Whatever Happened to BUCK ROGERS in the 25th CENTURY?
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I loved the Buck Rogers movie/pilot and season 1. Unfortunately, season 2 was abysmal. The naysayers can disagree all they want. Total crap!
I agree it wasn't as good as the first season but there were a handful of season two episodes that were tolerable
No, season 2 was horrible and boring.
Wasnt Gary Coleman (Arnold) in it?
Agreed, was never a fan.
I did Iike Hawk, though.
Pamela Hensley only in 4 episodes? Wow...she made a hell of an impression on me. Interesting.. And thank you.
She was a smoke show. 🔥🔥🔥 The woman on ABCs Matt Houston looked a lot like her.
Let's not forget that Buster Crabbe was not only the original Buck Rogers, but was also to original Flash Gordon
Erin Gray now runs a business booking stars for convention appearances...
Erin Grey is an absolute sweetheart. I first met her at Chicago Comic con and she sat down and just started talking to me like I was a long-lost friend. Adding to my story I was riding the shuttle that went from the hotels in Rosemont to Chicago Airport I was reading a comic book waiting for the bus to leave. Someone asked if the seat next to me was taken, I looked up and it was Erin Grey...again. We talked about random stuff, my Sister just gave birth to my niece, she scrolled through the pictures on my camera and told me my Mom has the same couch as she does. It was great! Eventually, the airport shuttle made it to the airport and she said, "bye" and left to catch her plane.
That story is unbelievable.
That story is awesome!
That is super freaking cool - so glad you had a chance to meet Erin. Thank you so much for sharing. Cheers, Dan
Don't forget about "DUCK DODGERS, IN THE 24TH AND A HALF CEN...TURY!!!"😄😄😄
One of the very best Warner cartoons. DUE UP!!!!!!
The absolute coolest scene in Buck Rogers was Col. Gordon, played by Buster Crabb, assuring a dubious Buck that he had been dogfighting spacecraft since before Buck was born.
And the fact that he’s was Bick and Flash makes it even better.
I just want to say don't forget a little
Syfy outer space show called quark....
@@JoseyWales44s While this was great, as a kid, I had no idea that he was anyone other than an old pilot in the episode.
@@Captain_Sarcastic Although I was 12 at the time I was a sci-fi buff, like my father, and was well acquantited with Buster Crabb and his roles as Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers and Tarzan.
@@charlesbard2331 I keep TRYING to forget QUARK. The fact that they made a STAR TREK character with that name has confounded me for three decades now.
I went to Universal for a casting call one time. I went thru a back gate and had to walk thru the back lot where I saw the life size starfighter sitting next to the Viper from Battlestar Galactica.
Wow that's amazing. Did you get any pictures?
Erin Gray and Lynda Carter. The 70's were amazing for young males.
Don't forget Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith, Farrah Fawcett, and Cheryl Ladd.
Never was a jugs man myself.
Brains and a pretty face still turns me on.
That and a good foundation.
Legs go a long way into
Getting to the point.
Thanks girls! You rock.
As a young teen boy when this came out, my eyes were on Erin Grey. 😍 Buck who?
Erin said those outfits were so tight they made her cry.
Being a then age 19, certainly made me cry…
The best episode was the one in which Buster Crabbe appeared as "Gordon". Great to see the original Tarzan, Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers appearing in the new version.
For the 70's I agree with you, it was Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, and Buck Rogers. I would also add Space:1999 too
We must be about the same age because I also remember Erin Gray being the Colonel we all wanted to… fly with. 😁
Ah, the joys of youth!
Had an opportunity to meet miss Erin Grey at a convention around 10 years ago. She still looked as good as she did back during the series. She was very wonderful to meet. I hope to meet her again one day
Erin Grey may have been the prettiest woman to ever be on TV. It was a very fun show. Wish it had been able to keep up the quality.
Pamela Hensley & Erin Grey
Erin Gray was smokin' hot.
I’m 55 and remember loving this show as a kid but this is the first time I ever heard about the movie that came out first. Now I must seek this out to watch!
The opening titles to the movie are slightly different to the TV show as there's a James Bond moment with Buck dreaming about the females in the movie, I love it it's one of my guilty pleasures
Gil was great and I loved Erin's skin tight costume. 🥰🤓😎✌🏼🛸🤖
Now do "Duck Dodgers, in the 24th and a 1/2 Thentury".
NGL as a teenager it was the women and a few characters that got my attention. Never realized how amazing Markie Post was until Buck Rogers.
My 6 and 7 year old self wasn't looking at Wilma quite that way. She was just another girl in the show at the time but watching the show today my appreciation for those space suits has definitely improved
Spandex! She did look hot. Even as a 8yr old, 9 I did not get how Wilma was 28, 30 & a full Col! That takes 15-25yr in most service careers.
Bidi bidi bidi! I wanted my own little robot friends so bad. I ran around my house screaming Bidi bidi bidi! 😂
Lol, now that right there is hilarious
You are far from the only one chief.
Twiki is one of my earliest 📺memories lol
I went out of my mind trying to figure out how to make a decent-looking Twiki out of the limited Legos I had. lol Never succeeded, though.😕
Unchained woman is a particular favourite episode of mine from season 1. Jamie Lee, Curtis and, in particular, that outfit she was wearing still linger in my memory even now 🙂
What I remember most was the parade of guest actresses the likes of Jamie Lee Curtis, Markie Post, Morgan Brittany and Judy Landers.
Where was Morgan Fairchild or Heather Thomas? We needed them in season two episodes.
Princess Ardala always looked like she borrowed her outfits from Cher! LOL
NBC Destroyed this Show in It's Second Season.
Absolutely 💯
I thought Glen A. Larson was one of the schlockiest, most corner-cutting producers in the history of television- and yet I watched a lot of his stuff. As far as "Buck Rogers" goes: season 1 they had a format that generally worked, and then in season 2 they ruined it trying to do "Star Trek." Not since "Operation Petticoat" had a show been so gutted after it's initial season that it became nearly unrecognizable.
11 year-old me absolutely loved this show - I loved the Sci-Fi aspect but yes, I admit I loved Wilma in her outfits and the other female costumes. Oddly enough, my dad, who wasn't into Sci-Fi, started watching the show, I soon figured out why...lol
Always thought the Terran Starfighters were among the coolest looking ships ever made.
Personally I liked Twiki, I think it helped he was voiced by the legendary Mel Blanc, I doubt he would have worked without Mel.
I never understood the changes to season 2...totally different show. Gil Gerard supposedly had to fight for Erin Grey to still be in the show, but the Ice Cream Parlour outfit was...disappointing to say the least. Rumour has it a lot of the changes were at the demands of Gil Gerard, largely because of his issues with the show you mentioned, as well as a new showrunner.
Admiral Asimov was supposed to be a distant relative of Isaac Asimov, Crichton was Uber annoying, but the only good thing about Season 2 was undoubtedly Hawk.
I have the blu-rays - they look absolutely awesome!
I'll always remember Pamela Hemsley from another SF classic... "Rollerball".
She played her character so well. She was in love with Jonathan... the only person who truly loved him, and he, of course, pushed her away because he wanted Maude Adams. Every time I see the movie I yell at the screen, calling Jonathan an idiot for sending her away.
I think Erin Grey accelerated my puberty.
Erin Gray was my first love
Wait, you didn't get "Wonder Woman" where you lived? Just kidding, Erin and Lynda are equally gorgeous.
Please do a video on the old Project UFO series. I really liked it as a kid.
Excellent video as always!
Mark Leanerd was also a guest star on Buck Rogers. He played an alien that could remove his own head. Seems logical.
As a teen at the time, yup Wilma was a one of those women you never forget, especially after the "off think" scene. If you know, you know.
I remember the episode with Buster Crabbe. The line ...you look like you've done this before. The answer from Crabbe...before you were born.
Erin Gray made the show with those spandex outfits.
The South Park 2-parter where Cartman froze himself so he wouldn't be tormented by having to wait for the Nintendo Wii to come out and was eventually defrosted in the 25th century was the ultimate Buck Rogers tribute.😁🖖
Thanks, Dan! My brother and father and I saw the movie in the theaters and loved it. We also really liked the first season, but even as a little kid we could see the huge drop off after the first season. Beyond that we kind of gave up on the show.
I actually once randomly bumped into Felix, who played Twiki, at a hotel and I went over and said hello. He was very kind.
That first season was great! Actually my favorite thing about the show was the detail in the different costumes. They were so creative. I also loved Wilma before they made her a flight attendant in the second season.She was a woman with authority in the 70s. A warrior.
Loved this show. Erin Gray was absolutely gorgeous!
Princess Ardolla may have only been in 4 episodes but her gorgeous body was in 8 episodes. At least that's how my mind remembers her.
Princess Ardala
I hated how season one ended on a cliffhanger.
Anticipation for season 2 was high.
Then season 2 had nothing to do with season one.
Turned into the love boat in space 😢
Mark Lenard was also a famous guest. I recall him from season 2 of Buck Rogers. He had the ability to physically remove his head. I know. Weird. As we know, Mark Lenard famously played Spock's Vulcan father, Ambassador Sarek. He also played a Romulan commander in the first season of Star Trek. -OG
I’m good friends with Gil. Whenever Felix and him get together it was like abbot and costello. They were great friends for many many years. Having dinner with Gil and has him talk about the show, and other stuff was a treat!
Gil is no fan of Erin Grey tho now. Whenever they were at a con together they were totally separated.
Gotta lot of stories, but not enough space to share here :)
A shame.
Gil Gerard shows a lot of signs of TDS on Twitter. Wonder if he and Erin became estranged over politics.
I had the opportunity several years ago to meet Erin Grey. I asked her what she thought specifically of season two, and it was clear she didn't like talking about it. To be fair, I like to pretend it never happened too.
As a kid I was also wanting anything that was SCI-FI related following the hype of Star Wars. Battle Star and Buck Rogers was so fun. Oh…and Wilma….omg
This and Galactica were definitely two of my favorite childhood shows, even after it mutated into a Star Trek knockoff
S1 on BSG and BR were amazing. S2 of the same, not so much.
Same thing with Space 1999. But it was a lot more tolerable than the other two. Imho
When I was an 18 year old nerd I worked at a grocery store here in Southern California. Pamela Hensley used to come in to our store pretty often. I used to take her groceries out to the car for her. You can imagine what a fanboy I was even back then. She was a very kind, sweet, and beautiful woman.
Monogram models made a kit of the Buck Rogers Terran Starfighter and had trouble selling them. Now they are over $150 on Ebay. Oh well, missed my chance.
Odd to me why a reasonably popular show gets an extreme make-over in its second year, ruining it.
Economics.
@@lamarravery4094 Yes. Read that as greedy network executives wanting more money in their own pockets and bank accounts so they try to find ways to make show productions cost less...thus ruining the show, altogether. They don't care. They'll just come up with a bunch of stupid "reality" shows as fillers until another awesome show comes along. Of course, after a season, or two, they'll try to ruin that one, too. Goddddd! Network executives!
Pamela Hensley made a Sci Fi Con appearance back then in LA, I was there and she was VERY much IN character for her appearance. Now she sells cookbooks!
I'm a little surprised you didn't mention that it inspired the character of Bird Person on Rick & Morty.
Rick & Morty sucks.
Buck Roger’s suffered from the same problems Battlestar Galactica did. Repeated special effects and some poor writing.
Also add 70s influences, even worse writing, and budget cuts making season two even more awful.
Gil Gerard was great. He was the Richard Hatch of the show. They both had integrity for their show’s concept.
Buck Roger's what?
To be honest, i wish Sci Fi shows would still look like Buck Rogers, i really like that style. It looks familiar but yet unlike things look today.
The show had a certain levity not found in todays shows anymore, i really miss that tbh.
Pamela Hensley, aw cha cha cha cha
Pamela Hensley could've conquered my Galaxy anytime!
We called it T&A in the 25th century. That's why you watched it. T&A
Dan, there is another guest star you could have mentioned. Her name was Dorothy Stratten. She was the Playboy model who was murdered in August 1980 by her husband, Paul Snider. She was in an episode called "Cruise Ship to the Stars."
Not 'could have' mentioned - SHOULD HAVE mentioned. Stratten was the most beautiful woman to ever appear on the show.
@@xaenon Point well taken...
She also appeared in a Science Fiction film called Galaxina.
I really liked Gil Gerard’s interpretation of Buck. He took the space opera superhero from the serial, and imbued him with great humanity.
I totally agree :-)
Gil was very likable. You really cared about what happened to Buck on the show.
Erin Gray was stunning
Surprisingly Harvey Levin from TMZ now owns Twiki. He was a huge fan of the show. Great episode Dan 🎉
Man... William Conrad's voice was just awesome. As soon as his picture appeared I heard his deep resonate voice in my head. Memories!
Changing Twinkies voice was the final straw.
That and turning Wilma into a stewardess.
Excuse me, Airline Attendant.
Throwing out the props to their popular films and TV shows, it just goes to show that the studios are full of suits who have absolutely no idea what they're doing. If they did know, then they'd preserve the props, because they'd end up bringing in a MASSIVE profit if they sold them later on. That's one thing I have to hand to George Lucas, he did keep all of his Star Wars OT props.
As an 8 year old kid, i remember seeing the theatrical movie in a double feature that had ‘Star Trek: The Motion Picture’ as the second film.
The movie theater was literally right down the street from where I grew up.
The first season was so cool, I’d eagerly watch each new episode, but when the second season came around all i could think of was where all the other characters were?
Dude, you forgot Markie Post as a guest star. One of the most beautiful woman to ever live!
Yeah, I just couldn't hit everybody LOL
At least he showed her
@@MoviesMusicMonsters I know. She was so impressive.
@@docsavage8640 I guess I missed that.
I had the Terran Starfighter model as a kid. I strung it up in my room on fishing line at an angle so I could pull it to the higher side and let it slide down to the lower side like it was flying.
Nice :-) do you still have it?
They jumped the shark when they dressed Erin in the candy striper uniform.
The Buster Crabbe guest shot really treated him well. Think he played Brigadier Gordon and could still fly like an ace.
I was going to link a video in the comments but the only two clips I could find on CZcams were of abysmal quality. He assured a skeptical Buck, that he had been doing that sort of think since before Buck was born. Best moment in the entire series.
I think Twiki's Egyptian look was heavily inspired by the Japanese sci-fi kid's show Johnny Socko and his Giant Robot"
Nah
Checkout Dr Who and the
'Robots of Death' from 1977
Such a cool show! I loved the models - I have most of them in 3D printer format now!
Nice!
I was working for a PBS station at the time of production. Some of the staff was involved in the series. I remember how impressed they were with all the matte paintings that were created. I think that at the time a record was set for creation and use if those paintings in a TV series. 🎨🖌️
Hey, what can I say. I'm still in love with Erin Grey. Damn!
Darn straight! She was amazing.
I love your enthusiasm! Great vid!
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I'd have surrendered to Princess Ardala.
Erin Gray is the most beautiful woman in history as far as I'm concerned
Zero plastic surgery, botox or fillers.!
@@Plisken65 exactly right....naturally perfect
VERY cool indeed. This was one of my favorite shows in the day. Especially Hawk, LOVED that character.
Glad to hear that the "Draconia" still exists.
I went looking for pics of it online several years ago and couldn't find anything.
Also Glad to hear Gil Gerard fought to save the show from bad writing.
In some ways the show was almost "Starbuck but without Apollo" where the producers realized that Smart Alec Starbuck was the break out star of Galactica, and tried to duplicate that, but without the chemistry.
Gerard as Starbuck...yeah I defintely can't see that working. Gerard could be funny and irreverent, but he also projected seriousness and thoughtfulness. He was just too grounded to pull off full Starbuck. Plus you need that more serious character for Starbuck to bounce off of, like Apollo and Boomer.
I'll never understand why stars of a show cause problems so the show is cancelled. Because after that it was Gil who?
The starfighter you show is the two seater. It’s two seater side-by-side. The normal starfighter actually has a seat in the back as well. It’s not the only prop that was full-size.
The book was terrific. If i recall, the rebels that buck joined were able to fly/jump by using a metal that repelled gravity embedded into a harness.
Not to mention Markie Post pre "Night Court" and Ana Alicia pre "Falcon Crest"
Also... DOROTHY STRATTEN.
Jamie Lee Curtis pre everything.
@@loganfive-x2u post “Halloween”
I wonder if Gil Gerard was reacting against the producers' efforts to make Buck like a sci-fi Burt Reynolds. You can tell Gerard's Buck really wasn't in that vein. He was closer to guys like Tom Selleck's Thomas Magnum, handsome, masculine, but a little more sensitive, not quite a swinger looking for an easy score.
Oh. I had such a crush on Princess Ardala. Still do! Pamela, you were the best.
I didn't care about the story (I was just 11 or so at the time)...I was just waiting for Erin Gray to get on screen 🙂
The cartoon version by Chuck Jones made me laugh out loud. “Duck Dogers in the 24 1/2 century “ including Marvin the martian and his elludium exploding space modulatorr. What! No kaboom?
Where’s the kaboom? There’s supposed to be an earth shattering kaboom!
Mel Blanc was not "The guy that voiced Twiki" He's literally the most famous name associated with that show.
Yeah, I was surprised that we got to learn who voiced Dr. Theopolis but no mention of the legendary Mel Blanc voicing Twiki.
@Jocey wait, isn't that a pic of Mel @15:07? He's comically "shaving" with a mic lol
@@favoritemustard3542 Yes, but that is long after the segment where we are learning who played who on the show. That picture came up during the discussion of what changed in Seasin 2.
I gotta wonder why, when a show is canceled, no one has the foresight to put away the props in a safe place and make big bucks on them later. OK, in the early 20th century no one thought that baseball cards and comic books would be valuable some day, and they got thrown out, but by 1980 it was not rocket science.
moving to the ship away from new chicago with Birdman was world sorrow.
I have an original bit of 35mm film that's a complete bluescreen take of Bucks ship peeling off and down out of frame. It still has the head and tail slates on it and some grease pencil marks showing where to superimpose clouds. It was done for the 2nd season premier but the footage also became a library shot. I've had that since I guess the mid-'80's.
Yeah, Hawk was the only redeemable thing about season 2. And his fighter was pretty cool.
In the summer of 1978, I went on a tour of Burbank Studios - now Warner Bros. The tour included visits to the sets of Wonder Woman, The Waltons and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. It is said that the camera doesn’t lie. Sadly, not so in the era of standard definition broadcast television in the U.S. The Buck Rogers set was crudely constructed and not at all high tech as I had hoped it would be. I guess the $800K budget was invested in special effects rather than sets….certainly not for FX to make Hawk fly.
Guest stars: Don't forget Markie Post! I don't know that she was a star yet, but to me she was right up there with Jamie Lee Curtis.
Your show is like comfort food,I look forward to each new episode.Well done thanks Dan!
I don't remember much about the series except for Twiki and all of the gorgeous women. The costume design was impeccable. It reminds me of the aesthetic of William Ware Theiss. I loved it.
The star fighter from this show was always one of my favourites, along with the original viper from Battlestar Galactica.
The space vampire episode really scared me as a kid.
Gil Gerard happened..simple. Ego got way too friggin big for his own orbit
2nd season sucked, and the costumes got stupid
@ka1jbe S2 got contorted into a wrong direction.