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Buck Rogers was born in the late 1800s and participated in the first world war upon growing up. However, after the end of the war, he joined the American Radioactive Gas Corporation. On reaching the mine, it, unfortunately, caved in, but Rogers didn’t die. Instead, the gas put him in a state of coma. Rogers woke up almost 500 years later, in 2419 AD when America was in the midst of another world war. Philip Francis Nowlan created Buck Rogers, and the character was first featured in 1928, in a pulp magazine called ‘Amazing Stories’. Rogers made his way into comic strips, movies, radio, and television and became a part of America’s pop culture. When Buck Rogers made his entry, he zoomed past the cowboys, who were the contemporary heroes of the youngsters of America. All of a sudden, the American youth became fascinated with spaceships and cool ray guns. And although cowboy heroes remained in the scene for a few more decades, Buck Rogers and his subsequent imitators like Flash Gordon gave the cowboys a hard time. Eventually, the heroes from beyond the stars won the battle of popular dominance, and soon cowboy heroes became a thing of the past. However, we also got to see an amalgamation of these two very different kinds of heroes in content such as Toy Story and Buzz Lightyear. Furthermore, Buck Rogers served as a potent inspiration to George Lucas and his epic work ‘Star Wars. He was so inspired by Buck Roger’s imitator Flash Gordon that Lucas tried to secure the rights to Flash Gordon before he made Star Wars. Many stylistic elements such as Star Wars posters, the femme fatale Leila, the visuals, and the dogfighting spaceships, breathe in the aura of Buck Rogers’s pulp stories. In this video, we will take a deep look at the origin, adventures, and journey of this eponymous spaceman called Buck Rogers.
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0:00 Intro
2:33 Buck Rogers started out as a newspaper comic strip, radio series
5:35 Comic books
6:57 Buck Rogers Origin Explained
8:51 Live-action adaptations Buck Rogers (movie-serial) 1939
10:07 Buck Rogers 1950-1951 ABC television series
10:48 'Buck Rogers in the 25th Century’ (film) 1979
12:40 ‘Buck Rogers in the 25th Century’ (TV series)
14:13 Future of the Franchise