Flash Gordon Survey: Setting Version

If you could only choose one version of Flash Gordon on which to base your role-playing game setting, which would it be? (Comments are welcome.)

1. The original comic strip (1934–1944).
2. The movie serials (1936–1940).
3. The later comic strip (1944+).
4. The first live-action television series (1954–1955).
5. The first animated television series (1979–1980).
6. The film (1980).
7. The second animated television series (1996–1997).
8. The second live-action television series (2007–2008).