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1979-1981
20th SEPTEMBER 1979
MCA / UNIVERSAL
GLEN A. LARSON & LESLIE STEVENS

 
BACKGROUND

Astronaut Captain Buck Rogers is frozen on a space flight and awakes 500 years later in 
the 25th Century to show the sterile atmostphere of New Chicago how groovy people were 
in the long past days of the 1970's! 

After the success of Larson's Battlestar Galactica, he brought a lighter concept to the 
networks with the adventures of Buck trying to find his feet in a new world. A not entirely 
successful attempt and fun SF, but it did have it's moments which usually involved Pamela 
Hensley's superbly hammy and sultry Princess Ardala. 

It was nenewed for a second season with Buck joining the starship Searcher to find missing 
Earth colonists or some such nonsense and was cancelled mid-season...thank heavens!

 
 
CAST
CAPTAIN 'BUCK' ROGERS Gil Gerard
COLONEL WILMA DEERING Erin Gray
DR.HUER Tim O'Conner
TWIKI Felix Silla & Mel Blanc
PRINCESS ARDALA Pamela Hensley
KANE Micheal Ansara
HAWK Thom Christopher
DR.GOODFELLOW Wilfred Hyde-White
ADMIRAL ASIMOV Jay Gardener
DR.THEOPOLIS Eric Server

 
Buck and Twicky
Hawk was intrduced in Season 2

 
EPISODE GUIDE
SEASON 1 SEASON 2

AWAKENING (PILOT) 
PLANET OF THE SLAVE GIRLS 
VEGAS IN SPACE 
PLOT TO KILL A CITY  1 
PLOT TO KILL A CITY  2 
RETURN OF THE FIGHTING 69th 
UNCHAINED WOMEN 
PLANET OF THE AMAZON WOMEN 
COSMIC WHIZZ KID 
ESCAPE FROM WEDDED BLISS 
CRUISE SHIP TO THE STARS 
SPACE VAMPIRE 
HAPPY BIRTHDAY,BUCK 
A BLAST FOR BUCK 
ARDALA RETURNS 
TWIKI IS MISSING 
OLYMPIAD 
A DREAM OF JENNIFER 
SPACE ROCKERS 
BUCK'S DUEL TO THE DEATH 
FLIGHT OF THE WAR WITCH  1 
FLIGHT OF THE WAR WITCH  2 		 TIME OF THE HAWK  1 
TIME OF THE HAWK  2 
JOURNEY TO OASIS  1 
JOURNEY TO OASIS  2 
THE GUARDIANS 
MARK OF THE SAURIAN 
THE GOLDEN MAN 
THE CRYSTALS 
THE SATYR 
SHGORATCHX 
THE HAND OF GORAL 
THE DORIAN SECRET 
TESTIMONY OF A TRAITOR 

 
TRIVIA FAX
Original 1930's Buck Rogers & Flash Gordon, Buster Crabbe appeared in the episode
Planet of the Slave Girls as an ageing pilot called (appropriately) Brigadier Gordon! 

Many models and sound effects were taken from Larson's other SF show at the
time Battlestar Galactica.