When Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (from Glen A. Larson, creator of Battlestar Galactica) blasted onto NBC in 1979, it was the perfect mix of post-Star Wars excitement and good old-fashioned sci-fi ...

Every great action-adventure hero is a rip-off of someone else. Captain Kirk was Gene Roddenberry’s riff on Horatio Hornblower. James Bond was Bulldog Drummond with better taste in booze. One of the ...

20th-century astronaut Buck Rogers awakens in the 25th century after a freak accident puts him in suspended animation for 500 years. Upon returning to Earth and discovering the planet is recovering ...

Video-game movie mastermind Paul W.S. Anderson will be directing Buck Rogers, the movie. Thank goodness the screenplay was penned by the Iron Man scribes. But it’s still likely to be a disaster of ...

In the year 1987, NASA launched space probe Ranger III, with astronaut William "Buck" Rogers, on a 5-month trip around the solar system. However, the craft runs into a meteor storm, which disrupts its ...

The 1970s were a restless, experimental decade for science fiction on television. Star Trek had ended in 1969, but its reruns fueled an ever-growing fan base, proving there was an appetite for ...

Five years after securing screen rights to the iconic sci-fi character Buck Rogers, Legendary has made progress on the development of a feature adaptation, bringing Deadpool & Wolverine co-writer Zeb ...

If you don’t know why the early-1980s Buck Rogers in the 25th Century TV series is damn near perfect, then this clip from the episode “Escape from Wedded Bliss” will explain it all to you. Earth is in ...

On Jan. 7, 1929, “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century A.D.,” the first science fiction comic strip, debuted. The character that would become Buck Rogers first appeared in Philip Francis Nowlan's story, ...