I think Space 1999 (well 2099) and a well thought out Buck Rogers would make a good reboot series to launch either a Hulu or Netflix sci fi original. Both have a good premise, and with good CGI and sfx, could bring a good following.
I liked all those shows, too! My cousin, Farrah Fawcett (we shared a great grandmother), was in the movie version of Logan's Run and that was awesome as well. All good wishes, my brother.
As a child, i watched Buck Rogers with my dad when i was about 4. My mother thought it was quality bonding time as my dad worked long hours and would always make time to sit on the couch with me and watch this. To this day he maintains it was because it was 'our thing' but the Erin Gray poster in the den in the early 80's at my parents old place says otherwise...
Quality bonding time wasn’t a phrase when my dad and I watched the Dean Martin Show late sixties. We both liked Joey Heatherton and the rest of the cast of well dressed (scantily ) women. Although nobody actually said so, that’s the reason we were there.
No you didn't. Strong women characters in Hollywood first appeared in 2015 with the greatest character ever committed to celluloid - Rey from The Force Awakens. Followed closely by Captain Marvel, The Ghostbusters (the good one, in 2016) Oceans Eight and of Course Sarah Conner in Terminator Dark Fate. Before that there were no strong female role models coming out of Hollywood in the last 100 years. That is why we needed them so badly. :D
I remember rushing my mom to get me home on Thursday nights after soccer practice because my favorite show would come on at 8pm and that show was Buck Rogers. Damn, I miss those childhood days.
Being a child of the 70's I remember this show fondly..I was all over anything Star Wars and saw Buck in the theaters.It's one of my Favorite childhood memories.And the toys were awesome!.I wish I can say I found E Gray hot but when ur a kid it was all about the adventure!.All this was thanks to my Mom who passed a few months ago..I still think of those times when I hear the Buck Rogers theme song Suspension.And I have to disagree with JohnnyBaak here.That song is FANTASTIC!.So thanks Mom!.And Cheers to all the 70's sci-fi kids out there!!
RIP Glen A. Larson. You brought us a lot of timeless entertainment. How you got a 1 million per episode budget in 1978 for Battlestar Galactica can only be attributed to the Star Wars craze, but you still made that budget last and gave us some quality entertainment value for every dollar. Its a shame that Galactica was cancelled only to be rebooted 20 years later, which confirms that you were doing good work.
Colonel Deering from Buck Rogers and Princess Aura from Flash Gordon are my Sirens of despair who burned into my brain when I was 6 or 7 years old when I didn't even know why, lol.
That's kinda funny because she also was the one actress I remember from the late 1970s instead of Farrah! Saw a few pictures of her taken from the early 2000s. My god, she's still hot.
I managed to get all the episodes a few years back. I am not ashamed to admit that I shed tears watching them as it hit me in the feelings about recalling feelings from when I was a boy watching this. That intro music took me back in time. The episode with Jack Palance is one of the best in my memory
Loved the first season, the second was so bad it was laughable! Erin Gray and Pamela Hensley were a great duo, bad girl and good girl, both fighting over Buck!
Hawkman was laughable, should have made the show into a cartoon, at least they had Mel Blanc to do a whole lot of voices! Hawkman would have sounded great with an Elmer Fudd voice, at least it would have attracted a bigger audience than it had then!
@@vexacon Ha, I suppose the first season was better, I don't really remember them that well. Certainly season 2 was a big shift in the series. I kinda liked Hawkman, though he came out of nowhere. They're replaying season 2 right now on cable channel "Metv."
Have not see the series for many years now, no channel on my cable box plays it, still have the movie on vhs somewhere! The second season was a bust, story lines were bad, if it were not for sexy Erin Gray i would have stopped watching it all together! Erin was a foxy minx, that's for sure, hot chick in heels a must for my tv viewing!
When I was nine years old my family was falling apart & there was a lot of fighting. Buck Rogers was my first escape from reality. I rode my bike to the theater on a Saturday moring & was the first one to buy a ticket for the matinee. I mowed all my neighbors lawns so I could order the Star Fighter from the Montgomery Wards catalog. (Simple times I guess Lol) I'm a middle aged man now but whenever I hear that theme song it takes me back to that nine year old boy's headspace.
My parents couldn’t tell the difference between Star Wars and Buck Rogers characters, they bought me a couple of both action figures. So, in the end I had my own sci- fi universe to create. Kinda cool.
One of my favorite lines in the whole series is when Buster Crabbs character tells Buck Rogers after shooting down an alien craft--- I been doing this sort of thing long before you were born! Rogers answered you think so? Crabbs character tells Buck Young man I know so!!👍Good series💀🤖🤖😎
Holy shit! I''m 51 now and I totally remember this line now that you posted it. It's a favorite line of mine too! Young people (geez getting old SUCKS!) will watch this show now and think it sucks and how anyone could like it. What they dont understand is it was really good special effects for the time and well.....I was 10/11 years old.
Erin Gray and Pamela Hensley were two of my favourite TV characters growing up, right up in the list of my favourites alongside Lynda Carter, Jaclyn Smith, Catherine Bach, Brianne Leary (Sindy in CHiPs), Jane Badler (of "V" fame), Barbara Stock (of Spenser For Hire), Teri Hatcher, Jayne Kennedy, former Miss Ireland Andrea Roche and acclaimed British actress Amy Robbins. Brunettes really ruled my childhood, but at least they didn't ruin it.
I tend to agree. I found Buck Rogers to be very re-watchable, which is a key metric. The second season was ok, although I preferred Colonel Dearing as the military type. This is common today, but was pretty rare in the late 70’s.
@@joeh.5592 I'll be 70 in April, but still fondly remember tv of that era. Buck Rogers in the 25th century was definitely memorable, and just as much fun as our host says. 🙂
TV isn't quite what it used to be, is it? I remember, back in our day, there was always something good on TV. Even the commercials were fun to watch. Who can forget the old Domino's Pizza commercials with the Noid or the California Raisins commercials? TV, these days, is mostly crap.
I ran into Erin Gray while on vacation in Mexico. I can tell you she is as nice and gracious and wonderful as she is beautiful. No attitude, no arrogance, just a genuine appreciation of a fan for her and the show.
I remember always laughing at the often repeated theme in the show of how a guy from the 1980s frozen in time would be the only masculine guy left in the sci-fi future. It only took to 2019 for me to no longer find that too unbelievable for even sci-fi.
Great show. Used to see Erin Gray at wonder con every year for years. Said Hi every time I passed. It's good to tell someone like that in itself how their work inspired you. Great review.
Would've loved to meet Erin Gray, never get the chance in sleepy old Adelaide in Australia, we have one convention a year called Supanova where we get to meet actors. Going to do more videos like this, just finding the time to do these videos is hard. Got a huge list of sci fi TV shows and movies Im doing just in time for Christmas.
For me, the biggest mistake was toning down Wilma in season 2, basically making her into a stewardess in a dress. I mean, a full colonel, who basically serves as a communications officer? I can only imagine that with the addition of Thom Christopher, they felt that three strong personalities was one too many.
Your favorable view of the second season is a minority opinion. I think the series hit its peak in the episode with Buster Crabbe, which may have been the first one shown. Buck: That's pretty good shooting over there, whoever you are. Gordon: The name's Gordon, and son, I've been doing that since before you were born. Buck: You think so, huh? Gordon: Son, I know so. The ironic double meaning of every word of that is just too delicious for words.
Omg! I just went back in time.....back home to Buck Rodgers, Battlestsr Galactica and Space 1999. Watching these shows in my home town New York City.....that was the life! ❤
Season 1 was great, Erin Gray was my first crush and probably the only reason I hung in during the run, however, season 2 was brutal to get through, I have forgotten mostly every episode except for when Erin Gray was on, other then her I couldn’t give two figs about the show anymore back then, oh well, nostalgia is fun though and Erin Gray still looks damn good looking today
I hear ya. I hate how she was so marginalized in the second season. I don't remember what season it was but one of my favorite episodes was the one with the "space vampire".
@@subvet3668 Yess. The Vorvon. One of my favorite episodes of this series as an 11-year old! I still can hear the deeply modulated voice of Wilma/Erin as she said: 'I drained them, Buck! It felt soo goood!' 😄
Well, this is freaky, I literally just impulse bought the entire series off eBay for £20 and I’ll be binge watching it this weekend, or at least part of it, and now thanks to you I have a show introduction! Like you I watched it with great fondness as a child, tho as it competed for ratings with Doctor Who I was always torn, but it was like seeing Stars Wars on TV, so, y’know, wow!
@SevelRomanov Didn't he also come back as Kang in that episode of Voyager, where Tuvok was having flashbacks to his days on the Excelsior, under Captain Sulu?
Michael Ansara was also in a movie called Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea. He also played some of Genie King or whatever, on I Dream Of Jeanie (he was married to Barbara Eden at the time).
@@marcychan168 Mr. Ansara also provided the voice of Mr. Freeze in several episodes of Batman: the Animated Series and its spinoffs. Heart of Ice, Deep Freeze, Cold Comfort, the movie Subzero, and the Batman Beyond episode 'Meltdown'. Mr. Ansara absolutely killed it as Mr. Freeze. To take such a schmaltzy character from the 1960s and make him a credible villain was no small task, and Ansara did it to perfection.
That episode with the vampire creeped me out bigtime as a kid. He was like Nosferatu. Then Wilma starts talking in an evil vampire voice, bloody hell the 80's had some weird story lines.
An episode of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century had Buster Crabbe in a Guest Starring role as "Brigadier Gordon" which paid homage to his portrayal as both Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon
I've recently rewatched the early season 1 eps, oh My god, as good as I remember, splendid cheesy bright fun. I miss sci fi like this. It's like the Flash Gordon film. Bright colourful. Now everything is black and white.
I remember as a kid Erin Grey was definitely one of my first crushes.🤔 Many thanks for bringing our childhood memories back to life! This is heartwarming!
it was a good program, I thought so when I was 8 years old and when I bought the entire series on DVD about 10 years ago I literally binge wached the entire show in 2 days.
The original Captain Marvel was a man. There was a Saturday morning TV show in the seventies called "Shazam" which I watched as a kid. A teenager named Billy Batson would shout, "Shazam!" and be transformed into Captain Marvel.
I was born at the end of the seventies, so grew up watching this, and loved it. I used to fancy Wilma even then, although I didn't know what that meant...
A massive THANK YOU for that. Still watching reruns at 63, in 23 again. Erin / Wilma was the best thing since sliced bread! Totally gorgeous (and still is today)
Great video, JonnyBaak, very well put together as always. I was very young and never saw Buck's original run here in the UK (in fact I think it clashed with 'The Dukes of Hazzard' on the other side, long in the days before we had a VCR to record one) but saw the series when it was repeated several times on BBC2 in the late 1990s. It looked extremely dated, but I think it looked dated even a few years after it was produced, which is somehow part of it's charm, and add's to it's "comic book" feel (Note also I don't count dated as a bad thing; especially in terms of old school effects vs. horrible OTT CGI use). As a huge fan of Larson's 'Knight Rider' produced a couple of years later, it was of extra interest to me to see which sound effects and concepts (including the Cyclon's revolving red scanner light) were recycled from 'Battlestar Galactica' and 'Buck Rogers'! Erin Gray was great as Wilma Deering, and has always reminded me of Teela from the Masters of the Universe franchise in characteristics (can tell I'm an '80s kid!). The year 'Buck' finished, Gray was in a good first season 'Magnum, p.i.' episode, 'J. Digger Doyle' which seemed to act as a potential pilot for her own series (possibly to do with Larson also co-creating 'Magnum') which never emerged, which is a shame as she woulda been great and as an actress could have carried her own series well. The first season is mostly very enjoyable (I love the ruins scenes with the mutants seen in the Pilot though oddly this was never mentioned again), some episodes hold up better than others but that can be said for so many TV series of it's ilk. I'll agree with the common view that the second season is nowhere as good as the first, but only in it's overall setting. The overall Searcher setting I felt a bit dull and not very well put in place, and found Jay Garner as Admiral Efram Asimov (and to an extent the wonderful Wilfrid Hyde-White as Dr. Goodfellow) to be rather dull characters with little real purpose; they should have kept Tim O'Connor as Dr. Elias Huer instead. But Hawk is a great addition (he's very much like Mister Spock in the second season's more 'Star Trek'-setting), and I actually really enjoyed many of the stories with their often mythological-themed plots. However as the season wore on it did feel that everyone had lost heart slightly and a few of those late episodes do feel a bit limp. Considering producers originally didn't want Twiki and Theo to become a R2-D2 and C-3PO knock-off, it's ironic that the additional of Crichton in the second season actually renders himself and Twiki as this at times. Despite it looking very dated, I think it holds up well as it's charm is it's comic book feel, in an era where so much sci-fi now arguably takes itself far too seriously. I'm surprised a modern take on 'Buck Rogers' hasn't emerged, yet...
Thanks so much for the kind words and sharing. Planning to do more videos about sci fi shows from that era, loved growing up in the late 70's and early 80's.
runlarryrun77 Used to call him Bird Guy. I would have loved to have listened in on meetings where they were developing this character. How did they convince themselves that people would watch the new season with a laughably bad character like that?
Holy Crap I had SUCH a crush on Erin Gray....and she entered my life when my teen libido was in overdrive. Emma Peel will always be The Goddess. Col. Wilma Dering....my Forever Princess !!! Thanks for this vid.....it brought back memories !!!!
I am happy to report that Erin Gray seems to be doing quite well for herself, managing celebrity autograph sessions and the like. She is a regular at DragonCon here in Atlanta, and her Tai Chi class is usually booked up throughout the convention. 😃
I grew up watching this show. Sadly they only aired five mixed episodes of the first season in Sweden I had to wait decades before I could get the DVD box.
I will forever love the song Suspension by Stu Phillips and Glen Larson , sung by Kip Lennon as I think it works so well with both the film and TV series. (I also would recommend the Blu Ray release 'cos of the isolated soundtrack option). ☺
Great story JonnyBaak. The soundtrack to the film was the first LP I bought as a 7 year old! You summed it up perfectly. We had GREAT Sci Fi in the 70's/80's. Great memories of the whole family crowding around to see BSG...not so much BRit25thC tho....it was comic strip as opposed to the compelling saga of BSG. Great summation and writing.
Hey man thank you for the great videos I loved all these shows of the kid. Some of the stuff I knew a lot I didn't. Thanks for taking me back to my childhood!
I liked Wilma, but I was in love with Princess Ardala. Pamela Hensley was maybe the prettiest lady on Earth in those days. It's a shame she wasn't in more movies.
@@keithallver2450 Absolutely. Did you see Pamela in the 1975 film Rollerball? That was a great movie, and Pamela had a small part, but she was radiant.
@@antonnym214 No, I never saw Rollerball but I will definitely keep an eye out for it. It would be fun to see the young Pamela Hensley again just for a little nostalgia.
Bonus points for using The Planets - Mars - The Bringer Of War by Holst in the background. Good job. That one piece of the suite inspired dozens of popular music scores we all love today.
Part of me thinks they should try a reboot, but since most of the reboots that are done are absolutely awful - I'd rather keep my fond memories of this show the way they are
Robby 101 According to Gil Gerard (convention videos) the family of the gentlemen who created the original series and the company/studio that hold the rights have been at war for I guess well over a decade over profits. Apparently Gil & Erin tried to do something lower budget years ago with their characters as parents but gave up in disgust. Too bad.
@@SGTJDerek There's money involved. 'Get out of the way' will never happen. And they'll fight to the death over every single nickel. Remember Roger Rabbit? Same reason you don't hear about that character anymore. Disney and Touchstone both have claims to the property rights of the character. Neither studio will budge.
@@SGTJDerek That was then. A BSG today would have to have Adama be trans and Laura killing the "religious" for...reasons...Every property in endless control battles is one less childhood memory to be destroyed just because as far as I am concerned. They are making the greatest womanizers in the history of television, James T Kirk himself, bi now. The political activism means there are no good reboots because there are no good story writers, just political hacks with delusions of adequacy.
There shouldn't be a reboot by any large media company of today cuz it will be awful. Probably even worse than season 2 of the original. Someday the time will be right. And with the way things are changing right now, it may be someday soon.
They should make this series again. The only show that comes closest to Buck Rogers in recent years was Farscape TV series from 1999-2003 in the Sci-Fi Channel.
Better yet, just leave it alone. They would add ungodly amounts of blue check quotas to appease liberals, and reimagining it into something that doesn't feel even remotely like Buck Rogers. Remember that godawful series of Flash Gordon on SyFy?
I wished this show lasted longer than it did. There was no planning, they should've done the first 3 seasons on earth then the other 4 seasons could've been spent looking for the lost tribes of earth
If the show had a budget of $800,000 per episode in 1979 (that's $2.7 million adjusted for inflation), it is no wonder it was canceled after 2 seasons - the ratings would have had to have been amazing to justify a third season.
I loved that show back in the day... but season 2 ? the only thing that was good about it was hawk & his ship I remember I was pissed when I heard Twiki voice I was happy when changed it back to his original voice but it was too late.
Season two introduced new characters that no one cared about except for Hawk. Dr. Goodfellow, Criton the robot, Amiral Asimov, who the fuck cares? We loved Buck, Wilma and Twiki. I liked Dr. Heuer but they sadly got rid of him.
I'm about to push 44 years now and I remember this show fondly despite that Swedish television only allowed like five episodes in total. I got the DVD box eventually and could watch the entire series. Still holds up.
The ONLY thing I found disturbing is the dislike of the theme music or was it the lyrics? Im shocked, I found the lyrics soothing, understandable great for a theme song. I understand it so much. A man out of time, I feel the same.
Me too. I loved the theatrical version where the theme was sung, but in the TV series, the theme had no singing, was a faster tempo, and didn't sound as good.
I would love to see a modern Buck Rogers that looked exactly like 1928 imagining. Have you done a Everything you need to know about Barbarella (1968) video yet?
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Erin Gray as Colonel Wilma Deering and Pamela Helmsley as Princess Ardala were the stuff dreams were made of.
Should've had a rivalry between them for Buck's attention.
Both very gorgeous women - would be hard pressed to choose between the two!
Slippery, jizzy dreams.
These comments... yuck.
Pamela Helmsley was smoking hot.
That second season outfit makes Wilma look like she's selling ice cream 🍦😂😂
you only need to know two things about buck rogers: erin gray, spandex.
Lol
ms3bani precisely!!!
Princess Ardarla and the planet of slave girls were good too!
1000 “up votes”!!!
absolutely her in those sexy disco pants and shorts lets not forget
Buck Rogers, Logan's Run, Space:1999, ARK II, The Man from Atlantis, and Jason of Star Command...loved these shows growing up.
I think Space 1999 (well 2099) and a well thought out Buck Rogers would make a good reboot series to launch either a Hulu or Netflix sci fi original. Both have a good premise, and with good CGI and sfx, could bring a good following.
I liked all those shows, too! My cousin, Farrah Fawcett (we shared a great grandmother), was in the movie version of Logan's Run and that was awesome as well. All good wishes, my brother.
@Paul Banta YES! I really like Journey to the Far Side of the Sun. Outstanding.
@@antonnym214 have the movie on DVD
Oh, you named Space: 1999!
As a child, i watched Buck Rogers with my dad when i was about 4. My mother thought it was quality bonding time as my dad worked long hours and would always make time to sit on the couch with me and watch this. To this day he maintains it was because it was 'our thing' but the Erin Gray poster in the den in the early 80's at my parents old place says otherwise...
You gotta say.. Your dad has good taste :D
This story brought a smile to my face. Of course I was a bit closer to my teen years at the time...
FADE_FROM_VIEW you had an amazing father
Tony Hodgin still do 😎
Quality bonding time wasn’t a phrase when my dad and I watched the Dean Martin Show late sixties. We both liked Joey Heatherton and the rest of the cast of well dressed (scantily ) women. Although nobody actually said so, that’s the reason we were there.
Man, I'm now 51 and still have a huge crush on Erin Gray like way back while watching this!
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Is Erin Gray keen to Michael Gray from Shazam?
I'm 50 and yep I still have the hots for her too and I think she helped a lot of young boys become men.
G T I think she was every young boys crush.
I’m also 51 but didn’t find her as appealing as Pamela Hensley.
I'm 62 and if you want to see her now, watch Hallmark Channel. LOL.
When I was little, I had Princess Leia, Colonel Wilma Deering, and Sheba from "Battlestar Galactica" as my role models.
No you didn't. Strong women characters in Hollywood first appeared in 2015 with the greatest character ever committed to celluloid - Rey from The Force Awakens. Followed closely by Captain Marvel, The Ghostbusters (the good one, in 2016) Oceans Eight and of Course Sarah Conner in Terminator Dark Fate. Before that there were no strong female role models coming out of Hollywood in the last 100 years. That is why we needed them so badly. :D
It’s bizarre, there were more female strong role models in the past! You l know, ones that people actually love ! 🤯🤯🤯🤡🤡🤡🤡🌍🌍🌍
There Anne-Elizabeth, you've been corrected by Victimology. :-D
I BET YOU ARE FINE! NEW YORK TALK FOR HOT
@Charles Yuditsky Why do you have to insult shlt shit like that! I agree.
Used to watch Buck Rogers religiously. Wouldn't miss an episode. Erin Gray must have been my first crush.
I remember rushing my mom to get me home on Thursday nights after soccer practice because my favorite show would come on at 8pm and that show was Buck Rogers. Damn, I miss those childhood days.
I enjoyed her too and was 19 yrs old then . Though now looking at her she's still hot but on the thin side for me nowadays .
Being a child of the 70's I remember this show fondly..I was all over anything Star Wars and saw Buck in the theaters.It's one of my Favorite childhood memories.And the toys were awesome!.I wish I can say I found E Gray hot but when ur a kid it was all about the adventure!.All this was thanks to my Mom who passed a few months ago..I still think of those times when I hear the Buck Rogers theme song Suspension.And I have to disagree with JohnnyBaak here.That song is FANTASTIC!.So thanks Mom!.And Cheers to all the 70's sci-fi kids out there!!
RIP Glen A. Larson. You brought us a lot of timeless entertainment. How you got a 1 million per episode budget in 1978 for Battlestar Galactica can only be attributed to the Star Wars craze, but you still made that budget last and gave us some quality entertainment value for every dollar. Its a shame that Galactica was cancelled only to be rebooted 20 years later, which confirms that you were doing good work.
Erin was one of my first actress crushes as a fairly young boy. Couple that with space battles, and I was hooked.
Colonel Deering from Buck Rogers and Princess Aura from Flash Gordon are my Sirens of despair who burned into my brain when I was 6 or 7 years old when I didn't even know why, lol.
Erin Gray was extremely beautiful!
Still is
She still is!!!
Cant believe they never had her guest on Star Trek tng
She still is.
Extremely!!
R.I.P. Felix Silla (aka Twiki and Cousin Itt). You were a big part of my childhood and you will be missed.
Loved this show. Erin Gray was my Farrah.
That's kinda funny because she also was the one actress I remember from the late 1970s instead of Farrah! Saw a few pictures of her taken from the early 2000s. My god, she's still hot.
I managed to get all the episodes a few years back. I am not ashamed to admit that I shed tears watching them as it hit me in the feelings about recalling feelings from when I was a boy watching this. That intro music took me back in time. The episode with Jack Palance is one of the best in my memory
Everything I need to know about Buck Rogers: Erin Gray
Loved the first season, the second was so bad it was laughable! Erin Gray and Pamela Hensley were a great duo, bad girl and good girl, both fighting over Buck!
I can't help but think about Flash Gordon! Dale Arden and Princess Aura having their rivalry over Flash :)
Are you knocking "Hawkman?!" That's an outrage!!
Hawkman was laughable, should have made the show into a cartoon, at least they had Mel Blanc to do a whole lot of voices! Hawkman would have sounded great with an Elmer Fudd voice, at least it would have attracted a bigger audience than it had then!
@@vexacon Ha, I suppose the first season was better, I don't really remember them that well. Certainly season 2 was a big shift in the series. I kinda liked Hawkman, though he came out of nowhere. They're replaying season 2 right now on cable channel "Metv."
Have not see the series for many years now, no channel on my cable box plays it, still have the movie on vhs somewhere! The second season was a bust, story lines were bad, if it were not for sexy Erin Gray i would have stopped watching it all together! Erin was a foxy minx, that's for sure, hot chick in heels a must for my tv viewing!
Erin Gray and that Princess Ardala actress..holy SMOKES.
Markie Post was in an episode too, in tight shiny spandex. Amazing.
So much self abuse was caused by this show.
I remember Markie Post being on there ... holy shit she was HOT!
I learned a lot about my own body watching this show... ;)
@@troynov1965 Damn straight she was hot. Erin Grey, Pamela Hensley, Markie Post... so much eye candy!
Pam Hensley. Smoking.
That theme music makes me tear up. Always will have a love for that series.
Such an amazing time to be a kid back then.
@DEEPFOXJUDE yes
I remember that they changed Tweeky's voice, and which caused a minor uproar, and it was changed back.
When I was nine years old my family was falling apart & there was a lot of fighting. Buck Rogers was my first escape from reality.
I rode my bike to the theater on a Saturday moring & was the first one to buy a ticket for the matinee.
I mowed all my neighbors lawns so I could order the Star Fighter from the Montgomery Wards catalog.
(Simple times I guess Lol)
I'm a middle aged man now but whenever I hear that theme song it takes me back to that nine year old boy's headspace.
I liked how they disco danced with spaceship power up cables.
Roller disco is the style of the future.
My parents couldn’t tell the difference between Star Wars and Buck Rogers characters, they bought me a couple of both action figures. So, in the end I had my own sci- fi universe to create. Kinda cool.
i had the Draconian Marauder and the transport vehicle with the treads.
@Raven Le Faye Don't worry, I used to have my Buck Roger's space ships attack my AT-AT and AT-ST all the time.
Buck Rogers was the fun that Star Wars abandoned with its self-serious sequels
One of my favorite lines in the whole series is when Buster Crabbs character tells Buck Rogers after shooting down an alien craft--- I been doing this sort of thing long before you were born! Rogers answered you think so? Crabbs character tells Buck Young man I know so!!👍Good series💀🤖🤖😎
Holy shit! I''m 51 now and I totally remember this line now that you posted it. It's a favorite line of mine too! Young people (geez getting old SUCKS!) will watch this show now and think it sucks and how anyone could like it. What they dont understand is it was really good special effects for the time and well.....I was 10/11 years old.
Lol
@@jamessullivan8300 getting old may suck, but as my dad says "Consider the alternative."
Cheers! :)
That's because he was the original Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon
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Erin Gray and Pamela Hensley were two of my favourite TV characters growing up, right up in the list of my favourites alongside Lynda Carter, Jaclyn Smith, Catherine Bach, Brianne Leary (Sindy in CHiPs), Jane Badler (of "V" fame), Barbara Stock (of Spenser For Hire), Teri Hatcher, Jayne Kennedy, former Miss Ireland Andrea Roche and acclaimed British actress Amy Robbins.
Brunettes really ruled my childhood, but at least they didn't ruin it.
Great work Jonny Baak!!! I am 45 and still miss BR and Battlestar Galactica.
I'm 42. Sometimes I wish we could turn back the time for better television.
I tend to agree. I found Buck Rogers to be very re-watchable, which is a key metric. The second season was ok, although I preferred Colonel Dearing as the military type. This is common today, but was pretty rare in the late 70’s.
@@joeh.5592
I'll be 70 in April, but still fondly remember tv of that era. Buck Rogers in the 25th century was definitely memorable, and just as much fun as our host says.
🙂
Any time you're missing it, there's always watching it on dvd. I do, and I'm 43.
TV isn't quite what it used to be, is it? I remember, back in our day, there was always something good on TV. Even the commercials were fun to watch. Who can forget the old Domino's Pizza commercials with the Noid or the California Raisins commercials? TV, these days, is mostly crap.
I ran into Erin Gray while on vacation in Mexico. I can tell you she is as nice and gracious and wonderful as she is beautiful. No attitude, no arrogance, just a genuine appreciation of a fan for her and the show.
Gil is an extremely nice guy, too.
Right in the nostalgia!
This is the best video recorded from inside a bucket that I've ever seen.
I love the movie poster saying "Buck Rogers lays it on the 25th century"..So 70's!!
I remember always laughing at the often repeated theme in the show of how a guy from the 1980s frozen in time would be the only masculine guy left in the sci-fi future. It only took to 2019 for me to no longer find that too unbelievable for even sci-fi.
Yet you missed Twikki the penis-robot?
funny how life imitates art
@@mikecubes1642 BHHWAAAAAHAHA!!!!
We can't be masculine anymore, we're in the me too era. We might get sued or be branded a sexual predator.
Hey LBGTQ, Buck Rogers ( or God) called he say he wants his rainbow back !!!
Tweaky and Dr. Theopolis were he future version of Flavor Flav.
BEEDEEBEEDEEBBDEE YEA BOYEE!
Great show. Used to see Erin Gray at wonder con every year for years. Said Hi every time I passed. It's good to tell someone like that in itself how their work inspired you. Great review.
Thanks so much :-)
Would've loved to meet Erin Gray, never get the chance in sleepy old Adelaide in Australia, we have one convention a year called Supanova where we get to meet actors. Going to do more videos like this, just finding the time to do these videos is hard. Got a huge list of sci fi TV shows and movies Im doing just in time for Christmas.
Met Erin several years back here in the Netherlands. Really nice person :)
For me, the biggest mistake was toning down Wilma in season 2, basically making her into a stewardess in a dress. I mean, a full colonel, who basically serves as a communications officer? I can only imagine that with the addition of Thom Christopher, they felt that three strong personalities was one too many.
Terrific content! Thank you so much for doing this. Big place in my heart for this show!
Your favorable view of the second season is a minority opinion.
I think the series hit its peak in the episode with Buster Crabbe, which may have been the first one shown.
Buck: That's pretty good shooting over there, whoever you are.
Gordon: The name's Gordon, and son, I've been doing that since before you were born.
Buck: You think so, huh?
Gordon: Son, I know so.
The ironic double meaning of every word of that is just too delicious for words.
This is when the series jumped the Crabbe er shark lol
I think this was one of the first after the pilot. The pilots were poisoned and Crabbe's character came out of retirement to defend the Earth.
My mom who was not a sci fi fan loved the Buster Crabbe episode as well
I've recently been watching Buck Rogers on Forces TV here in the UK
Really enjoyed this episode, dug out my DVD copy even!
Omg! I just went back in time.....back home to Buck Rodgers, Battlestsr Galactica and Space 1999. Watching these shows in my home town New York City.....that was the life! ❤
Man I totally remember waiting for this series with such enthusiasm back in the day. I was 8 when this show appeared on nbc on thursday nights.
I use to watch Buck Rogers with both of my parents when I was a little girl & I still do. And I love to hear Twiki talk.
Season 1 was great, Erin Gray was my first crush and probably the only reason I hung in during the run, however, season 2 was brutal to get through, I have forgotten mostly every episode except for when Erin Gray was on, other then her I couldn’t give two figs about the show anymore back then, oh well, nostalgia is fun though and Erin Gray still looks damn good looking today
I hear ya. I hate how she was so marginalized in the second season. I don't remember what season it was but one of my favorite episodes was the one with the "space vampire".
@@subvet3668 Yess. The Vorvon. One of my favorite episodes of this series as an 11-year old! I still can hear the deeply modulated voice of Wilma/Erin as she said: 'I drained them, Buck! It felt soo goood!' 😄
First season Wilma could take on entire enemy squadrons. Season 2. Well. Help Buck I get chased by 1 lousy 10000 year old fighter...
Greg Pettis At a quick glance, maybe, not so if you have them side by side
I remember watching that show every week as a young child, and was heartbroken when it was cancelled. Thank you for the nostalgia, on this one.
Great work, Jonny! Thank you. Beedee beedee beedee.
Well, this is freaky, I literally just impulse bought the entire series off eBay for £20 and I’ll be binge watching it this weekend, or at least part of it, and now thanks to you I have a show introduction! Like you I watched it with great fondness as a child, tho as it competed for ratings with Doctor Who I was always torn, but it was like seeing Stars Wars on TV, so, y’know, wow!
I remember when Michael Ansara played Kang in an episode of the original Star Trek. I think it was "Day Of The Dove".
@SevelRomanov Didn't he also come back as Kang in that episode of Voyager, where Tuvok was having flashbacks to his days on the Excelsior, under Captain Sulu?
Michael Ansara was also in a movie called Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea. He also played some of Genie King or whatever, on I Dream Of Jeanie (he was married to Barbara Eden at the time).
You're right
It was one of my favorite Klingons
Along with Worf and Malzt TOS Search for Spock
And Koloth TOS The Trouble with Tribbles
@@marcychan168 Mr. Ansara also provided the voice of Mr. Freeze in several episodes of Batman: the Animated Series and its spinoffs. Heart of Ice, Deep Freeze, Cold Comfort, the movie Subzero, and the Batman Beyond episode 'Meltdown'.
Mr. Ansara absolutely killed it as Mr. Freeze. To take such a schmaltzy character from the 1960s and make him a credible villain was no small task, and Ansara did it to perfection.
That was a trip down memory lane, every bit worth the watch. Thanks!
Got the series on dvd. Watched it back then too. Loved it. Yo Erin!
That episode with the vampire creeped me out bigtime as a kid. He was like Nosferatu. Then Wilma starts talking in an evil vampire voice, bloody hell the 80's had some weird story lines.
First Season: Amazing.
Second Season: Uhhh..... not so much.
An episode of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century had Buster Crabbe in a Guest Starring role as "Brigadier Gordon" which paid homage to his portrayal as both Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon
Great show. I was in high school when BR came out and I still enjoy it today, every once in a while when I watch it.
Love watching this show on MeTV every Saturday night after Lost in Space.
You mean Mandela Effect Television.
I've recently rewatched the early season 1 eps, oh My god, as good as I remember, splendid cheesy bright fun. I miss sci fi like this. It's like the Flash Gordon film. Bright colourful. Now everything is black and white.
Thanks for some serious Buck Rogers talk. I am a big fan.
I remember as a kid Erin Grey was definitely one of my first crushes.🤔 Many thanks for bringing our childhood memories back to life! This is heartwarming!
it was a good program, I thought so when I was 8 years old and when I bought the entire series on DVD about 10 years ago I literally binge wached the entire show in 2 days.
markie post in her prime is worth the dvd price
I was 8 rears old when Buck Rogers in the 25th century came out. Loved the show.
Just found this channel and immediately subscribed! Now to binge watch some more!
What’s this? .. a strong, intelligent independent woman BEFORE Captain Marvel?!? .. Does Brie Know?
The original Captain Marvel was a man. There was a Saturday morning TV show in the seventies called "Shazam" which I watched as a kid. A teenager named Billy Batson would shout, "Shazam!" and be transformed into Captain Marvel.
the thing is.... Erin's character could SMILE.
Well Remember that the best of the Best Warrior in Battlestar Galactic was Lt Sheba
@@oliverreilly8883 Sheba, another bad b1tch, WHO COULD SMILE.
@J Calhoun I'm speaking of the original Battlestar Galactica.
I was born at the end of the seventies, so grew up watching this, and loved it. I used to fancy Wilma even then, although I didn't know what that meant...
A massive THANK YOU for that. Still watching reruns at 63, in 23 again. Erin / Wilma was the best thing since sliced bread! Totally gorgeous (and still is today)
I love the beginning music for your channel..."UFO" I believe. Loved that show too. Cheers!
I learned everything I know about dancing from Gil Gerard.
Dated but fun, a bit like Logan's Run or Planet of the Apes series.
Second season it went preschool in plot.
I love your line about being an 8 year old and "learning to grow up quickly" because of all the beautiful, scantily clad, women on the show!
Your eloquent way of speaking, matched with the echoing of my exact sentiments towards this show had me subscribe on my first view of your Channel.
Great video, JonnyBaak, very well put together as always.
I was very young and never saw Buck's original run here in the UK (in fact I think it clashed with 'The Dukes of Hazzard' on the other side, long in the days before we had a VCR to record one) but saw the series when it was repeated several times on BBC2 in the late 1990s. It looked extremely dated, but I think it looked dated even a few years after it was produced, which is somehow part of it's charm, and add's to it's "comic book" feel (Note also I don't count dated as a bad thing; especially in terms of old school effects vs. horrible OTT CGI use). As a huge fan of Larson's 'Knight Rider' produced a couple of years later, it was of extra interest to me to see which sound effects and concepts (including the Cyclon's revolving red scanner light) were recycled from 'Battlestar Galactica' and 'Buck Rogers'!
Erin Gray was great as Wilma Deering, and has always reminded me of Teela from the Masters of the Universe franchise in characteristics (can tell I'm an '80s kid!). The year 'Buck' finished, Gray was in a good first season 'Magnum, p.i.' episode, 'J. Digger Doyle' which seemed to act as a potential pilot for her own series (possibly to do with Larson also co-creating 'Magnum') which never emerged, which is a shame as she woulda been great and as an actress could have carried her own series well.
The first season is mostly very enjoyable (I love the ruins scenes with the mutants seen in the Pilot though oddly this was never mentioned again), some episodes hold up better than others but that can be said for so many TV series of it's ilk. I'll agree with the common view that the second season is nowhere as good as the first, but only in it's overall setting. The overall Searcher setting I felt a bit dull and not very well put in place, and found Jay Garner as Admiral Efram Asimov (and to an extent the wonderful Wilfrid Hyde-White as Dr. Goodfellow) to be rather dull characters with little real purpose; they should have kept Tim O'Connor as Dr. Elias Huer instead. But Hawk is a great addition (he's very much like Mister Spock in the second season's more 'Star Trek'-setting), and I actually really enjoyed many of the stories with their often mythological-themed plots. However as the season wore on it did feel that everyone had lost heart slightly and a few of those late episodes do feel a bit limp.
Considering producers originally didn't want Twiki and Theo to become a R2-D2 and C-3PO knock-off, it's ironic that the additional of Crichton in the second season actually renders himself and Twiki as this at times.
Despite it looking very dated, I think it holds up well as it's charm is it's comic book feel, in an era where so much sci-fi now arguably takes itself far too seriously. I'm surprised a modern take on 'Buck Rogers' hasn't emerged, yet...
Thanks so much for the kind words and sharing. Planning to do more videos about sci fi shows from that era, loved growing up in the late 70's and early 80's.
Hawk was cool every kid wanted to be him
Really? We laughed at him.
At the time I also thought he was pretty badass
runlarryrun77 Used to call him Bird Guy. I would have loved to have listened in on meetings where they were developing this character. How did they convince themselves that people would watch the new season with a laughably bad character like that?
@@collegeman1988
He was remade in homage by Rick & Morty in the character Bird-Person.
I can remember loving the look of Hawks ship,it was one very cool design.
Well done. Very well put together.
I am so glad I found your channel you get those sci-fi both big and small thanks
One of my favorite shows, along with Galactica.
Holy Crap I had SUCH a crush on Erin Gray....and she entered my life when my teen libido was in overdrive.
Emma Peel will always be The Goddess.
Col. Wilma Dering....my Forever Princess !!!
Thanks for this vid.....it brought back memories !!!!
Ahh, Emma Peel, 'nuff said
yeah, @@zazaranger5 ...nobody will ever top Emma; it's not possible....Erin Gray was pretty awesome, tho.
@@2ndEndingVintage of course, Erin is definitely is a close second to Emma
Emma Peel? Erin Gray? You sir, have excellent taste!
r. i. p. Dame Diana Rigg, Sept. 10, 2020
I am happy to report that Erin Gray seems to be doing quite well for herself, managing celebrity autograph sessions and the like. She is a regular at DragonCon here in Atlanta, and her Tai Chi class is usually booked up throughout the convention. 😃
Very thorough and revealing coverage of the show, thanks.
I grew up watching this show.
Sadly they only aired five mixed episodes of the first season in Sweden I had to wait decades before I could get the DVD box.
I will forever love the song Suspension by Stu Phillips and Glen Larson , sung by Kip Lennon as I think it works so well with both the film and TV series. (I also would recommend the Blu Ray release 'cos of the isolated soundtrack option). ☺
Great story JonnyBaak. The soundtrack to the film was the first LP I bought as a 7 year old! You summed it up perfectly. We had GREAT Sci Fi in the 70's/80's. Great memories of the whole family crowding around to see BSG...not so much BRit25thC tho....it was comic strip as opposed to the compelling saga of BSG. Great summation and writing.
Hey man thank you for the great videos I loved all these shows of the kid. Some of the stuff I knew a lot I didn't. Thanks for taking me back to my childhood!
I liked Wilma, but I was in love with Princess Ardala. Pamela Hensley was maybe the prettiest lady on Earth in those days. It's a shame she wasn't in more movies.
Amen Bro! I was just starting to go through puberty and Pamela Hensley as Princess Ardala had my (at the time) 12yr old hormones racing.
@@keithallver2450 Absolutely. Did you see Pamela in the 1975 film Rollerball? That was a great movie, and Pamela had a small part, but she was radiant.
@@antonnym214 No, I never saw Rollerball but I will definitely keep an eye out for it. It would be fun to see the young Pamela Hensley again just for a little nostalgia.
After Buck Rogers, Pam was in a detective show called Matt Houston for three years and then she disappears from radar.
late 70's early 80's sci fi at its very best for a young kid
Fascinating, I only vaguely recalled Buck Rogers. Thanks.
Bonus points for using The Planets - Mars - The Bringer Of War by Holst in the background. Good job. That one piece of the suite inspired dozens of popular music scores we all love today.
Part of me thinks they should try a reboot, but since most of the reboots that are done are absolutely awful - I'd rather keep my fond memories of this show the way they are
Robby 101 According to Gil Gerard (convention videos) the family of the gentlemen who created the original series and the company/studio that hold the rights have been at war for I guess well over a decade over profits. Apparently Gil & Erin tried to do something lower budget years ago with their characters as parents but gave up in disgust. Too bad.
They did pretty good on Galactica.
If the Family and Studio would get out of the damn way.
@@SGTJDerek There's money involved. 'Get out of the way' will never happen. And they'll fight to the death over every single nickel. Remember Roger Rabbit? Same reason you don't hear about that character anymore. Disney and Touchstone both have claims to the property rights of the character. Neither studio will budge.
@@SGTJDerek That was then. A BSG today would have to have Adama be trans and Laura killing the "religious" for...reasons...Every property in endless control battles is one less childhood memory to be destroyed just because as far as I am concerned. They are making the greatest womanizers in the history of television, James T Kirk himself, bi now. The political activism means there are no good reboots because there are no good story writers, just political hacks with delusions of adequacy.
There shouldn't be a reboot by any large media company of today cuz it will be awful. Probably even worse than season 2 of the original. Someday the time will be right. And with the way things are changing right now, it may be someday soon.
They should make this series again. The only show that comes closest to Buck Rogers in recent years was Farscape TV series from 1999-2003 in the Sci-Fi Channel.
Better yet, just leave it alone. They would add ungodly amounts of blue check quotas to appease liberals, and reimagining it into something that doesn't feel even remotely like Buck Rogers. Remember that godawful series of Flash Gordon on SyFy?
I wished this show lasted longer than it did. There was no planning, they should've done the first 3 seasons on earth then the other 4 seasons could've been spent looking for the lost tribes of earth
Hahahaa, now that you mentioned bidi bidi bidi bidi.... Really conjured up so many happy moments with my friends....TQ mate
That was a great review. Very informative. I didn't realize Buster Crabbe (former Buck Rogers) was Brigadier Gordon on the show.
If the show had a budget of $800,000 per episode in 1979 (that's $2.7 million adjusted for inflation), it is no wonder it was canceled after 2 seasons - the ratings would have had to have been amazing to justify a third season.
I liked the first season more. They should've spent more time on exploring futuristic earth.
Brilliant- love your work.
I remember watching it still, on Thursday night.
I loved that show back in the day... but season 2 ? the only thing that was good about it was hawk & his ship I remember I was pissed when I heard Twiki voice I was happy when changed it back to his original voice but it was too late.
Yeah, the new producer they brought on for season two really fucked things up. I mean really fucked up. Smh
@SevelRomanov Oooh myyy
Season two introduced new characters that no one cared about except for Hawk. Dr. Goodfellow, Criton the robot, Amiral Asimov, who the fuck cares? We loved Buck, Wilma and Twiki. I liked Dr. Heuer but they sadly got rid of him.
Wilma in a short dress??? Ultimate hottie!!!
I'm about to push 44 years now and I remember this show fondly despite that Swedish television only allowed like five episodes in total.
I got the DVD box eventually and could watch the entire series. Still holds up.
.... a fun and informative bit of nostalgia.... Thank you....
The ONLY thing I found disturbing is the dislike of the theme music or was it the lyrics? Im shocked, I found the lyrics soothing, understandable great for a theme song. I understand it so much. A man out of time, I feel the same.
Me too. I loved the theatrical version where the theme was sung, but in the TV series, the theme had no singing, was a faster tempo, and didn't sound as good.
David Frederick, I also have always loved the theme. This guy Jonny has no taste. 😆🎶
@@crazypiratesquirrel3038 of course he doesn't he don't like the original theme song & he likes season 2 😄
I would love to see a modern Buck Rogers that looked exactly like 1928 imagining.
Have you done a Everything you need to know about Barbarella (1968) video yet?
I always enjoyed Buck Rogers and Battlestar Galactica. They were somewhat campy but gave me great inspiration for the future.
From one season 2 fan to another: thank you. :D