Buck Rogers in the 25th Century · 1979
In 1987, NASA astronaut William "Buck" Rogers is caught in a freak accident in deep space, causing his space shuttle Ranger 3 to be blown into an orbit that returns him to Earth - over 500 years later. The combination of gases that freezes him comes close to the formula commonly used in the 25th century for preservation, and his rescuers are able to revive him. In 2491, when Buck awakens from the freezing, Earth is recovering from a nuclear war and is coming under hostile attack by the Draconian Empire. In the second season, Buck has been assigned aboard the Searcher, a starship exploring the unknown reaches of space while searching for former Earth colonies that are scattered across the galaxy.
Starring: Gil Gerard, Erin Gray, Felix Silla
🏆 Won 1 Primetime Emmy. 1 win & 5 nominations total
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27 across 2 seasonsSeason 1 17 episodes
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E1
Awakening
In 1987, a space phenomenon sends NASA astronaut William "Buck" Rogers and his space shuttle off course and freezes his life support systems for 500 years. In 2491, he awakens aboard the flagship Draconia, under the command of Pri...
120 min · Director Daniel Haller · Writer Glen A. Larson, Leslie Stevens, Robert C. Dille
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E2
Planet of the Slave Girls
The Earth Defense Directorate faces a crisis when nearly everyone becomes sick after eating poisoned food. An attempt is made to create an antidote but the plan is thwarted when the laboratory is sabotaged and an assassin position...
120 min · Director Michael Caffey · Writer Steve Greenberg, Aubrey Solomon, Anne Collins
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E3
Vegas in Space
To ensure a notorious smuggler's cooperation, Buck and a fellow officer must infiltrate a crime lord's casino resort, to rescue a young woman who has been kidnapped by one of the smuggler's rivals.
60 min · Director Sigmund Neufeld Jr. · Writer Anne Collins, Robert C. Dille
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E4
The Plot to Kill a City: Part 1
After capturing notorious assassin Raphael Argus, Buck Rogers learns that the killer-for-hire is to attend a meeting with a group of elite assassins known as the Legion of Death on Aldebaran II. Buck assumes his identity, meets th...
60 min · Director Dick Lowry · Writer Alan Brennert, Robert C. Dille
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E5
The Plot to Kill a City: Part 2
Buck Rogers' true identity is briefly questioned by one of Raphael Argus' girlfriends, Joella Cameron, but she goes along with the deception to assist Buck. However, his cover has been eventually blown when an informant named Barn...
60 min · Director Dick Lowry · Writer Alan Brennert, Robert C. Dille
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E6
Return of the Fighting 69th
Buck Rogers and Wilma Deering pursue notorious gunrunners Commander Corliss and Roxanne Trent who are planning on dropping deadly nerve agents from the 20th century on Earth. A squadron of elderly space fighter pilots led by Major...
60 min · Director Philip Leacock · Writer David Carren, Robert C. Dille
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E7
Unchained Woman
Posing as a prisoner named Valzhan, Buck Rogers has been taken to a penal colony on Zeta Minor where he springs a female inmate named Jen Burton. The young woman had taken the blame for crimes committed by her boyfriend, Malary Pa...
60 min · Director Dick Lowry · Writer Bill Taylor, Robert C. Dille
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E9
Cosmic Whiz Kid
The President of the planet Genesia is no ordinary President... he is 493-year-old child genius Hieronymous Fox. Originally from Earth's 20th century, he developed advanced cryogenics technology and had himself frozen before the n...
60 min · Director Leslie H. Martinson · Writer Glen A. Larson, Leslie Stevens, Alan Brennert
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E10
Escape from Wedded Bliss
Princess Ardala returns with a powerful orbital weapon with which she threatens to bombard Earth - unless she has Buck Rogers for herself.
60 min · Director David Moessinger · Writer Glen A. Larson, Leslie Stevens, Anne Collins
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E11
Cruise Ship to the Stars
After the galactic beauty queen Miss Cosmos is attacked by a mysterious woman, Buck Rogers and Wilma Deering are assigned to protect her while she travels aboard a luxury space liner. Onboard, Buck encounters Alison Michaels, who ...
60 min · Director Sigmund Neufeld Jr. · Writer Glen A. Larson, Leslie Stevens, Alan Brennert
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E12
Space Vampire
Buck Rogers and Wilma Deering arrive at Theta Station to have Twiki serviced, but soon a freighter crashes with the space station. The freighter crew are found in a state between life and death, and believing a virus may be respon...
60 min · Director Larry Stewart · Writer Glen A. Larson, Leslie Stevens, Kathleen Barnes
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E13
Happy Birthday, Buck
Nearing his 534th birthday, Buck Rogers feels homesick for the 20th century and Wilma Deering plans a surprise party to cheer him up. To lure Buck out of his apartment and allow Wilma to arrange the party, Dr. Huer assigns him to ...
60 min · Director Sigmund Neufeld Jr. · Writer Glen A. Larson, Leslie Stevens, Martin Pasko
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E14
A Blast for Buck
A satellite enters Earth orbit. This transmits a message intended for Buck, and a warning of a possible attack. Buck and his friends attempt to figure out who might have sent the satellite to prevent the attack.
60 min · Director David G. Phinney · Writer Glen A. Larson, Leslie Stevens, Dick Nelson
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E15
Ardala Returns
Kane has designed the Hatchet Fighters of the Draconian Realm, resulting in the invariable deaths of the empire's best pilots who cannot control their ships. Determined to launch attacks on Earth, Princess Ardala orders the captur...
60 min · Director Larry Stewart · Writer Glen A. Larson, Leslie Stevens, Chris Bunch
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E16
Twiki Is Missing
After an uprising of miners on the asteroid Toros, the mining operator Kerk Belzak wishes to replace the human workers with robotic drones. He kidnaps Twiki so he can investigate the diminutive drone's unique circuitry and make ch...
60 min · Director Sigmund Neufeld Jr. · Writer Glen A. Larson, Leslie Stevens, Jaron Summers
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E17
Olympiad
Buck attends a new version of the Olympics. He meets Lara, one of the athletes, who tells him that she is involved with Jorex, an athlete from a planet, that's ruled by a dictator, who has Jorex under his thumb. She's asking for B...
60 min · Director Larry Stewart · Writer Glen A. Larson, Leslie Stevens, Craig Buck
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E18
A Dream of Jennifer
Buck sees a young woman who looks identical to his girlfriend, whom he left behind when he was sent on a space mission in the 20th century. The stranger, named Lela Markeson, catches a flight in the resort town of City-on-the-Sea ...
60 min · Director David G. Phinney · Writer Glen A. Larson, Leslie Stevens, Alan Brennert
Season 2 10 episodes
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E1
Time of the Hawk
Buck Rogers, Wilma Deering and Twiki embark on a journey through the galaxy as members of the spaceship Searcher, which is on a mission to find the lost tribes of Earth who escaped the planet in the wake of a devastating nuclear h...
60 min · Director Vincent McEveety · Writer Glen A. Larson, Leslie Stevens, Norman Hudis
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E2
Journey to Oasis
Earth and the rival planet Zykaria are on the cusp of war. Zykarian Ambassador Duvoe travels by a shuttle piloted by Buck Rogers to a peace conference in the city of Oasis on the otherwise desolate planet R-4. Things go awry when ...
60 min · Director Daniel Haller · Writer Glen A. Larson, Leslie Stevens, Bob Mitchell
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E3
The Guardians
Buck and Hawk discover an old man dying on a uncharted planet while searching for evidence of human settlements. He says it was destiny that brought him to this time and destiny that brought him to that planet. He entrusts Buck wi...
60 min · Director Jack Arnold · Writer Glen A. Larson, Leslie Stevens, Paul Schneider
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E4
Mark of the Saurian
While sick in bed with Cignus Fever Buck starts seeing Ambassador Cabot and his party have a strange aura around them. Ambassador Cabot is responsible for bringing peace with the lizard people known as the Saurians with the Delta Defense Grid which destroys all ships without a proper code. The Aura that Buck is seeing is connected to the fact that Ambassador Cabot and his party are not who they claim to be but Saurians in disguise. Buck's unique condition allows him to see the aura around the illusion. But now the Searcher is on a deadly course which is all part of a plan to take over the Delta Defense Grid but only Buck suspect something is amiss.
60 min · Director Barry Crane · Writer Glen A. Larson, Leslie Stevens, Francis Moss
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E6
The Crystals
Buck Rogers visits the planet Phibocetes with a landing party, hoping to gather some thurbidian crystals to power the Searcher. Though the planet is believed to be uninhabited, the landing party soon comes across a "mummy" that my...
60 min · Director John Patterson · Writer Glen A. Larson, Leslie Stevens, Bob Mitchell
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E7
The Satyr
After Buck is bitten the crew realizes that the Satyr is really the male colonist that has been infected by the planet. Shortly after they discover who the Satyr is, Buck battles the Satyr until he electrocutes himself with his la...
60 min · Director Victor French · Writer Glen A. Larson, Leslie Stevens, Paul Schneider
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E8
Shgoratchx!
Buck and Hawk are ordered to explore an old derelict spaceship, where they find a hold full of solar bombs and a crew of seven dwarfs. The crew are transferred to the Searcher, and it is decided to take the derelict to a safe loca...
60 min · Director Vincent McEveety · Writer Glen A. Larson, Leslie Stevens, William Keys
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E9
The Hand of the Goral
While exploring Deeth, the "Planet of Death," Buck Rogers, Hawk, and Wilma come across a stranded crash victim. His wrecked ship mysteriously disappears after he is rescued - the first in a long line of strange happenings. Buck an...
60 min · Director David G. Phinney · Writer Glen A. Larson, Leslie Stevens, Francis Moss
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E10
Testimony of a Traitor
The crew returns to Earth. Buck is put on trial for helping a group that may have had a hand in the nuclear war that devastated Earth in 1987.
60 min · Director Bernard McEveety · Writer Glen A. Larson, Leslie Stevens, Stephen McPherson
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E11
The Dorian Secret
Buck and Hawk transport refugees of a planetary disaster to a new home. Buck allows a fugitive woman named Asteria Eleefa to board the Searcher. Eleefa is a member of a harsh mutant race called the Dorians, who hide their faces be...
60 min · Director Jack Arnold · Writer Robert C. Dille, Glen A. Larson, Stephen McPherson