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DVD Buck Rogers in the 25th Century - The Complete Series
With its campy combination of lightweight adventure and Spandex disco chic, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century is a nostalgic throwback to post-Star Wars opportunism. Series co-creator Glen A. Larson was incapable of originality, and former soap star Gil Gerard (in the title role) was a bland incarnation of the comic-strip hero, so the much-anticipated series premiered on September 20, 1979, with serious disadvantages. Although the two-hour pilot "Awakening" had tested successfully as a theatrical release, Gerard and the show's producers could never agree on a stable tone for the series, which presents Capt. William "Buck" Rogers as a jovial space cowboy who is accidentally time-warped from 1987 to 2491. Earth is engaged in interplanetary war following a global holocaust, and Buck's piloting skills make him an ideal starfighter recruit for the Earth Defense Directorate, where his closest colleagues are Dr. Huer (Tim O'Connor), squadron leader Col. Wilma Deering (former model Erin Gray, looking oh-so-foxy), the wisecracking robot Twiki (voiced by cartoon legend Mel Blanc), and a portable computer-brain named Dr. Theopolis, who's carried by Twiki like oversized bling-bling.
The series struggled through an awkward first season, with routine plots elevated by decent special effects and noteworthy guest stars including Jamie Lee Curtis, ill-fated Playboy Playmate Dorothy Stratten (appearing, with her voice dubbed over, less than a year before her tragic murder), Batman alumnus Julie Newmar, Buster Crabbe (veteran of vintage Buck Rogers movie serials), and several others in a show that favored vamps and vixens over credible science fiction. A full-scale overhaul resulted in a disastrous second season, but devoted fans still gravitate to Hawk (Thom Christopher), the charismatic alien "birdman" who was introduced with new characters and a new, space-faring search for lost tribes from Earth (with echoes of Larson's own Battlestar Galactica). Behind-the-scenes squabbles continued, and by mid-season of 1981, NBC pulled the plug on a breezy, still-engaging series that suffered from uneasy chemistry and never realized its full potential. Existing somewhere between Galactica and Lost in Space in the TV sci-fi food chain, this Buck--with a dearth of DVD extras--now functions as a cheesy stroll down memory lane. --Jeff Shannon
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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century - The Complete Series DVD ~ Gil Gerard [DVD]
I have been trying to get the complete Buck Rogers series on DVD for about 2 years. Finally, I found it on Amazon.
I am really enjoying the movies.
Thank you.
Sometimes you can come home again
Some of you are like me, you watched this show as a kid and loved it. It didn't matter what the quality was or anything, you just enjoyed it. And now that you're in your thirties you're wondering if this little part of your past can be recaptured. You've been disappointed with other early 80s things that don't hold up so well these days.
Don't worry. This is a great DVD set. I thought about buying it for weeks and finally broke down and bought it for my birthday. I don't regret it. It was great reliving the past. I saw the last episode this evening and re-watched the first. The DVD has 24 episodes of season 1 and only half a season of season 2 which is all they made. The original theatrical intro is here (which is a hoot) and they don't have Mel Blanc dubbed over Twiki in the first several episodes of season 2.
Still, the show is just as watchable now as it was then. Erin Grey is still beautiful and Gil Gerard is still the guy to be. If you're agonizing over whether to buy this or not, go ahead and buy it. Sure, it ain't 21st century pyrotechnics and CG but the stories are still fun and it'll provide hours of harmless fun.
And isn't that the point? I'd rather have a new generation of kids watching this than a lot of the junk that is on TV these days.
Campy, poorly acted, and cheap, but I love it!
Much like Glen Larson's "Battlestar Galactica", Buck Rogers was another Universal Studios project that created mini movies with every episode of this short lived series.
While the show had a low budget and was not known for it's tremendous acting, it had a certain campy appeal that made it one of the better and more fun shows to watch on tv.
As a teenager, I saw this series on Sci fi Channel (this was around 1994) and spent the whole time laughing at Gil Gerard's 1970's inspired costumes, the x mas lights and the plastic clocks that were used as computers. This show is very dated, and makes no efforts to hide the era from which it came.
The series has a highlight in Erin Grey who plays Wilma Deering, the sexy space girlfriend type who befriends the awkward Buck Rogers. Buck, with his early 1980's glory spends all his time looking for good card games, booze and in general an old fashioned good time in the stuffy, computer run future.
The first season features Buck and Wilma Deering are explorers and follow a plot similar to the old comic strips. They fight criminals, evildoers and other sorts of comic book badguys. Every episode features at least one guest star, and in that sense ,this was almost a "Love Boat" in space. Guest stars of note include Buster Crabbe, Roddy McDowal, Jack Palance, Jamie Lee Curtis and Julie Newmar.
The second season is a little bit less than the first. There was clearly less money the second time around, and the plot shifted from the city to outer space, with many of season one's characters mysteriously gone. Unfortunately, season 2 does not live up to the excitement of the first season, but it's cool that they included it as well.
This series is not for someone who seeks a serious show with flawed characters and deep writing. In fact, the series practically SCREAMS for a remake, as the remade Battlestar Galactica has shown what these characters could have been if the shows had been produced today.
Fans of Erin Gray, Gil Gerard and fans of campy sci fi should check this series out.
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