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Buck Rogers is a 1939 science fiction film serial, produced by Universal Pictures. It stars Buster Crabbe (who had previously played the title character in two Flash Gordon serials and would return for a third in 1940) as the eponymous hero, Constance Moore , Jackie Moran and Anthony Warde . [ 1 ]
The Buck Rogers appellation has become a particularly descriptive term for vertical landings of spaceships, which was the predominant mode of rocket landing envisioned in the pre-spaceflight era at the time Buck Rogers made his original appearance.
Buck Rogers was initially broadcast as a 15-minute show on CBS Radio, from Monday through Thursday.It first ran from November 7, 1932, until May 22, 1936 . [1] [4] In 1936, it moved to a Monday, Wednesday, Friday schedule and went off the air the same year (720 episodes, 180 hours).
Set in 2153 and inspired by Tom Corbett, Space Cadet (1950 - 1955), the series depicted the adventures of fearless Rocket Rangers, who operated from Omega Base, piloting their nuclear-powered space ship Beta throughout the solar system, to battle crime and the weird menace of extraterrestrial life-forms.
Rogers first appeared as Anthony Rogers in the August 1928 issue of the seminal science fiction magazine “Amazing Stories,” in a novella titled “Armageddon 2419 A.D.” by Philip Francis Nowlan.
Buck Rogers, Wilma Deering and Twiki have been assigned aboard the spaceship Searcher which is on a mission to explore the galaxy and contact lost tribes of men who left Earth after the apocalyptic war. Elsewhere, a humanoid birdman named Hawk returns home and finds his people slaughtered by a band of human pirates and he angrily vows to kill ...
Rus Anderson, Elton John's body double in re-created concert footage in the singer's farewell tour, stars in "Rocket Man," in Providence on July 16.
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 [2] before the series aired.