Buck Rogers (TV series)
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Buck Rogers |
| Original title | Buck Rogers in the 25th Century |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | 1979-1981 |
| length | 45 minutes |
| Episodes | 37 in 2 seasons |
| genre | Sci Fi |
| idea | Glen A. Larson |
| music |
Stu Phillips , Glen A. Larson |
| First broadcast | September 20, 1979 ( USA ) |
| German-language first broadcast |
May 24, 1985 on Sat.1 |
| occupation | |
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Buck Rogers is an American science fiction series based on the Buck Rogers - comic strips by Philip Francis Nowlan and Richard Calkins , the 1979 to 1981 in the Universal Studios was created and in two seasons.
action
Astronaut Captain William 'Buck' Rogers is frozen in an accident with his Shuttle Ranger 3 . It drifts in space for 500 years until it is found and thawed by a spaceship of the Dracon Empire in 2491. He is allowed to return to Earth, but is used without his knowledge to figure out how to break through the Earth's defenses. On earth he is initially mistaken for a Draconian spy, but can convince the earth directorate of his innocence and successfully fights the Draconians with the earthly troops. Since then he has been helping pilot Wilma Deering to protect the earth from danger. In the second season, the two, together with their new companion Hawk, are transferred to the Searcher spaceship . Buck is always accompanied by the robot 'Twiki'. This usually wears Dr. Theopolis around, an AI of superhuman intelligence in a round transparent case.
Charisma
The pilot for the series was listed first in March 1979 in US cinemas since, especially in the US, a science-fiction boom, triggered by the first Star Wars -Spielfilm Star Wars prevailed. The cinema adaptation of the Kampfstern Galactica pilot film (also a Larson production) was also very successful in the cinemas. The series itself went on air on US television from September 1979. But as with Kampfstern Galactica , the ratings decreased over time, so that the conception of both series was revised between the seasons. It was not until the spring of 1981 that the second season began to be broadcast. Here, too, the quotas fell short of expectations, so that the series was withdrawn from the program after eight episodes.
In Germany, too, the pilot film was first released in German cinemas in July 1979 and repeated several times on ARD and third programs from 1982 onwards . The then young private broadcaster Sat.1 (then still under the name PKS) began broadcasting 13 selected episodes on May 25, 1985, which were repeated there in 1986. From June 3, 1989, the German private broadcaster RTLplus showed the complete series, which could be seen again in 1990 and 1991. However, they resorted to other voice actors, so that the speakers now change over the course of the series. Since 2000, the series has been shown several times on various pay TV programs and also on free-to-air television.
Episode list
season 1
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
German title | Original title | First broadcast in the USA | German language first broadcast (D) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Back to the Stars - Part 1 | Awakening - Part 1 | Sep 20 1979 | 4th Sep 1990 (RTLplus) |
| 2 | 2 | Back to the Stars - Part 2 | Awakening - Part 2 | Sep 20 1979 | Sep 11 1990 (RTLplus) |
| 3 | 3 | Vistula - The Deadly Menace - Part 1 | Planet of the Slave Girls - Part 1 | 27 Sep 1979 | Sep 18 1990 (RTLplus) |
| 4th | 4th | Vistula - The Deadly Menace - Part 2 | Planet of the Slave Girls - Part 2 | 27 Sep 1979 | 25 Sep 1990 (RTLplus) |
| 5 | 5 | Black Jack in space | Vegas in Space | Oct 7, 1979 | May 3, 1985 (Sat.1) |
| 6th | 6th | Conspiracy of the Planets - Part 1 | The Plot to Kill a City - Part 1 | Oct 11, 1979 | April 25, 1985 (Sat.1) |
| 7th | 7th | Conspiracy of the Planets - Part 2 | The Plot to Kill a City - Part 2 | Oct 18, 1979 | April 26, 1985 (Sat.1) |
| 8th | 8th | The return of Kampfgeschwader 69 | Return of the Fighting 69th | Oct 25, 1979 | October 2, 1990 (RTLplus) |
| 9 | 9 | A deadly risk | Unchained Woman | Nov 1, 1979 | May 10, 1985 (Sat.1) |
| 10 | 10 | The space trap | Planet of the Amazon Women | Nov 8, 1979 | October 16, 1990 (RTLplus) |
| 11 | 11 | The little president | Cosmic Wiz Kid | Nov 15, 1979 | May 24, 1985 (Sat.1) |
| 12 | 12 | Dangerous hug | Escape from Wedded Bliss | Nov 29, 1979 | May 17, 1985 (Sat.1) |
| 13 | 13 | Cruise to the Stars | Cruise Ship to the Stars | Dec. 27, 1979 | October 9, 1990 (RTLplus) |
| 14th | 14th | Vorvon’s deadly bite | Space vampires | Jan. 3, 1980 | October 23, 1990 (RTLplus) |
| 15th | 15th | Afterlife pilot | Happy Birthday Buck | Jan. 10, 1980 | October 30, 1990 (RTLplus) |
| 16 | 16 | Hell trip into the past | A blast for buck | Jan. 17, 1980 | May 31, 1985 (Sat.1) |
| 17th | 17th | At the last second | Ardala Returns | Jan. 27, 1980 | November 6, 1990 (RTLplus) |
| 18th | 18th | A dangerous business | Twiki is missing | Jan. 31, 1980 | June 14, 1985 (Sat.1) |
| 19th | 19th | The Olympics Syndicate | Olympiad | Feb. 7, 1980 | June 7, 1985 (Sat.1) |
| 20th | 20th | Jennifer | A dream of Jennifer | Feb. 14, 1980 | June 21, 1985 (Sat.1) |
| 21st | 21st | The galaxy rocker | Space rockers | Feb. 21, 1980 | June 28, 1985 (Sat.1) |
| 22nd | 22nd | Deadly duel | Buck's Duel to the Death | 20 Mar 1980 | November 20, 1990 (RTLplus) |
| 23 | 23 | Flight through the Vortex - Part 1 | Flight of the War Witch - Part 1 | 27 Mar 1980 | Nov. 27, 1990 (RTLplus) |
| 24 | 24 | Flight through the Vortex - Part 2 | Flight of the War Witch - Part 2 | 27 Mar 1980 | 4 Dec. 1990 (RTLplus) |
season 2
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
German title | Original title | First broadcast in the USA | German language first broadcast (D) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25th | 1 | The time of the falcon - part 1 | Time of the Hawk - Part 1 | Jan. 15, 1981 | December 11, 1990 (RTLplus) |
| 26th | 2 | The time of the hawk - part 2 | Time of the Hawk - Part 2 | Jan. 15, 1981 | December 18, 1990 (RTLplus) |
| 27 | 3 | Odee-x and the Atavars - Part 1 | Journey to Oasis - Part 1 | Jan. 22, 1981 | Jan. 15, 1991 (RTLplus) |
| 28 | 4th | Odee-x and the Atavars - Part 2 | Journey to Oasis - Part 2 | Jan. 22, 1981 | Jan. 22, 1991 (RTLplus) |
| 29 | 5 | Janovus XXVI | The Guardians | Jan. 29, 1981 | February 19, 1991 (RTLplus) |
| 30th | 6th | Attack of the dinosaurs | Mark of the Saurian | Feb. 5, 1981 | July 12, 1985 (Sat.1) |
| 31 | 7th | Subatomic oscillation | The Golden Man | Feb. 19, 1981 | Feb. 5, 1991 (RTLplus) |
| 32 | 8th | The crystals | The Crystals | 5th Mar 1981 | Feb. 26, 1991 (RTLplus) |
| 33 | 9 | The horror planet | The satyr | March 12 1981 | July 5, 1985 (Sat.1) |
| 34 | 10 | The solar dwarfs | Shgoratchx! | 19 Mar 1981 | Jan. 8, 1991 (RTLplus) |
| 35 | 11 | Guardian of the Goral | The Hand of Goral | 26th Mar 1981 | Feb. 12, 1991 (RTLplus) |
| 36 | 12 | Return to the past | Testimony of a traitor | Apr 9, 1981 | 5th Mar 1991 (RTLplus) |
| 37 | 13 | The Dorian Secret | The Dorian Secret | Apr 16, 1981 | Jan. 29, 1991 (RTLplus) |
Publications
In 2008 the series appeared in Germany on DVD in two sets of nine and five discs. The German TV material was used for this. In 2015 this version was reissued; again in standard definition but now in boxes with only two Blu-ray discs (SD on Blu-ray) each . In 2017 the full series was released in HD in a Blu-ray box. Alternative versions were also offered for some episodes.
The theatrical version has been available on DVD with German and English soundtracks since July 2013. Until then it was only available as VHS .
In the UK, both seasons of Buck Rogers - with a total of 37 episodes - have been released on VHS, DVD and Blu-ray.
various
Buck Rogers was first filmed in 1939 as a 12-part matinee serial. The running time per episode was about 20 minutes. Here Buster Crabbe , who was already seen as Flash Gordon , played the role of Buck. This serial has already been broadcast several times in Germany in the third programs . Crabbe also made a cameo on "Vistula," where his role name was "Brigadier Gordon". Another American television series emerged from 1950 with Kem Dibbs in the lead role. From 1951 Dibbs was replaced by Robert Pastane . The recordings in this second series are now considered lost.
Some well-known actors have made guest appearances on the series. Among them Jack Palance (Vistula - The Deadly Menace) and Jamie Lee Curtis (A Deadly Risk).
media
In addition to a series of paperback novels from Luebbe-Verlag and Goldmann , computer games for the series were also available. A comic book series appeared in the USA.
Web links
- Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (film) in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (series) in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Buck-Rogers.com (English-language fan page)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Buck Rogers (1979): Episodenguide. fernsehserien.de, accessed on January 23, 2013 .