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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century is an American science fiction adventure television series produced by Universal Studios.The series ran for two seasons between September 1979 and April 1981 on NBC, and the feature-length pilot episode for the series was released as a theatrical film before the series aired. The film and series were developed by Glen A. Larson and Leslie Stevens, based on the.

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  • Western also published a giant-size tabloid book which reprinted issues #2-4, the adaptation of the Buck Rogers movie. See Buck Rogers Giant Movie Edition (Western, 1979 series). Information thanks to the Grand Comics Database. Buck Rogers is a fictional character who first appeared in Armageddon 2419 A.D. By Philip Francis Nowlan in the.

Actors: Gil Gerard, Erin Gray, Felix Silla, Mel Blanc, Tim O'Connor
Directors: Daniel Haller
Writers: Glen A. Larson, Leslie Stevens, Philip Francis Nowlan
Producers: Andrew Mirisch, David G. Phinney, Glen A. Larson, Leslie Stevens
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
Subtitles: Spanish, French
Region: 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 5
Studio: Universal Studios
DVD Release Date: November 16, 2004
Run Time: 1799 minutes


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That sound you hear is fanboys having apoplectic fits at hearing the news that Paul WS Anderson, of Resident Evil and Death Race infamy, is going to direct the upcoming Buck Rogers reboot . . .

Plans for a Buck Rogers reboot has been floating around for ages now. At one point graphic novelist and sometimes director Frank Miller (300, The Spirit) and the workman-like Joe Johnston (Jumanji, Jurassic Park III, The Wolfman) were said to be working on the new full-length movie version of Buck Rogers.

Now comes the news that Paul WS Anderson is going to direct the new Buck Rogers.

To be honest one can’t think of a director more ill-suited to the task: Anderson’s brand of violent action just seems, well, wrong for the more light-hearted Buck Rogers universe!

The question remains though whether Anderson will do a worse job than producer Glen A. Larson (Knight Rider) did with the 1979-1981 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century TV series . . .

Blasphemy we know, yeah. But the point is that the late-1970s Buck Rogers television series that lasted two seasons and starred former soap star Gil Gerard as Buck and former model Erin Gray as the foxy Col. Wilma Deering isn’t particularly good (trust us, we’ve recently rewatched it on DVD again).

Gen X-ers may remember Buck Rogers as the hero of a television series made to cash in on the Star Wars sci-fi fad of back then, but the character itself is much older than that. Buck Rogers began life as a cartoon strip in 1929 – actually predating Flash Gordon who made his first appearance only in 1934!

Ageing baby boomers may recall the B&W serials (George Lucas watched them as a kid), but most people will probably go “bidi-bidi” when you mention Buck Rogers to them, imitating the “cute” robot sidekick voiced by Mel Blanc, who also supplied most of the voices to the various Looney Tunes characters such as Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig.

It is unclear what director Anderson’s plans are for the franchise is.

Word has it that Miller wanted to take the character back to its roots as dashing retro 1930s hero. Maybe Anderson wants to remake the 1970s TV series instead in which Rogers was a womanizing Han Solo wannabe. (“Buck Rogers is a slut,” I thought aloud watching one episode.)

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The plot is a sci-fi retelling of Mark Twain’s Connecticut Yankee in which a 20th century man wakes up 500 years in the future. Needless to say he becomes involved in various adventures, gets outfitted with a ‘Seventies-style bachelor pad and a midget-sized robot sidekick – wouldn’t we all?

THE DISC: No special features whatsoever. Nothing. Image and sound quality aren’t too consistent either.

WORTH IT? It isn’t particularly good even though nostalgic Gen X-ers who watched it as kids back then will probably be more forgiving. The plots are rather superficial and usually involve Buck deposing some tin pot dictator lording it over his or her unfortunate underlings on some distant planet. (If only it was this easy in real life!) Not particularly deep.

The special effects and sets may have dated, but were pretty decent for their time (Larson recycled them from his Battlestar Galactica show). The show’s biggest problem – or its best attribute if you have a highly developed sense of MST3K-type irony – is the costumes! The spaceships and laser guns may have been, ahem, “inspired” by Star Wars, but the costume department’s job seems to have consisted of trips to the nearest S&M store! That and dusting off designs from old Flash Gordon serials – you just gotta love that cape Jack Palance is made to wear in one episode! (Palance joyously hams it up all the way of course.) Gerard also looks like a ‘Seventies leisure suit lounge lizard and is made to wear such tight pants that one is amazed that he doesn’t speak with a permanent Barry Gibb falsetto.

Logan’s Run zipper suits aside, the production designers also labored under the illusion that the 1970s will last forever and that Disco Will Never Die.

Yup, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century is pretty cheesy all right and some of the scenes are 100% guaranteed to make you cringe like hell. (One scene in which a regular villain dubs her new bodyguard “pantherman” because he is so “black and beautiful” will make you feel so dirty that you’d want to take a shower afterwards!)

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Things also aren’t helped by the reuse of stock footage (check out that spaceship in the exterior establishing shot now flying in reverse!) and a very dull Gerard who famously went on to famously struggle with his weight. (Beware: this will happen to you too one day.) Check out the scene in which he dully reacts to a tearful Col Deering who tells him that he is “more than a friend” and makes her feel like a woman for the first time – that is, despite his incessant womanizing, which she takes with the good humor of an indulgent asexual TV sidekick.

RECOMMENDATION: This is one nostalgia trip that isn’t particularly worth taking unless you’re the type who regularly page through your parents’ photo albums to poke fun at their dated fashions. (Beware: your kids will do this to you one day.)



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(Links to 1302 images of the Buck Rogers comic strips are at the bottom of this introduction.)

In August 1928, Philip Francis Nowlan published a short story called 'Armageddon 2419 A.D.' in the science fiction magazine Amazing Stories. Six months later, in March of 1929, he published a sequel, 'The Airlords of Han'. The hero of both of these novellas was a man named Anthony Rogers. The tale told in this pair of stories begins with Rogers being overcome by a mysterious gas while inspecting a mine. The gas puts him into a coma from which he does not awake until five hundred years later. He finds himself in a world of advanced technology and amazing adventure.

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The popularity of the two stories caught the attention of John F. Dille. Dille teamed up the author, Philip Nowlan, with cartoonist Richard 'Dick' Calkins within the syndication framework of the the John F. Dille Company to continue the tale in graphic form as a newspaper cartoon series for a mass audience.

It was in connection with the organization of this team effort that the name of the hero was changed from 'Anthony Rogers' to the snappier, 'Buck Rogers'.

Nowlan's, Dille's and Calkin's efforts combined to produce what was to become an important part of American pop culture. The comic strip itself ran for 38 years. In addition to this long-running comic strip, Buck Rogers was popularized in books, a television serial and a computer game. The Buck Rogers theme gave rise to emulations such as Flash Gordon and other swashbuckling space heros.

In Worcester, Massachusetts, the Buck Rogers comic strip series was carried by the Worcester Evening Gazette, appearing six days a week - Monday to Saturday. These Buck Rogers comic strips were collected by Roland N. Anderson (1916-1982) while working as a paperboy. He was able to assemble an almost complete collection of the series from its start in the Evening Gazette on February 4, 1929 until March 25, 1933. During this more than four year period 1302 daily strips were created by the Dille Company and Roland missed getting hold of only four of the strips published in the Evening Gazette - numbers 100, 1033, 1052 and 1129. Publication in the Evening Gazette, however, had began exactly four weeks after the official start of the series on January 7, 1929, so the series in the Evening Gazette was continuously behind other newspapers. In an effort to catch up a bit, the Evening Gazette skipped strips 667 to 672, publishing strip 666 on Saturday, March 21, 1931 and then strip 673 on Monday, March 23, 1931. Additionally, the Evening Gazette wasn't published on the Fourth of July national holidays and the Gazette skipped strips scheduled to be published on those dates to avoid falling further behind. Occasionally, when Roland was unable to obtain a certain strip, the night editorial staff helped him, providing the missing strip either from some reserve or the strip as published in the Boston Herald. This was the case on July 4, 1931 as the strip included here originated from that source. The strips from the Boston Herald can be identified by the deviant type in the titling. Titles were set locally at the newspapers, only the images were provided by the Dille Company.

All in all, the strips that Roland was unable to obtain, together with unpublished strips, totaled 14 missing strips - 100, 130, 667-672, 731, 1033, 1046, 1052, 1075 and 1129. To fill these gaps, images of these 14 strips were obtained from gray-scale archival film sources, reduced to black-and-white and then artificially colored to provide the same visual impression as the scanned images.

The narrational structure of the Buck Rogers comic strips is much like that of a soap opera - a series of adventures of varying lengths with short transitions between each adventure. Centered below is a synopsis of the Buck Rogers series. Each sentence describes some escapade in the series. By clicking on a sentence a reader is carried to that daily strip where that adventure begins. Each comic strip has a number written somewhere in the lower right hand corner of each strip. Some browsers will also display these numbers in the lower left hand corner of the window frame. If someone quits reading some segment of the Buck Rogers narration before having read it all and then at some later date wishes to return to where he left off, this can be done by entering the number of that particular comic strip here.

Because of the large number of images, this presentation is written in such a way that any links must be made to this page and not to individual images. It is possible to navigate directly from this page to any image.

Twelve-year-old boys of all ages, looking for nifty rocket ships, can find some of them on strips 102, 175, 316, 368, 452, 584, 588, 613, 620, 747, 756, 762, 772, 930, 946, 970, 979, 1007, 1021, 1024, 1150, 1233, 1241, 1253, 1261 and 1268.

This material is presented here solely for educational purposes and to help maintain a continued interest in the Buck Rogers phenomenon and the people behind it.

In 2009, high-quality reproductions of the Buck Rogers comic strips were published in easy-to-read book form by Hermes Press. The series is presented in several hard-bound volumes entitled, 'Buck Rogers in the 25th Century'. The Hermes Press presentation is more extensive than this collection.