Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

Year:
Duration:
60 min (37 episodes)
Genres:
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi
IMDB rate:
6.9
Awards:
Won Primetime Emmy. Another 5 nominations
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 1979-09-20
Filming Locations: Tower of London, Backlot, Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA
Cast
Actor
Character
Gil Gerard
Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers
Erin Gray
Col. Wilma Deering
Felix Silla
Twiki
Mel Blanc
Twiki
Tim O'Connor
Dr. Elias Huer
William Conrad
Narrator (21 episodes, 1979-1980)
Eric Server
Dr. Theopolis
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Trivia
Buck's ship is called "Ranger 3" by the narrator. In real life, NASA's Ranger Program ended in the 1960s, and Ranger 3 was a 1962 lunar probe which missed the moon and was lost in space.
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While working on this series, Mel Blanc provided voices for the parody Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24½th Century (1980).
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The show used footage of the British and French pavilions at Expo '67 in Canada to represent the futuristic buildings such as Dr. Huer's office tower and Buck's apartment building.
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Goofs
Throughout the series, there are many sequences when Buck and/or Wilma would take off in one configuration of a starfighter and then different cuts would have them sitting side by side and then a moment later one in front of the other. There would also be different ships (sky sled) where they would take off in one type of ship,exterior shots show them as they fly through space in a totally different looking ship, and then either land in the same ship they took off in, or in another different looking ship.
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Buck Rogers is supposed to be a Captain in the Air Force, but he is wearing Navy wings. In fact he is not even wearing Naval Aviator (pilot) wings, he is wearing Naval Flight Officer (navigator) wings.
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In the narration intro Buck's spacecraft is called "Ranger 3". But the Ranger series spacecraft were unmanned lunar landers, and NASA never repeats project names to avoid confusion.
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Quotes
Twiki: [repeatedly throughout series] Beedeebeedeebeedee...
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Buck Rogers: Nice costume, Tigerman. You going trick or treating?
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Narrator: [voiceover during opening] The year is 1987, and NASA launches the last of America's deep space probes. In a freak mishap, Ranger 3 and its pilot, Captain William "Buck" Rogers, are blown out of their trajectory into an orbit which freezes his life support systems, and returns Buck Rogers to Earth... 500 years later.
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Photos from cast
Ana Alicia Morgan Brittany Karen Carlson Peter Graves Brianne Leary
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