby
1991-02-21

Barry tries to help a young woman. She found out about her husband's criminal life, and is trying to escape from him. She takes their daughter with her, but he wants them back.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 15: Fast Forward
1991-02-27

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.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 16: Deadly Nightshade
1991-03-30

There's a new vigilante in town, the Deadly Nightshade, who fights crime by killing criminals. The Flash and the original Nightshade team up to take him down.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 17: Captain Cold
1991-04-06

Captain Cold, who freezes his victims to death, is contracted to kill the Flash.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 18: Twin Streaks
1991-04-13

A scientist and his business partner are trying to develop a being with super speed, their attempts fail. They manage to clone the Flash. Their creation learns quickly, but is emotional moral equivalent of a child. Barry must stop his twin.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 19: Done with Mirrors
1991-04-27

A battery is stolen by a criminal calling himself the Mirror Master. He soon steals a crystal from Star Labs. Tina will get fired if they can't recover the crystal. Tina's mother comes for a visit, and an old friend of Barry's also stirs up trouble.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 20: Good Night, Central City
1991-05-04

A small time crook gets a hold of a device that puts people to sleep. He goes on a spree while the people are unconscious. He has a plan to knock out the entire city, it's up to the Flash to stop him.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 21: Alpha
1991-05-11

An android built by the government to use an assassin refuses to obey her orders. She escapes, and is befriended by Tina and Barry.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 22: The Trial of the Trickster
1991-05-18

With the help of an insane admirer who wants to be his sidekick, the Trickster escapes from police custody and places the Flash under his mind control.

Runtime: 45 min

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