Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV series)

Buck Rogers is an American science fiction series, based on the Buck Rogers comic strip by Philip Francis Nowlan and Richard Calkins, which was created between 1979 and 1981 at Universal Studios, and in two seasons.

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Broadcast

The pilot for the series was first listed in March 1979 in U.S. cinemas, because just in the USA, a science-fiction boom, triggered by the first Star Wars movie Star Wars prevailed. The film adaptation of Battlestar Galactica - pilot (also a Larson - production ) was also very successful in theaters. The series itself went on U.S. television from September 1979 to shipment. However, as with Battlestar Galactica the ratings went back in time, so that in two series between the scales of the design was revised. Only in the spring of 1981 began with the airing of the second season. Again, the rates remained below expectations, so that the series was taken after only eight episodes from the program.

Also in Germany, the pilot film was first brought to the West German cinemas in July 1979 and was repeated several times in the ARD and the third programs from 1982. The then young private Sat.1 began on 25 May 1985 with the broadcast of the first 13 episodes of the first season, which were repeated in 1986 there. From 3 June 1989, the German private broadcasters RTLplus showed the complete series, which was repeated in 1990 and 1991. Since 2000, the series was shown on several occasions at various pay-TV programs.

Episode List

Season 1

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Season 2

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Publications

In the UK, both seasons of Buck Rogers - with a total of 37 episodes - both appeared on VHS, as well as on DVD. In Germany, the pilot was only available on video cassette in 2013. 2008 appeared the first and second season on DVD in Germany. Since July 2013, the original theatrical version is available on DVD with English and German audio track.

Miscellaneous

For the first time Buck Rogers was filmed in 1939 as a 12-piece matinee serial. Each episode had a duration of about 20 minutes per episode. Here played Buster Crabbe, who was already seen as Flash Gordon, the role of Buck. This serial has already been aired in the third programs several times in Germany. Crabbe also had a cameo appearance in the episode " Vistula - The deadly threat," where his role name " Brigadier Gordon " was. Another American television series created in 1950 with Kem Dibbs in the lead role. From 1951 Dibbs by Robert Pastane was replaced. The photographs in this second series are now considered lost.

Some well-known actors had guest appearances in the series. Among them, Jack Palance ( Vistula - The deadly threat " ) and Jamie Lee Curtis ( A deadly risk ).

Media

In addition to a paperback novel series when Luebbe Verlag and also at gold man, even computer games to the series were available. In the U.S., there appeared a comic book series.