Buck Rogers Origins - The First American Sci-Fi Hero That The World Has Forgotten - Explored

[@sleeperyjeemtoybox]

Grew up watching the Buster Crabb serial on BBC2 on Saturday morning as a child, then the tv show in the 80's. Happy to say still got the dvd boxset sitting.

[@johnryder1713]

Never missed an episode, of either season, and it wasn't just for Wilma, (besides I was more of a bad girls man, for Ardala) just loved the show

[@xander66644]

With all of the remakes of movies and TV shows that has happened, it is UNBELIEVABLE that there has no been ANY remakes since the 1979 version with Gil Gerard.

[@CosmoShidan]

One of the problems is that, Rogers has been overshadowed by Flash Gordon, and that it's post-apocalypse tropes, such as marauding bikers, has been replicated and overtaken by Mad Max. It would be generic as any other sci-fi show today. Plus, there's the whole racist trope of Asians taking over America that the series would need to get rid of, which Flash Gordon did successfully in the 2007 adaptation.

[@Stevie-J]

@@CosmoShidan It's bizarre that you think it's "racist" if a sci-fi universe has successful Asians in it 😂

[@CosmoShidan]

@@Stevie-J I don't just think it's racist, it's literally racist. Since the work came from an era where anti-Asian sentiment called the Yellow Peril was more overt in Sci-fi in the 1930s, it's confirmed by wikpedia.

[@Stevie-J]

@@CosmoShidan Wow, the radical leftist views are "confirmed by wikipedia," what are the odds? I recommend getting educated from sources outside of your ideological bubble to help break free of your presentism. Your comments sound like satire

[@CosmoShidan]

@@Stevie-J I should also note, that as a person of Arabic, Filipino, and Turkish ancestry, I find it most insulting to present my peoples as stereotypes, as we Asian folks do NOT have yellow skin, slanted eyes, Fu Manchu mustaches, or long fingernails. Nor are we hyper-sexual or non-sexual. BTW, much of my information also comes from Historian Dr. Al Carroll of the University of Washington.

[@sarahclapp505]

Buck Rogers my first love I. Was born 76 England

[@FallenRingbearer]

78 California here. Great stuff!

[@atompunk5575]

Buck Rogers, the 1940s serials must've inspired star wars

[@AntonL1994]

This is literally true

[@CaesiusX]

Delightful and informative. Thank you for this comprehensive history. 🚀

[@dinomonzon7493]

Great video! Got to know Buck Rogers via the 1979 TV show. For me, Season 1 was the better run. Dr. Huer was my fave character, & Erin Gray’s Col. Wilma Deering was a looker, all the moreso in those jumpsuits. 😇 The violet one was my fave. My fave episodes were: Return of the Fighting 69th, Planet of the Slave Girls (with Buster Crabbe, the original Buck Rogers as Brigadier Gen. Gordon (a homage to Mr. Crabbe’s being the original Flash Gordon as well), Cosmic Whiz Kid (with Gary Coleman; Marvel’s Dr. Doom got a mention), Blast for Buck (Its Buck Rogers’ birthday, while an assassin stalks Dr. Huer!), and Plot to Kill A City with Frank Gorshin (the Riddler in Adam West’s Batman; Commissioner Bele in Star Trek) Season 2 looked more like Star Trek, except that Wilma was scaled way down in importance, plus, unlike Capt. James T. Kirk’s USS Enterprise (or even Capt. Jonathan Archer’s NX-01 SS Enterprise), Adm. Efram Asimov’s Searcher was too lightly armed. There was an episode in Season 2 where Buck states that Adm. Asimov commands the Searcher, but he (Buck) commands the Searcher’s mission; seems a nod to Irwin Allen’s Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (please do a video on both the 1961 movie and 1964-1968 TV series) where Admiral Harriman Nelson (Richard Basehart) , who designed and built the nuclear super submarine Seaview commands her mission proper (oceanagraphic research/sea exploration/espionage-covert operations), but Captain Lee Crane (David Hedison) commands the Seaview herself.

[@williebowen1043]

Don't forget about the 1950-51 Buck Rogers TV series.

[@WillieBowen-o2n]

Absolutely 💯

[@MrWorf35]

Far beyond the world I've known, far beyond this time.... As the song goes.

[@communist-hippie]

i havnt forgotten . and im still in love with wilma dearing. sooooo damn hot

[@markmolino679]

Well you have to get in line .Cuz I saw her first😆😆

[@dinomonzon7493]

Can’t blame you. Erin Gray looked hot in those jumpsuits.

[@pbxn-3rdx-85percent]

Col. Wilma Deering genuine all natural Smokin hot 80s space chick number 1. She can drive my space fighter anytime. : )

[@archstanton4365]

Season One catsuit!

[@Glammazon]

It was a real pleasure listening to what you had to say.

[@ralphjenkinsak]

John: they should of make zorro origins in marvelous videos

[@Phantanos]

The Transporters that are used in Star Trek; can be seen in use for the first time in the movie serial: Buck Rodgers! Buck Rodgers is the great Granddaddy of Space adventurers!

[@GlenviewNo1]

Loved this show as a kid in the early 80s and watched it a few years ago on blu-ray - still warms my heart! :D

[@archstanton4365]

Erin Grey looked much hotter in the white satin catsuit from season one. I think it was a bad idea to change up to the mini skirt in season two. Oh well.

[@thecountofmontecristo2796]

I like when south Park parodied this.

[@nebo1186]

played the tabletop rpg back in the 90's that's all i know

[@TheBeardysteve]

Fascinating video! It explains the parallels between westerns and Star Wars, I hadn’t realised George Lucas had been directly influenced by that genre and assumed the similar themes and structure in Star Wars were coincidental. The second season of the seventies TV Buck Rogers was very inferior and had a far lower budget leading to plummeting audiences and its eventual cancellation- a similar fate suffered by Space:1999. Even the wonderful Erin Gray couldn’t save it, a rather unsubtle attempt to boost ratings! I loved the Gil Gerrard show as a child and the DVDs provide nostalgic entertainment even now.

[@josephcontreras8930]

I wonder if Fred frieberger the series killer had a heavy hand with this show as well??

[@multi-voiceentertainment7013]

And sooner or later I'm going to make an audio crossover of Flash Gordon meets Buck Rogers. They've been Rivals for so long they deserve crossover. But one thing I'm going to make it more interesting I'm going to make Flash Gordon be a Star Wars fan and Buck Rogers a Trekkie.

[@borusa32]

There are a number of fundamental errors in this video. For example stating Real world exploration of (the) Outer Space by americans took place in 1930 and suggesting John Carter of Mars was created in the 1930s The complaint that the futuritsic Buck Rogers strips were printed using archaic processes indicates that the text for this video was generated by something that did not understand the contxt of what was being written;like AI.

[@noelhernandez363]

Never saw the movie but loved the series especially Wilma Deering!! 👍🪐👽🛸🚀

[@scottstump9163]

I remember...still on in reruns on Saturday

[@daryldrumheller7949]

I remember watching the TV series

[@josephcontreras8930]

Looks like they used parts from BS Galactica and startrek for sets. I want to see a buck Roger's movie in sence like the original comic and serial.

[@CosmoShidan]

You can't make it true to the comics and series for they would be confused for Mad Max with the marauding bikers and that there's blantant racism and race warfare going on in the original strip and serial. That is, the first enemies are the Han and Asian-looking Tigermen in the comics, and Killer Kane is implied to be Arabic, with his clothes indicating a Sultan. They'd really have to do a major overhaul for Buck Rogers as they did with Flash Gordon in the 2007 adaptation.

[@projp9057]

Wow, interesting franchise

[@brokenbridge6316]

I've seen a few episodes from the Buck Rodgers TV series. It was okay. And a nice way to pass an hour. Nice video.

[@briandaleske5139]

I strongly feel that the classic Sci.Fi. show series of (BUCH ROGERS IN THE 25TH. CENTURY) show get rebooted. Why heck I can imagine a brand new version, that could get made, and I imagine it’s titled as (BUCK ROGERS IN THE 35TH. CENTURY).

[@MistahBryan]

I'd watch it!

[@thomasciarlariello]

Aldous Huxley also used half a millennium about rocket plane engineers.

[@dennisdecoene]

This doc is all over the place and I did not get the history.

[@the_once-and-future_king.]

So he started out fighting the forces from Chinese territory who want to destroy our way of life? We need Buck now more than ever then!

[@CosmoShidan]

You mean like how white people in America stole the land from another culture?! Just sayin'.

[@nobod2567]

Don't forget the fact that Buck Rodgers inspired Looney Tunes' Daffy Duck's sci-fi hero persona, Duck Dodgers! kzbin.info/www/bejne/bGGQlqeIrpWXnZo

[@Homeschoolsw6]

rad.

[@peachesrambo4037]

The Connecticut yankee was before Buck Rodgers .

[@khristianpykh]

cant forget farscape

[@0311Mushroom]

Huge mistake. Buck started as as short stories. And he was in the infantry in the great war.

[@evanlorenzo8878]

Oh....Duck Rogers... 🤣

[@chocolatefire9809]

ALEXIS THE DUKE OF R'N'R

[@nikkicat254]

I never seen the original of course, but I have seen the 1979 series, I've always loved it, even though it paled when compared to say Star Trek and even more with Star Wars of course it was also pretty misogynistic, even with Wilma and in a lesser extent Princess Ardala, since they were mostly just eye candy for the guys, and both were love interests for Buck Rogers, but at that time they were better then in a lot of other shows, where the women did nothing but be a girlfriend or wife to the male lead! But I did get the feeling that they got some ideas from shows like Dynasty, where two beautiful women fight for a man, ones bad and the other is good, I am obviously not talking about the stupid remake by The CW, which is pure crap, I didn't even have to watch it to know it was crap, it's like a parody of the original! Sure the original wasn't so great either, I wasn't into it or the other shows like it, but my mom liked them watching them in reruns when I was younger!

[@That80sGuy1972]

George Clooney wants to do a science fiction show and he was involved in Gravity? Gravity nerd-raged everyone who knew literally anything about gravity, kinetic energy, and even physics in general. The guy probably thinks that you can breathe space if you have gills, you are fine if you are inside something falling as long as you jump while inside it right before impact, or you are okay without a spacesuit for as long as you can hold your breath. I'm making those assumptions after watching Gravity and now finding out he was involved in that movie. Another assumption is that he thinks none of those things and he just thinks most people are bigger f^cking morons than they actually are, like average US IQ of 35-40 with the "bright" people being around IQ 65 to just below 100.